July 10th, 2018
10 Jul 2018 · page 810 of 1306
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Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Is the comic coming to an end or will there be a new story after the 7 Sin arc wraps up?
Kate has already told us the comic will be continuing with a new main character who apparently has already been seen three times in the background of previous chapters.
The Queen!
Lol
Where did she say this? Ooh, maybe this new main character is going to be Florrie's mysterious husband! ^_^
I'd always assumed it was Nora's kids, due to Alexa's message left behind.
That would require an awfully long time jump to get them to adventuring age, though. Cassie's only little, and Nora's second child isn't even born yet.
Harry's off in a tropical paradise hunting for...whatever one hunts for in a tropical paradise. Surely she can wait for a few years before anyone goes looking for her.
It was in the comments in response to someone who was worried the comic was ending. I THINK this happened
during the second half of "Find The Lady" but I'm not sure on that. From memory, Kate implied that this new character (who is possibly female, but that could just be my mind overthinking here) has been in the background but hadn't interacted with anyone we've met thus far.
Oh, I get it! We've seen Jill, from Darken. It's gonna be a cross-over!
I didn't find this comment in the comment sections of 6th and 7th book. It does not really matter, I just wonder if I missed or totally forgot it. :)
How about Frank, the guy who mans the desk at the Society of Bounty Hunters? That's about how often he's shown up. ; )
Check out my reply to CountSessine below. I don't think our mystery protagonist is anyone we've been introduced to yet.
Widdershins' Top Web Comics description is: "A set of Victorian-era adventure stories, featuring pipe-smoking bounty hunters, failed wizard stage magicians, apprentice druggist conspiracy theorists, and more!" Swift's Apothecary is just across the road from Ms Harriet's office and Ms Ashwin has just produced a very nice set of apothecary pins, so I'm expecting to meet the apprentice druggist conspiracy theorist very soon.
i have to update that description since her manner has changed a little, really
So that’s where the apothecary pins come in! I was wondering about those.
I'm not sure Harry will come back in the last few pages, so it's a good thing that Kate is already planning for more story!
not done yet :) got another few books in me. maybe not as many as seven again, but a few.
Are we ever going to meet Florrie's husband?
He's the true main villain
Now I'm imagining a very distraught Florrie trying to figure out where her husband disappeared to after they banished Lust. Pretty sure that is not what's going on, but a hilarious thought. :)
How would Florrie notice the difference, though?
Only the day he catches Florrie and Wolfe... playing cards.
Kate has said that there will be another story set in this world after the Sins storyline wraps up, perhaps he is a main character in that arc?
That's where my money is. When she published a family tree it had family members filled in that we hadn't seen yet, except for him who just got ??? in his description.
Truly, a man of mystery!
He's actually the Purple Hippo of Happiness
A certain island witch just got a headache I'm guessing. At least that will give them a hint to look around their door for something going on.
I have a question for Mal, may I ask it here? (I don't have a Tumblr account)
Mal-your aversion to mirrors in the real world was due to the fact that you couldn’t see your spirit at all, now that you know you possess a stunningly brilliant one (albeit one that's only visible in the “in-between” space) are you more willing to look at yourself in a mirror in the “real world”?
This is what Harry is famous for isn't it? Not helping to defeat the Sins, but for being the first european to "discover" the fabled third anchor. She can't get back out through the witch world so has to sail home.
Is that what future cook said ? I kinda forgot.
I don't recall directly either, and the archives on this website are a pain to search. All I remember is that she is very famous in the future. I think we all assumed it was due to her help in defeating the Sins, but perhaps that story is hidden (as Mal would prefer it), and the Island anchor is what she is most famous for.
I feel like the events of this story are what she's famous for. I can't help but think Mal, if no one else, would speak up about her part. It also makes more sense to me that Alexa would think to give Nora her phone if she knew about the events of this chapter.
That first implies that Mal would speak to anyone about anything, other than just "bugger off".
See, but I feel like he would have to at least give a brief rundown of what's going on, considering the whole town was affected a d he's going to have to claim his position as Widdershins Witch.
Nora's kids save Harry...that would be such a nice story hook.
Well, looking here Alexa made it obvious that Harry is famous [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-3rd-2014/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-3rd-2014/")
But she appears to have deliberately avoided giving details. The only hint we get is that in the next strip she thinks that her phone will be useful to Harry, but she never says why.
There are also things Alexa couldn't say because she doesn't know. Clicking forward from your link, we get this page where it is revealed that Samuel is an agent from the future, not the distant past: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-14th-2014/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-14th-2014/")
Also, agent-from-her-future Samuel was the one who gave Alexa a hint about how to knock the door down -- with flour dust and a spark. [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-20th-2013/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-20th-2013/")
Then there's the whole "phone in the Anchor" sequence with Alexa's video message to Nora. It starts about here, interspersed with the outside team getting captured by Gluttony: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-28th-2017/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-28th-2017/") Clicking forward through it, we get some character resolutions (including "Never could find anything about Sam, which.. I guess makes sense. Honestly, I don't know how he was even there, the place was only built in 1770..").
Why did she record the video? It's pretty clear she doesn't know Mal is going to see it. She doesn't even expect Nora will, she is just hoping against hope. So that's evidence that at least some of the details of this story don't become general public knowledge.
I mean, it doesn't have to be an either/or situation. She could be famous for both things at the same time. :D
With the sudden chaining of Lust, I expect there are a lot of embarrassed people in Widdershins at the moment.
Would be, except that Lux hadn't started spreading its influence around town yet, it was trying to take over the Anchor first... most fortunately for the good townspeople XD
I'm with Sturzkampf here. The other Deadlies had been spreading their influence around, and the sky was still Lust's color.
What about Greed?
What about greed? Might there have been an unexpected rash of...who knows, maybe bread thefts around town?
Standing in the middle of the high street wondering where you got this loaf of bread is one thing. Standing in the middle of the high street wondering where your trousers have gone is quite another.
Sorry, man, but you're losing me. Remember how hard Greed was to find?
Yeah, but Sidney and Macavity and Barber and all brought it back to Widdershins in that tablet.
Good man, Jack. :)
I hope harry ended up in a tropical area. That'd be a nice change from Widdershins. I hope they have magical sunscreen tho.
I think there were some hints somewhere that it is in Polynesia somewhere or something. So tropical islands ahoy!
Magical sunscreen? I doubt it. She's gonna need a hat.
Magical sunscreen is really just olive oil infused with obstinacy and shyness, and while it works very well it has a tendency to make those to whom it is applied very antisocial and contrarian after prolonged use.
Okay O'Malley, time to think of a plan on your own! You can do it! Come on!
This shouldn't be too tricky to fix. All Mal has to do is open his door and will their spirits back into their bodies. Of course Mal will need to keep his anxiety in check but he's already done much trickier things with his magic thus far.
Dear Sydney, now that you know about your magpie spirit, what do you plan to do about/with it? Will you desummon it?
I don't have a question, per se, but I do want Jack to know how wonderful I think he is. I'm sorry his childhood got off to such a rough start, and I absolutely adore the part of the story where he meets Mrs. O'Malley. I want to read all about their lives together.
Questions:
Wolfe, what kind of music do you like to play most? Do you have a favorite composer/piece of music?
Florrie and Eddie, which of you is the older twin?
Uh-oh - the spirits of the outside team are looking a little faded. Have they been away from their bodies too long, or was the adrenaline of the confrontation with Lux holding them together, and this is an exhausted slump like Mal's on the last page? Good thing Mal's blue door (which has their bodies on the other side of it) is the one closest to them.
And they changed their colors again, except Verity - her spirit is the same color all the time, I wonder why.
I like that we see Wolfe and Ben on the last panel while Mal is running to help the spirits.
>except Verity - her spirit is the same color all the time, I wonder why.
Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that, whatever other emotions she has, there's always an underlying feeling of "I am the greatest!"
I'm not sure. It seems that only Wizards and Very There People have auras that change color with their mood. Harry's, for example, is always that sort of pale blue whether she's surprised at finding fellow stowaways on a train or satisfied at another Deadly in the bag.
(I'm not 100% sure, there might be someone in one of the busking scenes who changes color at Wolfe's music.)
Dominik Voss is an obvious counter-example. (We see his aura green from envy, yellow from fear and orange from being happy.) Unless you count him as one of Very There People. :)
Good point about Verity. Huh.
They changed their colours again, but at least Sid and Wolfe seem to be the colours they were while in the cages again, which... may or may not be good? At the very least, blue auras/spirits in this world seem to be the more calmer, restful, steadfast, and/or caring emotions (think back to Mrs. O'Malley's spirit, etc).
Plus Verity's constant colour seems to be solely due to her confidence (in Harry's words) and/or her unceasing pride in her self, hah.
Question for Ben, Izzy, or Sid: Since Wrath created a remnant of itself, I was wondering, is this is something all spirits can do, or just Wrath?
Question for Wolfe and Mal: What other places did you visit before Widdershins and are there any you are fond of?
Question for Wolfe: How did you learn the violin? And where did you get the one you have now?
Question for Henry and Harry: What was the strangest artifact you've been sent after?
Question for Harry and Sid: What would be your ideal romantic evening?
I would like to second " What was the strangest artifact you've been sent after?"
I wholeheartedly endorse the question about the violin.
Various Deadlies: What are your opinions on Luxuria's plan, and the foiling thereof?
Harry: What were your emotions as you walked through the door?
A question, not for a character, but for Kate: will there be a way for me to buy all seven print books at once? Ideally as part of the final Kickstarter, because I am all set up to do that? Here in Canada on the other side of the big pond -- what with shipping and other costs -- I've had to pass on participating in the single-volume Kickstarters as they happened, but I would definitely be up for a one-time lump sum expense to own this whole story in print.
She assured me on a previous page that yes, all 7 volumes would be available as part of the kick-starter.
Dear Mrs. O'Malley,
What is your favorite place you and Jack ever went?
Can I ask a dumb question....Why didn't Harry go out the blue door? Is it because she would still be close enough to use?
Mal said she (or a Barber, but that's basically her at this point) had to be either in Anchorspace or Widdershins, so that wouldn't have helped.
EDIT: Link to page in question: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-8th-2018/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-8th-2018/")
I think that O'Malley is the only one who can open his door. The other two doors were open already. I assume that their respective witches opened them.
Hey, another Emily! We'll have to be careful we don't get mistaken for each other. : )
she wouldn't be far away enough, yeah. here is widdershins, widdershins is here- while mal's here anyway.
Awesome, that's what I assumed but wanted to double check. Thanks!
To Ben/Sidney:
So is there just one of every spirit? Ben mentioned spirit etiquette in a previous Q&A, so I thought so at first, but how does that work? Do they just show up in different places whenever they’re summoned? And if multiple ones become malforms at the same time, will they all look the same? The only spirits we’ve seen multiple times so far are the Deadlies, so presumably that works differently, but maybe not? I have no idea, so I figured I’d ask.
Tl;dr: How in the name of Arceus do spirits work!?
Sincerely,
Dravos Argentium, a fan since roughly the release of Pride.
I don't know why I only recently noticed that the two people who were outlines were also wizards. I suppose that's a wizard thing. Also it's a little weird that they could be pulled into here when they couldn't enter before, but I guess it's just their bodies that can't enter. Yes I know I'm way late.