The old cookie trick
Originally published 12 May 2001

Today of course is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. So the only question was which Captain Locke strip I was going to rerun.

Looking back, I think the first Locke storyline was really clumsy. It was the sort of thing I'd never done before--I was attempting surreal fantasy for its own sake, and ended up with a plot that really didn't go anywhere. But Locke justified his presence in the strip in subsequent storylines, culminating in his becoming very important to the plot indeed.

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