Hangman's Knot
4 Sept 2018 · page 831 of 1306
New characters? New characters.
Welcome back, thanks for being so patient with me!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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New characters.
Will any of the old characters show up?
And will we ever see any more of the handsome baker who was more than he seemed?
Probably, really.
I'm hoping we'll see the Verity&Lei team up foreshadowed in [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2018/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-16th-2018/") ! Mysterious bakers are also welcome!
Why am I hearing "prepare for trouble / and make it double" in my mind?
Wonder which sin they each indulged in during the recent unfortunate events?
I wonder if Mr. Smarmy was arrested for something he did while, as it were, under the influence.
More like Hangman's Knott, amirite?
Heyoooooooo!
Wooooo yeeeaaahh! How exciting!
Ha ha HA!
And we're back!
Seven weeks.
I have been waiting for roughly seven weeks, starved
from one of the best ongoing comics on the entire freaking world wide
web, living off the scraps that is, albeit really good, fan art and,
albeit really funny, Q&As. So at this point I'm practically
FAMISHED, starving for new content, and only got one thing to say.
Kate, you better not go get yourself sick, break an arm, or set off a bomb or something. We're all counting on you.
Nooo pressure though
Of course not. Pressure leads to illness.
Hopefully for this distressed looking lawyer this case goes differently than the last trial we saw in this comic. (Also, does this mean we get to see those british law wigs?)
Not sure Captain Barber will agree with you.
Woo! This is my first time seeing a new chapter page as it comes out.
Oh yeah, same!
Me too!
And me. :)
I'm ashamed to admit that I've seen each and every chapter start page on the day it appeared, going back to the day before my birthday in 2011.
Sweet.
No shame there!
The suspense ! Don't leave us hanging !
Hey, in case you were unaware, the last strip that actually showed up on Comic Chameleon was on 29 June. You might want to do/ask them to do something about that. Especially since WOO NEW ARC!
their importer seemed to be arguing with my site around about then- looks like its fixed now though so i'll sort it out!
Yay!
I'm looking forward to meeting the worried fellow with the law book. He looks like he might be the Ben of this little group.
I'm torn between being really excited for the new story and new characters, and being really worried about what's happening to Harry...
Feeling a bit worried for the new characters already tho as the prisoner guy's smarmy grin reminds me a bit too much of Lux, or maybe even Mephistopheles? (Been rereading Darken 😊)
Yeah, very excited for new story but wondering about Harry - not worried exactly, I have great faith in her, but super curious - and Sid, who is going to be all kinds of distraught that she's gone, and Henry who'd been shot....
>the prisoner guy's smarmy grin reminds me a bit too much of Lux
Ditto! He’s got smarm coming out his ears.
Obviously as guilty as sin.
groooan
Nah, if it were Lux, he'd still have the scar on his neck from when his head was cut off.
I'm not saying he's either Lux or Mephistopheles -- I'm making a comparison.
OB, it's Harry. She'll come back with a yeti-pelt rug or something.
Not sure why she'd come back with such a useless item, but yeah, I do have faith in her to handle all her adventures well... I guess it's just, she is on an island that no one from England has even figured out how to get to before, so it's kind of a big deal!!!
Indeed. She might just raise both eyebrows. XD
It could just end up being a Noodle Incident situation. She arrives on the cliffs of Dover one day and never says a bloody word about how she got there.
Yeti rugs are absolutely useful in England. It's cold there.
Guess I didn't think of that lol.... but wouldn't it be much more practical just to make them from sheepskin? 😜
Oh, well, if you want practical, people wouldn't live in most of the places they do now. Besides, isn't 'big game hunting' a tradition in the upper class? I mean, her grandfather was a younger son, but still. :)
Besides, I don't think Yeti raise sheep. Maybe goats.
Yeah, but answer honestly now, do you see Harriet Barber falling more into the "upper class" category or the "practical" category? 😁
Well, there's something to be said for tradition :)
Frankly, I'd say that it depends on the temperature. If it's cold enough to find a Yeti, she'll probably be looking for a rug. Bringing it home later? Well, it's a tradition to bring back presents when you travel.
I'm getting a Magnum Opus/Gilderoy Lockhart vibe off of him, personally. Which I guess skews closer to Lux (Mephy, at least, was aware there was one substantially bigger fish in the pond, so he made sure he had a thing or two to be smug about).
I know what you mean, although it could be argued that Mephistopheles never really took anyone else seriously enough, which is what makes what happens to him at the end of Darken one of the most satisfying endings for a villain in anything I've ever read ("The Lord of Hellfire needs no luck!")
I like the Gilderoy Lockhart comparison, though.
It's strictly subjective, I know, but I think "never took anyone else seriously" is truer of Lux than Meph. Granted, neither took the protagonists seriously, but Meph at least considered that a failure state was possible (eg his champion failing to stop Grubby McSlimeface from possessing Tyr). Lux always treated his victory as a forgone conclusion.
And that's without accounting for the fact that Meph knows he's in Asmodeus's shadow, who will make him answer for his screw-ups.
True -- Mephistopheles did have the sense to be worried when he heard about things going wrong -- but you never see that until after all the stuff with the daughter went down. He never seemed to care about what Baal was doing until after the fact. Of course, he was worried about what Asmodeus thought -- but still, he thought it was possible to overthrow Asmodeus in the first place. So when he took something seriously, it was too little too late imo!
(Sorry, you shouldn't have let me get going on Darken... I've just finished rereading it and it's really fresh in my mind... not to mention that every time I read it again I love it more! 😍)
I'm so excited!
HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT OH MY GODH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
NOOOOOOOOOh, who am I kidding? Harry will be fine, she needed a tropical getaway vacation anyway.
Yay!!!!!!
sigh even thought I knew you'd leave us cliffhangered on Harry and gang, I'm a little sad we won't immediately get to see what's up!
That said, new characters! I'm super excited to meet them! You always throw together such delightfully different personalities, I'm looking forward to seeing how these folks interact!
As much as I'd like to immediately answer that, I promise the pacing works much better with a break!
I trust you. So far it has been awesome. Just glad we get more awesome now. Thanks for the great story.
I trust you too! I'm a writer myself, so I know how these things go! I'm willing to bet there will be at the very least be all kinds of important worldbuilding and foreshadowing going on in this chapter. (Also, NEW CHARACTERS I've loved every new character introduction in this comic)
I was kinda hoping to see Mountain Witch and Island Witch and Deep Sea Anglerfish Witch on the new cover.
People who art good - please draw me a picture of Mal and Deep Sea Anglerfish Witch hanging out, playing cards or getting a drink or something.
I would like to see this, too! LOL!
Who? I don't remember them.
We've met Mountain Witch when Voss visited the Himalayan anchor. Harry is probably going to meet Island Witch at some point, having just gone through their door. Deep Sea Anglerfish Witch is pure speculation at this point.
Well, we strongly suspect that she's Mountain Witch, but we don't know for certain, do we?
Kate almost confirmed that there: [https://katedrawscomics.tum...](https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/175620913937/s-wowtittybang-replied-to-your-link-ask-about "https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/175620913937/s-wowtittybang-replied-to-your-link-ask-about")
Not for certain, but it seems very likely. She was looking above Voss's head when commenting on the state of his emotions, and she was knitting something blue, much like Mal's new scarf.
Shh! They're in disguise.
Why, he's got my favourite book!
Oh man, new characters! Glad we haven't seen the last of the old ones, though; I love those guys. Still, looking forward to meeting the newbies!
Is this Vincent outside the anchor in the last chapter ? [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-27th-2018/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-27th-2018/")
(Edit: actually, the person in that chapter seems to be wearing a skirt and cape, so probably someone else with a similar hair, skin tone, and face shape. Also I'm assuming the worried lawyer is Vincent and the handcuffed smarm master is Will Sharpe, but I don't know if we have any evidence of that.)
Will’s probably been arrested for cheating at cards too often.
DOYOUGEDDIT
Will Sharpe vs. Mal poker game GO!
On the one hand, popcorn; on the other, getting out of there before the spontaneous summoning of men in black suits and very pointed questions about counting... ;P
Until told otherwise, I'm affixing names as they appear in the tags to the order they're in on the cover (right to left) because that makes my aesthetic sense happy.
I don't actually get to choose what order they appear in, but luckily they are correct!
Simply name the characters in alphabetical order as they appear on the cover!
Yeah, I knew they list alphabetically but until told otherwise my brain was assigning names in the same order. Good to know I was right.
Hooray
Hiatus is over?
ssssqueeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Also, hooray for (Wizard?) law students! (My fiance finished law school last year, so young lawyers are cute.)
Aw, I'm excited! New cast!!
I do hope that one day we'll learn how Harry got back to Widdershins, but I'm intrigued to see these new characters in action.
Now this promises to be interesting...
New characters! And named... Swift, Knott, and Sharpe! I suspect those are broad hints about traits, right there in the names.
I do love it when writers do that. We'll see how the names apply as the story unfolds... For now, a nod of appreciation, and a happy smile of anticipation.
I love them all already
Hmmm...a Swift Sharpe Knott?
oh boy. oh boy.
New Story! With a complete chapter already! It's times like this that I best like my binge-leave-rebinge approach to webcomics.