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About Isle & Island^™

Briefly
Isle & Island^™follows the misadventures of some 16th century European colonists who have lost their way while sailing to the New World, and were instead shipwrecked on a small Pacific island. If you think that sounds a bit boring, you probably don't know anything about 16th century stereotypes. Here is a world full of pirates, huge naval battles, oppressed natives who avenge the European invaders, pirates, lost treasure, lost empires, pirates, sea monsters, and pirates. Ok, so not all of these things have yet been mentioned in the comic, but it gives you an idea of why I picked the setting. I'm not likely to run out of good material anytime soon.

The Characters
The world of Isle & Island^™ is populated by a hilarious... err... well, somewhat humorous bunch of characters. And here they are:

	Isle Isle is the comic's main character, and his name was suggested by one David Vance, an acquaintance of mine, in order to create a nice alliteration effect in the title. Isle is a rather optimistic, good-natured sort of fellow who wears a triangular hat. He is quite intelligent, but, like most characters in the comic, often makes mistakes, mostly due to his good-natured optimism, and only rarely due to the triangular hat.
	Sullivan Sullivan embodies the superstitious beliefs that were so common in the 16th century, and are probably more common today. Nonetheless, he is by no means a fool, which makes arguing with him particularly annoying. No-one bothers to do so, anyway.
	Iri Iri is the latest addition to the cast of characters, so recent, in fact, that she won't appear in any comics for a little while (the storyline where we first meet her has already been drawn, but will not be published for a few weeks). She has the job of being the unemotional, always serious character - sort of like Mr. Spock in personality, but without the funny ears.
	Nérdé the Scholar Nérdé provides strange invention relief whenever I am stuck with a storyline. A few centuries ahead of his time, he is your stereotypical, skeptical, glasses-laden, very-likely-to-accidentally-blow-something-up- and-then-be-burned-at-the-stake-for-it kind of scientist. Except that he's dressed as a monk. Oh well.
	A Dolphin My theory is that people hate dolphins. Otherwise, dolphinariums (marine parks) would not be so popular. In any case, I decided that the resident pessimist will be a talking dolphin. You can't pronounce his name without severely injuring your upper palate, so I don't mention it in the comic. This creature is my favorite character, so I will try to work him into as many storylines as I can, although he is more of a recurring character right now.
	Bob Bob is dull, and is rarely interested in much of anything. He is also a habitual thief, and a lousy conversationalist. In short, I evoke him when I have to approximate the average colonist.
	The Island Natives The natives of Island were never particularly violent, and never had any intention of becoming so. However, once the Europeans arrived, they immediately received the label of Bloodthirsty Cannibals, and were (albeit, unintentionally) forced to the other half of the island by the colonists. They're actually pacifist and vegetarian, but they feel that on some occasions, it is necessary to take up arms, with the usual unrealistic and even humorous comic strip results.
	The Pirates And of course, what would any comic strip about the 16th century be without pirates. Recently, the pirates have switched from raiding Spanish galleons to offering a first-class ocean cruise service, but that only makes them more dangerous.

Legal (i.e., don't sue me without reading this first)
First and foremost: any and all Isle & Island^™comics, images, written text, and generally anything that is on this web site and is not part of a sponsor ad or a link to another site or something from Keenspace^™ is copyrighted by one Mykyta (Myck) Pohvalynskyi (that's me) under Canadian copyright law and at least one major international copyright convention. In other words, if you want a copy of anything on this site, just go to the "contact us" link and ask me - chances are good that I won't mind. Don't just copy and paste stuff without first asking me for permission and giving me credit - it's against the law.

Also, there's a disclaimer: Mykyta (Myck) Pohvalynskyi and any entity that represents him or that he represents is not responsible in any way for any damage, injury, harm, destruction, impairment, financial loss, non-financial loss, or acts of God, or any other deity, living or dead, that you or anyone or anything else at all anywhere in the whole wide universe, or any other universe, or anything that is not considered a universe, may or may not in any direct, indirect, or ambiguous way may have, or could suffer, or may be suffering, in any possibly imaginable or unimaginable manner at all, as a result of viewing, not viewing, reading, watching, or doing or not doing anything at all about this website, any of it's contents, any of the contents that are not on this website, any of this website that does not have any contents, or just gosh darn anything else in the whole wide world (or elsewhere). Phew. So there.
Ok, so there is plenty of legal stuff that printing this disclaimer will not protect me from, but at least it was fun to write.

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