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Indiana Jones
"Blood on the Water"
Indiana Jones and the Sargasso
Pirates #4
Dark
Horse Comics
Writer: Karl Kesel
Artist: Eduardo Barreto
Lettering: Pat Brousseau
Coloring: Bernie Mireault
Cover: Russell Walks
March 1996
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Indy becomes a captive slave of Lawton, new
leader of the Sargasso pirates.
Notes from the Indiana Jones chronology
Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates is a 4-issue
mini-series published by Dark Horse Comics in 1995-96. The story
takes place shortly after the start of WWII, which started on
September 1,
1939.
Notes from
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones
The Lost Journal of Indiana Jones is a 2008 publication
that
purports to be Indy's journal as seen throughout The
Young Indiana Chronicles
TV series
and the big screen Indiana
Jones movies. The publication is also annotated with notes
from a functionary of the
Federal Security
Service (FSB) of the Russian Federation, the successor
agency of the Soviet Union's KGB security agency. The KGB relieved Indy of his
journal in 1957 during the events of Indiana
Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
The notations imply the journal was released to other
governments by the FSB in the early 21st Century. However, some
bookend segments of The
Young Indiana Chronicles
depict Old Indy still in
possession of the journal in 1992. The discrepancy has never
been resolved.
The journal as published does not mention the events of this
mini-series,
going from entries about the events of
The Fate of Atlantis in
May 1939 to Indy's time working with Colonel George "Mac" McHale
during 1944. A five year gap seemingly left un-journaled.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Indiana Jones
Sea Witch
Cairo
Bill Lawton
(dies in this issue)
pirates
Segar
(dies in this issue)
New Jersey Jones
Drake
Starr
U.S. naval seaman
unnamed admiral
Inspector Gwenn
Didja Notice?
After exploring the interior of the U-boat that has floated
to the surface of the Sargasso, Indy reports that it is full
of corpses, "...bodies everywhere...just like Verdun..." He
is referring to the
Battle of Verdun, which lasted from February 21 to December
18, 1916 and was the longest battle of WWI, portions of
which he witnessed in
"Demons of Deception".
Verdun is a
city in northeastern France.
On page 5, Segar says, "Guten
abend, Indiana." This is German for "Good evening,
Indiana."
On page 7, Cairo frees Indy from
his chains, telling him, "Time to check outta this Sargasso
Ritz!" The Ritz is a luxury hotel chain (now more properly
known as Ritz-Carlton).
On page 13, New Jersey exclaims,
"Ah, yes--a pirate's life for me!" This is likely a
reference by the writer to the theme song of the Pirates of
the Caribbean ride at Disneyland, "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life
for Me)" by Xavier Atencio and George Bruns from 1967.
As Lawton's U-boat is caught in battle with the Sea Witch's
ship Freedom, he is warned by one of his crew that it will
take time to reload the torpedoes. Lawton retorts, "Damn the
torpedoes! Rammin' speed!" The phrase "damn the torpedoes"
has been in use since the American Civil War when Admiral
David Farragut ordered his fleet to proceed through Mobile
Bay, Alabama despite underwater mines, then known as
torpedoes, present.
On page 24, a U.S. naval seaman informs a U.S. admiral that
a German U-boat has been spotted heading for Washington,
D.C.
Washington,
D.C. is
the capital of the United States.
On page 24, a U.S. naval vessel
broadcasts to the U-boat, "Achtung! Sie in die
hoheitsgewasser sind, auf einer..." This is German for
"Attention! You are in territorial waters, on a..."
The admiral remarks that Adolf's made the Atlantic waters
too treacherous to go checking for a city of ships in the
Sargasso right now. "Adolf", of course, refers to Adolf
Hitler, the evil Chancellor of Germany at the time.
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