April 6th, 2018
6 Apr 2018 · page 785 of 1306
No, she's never read a story in her life, why do you ask?
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Mr Luxuria, Ms Acedia, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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What happened to his leg? >.>
Ohhhh, I get it now. That's Lust's transformation dealy, right? xD
Lux definitely has the most ingenious design from this comic, which says quite a lot.
Yep, first time seeing it was pretty awesome.
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Well, and here I thought Lux wouldn't go old school villain and dispose of henchmen without reason. Aparently, I stand corrected.
On an unrelated note, do we even know how deep that hole is?
I know it's completely unlikely to matter but it's probably deep enough to be unpleasant at least! If it isn't bottomless!
Probably not bottomless. The anchor has to be somewhere down there.
It could be attached to the wall :P
Wait a minute, does the geography work out for one of the other anchors be directly across the planet? As in that hole goes all the way through to... whatever's directly on the opposite side of the globe to England?
That's an interesting idea
According to [www.antipodesmap.com](http://www.antipodesmap.com "www.antipodesmap.com"), that would be the middle of the ocean south-east of New Zealand, over by the international date line.
Foiled again by my old arch-nemesis, geography!
EDIT: Unless the legendary fourth anchor is on the ocean floor in just that spot.
You should have seen my high school history teacher's face when she was asked if Prussia was like Russia with a P. I mean, I wasn't the one who asked, but I definitley wanted to know too.
Doesn’t need to be on the ocean floor. We’ve all read the stories. That part of the world is full of mysterious uncharted islands.
"Witch of Skull Island" oughta look good on a resume
According to Ms Harry's notes in the back of 'Vanishing Act',
"The Unknown Anchor. There is certainly a pull of magic somewhere off the coast of New Zealand, but exactly where is unknown."
So, opposite Widdershins is a definite possibility.
Now. what's on the other side of the world from Mount Everest? According to that website, in the South Pacific, somewhere off the coast of Chile.
Been trying to work out if this would give four points equally spaced around a great circle. The numbers don't quite work, but it's close. Then again, AU and all that - Everest may be in a slightly different place.
Umm, South Pacific, off the coast of Chile... sounds suspiciously close to where R'lyeh is supposed to be
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i think its actually an important part of whatever lust is about to do
He's clearly going to push her in the hole but why? Has blood sacrifice or whatever been established in this comic before?
Actually, possibly so. In the comic for January 5th, 2015, it shows that Luxuria was going to somehow use the human "vessels" for the other 6 sins in order to facilitate their summoning and "anchoring" into the world. The "vessels" are shown asleep or unconscious, and Luxuria is in the process of drawing some kind of sigil or magical circle around them with chalk. It does not look as if that particular part of the plan was known to the "vessels", and it may well be that, had they known what it would entail (whatever it was), they would have not willingly gone along with it.
Link: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-5th-2015/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-5th-2015/")
But on the other hand,that was in relation to the other sins. This time around, all of them were already active and causing a distraction, which would make any sort of sacrifices pointless in the plan.
Unless his plan all along was to have them de-summoned them and then re-summon them, because they're useless to him as malforms, in which case we're dealing with a Batman speed-chess gambit combined with a quadruple betrayal of a whole other level.
Greed knew (or thought he knew) what Lux's designs were. And he said, "And should you bind me... you'd be playing right into its hands". Whatever it means.
A plausible theory. We shall see what we shall see.
Greed was ready to settle for turning Sid's bones to dust as an acceptable offering. Quite cheerful about it, too!
Exit Ms. Acedia.
And not before time...
Ugh, reading sounds like too much work.
Of course if she had read she might realize just how dangerous her current situation is. Although Luxuria is about to keep its promise: after it kills her she will never have to work again.
Same thought. She might actually be cool with it as long as she doesn't have to do much.
She is getting the Moon Door treatment?
Oogh What would happen if a Human Fell into the Anchor? Not good things I would suppose
A magical human no less, as it's been shown that Ms. Acedia does have magical skill but just is too often lazy to utilize it.
Not to mention a magical human with a strong affinity for Sloth. Given what happened when Lei, Vee, Harry, and their combined pride were close to the anchor in chapter 3, things may be about to get even more interesting.
But that was back when the binding had slipped because of the presence of the new witch. Now that O'Malley bound them, can they emerge?
Good question.
Meanwhile, Wolfe is still like, "Oh God, what did I do?"
I see Vee's glasses slipped off again while they were being carried down here - good thing they're attached to a chain! I suspect she doesn't need them as badly as Ben does, though, since her glare in panel 5 looks like she can see pretty well what she's glaring at.
Wait a second....
Has anyone in this comic ever died? Would this murder be a first?
I think it would. A few times it's looked like someone died or was going to, but Ms. Fairbairn, as we now know, wasn't killed in the Lamplight fire, and Grandpa Henry was still alive when last seen.
Actually, that's a very good point. Who has ever actually died on-panel?
Does executing Lust's human form count?
He ain't dead yet....
I... ah... hm. Probably not. Regardless, was the actual execution on-panel? I forget.
he / it . said its time for YOU to go. so this tells me she going to shove her down the hole.
Probably. but whatever it does, I highly doubt she'll like it.
That look on her face in that last panel. If you're thinking what I think you're thinking, then so help me...
A glimmering, maybe, that something might not be going to go quite as she expected. She didn't listen to Ben's warning, so there's only that disturbingly wrong pronoun. I think she hasn't gotten as far as "Uh-oh!" She's still at "Uh, wait..."
besided being totally lazy. she isn't the brightest penny in the drawer either.
Well considering the last time they met Lust tried to feed her to Sloth...
Hm. Mr. Gula is still on the loose. Are Superbia and Invidia still alive? Any of the others? I don't know if Lux is going to use our daring quartet as stand ins for the original bunch or not. I can't see any one of the Sins that Sid would match up to, or Wolfe either (other than perhaps Lust itself). Having Mal and Harry fight friends would be a really insane twist. One that might take the other two witches to balance things.
That's a horrible possibility
I love it.
Errmmm...
IIRR, wizards can't enter the Anchor...
Wizards can’t enter the in-between witch space where Mal and Harry are now. The Anchor may be a different thing.
Ah, yeah, sorry, I meant the in-between witch space.
Wolfe I kinda feel sorry for you but... that blush tho oh buddy XD
Not a suspicious phrase at all. Nope.
Annnnnd she's right next to the hole. We're one panel away from an ill-fated shove...
Why is she standing so close to the bottomless pit...?
So she doesn't have to fall as far.
This gives a new meaning to the phrase 'long drop'. I guess that isn't too surprising, though: she's been hanging out waiting for Lux for so very long. It's such a pity she fell so hard for him way back when.
Then again, she dug herself a deep hole anyway.
And suddenly it's clear to me why Pride had to be banished before this point in the story: Pride goeth before a fall, after all.
groooan
My job here is done.
I wish to associate myself with the honorable lady's comment.
Ugh... Well done.
OK, so. Hypothesis. Lust's plan is to re-summon the other six (or at least includes that as one of the steps). How does that work? Apparently, six people are needed to call them out, and there are five people there. Vee would obviously be Pride, and Acedia would be Sloth of course. But what would Ben, Sid, and Wolfe be? And who will the sixth person be?
Heh. You know what would be a real twist? Her not being pushed down the hole.
I wonder she knows Aikido? (Aikido is the perfect art for the lazy: you get to let the other guy do all the work.)
I honestly have to wonder if Lust is actually going to do push her. I mean, it's been telegraphed a little too hard, maybe.
I think I understand why Lust is the most dangerous of the Sins in this story. The other four Sins are more personal and less involved with others. With introspection and self control, it's possible to avoid being controlled by them. Lust is tied up with our relationships and views of others. Combined with how easily we can confuse lust with love, it can be very hard to avoid being unduly influenced.
In all fairness, you can have both at the same time. And I somehow doubt she lacks love give how very long and hard she worked. Reciprocation is a different thing, of course...
aww, let miss sloth already have her nap:)
Aowww, he's got a hand on her shoulder. How romantic...
But he needs to be careful how romantic he tries to be: he'd really better not push it.
Acedia may be more savvy than we're giving her credit for. She just saw her husband change shape and flirt with a young man. I have the impression they've been apart for years; who's to say he hasn't been cheating on her all the while?
Now, I just reread Find the Lady and I have a theory, one that some of the events leading up to this have given me. Lizzie's attempted bindng of Lux wasn't finished but it had an unintended consequence; he had to stay close to the Anchor. It's why he sent Acedia to get Henry and Lizzie instead of going himself. It's why we saw him lounging at a cafe in town. Why stay unless you have to? He could easily change shape and be whoever he wanted to. (And Acedia has some parallels to Florrie; both are married to men who enable them to be ladies of leisure, Acedia to do as little as possible and Florrie to do whatever she wants.)
Also, if Lux can just walk into the space between without being dragged in? He could use a hostage situation once he has the measure of Jack and Harry, threatening our quartet if Jack doesn't free the other six.
This is the kind of stuff you get when diving into the archives before going to bed...
What's up with the leg in panel 5?
That's part of Lux's base form (seen here: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-29th-2016/") ). It's just shifted from one shape to another, and evidently it takes a few seconds to pull together the complete shape. The hand touching Wolfe's nose in panel 3 is like that too.
Thank you. I was also wondering.
Is that a slight twinge of worry furrowing Acedia's brow in the last panel, from hearing those words? If not, it should be. X3
I do love how Lust has the skeleton frame and a not so complete design behind the framework when it's in it's basic form. Like it can sculpt itself to whatever it needs to be at the time :D
A severe plot twist: He DOESN'T screw her over.