Sebastian O

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Sebastian O is the title of a comic book series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell for DC's Vertigo imprint and was published in 1993. Originally published as a three issue mini-series, it was later published in a trade paperback.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Publication 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

The story is an early example of what became known as steampunk and tells the story of Sebastian O, a young flamboyant assassin in a Victorian era London and his attempts to track down whoever condemned him to prison for his moral crimes.

Trained as an assassin, the world-traveling Sebastian belongs to the Club de Paradis Artificiel, which included the lesbian George, the pederast Abbe, and Sebastian's current nemesis, Lord Theo Lavender. While certainly morally unsound (he shoots a police officer in cold blood and has his butler feed it to cats) Sebastian is nonetheless a sympathetic character as he tracks down the whereabouts of Lavender, who betrayed him and had Sebastian locked up in Bedlam for offending the Victorian morals.

[edit] Publication

• Sebastian O (with Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell, Vertigo, 3 issue mini-series, 1993, tpb, 2004, 80 pages, Titan ISBN 1-84023-996-4 Vertigo ISBN 1-4012-0337-X)

[edit] See also

• List of steampunk works

[edit] External links

• DC Comics listing