The Red Seas
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Cover of Under the Banner of King Death showing Captain Jack Dancer and his crew
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| Created by |
Ian Edginton Steve Yeowell |
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| Publication information | |||
| Publisher | Rebellion Developments | ||
| Schedule | Weekly | ||
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| Formats | Original material for the series has been published as a strip in the comics anthology(s) 2000 AD. | ||
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| Publication date | 2002 – 2013 | ||
| Main character(s) | Jack Dancer Isaac Newton |
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| Creative team | |||
| Writer(s) | Ian Edginton | ||
| Artist(s) | Steve Yeowell | ||
| Letterer(s) |
Annie Parkhouse Ellie De Ville |
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| Creator(s) |
Ian Edginton Steve Yeowell |
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| Editor(s) | Tharg (Matt Smith) | ||
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| Collected editions | |||
| Under the Banner of King Death | ISBN | ||
| Twilight of the Idols | ISBN | ||
The Red Seas is a series appearing in the British comics magazine 2000 AD, written by Ian Edginton and drawn by Steve Yeowell.
The stories revolve around Captain Jack Dancer and the crew of his ship the Red Wench. It mixes pirates with anomalous phenomena, including magic, zombies, the hollow earth and werewolves.
"Under the Banner of King Death" saw the crew fighting the zombie pirates of Doctor Orlando Doyle, and culminated in an appearance by Satan himself. Interestingly, it was this first story that saw the destruction of the erstwhile pirate's ship and the deaths of most of the crew. It was also where Erebus joined the team - sent on a spiritual quest by Isabella's shaman father, Jack Dancer travelled to the Spirit World and decapitated Erebus in order to use his immortal heads as a spirit compass to help him locate Isabella, who had been kidnapped by Doyle.
"Twilight of the Idols" saw the crew captured by the Royal Navy, only to be saved from hanging by an elderly Aladdin, who wanted their help in finding the floating island of Laputa.
"Meanwhile..." explored what was happening to the cast of secondary characters while Jack and his crew were away. Erebus and the staff of the Jolly Cripple clashed swords for the first time with Toten. This was also where Erebus gained a new lease of life on his mechanical body; desiring his aid in gathering souls, Toten presented Erebus with the chassis as a bribe - Erebus having up until then been carried about in a glass jar. With Mistress Meryl's help, Erebus double-crossed Toten and kept the chassis.
"Underworld" and "The Hollow Land" saw the crew saved from hanging again, (this time at the hands of the Pirate Council) by Jack's half-brother Alexander. Alexander, together with Isaac Newton, recruited Jack's help on an expedition to find their father, who had gone missing during an expedition to a subterranean world below the Earth's surface. Having located the senior Dancer, they were soon embroiled in a civil war between two tribes of lizard men, and shortly after met with Isabella once more. Both Isabella and Jim died before the return to the surface world, although Jim was resurrected, after a fashion, by the Martian entity Hnau.
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