April 20th, 2018
20 Apr 2018 · page 788 of 1306
A very loud sound indeed.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Harriet Barber, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Mr Luxuria, Sidney Malik, Verity Cunningham
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That, that's not a good sound.
Uhuh. What's happening!
frightened till next update
Did he just rip the fabric of space-time??!
Oh dear. I hope that ripping sound is only the party’s souls being torn from their bodies, and not the sound of parts of their bodies being torn from their bodies.
You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
#sarcasm
I'm pretty sure it's just the fabric of reality ripping. So... good news?
Let’s hope the fabric of reality was insured, otherwise Mr Thackerey is going to have to pay for it.
Th' hell does that mean - O'Malley rips it, and now Mr Thackerey must pay? :))
I think that’s the way it usually works when they are removing malforms. O’Malley breaks stuff and Mr Thackerey ends up having to pay for the collateral damage. He is the one in charge after all.
Scratch one pair of pants.
As the sound is blue-white, I guess it is caused by Mal's power - by his sweeping gesture in the last panel as he makes his ultimate pulling effort?
Wolfe's gesture in the first panel, touching his chest with his hand, is remarkable. He feels something is changing inside him.
That, or he's having a heart attack. Wouldn't blame him.
In shaken voice. Now you here and Sturzkampf in his comment are really optimistic... :/
I'm kidding, but the last pages are frightening. (It seems to me that Wolfe's hand is closer to right side of his chest than to his heart, though.)
Maybe he's ambidextrous
It looks more like he's reaching for dead (no pun intended) center, which is where the heart is (why heart problems are sometimes mistaken for acid reflux). We just feel it more strongly on the left because it's tilted that way.
I thought home was where the heart is
Judging by the expression on O’Malley’s face in the last panel, whatvever just happened was not what he intended.
Well, that's torn it.
Really hoping he didn't just pull his friends souls out or something. If it's just their physical bodies they can walk out the door with him.
Panel 2 : glorious air guitar
Take me down to ol' Widdershins City
Where the spirits are green,
But they're oh so pretty!
Oh won't you please take me hoooooooooome!
And you have won the Internet for today, Sir.
♫Cap on the Anchor has been broken apart,
And Luxuria's messing with the Liar's Heart,
"I shall turn this 'round and send you back to the start,
I shan't be losing this time!" It's a crime!
He's sacrificing Acedia's ass!♫
Excellent!
Wyld Stallyns rule!
"Whoa!"
Hahahahahahaaaa!!!
Surprising ad appearing down the side of this page...
doof, my screenshot didn't save. It's for this weird-sounding webcomic called 'Widdershins'?
We heard you like Widdershins, so...
Well, that's torn it - "it" being, possibly, the Curtain of the chapter title... The curtain between this world and the spirit world? Or the infernal world? Or-
Mr. Luxuria: My business empire, spanning worlds! Records, music, air travel, train travel, banking, electricity, broadcast, prophylactic devices... and all available here, now, thanks to me... and you! Aha ha ha haaha ah ahaahaaaaaaaaa-
PA: emerges through the rift Mr. Branson? I have some-
Mr. Luxuria: Can't you see I'm in the middle of something? And don't call me that-
PA: Oh, sorry, Sir Richard!
Mr. Luxuria: -don't call me that here, either - here, I go by Mr. Luxuria! shoos PA back through the rift So difficult to get the staff, sometimes. Speaking of which, I will be recruiting in this world, and you've all shown yourselves to have potential, given the opposition you've faced.
Vee: Hmm... what sort of salary...?
Harry: Hrm... I suppose you named your empire for yourself: "Lust Unlimited", or "Luxury Industries", "Luxury Music", "Luxury this that and the other..." :-P
Mr. Luxuria: Salaries will be highly competitive, and no, I actually went for an ironic opposite when naming my businesses! ;-)
>:=)> I noticed the resemblance ages ago, and was just waiting for an opportunity to make use of it!
I see what you did there......
"However, I only have one position open right now. So, we're going to have tryouts..."
So, Mall appears only to be getting half of lust.
Normally, when lust is involved, I prefer undivided attention. On this occasion I'm not so sure.
Presumably it does leave Lust open to attack from both sides but I doubt it can be fully disposed of until all of it is present inside the anchor.
Or, does it become two independant entites and we now have eight deadly sins to deal with?
I think he's got all of Lust - but Lust had grabbed onto the spirits of the four members of the outside team, and I think those may have just been pulled from their owners.
I'm not entirely sure why the fact that Sid looks cold is the most disturbing reaction among the four to me.
I know what you mean. He looks like a little kid who's cold and sad and scared, and I just want to give him a hug and wrap him in blankets.
Exactly. That shivering means something horrifying is happening.
They did say a witch could even steal your soul...
Ooh. This doesn't look good.
I never thought of fuchsia as an ominous color, but the way everything has turned pink in that last panel, including Mal's clothes, is definitely unnerving.
My thoughts exactly! That sound effect is really terrifying, and so is the combination of the pale blue lettering on top of the dark pink getting all over everything. Props to Kate A for making fuchsia/magenta a terrifying color.
Yeah, I think the pinkish-purple hippo of happiness is going to have to do some clean-up in that neighborhood of the spectrum.
Is Ben having less of a physical reaction than the other three, or is he just distracted by the horrifying realization of what’s happening?
I wonder if his not-so-good-for-a-wizard connection with spirits is an advantage here. Or, on the contrary, his lesser aura is more vulnerable than others' ones.
In the page before this his shoulders made motions, though. Maybe, he is already... beyond struggling.
I think the last option is the right one...
I think his reaction is just as physical as everyone else, it's just more of the "frozen in place" verity rather than an outward movement like Sidney's shivering.
That's... not a good sound.
Well, that's torn it.
And that my friends is the story of how The O'Malley ripped his first souls.
Oops. :/
Sid's coloration in the first panel is the most pink. In addition, the swirly above him is the most tightly coiled. Lust has a BIG OL' grip on Mr. Malik, here.
Between that and the facial expression, Sid's probably in deep, unfortunately.
I really hope we don't lose some characters in this....because that's what Mal's expression is telling me.
The expression of a man who has just dropped a tray laden with his mother-in-law’s best bone china tea service.
Oh god. Oh GOD that sounds bad. I honestly think that he just accidentally ripped their souls out and dear god I hope he can put them back.
If/when the detached spirits come through to the in-between place with Luxuria, I wonder if they'll be readily recognizable. My heart is already hurting at the thought of Mal's reaction to seeing Wolfe's spirit like that.
I'm worried about how Ben and Sidney's spirits are going to fare, considering that wizards aren't supposed to be able to cross over. I'm also comforting myself with the hope that Wolfe will finally get to see what his own spirit looks like and we'll get his reaction to that.
That's a worry too. Will they get stuck somehow while Wolfe and Vee's spirits come through? (And that's another thing - we've never seen what Vee's spirit looks like. I hope we get a glimpse of it at some point here.)
That is a disturbingly plausible scenario, especially in light of the whole "make it through in one piece" exchange between the Buggerup Trio earlier in the chapter. Although if that happens I'm hoping it also sets them up to use their knowledge of wizardry to be awesome and help save the day (can you tell I really really want to see a Ben + Sidney team up?).
And now that you've reminded me, I will be very disappointed if we don't get to see her spirit.
I wonder why wizards aren't supposed to be in Witchplace. Would it make harm to them, unlike non-wizard people and witches? (Like the loud noise can't hurt ones without ears and ones who used to it.)
I find it intresting that in the second panel one of Mals hands is kinda glowing his blue... but the other is glowing pink. Maybe Lust actully helped him get the strength to rip him and the others spirits in, which is why he looks so confused and panicked in panel 3?
Also extra worried about Sid, he looks the worst off, plus the pink shading and the stronger coil on his spirit makes me think something a bit extra weird is happening to him, tho why him i dunno.
Do wonder what the wizards spirits will look like, considering Mal normally sees them as a bright glow, beyond output will they recognizabilly even be Sid and Ben i wonder.
They're ripping the Anchor...
To quote Homer Simpson: "Noise.... Bad noise!"
Uh oh. This wasn't a weakened deadly being drawn in. No, this was a deadly at full power. This will not be as easy as all the others...
I really don't like the expression on Mal's face in the last panel. That can't be good.
... I'm getting the feeling that we're about to have some serious trouble...
Ah, crap.
This situation looks...how to describe it?
Shtalicious.
Who's looking forward to having their souls stolen?
None of the main characters, obviously.
Something just occurred to me:
We know Lux is being pulled into the area where Mal and Harry are. What I just realized, though, is that Lux is also being borught into the same room as the conduits used to bind the other six spirits. Greed said that binding them would be playing into Lux's hands. Maybe having the objects in which the other spirits are bound will give Lux their power.
That was the sound of Luxuria's pants tearing.
He's now standing there quite surprised and feeling a breeze.
This is vaguely familiar to Infinity war.
Time for respite! Time For Respite!!!