May 31st, 2016
1 Jun 2016 · page 605 of 1306
Catching up with old friends.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Jack O'Malley
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Typical that he'd be the sort to hold a grudge.
I'm surprised honestly. I mean, the two who foiled him back in the day were right there at his mercy before, but no he goes after the most recent person to earn his ...well, Wrath.
Rage and grudges can be weird with how you can fixate on someone, maybe just someone who had a look you didn't like even if they were only in the room instead of being the one to start whatever got you so angry. Also I kinda figure the last time Wrath was summoned, he nearly became a malformed. Maybe for a deadly that's the equivalent of a grave insult that words just can't quite convey, and all he sees in his eyes are the ones that were involved with that latest mess (Jack, Ben, Wolfe, Florence and criminiy help Voss wherever he ran off to) that's still burning the hottest in his mind and those will suffer first.
Just my speculation of course.
henry and isabelle desummoned not only him but his siblings, using a complex and intricate spell incantation, that could have been stopped if lust paid more attention.
Jack and ben meanwhile unsummoned him by using the essence of serenity and calm that wolfe exudes. They basically hit him with his polar opposite. I think hes much more pissed about that than the first time. It would be like the deadly sin equivalent of having the other team tea bag you on the playing field after they won.
They also did it last week, as opposed to decades ago!
Sure, who can keep score?
Yeah, thanks for reminding us. It's hard to keep track of time in webcomics...
He? I kind of assumed Wrath was a she.
"Man, I'm tired of having to deal with bugger-ups all the time."
[perfectly-summoned Wrath shows up]
"Man, what I wouldn't give for a good bugger-up right now."
Yeah, I think both of them would much rather argue and learn magic than deal with this :)
I can see what you mean Kate, very clever, I hope my friend's happy now.
Well, shit.
As I recall, Mr Thackerey and O'Malley desummoned Wrath to stop him becoming a malform. Think how embarrassing it would have been for a Deadly Sin to be a malform . No doubt Wrath has just popped in to say 'Thanks'.
'Course, cause Wrath is such a thankful fellow, ain't he? So very collected, and cool and such.
YOU
you are that fine chapped who kept me from getting all messed up, thanks so very much
Well I have stuff to do, hope you lads have a fine day
toodles!
Hmmm.
All things considered, i believe that i must concur with the Gentleman from County Whatever.
[https://youtu.be/PcZLBpQwspU](https://youtu.be/PcZLBpQwspU "https://youtu.be/PcZLBpQwspU")
Hello madness my old friend, you've come to fight with us again.
It's always the sweet innocent doors that suffer most.
"We JUST had that door remade, gosh dangit"
I just noticed that Mal managed to summon tiny tornadoes above his head in panel 4
...
That seemed a lot funnier when I first noticed it...
Wolfe? Woooolfe? need some calm down here stat!
Everyone's using their curse-word-of-choice and I'm distracted by the shiny thing.
Look how much Ben cares for Mal! He noticed his pain, worried, even over his own! Not a hint of "buck up, wizardling. You've had worse."
So simple revenge or complex revenge?
I've been trying to think of some memorable last words for Mr Thackerey before his entrails ruin the carpet:
"Good morning! Do you have an appointment?"
or
"I'm sorry, have we met? Your face is familiar, but I'm afraid I don't recall your name."
You don't think he's still angry about the whole "ruined summon" thing, do you? I mean, forgive and forget and all that, right? We're above such earthly things, right?
Right?
Ben, I think now is the appropriate time for a swear
Enter the dragon, stage right
Wait...Ben's looking UP at Wrath, not at the busted door. Can he see Wrath? Kind of like how Harry was able to see and interact with Pride?
Yes, everyone can see regular spirits, only malforms are invisible.
Tricky question (you don't have to answer it if you don't want to!): why are the malforms invisible (I mean, besides making it fun to see Ben chase them)?
They're the halfway point between the spirits that Mal can see over people, and the fully summoned spirits like Wrath, here, and they're more on the invisible side than the visible one.
Well. That escalated quickly.
Very much so
So everybody saw him running around the city?
I imagine they're used to it
Wrath blazes through the farmers market lighting stalls on fire
Random Lady: Was that a deadly?
Grocer: Yep. turns magazine cover, Professor Simmons is behind on his grading I see.
:D You just might be right
this is just my brain being stupid but...
Wrath: (breathes in deep then in a calm and intellectual voice) I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to you both for your parts in preventing me from turning into a malform. That entire envy affair was most embarassing and having a malform of myself running around would have been utter humiliation. For your part in stopping that I thank you.... However you did stop my summoning so without further ado (fire everywhere) WRATH SMASH PUNY WITCH OF WIDDERSHINS!
Gotta say, Mal's reaction is a lot more collected than mine would be.
Also I got to the last panel and all I can think of is this image: [http://m.imgur.com/gallery/...](http://m.imgur.com/gallery/oHVL5CH "http://m.imgur.com/gallery/oHVL5CH")
Bugger, indeed.
Mal in panels 3-5 are soooo representative of when migraines hit. So that's going to be my new explanation to people when one hits, "Nope, can't do anything, someone's gone and summoned a Deadly nearby and it hurts. proceeds to pass out"
It's true. My mother had migraines when I was growing up and those days were always days on which we were pretty much on our own. School? Nope. Errands? Nope. Dinner? You know how to work the toaster.
If I may make a suggestion about the website, I think it would be nice to have a "back to the beginning of this story/chapter" arrow, between the "back to first" and "previous" ones, and its opposite "to the next chapter", between "next" and "last".
I'd love to, but short of manually adding it to each newspost, I have no idea how to do that.
Hrm, someone made up this website, I suppose, or did you magic it up? You could ask Isabelle Holt, I heard she's a renowned mage...
haha :) I did this iteration myself, but it's all templates, I'm no expert by any means. I'll look into it!
If you go to Archive you can jump to any page. OK, two clicks rather than one, but a good way to navigate the chapters.
Yes, of course, but neither do the pages magically appear in the archive page. So currently, either way, to reach the beginning of this story, it's more like 15-20 clicks and waiting for each page to load. No problem though, I'd rather Kate spent time on the comics than on coding!
Ah yes, I see what you mean.
Okay, I have wrangled something into place- there's a 'skip to beginning of this chapter' part in the sidebar now. Working on getting it actually underneath the comic..
Nice, it works!
And now I got it underneath the comic! Hah, take that, CSS.
Ah! I just used it, you're a magician. And I love more and more this story cover. It's nice to be able to go back to it easily. And reread the beginning of the story. So, thanks.
By the way, each time I look at Harry in last panel, I see you drawing her. Nice memory.