Pieces of Eights is a fantasy pirate webcomic by Mike Ellis.
The official description on the website is "Pieces of Eights is a tale about a ragtag crew of adventurers under Captain Mary-Anne Morgan and their quest for rum, guns and a whole lot of gold! Little do they know that the battle of Law and Chaos rests in their hands. It's like Dungeons and Dragons meets Pirates of the Caribbean only Johnny Depp's a chick."
The comic can be found at http://piecesofeights.com/
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The Crew:
- Mary-Anne Morgan
- Slaiton Mainard
- Guy-Sebastion Thatch
- Nikole Read
- Mackenzie Roberts
- Alyonubis Le Clerc
- Grynn Bonny
- Raina Fleury
Pieces of Eights contains examples of:
- Ax-Crazy: Autum O'Malley, a wood elf barely kept on a leash by the Blood Baron. Occasionally used as a messenger by him (when he wants a message written in blood & entrails).
- Blood Magic: He's called the Blood Baron for a reason. He can teleport from any open wound or pool of blood, any blood that lands on him heals him. He can use any blood to cast his magic, his, yours, anyone's.
- The Captain:
- Mary-Ann Morgan. She (drunkenly) put the crew together.
- Captain Low, a.k.a The Blood Baron. He's Morgan's former captain and is a powerful pirate.
- Pirate: Our "heroes".
- Our Dwarves Are Different: As it turns out, Dwarves used to be astronomers, not miners. This is only a recent (since the last big conflict) development.
- Our Zombies Are Different: Guy-Sebastion Thatch is a Litch, falling somewhere between a Voodoo Zombie and a Revenant Zombie. Most other zombies are the necromancy type, either haunting a specific location or summoned by Guy.
- The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: Averted. This crew frequently engages in theft, pillaging and good old fashioned murder. Sometimes on land too.
- Posthumous Narration: The first two strips of the comic are Mary-Anne being brought to the gallows to be hanged, and cuts to how she got there in the first place just as she's about to be hanged. Ultimately subverted, as when returning to that point in time again she's freed right as she's about to be burned to death, which prevents her regeneration.
- Sword and Gun: Mary-Ann Morgan likes using both. Later she gets her gun upgraded to shoot psionic bullets.
- Talk Like a Pirate: There are traces of Funetik Aksent among the characters, but otherwise this trope is downplayed.
