Polite Dissent

Ahoy Mateys! Jimmy the Long here…don’t fergit that today be Talk Like a Pirate Day! Methinks it would be a good time to relax in the sun, chug some grog, and sing a few sea shanties. Or watch NASCAR and the Justice League I missed last night. Whatever.

• Talk Like A Pirate Day Official Website
• Git yer own pirate name, ya’ land lubbers! Pirate Name Generator
• Methinks the Truth be Out There: Pirate and Privateer Legends!
• Avast! That bilge rat Steven don’t like folks to be talking like a pirate! Tho’ he do be makin’ allowances for Talk Like a Pirate Day, and has a nifty portrait of one o’ me cousins on his site.
• Some comic-book pirates (and pirate comic books) off the top of me head (to be updated as I think of more):
  • Crossbones
  • The Psycho Pirate
  • Occulus from Fantastic Four
  • And in the Fantastic Four’s first encounter with Dr. Doom (FF #5), The Thing ended up becoming Blackbeard.
  • Pirate Club
  • The evil pirates from My Monkey’s Name is Jennifer
  • The Starjammers
  • Scurvy Dogs
  • El Cazador
  • Long John Silver and the Pirates (Charlton comic from the 1950s)
  • Belit (and Conan, for a time) from the Conan comics (older Marvel volumes)
  • The Black Pirate appeared in some of the 1940s issues of Action Comics
  • There was the pirate comic-within-a-comic in Watchmen (Tales of Black Freighter, I think)
  • Buccaneers from the 1950s
  • The similarly named Buccaneer, also from the 1950s
  • The Golden Medallion, a pirate comic book put out by LEGO
  • Terry and the Pirates. Sure it was a comic strip, but it’s been reprinted in comic book form several times
  • Even Mickey Mouse is getting in on the act: Air Pirates Funnies
  • Speaking of Disney, we can’t forget air pirate Don Carnage from Talespin
  • Pirates appeares in at least one Spirit story
  • EC’s Piracy
  • Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates
  • Some pirates appeared (briefly, before being slaughtered) in Grendel: War Child #4