William the Conqueror’s fleet landed somewhere near Pevensey. We’re not entirely sure where, as a great storm a couple of hundred years later completely rearranged the coastline of East Sussex, and Peveney is now standed about a mile away from the coast.
The area of marshland known as the Pevensey Levels remains – as do the enormous spiders.
Ah, there’s that Brexit attitude intruding again. In one of those nerdy font touches that probably only matter to me, the locals speak in a celtic unical typeface. In panel two, Beachy Head is in the background.
October 2016 was the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, socalled because it never happened in Hastings. The storyline over the next two weeks was my contribution to the festivities. Note the colour palette based on that of the Bayeux Tapestry and the Norman typography.