July 9th, 2019
9 Jul 2019 · page 911 of 1306
Go, Will, use your buckets of false confidence for good!
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"No no no, I'M the one you're supposed to hang!". Gotta love diving headfirst into death like that.
Oh yeah, y'know I kinda forgot about that
To be fair, simply appearing not where you should be (especially when there's someone else who's supposed to be you) is enough to raise important questions, the answers to which include "also I didn't do it", and the exposure of the big bad. But it's still possible there'll be a dramatic "let's hang you, instead!" moment.
Instead? With the crowd that riled up, some would say, "As well!"
Yeah, except he's supposed to go feet first, otherwise it won't work
Head-first is bungee jumping.
Ah ha, Will is definitely growing on me.
"hey, it's me you're supposed to hang there"
"Wait a minute, that's not me, I'm me!"
Sharpe thinking, that man :3
Help is on the way, just hang on Knotty (ooh, bad choice of words XP)
Oh, so the failsafe word can be used by non-wizards, too...
We don't know that for sure, but I'd bet money that there's at least one Wizard among her contingent who can speak in Wizard font if need be. (Basic stuff like Quiescete and Lecta Phasmia seem, as I read it, not to require much in the way of Wizardly je-ne-sais-quoi.)
If it helps, I still remember a little of my Edwardian Script from college. That's in the same font family.
I think this is demonstrating that it can't, otherwise he'd be telling Eliza to just say the failsafe word to Rana herself.
'stop if you hear...' or something like that, so as long as a spirit can comprehend ordinary speech (and I think they can)
No, I'M Spartacus! XD
I’M Spartacus!
Its ya boy, Spartacus!
[I'm Spartacus!](https://youtu.be/5_pKKO35Kh4 "https://youtu.be/5_pKKO35Kh4")
I'm Brian, and so's my wife!
Oh God, I just realized... Captain Barber will be trying to catch him now. RIP Will.
On the other hand, once Rana's been un-Sharpened, I'm sure she she'll want to share what she overheard in that Cellar at Widdershins University and Captain Barber will have a chance to exercise her new specialty of arresting corrupt politicians.
Through this whole chapter Sharpe has displayed an overly inflated view of his own competence, but this time I believe he is correct. I have complete faith in his ability to draw attention and create a disruption which is exactly what is needed here.
"THIS IS THE MOMENT I WAS BORN FOR!" -Some part of Sharpe's psyche right now
"MY TIME HAS COME"
Somethings missing...ah yes!
"THIS IS THE MOMENT I WAS BORN TO DIE FOR!"
"Displayed" being the key word, for sure.
I don't think we've ever seen Eliza looking as distraught as she does in panel 5. :(
Sharpe barges up to the front and shouts "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"
He'd need to wait until he's supposed to be dead for that one.
"The rumors of my death SENTENCE have been greatly exaggerated!"
"Captain...? We're sorry. We thought you were dead."
"I was. I'm better now."
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9oOGvdXRU "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib9oOGvdXRU")
Public Hangings... the 1834 equivalent of daytime TV.
Man these people are BLOOD thirsty. they probably dont even care WHY he's being hanged. They just wanna see him dance for the fun of it.
Welcome to the culture of public hangings and other forms of public execution, honed throughout centuries (if not millennia)... D:
In their defense, TV won't be invented for another... uh... I don't actually know what year this comic is set in.
1834, I think.
According to this comic [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-19th-2016 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-19th-2016") Green-Eyed Monster was in March of 1834.
I am not sure if we have a definite time for the delay between Envy going free and the dinner at which Henry and Isabella told the story of their adventure with Luxuria, but I would guess less than a week.
Curtain Call was the day after that dinner.
This comic [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-25th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-25th-2018") appears to take place about a month after Curtain Call. So we are probably somewhere between mid-April and mid-June of 1834.
"'Tis a far, far better thing..."