June 29th, 2021
29 Jun 2021 · page 1066 of 1306
Been to, attempted to blow up, it's much the same really
Cast: Lei Feng, Pemberton Pryce, Thea Pryce, Tim Chiang
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No idea why Lei looks so unhappy about recalling her moment of triumph, when she almost freed humanity from the tyranny of magic.
Ideally a moment of triumph would conclude in victoriousness.
Or at least going-out-in-a-blaze-of-gloryishness.
Emphasis on the "almost".
Also, she "almost" got the Queen killed, along with other people. That would have been collateral damage, accidental deaths, even, in most cases, but that doesn't make it better.
The Queen may even feel offended by that.
It was only Harriet Barber’s blundering attempts to thwart Lei’s Evil Benevolent Plan that put people in danger.
She never posed any threat to the Queen, and the repeated slanders to that effect need to stop!
She almost got the Princess killed.
Probably because she's actually reforming. Or giving it a good honest try, at any rate.
Big hole in the ground?
And nobody thought to look in Arizona? They've got a canyon there, I hear it's pretty grand.
Ah, but are there people around, able to distinguish an Anchor from a hole in the ground?
There are, but they consist solely of stupid people who mistook it for their arse already, and cannot tell their are from a hole in the ground
Also a meteor crater; did that destroy or bury the anchor?
Chicxulub, anyone? That's a really deep hole.
Some brief googling suggests many of the first canal-excavating megaprojects in the Americas were commissioned around the same time this comic takes place. Could one of them have been a cover for an excavation of an entirely different sort?
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so lei was right that blocking it up would work, kinda surprised if it hadn't been tried before
What I want to know is has anyone been to take a look what’s down there?
A very grumpy Ms. Acedia?
One idea that comes to mind. If you look up online about Antipode Maps you've probably noticed this as well how with Earth just how little land masses actually share any overlap with each other. Instead it's usually lots and lots of ocean or a sea that is the exact opposite of a land mass.
Just a thought.
Why is everyone assuming the fourth anchor is exactly opposite another one? If you have four points evenly spaced on a sphere, none of them are opposite each other.
You would need 2, 6, 8, 12, or 20 anchors to get exactly opposite each other. (Other numbers make it hard to define "evenly spaced".)
Well there was Eliza's whole shoot through the globe experiment to indicate the location of a potential fourth anchor.
She did indicate that two of the current anchors are opposite each other.
I did a big calculation on this some time back, and basically, wherever it is the Author will be taking some Literary License with the globe layout for it to work mathematically as either a tetrahedron or pair of opposite points. So we can't really predict it scientifically...
Now i'm wondering how tectonic shift affects this. Land doesn't tend to stay in the same place over the long term...
Back in the 1980s a sculptor pulled off a work that used four corners of a regular tetrahedron spaced evenly across the Earth. It's possible to hit land that way with each corner, but difficult!
I don't have the calculating prowess to determine if the known anchors already shown in the comic adhere to that or not. If the island one is in the South Pacific, the mountain is in Nepal or India, and the hole one is in England somewhere, conceivably the fourth could be the other side of the globe, aka the Americas?
[https://boingboing.net/2016...](https://boingboing.net/2016/03/29/the-amazing-4-corners-project.html "https://boingboing.net/2016/03/29/the-amazing-4-corners-project.html")
Mountain Anchor is at Chomolungma, so opposite border of Nepal from India (by our standards, anyway).
I am absolutely FASCINATED by this! I'll make sure to watch it when I can, but that is beyond neat!
Well, the antipode for the mountain anchor is a little patch of ocean off the coast of Chile, which is also (roughly speaking) in the Americas. You might be on to something there.
Lei's cringe at her memory shows that she's already changing to be a better person.
I wonder if the Fourth Anchor Society has thought of that theory! If it's a potential anchor, that would explain why its door in the Witch Space is just an outline.
I still cling to the idea that the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs destroyed that anchor, the location is "close enough". A possibility is that it was deliberate...
That raises the question: Who would have the power to deliberately throw a meteor at the planet?
Lei's cosmic twin?
...more seriously, the Fourth Witch who made the music box is already able to do all sorts of surprising things
Also, we've seen the other two active anchors, and while one is buried under a mountain, the island anchor is just a door in a tree.
Pretty sure it's on top of that mountain … but I guess Pryce compared the "potential" anchor to Widdershin's specifically …
Yep, definitely high on the mountain at least :)
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Get down he has got a box!
Oh, great! Another magitek device.
Lei, your unique skills are going to be needed here!
I feel like someone was talking about the altitudes of the anchors earlier in the series, maybe Eliza?
Yep, she briefly mentioned the heights on [this page](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-30th-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-30th-2018")! Looks like she gave up on that theory, though...
Good point; Widdershins is deep, Aotearoa is sea level, and Nepal is very high. So maybe the US anchor would be very deep, or maybe moderately high...
Or particularly sideways.
So he wanted Mal to open up the Fourth Anchor.
Man, I am glad I found this recently, this once a week thing is brutal!
[holds down button] "Phyllis, please fetch my Fourth Anchor testing supplies."
...boat+dubious "testing" of theories - this is how you summon Cthulu, isn't it? Only instead of an elder god it's some kind of ego buggerup. XD
Pride: the return
Tim's tone of voice in that first panel, though.
That sideways look in panel one just tickles me.
His plan is to order drive-thru from the Anchor?
So is his method of testing going to be more, or less violent than shooting a globe?
So I know Pemberton is a gauche yank and you can tell by his lopsided smirk and bad man whiskers (and hired thugs) that he's a bit shady but I low-key really want him to just end up being a super enthusiastic anchor nerd who isn't actually a bad guy. And a good dad, I really want him to be a good dad because Thea is a precious bean.
Is Thea looking particularly worried here, or does she just have resting-worried face? Whatever happens, I hope somewhere along the line she can relax and feel happy for a bit!
I'm actually thinking of the Great Blue Hole of Belize, which is a giant underwater sinkhole, when they keep talking about some seaborne anchor.