Seaguy
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Seaguy is a three-issue comic book mini-series written by Grant Morrison with art by Cameron Stewart and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. It revolves around Seaguy, an Aquaman-esque man in a scuba suit, and his best friend and sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talking, cigar-smoking fish.
Seaguy is a super-hero who has never really had an adventure and spends his days in New Venice playing chess with Death, watching Mickey Eye (a cartoon show about an all-seeing, all-knowing eye) and going to the Mickey Eye amusement park. He constantly expresses his wish to go on adventures and impress a beautiful bearded warrior woman named She-Beard but he never seems to get around to it because he's told the world doesn't need heroes anymore. However, when he and chubby discover that a new food staple called Xoo is sentient, Seaguy and Chubby decide to protect it from evil forces and bring it home.
Seaguy exists in a world in which all the super-heroes are told that no longer needed by society and live mundane adventureless lives. It seems that heroes no longer save lives or do much of everything except ride the rides at the Mickey Eye amusement park. It is public knowledge that all the evil in the world was finally destroyed after a powerful entity called the Anti-Dad was destroyed by all the super-heroes, effectively leaving the heroes without jobs.
The first issue of Seaguy was released on May 19, 2004. All three issues have since been collected into a trade edition published on February 2, 2005.
External links
- Seaguy interview with Cameron Stewart (http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=36&t=002022)
- Cameron Stewart's Home Page (http://www.cameron-stewart.com/)