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By: Fishtar « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Fishtar « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:17:53 +0000

[...] of course, many of the things I said in the review of the last issue still hold, but here’s some thoughts on the second [...]

By: You Damned Sadist! You’re Trying To Make Them Think! « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:08:50 +0000

[...] idea of subtext – you just have to look at the people whose reactions to Seaguy we talked about in this comment thread. There is a sizable contingent of ‘fandom’ who hate metaphor, theme and subtext, and [...]

By: Mindless Ones » Blog Archive » Seaguy - Slaves of Mickey Eye #2: the annocommentations (part 2)

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:12:46 +0000

[...] Ah, the question of history explicitly raised. As Andrew Hickey points out in his review, the notion of the end of history nestles somewhere in the book’s subtext. I’m no [...]

By: Andrew Ducker

Andrew Ducker — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:14:11 +0000

Thanks for mentioning this – I’d totally missed that volume 2 was now appearing. I’ll be keeping an eye out for the TPB.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:18:24 +0000

I was absolutely delighted to see this on the shelf, I missed any word of Volume 2 actually coming out.

I thought it was a rather brilliant bit to see the issue mimick the “infant” Seaguy. Yes, these are the teenage trials, but the similarities remind the reader that these initiations into new periods of life aren’t always SO new.

I can’t wait to see more of this.

By: Ten things I never want to read online again « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!

Ten things I never want to read online again « Sci-Ence! Justice Leak! — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:56:28 +0000

[...] Morrison’s comics are just weird for weirdness’ sake” See the comments to this post for several people’s take on this [...]

By: Mindless Ones » Blog Archive » Seaguy - slaves of mickey eye #1: the annocommentations! (part 1)

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:09:19 +0000

[...] go see what our bloggy pals had to say: Andrew ‘Sci-Ence! Justice Leek!’ Hickey, Sean ’supervillain’ Witzke, Jeff ‘Savage Critics’ Lester, Geoff [...]

By: Emma Peel Sessions 06 - AM! DEK! EYE! « supervillain

Emma Peel Sessions 06 - AM! DEK! EYE! « supervillain — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:37:43 +0000

[...] out the Mindless Ones’ non-annotations of the first 16 pages. And Andrew Hickey’s take here. And David Brothers as-they-were-coming-out pieces on Seaguy #1 and [...]

By: Zom

Zom — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:37:17 +0000

That’s very true, Ranald. It’s entirely legitimate to call Seaguy weird, perhaps it’s even desirable. My problem comes when that’s pretty much all someone has to say about it, and sadly that’s a fairly accurate description of the content of the majority of so-called reviews.

The thing is, to say that Seaguy is weird isn’t to say very much at all – we all know it’s weird, but what else is going on? It’s weaksauce when simply left hanging like that, and in many instances it definitely *is* used as a shortcut to thinking and as a lazy way of describing the comic’s content. What exactly is weird about Seaguy? Why has Grant chosen to create a weird comicbook? Is weird, mad, insane, blah the best word to use in this context? etc… These are the sorts of questions critics should be asking themselves.

What really bothers me is

By: Ranald

Ranald — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:13:56 +0000

While I wouldn’t call the first Seaguy incomprehensible, or even particularly difficult to understand, I do want to stand up for those who refer to mad ideas or wackiness or weirdness or whatever. Seaguy *is* weird, in the same way Alice in Wonderland is perhaps, and reducing the mummy on the moon, the floating tuna, the grumbling Easter Island statues and so forth to mere ‘worldbuilding’ obscures the delights of a surreal, and at times gleefully silly, book.

I had no problem ‘understanding’ this sort of weirdness, to the extent it’s there to understand, and neither would most children. But people who’ve been trained to expect everything to be either realistic, or at least to operate according to well-defined and transparent alternative universe rules, are going to have trouble with Seaguy.