September 1st, 2020
1 Sept 2020 · page 1016 of 1306
Before you ask- yes, the dog is indeed a good girl
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Yasmin Rana
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Ben has been hit with surprise flirting!
The audience has been hit by cute dog!
Those two new people in the background look like they've been hit by a particularly unpleasant smell.
There's nothing like making it official!
The question is...now what?!
'ousing!
Love that Ben spots Eliza and is promptly nowhere to be seen for the rest of the page :)
Oh, don't mind Wolfe. I keep him with me for safety, but honestly he's just a big softie. I'm the one here who might bite.
This is perfect!
i'll admit it. i snorted when i read that.
Sounds like Rana's been having some difficulty with her assistants/advisors. I wonder if they're left over from Mayor Hackett's time in office.
She seems to be giving them the side-eye.
Wouldn't worry. They haven't got tags.
Neither did Hackett when he first appeared in Chapter 2 (only got one in Chapter 8, and it was retroactively added to his previous appearances).
No point giving them tags when they’re about to get their souls ripped from their bodies.
A civil servant's job is to try as hard as possible to make sure nothing ever changes.
(This can be either a good or a bad thing depending whether you agree or not with whichever elected official is currently in charge...)
Of course, as Sir Humphrey could tell you, a skillful civil servant ensures that the elected official isn't actually in charge.
I smell... lawyers!
I want her office. A dog, a fireplace, big windows with cushioned window seats...
But no seats for visitors. They have to stand in front of the desk. No question of who is in charge.
;Jack grabs two cushions.;
:Jack and Wolfe sit down on the floor.:
:Devika pads over, gets skritches:
Mayor: ...You pass.
Not gonna lie, took me a minute to remember who Jack was. If it hadn't been for Wolfe context it might have taken me longer lol.
Two disapproving vultures waiting to snack on the shrapnel of broken dreams....
now it's time for ... BUREAUCRACY!
please sit or stand here and fill out these piles of forms related to witchery-doo in the local area ... are you also performing witchery-doo outside the local area? we have piles of forms for that as well.
Hehehe....witchery-doo. Fantastic term.
Huh. I don't usually read the tags unless i wonder who someone is ... i didn't notice Ben there last time.
I like Ben going "Eep! What is SHE doing here?"
And did Eliza WINK at him?
They certainly seem pleased to see each other lol. As somebody up above mentioned, Ben immediately disappears from the page the moment he sees her. Presumably they're off panel together. Maybe even engaging in scandalous behavior like hand holding.
I am Jack O'Malley. Widdershins will adapt to service me. Resistance is futile.
If anyone is going to be able to tell if the dog is nice or not, that would be Mal.
It just occurred to me that it's very good Mal didn't come forward as the witch right away, since Hackett would have still been mayor. There's a very interesting alternate version of Chapter 8 in that case....
And Mal and Ben might have been (mistakenly) trusting of Hackett, given that he was the opponent of Fairbairn.
I'm curious what the Flack method would do to a witch. I feel like it wouldn't work, but I'm curious how it wouldn't work :p
"Nothing. That's it. Goodbye."
"Wait, f'real? No papers or nuthin'?"
"Ah, wait! I did forget. Here: half off on baked goods in the city for life. You can go now."
Waaay too optimistic. ;-)
Eliza is a witness and not a friend, as Wolfe and Ben are. She saw Mal come out of the Anchor. (Harry and Sid would be good witnesses as well.)
keep your enemies closer, was it
Ben: No! I haven't finished the triplicate copy of my application to date!
"So what now?"
"Another one of you people. Here is a nice pill that makes it go away, good day what ho. Cup of tea?"
HA!
That... that was eight years ago and I instantly remembered the exact panel. What the heck.
It was a great goram panel.
Didn't quite work out, though.
link? i don't get the reference
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Had to dive, but luckily it has been quoted before and turns up in google searches.
Looks like Mal needs to give Sid lessons on dealing with awkward topics.
"No sense hidin' anymore.... I'm th' real Harry Barber."
leaves straightens up gets in mysterious carriage
Bottom of Coffee Mug: de Montfort Porcelain
So: I presume the book is titled: "Duties and obligations of the Witch of Widdershins" and the bundle of papers is "Unpaid accounts, dues, licences and taxes of the Witrch of Widdershins 1450-1836.."
The bundles of papers could be claims of damages against him and the others for when they worked for the council cleaning up the malforms.(Bugger ups)
And the bundle of papers in Ben's bag could fully describe all their deeds in the battle against Deadly Sins.
That is true .
Mal's pose in the last panel oh-so-reminds me of him before Lux (in panel 4) there: [https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/april-27th-2018 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/april-27th-2018")
Maybe Eliza should be in here in case Rana ends up suspicious or hostile, given that Rana has a reason to be personally grateful to E?
EDIT: Wait, no, she IS in the room: I misinterpreted the layout of the first panel.
Her band of attack-lawyers?
For the record, my guess is that legal precedent involving witches is what Eliza wanted Knott's help with.
Mmm, those two stuffy people in the corner look very punchable. I hope they get even MORE offended soon.
From the looks of her assistants, paperwork, lots of paperwork
So is the dog, like, a polymorphed wizard or something?
There seems to be some finality in these pages. Might there be a kickstarter campaign in the near future?
"near" is a bit of a stretch since we're probably a month or so away yet, but yeah, sure
Oh goody, more story to come!
Yes! Another dog! Hooray!
Gosh. I lapsed in keeping up with this...for more than a year. Today I finally sat down and caught up.
I laughed, I cried, my heart came close to exploding a few times...
Ms. Ashwin, thank you for not only the entertainment and diversion this comic offers, but also for your insights into humanity and your messages of love and acceptance. As I commented to friends, you consistently teach "about it being okay to be a person". It's a concept that cannot be reinforced enough, and was especially powerful for me today, with the way my mental state has been lately.
Thank you, very much, for the service you provide.
oh gosh, what a lovely reply! i'm thrilled to hear that you're getting so much out of the comic- reactions like this, seeing someone really get what i'm going for, it brightens my day immeasurably. thank you for taking the time, and for reading!
I have a heart all full of feeling about this moment. It's a big step in a character arc that's been a delight to follow, and a payoff well worth the journey to reach it. (Hopefully for you as well, in the creating as much as the consuming!)
good girl or not, I REALLY want to know what Jack sees when he looks at Devika...
Devika and Gren.
Friends? Rivals? Complete strangers?
Yasmin: Now we'll test to see if you weigh as much as a duck
(1,000 internet points to any who gets that reference)
A chance to use my larger scales!
or very small rocks?
Ms. Rana has excellent posture!