In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane
Blood from a Stone
Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
All the Money in the World