October 11th, 2016
11 Oct 2016 · page 641 of 1306
Let's get loud.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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The white boxes with green circles are magical loudspeakers?
"A riot is an ugly thing...und I think that it is just about time that we had one!" - Inspector Kemp
Gee people, get ladders already !
Fortunately, the larger the mob of people the less intelligent the mob acts. Counter-intuitive, really.
Sometimes I feel like this guy stays pretty busy in this century, too.
He has a house in America, currently. x.x
(Save. Us. Please.)
I think he's got a manor, a summer house, a beach house, and a couple of condos.
I love how you can convey identity and reaction in a miniature silhouette. Your art has been steadily improving.
Pride is at the university XD
Of course it is. Of course. WHere else will you find such a large collection of people who know they're better than everyone else?
Political congresses, some large churches, and a goodly number of scientific conventions.
Well in this setting. I'd go where all the wizards are personally.
Goodness, yes! This is Widdershins, where wizards are extra-special!
oh man, that was perfect.
In response to your comment, I felt smug, which is the first step on the path to believing that you are better than someone. OBJECT LESSON, guys.
You forgot newsrooms, or whatever the 18th-century equivalent is.
Who is that guy yelling "Worr"?
RHUBARB! RHUBARB!
My first thought was 'Lucky Captain Barber wasn't on duty, otherwise she would have opened the gates and handed out nooses to the mob'. But of course that's nonsense. No way would she allow the prisoners to be lynched out of hand. She wants them to be tried, sentenced and hanged by due process of law.
Well don't just stand there Thackerey! Weaken it!
Two thoughts came to mind when I read this comment.
1. The caption to this ( [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-21st-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/may-21st-2012/") ) comic and that while Mal's not there I'm sure Verity could fill in.
2. The image of them deciding to do with Wolfe's calmness like they did with Nora's courage and Ben just going "right, okay, Wolfe I need your.." and trailing off to first try to gesture above Wolfe's head to indicate his aura before gesturing above his own head. And then, when that just gets him blank stares and worried looks, just giving up and going "Stand here and be yourself, I'll do the rest."
I foresee Sid's almost-unwavering cheerfulness helping out at some point, too.
Thackery, just show yourself and remind Wrath that it has failed to kill you twice. Then ask him if it would like to strike out a third time. The blow to its pride would... Oops, wrong sin.
Well, at least Wrath can't be made any angrier by its failed attempt to kill you, right?
Problem with that is there are entirely too many weapons--aka people--around who would easily do the deed for him.
There really is an xkcd for everything!
nod
Everything the internet is likely to talk about, anyway.
I defy you to produce an xkcd relevant to historical costuming or....
......
I kept thinking of things and then eliminating them because there was an xkcd relevant to them.
Did you say historical costuming?
[https://xkcd.com/623/](https://xkcd.com/623/ "https://xkcd.com/623/")
(of course it's hard to tell, what with all being stick figures, but still...)
'Ats a stretch, that is.
I am thinking of a specific XKCD, but I haven't been able to find it yet. I'll come back and post it if/when I do.
I did think of that... but I was trying to be non-partisan. I'd already accused churches and lets be honest, anywhere people are gathered, they are likely to consider themselves better than the people not gathered.
Enthusiasm? Attention-seeking? (Is that an emotion?) Neediness?
I dunno. She's been pretty bad so far at successfully intimidating even one main character.
Oh Wolfe, bless you for trying so hard to do the smart thing.
Ya know...when you frame it that way...rather than trying to decide if Wrath or Pride is the lesser evil, the Purple Hippo of Happiness is looking pretty good as a write in candidate.
Dunno why the comment above yours got deleted, fyi, it was not me!
Oh my gosh. Wrath looks... he just looks so darn HAPPY. Like a kid in a candy store. How do you say no to that face?
Ah, worr, the battle cry of the people.
Topical!
I don't think she even really intimidated Wolfe.
....Maybe Ben.
She managed to scare Wolfe a bit at the end of Green-Eyed Monster, which aside from her interrogation of Mal, and her conversations with Voss, was the only time we've really seen her making an effort to be intimidating beyond her usual cheery demeanor. It's just that Mal can read her like an open book and knows when she's just all bark and when she'll bite, and Voss knew she couldn't touch him.
Nicola can be scary when people are not expecting her to be scary and when the playing field is more level.
'cheery' is code-talk, right? ;-)
I have no idea what you are talking about. I was of course remarking upon Miss Nicola Barber's natural sunny, forgiving, and friendly disposition towards all. Especially Mal. ;)
Ah hah! Fair, I'd rather not get into such things here either!
Subtlety.
Irritation, annoyance and insomnia.
God, it's like that S3 episode of Luther.
THAT one.
(No, an angry Nicola would not be helpful at this juncture.)
Oofh I know the feeling. I've caught myself once or twice in comment sections of webcomics I like typing out sphiehls and comments on things, then slowly pressing ctrl+a then Delete because "Do I really want to bring real life experiences and my job into this and cause the comment section to go beyond thermonuclear, maybe even accidentally cause cold fusion?" I got accounts on a few forums where I go into detail about stuff like that and these places are where I can go pretend to be a chaotic Erisian and evil centuries old witch at war with my evil sister over a simple EYE PENCIL I NEVER GOT BACK YET YOU BLIGHTING BLOSSOM!
Ahem, sorry I let the mask come off a bit.
In fairness, a good eye pencil is worth hanging on to.
Shame it's the naff ones that manage to not disappear in taxis or busses... :P
I've nearly started wars over a missing eyeshadow pallet. Ask the people of Lemuria.
Oh that's right, you can't anymore.
Hey, if it accidentally caused cold fusion, I'm all for it. ;)
WORR!