February 11th, 2020
11 Feb 2020 · page 963 of 1306
Might as well make it a full scale breakdown, Sid
Cast: Heinrich Wolfe, Kirti Malik, Rajeev Malik, Sidney Malik
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I'm starting to suspect at the very least his father knows.
I think that they're heard rumors that he's been seen in the company of a certain Harry Barber. Who is apparently a... six-foot, blond, handsome fellow with kind eyes and a winning manner? Well: quite the catch, really. Has his own business, too. That's always nice.
I'd been wondering how this chapter could get any more chaotic but yep fake dating might do it!
We also can have Florrie seeing it, for more "fun".
I wonder which part of it she'd feel stronger about: Wolfe (!) dating Sidney, Sidney () dating Wolfe or the fact they both enjoy themselves instead of rescuing Harry (!).
Is this before or after she has to catch up on the fact that Wolfe (as far as Mr. and Mrs. Malik are concerned) is Harry. And in this bizarre continuity is Florrie (who has what I presume is some variety of British accent) still sister to Harry (who is being played by a man with a German accent)?
I imagine Florrie kissing Wolfe and telling her husband, "Hey, it's my sister!" :lol:
Yeah, they totally think these two are a thing.
I mean..."Sidney Malik and Harry Barber" is sort of a thing...
I wouldn't have thought so before this page, but it does make sense. Sidney's parents are outrageous trolls.
...Ohhhhh. This is going to be even MORE awkward than Sid thinks it's going to be. "So, you're this HARRY Barber that we've heard so much about!"
I wonder if Sid and Wolfe are thinking about the last time they were at the Anchor...
At least going to lunch means they won’t have to figure out what to do about the graduation just yet. All kinds of things might happen before then (and probably will).
"The trouble about telling a story is that words are so feeble a means of depicting the supreme moments of life. That is where the artist has the advantage over the historian. Were I an artist, I should show James at this point falling backwards with his feet together and his eyes shut, with a semi-circular dotted line marking the progress of his flight and a few stars above his head to indicate moral collapse. There are no words that can adequately describe the sheer, black horror that froze the blood in his veins as this frightful speech smote his ears."
-- P. G. Wodehouse
Thank you, that was most excellent! From which work does it spring?
It's from his collection of golf short stories, [The Clicking of Cuthbert. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clicking_of_Cuthbert "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clicking_of_Cuthbert") Specifically from the story A Woman is Only a Woman.
[It's in the public domain, so have a link.](https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7028/7028-h/7028-h.htm#link2H_4_0003 "https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7028/7028-h/7028-h.htm#link2H_4_0003")
Thanks - that was more laughs than I usually have in a week!
The great thing about that? That last line is filled with adquately descriptive words.
What a mensch you are, Wolfe.
I love how consistently any mention of the Anchor goes hand-in-hand with a sense of impending doom these days.
Well, hopefully it’s just going to be an impending visit from Harry Barber and a couple of Witches.
I think I need one of those conspiracy theorist cork boards with notes connected by red ribbons, so I can remember who is pretending to be who to whom.
Or a big blackboard like Eliza’s.
Nah, I don't trust this new technology
Amateurs. The real pros have their notes suspended in the air while they untangle themselves from the hell-web of strings spanning their room realizing maybe a three dimensional visual was a bad idea.
If you're going to get that advanced, I'd recommend MS Visio.
Those are really hard to put together without a second pair of hands to hold the strings in taut with the ends in the correct places while you stick the pins through them. I don't know how all those crazed reclusive loners in the films manage it.
And yes, I'm speaking from experience. It's okay, though. It was for a photo shoot. At first, anyway.
1. Stretch the string between the two intended points and cut to length. (Knitting yarn works better, by the by.)
2. Put a pin through one end of the string and pin it firmly to the first point.
3. Put a pin through the other end of the string, stretch to second point, and pin firmly.
4. Brood on your emerging understanding of The Truth.
That was my first thought, too. But I'm forced to wonder if someone who's apparently had first-hand experience with it knows something that we don't.
I am now picturing a jaded film worker setting up a conspiracy chart and having his eyes slowly widen in comprehension and horror as it starts to make sense to him.
All drama aside, I'm actually brainstorming a fictional conspiracy theory universe, but the underlying process (and much of the source material) is basically the same. I just make decisions based on story potential rather than belief. I decided to adapt the old fake conspiracy wall to the purpose mostly because it seemed like a fun, thematically appropriate way to approach the process.
The newpaper clippings are all homebrewed replicas, because throwing together a simple "newspaper column" layout in Publisher and printing it on newsprint paper is much easier (and cheaper) than tracking down physical copies of the actual newspapers that all the relevant articles originally appeared in (especially since many of them aren't from newspapers).
Aannnnd back to the part i'm only skimming...
Thanks, I hate it T_T
Last panel makes them look like they've been totally pulling his leg since earlier.
I daresay Sidney would rather go a round or two with the Island Monster than spend any more time in this situation.
Huh, so this proves at least sids parents have been to the anchor, so maybe the magpie is a malform that sid summoned as a todder or so. "I want that!" Toddler tantrum maybe? Or maybe childish curosity?
OK, that's an adorable origin story for Sid's familiar.
Ahahahaah, Sidney's fucking face. Look at Rajeev's face though, that man knows.
These two facts I now know to be true: 1) Sid's parents already know everything that happened to him in the preceding chapters, and 2) they're having entirely too much fun humoring him
I really hope you're right.
Given that proximity to the Anchor can cause malforms to just spontaneously manifest, I would think that it would be an... unwise place to hold a graduation.
Actually, two spirits we saw spontaneously manifested near Anchors (Pride and Envy) weren't malforms.
Hey, at least it won't be insanely boring, like every graduation I've ever been to.
At this rate, I'm thinking of pitching Kate on a Widdershins dating sim/graphic novel in the Japanese style.
It feels like 8 and a half years since he last wrote to them!
Hah! Nice meta-callback to [the start of the comic](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/page-1 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/page-1").
"Sidney, just tell the truth, that while you dropped out of college, you've fallen in love, helped save the world, gotten employed, and even overcome your 'curse'"
"But they really cared about me graduating..."