February 25th, 2020
25 Feb 2020 · page 967 of 1306
Ben "great with animals" Thackerey
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Parsley, Will Sharpe
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Will is good with animals, though. Parsley loves him and Gren seems friendly enough.
Guess animals are easier for him than humans.
I don't know, he seems to read Eliza pretty well.
Mustn't judge a book by the cover.
Animals don't have the same social expectations as humans. They don't care if you blather on about yourself, without asking about them. He's always been good at taking really direct cues (like "If you hurt Knotty I will pull the lever myself" or "I am on your belly, you should scritch me"), just too self-absorbed to notice polite hints.
That, but also, well... his classmates hated him, his parents seemed to hate him. He made it pretty clear that he's not fond of people in general. Animals don't expect him to do stuff other than feed, pet and sit still so they can sleep on him.
Hm. He's a wizard. Doesn't Gren normally hate wizards? Mind, he does have a little bit of Sidneyish to him.
I think Gren's too distracted by Parsley, just out of reach
And it's not that easy to have cat a moving around on your shoulder like that. Takes some co-operative postural adjustments, which he must be doing well or he'd be yelping from claws dug in.
That beast is made for tracking, and that's just what she'll do.
One of these days that beast might just be on the track of YOU.
Careful what you wish for Ben....imagine the fun he'll have when Gren does get the scent and takes off, dragging him all the way...to the local butcher.
Aaaaaaah I'm so happy to see Will again!
Look, I love this plot and all, but seeing Will over rides my brain synapses and makes me go feral
He looks a lot more genuinely at ease, which I love! Like he's been able to drop that facade of being Mr. Charisma and just be himself instead
Sharpe got the best scarf
Nu uh, MAL has the best scarf!
Oh yes, please get Knotty involved so we can have the full crossover between the two sets of characters! I want to see how he and Ben would interact - they're both bookish and high-strung, but Knotty's a lot softer than our prickly Ben. (And I wonder what Eliza wants him to check on...?)
Maybe some legal aspect of the bad guy's behavior so far?
Possibly something to do with the legalities surrounding hunters? I mean, yeah, they're impersonating a hunter (which is probably itself illegal), but maybe to keep the act up. (Though a lack of knowledge of what's she's doing didn't stop her from pretending to be French.)
p o w e r c o u p l e
I agree, Gren and Parsley could do so much together, the mind boggles.
Ben, for tracking O'Malley you need some thing from O'Malley, and actually Wolfe and Sid went away exactly for taking it. So, you must go to Harry's office (and find Mal's scarf Wolfe left there)?
Panel 4, Ben: That beast is made for tracking, perhaps it can find him...
Panel 5, Ben struggles with resisting Gren. Why doesn't she want to go, really? :facepalm:
. . . . . because he's (technically) a wizard?
I'm surprised Parsley didn't go directly for Mr Thackerey, the one person in the room who hates cats. I expect he thought annoying the beast would be more fun.
Gren is smarter than any of the three...
Will is hereby the Sassy Gay Friend.
Poor Parsley... Attacked without cause!
The obvious question: what does the consortium need the Fourth Anchor for?
Also I like Ben sitting cross-legged on the floor in the first panel; is there no chair in Eliza's shop? :)
Dumb theory: Mal saw avarice and ambition in Pryce's spirit. The twist; his motivation is completely above-board tourism and merchandise ideas, and while he's greedy he's Mr Krabs greedy, and nothing actually bad would happen if he found the fourth anchor.
She must have chairs somewhere - there were some set up for the Fourth Anchor Society meeting. [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-30th-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-30th-2018")
You need to collect all four anchors if you want the exclusive buildable figure
I think the two of them are on the floor so they can more easily peruse the contents of the bottom drawer
I'm pretty sure Sharpe's remark in panel 5 is a cultural anachronism, but then, this is Widdershins
The exact wording, sure, but the import? very within period!
Throwing money at finding the 4th anchor? Makes sense- globes DO cost a lot of money.
Information network DEPLOY!
Somehow it took me until now to realize that Malik looking at him like 'he was wearing the wrong kind of hat' was Malik looking at his spirit and going '...nope. Nopity nope'.
Yup! I'll bet that's exactly what Mal saw and said and did!
I love how aloof Parsley is in Panel 4, then how relaxed in Panels 5 & 6!