y'all saw that line coming a mile away but there it is
wrapping this one up next tuesday, y'all, which means it's soon time for Q&As! usual rules apply- you can post as a guest but remember to sign your name if you want it on there, there's no limit so you can ask as many as you like, any character is fine not just ones from this chapter, and if i don’t manage to use your question its not because its bad, its just because i couldn’t think of a good punchline for it :V have at it! you can also submit a question via tumblr here.
the kickstarter for the print version of this volume will be going up next tuesday too, hopefully launching it when the page goes up. hope you'll check it out!
Cast: Parsley, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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ThoughtBubble
14 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
Harrogate Convention Centre
Manchester Megacon
31 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027
Manchester Central
Near death experiences are worth it for the pun making opportunities they give you.
yaaaay, come with me, we'll jump off a building, that'll make soo much amazing puns!!!
And there will be so many stories
It IS a groundbreaking concept.
I think we’d have rioted if he hadn’t said it
Final panel Knotty is cutest Knotty yet!
It was a long setup :D
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You can just FEEL his heart bursting through this whole strip
Q&A questions for:
Sidney Malik: How are you coping with Harry's absence, Mr. Malik? I hope you're hanging in there.
Gren: Is Sid (tall male human) taking good care of you while your master's away?
Eliza Swift: Which (fictional) detective would you say has influenced your own investigative style most?
Vincent Knott: Do you want to work for a big lawfirm after graduation or set up your own office?
George Knott: How are you planning to spend your retirement? Vacation in the sun, hobbies, or something else? Oh - and please accept my compliments for your kind and professional demeanor during your working days.
If Knotty is smart, he'll take a junior position in an established Firm upon graduation, and stay there for a few years. Once he's built up some capital and become known within the profession, he can strike out on his own. Preferably with a law partner or two of roughly the same age and experience.
I think that's usually how it works, anyway.
Or marry the Elderly Ugly Daughter, if G&S has taught me anything....
Q&A questions for:
Voss: What have you been up to? Are you learning to speak English and play the violin?
Benjamin: What have you been up to? Will you be opening a new office for the Malform-busters, or are you, Wolfe and O'Malley up to new endeavours?
Wolfe - Why were you so relieved to hear that Florrie wasn't pregnant, young man?! =_= menacing
"Well, I have to check with my dad if he's available... But you know he's retired hangman nowadays?"
"Eveb better. Now he'll have more time for me and not all workworkwork all the time."
"Okay. I'll see what I can do... 'Dad'."
"Oh, don't you start with that just yet. He needs to like me first, you know?"
* ahem *
{{cough cough}}
mi mi mi...
hissssss
The sails have caught the wind and this ship is sailing for adventure!
Q&A questions for Eliza:
What did you THINK was going to happen when you shot a fragile piece of desktop equipment with a pistol?
Also I hope your new detective outfit goes all the way with the fedora and high collared raincoat.
Righto, young Knotty, every lawyer who has been following your adventures needs to know: now that you’re off to law school, is it to become a barrister or a solicitor?
I may be biased (scratch that - I AM biased) but a wig would suit you. Not to mention a certain flair for thinking on your feet!
If his shtick is to be saving people from the gallows (or whatever if this death penalty ban gets nationwide support), I would think a barrister would be the obvious choice.
I mean, given his haircut, a barrister's wig would just be a palette swap
Not surprised but very pleased!
Garbageknot has been shipped from the start! 😁
top tier ship name btw
I'd just like to point out the nonzero possibility of Sharp's name later becoming Will Knott, and the pun potential that that implies.
Could go the other way. Vincent Sharpe would be a good name for a lawyer.
Why not both?
Not hyphenated. Sharpe-Knott? only marginally better than Knott-Sharpe (disastrous).
They just trade last names.
Alternatively, they combine them to be Vincent and Will Snott
Kharpe.
Knarpe?
I think the existence of those puns means it is NOT a nonzero possibility. Surely they would see that coming.
I have a hunch that Will Knott happen.
Pfft, that line was so corny XD
But hey, I'm sure it will help him rope in that Knott ^_^
SMOOTH.
Smooth
i love them so much...widdershins once again says gay rights!
D'aww! So cute!
That phrase, with that avatar.... Does not compute! I think if I saw something like that going So Cute to me I'd be in fear of my life <.<
Q&A Questions:
Dr Flack, where do you order a knife-fan?
Harriet Barber, what's it like being the witch of widdershins?
Will/Sidney, what is the deciding factor between being allowed to perform magic and not perform magic if you've been forced out of uni?
actually wouldn't be very hard to do, especially for a thin stiletto like that.
Seeing the chinese and japanese inclusion of fans in warfare, like the tessen, someone at some point must have thought to put a concealed blade in it, so, it might even be historical.
"Tessens" generally wound up as iron rods forged to look like a folded fan. From an engineering standpoint it might be easier to conceal a stiletto-blade in a non-folding fan handle; otherwise all the ribs would need to be the same thickness as the 'sheath' which might look a bit suspicious.
Now, the OTHER end(s) of the fan could easily conceal thin, cutting/slashing blades, like the example at the end of "Brotherhood of the Wolf".
But hey, I'm not the artist here.
Excellent linework and writing, all 'round!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEY LOOK SO HAPPY
SECOND TO LAST PANEL KNOTTY'S_FACE_
Q & A Questions:
Question for professor Frick: What on EARTH made you think it was a good idea to try and get Vincent Knott hanged?! Even if it had worked, the scandal after the reveal of the true identity of the hanged man would have ruined all your plans, and those of Mr. Hackett! What were YOU thinking??
Question for Mr. Sharpe: Are you going to be from now on an upright and honest person? Hm?
Question for Vincent Knott: What was going through your head as you were being taken to the gallows?
Question for Eliza Swift: Now that you are going to become a full-time detective, does this mean that you will leave behind your quest to find the fourth anchor?
Question for Nicole Barber: I am amazed at your self-restraint and professionalism - After watching them trying to get a perfectly innocent person executed, how do you manage to refrain from arranging Hackett and Frick to fall downstairs several times on their way to their cells?
These two are just way too cute!
Also, I love Parsley in the first panel. I've definitely had that particular cat move applied to my hand...
"I wanna snuggle you, but I also kinda want to bite you, so let's just keep our options open, shall we?"
the fluffy belly trap is a notorious maneuver! one of my cats sometimes even traps her own face in it and ends up repeatedly bicycle-kicking her own chin.
aaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D
Hey, maybe they'll have tied the Knott in a year from now?
<.< My brain went to a....very interesting place that I suspect was not the implied meaning of the comment, though not outside of the realm of possibility >.>
I asked this on Tumblr but I'll ask it here anyway, with a different twist: Purple Hippo of Happiness, where did you and all your fellow malforms go during "The Incident" and are you coming back?
Awww. I think Knotty is trying really hard not to start crying in that first panel.
Q&A:
Harry: How's the trip back goin OH MY GOD, BEHIND YOU!
Will you smooth motherfucker.
Im deceased that's too cute.
Parsley: How do you like the new human working in your shop?
I feel like a total moron for not having thought of that joke first.
ASDFGHJKL yes!!!!!!!!!!! i needed this in my life! :3 as for Q&A
To Gren: Has Sid been behaving himself?
To Sid: On a scale of 1 to hopelessly in love how much do you miss harry?
Aaaaand.... kiss....dooo eet.....
Mal or Sid: How exactly do the anchors work? Are they man-made, or natural? Also, where exactly does that pit in the middle of Widdershins Anchor go?
Mountain Witch: Anything new in your part of the world?
Mr. and Mrs. Barber: How's the wound? Has it healed yet?
Any of the Barbers: How's the family reacted to Harry's disappearance?
Kate: Who's your favorite character to write for?
Glee!!!
*Gently waves handkerchief in the wind as the ship sails*
Hey George, can I recommend macrame'?
YAAAAAS!!! FLIIIIRT!!!!!! <3 <3 <3
You wrote their entire relationship arc just so you could build up to that pun, didn't you?
More adorable hand-holding please
Q&A George Knott ,How long did you know that Vincent wasn't comfortable with the family occupation and were waiting for him to tell you ?
“Still thinking about him, actually.” Is such a tender line my heart is filled with cotton candy.
For the Q&A; what does Knotty think of our resident pickpocket?
Who, Sid?
Yeah
OMG Will's HORRIBLE. I love him.
[https://youtu.be/rrfTLNUsqRc](https://youtu.be/rrfTLNUsqRc "https://youtu.be/rrfTLNUsqRc")
Be honest - this entire story was just to justify the last line.
That's what I said.
So you did! My apologies for the replication!
Don't worry about it. I don't mind being agreed with.
Questions for -
Jack: How do you feel about yourself now that you know you have a purpose?
Sidney: How are you holding up with Harriet on walk-about?
That was so slick and adorable. I bet he was waiting to use that line all day.
Q&A Question!
Mal, what are you going to do now that you're the witch of Widdershins?
Harriet, how are you going to get home?
I'm not sure there were any fictional detectives yet. Widdershins is set in the 1830s, right? Edgar Allen Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is "widely considered the first detective fiction story" (per Wikipedia) and was published in 1841.
Then again, Wikipedia also says the word "detective" hadn't yet been coined when Poe published that story, yet we heard Nicola Barber using it repeatedly when talking to Eliza. So... it's an alternate universe, which may not have quite the same chronology as ours! ;-)