January 5th, 2015
5 Jan 2016 · page 553 of 1306
He's debating turning into someone a little taller, but it'd rather break the drama of the moment.
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Cast: Henry Barber, Mr Luxuria
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Well that's interesting... a being that is a living incarnation of an emotion/feeling (or whatever you want to characterize it as) finds the idea that feeling more than one emotion at a time is stupid. That may be because he (it?) can't really understand emotions.
He can understand one single emotion, not emotion_s_ plural.
Actually, I think I've met humans who are similar. They're always screaming bores.
Usually angry screaming bores
...and running for public office.
Well, the poor toupée can't help the quality of what it got attached to. It is doing its best, poor thing. ;P
Surely that's not a toupee. I mean, why would anyone make a wig that looked like that?
There's a mop out there that's going headless :(
No, it's an alien brain parasite with fur
He clearly understands emotions as he's been doing nothing but manipulating everyone else's. What he doesn't understand is why anyone would want to have a whole bunch of conflicting ones. Precisely for the reason that this is what allowed him to manipulate them so well.
He understands them, but does not grok them. Which is about to spectacularly backfire on him, because Luxuria has clearly not taken into account the simple joys that can be found in schadenfreude.
"He understands them, but does not grok them."
I felt the same way about high school math.
Is it permissible to say 'grok' in the comments of a PG12 comic? :-)
Why not? It simply means to understand something to the deepest core of your being. The fact that it can be used in other meanings is irrelevant.
Ha! :) What makes this even funnier is that I originally was going to type something different than 'schadenfreude.' But I don't know how edgy the phrase 'sheer bl**dy-mindedness' actually is, in British English. :)
“The universe, they say, depended for its
operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm,
persuasion, uncertainty, and bloody-mindedness.”
It was acceptable enough for Terry Pratchett, at least :)
Must feel good for him to finally be able to speak his mind, after all those years.
Who's the character in the background with the hat on? Luxuria's hair is nothing like that, but neither is Izzy's, so who's that back there?
All signs seem to point to Isabella
Isabella's hair is tucked under a hat. She is drawing a circle and as long as she stays ahead of (behind?) luxuria, she may not be noticed.
It's a simpler circle and was started first so there's every chance she'll be 'noticed' soon.
Is Luxuria... flirting with Barber? I can't see what else the offer to "join him" could mean in this context, given that as far as Luxuria is concerned he has already won.
Not like he'd ever trust anyone else, tho.
Yeah I really don't see how he expects that relationship to develop.
But I would totally want to see fanart of that.
I think he finds Henry intriguing because he's a challenge. Luxuria usually finds it easy to manipulate humans. Henry resists this - and did so even before meeting Izzy. If he could overcome that resistance, if he could dominate Henry too? Then he'd really have won.
It is Luxuria. Lust.
As it made clear, it has one overriding drive, one feeling, one single viewpoint.
It can no mor change what it is than it can truly understand humans. :-/ Such is in the nature of Sin...
We know circles within circles work but what about circles upon circles in a cylindrical stack..? Which has precedence .. do they interfere or merge ... and Luxuria needs Izzy as well as the pendant so why is he continuing his preparations when he apparently doesn't know where she is .. or does he? What will Henry do with the key?
.. and as this is a flashback/storytelling we know our heroes survive pre-tem as does the butler so none of the above matters.
Kate, you've nicked the Douglas Adams trick of telling us in advance that someone slightly bruises their upper arm but otherwise no-one is harmed (apart from a whale and a bowl of flowers) - so: Has Annie woken up and started taking an interest yet?
Unless of course, Mr Luxuria kills Lord Barber, takes his form and has been living as him for the last 40 years...
Uhh... interesting plot twist
It seems to me that we saw what happened back here: [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-7th-2014/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-7th-2014/")
" I think the double circle had an amplifying effect, don't ya think?" - so, sure to be interesting.
I see our shadowy figure is back and building a circle outside Luxuria's circles....
To me it looks like she's in the anchor building itself, so wouldn't that be within Luxuria's circles?
She is putting a circle around the anchor. Apparently Luxuria's circles are to be used later, after he attains his full powers. First he must do something (sufficiently dreadful) with the necklace and Isabel; meanwhile she plans to do something sufficiently uh tidy to him within that circle next to the anchor.
Henry could always try turning into someone with flexible fingers and thinner wrists?
He already has the key.
It's human transmutation time!
That is an interesting insight, thought generally actually: the spirits embody an emotion so how much do they actually feel other things- I feel sort of sorry for Envy and Wrath now, trapped feeling the same deeply unpleasant emotion all the time doesn't sound fun.
I thought as much.
Luxuria is using these people as hosts for its "kin" so it can bring them over!
(Really. ^^; I did consider it before now. It's just that I've been away from the comments section... and I'm sure someone else had already thought of it as well.)
I'm not sure there's anyone who hasn't, really. Speculation started sometime around his introduction of them by their deadlies' Latin names.
I have to wonder if his circles will protect them when Izzy completes hers...
Elodie looks so cute and vulnerable when asleep. Those little blushes... ^_^
But why? If Isabelle is Black Hat, then she's going to have to hide anyway -- why disguise herself? (And why isn't she drawn as a stick figure like Black Hat is?)
Are all of the commenters of this beloved comic confusing sins with emotions?
These comic personifications of the Deadly Sins are like addicts. All of their actions and relationships are ordered toward the drink or drugs or gambling which the focus of their addictions. They are slaves to their single-minded passions.
Luxuria is very skilled at manipulating other peoples' addictions, which he calls "emotions." Invidia does not "love" Superbia in a self-sacrificial way; Invidia is simply holding on to one of her addictions. He knows he can manipulate her by threatening to cut off her supply.
Luxuria does not understand other people's virtues, which he also calls "emotions." He does not understand why Henry would sacrifice himself for Isabelle. It does not even occur to him that Isabelle would then risk her own self to save Harry and the world.
And honestly, who wouldn't fall for a statuesque, bespectacled hottie?