Category:Subway Pirates
From Barbelith
Background
Guardian artist Cameron Stewart: “The subway pirates are bands of homeless people who now live deep beneath the streets of Manhattan and travel from station to station on the subway lines, marauding and looting. I was reminded of the Crimson Permanent Assurance, Terry Gilliam's short film about accountants-turned-pirates from the start of Monty Python's Meaning of Life, so tried to keep that in mind as I was drawing them - ties worn as headbands, bandoliers of cellphones, keys and credit cards worn as earrings, the spoils of victory from their urban New York victims. There's also No-Beard and All-Beard, rival captains of the pirate trains, one of whom is completely hairless and the other has so much hair that with his fur coat he resembles one giant beard."
It has been suggested that the two rival pirate captains are representations/send-ups of the Great Rival Comic Writing Magick Masters... since Alan Moore is a famously hairy, beardy man (like All-Beard), and Grant Morrison is equally dramatically bald and sleek (like No-Beard).
Since Morrison's famous for 1) putting himself in his comics, and 2) stirring up shit with Moore, it might be worth reading their SSOV stories on this level.
Members
The named Subway Pirates who appear in the story include:
Crew of the President Clinton
Crew of the Worm Almighty
Others
- Falsebeard
- Bluehand
- Creepy Jean
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