Apologie for the update slowdown!
Gonna take a break in updates til the new year, then update on Fridays only til I get back on my feet. I burnt out pretty hard last year and haven't really given myself enough time to get over it, so that's what I'm gonna do now cus dangit I wanna give you my best effort and not a rushed mess. Hope that is agreeable!
Have a lovely end of of year, you're all awesome <3
Cast: Lei Feng, Verity Cunningham
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ThoughtBubble
14 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
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Manchester Megacon
31 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027
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That feel when you try to date someone who isn't over their ex. I'm so sorry Lei.
... This comment makes me wonder more about Verity and Nicola dating, but that's probably been discussed before.
More importantly, joyful Solstice celebrations everyone! May you all find health and good fortune in the new year, and take all the time you need Kate.
I honestly can't see them together. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that they're probably the two least compatible people in the entire comic.
Notwithstanding which, it's canon that they were a couple at some point
[https://www.widdershinscomi...](https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-15th-2017 "https://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/december-15th-2017") That was Benji's reaction too.
We taking bets on who the client is? My money's on Eliza.
On the one hand, I can't see Eliza letting someone else have all the fun of investigating; on the other hand, now that she's officially employed by the Widdershins police, she might not be allowed to chase Pryce in person once he's outside her jurisdiction.
If she knew he's fleeing the country while out on bail, she could arrest him before he leaves.
Letting him go so she could get more information by [hiring someone for some] sneaking around does sound like something Eliza might do, though.
5 to 1 it’s the mysterious Mr de Montfort.
"...our client believes he's still up to something, and this ship is involved. Most likely to do with the mysterious rumors of the fourth anchor!"
Yep...Eliza's a good bet. Still trying to find out where that bullet went....
If that were the case, they'd be cracking the case so hard that they feel it in... (checks antipode map)... the middle of the Indian Ocean
The plot twist after she solves the case: her client is Harry, so Harry ends up with the credit for solving the case.
Oh, Verity, never change.
Gasp! The plot thickens!
On another note, thank you Kate for another year of Widdershins goodness. Have a lovely Christmas and get plenty of rest!
I feel both shocked and vindicated by this recent revelation.
I really like Lei against the palette of this boat. Gives an "I feel out of place" energy that seems fitting.
I see a set up for great humor here.
"Same thing we do EVERY night, Pinky!"
I've been wondering if Vee knew Harry was back, and that answers my question!
HOW DARE YOU feel bad about wanting to have Christmas and the New Year off. I suggest exploring whatever iterations or variations of flavored cocoas pleases you.
+1; there are also the popular winter - er - tonics, if you will, to fend of a chill and ease the stress and all that.
Brandy is an acceptable cocoa flavor.
Sambuca! Although no liquor with a touch of vanilla is my current favorite. Or a bit of candy cane melted into it works.
Now I want some with caramel.
its rocky road flavour at the minute and it pleases me greatly, thank you
What if you carve the information on palladium?
Anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Wonder what powers burning Palladium would give an Allomancer...
I'm pretty sure it just gives "indigestion" like the other un-burnable metals, since it's not one of the 8 elements that grant powers of the 16 burnable metals.
That said, you could certainly try turning it into a metalmind or making a spike out of it, as those seem to have looser limits.
Oh my god! oh my god! I know that the Cosmere books are popular enough that this comment isn't unlikely per se, but I feel so validated in my geek-ness right now!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot upvote this enough
Happy holidays and enjoy your rest!
All things considered information only has weight when put on or into something, it would then therefore take an infinite amount "free" information in order to create a single ounce of pure information extract.
I feel like the nearly the entire comment thread would find the work of Claude Shannon very interesting. If I've understood what I've read correctly (which is a bold assumption), one key point is that data is not infinitely compressible. We might then consider the price of information to be the difference between a) the cost of the record of said information, and b) the cost of the raw materials that went into its production.
There are undoubtedly other factors and complications, but this might be a good starting point.
Hm...What exactly_is_ the price of information per ounce? I mean, it's not exactly very dense - you could probably fit a lot of information in an ounce, which seems like it would be worth a lot more. Of course, you need to account for the medium - even paper weighs more than information.
I suppose it depends on the medium. Per ounce, it's not very valuable if the medium is stone tablets, but much more valuable if it's a modern solid state hard drive.
Enjoy your break!!
Take all the time you need with this and future updates!
So I guess the Pride thing wasn't enough of a "get over it!" warning to Vee. What's the over/under that she allows her... sure, let's call it "standing secondary objective", to nearly result in the failure of their assignment, resulting in the third-act [] crisis? [] I still think in terms of the Shakespearean five-act structure.
Looks like she's switched to Envy here.
She's got two arms with which she could hug both closely.
Man, if they find the Fourth Anchor, Verity will become absolutely INSUFFERABLE.
So no change, then?
Oh my, Verity! Still clinging to that inferiority complex?
Of course that's agreeable! One update a week is better than most web comics and is far better than, "You know what? I'm burnt out and sick of this. I think I'll go do something else."
Take some time, enjoy the holidays and get back on your feet.
Of course! Take the time you need! I'll probably take a break from obsessively checking Widdershins for a bit, but I'll be back with a vengeance in a couple months or so lol. Can't wait to see how this develops!
I'm pretty sure that depends on the information, Lei. For example, the location and ownership papers to a Palladium mine are probably worth a lot more per ounce.
Palladium is actually very hard to extract economically. (FWIW, The most expensive element on Earth right now is osmium, of which fewer than a few hundred tonnes are extracted in a year. Dense and brittle, it decomposes in air into osmium tetroxide, which stinks terribly...oh, and which is poisonous, to boot.)
Spoiler: The client is Harry.
Ha, thanks Verity, you made my day ^^
Take all the time you need, Kate, your work is great, we don't thank you enough for it, but your health and well-being come first, definitely.
Take care, best wishes, and THANKS for your wonderful stories.
Verity's inferiority complex is growing so large she's about to qualify for Russian citizenship. (Well, more accurately Soviet citizenship, back in the day.)
Still Tsarist back in the 1830s, methinks.
Touche, but the Soviets elevated the inferiority complex to a fine art. Paranoia too.
I like Lei's poses in all the panels - especially the first.
She's got to be out of her teens, but if you just showed me these panels and asked me to guess her age, i'd say seventeen or eighteen...
She wouldn't be much out of her teens, if she's around Sid's age.
Sid isn't 25?
i don't really have fixed ages in mind for any of the characters! he and lei are both early twenties, harry's more in the mid-twenties kinda range.
I guess it depends on whether a a degree in wizardry is equivalent to a bachelor's or a master's (or even a PhD)*. If you think it's a bachelor's and Sidney was expelled in year two, it makes sense that he'd be 19 or 20 (well, 20 or 21 by now since it's been at least a year since the first comic). But if it's a more advanced degree, he could easily be as old as 25.
*I'm aware than the modern strict bachelor's-to-master's-to doctorate system wasn't nearly as well-codified as it is today (and even today has odd exceptions: a US law degree is technically a doctorate, but if you go for further specialized education, that's master's), but I imagine the same broad principle of "this is more advanced stuff than that" still held.
The BA -> MA -> Ph.D. sequence is not actually usually followed in the sciences. The normal sequence is BA -> Ph.D. with no intervening Master's.
Oh yes. Harry.
Dealing with Pemberton Pryce so hard you can rub Harry's nose in it.
eehhhh about that
Are we to assume this client is a newly appointed detective?
Oh lords, it's its maiden voyage, too?
You lot are just asking for it.
Happy Holidays! This two weeks of Christmas and New Year is an excellent time to take a break.
A Merry Christmas and a Joyful Yuletide! Happy Hanukah! Solstice Greetings! Mayhaps we might submit further queries to your characters as filler? Or may haps artwork?
merry Christmas!
Just got a mysterious bag from Sweden! I was pretty mystified and when I opened it, it was the Widdershins books! It had been opened by the customs people to make sure that it was not contraband! I am guessing that it was nicely boxed up when it left you. I am just glad that it did not have so far to go, once it got to the US. Hooray and THANK YOU!
The quality is BEAUTIFUL!
Yes it does sound like a fair few of them are being cracked open! Hopefully they were all in good condition when they arrived despite that!
Please, please, please be gentle with yourself. I hope you're getting good rest over the holiday season, and we'll all be here when you get back.