October 22nd, 2025
23 Oct 2025 · page 1265 of 1306
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Blake Thackerey, Bryony Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Jack O'Malley, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Huzzah!
Ha! Go, Will and Eliza!
Mal in the last panel, cuddling the Purple Hippo and looking so relieved, is doing things to my heart.
Phew! Roller coaster!
And then they try and tell you police brutality is a Bad Thing.
So long as it’s equally doled out to people of privilege. Usually, it’s just the common folk getting bopped while those of means avoid their fair share.
Didn't she quit the Force after her adventure with Old Henry?
Don’t know if she’s had the chance to officially resign yet, especially as her boss has swanned off during a major crisis (again). If she hasn’t, then punching an agent of the Crown without due warning will probably count as an unofficial resignation.
“That’’s it Swift, you’re off the force!”
“I was going to quit anyway.”
“Well, I’m going to pretend you’re real broken up about it so the Thackereys wont pursue further vengeance.”
Obvious fan service is extremely welcome 🤭
Indeed. This was deeply satisfying, almost as much as when Puig flipped the script on Gascon in Senorita Cometa.
the PANIC when he almost lost the Hippo!!
11/10, no notes. This comic hit all the right notes, the punchline is a good callback, and it finished another story hook. Box it up and ship it.
There was another type of hook involved, too.
Boxing too!
Oh look, another plot thread being swiftly and cleanly wrapped up! What a delight it is to know that everything is going smoothly and that nothing bad such as, say, a mad witch is there to cause any complications to this chapter having a happy ending.
FINALLY! The satisfaction is unparalleled XD
Ben: On the one hand, I didn’t get to hit either one of them. On the other hand, I got to WATCH them getting hit. All in all, I’m going to score this one as a win.
“Plus I get to watch my girlfriend looking extremely impressive while doing it.”
So, from my very strained memory, ‘Witch of Widdershins’ is itself a Crown position, which will not put these two in a good position with regards to the authority they’re trying to weild.
Minor quibble: the word at the end of your comment should be spelled w-i-e-l-d.
Mweheheh! Ahhh, that was so, so good. :D Now if only it turns out they mucked with the queen’s regalia (ie, the crown) so they’ll get fired and chucked in the Tower for a decade or so.
I’m still going with my theory that the crown itself is not (and never has been) magical. We still do have a water witch to deal with and a isolated romantic subplot to wrap up. Oh, and there has to be the Coronation itself, of course.
That’s rather my bet, here too.
YES !!!!
A} When I didn’t a page on Wednesday, I was afraid that Something Bad Had Happened
I now see that my fears were ungrounded.
B} It would have been nice to get this as a 77th birthday gift, but i'll take it as a 102nd one for my dad
He would have LOVED “Widdershins”
sorry for the delay! it’s a rather packed-out page and i’m on the tail end of a cold, so it made sense to give myself the extra time to work on it. gotta get a punching panel juuuust right, after all!
happy birthday to yourself, and hope you have a lot of nice memories with your dad to revisit today <3
Good thing Eliza was there, else who could have socked Bryony? Victorian Gentlemen simply don’t use violence against a Lady.
Not to say that Will is a gentleman…
Aside from the fact that this comic is rather more egalitarian than the actual Victorian era, she is no more a lady than her brother is a gentleman.
See also: https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-15th-2015
Ahh, but the comic is not so egalitarian as to avoid the designated girl fight trope.
Well, that’s complicated though. The real world is still such that a man punching a woman in the face is at least going to lose some of its satisfaction because of unavoidable associations. If Bryony was a boxer, it would be a different story. You might be able to reverse the punches, since Will is a not-very-athletic academic type, but it’s always hard to judge.
Ben could have done it, being a not-very-athletic academic type and family but was better used making contact with Mal. The optics are just that much clearer with Eliza, despite the fact that she undoubtedly has the meanest punch on this entire page.
this, in addition: eliza would have been waiting to hit them from minute one
Now that’s a punchline I can get behind.
Cathartic as it is to see B&B on the receiving end of some canon-typical violence, will this resolve the situation? I was hoping to see them publicly humiliated. Now, they’ve been assaulted while carrying out their duties to remove dangerous malforms that might interfere with the coronation, no doubt created by the carelessness of the Widdershins Witch, who was not doing his duty by desummoning them. Will and Eliza had better have a good follow up, or they are going to need all Vincent’s skills to keep them out of gaol.
Oh, I do think that their collosal hubris hasn't finished biting them just yet.
… that circle wouldn’t happen to be usable to desummon or ‘port humans, would it? Or at least cage them ‘til … later.
What a wonderful idea!
“Giving the people what they demand.”
Oh hell yes.
Is this also the point where we learn that the crown is depowered because of something stupid they did?
I believe there’s a tag missing (Eliza)
Shouldn’t this page have a tag for Eliza Swift along with the other six?
I love the composition of the punching panel. Will and Eliza coming in side by side, both wearing green and about the same height, but with contrasting expressions and angles of their respective punches.
Panels 5 and 6 are perfect. No notes.
And the Audience Rejoiced.
heck yeah goodguy surprise attack for the win!!