Sebastian O
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Sebastian O | |
Steve Yeowell's cover to Sebastian O #1 |
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Publisher | Vertigo |
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Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Mini-series |
Publication date | 1993 |
Number of issues | 3 |
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Writer(s) | Grant Morrison |
Artist(s) | Steve Yeowell |
Creator(s) | Grant Morrison Steve Yeowell |
Sebastian O is the title of a comic book series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell for DC's Vertigo imprint, which was published in 1993. Originally published as a three-issue mini-series, it was later published in a trade paperback.
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[edit] Synopsis
The story, an early example of what became known as steampunk, 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)[1]