[ID: 5 panel our flag means death comic. 1. A younger Spanish Jackie and Izzy Hands sit together at a small beat-up wooden table in some kind of tavern, drinking. Jackie has two fleshy hands, has her hair is in a short puff, and is wearing a white blouse and cravat with an open brick-red waistcoat, breeches, and brown boots. Izzy has a sparse goatee and looser non-graying hair and is wearing a black blouse, trousers, and black boots with his tie loosely knotted around his bare neck. Both appear disheveled and more than a little drunk. Propping her chin up on her right hand and scowling, Jackie bemoans, “Ugh! I could have a place like this. Way better! If fucking anyone would sell to me. Goddamn white men ownin’ everything, can’t even make a decent ale…” Izzy, leaning forward over the table in solidarity, points at her with his mug and replies, “Tch! You should just marry some Brit with connections ‘n make him buy whatever the fuck you want in your name.” 2. Close up on Jackie having a lightbulb moment, picking her chin up off her hand. We can see a silver ring with a gray-blue stone on the third finger of her right hand. 3. Repeat of panel 2, Jackie now grinning deviously and looking over in Izzy’s direction. 4. Close up on Izzy, realizing what he accidentally volunteered for. He glares and declares, “Absolutely fookin’ not.” 5. Later, Izzy returns to the Queen Anne’s Revenge, day beginning to break over the ocean. Blackbeard is on deck in the foreground with his back to the viewer, hair darker and barely beginning to gray, the right sleeve of his leather coat fraying at the seam where it may have been recently torn off. He leans with one hand on a nearby rope and the other on his hip as Izzy stalks by, hands in fists and scowling at the ground. The silver ring with the gray-blue stone is now perched on the knot of his tie. Noticing it, Blackbeard teases, “Hey. You put some new bling on your tie, Iz?” Izzy responds immediately with “Fuck off” without stopping, then adds a “Sir” for good measure. Blackbeard responds with an lol. /end ID]
