July 3rd, 2018
3 Jul 2018 · page 808 of 1306
The magic bloody words.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Mr Luxuria, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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Given the origin of the term "bugger", that's a kinda ironic binding spell for Lust.
Nothing ironic here. Just really fitting. ;P
The buggering is turned off. Seems legit.
Aaaaaaaaah I love this page...
Aah, the noble and ancient magic incantations.
Where can I learn such arcane arts?
don't go to Widdershins, tis a silly place.
“Friends! Lend me your strengths!”
Luxuria, I think you're worse off than all the rest of sins combined. Good luck ever getting out of those bindings.
It seems to me, while "spirit-tacles" of Sid, Wolfe and Verity are binding Lux, Ben's one is directed to hurt Lux with its "arrowhead". Ah, no, there is Ben's binding, too, just in somewhat different color. Maybe, the binding is made of his determination, and "the lash" is his anger.
Yeah! Ben obviously has hit Lux with his strenght, but Vee too - her help - it isn't just a tread to rope Lux, it's a whip, Indiana Jones style, which lashes first, then tangles :)
And it seems Ben's reaction was the first, for his binding is overlaped by Wolfe's.
Wolfe's is on top of Ben's and Vee's is on top of Sid's. Maybe the faster reaction is just because they're wizards.
The forces of magic would also have accepted "Abra-ca-bloody-dabra"
what about Abraca-fuck you?
I mean, this whole thing has a bit of a "story and song" vibe... power of friendship, and all that.
not gonna lie, when i was listening to that ending i was briefly wondering if griffin was some kind of mind-thief, then i remembered it's just that both of us really really liked undertale
Eep!
You never know though, he might be a mind thief. It wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Bit of both, maybe?
-insert road to El Dorado gif here-
-snrrk- that is the weirdest picture of him and its perfect
It really does. Especially with all the bonds and everything.
"Hocus focus offus"?
"!#$xyzzy"?
Or, if Mal had been able to browse some Steve Miller Band tracks on Alexa's smartphone:
♪Abra abracadabra,
I'm gonna reach out and grab ya,
Abra abracadabra,
Abracadabra.
You're tied up, you can't get down,
You got bonds winding round and round,
Round and round, and then you know,
When I'm done, to Hell you'll go.
Every sin, we've called their names,
Dispatched them to the endless flames,
Endless flames, infernal, dire,
Piss off, Lust, go join the fire.♪
>:=)>
Ala-kazam, motherfucker
Nicely done Mr O'Malley.
Looks like Luxuria is sketched OUT! >:=)>
those are some great bonds these guys have.
I love the sketchiness
He's creating a binding that uses the words "Bugger off!" and that's great.
Very potent words, those. Even cats (occasionally) take heed of them. ;)
Lux looks sketchy once the bindings start.
Not entirely certain that you can draw that conclusion. I suspect that Luxuria might have one more line in him.
Would you care to highlight why you let Siva draw that pun out of you?
And none of your ridiculousness here! I want a reasonable, or at least colorable, argument.
I've noticed in the two last pages that, of two liberated wizards' spirits we have here - Sid's keeps hovering, while Ben's stands at once onto the ground, with both feet.
It's a subtle stroke, IMHO, featuring differences in their personalities: Sid the Artistic Dreamer and Down-to-Earth, Here and Now Ben.
Good point! I think Sid is also enjoying being able to float ("Wow, this is fun!").
Just make sure you don't bugger UP!
I think my favorite thing about this panel is seeing the background color change. It just FLOODS with blue and it's such a strong, powerful image after seeing how effectively Lux broke Mal down earlier.
Yes! And you can see it shading from pink to blue in the first panel as Mal's bindings take hold.
Oh my, I didn't even pick up on that. It is a pretty stark change from Luxuria controlling the situation to Mal claiming his home turf!
That is one strong binding! To break it, anyone trying would have to probably have the bloodlines of Sid, Wolfe, Verity, and Ben. If one ore more of them don't marry and have children, then that's that. Though, strictly speaking, this isn't a bloodline binding, is it?
By my reading, "to break the binding, the witch of Widdershins must invite Luxuria to come back".
Composed and thoughtful Ben hit Luxuria with a mindful bind--and it arrived either in the sciatic region or else the seat of Luxuria's pants. Excellent.
I love that all of them are contributing to the bindings, and that each person's binding is produced in a characteristic way - Wolfe's comes from his violin, of course, and Vee is shooting hers from her wrist dart thing. Ben has taken up the proper wizardly spell-casting position, while Sid is still just floating around.
Ah, Luxuria. The first human Witches didn't have the fancy language, either. You should have contemplated that...
Yeah, counting on humans to overthink and overcomplicate things only works until it doesn't.
It does rather reflect Luxuria's complaints about how incomprehensibly inconsistent we seem to its perception, though.
nicely done - and everyone using there prefered method of interaction: Sid is winging it with thoughtless elan, verity is striking as if from her favorite wrist launcher, ben is doing an orderly working of magic, and wolfe is just being himself in his music. :)
Yay, Shazam!
Sid looks like he's spinning cotton candy, which will effectively bind Lust's hair into a sticky gummy mess.
who needs the fancy words and gestures when you have the ability?
If Sid could talk, I imagine he be saying "look! I'm flying! Isn't this amazing?!"
Woohoo! :D Sweeeeeet~!!!
It interests me that the Liar's Heart has been sitting inconspicuously (though visibly) on the floor in these last two pages. I guess someone will have to deal with that part of Lust too...
Does he still have any power in it? I thought he took it all back at the end of find the Lady.
That was my understanding as well. I thought its primary purpose for this chapter was just as a focus to be used o get Lux into this witch space so Mal could deal with Lux. Once Mal is done binding Lux there should not be any reason to do anything with the Liar's Heart other than return it to Henry and Izzy (I think).
Ah yes, I think you are right about that! I forgot. Why do you think it's shown up in the last couple of pages?
All the other Sins disappeared into their focus objects once bound (which is why Lux was floating those objects over his head in preparation for breaking the bindings). My guess is that Luxuria will be bound into the Liar's Heart, which will then need to be put somewhere extremely safe along with the other objects.
I love the fact that Jack has his own 'sin-like' speech bubbles -- with his own (blue) color
That style of speech bubble is used for wizards working a spell too. Mal’s finally able to put magic behind his words, instead of just the gestures we’ve seen him use before.
We were close with our guesses, lbr
The spirits in Widdershins may never like Ben, but I hope that they'll respect him and answer when he calls.
that does actually work with ghosts, yes
HA! I said mal was going to say bugger off as part of his spell. Nice to see Lux is finally getting owned in a big way. Whipped that smug over confident overly important smile right off his face.
This is such a perfect ending. Art and story and everything, just wonderful!
The next day, Wizards in Widdershins are surprised to find that all their fancy Latin unsummonings fail to have any effect. Confusion reigns until a very frustrated apprentice accidentally discovers that the new magic words are "Bugger Off."
Well, this is just a highly satisfactory page, that's all. I am especially enjoying the invisible thought bubbles in Panel Two:
Wolfe: Ready for my cue, Maestro.
Sid: I'm free! I'm...floating? I'm surrounded by, wow, a lot of energy! Or...power!
Ben: Work to do....
Vee: Ready...aim....
Truly a magical phrase
And for some reason, "bright side of life" from "life of Brian" just came to mind.
That was the easy bit. Now let’s see Mr O’Malley stick everyone’s soul back into their body.
Maybe, everything he has to do is going with the spirits out of Witch Space into the Anchor, and the spirits themselves will return to their "homes".