December 12th, 2017
12 Dec 2017 · page 755 of 1306
Cast: Harriet Barber, Jack O'Malley
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A wonderful bonding scene between natural introverts. :)
Well done, Ms. Ashwin!
Bros!
I think Harriet's relieved to deal with a social klutz that she can comprehend.
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Yeesh, will you two stop gushing.
Seriously. If there's anything I can't stand, it's people who go maundering on and on, all melodramatic and emotive.
Five down, two to go. Just Avarice, then Lust. Mr. Luxuria is going to be a slippery one, though. And I wonder how Miss Acedia is feeling, now her sin has been banished?
Miss Acedia: Feel so energetic... don't know what to do with it. Maybe I should find Mr. Luxuria - he always knows what to do! I could even run to find him! Yes! Now... how does one do that, again?
>:=)>
I mean yeah Ms Acedia is still out there in the present day (1834), so sure she could still be up to something : /
Envy said "See you soon, half-witch" as they were being desummoned and Lux is clearly pleased the team is doing this, so there's definitely a twist coming. But I have no idea what it is!
Maybe they're turned loose inside the Witch Control Center™ somehow? Or are able to spread to the other anchors? Maybe that 4th door becoming more defined is due to the desummonings and will open once all the others are sealed???
I wonder if it has something to do with the fact the Harry's de-summoning chant is in plain normal text. I feel like that's GOT to come back to bite them some time down the road.
The genie in the can
Everybody sing!
"If I could have Sloth in a bottle ..."
"...the only thing I'd like to do
is to sleep every day
'til eternity passes away,
and nothing to do."
The contented smile of sloth...
Huh. So you can desummon without a circle in Witchspace. Good to know.
The circle is for not let the spirit leave before your deal is finished.
Sloth doesn't want to flee, it dreams to rest :)
BY JOVE, YOU'RE RIGHT!
I feel this, really, a lot. <3
Love this! Now they both have a friend who completely understands not wanting to talk about feelings or intense personal stuff. (It might be the first time either of them has had a friend like that; Wolfe and Sid certainly don't apply, and while Ben keeps his private life to himself most of the time, it's not quite the same. Of Harry's family, Nicola is the only one who shares that kind of reserve.)
Also, I like how Harry borrows a phrase from Mal's vocabulary when replying to him in the last panel ("You an' all, Jack O'Malley.").
Phrase borrowing is a sure sign of strengthening friendship! :3
Reserve is a good way to put it. Ben and Harry are both introverts, but while Harry is as economical in thought and action as she possibly can Ben is dramatic of action and outspoken with his opinions.
"You an' all" - at long last, my ability to decipher British has been exceeded. Is Harry just saying 'you too'/'likewise', or?
Yep, you got it!
I think Sloth and Harry's font styles got mixed up in the first panel
Nope. Very intentional!
Because Harry isn't a wizard, the parts where she's reading the words for the desummoning are always in plain text. The fancy font shows that a wizard is putting magic into the words. (At least, that's my understanding of it.)
Aw, look how cute Sloth is when it's happy... and not turning people into eternally tormented zombies or wreaking havoc by putting wizards to sleep mid spell... Yeah...
I know you did this just for me; so thanks, Kate....
I am so HAPPY to see that Harriet took a moment to light her pipe before she started reading the spell!
(I see now that she was already filling it in the last panel of the previous page.)
Our duo have not shared a smoke and a chat since Gluttony was dispatched.
There seems to be something a bit odd about that lamp oil container that has Mal thinking. I think he's perceiving something that doesn't quite add up.
Panel 2: Sloth goes, and Mal sees something surprising to his lower right, not quite where the can is.
Panel 3: Mal reaches out to pick up the can. Again, his eyes are on something to the right of it.
Panel 4: Mal stares at the can in his hands.
Panel 5: tp, tp, tp Mal taps the can, again looking at something a little above and beyond it. Whatever it is, it's got most of his attention.
Panel 6: "hff." Done. Whatever it was that he saw, it's over. Eyes no longer wide. Doesn't know what to make of it. He tosses the can up and down.
I read that as Mal avoiding Harry's eyes rather than looking at something in particular; they both tend not to look at the other person when having this kind of conversation. The "hff" in the last panel sounds like relief that she understands what he was trying to say and isn't going to make him go into more detail.
I did too, initially, and I see that Kate agrees with you, so I guess that settles it. But I still wonder why, in that case, he's consistently looking, with a concerned expression, not at the thing he's handling, but at some point in the air separated from it. And his attention is on the can before Harry says "Sorry."
Well, so he's just staring at empty air, then, while he thinks about something else... and I guess that accounts for his expression.
Really like O'Malley's posture in panel 2. That's Young Jack coming out....
When you want a friend, but hate making them.
With every comic, I just wish I'd bought ALL the books when the author was at TCAF instead of just the first.
I hope I'll be back one day!
Thanks for the link to Opportunities! Loved book one and I’ve pledged!