February 12th, 2019
12 Feb 2019 · page 874 of 1306
The script for panel 2:
Cast: Eliza Swift, Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Did the effect dampen because of knottys logic? Or the handhold? It seemed oddly emphasized in the same panel where he finally gets his own speech color back for a bit.
I think it was the handhold. I don't think logic can reach him. So then the question shifts - is it the touch of sincerity? Of someone who actually cares about him (enough to try to save him from hanging)? Is he deeply lonely under all that smarm?
He has a crush.
Or perhaps Knotty just has a REALLY firm handshake, and the pain got through to him. Different kind of crush :D
I have to guess it has something to do with the touch because it's got the white exclamation marks on the handhold
Well, it seems he isn't going to kill them to protect Dr. Flack, it's something already. It's because he really believes she is innocent, I suppose. I wonder if they find the essay in Dr. Flack's table, will it break "the enchantment"?
Seems that Will actually likes (and trusts) them both, even if you'd need wild horses to properly drag that from him.
Especially Knotty. Mind you, kicking the guy would be like kicking a basket of kittens: something only done by accident if you have a fully functioning empathy circuit.
Did Eliza put extra bullets in the gun? She knew exactly how many she was going to use for her demonstration, and she used both even if it didn't work.
Love the "silent scream" background shadowy effect in the last panel :-)
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It's an image, I think Kate posted a cropped excerpt to show the amusing way she wrote Will's insincerity into the script
Ah, I see now it is an image. I thought it was text overflowing a too-small fixed-size HTML/CSS block.
I still don't quite get the point.
Woooh he grew some balls.
That's incredibly brave Knotty but also I'm kind of worried as hell for you right now :<
What I'm wondering is, how are they going to get the cuffs off once this is all over?
I doubt the fire is hot enough to actually melt the key. They'll go back for it once the fire has burnt out. Unless it's magic, I guess, in which case a saw may be involved.
Worst case, hammer & chisel.
Modern cuffs are pretty much all the same key.
I think that in our world, in the {early }Victorian era, instead of locks, a lot of cuffs used a screw that had to be installed or removed with a special tool, hence the slang term "screw" for jailors.
As here:
Yeah, but he just threw a key in the fire, so obviously, the tech has moved at a different rate. I hope making them work off a master key occurred to someone.
The screw thing that works thise cuffs LOOKS like a key.
The accompanying description on Amazon says that there is no "master key" for dar ies like those
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What I was actually thinking of is it's another example of how this world differs from ours.
Pretty much guaranteed once they're not in a rush they can find a lockpick SOMEwhere.
They won't. This is just Knotty's life now.
Once again, Vincent proves to be tougher than he appears at first glance. Go, Knotty!
DRAMATIC LIGHTING
[https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJvJye9c_M "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlJvJye9c_M")
(Just the first 30 seconds, really)
Thought that was going to be the end of the original Mad Max film:
"The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go."
Or possibly this:
[https://youtu.be/wz3OcxhYw4g](https://youtu.be/wz3OcxhYw4g "https://youtu.be/wz3OcxhYw4g")
Oh my God, that's straight outta Vaudeville. I love it!
Stan and Ollie couldn't have done it better.
I'm loving this more with every page (and shipping those two more...)
I know wizards are notorious for having low Wisdom, but did they really leave a room empty with a roaring fire and no fire guard?
Eh, it's probably got laziness bound into it to keep the fire from spreading or something.
I love the new site color!
not to be that guy but he snapped out of it (for a second) when Knotty held his hand...
I'm not usually much of a shipper, but there have been a couple of times when Will was sending definite "I think you're cute" signals, and that panel makes me wonder if Knotty might actually respond to it given better circumstances.
What if this is their meet cute.
Hello from a brand-new fan! I just discovered this comic last Friday, when I happened to see a post about the move to Hiveworks and thought "oh, this looks cool, I should check it out."
Perhaps needless to say, I fell in love immediately and proceeded to read the entire archive over the weekend. I'm still reeling from Curtain Call, but I'm super invested in the adventures of this new trio already. That's the incredible narrative magic trick this comic pulls off again and again, getting me to love a new set of characters when I always want to know what's happening with my old favorites SO BADLY. By this point I know I'm happily on board for whatever swerves the story will take next!
As for this most recent update: I'm super curious about Sharpe's magical-influence aura being, like, brownish gold, when the others we've seen in this situation so far have all been red. I know it's a new arc and all, but if the rest of this comic has taught me anything, it's that it's always worth paying very close attention to color schemes...
Heyo, glad you enjoyed the archive binge :) Switching to new characters always makes me nervous, so I'm glad it seems to work for people! Hope you enjoy the rest!
My guess is that it's representative of a different emotion being enhanced. For the others it was rage, but for Will it was trust (specifically in Flack).
@Kate A - I just discovered that in the new archive, a big chunk of the Curtain Call pages are missing their comments. As far as I can tell, the problem goes from here ( [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-1st-2017 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/september-1st-2017") ) to here ( [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-27th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/february-27th-2018") ), covering most of the Sloth and Greed sections.
oh dear! i'll have a poke about and see why that might be, thanks for letting me know
Okay, Erin at Hiveworks has fixed this! Thanks for pointing it out!
Have I mentioned yet that I would Kill Or Die For Sharpe?
Because i would
Knotty... just yank on the handcuff hard enough to make him fall over, and then you and Eliza can both jump him for the gun. Duh.