Going to have Captain Lotharius stuck in my head all day now!
So sorry about Sea Guy. I feel similarly about my Manthing run with J.MDeMatteis. It never got what it was due, never got finished, and it was going interesting and amazing places. In many ways I see that as the precursor to the work I’ve done with you. X
having been monetarily struggling since birth, it's always been a challenge getting our hands on and reading many of the books you and other comic legends wrote (legally that is...) but the test of publications failed us this time! Seaguy sounds like a tale that resonates deeply with us! Being good ol' American Gen Z-ers, we've had a deep frustration with the capitalism's death grip on the people around us. Why is everyone seemingly okay with being a slave to the system that is killing them? Why are people craving to be brainwashed by one thing or another? Is there anyone out there willing to take on the duties of being a mindful human being? Or are we as a nation (and perhaps world) destined to succumb to our fleeting desires and numb the pain of adulthood's lenses while those in power do everything their AI can to keep us there? Maybe Seaguy has the same conclusive answers that many of our ancestors came to time and time again...
well... being an american is a vastly different life than being a lot of other nationalities in many ways, but especially the fact that it's basically a bunch of little countries all slapped together with one fascist oligarchy. so saying "as a nation" gives the depth of understanding that there are varying backgrounds and views being observed on the national scale. kinda as if nation is the term for people from the same country or something 🤔
“ “But let me tell you this: the Mohawk Nation is losing its soul. Soul is not like breath or blood or bone and it can be taken in ways no man understands.
My grandfather had more soul than I have,
and the young men have less than me.
But I have enough soul to talk to Old Grandfather, who is a raccoon now. He thinks as a raccoon and he is worried about the raccoon nation, more
than I am worried about the Mohawk Nation.
He thinks the raccoon nation will die soon, and all the nations of the free and wild animals.
That is a terrible thing and it frightens me.
When the nations of the animals die,
the earth will also die.
That is an old teaching and I cannot doubt it.
I see it happening, already.
If they steal more of our land to build that dam, more of our soul will die, and more of the souls of the animals will die! The earth will die, and the stars will no longer shine! The Great Mother herself may die!"
The old man was crying unashamedly.
"And it will be because men do not speak words but
maybe seaguy explores this in issues 2 and 3 too, it's not just other humans that humans have been entrapped in this mechanism. the wildlife around us is dying off at an alarming rate, and while i'm a lover of the desert in its own rights, i'm not too fond of losing the flora and fauna that enrich the spaces we all share.
im with you on all of this. i guess the better question i should've asked is, "when will people stop letting fear be the excuse?"
thank you for your burst of words, i too have obsessively observed and held all these and the fears you mention (ive been supporting myself and my partner for the last few years- my goodness has it been rough- but weve always had each other to pull outselves through the hard times) i think the hardest part is not enough people want to take accountability for their actions when they have that fear. fear is an emotion like any other that cannot be ignored, but it also can not be the driving action. fear should drive us to love and find community with each other more, not separate us through our personalized algorithms and hope that capitalism will work itself out fine. collectively working together and combating the fears of the change necessary is our only hope.
edit: i'd also like to add that there isn't necessarily a need for a figurehead for anything like that to be possible. "good" and "evil" are human words that have little meaning when actually applied to reality. they're often subjective to the user, which is why more community oriented thinking is necessary. more people from the same region coming together and getting to understand each other on more than just a political/social/economical commonality. stripping away and getting past those initial stress cortisol barriers that exist when people first meet new people theyre not sure of (fear) and letting instead the curiosity take over and allow them to make those connections with other people they might not usually talk to-- thats how we find that support your speaking of.
i'd love to continue this discussion as a thoughtful experience! i'm realizing with the wording of each of these how the words i'm typing out may not fully encompass the nuances that i'm thinking of if i'm not diving into them with just as much depth.
i think we also are thinking of two different but similar fear-to-action sequences. what i'm referring to is the extreme but very real reality of things that drive people to say or do acts of violence against a person in a way that violates another persons right to a respectful existence. (ie murder, hate crimes, micro/macro aggressions) which is why i mentioned that good and evil are subjective. these are just my views on these issues of people using a perception of fear as an excuse for their actions of bias/abuse. these are the types of things i experience first and secondhand on a daily basis. if i understand you correctly, your points seem to be more focused on the general existence of fear as a motivator, but even then in some of your points i would argue that in the moments of admission, the fear being recognized and taking the steps necessary to unpack that with another person is courage. there is no such thing as a human without fear, but rather humans who have courage to let the fear subside long enough to let something else be felt in the moment as well. i don't like speaking in absolutes, so thats why i specified *Can* *Not* as is it has the potential to Not do so. no one is perfect! it's not some moral high ground i'm coming from, but rather from the same familiar state of desperation for more people to be willing to have these hard conversations that require discomfort and fear to begin with! once more people are willing to take the steps back to listen and let reason and understanding be the driving factor on a large scale, we may very well see some change!
as for your series of inquiries, i would say you pretty much answered yourself. we already hold all of the answers we need within ourselves to get ourselves into the spaces we need to hold to start asking those questions of ourselves and others, that's the only way we can let the love win right?
GM: Has Cameron Stewart unequivocally refused to draw SG3? Have you checked with him lately? Or is he persona non grata at DC, so that ship has sailed? Regardless, thanks for sharing and yes, the metaphor/conceit of the series was pretty straightforward to me, too. Love it still. Cheers!
GM: And/or is there any possibility of Seaguy Eternal being resurrected in another form? Different artist? Different publisher? Self-publishing? Getting the rights back (if DC owns them)? Crowd funding? I imagine there’s enough die hards here that would love to support this book finding its way to completion.
Luke Skywalker can’t die because he hasn’t married and has has No Son -- and hasn’t fulfilled his vow to learn the ways of The Force and become a Jedi LIKE HIS FATHER, which he isn’t. Until he is.
He’s an Anti-Dad -- that’s why you have to kill him twice before he’ll die, like Dracula.
Going to have Captain Lotharius stuck in my head all day now!
So sorry about Sea Guy. I feel similarly about my Manthing run with J.MDeMatteis. It never got what it was due, never got finished, and it was going interesting and amazing places. In many ways I see that as the precursor to the work I’ve done with you. X
“Maybe it's because I didn't have a childhood like everyone else that I don't idealise childish behavior.”
having been monetarily struggling since birth, it's always been a challenge getting our hands on and reading many of the books you and other comic legends wrote (legally that is...) but the test of publications failed us this time! Seaguy sounds like a tale that resonates deeply with us! Being good ol' American Gen Z-ers, we've had a deep frustration with the capitalism's death grip on the people around us. Why is everyone seemingly okay with being a slave to the system that is killing them? Why are people craving to be brainwashed by one thing or another? Is there anyone out there willing to take on the duties of being a mindful human being? Or are we as a nation (and perhaps world) destined to succumb to our fleeting desires and numb the pain of adulthood's lenses while those in power do everything their AI can to keep us there? Maybe Seaguy has the same conclusive answers that many of our ancestors came to time and time again...
Every time We hear an American say “Our Nation”, we roll our eyes.
well... being an american is a vastly different life than being a lot of other nationalities in many ways, but especially the fact that it's basically a bunch of little countries all slapped together with one fascist oligarchy. so saying "as a nation" gives the depth of understanding that there are varying backgrounds and views being observed on the national scale. kinda as if nation is the term for people from the same country or something 🤔
And what of The Raccoon Nation..?
oh theyre family to me!
“ “But let me tell you this: the Mohawk Nation is losing its soul. Soul is not like breath or blood or bone and it can be taken in ways no man understands.
My grandfather had more soul than I have,
and the young men have less than me.
But I have enough soul to talk to Old Grandfather, who is a raccoon now. He thinks as a raccoon and he is worried about the raccoon nation, more
than I am worried about the Mohawk Nation.
He thinks the raccoon nation will die soon, and all the nations of the free and wild animals.
That is a terrible thing and it frightens me.
When the nations of the animals die,
the earth will also die.
That is an old teaching and I cannot doubt it.
I see it happening, already.
If they steal more of our land to build that dam, more of our soul will die, and more of the souls of the animals will die! The earth will die, and the stars will no longer shine! The Great Mother herself may die!"
The old man was crying unashamedly.
"And it will be because men do not speak words but
speak SHIT!"
maybe seaguy explores this in issues 2 and 3 too, it's not just other humans that humans have been entrapped in this mechanism. the wildlife around us is dying off at an alarming rate, and while i'm a lover of the desert in its own rights, i'm not too fond of losing the flora and fauna that enrich the spaces we all share.
im with you on all of this. i guess the better question i should've asked is, "when will people stop letting fear be the excuse?"
thank you for your burst of words, i too have obsessively observed and held all these and the fears you mention (ive been supporting myself and my partner for the last few years- my goodness has it been rough- but weve always had each other to pull outselves through the hard times) i think the hardest part is not enough people want to take accountability for their actions when they have that fear. fear is an emotion like any other that cannot be ignored, but it also can not be the driving action. fear should drive us to love and find community with each other more, not separate us through our personalized algorithms and hope that capitalism will work itself out fine. collectively working together and combating the fears of the change necessary is our only hope.
edit: i'd also like to add that there isn't necessarily a need for a figurehead for anything like that to be possible. "good" and "evil" are human words that have little meaning when actually applied to reality. they're often subjective to the user, which is why more community oriented thinking is necessary. more people from the same region coming together and getting to understand each other on more than just a political/social/economical commonality. stripping away and getting past those initial stress cortisol barriers that exist when people first meet new people theyre not sure of (fear) and letting instead the curiosity take over and allow them to make those connections with other people they might not usually talk to-- thats how we find that support your speaking of.
i'd love to continue this discussion as a thoughtful experience! i'm realizing with the wording of each of these how the words i'm typing out may not fully encompass the nuances that i'm thinking of if i'm not diving into them with just as much depth.
i think we also are thinking of two different but similar fear-to-action sequences. what i'm referring to is the extreme but very real reality of things that drive people to say or do acts of violence against a person in a way that violates another persons right to a respectful existence. (ie murder, hate crimes, micro/macro aggressions) which is why i mentioned that good and evil are subjective. these are just my views on these issues of people using a perception of fear as an excuse for their actions of bias/abuse. these are the types of things i experience first and secondhand on a daily basis. if i understand you correctly, your points seem to be more focused on the general existence of fear as a motivator, but even then in some of your points i would argue that in the moments of admission, the fear being recognized and taking the steps necessary to unpack that with another person is courage. there is no such thing as a human without fear, but rather humans who have courage to let the fear subside long enough to let something else be felt in the moment as well. i don't like speaking in absolutes, so thats why i specified *Can* *Not* as is it has the potential to Not do so. no one is perfect! it's not some moral high ground i'm coming from, but rather from the same familiar state of desperation for more people to be willing to have these hard conversations that require discomfort and fear to begin with! once more people are willing to take the steps back to listen and let reason and understanding be the driving factor on a large scale, we may very well see some change!
as for your series of inquiries, i would say you pretty much answered yourself. we already hold all of the answers we need within ourselves to get ourselves into the spaces we need to hold to start asking those questions of ourselves and others, that's the only way we can let the love win right?
Mister Grant Morrison, Sir, and affiliates and representatives and all copyrights and all,
here's my portfolio : https://www.behance.net/dkaotic
I'll draw Seaguy Eternal,
if you'll have me, Sir, and affiliates and representatives and all copyrights and all.
Thank you for your time.
Cameron Stewart is awesome but *please* just finish it with a different artist!!!
Chapter III sounds an •awful• lot like The Last Jedi, actually!
Which in turn, is an •awful• lot like Godfather III.
That’s a High Compliment, by the way.
GM: Has Cameron Stewart unequivocally refused to draw SG3? Have you checked with him lately? Or is he persona non grata at DC, so that ship has sailed? Regardless, thanks for sharing and yes, the metaphor/conceit of the series was pretty straightforward to me, too. Love it still. Cheers!
GM: And/or is there any possibility of Seaguy Eternal being resurrected in another form? Different artist? Different publisher? Self-publishing? Getting the rights back (if DC owns them)? Crowd funding? I imagine there’s enough die hards here that would love to support this book finding its way to completion.
Luke Skywalker can’t die because he hasn’t married and has has No Son -- and hasn’t fulfilled his vow to learn the ways of The Force and become a Jedi LIKE HIS FATHER, which he isn’t. Until he is.
He’s an Anti-Dad -- that’s why you have to kill him twice before he’ll die, like Dracula.
Or Mandraak. Or Vader.