Witch Hunt
17 Sept 2019 · page 928 of 1306
Guess we should check in with these guys or something.
The Kickstarter for Vol 8 is still ongoing! Go have a look, we have books, high-resolution PDFs, Fourth Anchor Society pins, hand-sketched bookplates, all kinds of fun Widdershins goodies.
Cast: Harriet Barber, Jack O'Malley
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AAAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAaaaaaaaa HYPE!
my GOD i'm so excited i'm VIBRATING.
Nope, not omenous at all.
"ominous" <3
In fairness, "omenous" makes a lot more sense. (But this is English, where we shun internal consistency because.... Moving on.)
I agree, but 'tis what 'tis.
"omnibus" ¯\\(ツ)/¯
When you forget that no-one now knows your thing that started as an in-joke. In high school, I was in a friend's film project, and the title was a parody of The Omen: "The Omenous."
I love a pun with a sound etymological basis.
As much as I enjoyed getting to know the new trio in Hangman's Knot, I cannot even EXPRESS how good it is to see Harry and Mal again.
and this is why we skipped them for a book :) can't really feel like someone's missing if they're right there again on the next page.
Oh, absolutely! I've been savoring the suspense, honestly.
It's been torture...
Not gonna lie, the door in the tree looks like a fridge door.
Oh no! Harry has been Fridged!
A Barber does not get fridged. She may, as circumstances warrant, fridge others, but it is simply not possible for her to be fridged.
The Hedgehog Cannot Be Buggered At All
The spines would make it inadvisable, yes. XD
Looks more like a letter to me.
So... 700 atoms, then?
S'what I though too, until I saw the vertical lines on the bottom half.
Be vewy, vewy quiet...we're hunting witches!
A-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go
Heigh-ho, the derry-o Anchor-o,
A-hunting we will go
Can't help thinking that Ms Barber's annoyed expression and the lack of smoke coming from her pipe are related.
Given how my wife gets when she's out of smokes {or coffee, for that matter}, i wouldn't be surprised at all,
This title makes me concerned, but this cover makes me PUMPED.
aaaah, YES we should!
Is that a revolving shotgun?
Colt built one, though it would have been later than this {in our world, anyway}.
In Curtain Call it was firing single bullets rather than a spread of pellets.
Revolvers typically only fire one bullet at a time. There's a difference between a revolver and a Gatling gun.
I believe Sturzkampf is talking about the typical practice of loading a shotgun with shot instead of bullets. Shot being a cartridge loaded with small pellets.
Either way, you can load a single bullet into a regular shotgun just as well as a canister of shot, so it doesn't mean much either way!
It looks like a breech-loading rifle.
Not to me, but that's a judgement call,
However:
Looks more like a revolving rifle to me. In fact, I searched for "revolving rifle", and the first result I got is [a gun that looks exactly like that one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt's_New_Model_Revolving_rifle "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt's_New_Model_Revolving_rifle").
I rather like the colour/monochrome dichotomy.
Especially given that Mal sees in black & white 🙃
That's what i meant.
Brain fart 🤦🏻♀️ I thought you just meant in terms of the town/jungle contrast or the ‘been there done that’/‘ooh new shiny location’ contrast 😆
I'm thinking Sid deserves a kiss for taking such good care of Gren.
Perhaps Gren will give him one.
And she's been there long enough for the soles of her shoes to become loose-see her shoes tied up?
It could be from running around a lot. Assuming she's been hunting in some form the last she wants to deal with is a broken shoe mid way through a chase...
not sure, but i thought her hair has gotten longer...
I think she's run out of pipe tobacco
I already made this comment when the cover was posted on Patreon, but it's so cool how the title is laid out so "Witch" is above Mal's head and "Hunt" is above Harry's!
And I think Eliza will search for the witch of Widdershins (that is Mal), and Harry will search for the local witch of the island.
And probably Mal will search for Harry - a witch doing the hunting as well as witches being hunted for!
Welcome back! Both to Kate and to Harry and Mal.
Oh damn, this cover is nice!
And then a bullet just harmlessly sails out of the anchor door and you hear Eliza say "See?! I TOLD you!!"
Looks like Harry's having fun. ^_^
Which hunt?
Interesting that she seems to have gone with the tactic of waiting for the Anchor Door to open again. I would've expected her to be at the shore trying to figure out if a raft or a signal fire was viable. Then again, she might have done so, concluded that any such thing was well beyond her ability to pull off, and come back to the door.
She did say she was going to find the witch though, so maybe the witch is just as good at hiding, as she is at hunting.
I like the idea that Mal is sitting outside the anchor because nobody believe he's the witch and won't let him access it.
Oh my gosh I thought I'd be a while longer before this landed 😍😍🤩
Aye I cannnot wait to find out what happened to Harryyy :)
oh, hells yes!
Anyone wanna take bets on how many strips it will take for my headcanon about the Fourth Anchor being on Skull Island to be rightly and thoroughly demolished?
Obviously it's going to be Atlantis 😜
City Witch, Mountain Witch, Island Witch, Very Wet Witch
Personally, I've always thought it was located on Null Island: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null_Island")
Yayyyyyyyyyy! I'm on tenterhooks.
Bonus for proper use and spelling of the word "tenterhooks"
With a top hat like that, I cannot say that I am entirely surprised.
Somehow, I don't think we've escaped Eliza just yet. Or Nicky, for that matter.
Much excited screaming
Spiffy title card!
Annd here they are
Gotta say I'm excited to see Widdershins!New Zealand.
We've all been quivering with antici-