Ilha da Queimada Grande

The name may give you a clue.

It is called Snake Island.

Any guesses?

Any guesses what the problem here is? No idea.

overrun with spiders.

No.

Snake Island sits off the coast of Brazil, and it is completely overrun with venomous snakes.

Specifically, golden lanceheads, a type of pit viper that is both uniquely dangerous and unique to this island.

Basically recapping what the different factions want to do, but also noting that the gateway is in Santos.

We have agents in Santos, in Brazil, ready to go to Snake Island when our enemies make it safe.

There's too many snakes on it right now, it's not safe.

Snake Island is a real place, and it has one of the most deadliest venomous snakes ever.

And they're just covering the island.

It's like a yellow something.

Brazil.

Yeah, same to us.

Thank you, my friend.

"I was thinking we could send Lindsay to Greenland." [laughs] "Then I realized we don't want to subject them to that torture, so maybe a, maybe a one-way, all-expense-paid trip to Snake Island instead." Actually, Greenland would be a...

Right? I mean, she's from New England.

It's practically Greenland.

Yeah, maybe that is her plan, just to get to the next where she thinks they may go and just try to catch it there

yeah because i mean the only reason she would go to brazil is to go to snake island that's it that's it all

right well i guess we can go and get darcy you know get get a sphere and go to the temple

probably don't need a sphere to do that we can probably

We'll tell it.

We'll relay all.

You know, she's heading to Snake Island.

We're going to hop and meet you all over at the temple.

Oh, really? Okay, yeah.

In the first issue, we, uh, focus on a, uh, a guy coming to, um, Ophiusa, which we learn in the beginning stands for Snake Island.

Mm-hmm.

Um, he's a guy and he's talking to this woman who lives there at her shop.

All right.

Well, I won't disturb your sleaze summers, uh, while you're underneath the water there.

Um, let's move from Snake Island, uh, to a, um, a nostalgia bath for our guy-

Yes

We know from the raid on the estate in Connecticut," he misspells that, "that their gate gets a lot of them turned into leather statues.

The gate they have on La de Quesadilla Grande," and he crosses this out, and he says, "Snake Island, also gets lots of them killed.

But these ones get eaten by something big.

We think that they want the Cobra Crown to control the big thing that eats them.

Um, then he continues, "If our enemies and Caduceus get to the Citadel first, we think that they make lots of biting flies and more of their disease that makes humans stupider and weaker.

Then they put the disease in the flies, and then they put the flies in transport spheres and they send them over the world to bite all the people." And then he wrote, and he crossed this out, "Is it all bad if they do this? [laughs] Maybe stupider people are easier to kill." He crossed that out.

[laughs] And then he says, "We have agents in Santos," which is a place in Brazil, "ready to go to Snake Island when our enemies make it safe.

We will let you know when it is safe.

... it's not like, it's not like the, uh...

Where's that island that is just fucking poisonous snakes? Uh, oh, it's an island off of Brazil called Snake Island, of course.

There's just, like, a shitload of snakes and poisonous venomous snakes on, uh, Snake Island, or Ilha de Queimada Grande-

[laughs]

... as it's officially called.

It's going to be brutal.

Look, you can look at what happened in the first couple of years of the Ukraine war with Snake Island, where Ukraine took it, then Russia took it, then Ukraine took it back, and Russia took it back.

And it went back and forth like that until eventually everyone was like, oh, forget about this.

It's ridiculous.