SEAGUY THE SLAVES OF MICKEY EYE #2 (OF 3)

Review by: changingshades

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Price: 3.99

I can honestly say I have no fucking clue what is going on in this
book. Maybe I’m just too dumb to appreciate Morrison’s work, but I
really just don’t like this stuff or 7 Soldiers. It just seems like
it’s being weird for weirdness’s sake. Even Invisibles felt like it had
a more coherent plot or direction. This just seems like an excuse to
take the concepts Morrison came up with when he was 10 and writing
something around it that hipsters might find intriguing. Stewart’s art
is fine. It’s cartoony, but that fits in with thecool stuff a young kid would produce. I’m sure that a lot of people find this cool, but I just find it trying.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 2 - Average
 

Comments

  1. Avatar photo TehDave says:
    May 10, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    i think a lot of the seaguy work is about media manipulation and modern mass culture brainwashing us. mickey eye is sort of a general stand-in for these forces, and seaguy is a sort of everyman, going from blissful ignorance (in the first series) to a more troubled realization of the problems in his world (where this one seems to be going). they’re trying to placate him in this issue – they sendhim off to be a "bull dresser" in hopes of distracting him from reality, but it doesn’t take.

    granted, there’s a lot of other sillyness mixed in there too, which spices up the "messages" and gives the book a quirky flair. but if you’re not interested in the themes OR the sillyness, there’s really very little here for you.

  2. edward says:
    May 11, 2009 at 12:49 am

    first off, The Invisibles was a fantastic book

     secondly, TehDave’s comments about Seaguy being an allogory, metaphor, parable about alienation and disconnection in a consumerist culture are a pretty accurate explainaton of the book’s meaning and message. the book’s does have it’s fair share of silliness but it’s tonal quality. Maybe it’s just not for you, huh?

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