Book I
The Trouble with Oddo
The first year of strips — Olie builds the Banana Moon, the Unrun urchins run wild, and Terrasfumato reveals its peculiar charms.
The Story
A ship built too far from the sea
Popeye meets the Katzenjammer Kids, with a dash of modernity — and a world entirely its own.
Olie Unrun always wanted to live a life at sea. Instead, he worked at his dad's fish-oil factory and began the life of a family man. One day something in Olie snapped and he built a ship on his land… then he relocated his house to the deck of the ship and christened the whole shebang “The Banana Moon.” All Olie had to do was wait for the right storm to lift his house to the sea.
Now adrift, the Unruns piece together each day through a host of uncommon creatures and comic calamities in the nearby community of Nettletown.
Olie is a veteran of the Great Sea Ape War — he lost a toe and has vowed revenge, just as soon as he can figure out how to get the boat in the water. Meanwhile, this decidedly eccentric family gets involved in wacky adventures with friends and enemies alike.
“[Sea Urchins] stubbornly adheres to its own world, which is not quite like our own. Yet in fundamental ways, it is like our own, a world in which family members pursue quixotic goals, nurse old grudges, tease each other unmercifully and love each other unreservedly.” — Tom Heintjes, Editor, Hogan’s Alley Magazine
