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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Sebastian O by Grant Morrison Sebastian O. 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. Contents. Synopsis. The story, an early example of what became known as steampunk, tells the story of Sebastian O, a young flamboyant assassin in an alternate history, technologically advanced Victorian era London and his attempts to track down whoever condemned him to prison for his moral crimes and transgressive literature. 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 Victorian morals. Sebastian O/Mystery Play by Grant Morrison. Mysteriously gifted with the power to rewind time, young photography student Max Caulfield became entangled in the dark secrets of Arcadia Bay. She used her strange new abilities to reconnect with her oddest friend, Chloe Price, and to bring to justice the men who had murdered Chloe’s closest confidante, Rachel Amber. Max’s temporal abilities came at a cost, however, creating a once-in-a-generation hurricane that threatened the town with total destruction, if Max didn’t allow the original timeline – in which Chloe died of a gunshot wound – to play out. In one sequence of events, Max chose to save Chloe’s life, sacrificing Arcadia Bay. And in a multiverse of infinite possibilities, this is one version of what happened next… Sebastian O/Mystery Play by Grant Morrison. SEBASTIAN O/THE MYSTERY PLAY BY GRANT MORRISON collects--for the first time in a single hardcover volume--two VERTIGO rarities from three modern comics masters. Legendary comics author Grant Morrison has always striven to reveal the great truths of existence that lie hidden behind the camouflage of mundane reality. This quest for the profound and the sublime has led to some of the strangest and most moving works in the annals of graphic storytelling—including the two transformative tales collected here. In SEBASTIAN O, artist Steve Yeowell brings to life Morrison’s steampunk reimagining of the golden age of dandyism, as personified by one Sebastian Alfred O’Leary, who is—depending on the observer’s viewpoint—either “the golden miracle child in whom all the qualities of the gods will be reflected in harmony,” or simply the best-dressed member of “a lair of bloody sodomists and drug fiends.” In THE MYSTERY PLAY, artist Jon J Muth illuminates Morrison’s elegiac meditation on guilt, sacrifice, judgment and retribution, as revealed by Detective Sergeant Frank Carpenter in his twisting, hallucinatory investigation into the murder of an actor playing God in a small English town’s revival of the medieval stage dramas that celebrated the Christian story. Sebastian O/Mystery Play by Grant Morrison. SEBASTIAN O/THE MYSTERY PLAY BY GRANT MORRISON collects--for the first time in a single hardcover volume--two VERTIGO rarities from three modern comics masters. Legendary comics author Grant Morrison has always striven to reveal the great truths of existence that lie hidden behind the camouflage of mundane reality. This quest for the profound and the sublime has led to some of the strangest and most moving works in the annals of graphic storytelling—including the two transformative tales collected here. In SEBASTIAN O, artist Steve Yeowell brings to life Morrison’s steampunk reimagining of the golden age of dandyism, as personified by one Sebastian Alfred O’Leary, who is—depending on the observer’s viewpoint—either “the golden miracle child in whom all the qualities of the gods will be reflected in harmony,” or simply the best-dressed member of “a lair of bloody sodomists and drug fiends.” In THE MYSTERY PLAY, artist Jon J Muth illuminates Morrison’s elegiac meditation on guilt, sacrifice, judgment and retribution, as revealed by Detective Sergeant Frank Carpenter in his twisting, hallucinatory investigation into the murder of an actor playing God in a small English town’s revival of the medieval stage dramas that celebrated the Christian story. Grant Morrison comes out as non-binary, no-one is surprised but it’s very important. Scottish author, playwright and television series producer Grant Morrison MBE has, in the last few weeks, come out as non-binary. In recent months, DC have confirmed The Flash will be genderfluid going forward, which didn’t exactly make a splash in the news. Grant Morrison being non-binary, though, is huge. Grant Morrison is one of the most sought after and accomplished writers in the business. They have been active since the mid 80s, when they mostly wrote for Marvel UK, Doctor Who Magazine, 2000AD and British annuals for DC. After 1987’s Zenith. for 2000AD, Morrison really caught the attention of DC Comics and landed the gig of an Animal Man ongoing. Morrison was quickly added to the ever growing list of talent colloquially known as the ‘British Invasion’, a group of British artists and writers that were being picked up by American publishers, started with Alan Moore on Swamp Thing. The ‘British Invasion’ featured hot talent such as the aforementioned Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, as well as Neil Gaiman, Brian Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Peter Mulligan, Alan Davis, Alan Grant, John Wagner, Cam Kennedy and into the 90s included Frank Quitely, Bryan Hitch, Steve Dillon, Barry Windsor-Smith, Mark Millar and many others. Impressing DC Comics with Animal Man, Morrison was asked to take over writing duties on Doom Patrol in 1989, and possibly their most important work, the graphic novel, ‘Batman Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth’. ‘Arkham Asylum’ sold nearly 300,000 copies upon its initial release, sparking a renewed interest in Batman in comics, alongside the then recently released Tim Burton flick. Into the 90s, Morrison followed up on ‘Arkham Asylum’ with a prequel of sorts, ‘Gothic’, in early issues of the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight anthology series. Grant Morrison then revamped Kid Eternity for DC, all the while working on British comics such as Dan Dare and the controversial ‘Bible John-A Forensic Meditation’. In 1993 DC Comics launched Vertigo, an exciting new imprint consisting of ‘mature themed’ DC content and creator-owned material. Under Vertigo, Morrison wrote a follow-up to their Doom Patrol run, ‘Flex Mentallo’, as well as creator owned short stories ‘Sebastian O’, ‘The Mystery Play’ and ‘Kill Your Boyfriend’, as well as the hugely popular abstract “mind fuck” ‘The Invisibles’ (which heavily influenced The Matrix). Millar relaunched JLA for a modern audience, and teamed up with fellow Scot writer Mark Millar for the maxiseries ‘JLA: Aztek’, a handful of issues of ‘Swamp Thing’ and ‘The Flash’. In the 2000s, Morrison moved to Marvel Comics after writing the graphic novel ‘JLA: Earth 2’. Under Marvel, Morrison wrote the hugely successful and critically acclaimed ‘New X-Men’, as well as ‘Marvel Boy’ and ‘Fantastic Four: 1234’. To this day, ‘New X-Men’ stands as one of the most influential runs on the X-Men franchise and has long been remembered for its critical changes and new characters brought to the franchise. It was during this time Morrison added to their Vertigo bibliography with ‘We3’, ‘The Filth’, Seaguy and Vimanarama. By the mid 2000s, Morrison had left Marvel vowing to “never work for them again”, and wrote the debut story in ‘JLA Classified’, and the 30 issue long series ‘Seven Soldiers’. Morrison co-wrote the follow up to Infinite Crisis, ’52’, and the 12 issue Eisner Award winning maxiseries ‘All Star Superman’. Grant Morrison and, by this point, frequent collaborator Frank Quitely, worked together on Robbie Williams’ album Intensive Care, designing the full packaging and art. In the late 2000s and 2010s, Morrison their magnum opus, their seven year long Batman epic arc, interwoven with Morrison’s own ‘Final Crisis’. Morrison introduced Damian Wayne and made huge, long lasting changes to Batman and greater DC lore. Morrison returned to Vertigo for ‘Joe the Barbarian’, wrote an “analysis of superheroes and comics”, ‘Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero’ and was the subject of the feature length documentary ‘Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods’. In 2011, Morrison was handpicked by DC editorial to lead the Superman character in the New 52 revamp, as well as finish their Batman run with ‘Batman: Inc’ and later, ‘Multiversity’. Morrison became the editor-in- chief of sci-fi and fantasy magazine ‘Heavy Metal’, and relaunched Green Lantern with Liam Sharp. More recently, Morrison co-created and wrote the Netflix original series ‘Happy!’ and wrote and produced the television series Brave New World. Grant Morrison, Trent Reznor and Kristen Morrison, Rolling Stone Magazine. “We had ‘transsexual’ and ‘transvestite’ both of which sounded like [psychological] classifications rather than lifestyle choices! I didn’t want to be labelled as medical aberration because that’s not how it felt, nor was it something cut-and-dried and done. I didn’t want to ‘transition’ or embody my ‘female’ side exclusively, so I had no idea where I fit in. Terms like ‘genderqueer’ and ‘non-binary’ only came into vogue in the mid-90s. So kids like me had very limited ways of describing our attraction to drag and sexual ambiguity.

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