As I write this, I am in the lush and beautiful country of Jamaica on a mission trip. I arrived a little less than a week ago, and will be here until the end of the May. I have been excited about this trip as an opportunity to preach, but also, on a personal level, because of the role Jamaica played in the history of piracy in the Caribbean. Although I doubt I will be able to make it to Port Royal (or rather, the small fishing village that is left of it after the earthquake of 1692), it is still remarkable to stand on the beach and look out at the same water that islanders centuries ago looked out on and saw Spanish galleons, loaded with American gold, or small, fast brigs flying pirate colors!

I am busy writing ideas for strips for our next story (which will be a big one) entitled “The Wannabe Pirates and Henry Morgan’s Treasure.” Connection to Jamaica? Henry Morgan, one of the most famed and notorious pirates to ever sail, was also one of the early governors of Jamaica.

So, sit back and keep reading our strip, mon! Comments are always welcomed (hey, we enjoy feedback), so drop us a line. As the Jamaicans would say, “No worries, mate!” Oops, that’s the wrong laid back country! Iree, Iree, mon!

McCrary!

We’ve got something we hope you’ll like this week: a shiny, 3D wallpaper of The Wannabe Pirates!

Just click here to download the 1024 x 768 image! If your desktop is a different size, let us know in the comments and we’ll put up more sizes to download!

Largent here… with the villainous Cutthroat Jacques!

When I did his original design, I strayed some from the likeness of the guy playing him in order to make him more evil-looking. I like the idea of the villain being large and imposing.

After we’d made some costume changes to the design and I’d started modeling him, I started to think that he reminded me a little of Napolean and thought of making him French and giving him an accent.

The original character was called Cutthroat Mac, but now that he was French, we changed it to Cutthroat Jacques!

He’s probably my favorite model.

The little fellow perched on his arm is Archibald.

You’ll be meeting him soon…

Hi, McCrary here!

Why are pirates so funny? I mean, really, they were generally a horrible example of what the human race can be.  The term “cutthroats” became equated with pirates for a reason, you know.

Yet, despite this, people for generations have found a world of funny material in the subject of pirates.  And, now we are doing what we can to bring a small smile to someone’s face by feeding the impression that pirates were a jolly band of cut-ups (rather than cutthroats!)

So, to make you smile a little, I’ve assembles a number of pirates joke that have been sent to me since we started the site, and some I found on the ‘net.  Enjoy!

A pirate with an eye patch seemed down at a bar. The bartender asked, “What’s wrong?” The pirate replied, “Arrrgh, they wanted me to be a teacher… but I only had one pupil!”

A pirate walks into a bar wearing a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum.

The bartender asks, “Why are you wearing a paper towel?”
“Arrr…” says the pirate. “I’ve got a bounty on me head!”

A pirate walks into a bar wearing a paper towel on his head. He sits down at the bar and orders some dirty rum.

The bartender asks, “Why are you wearing a paper towel?”
“Arrr…” says the pirate. “I’ve got a bounty on me head!”

A pirate captain is talking to his first mate. The captain had an eyepatch, a peg leg, and a hook for a hand.  “Let me tell you,” he said, “I put a lot of myself into this job!”

Of course, we’re still making all of this up as we go, but we think we’ve found a way to put the animated adventures of Errol Flemm onto some kind of schedule!

We’re breaking the movies up into chapters that we’ll release on a schedule of every four months, starting in September!

This way, we’ll get to transition straight into the second story after the first one ends, rather than having to let a gap of a year or more come between them. It also will be fun to structure them like a movie serial with cliffhangers and such.

Next week, the webcomic starts up the second storyline as The Wannabe Pirates have their first encounter with the villainous Cutthroat Jacques!