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Edgar P. Jacobs's Blake et Mortimer has some of the best covers in comics.
@Diamandahagan I remember there was a comic that explained the flintlock pistol in Predator 2 where a predator ends up fighting alongside a pirate against his mutinous crew.
@GoranGligovic Yep! There is a story in The Age of Bronze that depicts his sacking of Troy, it even changes to a cartoon style for it.
Fun fact: Sergio Leone wanted to adapt The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and Flash Gordon at various points. He came close to making Flash Gordon but didn't like how the script strayed from the source material.
Bring back late 19th-century/early 20th-century proto-superheroes and villains.
My thing: secretive organisations facing off against supernatural or extraterrestrial threats:
One of the things I really like about Beserk is that the setting is more Early Modern than traditionally medieval, looks more like the 16th century in terms of armour.