| |
|
I read some of this threat yesterday and mostly remember the discussion about Seaguy winking on the last page of #3:
was it sugesting that Seaguy remembered his adventure with Chubby, and therefore Chubby himself, or was he properly brain-washed, is happy now and has no memory of the happenings? etc. etc.
While I don't remember who sugested the above, I do know that I tend to the later conclusion. But for me Seaguy's winking has nothing to do with this.
It's just Seaguy showing us that he is cheating death again; and the same way as before.
Just look at the last panel of #3 page 31. Seaguy says:
"So how about I start on black."
And then on page 32, 1st panel:
"And you can be white."
This shows us that deat still hasn't understood the game.
(Doesn't he say in #1 on page 3 in the 3rd panel "But...it seems so pointless. The Rules so arbitrary.")
Seaguy on the other hand understands at least one basic rule of chess: white always starts, not black.
The only possibility for me to see Seaguy's winking having another meaning in a deeper context, is in a reasuring way.
But, mind you, not in the way of whatever Mickey Eye might have done, I remember it all, but rather like bent, but not broken. (Which nicely reverses that old macho-bullshit phrase; nicely fitting in Morrison's worldview, I think.)
But even I have to admit that seeing the end of the first Seaguy arc in this context is quite strange, if Seaguy doesn't at least remember his adventure subconsciously. |
|
|
