The Pirate Islands

My hand writing is shit and I'm not much of an artist. Trying to write with a fractured wrist saw to that in 2nd grade. But I took the time to carefully do all that work. I penciled then inked it. I had a first draft and good thing i had some piece of all that work.

  Ignoring Saga for the most part the only other pirate I’ve come across is Franklin Harlock Jr.  In the first chapter of the manga they establish that Frank’s a bit of a mut, and German on his mother’s side.  

Might be Leiji had not yet decided he was fully German at that point in time.  I sort of wonder if he’s a bastard on top of everything else.  Dad’s name might have Frankin but maybe he wasn’t the Harlock, mom was. 

If you read to much into the pirate knight stuff the Harlock family would have been minor nobles.   Mostly I can see If you’re never going to inherit anything and therefore fewer obligations to the motherland a few of the Harlock boys have run off to have crazy adventures as pirates.  

 Another murder happens in the Central City’s Wildwood Cemetery and since Vampi and friends have the necklace they figure some other thing that goes bump in the night must be lurking in the Cemetery.  So they decide to look at police records for clues and a report by the police commissioner Dolan dated 1940 catches their eyes. 

Back in the day some mad scientist was going poison the city’s drinking water with a suspended animation drug. A young PI Denny Colt stopped the plot but was found dead at the scene face down in a pool of the liquid drug.  Denny Colt was then buried in Wildwood and his tomb stone was in the establishing Vampirella emos out panel.  The group then assumes that maybe Colt wasn’t dead but in suspended animation and his body has been getting slowly eaten by creepy crawlies for 35 years and he finally awoke as a crazed monster.  

Vampirella and her boyfriend then go have some antics with alien panthers because at this point in time Vampirella is an alien from another planet. Comic books what can I say.

 Meanwhile her boyfriend's dad and their magician friend work the Denny Colt angle by staking out the cemetery.  They finally hear a scream an stop the murder of a woman but the creature escapes  into the sewers.  The comic relief  magician gives chase but soon lets out a screen only to return with the killer tied up.  It ends up being not the zombie of Denny Colt but some loser who was killing off his former female coworkers from his old job.

When asked how the hell did the comic relief magician managed to capture the murder?  He tells them that he had panicked and conjured some big guy in a blue mask.  The magician that turns to look at Colts gravestone to see a masked man in a suit waving at him.  He takes off running much to the confusion of the others.

The whole joke this is a sort of cross over with Will Eisner’s The Spirit.  The Vampirella gang are half right,  Colt was in suspended animation but he woke up a few days later and decided to become a masked vigilante.  So maybe Pendragon the Magician didn’t summon anything he just got saved by Central City’s resident masked hero on his way home.

 While always depicted as a non powered  detective who’s to say those chemicals didn’t slow his aging?  Hate to say it but Miller was on to something, to bad he ampped things up to 11.  I like the idea of accidentally immortal “The Spirit”, because the correct way to play it would be as not important at all.