1 [caption]: A day's sail out of Havana... {a pirate ship}
2 Long Tom: This be a fine ship, Wendy, but I prefer something larger than a frigate.
3 Wendy: Why be that, cap'n?
3 Long Tom: More reliable...
4 Long Tom: I be getting 30,000 nautical miles to the galleon! Arrr!

2012-06-28 Rerun commentary: We're off the tablecloth ocean and back on the blue towel here. At the time I thought the corner in panel 2 could be written off as a wave or something, but it looks kind of odd.

On the positive side, the sky is now not the blank white of my walls! That's an actual sky blue (well, cyan I guess) gradient fill behind the ship. That probably took me hours to do this first time, manually cutting out around the ship in my graphics editor. Some of these early strips truly took ages to make before I figured out more efficient ways to do things.