June 15th, 2021
15 Jun 2021 · page 1064 of 1306
Flip-kick!
Cast: Patience Rattaker, Verity Cunningham
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Now this is my ideal date.
...which might be why I'm single.
YOULL FIND YOUR SPARRING PARTNER I BELIEVE IN YOU
Hell, I married mine.
Geez, the two of you, that engine isn't rated to handle the output you're producing.
WOO go for it ladies!!
PLEASE kiss I am begging you.
Before even finishing the first round? Just what sort of ladies do you take them for!?
The kind that walk around with their knees showing for all the world to see, apparently. Absolutely scandalous!
Ms Rattaker is as bad as Lady Heterodyne. That’s no way to treat good tools. If she wants to hit people she should get herself a proper spiky mace, or at least a half brick in a sock.
Nah, that's only one of the wrenches from the sack.
Why go for a sissy little crescent wrench? That's a lady's melee weapon. Might as well use an allen wrench. A stilson or a monkey wrench? Now that's a real man's blunt instrument. Nicely shaped handles and heavy heads with lovely sectional density.
If a spanner is good enough for Lady Heterodyne, it's good enough for Patience Rattaker. :-)
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A lady's Melee weapon?! How dare you sir, a lady would never profane her most valuable tool! Get a bo staff, then she can do some damage!
Funny you should mention the Lady Heterodyne. I was just thinking about the various glasses and particularly pince-nez worn by the Lady and her companions, and how they always return to their place by the next panel … and inexplicably so, with no chain to hold onto them nor gesture indicating deliberate action …
That's a really good point. Tarvek never loses his pince-nez, even when dropping onto someone from the ceiling or getting whacked upside the head, whereas Vee's have fallen off and needed to be replaced in more than one previous action scene.
It's SCIENCE!!
Tarvek just sparks up a new pince-nez every other panel
He lost it when Vol smacked him with Gil. [https://www.girlgeniusonlin...](https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110729#.YMyy7UwpCCg "https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110729#.YMyy7UwpCCg")
I think that's the sheer force of awesomeness acting subtly to help them all.
nasal passage magnets. All the rage in Europa.
She's certainly not dressed as a proper princess.
I mean, it worked for Colonel Mustard.
Wait, which edition of Clue has a half brick in a sock?
And then the engine blew due to these two...
Should have turned it on before the fight not to get such HUGE build-up...
Incredibly, still flirting
Well yeah. You don't flirt by fighting?
Flighting? Firting?
Last time there was a battle of wits the two participants ended up halfway head over heels, so yea probably both.
Flyting? Where? Are there vikings in the comic now?
I dunno...if that look of Patience's in the third panel is flirting, I'm finding the first exit.
Which Verity kinda did....
Nah - she can't help it; she's an American - her face is just shaped like that.
A kiss with a fist, a smooch with a spanner, same thing, right?
Already winning yet without a prize to claim
What poor planning
Wooooo! Girl fight!
Who else read the last panel with Alastor's voice ?
Knees! Nicky would not [approve](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-22nd-2020 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-22nd-2020"). And possibly need to go and breathe in a paper bag for a bit.
Urgh, would you two shut up and kiss already.
Just kiss already, you two.
So looking forward to the inevitable kiss.
It's a certainty!
Oh they do have chemistry, maybe even physics.
Centripetal acceleration, kinetic energy, impact force = m * v² / (2 * d)....
angular momentum...
Didn't notice the gloves and goggles being donned previously. The gloves are for a better grip, now I wonder what the goggles are for. Is Verity wondering too?
That's right, she was putting her gloves on in the bottom-left panel, and had her goggles strapped between panels
Preparing for the fight.
That's not good. She was into Verity's spying act from early on and planned on confronting her.
She may have brought a fan to her engine to show off her accomplishments, but it seems she also had in mind to bring a nosy person somewhere where she can quietly get rid of her.
Vee's fought alongside Harry, Patience. There's no way you can match her.
We don't know anything about Patience yet.
I hope Ms. Rattaker is a good loser. We already know Vee isn't.
Magic Skirt!
Panel Four: Kind of puts me in mind of that spiral staircase sequence from Darken...
Also, i like Vee's little smug grin
I have a feeling we will be seeing it again
I love the little detail of Vee's glasses swinging around with each movement before she restores them back onto her nose!
Between this and Nicola, lesbian bars in the Widderverse must be really rough places.
Really FUN places!
Yeah, that's what he said.
May depend on the plumbing.
Yours, that is
Totes impressed with Verity doing a one-handed back handspring in petticoat and heels.
flirting intensifies
So that's, "if you win, all you get is gloating & bragging rights," I guess.
Probably for the best: Vee being a bit of a sore loser, that's probably the only fun you'd be able to get out of her at that point anyway.
Vee likes them crazy.
Or maybe Patience likes them crazy? I can't tell. But there's definitely crazy involved.
Golly, Sturzkampf, all that talk of Lady Heterodyne but no-one has said anything about Zeetha & DuPree? Well okay, I'm saying it! Look:
Patience has solved the "glasses-flying-off-in-the-midst-of-flirt/fighting" problem by upgrading them into goggles.
A phrase of no doubt infinite utility to the modern, jet-setting Anglospherian abroad.
that laugh is unnerving...
What's scary isn't that she can do this. What's scary is that she can do this in what are almost certainly hard soled high heels. They may be boots, but even so . . .
I kinda like her laugh...
KEHEHEHE!!
"She hit me ... and it felt like a kiss..."