Polite Dissent

It’s time once again for one of my favorite holidays of the year: Talk Like A Pirate Day!
Being the good buccaneer that I am, I looted last year’s post (which was itself plundered from the year before that), and I’m reposting and updating it — and new additions are always welcome!

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
• The hilarious Scurvy Dogs (”The cow says moo…”)
• The abandoned Barbarossa and the Lost Corsairs
• El Cazador
• Street Angel #2
• 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)
• Buccaneers from the 1950s
• The similarly named Buccaneer, also from the 1950s
• The Golden Medallion, a pirate comic book put out by LEGO
• The Pirates of Dark Water A kids comic put out by Marvel based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon.
• Terry and the Pirates. Sure it was a comic strip, but it’s been reprinted in comic book form several times
• Then of course there’s Colonia (pointed out to me last year by Laura, the “Scourge of the Seattle Seas”)
• Pirate Corp$
• Even Mickey Mouse is getting in on the act: Air Pirates Funnies
• Metrokitty (the “Feline Felon”) reminded me that there was a pirate as a suporting character in the Starman series (and in one of the Talking with David issues).
• 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
• Polly and the Pirates
• The Aquaman villains Cutlas Charlie, Captain Squid, and Captain Blackjack
• The subway pirates from Seven Soldiers: Manhattan Guardian
• Air Pirates appeared in CrossGen’s Meridian.
• An evil pirate appeared in Leave it to Chance
• Pirate Jean Loring, from the early adventures of the Atom (as reviewed by The Comic Treadmill)
• A pirate memorably appears in the Dr. 13 story from the recent Tales of the Unexpected mini-series.
• Pirates play a major role in the origin and adventures of The Phantom
• Captain Fear appears in the Ostrander/Mandrake Spectre series
• Freefall and Burnout sign up with pirates for a time in Gen13
• Ghost pirate Captain Fate appeared in Man-Thing.
• European comic pirates include Barbe-Rouge (Redbeard) and Ouwe Niek en Zwartbaard (Old Nick and Blackbeard)