December 11th, 2018
11 Dec 2018 · page 858 of 1306
Parsley has no loyalty.
Cast: Eliza Swift, Parsley, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Will's rapport with Parsley speaks well of his judgment. I now have no doubt in my mind that he is innocent of wrongdoing.
I concur. If cats weren't excellent judges of character, they wouldn't be so quick to take a liking to me.
Innocent of wrongdoing? I don't know about that.
Innocent of the wrongdoing for which he's going to be executed? Probably.
A clear and necessary distinction.
I'm sorry to burst your bubbles, cat-lovers, but while many Felis catus are quite good at sussing out those who might have bad intentions for them, they don't possess universal "nice guy"-o-meters. (VoE)
My cat will cheerfully glue herself to the leg of a hardened criminal in exchange for treats and chin-skritches at a moment's notice.
Or he's just good and talking to women. A gentleman that handsome probably has escorted a few ladies to social functions in his day.
Parsley's jellybeans!
Concurred!
TIL : Knotty was wearing a wig all along
As is only proper for a British lawyer, which is what he is.
Referring to someone as "you with the hair" is one of my favorite things! This whole page is amazing, what nice panel layouts and character interactions!
I think the only way I could like "you with the hair" even more is if it was being used to refer to a bald person.
I'll do you one better: use it to refer to a sphynx cat.
Am I the only one who feels like Mr. Sharpe's sudden oh-so-casual interest in the contents of that particular jar is going to be important later, if not as a plot coupon then certainly as a clue? What would a guy like him want to grab off a druggist's shelf...
I read it as more like the way Mal was wandering around picking up random things when he first arrived in Ben's office ( [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/april-25th-2012/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/april-25th-2012/") ), but you could be right.
Look at his body language in panel 1. To me it looks like he suddenly stops and homes in on that particular jar after seeing the label.
Unfortunately not, it would be pronounced nott-ih and nor-teh
Depending on one's accent, either of those might very well be how "naughty" is pronounced. I know I always hear the characters speaking with my own American accent, despite knowing full well that they're (almost) all British.
Yeah, I'm from West Yorkshire, which is where Widdershins is set so I based that on how everyone I grew up with speaks! Although to be fair there's a noticeable difference in modern Yorkshire and my grandads generation so who knows how it sounded in the 1830s? (Probably completely incomprehensible)
Nott-ih = Knotty
Nor-teh = Naughty
"I'd get affronted, but really, I spend some time on my hair and I'm just chuffed that someone noticed!"
"If looking good is a crime, then guilty as charged"
Eliza has a face that was built for memes.
Got to get me a ride or die ride like that
Good thing for Knotty that Eliza is quick on the uptake and isn't going to blurt out something like "What? But you're not a lawyer!"
True! Though if Will weren't world-class in Obliviousness to Clues. Eliza's face in panel 4 ought to have given him some cause for doubt!
On the other hand, if he weren't that weirdly oblivious, he wouldn't be in this jam in the first place, would he? So it's quite consistent that instead of paying attention to people's reactions, he's just making friends with the cat. I look forward to hearing how he summarizes the situation for Eliza.
Honestly if he didn't figure it out from "With me! A Lawyer! Which is what I am!" it's not like a skeptical face is going to change anything.
But I'm betting he already knows Vincent's knot a lawyer, and just hasn't had a reason to bring it up.
"I-indeed! A degree is definitely a thing that I have!"
Parsley is the best.
Parsley doesn't have loyalty to people; people have loyalty to Parsley.
To quote my good friend Dilbert, “Success is that happy feeling you get between the time you do something and the time you tell a woman what you did.”
Vincent clearly went to the Phoenix Wright Correspondence Law School if he thinks this is a good idea.
You know, thinking about this, both Knott and Sharpe are being very self centered here. I mean, we know Sharpe is as self-centered as a spinning top (or at least he wants you to think that about him), but Knott's problem is "I don't want to go into the family business but I don't want to disappoint my father. I don't want to kill this guy, so I'm going to try for a long shot to get him off on a technicality, regardless of what he's done, so that I don't have to deal with it."
I really wonder what Knott would have done if he'd been called in to hang a notorious unrepentant serial killer that they had bang to rights, no moral loopholes. Would he still be trying just as hard to get them a reduced sentence or something? What if he figured out a technicality that could set them free instead of just reducing the sentence? Would he have done that?
HAS he done that? He mentioned he was "three for three" already. Surely not all of those people were unlucky idiots like our Sharpe. Did he free someone who really didn't deserve it?
Nothing about Knotty's characterization so far says to me that he'd be ok with being second-hand responsible for violence.
If he set someone free who e.g. went off on a killing spree, I would guess he'd feel super responsible and consider himself guilty. Based on what we've seen of him, and on the feel of the comic in general, I would guess that they were unlucky and/or unfairly treated by the system.
"With me! A lawyer! Which is what I am!!"
Just curious: Would he actually refer to himself as such? Or would he be more likely to refer to himself as either (most likely) a "Solicitor" or (less likely) a "Barrister", seeing as how this takes place in Britain?
if he was actually a lawyer, possibly
Eliza, you're a conspiracy theorist; you don't need facts.
This Will is not without some charm, and the cat does like him...
But what confuses me very much - he never looks at his interlocutor's face.
Mal did that OFTEN (well, he was a bunch of complexes and traumatic memories)... Ben did that ONCE IN A WHILE (he was traumatized and full of complexes too)...
But Will does it ALWAYS.
Why?