{"id":159,"date":"2007-04-13T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=159"},"modified":"2013-10-29T12:09:35","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T12:09:35","slug":"sebastian-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/13\/sebastian-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sebo.jpg\" title=\"Sebastian O\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sebo.jpg\" alt=\"Sebastian O\" \/><\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Grant Morrison<\/strong> and <strong>Steve Yeowell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Vertigo)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84023-996-4<\/p>\n<p>The mini-series was one of the earliest Vertigo outings and sadly doesn&#8217;t stand so well against later work by the writer or publisher. Blending Michael Moorcock&#8217;s alternative spy Jerry Cornelius with steampunk standbys, the myth of Oscar Wilde and the author&#8217;s fascination with higher dimensions, this is the tale of effete aesthete and super assassin Sebastian O&#8217;Leary, who escapes from Bedlam to wreak vengeance on the man who betrayed him &#8212; and inadvertently save the Empire from a cyber-space invasion.<\/p>\n<p>It is well scripted, if a little forced, but the pretentious need to show off one&#8217;s cleverness obscures the narrative flow, don&#8217;tcha know, and were it not for the spectacularly underplayed drawings of Steve Yeowell, one might be forced to conclude that it&#8217;s all a bit of a bore.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a91993 Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell. All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\nCover and compilation \u00c2\u00a9 2004 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell (Vertigo)\u00c2\u00a0 ISBN 1-84023-996-4 The mini-series was one of the earliest Vertigo outings and sadly doesn&#8217;t stand so well against later work by the writer or publisher. Blending Michael Moorcock&#8217;s alternative spy Jerry Cornelius with steampunk standbys, the myth of Oscar Wilde and the author&#8217;s fascination with higher dimensions, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/04\/13\/sebastian-o\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sebastian O&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66,105,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror-stories","category-mature-reading","category-vertigo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}