User blog comment:Uskok/Crossbones or: Blackbeard with white beard?/@comment-996391-20140707140228

Apologies, mates. I was too quick to judge the series before knowing its entire story. Like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the Crossbones series is another example of alternate history mixed with piracy. The series is set in 1729 and, like in On Stranger Tides, Blackbeard has once again cheated death at Ocracoke. Which explains why he looks old.