Comics This Week
“Seaguy” (Grant Morrison, Cameron Stewart)
Grant Morrison gives us a tale of… umm… a superhero without any point for existence, and one of his adventures, loosely defined. Not much of it made sense to me, really. I mean, sure, some of the less-subtle themes stood out (the widespread Disney-ification depicted in Seaguy’s world wa particularly chilling), but the rest of it felt like Morrison throwing in random ideas all over the place just to inflict unbearable pain upon readers’ minds. As character Chubby Da Choona, the giant flying talking tuna who’s afraid of water, would say: “Da Fug?!”
“The Losers, Vol. 3: Trifecta” (Andy Diggle, Jock/Nick Dragotta/Ale Garza)
Not sure why I keep buying this series, it’s all very formulaic blowing-shit-up spy-intrigue government-conspiracy stuff. Not poorly written or anything — in fact, the Losers’ origin tale was quite well-paced and featured quite the payoff at the end — but I’m just not very into this series. Maybe I’ll change my mind when I re-read all three volumes, but I doubt it.