Publisher: BOOM! Studios (Archaia imprint)
Story: Swifty Lang
Art: Skuds McKinley
Release Date: 18th February, 2015

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In Plunder we find ourselves aboard a pirate ship – “ocean robbers” as they call themselves – and with a misfit tribe of pirates led by the curiously named ‘Internet’. Our hero is Translator, a young boy with an education who is, at this point, useless with a gun. The pirates come across a large tanker and promptly board it. Once on deck, they realise that something’s not quite right. The deck is covered in blood and a purple gunk that makes them assume that this was a whaling tanker. Until they find a disembodied arm clutching the door.

Then the rest of the body, torn to shreds. Here is the US Seeker.

Then another body, a talking one that “looks like Freddy Kreuger had his way”. If only it was, they could just wake up.

Then a crazed cook, chopping up a body. Then chopping up his own body before he turns on our pirates.

Our pirate ‘clan’ don’t ever seem too concerned about what’s happening, though a few mutter about it being a nightmare. They just continue about their business, taking control of the ship and searching out the goods and rest of the crew.

All the characters speak in a curious dialect that, at first, is confusing and slightly impenetrable. I really had to concentrate on their words and adopt their nouns to understand what they were talking about. Thankfully, Translator is there for us just as much as he is for them.

The comic is a bright, modern horror work. Sinuous bodies look like pulled pork, bones left in. It’s great. We have admittedly seen this story a lot – haunted ship on the high seas – but this one looks as if its going to be fun sailing.

Rating: 3/5.

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The Writer of this piece was: Hazel Hay
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