January 4th, 2019
4 Jan 2019 · page 863 of 1306
Sneaky sneaky.
Apologies for some shaky details here, I did 90% of the comic and then ended up with norovirus, so my finishing touches are.. lacking. I'll get back to it when I'm throwing up less!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Feel better soon!
Don't worry about the comic and get some rest! It looks great and you shouldn't push yourself while you're sick.
Indeed. Rest and be well.
I'm reminded of Spike's reaction after Dawn told him that she knew where he slept ... and he'd better not hurt Buffy if he didn't want to wake up on fire.
He said something like "When did she get scary?"
So if he's innocent there's no execution and if he's guilty Eliza will perform the hanging so Knotty doesn't have to? Win-win!
Looks like there’s some stagemagician in Mr Sharpe the way he makes the pistol... disappear :-/
Better than making a [pencil disappear](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3E5tLoado "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K3E5tLoado"). Tada!
Get well soon! Take all the rest time you need!
Am I missing some joke or is Swift's bedroom deliberately windowless for privacy reasons?
Eliza is a conspiracy theorist...my guess is she has no windows so they (the people behind said conspiracies) can't spy on her.
That said, the joke is that she let him go upstairs to change, knowing there was no window for him to escape through...not that he ever intended to skip out on them. "Of course not."
Methinks Sharpe is more concerned with the lack of mirrors than the lack of windows.
Sharpe, if you use that gun to hurt Eliza or Knotty, I will find a way to cross the barriers of reality to punish you, and believe me it will be QUITE severe should such punishment be required.
You can write some fanfic. The one where Sharpe ends up in the Hotel Gula working as underchef for Ethan Booth; the one where he accidentally knocks over Ms Superbia's pint; the one where he chats up a charming young lady police Captain and fails to keep his hands to himself; the one where he makes an off-hand remark to Benjamin Thackerey about magic and then gets a three hour lecture on the lesser-known aspects of magic circles...
I’m pretty sure that lady police captain isn’t interested in him.
Oh she was interested in him in a professional capacity after the unfortunate wandering hands. She asked him to assist the police with their enquiries. With her night stick. And it wasn't her fault that he fell down all those stairs at the police station.
Vincent: "My legal advise is to...let the wookiee win!"
This would be a very ironic threat if she was the one with Knotty's job.
I love her. I love her so much.
Get well soon!
Wow, something managed to wipe the grin off his face.
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gosh, norovirus. Get well soon !
Hope you feel better soon. Must have been the pie.
I can't catch norovirus from reading a webcomic. Can I?
Not from reading a quality comic like this one, at any rate
But perhaps I should wear rubber gloves when I read some of the more dubious ones.
Careful Sharpe, if she catches you with that the only question will be if she's feeling merciful enough to shoot you with it rather than beating you to death with it.
I want to know more about Eliza’s background/living situation. No one else has been mentioned in the context of either the shop or her living quarters upstairs; does she run the place alone? She doesn’t seem to be a wizard, but she had to call in the Malform Busters a couple of times, so who created the buggerup? Does she have an employee or family member who’s a wizard?
Ahh, this gave me a good laugh! Eliza verbally slapped the smug right off of Sharpe's face! :D
Is it bad that I ship them now?
… Please don't take it personally when I say I hope that ship sinks before it can leave the harbor.
A spontaneous explosion in the boiler room, methinks. A catastrophic one.
Only if it's because Eliza deserves better :P
Dang this is good Quillmora Wiliza right here I 🚢 it.
Same >//>
You hold your head up straight, young man!
I wonder how many bullets are left in this handgun. With all the excitement, I lost count.
Looks like a variant of the Colt Pocket Percussion revolver, so presumably... three? Although it may be a different Colt, with six rounds instead of five. Or an anachronistic model that doesn't use black powder. Lemme look at the picture
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...Oh, hey, the British didn't take over New Zealand in this timeline. That's interesting. Yeah, though, it looks like an early Colt.
Interesting catch about the geographical name New Zealand... I'm not sure how to read it though.From [this Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohunga#Tohunga_under_tapu "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohunga#Tohunga_under_tapu"), you could say "tapu tohunga" refers to a skilled practitioner in spiritual or sacred arts, and "motu" means island. So "Tapu Tohunga Motu" ("Witch Island"?) could be the name of the anchor site itself. On the other hand, maybe the anchor is so important that it gives the name to the archipelago as a whole?
For the record, the modern Maori name of the country is Aotearoa, but this name did not refer to the whole archipelago before the 1890s IRL.
God he's pretty. Also smooth about the gun thing. I like the lil detail of his hair falling into his face in shock in the last panel.
You mean, even his hair is in shock?
I mean, can you blame it?
I doubt that excellent roll for intimidation was necessary, Eliza. Sharpe is too air-headed to be malicious.
As I think I've said before: Strong drink and strong women--nothing like 'em.
If there are shaky details in this page, I'm at a loss to find them. Your work is excellent, as always! Hoping you start feeling better soon.
Heyo, still a little ill so Tuesday 8th January's update is going to be a couple of hours later than usual, many apologies!
Oh my gosh! My mum had norovirus just this past year! It's a serious thing! I wish you an epically speedy, smooth and complete recovery... The sort that will have your doctors doubting it was norovirus after all, and you and your family relieved that you came through it relatively unscathed.
(I knew Mum was sick, but not to what extent. She downplayed the severity -ie- didn't tell me what it was she had until some months after the fact. I was upset. I could have helped her.)
it might have just been a bug, i'm pretty okay now :) friend i caught it from was calling it noro though so who knows! important thing is that i can sort of eat again!
I'm glad you're feeling better. I hope you've seen your doctor though.
I got into the bad habit of just dealing with whatever knocked me out and not seeing the doctor. Now I'm in my 40's and I don't know how to go to the doctor's office anymore!
Ooh, well spotted!