August 28th, 2020
28 Aug 2020 · page 1015 of 1306
Very sincere, Nicky, thanks
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Nicola Barber
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A door to the face is also a form of closure.
Ben's preparing the paperwork for his date?
I'm pretty sure that for both of them, the perfect date ends with a hot, sweaty night of filing.
Oooh! a loose end being tied up that we didnt expect.
Still basking in the last panel of the previous comic. We've been waiting for that hug/kiss since the second or so week of volume 1.
Whoo!
You can never accuse Nicky of not being 100% about how she feels, that's for certain!
Aww, I'm so glad Mal and Wolfe are finally having this conversation! Mal may have more confidence and power now, but he still wants his best friend with him, especially when he's doing something hard.
And ooh, we're going to get to see Mayor Rana in office!
Mal being emotionally mature and having a sincere heartfelt conversation with Wolfe abut how he WANTS to be here and, even more, wants WOLFE to be here is VERY soft and I LOVE IT
I am so happy to get this reassurance given Wolfe's feelings of "Mal doesn't need me anymore."
I was initially surprised Mal accepted that compliment and gave that reassurance in such a straightforward way, but now I notice that as Wolfe looks away, Mal looks above Wolfe's head and furls his brow, as if looking directly at Wolfe's insecurities and pleading for them to not be there
Look up "Heterosexual Life Partners" at TVTropes...
Ooh, well spotted!
Mr Thackerey asks someone for a date. Ms Harry gets all soppy. Mr O'Malley co-operates with the authorities. Captain Barber says 'Thanks'. Strange times indeed.
....I would hazard to say that Gren and Parsley got along together.
Nice glancing Ghostbusters reference there. :D
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All we need is Mrs de Montfort to turn up in a dirty boiler suit and we'll know that the world has gone completely insane.
All we need is Mr. de Monfort to turn up, period, and we'll know the end times are nigh.
That's got to be an entire book.
For far longer than I should have, I kept reading that as Harry getting soppy about Ben and Eliza, and wondering "When did that happen?"
Wolfe remains exactly the same as always.
(And if that changed, O'Malley and Ben would go on a warpath.)
What now Mal? You going public? :-)
PANEL THREE IS SO IMPORTANT I'M SO HAPPY FOR THEM!!!!
Also, watch out Nicola, was that a feeeeeeeling? :3
It was a feeling, and Mal knows it! Look at his face in the next-to-last panel - he's seeing something that's not quite the angry spirit Nicola usually has. [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2012 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2012")
That explains his expressions in the last two panels!
Everything in this page is beautiful ;_; In the second panel, is he saying he cannot do anything without Wolfe? I'm not sure what the 'owt' is meant to sound like. (Thank you for helping a challenged Californian out)
yes, "nowt" means nothing and "owt" means something, they're yorkshire terms- not really mal's accent but it seems to be slipping in there a little
I just figured it was his accent's take on "aught".
Same root linguistically - owt and nowt are closer to their origins than aught and naught, but they're essentially the same words.
Though aught and naught are definitely mildly archaic in modern speech, whereas owt and nowt are pretty much just regular words in the dialects that have them.
Yeah, I couldn't tell if it was deliberately archaic because this is set almost 200 years ago or if it was just a thing that survived more robustly in one dialect than in another. Thanks!
The only way to deal with emotions....
Such a tsundere
Ooh – not reading too much into it; just a wee tad triggerhappy. :) [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-18th-2020#comment-5036789247 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-18th-2020#comment-5036789247")
I wonder if the city is ever going to have a hot summer now that Mal probably thinks of that blue scarf as his uniform of station.
Progress! Maybe...
Any chance of this page in Malley-O'-Vision?
Ooh yes, I second that!
So many nuances being lost in muggle-vision. What O'Malley sees above Wolfe as he gives words of comfort, and there is no way he doesn't see how Captain Barber feels. She even said 'thanks'.
she really doesn’t want to like him, eh?
Nyree: "Sour and very sour..."