November 1st, 2019
1 Nov 2019 · page 940 of 1306
Objection!
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren
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Ah ha, and so the detect-ee becomes the detect-ive!
I retract my previous statement, THIS is my favourite page (ngl I feel like I might be making this comment often the way this chapter is going 😁 )
I love these two and I'm shipping it so hard I can't even handle it X_X
[https://youtu.be/cSrrv29CAuc](https://youtu.be/cSrrv29CAuc "https://youtu.be/cSrrv29CAuc") when this book has bigger Ace Attorney vibes than the lawyer one
Thackery vs Swift... fight! fight! fight!
They’re both stealth drama queens. That’s what’s happening here.
There is nothing stealth about Eliza's drama
They're both reacting like they got hit.
Advantage: Ben! ^_^
Heh, I was wondering whether he'd spot that, and he did so with admirable speed.
Wait, if this turns into Ben hiring Eliza to do some private detective work for him (finding O' Malley), then I insist she gets a fedora while on the job :3
A bit too soon; in our timeline at least. The fedora, homburg and trilby, closely related designs, were all invented about 60 years later than this. Appropriately enough, the fedora and trilby were both named for plays in which they were worn by female leads.
Ah phooey... T_T
...Welp, guess we have no other choice then (grabs for the Time Magic)
Hmmm... a straw boater wouldn't really have the same effect, would it? A military slouch hat might work, or even a low rise top hat if you throw it on the ground and jump up and down on it a few times first.
a deerstalker?
Team. Up.
Team up.
Team up!
Team up team up team up TEAM UP!
Yeah, but they have to fight first. It's traditional.
Well, Ben's overpowered her, even if this is temporarly.
Attaboy! I'm glad :)
Oh!
And such delight in his face! I never saw him that way!
Same! He looks so excited and Ben never looks that happy!
Does Captain Barber know you're investigating her sister? : P
I mean, it's Captain Barber, so probably.
Oh, just kiss already. XD
Hah !
Definitely like the mirrored panel composition as the power dynamic shifts between them.
Almost has an Ace Attorney feel to it
"You look like you don't really belong here."
"I know you are, but what am I?"
Gren: "Why are these humans talking? Don't they have any respect for naptime?"
"Though I can be mollified with treats."
Next thing you know, Thackerey & Co. bounty hunters will be opening up, all just to prove Detective Swift wrong.
Ben: hi Vee i need to be a hunter with you now for personal reasons
Vee: sure but why lol
Ben: got someone to prove wrong >:(
Vee: oh absolutely, i love doing that!!
Ahhh. So it wasn't that she assumed people couldn't change jobs. It was that she assumed HE couldn't do THAT job. That makes more sense!
Just two know-it-alls, trying to decide who gets to be smug and superior today.
Well, any true know it all would know that the more one knows the the more they realize they don't know. Therefore the one who feels less smug and superior must be the know it all champ.
I don't think either of them have reached that Final Form yet :P
Eliza: “oh crap, he knows my boss!”
Well, Widdershins newest detective has a obligation to investigate, like why the captain seems so unconcerned about her sister being both apparently missing AND the witch!
I love that so many people in the comments had this debate the page before it happened in comic.
If Captain Barber finds out about the use of her badge for private investigations, Detective Swift is going to have an even shorter career in law enforcement than Ms Harry.
Most underrated part of page....Gren's displeased confusion in panel one.
Just get married already....
I could take a thousand more comics of these two talking
Agreed. I predict they'll wind up either killing or marrying each other.
@Mez Personally, I prefer this take: [https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPd-uLsTV4 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHPd-uLsTV4")
Absolute banger
These two are just alike! It's about time they met.
I saw this page, and my brain immediately added "Objection!" Then I scrolled down. This pleases me.
This interaction, this is what I put on the earth to read
Just noticed that Eliza is wearing the same outfit from the end of Hangman’s Knot. Which means that the first thing Eliza did on her first day of being a detective is investigating her Captain’s sister which strikes me as a very Eliza thing to do.
I was just hoping Harry could help me find more globes...
Eliza would be very upset if she knew how Gren has been upstaging her throughout this sequence.
She was upstaged by Parsley a number of times in the last chapter, so maybe she's used to it.
Ben, my man, all you had to say is "No, I'm not. I'm recently unemployed, due to the sins crisis, and I know Captain Barber. She talked to Harry, and got me work as an administrative assistant." Alternatively, "I stopped in to see a friend, they needed to step out and asked me to mind the shop. I'm ordering things because, well, this place is a disaster."
Granted, that wouldn't be as entertaining to read, and Benji's lack of confidence means he would be an awful liar...but damn man.