April 21st, 2023
21 Apr 2023 · page 1164 of 1306
It's great. I love it actually.
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Oh I am looking forward to seeing what being "subtle" at a coronation looks like
Considering the people involved... probably as subtle as Hurricane Dorothy's influence on beach parties...
The crown, being an artifact of stability, will merge with the 4th anchor, and the island will rise up, atop of which sits a newly crowned moai. The moai will then come through the anchor doors and lead the coronation, voiced by Thea.
Can't wait to be wrong for being too subtle.
is anyone else confused by panel 3? the 'of course you can' seems like it makes more sense responding to harry asking to see where it came from than anything in panel 2 I can't work out what she means? I did just wake up from not enough sleep so maybe I'm just not fully with it yet lol
I think the "Of course you can" is in response to Harry agreeing to providing "one day". Because in response to Harry's request to see the crime scene she responds with "Certainly."
The queen-to-be, in other words, is being a presumptuous brat.
hrmmmmm that happened cus i fiddle-faffed around with harry's speech in panel 2 to make it physically fit the space in the panel, and forgot to adjust vicky's reply. fixed it now!
Sid dropping the notebook in his haste to be like 'dont kill us pleaseee' is a really cute little detail
What Harry's trying not to say is, "I'm waiting for Sid to propose to me as soon as he stops tripping over himself and YOU'RE INTERFERING WITH THAT!"
A lot of you are convinced Harry knows about Sid wanting to propose.... Am I the only one thinking she really doesn't have a clue?? :-) Would be funny if that'll be the only thing that finally manages to take her by surprise.
What if she says no?
Oh shush you.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool Harry.
(The original version used "Mom". I don't think they have that kind of relationship...)
I feel like I didn't really see it coming, Harry becoming the sort to refuse the call of adventure, but I feel like it is really interesting development and it does make sense. Last time (that we saw) she threw herself headlog into danger for Widdershins she ended up trapped on the other side of the world and only got back by realising what she nearly lost. It's not I think she's lost her taste for adventure but it's nice to see her also prioritising her time with Sid. It's a big contrast to the thing of her running into danger to get away from her feelings in Curtain Call, and also general comments she made in books 1 and 3 where she only seems interested in a break in order to do better at hunting again.
It looks less like refusing the call of adventure and more like Harry's instinctive rebellion against any and all authority to me, reinforced by her "You're posh, I hate you" reverse class snobbery.
Heh. To me it looks like Harry was really looking forward to a nice weekend where she could expect a good meal, an extremely awkward proposal, and -- dare I say it? -- an extended amorous interlude. Lancelot Sidney Arthur Oliver Malik does not seem the sort of fellow who would have been raised to think that simply falling into bed willy-nilly with his love interests is proper behavior; that's an admirable trait in general, but perhaps not entirely laudable in this one specific case. Being engaged counts enough, surely?
Oonly now here's this queen looking for her damn brass hat. Oh, sorry, specific brass hat. Sure, that makes all the difference.
I agree she hates being told what to do but also I find it hard to imagine book 1 Harry wanting to turn down a cool hunting job like this in order to go on holiday with her boyfriend (and I think book 1 Harry would probably find it hard to imagine going on holiday with a boyfriend at all!)
Harry wasn't even interested in the coronation, and now she has to be an intrinsic part of making it happen? Florrie is going to flip out...
Question: what heights are Vicky and Harry in the comic anyway? I think this is the first I've realized how short Harry must be.
By comparison with Sydney's umbrella at the end of Witch Hunt, Harry is somewhere between 1.5 and 1.6m. Assuming Sydney's umbrella is about average size, of course.
oh man this is gonna go poorly
This coronation is going to be so much more interesting than that other one.
Meanwhile, in the modern day, it'd be on the second page of The Sun before she even pulled up to Harry's.
‘Personal retinue?’ Something tells me Benjis siblings took the crown…..
I thought Victoria was being relatively reasonable until "some little holiday" and the implied threat, now I hope Harry empties her pipe into the carriage on the way out
The "little holiday" bit was a little forceful, yeah, but I feel like there wasn't a threat and Sid just overreacted.
Sid's reaction is funny, and yeah, I don't think it was a threat of execution, but I do think it was a "there will be serious professional consequences if you screw this up or don't do it for us".
Is this a way to treat a royal? This is Lancelot Sidney Arthur Oliver Malik the First, King of Thieves!
Honestly, Mr Malik. This isn't the Middle Ages. We don't execute people who don't do what we tell them. We just revoke their licence so they never work again.
She seems... different than I expected. During her introduction in chapter 3, she seemed the sensible sort. And less... spiky. Now she almost seems just short of goatee stroking.
I'd hope she isn't planning any malice, that she is on the level or just presumptuous, but the trend of Widdershins leaders that fall "from grace" has set a worrying pattern for her to follow.
...I wonder how exactly that stability is applied.
"If you try to execute us we'll fight back because we're just that badass."
Odd thing seems to be going on with the comment system lately. Was reading through everything again, and chapter 2 seems to have a bunch of comments from other points in the archives. (e.g. I was looking for comments on the translation of the German on page august-10th-2012, and was seeing people talking about Sharpe, several pages later, Nyree, and then in the post-chapter, comments from a few weeks ago.)
(Edit: The problem seems to run from "august-2nd-2012"-- one page after a page that lost its comments 6 years ago --to the title page "vanishing-act", spanning comment from 4 years ago to less than a month ago)
I'm caught up...
deep breath
Naooooooooooooooooooggghh!!!
Solving this will be their... crowning achievement ; )