June 12th, 2018
12 Jun 2018 · page 802 of 1306
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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I have the biggest stupid grin on my face after reading this
same and my teachers are probably wondering what I think is funny haha!
Random thought: just exactly how did Mal wind up isolated and alone as a kid? Because something tells me he either got kidnapped or orphaned specifically to teach him to hate his power, not trust it and to not trust or be able to let others to help him use it.
After all "find the next witch; squelch them" must have been a major part of Luxuria's plan from the start.
I don't think so. Lux states in the May 8 and 11th strips that it needed to be in the Anchor to spread It's influence, and that for the plan to work a Witch had to be there to open the door and someone from the Barber bloodline there due to who did the last binding.
Nothing says you can't squelch the witch and still have them do their thing. A partially-capable witch (who, say, hates the very notion of voluntarily using anything they do) seems to be just the ticket if you want all the benefits of having one with none of the pesky getting bound by new rules as the downside.
And, Mal got picked up and drilled by people quite willing to teach him that anything he could do with his ability would be too hard to control, pointless and, ultimately, that doing anything at all would always be the wrong move because being a witch is Ebil. :/
Look at this: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-8th-2017/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-8th-2017/") The guy from the children's home says, "He's not got any family t'go to, but he's upsettin' the other children at the home. Some of them think the place is haunted now. They're havin' trouble sleeping. I can't bring myself to just throw him out... can't take him all the way to Widdershins... and someone said you were askin' around the wizards about people who could... see things... so... can you help him?"
And on the next page: "Jack. He's called Jack. We lost the surname a while ago, but-- Ah--"
This is clearly the first contact Acedia had with Mal. She had been searching for a new witch. It was her luck that she found one. Wherever he'd been born, no matter what circumstances, even if he'd been the privileged child of a dukedom, I'm sure she'd still have tried to find some way to get hold of him, but he really did just fall into her lap because she was asking the wizards.
Now, did Luxuria arrange, behind the scenes, for Mal to be orphaned? Well, maybe, but if he had the power to do that, at that point in the timeline, when all the Sins but Lux had been bound by Izzy, it seems to me he'd also have done more to get young Jack into Acedia's control. In fact, Izzy even says: "With six out of seven sins bound, Luxuria should have been unable to affect anything on its own." [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-9th-2016/ "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-9th-2016/")
On its own, sure, Luxuria should have had little influence -- but, nothing says it was totally alone. And, nothing says it only had poor, deluded Acedia on hand, either. I can't think either would be too thrilled about baby duty, even if so; but, separating a baby/toddler from people who would care about it, fudging the paperwork and dumping it on an orphanage until it got old enough to not leak from all orifices as well as be able to sit still and shut up... :|
That I can see. You can pay/ bamboozle people to do a fair bit of that. <_<
I do believe that last panel has become my favorite for the entire comic...and that is saying a lot.
Interesting... so Mal and Lux are going to stay in Mal's headspace and grumble at eachother while Harry goes on holiday in polynesia? :D
I suppose Lux can't leave? Because all three doors will be closed once the music ends? But it's "in between two worlds"... which makes it sound like Lux might have a way out. Cause if he can't, Mal should just take the gang's spirits and get out through the Widdershins door, and leave Lux trapped...
I think this place is between the physical world, and the spirit world. Luxuria is pretty damn determined not to go back to the spirit world, as I assume that's what banishing /does/. :-}
The magic was inside you all along!
Oh, I am loving this. This is the part where I stand up and cheer! Go, go, go! You can do it, Mal!
(Can someone who understands guns tell me exactly what Harry is doing with hers in panels 3 to 5? I get that she is doing something very competent and sensible, which is I suppose all I really need to understand at this point as all will be revealed in due course, but it would be nice to know now!)
She's checking how many bullets she's got left. The rifle isn't single load, it's got a revolver like chambering system (how it holds bullets).
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The spirits have no "frozen in time" texture, have they?
I zoomed in on the last panel to check, and the bottoms of the cages do have the texture. I’m not sure about the spirits themselves.
Have we ever seen Harry talk so much on one page? Wow...
Everyone who is a BNHA fan is cuing up "Just Say Run" right now in the back of their heads. I'll bet you anything.
oh GOSH THIS IS WONDERFUL
Mal, don’t you remember? You were already starting to make a binding for Luxuria before it threw you off track by threatening your friends. You can do that again and make it work!
Incidentally, I’m curious to see what “your words, not hers” will look like. Mal definitely won’t be doing the binding in spirit-Latin, we know that much...
"Get out of 'ere, and don't come back!"
Laughed out loud at this, and I am neither speaking figuratively nor exaggerating.
Granted, it was brief, but it was out loud and genuine.
bugger off ! POOF!.... sigh.. I need a bloody drink.. and where the hell did I put me cigs??!
I can't tell now if you posted this before this page (https://www.widdershinscomi... "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-3rd-2018/)") but if so, excellent!
"Shoulda let me go to France."
Yay Harry! Brave and analytically sharp and fiercely loyal. I love this woman.
You can do it, Mal!
"Meanwhile, I'm stepping outside for a smoke."
Um, Harry? There are only two entities in that room who can be affected by those bullets. You can't use them against Mal.
Please find a different way. You'll break Sid's heart...
Maybe she wants to free the spirits by shooting at the cage-chains.
Good grief, that possibility hadn’t even crossed my mind! I assumed she was planning to go through one of the doors and was making sure her rifle was in order in case it was dangerous on the other side.
it's this one! i wouldn't dream of putting a heavy topic like that in such a light-hearted comic.
I don't really see any of Barbers contemplating the way out like this except maybe situations where it is obviously only one.
Why would she even consider shooting Mal? That wouldn't make any sense, since she is in the middle of asking him to do the binding. And she already figured out that she can't shoot Lux (well, it wouldn't do anything).
She is obviously getting ready to go through the unknown door and hopefully bring back reinforcements, but just in case ...
Yes, except that would be, hopefully, send back reinforcements. She's not going to return to Central Witch Space as long as Lux could still use her presence there against Mal.
Killing herself probably wouldn't even work. She needs her body to be out of reach of Luxuria - I don't think Luxuria cares whether she's in it.
Why would she even contemplate that? That's completely and utterly out of her character, and she's no where near a situation where she has to self-sacrifice herself.
DOWNVOTE
(Not really, though.)
((But sheesh, dude.))
Because [no one is alone!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZiorShWnM0 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZiorShWnM0")
Oh my... that's going to be a very long walk home, Harry. O.O
She would walk 500 miles
And she would walk 500 more,
Just to be the gal who gets to tell
Lux what to shove on up his door!
I'd hire Harry to give me brusque pep talks any time.
... they can take our lives, but they can never take our Independence Day!
it's a good plan harry by leaving stops lux from being able to break any of the bindings. so he/she can't absorb the other sins. mal taking away it's body stops it from unraveling his friends. then bind it and it's powerless. it is pretty much the only option they have.