Seaguy

Seaguy
The cover of the first Seaguy trade paperback
Publication information
Publisher	Vertigo
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Limited series
Publication date(s)	July 2004 - current
No. of issues	6 (Two 3-issue miniseries)
Creative team
Created by	Grant Morrison Cameron Stewart
Written by	Grant Morrison
Artist(s)	Cameron Stewart
Colorist(s)	Peter Doherty Dave Stewart
Collected editions
Seaguy	ISBN

Seaguy is a three-volume comic book miniseries written by Grant Morrison with art by Cameron Stewart and published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. The first volume of Seaguy was released in three issues beginning on May 19, 2004. The second volume, Slaves of Mickey Eye, was released in three issues beginning April 1, 2009. The third and final volume, Seaguy Eternal is yet to be published.

The story revolves around Seaguy, an unpowered superhero in a scuba suit, and his best friend and sidekick Chubby Da Choona, a talking, cigar-smoking tuna.

Morrison has expressed on various occasions that Seaguy represents a deliberate effort to move away from conventions of the current era of comics, "I had the idea to develop Seaguy into a weapon I could use to fight back against the trendy and unconvincing 'bad-ass' cynicism of current comics, most of which are produced by the most un-'bad-ass' men you can possibly imagine". Morrison believes that in this fashion the work represents a new vanguard in the development of comics. He expressed similar sentiments about Zenith, one of the earliest series he worked on, when he said that it "was a reaction against torment superheroes."

Seaguy was planned as a trilogy, the second and third volumes were to be entitled "The Slaves of Mickey Eye" and "Seaguy Eternal" respectively, but due to the lower-than-expected sales of the comic, it was thought that the sequels were unlikely to be published. In 2006, a fan reported to a comics rumor column that Morrison was holding DC Comics' 52 weekly limited series for ransom. He reportedly offered to help write the series as long as they allowed him to go forward on the Seaguy sequel.

In April 2008 Morrison stated that both sequels would go ahead and gave an overview of the ideas he has about the different parts:

The first sequel, Seaguy: The Slaves of Mickey Eye, was released on April 1, 2009 by DC Comics/Vertigo.