What's Trending: A Pirate's Life for Me

Shiver me timbers, landlubbers. I'm here with a curated list of pirate comics for today's What's Trending, where we turn our focus to the scourges of the sea. Enjoy these titles, where we'll see the lives of those on the high seas, or equivalent in the unique worlds of these comics. Every take brings something new and different to the mix 

Heathen, 351 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)

SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY – Viking Style! WOMAN. WARRIOR. VIKING. HEATHEN. OUTCAST. THE GODS MUST PAY… Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, and exiled from her village for kissing another woman, the lesbian Viking warrior, Aydis, sets out to destroy the god-king Odin and end his oppressive reign. Aydis is a viking, a warrior, an outcast, and a self-proclaimed heathen. Aydis is friend to the talking horse Saga, rescuer of the immortal Valkyrie Brynhild, and battler of demons and fantastic monsters. Aydis is a woman. Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, she is on a mission to end the oppressive reign of the god-king Odin.

Story and Art by Ashley A. Woods, Morgan Martinez, Natasha Alterici, Rachel Deering

Pirates of the Hard Nox, 218 pages - Published by Delfi_Arts, (cc/ @Delfiarts)

Captain Sinead is known as the Whore of the Horizon, for her promiscuous activities and habit of showing off the scars where her wings used to be before something terrible happened. In her journey to get back everything she lost, she’s helped by a wisewoman who’s one of the last of her kind, a vampire who could turn and bite at any point and a quartermaster with deep-seeded grudge against her, to name a few. They’ll have to deal with their issues in house, while facing a terrifying enemy.

Story and Art by Delfi_Arts

The Lady of Gollerus, 351 pages - Published by BeeberryMuffin, (cc/ @beeberrymuffin)

The pirate captain of a not-so-legendary ghost ship tries to make a name for himself alongside his first mate, Minho, and his crew of outcasts.

Story and Art by BeeberryMuffin

Gold Digger, 7252 pages - Published by Antarctic Press, (cc/ @JDunn)

For super-scientist Gina Diggers, boy-crazy archeologist adventurer extraordinaire, life is never dull. Accompanied by her mall hopping were-cheetah sister, Britanny, she explores the strange and ancient hidden histories of the world, from Shangri-La, Atlantis, El Dorado to other worlds, dimensions, and the end of time itself. With a huge colorful cast including aliens, master wizards, martial...

Story and Art by Fred Perry

Metroid: SHRED, 14 pages - Published by The Force Media, (cc/ @omorales81)

This is a side mission featuring intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran and the baby Metroid alien she has rescued. This is a lone-wolf-and-cub adventure story from Nintendo Co. Ltd's METROID franchise.

Story and Art by Jaymes Reed, Mau Mora, Omar Morales

KARIBA, 228 pages - Published by Catalyst Press, (cc/ @catalystpress)

The daughter of a river god, raised by a human father and bound to a tragic destiny. Siku has always called the Zambezi River her home. She understands the water – and it understands her, too, coming to her aid in times of need. But things are changing on the river – a great dam is being built, displacing thousands of Shonga people – and things are changing in Siku, too, as her ability to manipulate water grows out of control. When her father disappears, Siku discovers a terrible secret, and she must journey to the source of the river tounderstand the ancient power hidden within her.

Story and Art by Catalyst Press

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