Heya folks! Welcome to our fancy new site on our fancy new home, Hiveworks! Things may be a little odd around here while the hosts change over, but it'll all settle down soon. Hope returning readers like the new digs, and to any new readers- well I really hope you're into wizards and feelings, I guess! Start here for the first page, there's a whole lot to dig into!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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The Sharpening, part 2: The Sharpeninging
AKA The Sharpening, part 2: sharpletric boogaloo
Wow, this turn of events looks really appropriate against this new site background! :) Just kidding.
But is the voting link to TWC gone?
yes, i'm hoping the cross-promo from other hive comics will replace any need for it.
Wait...you weren't on Hiveworks before? I suppose this is such a Hiveworky comic, I never noticed.
That said, your imagelink is still not present on the mainpage. I'd give someone a gentle nudge about that if I were you.
it won't be just yet, we're migrating everything today! not even formally made the announcement yet, i just wanted the switch to take place as the new update hit and my timezone is different to the hive admin.
Looks like you've got confusion between [www.widdershins.com](http://www.widdershins.com "www.widdershins.com") and [widdershins.com](http://widdershins.com "widdershins.com") (without the "www") causing duplicate Disqus threads.
Gotta include the "comic" bit in the url unless you love domain resellers! I'll pass that on though!
this seems to have resolved as far as i can tell- please let me know if you spot any problems though!
Well, well, well...
Naughty, naughty, professor Flack.
I did mention that fan of hers reminded me of Pride's tail, didn't I?
Excellent twist, Ms. Ashwin! ^_^
I'm going to go with my previous scenario...
Eliza: walks slowly towards him I know what you're thinking... did I fire one round in the demo, or had I fired more? Well, I did only fire one round, but I'd also only loaded one round. I decided that would cause enough excitement. So the question is... ah, that fitting looks like it's bolted securely- grabs Will by his free wrist and handcuff, drags him over, cuffs him through the fitting And, if you please... takes revolver from him Thank you!
Will, and Vincent: :-o
>:=)>
Makes sense. 'Charge a gun, run from a knife' after all.
I love how Knotty’s bit on the new cast page is just: Definitely not a lawyer 😂
Yeah. :) But I miss info on members of "non-main cast" a bit. Florrie, Voss, Lei... not as if I don't remember what was written there, of course. :)
The website hasn't changed over for me yet, so I just went and re-read everyone's bios on the old cast page. Thanks for the warning!
If anyone wants to see the old cast page descriptions, they're still findable at the internet archive! For example here's Florrie's page: [https://web.archive.org/web...](https://web.archive.org/web/20171212160249/http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn-character/florence/ "https://web.archive.org/web/20171212160249/http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn-character/florence/")
Florrie has vanished from the page entirely somehow, I'll figure that out when I'm back at my PC somehow!
I can see Mrs de Montfort, but no sign of Macaverty. Not that he desreves his own picture.
Maybe she's been taking Not Being Seen lessons from her husband?
You really think she'd sign up for that?
Just spotted Alexa's and am deeply amused by the subtlety of the puns in there. Nicely done.
Is it the trifle and jam?
So... charmed snake, or just a snake?
Look at his eyes. He's been treated by Dr. Flack; almost certainly back in his jail cell.
Yeah, you're right. Fun.
His text has changed color too.
Well, this was a completely expected turn of events.
I know. What a shocker. I may need my smelling salts. ;P
There it is! Surprised this didn't happen sooner, but I guess the trigger is pretty specific. Maybe his reluctance to see it was some sort of knock-on effect.
I'm a bit foggy on whose color this is, though. Greed, I think?
Greed is olive green; this isn't any of the deadly-sin colors
"Wizards and Feelings" would be a good name for a tabletop RPG based off of this comic.
Would be a super easy Lasers and Feelings hack too. Not that any hack of that system is really hard to make.
TIL that this is a thing that exists.
{curses loudly in french}
{adds Vietnamese and Sicilian}
YOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! TWIST
I wonder if Vincent guessed this was going to happen if Eliza kept pushing. Was that why he was trying to get her to stop, or was it just a "we don't have time to fight amongst ourselves" thing?
The latter seems a touch more likely.
Hmmm. The gun is not loaded.
GORGEOUS new website - very Victorian. no TWC vote anymore?
new site! new logo!
so fancy.
Awesome page, awesome comic, awesome website makeover!
You know, I was thinking he may have added overconfidence to himself but it should have occurred to me that flack did this to him when she visited.
It might even be both; he might've made his own bad decisions before the arrest and Flack's whammy is layered on top.
Oho, this should be interesting. Hope you guys find the paper with that trigger word quickly, or else things here could get a bit sticky...
Knotty. Damn it. I should have gone with "things here could get a bit Knotty."
This is going about as well as we could have expected.
I believe the appropriate expression here is OH SNAP!
That's right push the guy who obviously had the spell preformed on him to make him the fall guy. Trigging him and pulling a bullseye on your forehead. And he has a gun..... so how are you going to make you're situation worse now? She is really too smart for her own good. I mean even "knotty" got he had the spell on him.
Time to revisit the old 'bullet catch' trick.
Okay. The mental influence/control I expected and understand. But when did Sharpe pick up a gun?
This page: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-4th-2019/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-4th-2019/") It's the one Eliza used on the globe; Will casually put his coat over it, then picked them up together.
Welcome to Hiveworks! A lot of my other favorite comics are already hosted on Hiveworks, so I'm glad to see that one more is joining the list. And it's nice to see that the archive now appears to be automatically updated.
So, we finally have confirmation that Sharpe has been Sharpened. The real question is whether he did it to himself, or whether Flack did it. I'm leaning towards Will self-Sharpening.
hey y'all, glad you like the new site! it was all done by kevin and erin at hiveworks, they did a really great job! i'm particularly pleased with the archive page, it's a lot more user-friendly than previous, and i don't have to update it by hand any more!
yeah, there's no TWC vote button any more- hopefully i won't need it now, but i guess we'll see!
i'll reinstate the other character's bios on the cast page soon- i was kinda low on time so i only did the main characters for right now, i will get around to the secondary characters soon.
please let me know if you guys spot any flaws or big things that'd make the site more useable for you!
Good to know the bios of others will be on the page, thanks!
The archive page is much more useable now, yeah! Previews with dates are better than numbers of pages. (Though I miss a bit the possibility to know at once how much pages each chapter has, especially the ongoing chapter. :) But I can't really find a place for that in the new design, so I always can count previews myself. :) )
Now we can see QA and other extra pages in the archive navigation, and it is very good! But I can't help noticing that there are three filler pages between comic pages of ch 7 (not after the end of it) and I wonder if it is supposed to be this way.
Also we now have two "Archive" links, below the strip and above it. They have (a little) different addresses, but the pages look the same. Maybe the link below could be changed for the link to the beginning of the ongoing chapter (keeping the navigation logic of the old version)?
A little bug: the page "Extras" has one picture not shown (
) and some strange symbols "’" instead of apostrophes.
Sorry for nitpicking. :)
thanks for looking! the archive links are fine, that's just a redirect! i got rid of the filler from the middle of chapter 7 (thanks for that, i hate leaving those in!) and i'll deal with the extras page as soon as it lets me do so!
Not sure if anyone else has said, but the RSS feed I subscribed to from the old page stopped working for me. I only realised because I was like, "Widdershins hasn't updated since Feb 5, that's strange..."
Yeah, the rss address changed, not sure there's anything I can do about that I'm afraid..
Any chance you could have a look at [https://www.comic-rocket.co...](https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/widdershins/ "https://www.comic-rocket.com/explore/widdershins/") and update it to point at the new RSS feed? I did try contacting them, but nothing seems to have happened - and it looks like you might be able to poke it.
i have poked them also now! fingers crossed!
So...if he's wearing clothes supplied to him, and he's been chained to Knotty all this time, exactly where did he get a gun?
[https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-4th-2019 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-4th-2019")
Panel 2 vs Panel 4.
Like the site layout, btw. The comic image is now scalable. I used to have to copy it into another window if I wanted it bigger.
Edit: I take it back...the image still isn't scalable past a certain point. So can you make it scalable, since you've got the bonnet open? Sometimes I have to make it bigger to read it.
Love the new layout. The whole site looks more clean and polished.
Is it just me, or did the ads suddenly get more obnoxious?
...Adblock's coming back on. (And it looks like blocking the ads just turns them into weird grey squares now...)
As for the new layout, it looks rather similar to how I remember the site looking when it was only partially loaded, so I'm gonna take a while to get "hasn't finished loading" out of my head.
new site whomst dis
I don't think he intends to use the gun on either of them, nor does he mean to imply it.
There's a much more efficient way to keep them from learning what he knows. Hopefully the gun is indeed empty.
Y'know, there's someone with sufficient body weight still cuffed to Will... Knott need but fling his weight away from Will to bring him down, or at least off balance.Hard to aim a gun while falling.
Well, poop.
With the site switchover, it looks like some of the Q&A parts might have been misplaced. The ones from the end of Find the Lady are showing up at the end of all the books that included Q&As except the second book.
The posts are OK, but some images have been overwritten. When you remove the "year/month/" prefix used by WordPress, the remaining part isn't always unique. The migration process failed to de-duplicate these.
this is fixed now, thanks for letting me know, y'all!
No, you fool, you're supposed to do the crime before you're arrested!
So I did some detective work, looking through the Seven Deadly Sins chapter, with the goal of seeing if this colour-text is something we've seen before in this hue. In retrospect it is obvious - we're dealing with Wrath here, or something like it.
It's also worth remembering - the Sins themselves speaking, and people under the 'fluence speaking, are not the same. It's a close visual match to the rioters in the scene before they face Wrath. And I think Kate might be miffed now, as Pride could have been an interpretation too. Pride was pink.
There's still a left-field possibility that this is not a deadly, simply something nasty. Anger is a possibility as is rage - once they would have been considered direct synonyms for wrath, but in modern English they have distinct meanings. (The difference is subtle, but does exist.)
Greed and Sloth don't fit. Envy could be considered a big possibility, as the motivation is classism. But envy is green as we know.
Pride as we have seen it is not violent in the traditional sense, it acts closer to vanity.
I have an idea which I probably shouldn't share. In this method. Is it limited to one spirit? That could explain the Wrath-consistent colouring, with elements of Envy and Pride.
Kate, if I've just shot down a bunch of plotlines you had in mind, remember two things.
#1. It is your comic. You are completely within your rights to say I've guessed right, and go through with your plot.
#2. If you're playing a game of keep-away with reader's guesses, then I very much look forwards to seeing what you come up with. ;)
P.S Love the comic.
P.P.S If I'm not allowed to play that game of keep-away let me know.
I'm always fine with you guys guessing and speculating- I had the plot for this one outlined many months ago, no fear!
"dealing with Wrath here, or something like it."
That works for the porter and the cook, but to my eyes Sharpe is the same speech colour as them (I could be wrong) and Sharpe doesn't seem to be angry at all.
I think Kate's plot is not simple, and we don't have enough information yet to figure out which lesser spirits have been bound in the Sharpening, or whether there's a Deadly involved. (Though... when a human is directly under the influence of a Deadly it seems to affect the background of the speech bubble as well as the text colour, so probably not that.)
Remember, the Deadly Sins arc is finished - Mal banished all of them, so they’re not hanging around influencing people anymore. This color is most likely a sign of something else.
I really like the new look of the site. Good call.
Am I the only one who preferred the old look of the site?
This background makes my eyes strain because of a weak contrast between the pictures with guns and general background. They go like, "oh, that lovely picture, but I can't see it well, I'll try to look harder at it". So I try not to look at background. :) I'm sure I'll get used to it soon.
Another thing is a matter of "aligning". The top navigation panel being not center-aligned with the strip, but with the block "the strip + the right ad panel" is logical in its way; the narrower strips like Q&A being left-aligned, with a broad gap between them and the right ad panel... well, not so much, in my opinion.
These are all matters of the design, though, and I think the site's useability is changed for better.
The Parallels!!!