Little Toy Robot

I am looking forward to Seaguy, the new Grant Morrison three-part series that begins next week (May 19). There’s an interview in NEWSARAMA:

Seaguy is an un…er, underemployed superhero in a world where the bad guys have been defeated, and there’s no real battle left to fight. The world is peaceful, if not slipping into a state of lethargy and torpor. With no real ‘bad guy’ to keep heroes on their toes, no one’s really noticed how Mickey Eye is everywhere, and there’s this new food product called…Xoo everywhere.

Morrison is just too cool to sit still, and he’s always quotable:

“…I had the idea to develop Seaguy into a weapon I could use to fight back against the trendy and unconvincing ‘bad-ass’ cyncism of current comics, most of which are produced by the most un-’bad-ass’ men you can possibly imagine. In the current climate, it seemed like an act of rebellion to deliberately create ‘the new sentimentality’ and produce work that was almost embarrassingly dripping with tender and awkward feelings. There’s a strange kind of Edwardian vibe hitting the world right now - a kind of slowing down, a promenading feel as people rebel against manufactured ‘cool’. Seaguy can be seen as art at the vanguard of this new attitude.”

This entry was posted on Monday, May 10th, 2004 at 12:10 pm and is filed under comics.