Orson Cart

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Orson Cart appeared in a few Viz issues of the mid-1990s, written and drawn by Steve Donald. The full title of his strip was "Orson Cart, He Comes Apart". The character's name -- a pun on "horse and cart" -- was completely arbitrary, chosen only so that the full title would rhyme.

Orson Cart is a teenaged English boy, apparently blond, who lives with his parents. Nobody other than Orson himself is aware of his secret talent: any or all of his body's organs and limbs can detach themselves and function independently, then rejoin the whole. In typical comic-book fashion, he acquired this ability after a bizarre accident.

"Orson Cart" ran in Viz' only briefly, but Steve Donald later wrote and illustrated eight Orson Cart adventures published in paperback.

The 1927 novel The Gnome King of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson featured a character named Kuma Party (a pun on "come apart"-y) who had precisely the same ability as Orson Cart, with the additional ability to send selected components of his body airborne for extreme distances on remote missions. There is no evidence that anyone at Viz was familiar with this earlier character.