November 20th, 2020
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Cast: Lei Feng, Verity Cunningham
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And away we go! Lei in over her head (a terrible place to be when at sea) and Verity attempting to start over with a new partner. Hijinks (and emotions?) ensue!
Well, isn't this going to be fun!
the gay potential is overwhelming
the lesbiance... exquisite
So where are they heading? I assume anywhere lei hasn't committed crimes she's been put away for.
Lei's face in that last panel. "Good lord, I have chosen so poorly."
I am definitely so here for this.
Two step guide to learning morality from Verity.
Step 1: See what that woman is doing right now? Pay attention.
Step 2: Don't do any of that. Learn from her mistakes.
Now you're on the road to being a better person!
In a way, Verity is the greatest teacher of all. Maybe it's all an elaborate mind game and she really is trying to help.
ooooh i'm gonna love this for sure
Por Lei. All she wants to do is be a good person, and she's currently employed by Verity. The learning process is going to be...difficult, I imagine.
Vérity, NO
I have been looking forward to this arc for four years, less ten days.
Though in fairness I didn't start actually expecting it until about 2½ years ago... man, Curtain Call lasted a while.
Oh no, I am SO charmed. I dunno Lei; becoming the morality chain seems like a fantastic starting point.
Remember, Vee used to be the official sidekick for an obscure bounty hunter named "Harried Barber" (or some such.) Barber is many things, but there is no question that she is an innate morality ball and chain. If The World's Best Bounty Hunter (TM) was not shaped by Ms. Barber, then she will not be shaped by anything.
Verity isn't the worst possible teacher; one of the Deadlies would definitely be worse.
Depends on the Deadly, I think.
oh, WONDERFUL
Can't call it "stealing" unless she's been condemned beyond all reasonable doubt in a court of justice! What happened to presumption of innocence, we don't care about that anymore?
The expressions are just so good!
Here's hoping Lei does figure it out 🤞
Goddamnit Verity!
Are they stowaways ... or just travelling cheap by shipping themselves as cargo?
Shipping oneself as cargo is arguably a method for stowing away
DEFINITELY the wrong teacher. XD
Considering Verity flipped Lei her card so she could look her up after inevitably picking the handcuff lock... I'ma gonna say there wasn't much chance that Verity was ever in the "teach someone to be a good person" business.
Ben: It's not that we don't appreciate the help, but breaking out of prison and robbing a bank is rather...
Vee: Impressive!
:Ben glowers at her:
Vee: Uh. Criminal. ...But impressive.
This reminds me of some of the bylaws of my alma mater's radio station:
* Anything not nailed down is the presumed property of WCPR.
* Anything that can be pried up is no longer "nailed down."
So ownership depends on how big a crowbar one can carry.
A fascinating concept.
I think I will borrow one of these cranes...
[https://youtu.be/gYpMz63WAjM](https://youtu.be/gYpMz63WAjM "https://youtu.be/gYpMz63WAjM")
Is the biggest crane lifting all of the other ones, or are they recursively lifting each other? I didn't quite understand. Either way, the music really made that clip.
Recursive and additive lifting. Crane A is lifted by crane B, both of them are then lifted by crane C, etc.
You can track which crane is currently doing the lifting by the crane's side - it displays the crane's model and the total weight lifted.
And I agree, it's a heck of a customer's day.
I honestly expected at the end, the whole lot, people watching and cranes and all would be lifted by a yet even more gigantic crane.
That's just a bit TOO scary!
"Give me a place to stand, and a crowbar long enough, and I will steal the world."
The bottom one, I take it?
And then there's "What size are the bolts holding this down?"
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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Ms Verity Cunningham, the World's Greatest Bounty Hunter, won't teach you how to be good. She'll teach you how to be THE BEST! Apart from her of course.
Reading this as an American, I am once again struck by the deep Britishness of all this.
“Oho! _B I S C U I T S !_”
Only Ms Cunningham is crackers.
I am HERE for this
RIP Verity. Locked-away cookies are sometimes poisoned because they are to be used in rat traps.
A reference for stealing:
An amateur takes anything that isn't nailed down.
A professional brings a crowbar for the things that are.
An artist takes the nails too.
I hope that is That definitely is hardtack. Verity will get what is coming for her, and Lei's lesson of learning would begin.
It says not to open until port. I don't think they'd be saving the hardtack for port.
Supply ship to an island, my guess. Hardtack is one of the few types of biscuits able to last any long journey. If it was a merchant ship, and the biscuits were a luxury good, there would likely be enchantments on the crate to help preserve them. Kinda like how trains are enchanted with impatientness. Also, there would be security measures.
Verity wouldn't be able to bust it open with a crowbar.
There is little reason to my knowledge of transporting biscuits unless they were to be transported to another ship at port. The reason they mustn't be opened is due to shipping records legal reasons. If you have your own insights, please share them.
Perhaps the label is wishful thinking.
I just feel like Lei is gonna learn a lot if she has expectations for Verity to be any kind of paragon of virtue (or like, even a fairly decent person beyond being awesome) and is constantly trying to correct her behavior. Lei will realize she knew how to be a good person all along!
> or like, even a fairly decent person beyond being awesome
Well, their first encounter did end with Verity's "I didn't sign for this" and Lei's "I hadn't expected my mercenary growing a conscience". And Verity's arresting her, yeah.
It was nice to see Vee didn't hold grudge against Lei for shooting Harry, though.
I suppose I mean like, the way a D&D party tends to be good. They save the world, sure! And usually avoid overtly and or cartoonishly evil activity. Anything beyond that? Ehhhhhhhhh it's... really hit or miss.
I'm not going to predict how Kate is going to handle this, but there's no reason that the good ship Verilei is actually possible. We don't have any evidence that Lei is lesbian.
I'm pretty sure Kate has mentioned in a tumblr post that Lei is bi!
Yes, Kate said here that both Lei and Vee are bi:
[https://katedrawscomics.tum...](https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/187146980107/ok-so-we-know-that-there-are-a-few-lgbt "https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/187146980107/ok-so-we-know-that-there-are-a-few-lgbt")
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful voyage!
Does anybody else have the feeling that those may not, in fact, be biscuits?
Um... in what era were warfarin wafers first used? Just asking...
In y70s of 20th, if I am not mistaken :)
This can only end well~ :D
No morality can withstand the gustatory siren song of biscuits.
I've never seen Vee as being bad. Vain, arrogant, obviously not overly concerned with property rights - but fundamentally decent, in the end. She knows when to turn her public persona off.
Whatever is not nailed down, is mine.
Whatever I can pry loose, is not nailed down.
So she's an adventure game protagonist?
........And now I'm remembering that Verity and Captain Nicola Barber used to date. I wonder how that relationship went.
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-15th-2017 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-15th-2017")
Anything that can be pried loose doesn't count as nailed down, as they say.
This is going to be a disaster and I cannot WAIT.
I can't express how funny and beautiful the last panel is
sorry to have a slow start to the new chapter, but kickstarter prep has pushed me back and i'm gonna skip today's update. many apologies...!
:desire for Friday intensifies:
Take all the time you need!
As long as we know that you weren't hit by a white-van-man, it is okay!
At least wait until you’re on port before stealing them, Vee.
I have entirely forgotten about Lei Feng’s look, thank you for having character tags!