This gives flashbacks to the first incarnation of Carbonated Ink, back when I did extensive comics blogging. I miss that sometimes so it’s nice when something like this happen that forces me to do it again.

The slaves of Mickey Eye, by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart.

Grant took the 52-comic at DC for hostage in order to force them into allowing him to make this and the third part, yet unpublished Seaguy Eternal. And boy, I’m happy for this.

The first Seaguy was Morrison’s answer to the grim and cynical comics he saw published and he wanted to “return to the happy fun adventures”. In Grant’s mind, happy fun adventures was the Prisoner. And when this is done, it might be the greatest thing he’s done since the Invisibles.

The second volume picks up a bit after the first. It is a bit darker than the first, but it’s still fun. Damn fun. There’s a much more of the fluidity of identity and what’s real. A proper Grant Morrison piece with leaps of logic that makes sense — not in the “real” world but rather internally, in the world they live.

He said the third volume is “his Watchmen” but really, I think he’s there already, in a far more subtle and profound way than the comic with that title. Things that Alan Moore used pages of prose from a fictional book, Morrison uses a few panels and gets the same result. This is truly great stuff.