August 27th, 2025
27 Aug 2025 · page 1257 of 1306
Cast: Baron Bertrand Barber, Elaine Barber, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik
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“A pair of budgerigars” is a great description for the twins!
It’s a bit insulting to the budgerigars though.
I had to look that up. A pair of parakeets! It fits.
I predict Elaine is going to blow like Mt. St. Helens. That single petal popping off her bonnet in panel three is like the last tremor before the explosion.
I’m still hoping for a repeat of panel two
https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-11th-2020
Parents don’t like people pointing firearms at their children.
I‘m wondering if his gun is still loaded.
I’m wondering if the magpie still remembers the trick he picked up at the bank in Curtain Call. https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-9th-2018
Really good observation there!
I’m not sure how Bertrand’s Evil Plan will manage to keep hold of the loot and his reputation at this point. If he turns these ne’er do wells in to the police, having captured them while they were trying to escape, he’ll need to give the loot back. If he flees to the Americas with the loot with Wolfe and Sid as hostages, he loses his reputation.
But he only loses it in the UK. In the US, in the 19th century, one could have whatever reputation you wanted as long as you had cash and the attitude to pull it off.*
Go us?
*Emperor Norton is their own thing.
Yes, but he wouldn’t be a nob anymore, and I suspect that’s important to him.
His definition of thing going NOT neat from here on out might well involve a couple suspects-slash-witnesses-slash-oh-yes-family-too disappearing in a still-not-personal way …
That would work. Elaine, her perdious daughter, her dodgy boyfriend and the suspicious foreign chap have done a bunk with the loot! The only problem will be disposing of the bodies and not leaving any suspicious blood stains.
FYI, the tag for Baron Bertrand on his earlier appearances call him “Betrand” so they don’t show up when clicking on his tag on the past two comics
I couldn’t remember who this guy was, so I tried checking his tag, but it only applied to the last couple pages. I managed to find his introduction at https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-21st-2023, and it turns out the tag used for him there is misspelled as “Baron Betrand Barber.”
That’s not the only thing he’ll be missing after the next family reunion. 😉
Does he have a minion in there with the hostages…? While they are tied up, they don’t seem especially under threat while his gun is pointed at Harry.
That is what I had been thinking. Both he and Harry have a gun, so unless there is another gun in there with him, it still seems like a stale mate. Even if there was someone in there with a gun, I might still be inclined to shoot Bertrand and have the guys headbutt whoever is inside. Maybe the issue is that the cart is tied to a horse and the horse will get spooked?
Shoot the horse, then. Draws attention and drops a monkey wrench into his escape plan. 🐎🔧
(Even though there’s two horses harnessed to the coach.)
oh no /o\
Who else hopes the twins will be fired or at least demoted after this? Show of hands! 🤚
Not me. I’d rather they get a little help in the job … like getting chained to the crown and locked into a vault with it. It’s all about stability, you see …
agreed
Ah…a two-bit player who thinks he’s the bigshot villain. Ideal.