Sebastian O
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Sebastian O is the title of a comic book series written by Grant Morrison and drawn by Steve Yeowell for DC's Vertigo imprint and was published in 1993. Originally published as a three issue mini-series, it was later published in a trade paperback.
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The story is an early example of what became known as steampunk and 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 policeman 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.
Similiarites can be drawn between Sebastian and Oscar Wilde, even in the verse that they speak. This comic contains nudity, bloodshed, and references to pedophilia.
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- 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)
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