March 5th, 2025
5 Mar 2025 · page 1233 of 1306
Career advice from Grandpa!
Cast: Eliza Swift, Henry Barber
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Henry is a big proponent of “if it sucks, hit da bricks” (and he’s right).
Came here to post precisely that meme!
‘Cops if you’re quick’ except you’re the cop and it’s your job and you still gotta hit da bricks
Oooh, spooky book with lots of bookmarks! I think the spine says “1834” as in before the timeskip? But is it in the Future section, or is Eliza just putting the book back on the wrong shelf?
Also, love Henry’s nonchalance just like “I guess we should be heading back now…”
More likely whoever left the book there (since it’s clearly not suppose to be there in the first place) put it in the “wrong” section (perhaps deliberately so).
What will Captain Barber be if she is not Captain Barber?
Nicola?
Nyree would love to help her find out.
But… Eliza loves her detective job. I feel like there is nuance between “don’t try to become Captain Barber if that won’t make you happy” and “quit your current job right now without any plans for what to do next” that old, retired Henry is ignoring.
Eliza loves solving mysteries, but she’s also been finding recently that her current job involves more busywork than tracking down clues. https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/march-3rd-2023
Thanks for the link! I had forgotten that part. I feel silly now having written “Eliza loves her detective job” when the last panel of the page before your linked one has Eliza shouting, “I hate my stupid job!”
I don’t get it either. She wanted the job, she likes working with Nicola.
But a job is a job, and comes with constraints. I think what Henry is throwing out in his ‘who needs a peerage’ way is that she needs to break from what feels like a fixed path from here to there. If she accepts that quitting is a possibility, then even if she sticks with the job she’ll be recognising that that is a choice, which might give her the confidence and license to demand changes to the system and generally escape the rut on her terms.
That's a good explanation, thanks. I guess I was annoyed by the message “Oh no, the job I've always wanted and that I'm very good at also involves some tasks that I don't particularly care for, I guess I must QUIT”. Or so I perceived it.
Well, she also owns a business.
Eliza is about 52 years ahead of “Well, I have a trade of my own. I suppose I am the only one in the world. I’m a consulting detective, if you can understand what that is…”
Oh, the places you’ll go!
So…what happens if they take books OUT of the library?
Can they take books out of the library? If it were an ordinary library the answer would obviously be yes, but since this is obviously not an ordinary library I am not sure removing the books is actually an option.
Not without a library card, it isn’t!
The second panel is the BEST I have seen in a while. Motivation to wink & thumbs-up leave your job!
Their interactions are fantastic.
I’m about 8 months late, but I need that panel of Henry saying “Quit your job!” as a sticker lmao