Spurrier had been looking to break into the American market and Irving seemed the ideal partner because he'd already worked at Marvel and DC.

"[3] Soon after getting this accepted, Irving got the job providing art for David Hine's Silent War after the original artist backed out, and as he was using Photoshop for that "I realized Gutsville had to be done in the same way.

[4] Matt Timson provided back-up art for issue #2 cover dated September 2007.

The ship never makes it, as it, and all of its passengers (including slaves, zealous missionaries, and English settlers) are swallowed up by some gargantuan, oceanic beast.

Skip forward to the present day and the descendants of the original passengers are living in Gutsville, a shanty town within the belly of this mysterious creature.