April 17th, 2018
17 Apr 2018 · page 787 of 1306
Huh.
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Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Mr Luxuria, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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So, 'es anchored ta dem, es 'e now?
Oh. Sid and Ben did go there. (I thought Lux will bring Wolfe, but didn't suppose it will take all of them.) Well, the more the merrier.
UPDATE: I got it wrong, I get it now.
Verity and Sid having feelings for Harry makes sense for Lux to latch onto, but I do wonder how he's gonna get Ben.
I thought more about wizards aren't supposed to be there. I supposed it is technically impossible, but it seems it isn't.
It doesn't look like they're there yet; you can still see the railing in the last panel.
Oh, thanks, my mistake, I get it now! It is what you get reading in early morning. :)
Well, I suppose it still can take Wolfe with itself. :/
So he'll have people to influence while in there/hostages? Interesting.
If Harry is smart she'll make him stop.
Harry tried to make him stop, but he is not very good at listening. And given how delicate their understanding is she probably does not want to get too forceful.
Is he grappling their spirits? Sneaky.
It does kinda look like he's lassoing them in the last panel
Ah, that seems right! At first I thought Lux was just trying to grab their bodies again, but seems like he's getting their spirits. And it makes sense that Ben seems to understand what's going on the most out of the four of them, because he experienced the sight and knows where the spirits are positioned around an owner's body.
I think you may be on to something there, and it would also make sense that Ben would understand what's going on more than the others because his experience with the sight helped him recognize what that feels like. If so, I would love to see him get to use that to help foil Lux's plan, especially if we get to see a team up between him, Sidney and/or Verity. (I feel like Wolfe is going to be kinda useless here, being both heavily susceptible to Lust and being Mal's Person and thus the most valuable hostage).
Ooh, that would make sense, I was wondering why everyone was so tense in the last panel (it didn't look like it was just out of worry...)
It's gonna need a bigger lasso for Wolfe's.
It sort of looks like Wolfe’s branch of the “lasso” is higher above his head than the others, which would make sense (although that may just be the angle).
It's blue, like Ms Acedia...
I'm pretty sure that's been consistent with the other times spirits have been pulled into Witchspace. Also, it's a brighter blue than Acedia's.
That's Mal's
Thanks, guys. I appreciate those who are more observant (since I frequently have to go back and look at what happened 2 or 3 "days" ago!)
Panel 1 : not something you'd want to hear in bed
(edit : "the first, or the second bubble ?" "yes")
Any of the bubbles in all of the panels, really. And it gets especially fun if you read the whole thing as an awkward, ongoing discussion.
Gaaaaahhhh What is seen can not be unseeen!!! Where is that brain bleach???
GET OUT of the comments section Luxuria!!!
Is Lux going to have them replace him?! Okay, points for ingenuity.
Ouch, I knew Wolfe would have a rough landing.
Caught ... hmmm. I wonder if it is caught on our "lovely" Ms Acedia. I wonder if Wolfe grabs it, if he would to into the anchor with it. (Not that I think that will happen, but I still wonder.) If this story was completed, I would totally be peaking at the end of the book.
We are all peaking, but you might be peeking! ;-)
Oh shoot. Guess I'll be climbing a mountain at the end of the book. Maybe I'll be visiting the Eastern anchor.
<3
Huh, I'll admit, I don't quite know what's going on here. Before reading other comments, my initial thought was Ben was trying to keep Lux in the real world by thinking lustful thoughts, but now I'm really not sure.
It is okay if people don't know what's occurring right now- the page-by-page nature of webcomics is kinda biting at us here a lil, it'll be clear very shortly.
I'm just glad this is Tuesday, so we have three days instead of four to wait for the next page!
Oh, I know. Wondering aloud and speculating is just part of the fun!
It's a cool idea, I like it! :)
To me, it seems as Lux makes some influence at heroes... and three of them are struggling against that, and Wolfe reacts in different way. Or may be, it just makes the three ones freezed.
Bonus points to Ms. Ashwin for staging it such that it makes Lux look like a beatific man with a halo for a moment.
Go on Mr Luxuria, do the Evil Laughter. You know you want to.
Does it look like Lux tricked O'Malley to start pulling on them by reducing their influence on the world by reducing its influence on Ms Acedia (or, rather, by reducing Ms. Acedia to...something else)? So O'Malley jumped at the loss of influence before Lux was actually weakened enough to actually be pulled into the place inside the anchor.
Clever Lux. Very clever.
He's got a physical body, yes? Why not just punch him? Or even push him down into the anchor. That would have a certain appropriateness.
I think he's somehow got them magically pinned even if he's no longer got them physically restrained, but this idea still appeals to me greatly.
Anyone care to explain:
- What is Lux doing
- What is it about Lux appearing in human form that actually makes it seem scarier than the others? (One thing I've thought for a while that I gotta say: it sure does seems appropriate for Lux's colors to be wine & fruit juice colors...)
> What is it about Lux appearing in human form that actually makes it seem scarier than the others?
Maybe it’s something to do with the fact that, because the other Sins have non-human forms, we don’t expect them to behave like humans. Lux looks human, so we subconsciously view it differently (like the way it’s harder to remember to call it “it” instead of “him”).
In the last panel it almost looks like it is trying to pull Mal out from between and back to the real world. Or maybe even swap places with Mal so it can be in between all by itself. (I am not sure if it realizes that Harry is in there, although it ought to know they have done something to make sure Izzy's blood line is present.)
Luxuria’s pose in the last panel is kind of a creepy echo of Mal binding the other Deadlies.
Hmm... Now I knew I had missed something. I did not realize until now that Harry's family had Mr. Luxuria's amulet ever since Isabelle's and Henry's last encounter with him in Find the Lady: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-2nd-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-2nd-2016/")
It was also mentioned earlier in Curtain Call as the Liar's Heart in: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-6th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-6th-2016/")
I had wondering up to this point what Harriet and Mal were going to use as the conduit in order to bind Mr. Luxuria. Now I know.
One other question I have at this point is this: Is the amulet a source of Mr. Luxuria's power or merely a place where he stored his reserves?
I smell a new story line here for Ms. Kate: How did Queen Elizabeth and company capture Mr. Luxuria the first time in order to have the opportunity to cut off his head?
Luxuria put some of its power into the Liar's Heart way back when dealing with Izzy's ancestor, but it took that power back in this comic [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/") so now it just has the residual echo of something that was strongly associated with lust for a long time.
OH shit!
same
Is anyone else concerned that there are seven people at play? It sort of looks like Lux is trying to drag them with him, and there's one person for each sin without a corporeal form...
maybe it's nothing, but I think there's something there...
makes you wonder how many times he's done this sort of thing...
It's kind of sweet that, despite the unlikelihood of any sound out here being heard in the in-between space, Ben still tries to warn Mal not to pull Lux in.
I'm really hoping we get an "Of course I care about you, you idiot" moment between them, especially in light of Ben's "I have no friends" comment. Bonus if Wolfe gets added in for a full Team Buggerup Bonding Moment.
I want this! ❤️
Can't help but think of this song while reading this page:
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OvsHQRQv8 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0OvsHQRQv8")
Hold on... Wizards aren't supposed to be able to get into the Hub. That definitely isn't good.
I guess we're about to find out what happens when a spirit is ripped from its body...
Witches can steal your souls, they say; witches are bad and dangerous, they say. :/
I guess spiritless body fells in kind of koma and houseless spirit is eager to come back into the body.
They said witches could steal souls... but Lux isn't a witch, he's a spirit himself, so... ?
So, I dunno, "he" can use Mal's power for that purpose now, with "himself" as a connecting link? (Mal pulls Lux into Witchplace, Lux "holds" others' spirits, Mal pulls them, too.) Just guessing.
Interesting thought. HHHUhhhhh..... new page.... in... just a few hours..........
Also, wizards can't go through the door to Witchspace. That's a whole second layer of "What the heck is going to happen?"
A thought: Why is Lust/Luxuria so much more aware and forward thinking that the other deadlies?
The rest seem so "primal" by comparison and really are there for fulfilling their essential needs, maybe greed not so much since it's rather flexible in it's approach. Lust actually plans and is several steps ahead of everyone else and is good at manipulating situations for advantage.
It's interesting.
It could be that Luxuria has spent... what, 500? years in the human world, interacting with and pretending to be a human, while separated from at least some of its powers. So, it has learned what tricks and strategies work best when it comes to humans- it is not naturally more forward-thinking, but has learned that it pays off in the long run.
Magpie! Peck Lux!