October 29th, 2019
29 Oct 2019 · page 939 of 1306
She!
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren
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Ooh, Ben in the fourth panel gets the dramatic hair swoosh!
I love how riled he gets as soon as someone suggests he's not official enough.
This might actually be my favourite page of the lot I'm slightly losing it now ...
Ben's expressions! Gren's expression! Eliza!
I think Gren would like Mommy to come home and all these other humans to go away. Now. :P
Also seems a bit proud of her shedding or at least being able to make the bad smelling man unhappy :D
OH MY GOD I DID NOT REALIZE HOW MUCH I WANTED THESE TWO TO INTERACT BUT BY GOD AM I EXCITED FOR THIS.
hello may i interest you in a crack ship? XD
One ticket, please.
They are in the same room and speaking I SHIP IT NOW
pff we're not basing ships on petty things like 'interacting in canon' and 'making sense' we base them on silly jokes! [https://katedrawscomics.tum...](https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/131396589937/fevley-said-ooh-ooh-hes-that-sexuality-thats#notes "https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/131396589937/fevley-said-ooh-ooh-hes-that-sexuality-thats#notes") [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-5th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/october-5th-2018") pretty sure Eliza is good at alphabetisation, see!
Izzy/Henry/Large Bodies of Water remains my OT3.
YES... now let's find out how much Ben inadvertently gives away when she inevitably questions him...
What on earth does he have to hide?
The identity of the Widdershins witch, and the fact that he’s missing
Let the good times roll. 😁
Wait a minute... "That apothecary with the *swift*ness malform"... ([https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-16th-2014 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/june-16th-2014") )
Okay, Eliza. Okay.
Just realized the Malform busters went back to Swift's Apothecary here:
[https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-21st-2014 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-21st-2014")
Oh yeah. Apparently whoever Eliza was hiring to summon things wasn't very good.
Nice catch!
It's just that I've re-read chapter 5 more times than you would believe...
Wow, the art style's evolved a lot more than I thought. It was so much less expressive back then.
Hang about. If she's former, why can't he be? She's awfully presumptuous and awfully smug.
Well, we knew that.
Eliza does tend to assume, though not without good reason. Ben didn't exactly greet her professionally or look like he was doing anything related to the business - he was the only one in there and he was cleaning up.
That's pretty related to the business. Why would somebody who doesn't work there be cleaning up.
I don't mean that Harry or Sid never clean up when they're working, it's just that I'd expect them (Harry, Sid, or any hypothetical staff in any business) to either clean up while the place is closed, or clean up and have someone else greet and deal with clients.
Rereading your comment, I see what you mean. Maybe Eliza assumed that Ben had just gotten rid of a malform and was doing damage control?
Oh, yes that does make sense.
He could just be the cleaning guy. Albeit dressed perplexingly well.
He must be with one of those roving gangs of criminal neat freaks skulking around the city, breaking into peoples' shops and cleaning them. They're a menace, I tell you.
Okay but if those existed Ben would join one in a heartbeat
Doesn't she still own the apothecary, even if she's not running it as much? So she's not former. But he could be.
Come on now, detective.
Eeeeeee!
hEY HEY HEYYY
Oh! Oh yes! This is going to be so much fun XD
This is either going to be the start of a wonderful relationship or a murder case.
Or both.
Eliza!!
I love the little details like the way Ben's waistcoat rides up to show his shirt when he's leaning over the back of the chair, and his handful of dog hair (which is probably going to attach itself to his trousers when he drops it in the last panel!).
YASS
I wonder if coming to Harry's place is part of her obsession with the Deadly Sins incident.
Probably so - especially her theory that Harry is the witch.
Ok Ms. Detective: How come you're in the police when so recently you were dabbling in dangerous, faulty, unlicenced magic?
Obviously, the malforms were being sent by the Illuminati in an attempt to disrupt the investigations of the Fourth Anchor Society!
Hasn't the poor man suffered enough today?
Given how early it is in the chapter - probably not.
How can that much smugness fit on Eliza's face?!
In profile, no less
How did I only just realize what a perfect fit these two are?
Moar Eliza!!!!!!1!1! :D
The girl knows how to make an entrance...
Oh, delicious.
Oh I was hoping the client would be Eliza!! Can't wait to see how this plays out.
Hope I don't get another smack on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper for an unprogressive comment, but I can't help thinking that Captain Barber has fought long and hard for female officers to be allowed to wear trousers, and then along come trans Detective Swift, who insists on wearing a dress.
Trans Detective Swift presumably spent the early part of her life wearing trousers when she didn’t want to, so it makes sense she’d go for the skirt now.
While Captain Barber spent the early part of her life wearing dresses when she wanted to wear trousers.
She and her sister Harry both, I would guess.
"Allowed to" =/= "Required to"
And she's not wearing a uniform anyway.
a) I doubt that Eliza intends to do as much brawling as the good captain.
b) As Pat also pointed out, required and allowed are quite different.
If she goes around interviewing people in that smug manner, she may end up in more brawls than she thinks.
Actually, if I was in her shoes, I'd wear trousers under the skirt, so I can just lose the skirt if adventure breaks out.
Harry did the same back in the first arc, as I recall.
Standard Operating Procedure
[https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-7th-2014 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-7th-2014")
Standard nothing. You gotta earn the badass lady cop tearaway ballgown.
Grammar error, first panel: "you aren't even sat on". Please change "aren't" to "haven't" or "sat" to "sitting".
nah, it works fine as written, thanks.
For a blue-collar individual, sure. But I was under the impression that Ben was a bit more refined in his mode of speech.
Or is this simply an Anglicism I'm not familiar with? :)
She said it works fine as written. Don’t undermine her, it’s rude.
dialogue isn't the same as prose. it works fine as written! thanks!
Now I wonder if Ben will tell Eliza the reason of Harry's absence.
Knowing Eliza, you can be sure that she will start talking about the attack of Deadlies and about the witch. She's smart, curious and has authority to ask.
And then there's an even bigger question of whether he'll tell her about Mal. We know that he feels it necessary to make this information public - but he knows Mal does not want it.
I hope very much he won't spill the beans... I believe in him :)
I was so hoping this was going to happen, but I had no idea it was going to happen so soon. Can't wait for the chaos that will inevitably ensue from these two meeting onscreen!
YES!!!
SQUEEEEE!
(#1 Eliza fangirl)
Hide the globes.
she's back!!!
How we know Eliza is trans: it’s implied in several places in Hangman’s Knot, and Kate has confirmed it on Tumblr.
How we know she’s a detective: Nicola offered her the job here ( [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-9th-2019 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-9th-2019") ), and at the end of the chapter we see her heading off for her first day of work.
Also, she's got a badge.
it's easy to miss stuff in webcomics, it's the curse of the weekly updates! but yes eliza is trans- [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/bonus-stuff "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/bonus-stuff")
EEEE! More character interactions! Also Ben's thoughts after that introduction: "Oh god there's more of them!"
Y'know, Eliza, if it's been long enough for you to get a new job, it's been long enough for him to get a new job, too. For all you know he DOES work here now.