February 17th, 2023
17 Feb 2023 · page 1155 of 1306
Some things never change.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Jack O'Malley
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Ooh, that board behind Ben - is Mal being taught to read?
Pretty sure he is.
Using the latest in high tech display technology too!
Better than that; he's being taught to WRITE, which happens after one has gotten basic reading down. I'd bet money that's a classic pangram on the easel, "A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", and people write pangrams (sentences containing every letter of the alphabet at least once) when they're practicing forming the letters. So somewhere else in the room there's either a slate and chalk, or pad of paper and pen or pencil, that Mal uses to practice writing the sentence that Ben has written out for him.
It’s really nice seeing everyone settled happily into this peaceable life, all living together and so on. Gives me the warm fuzzies ^^
They're all three in a good place, yeah. Such a shame they're hero-protagonists in a magical action-adventure comic. :)
he looks like his grandad! (even more so now i mean)
hello ben i missed you it's been five million years!!
I love the view we're getting of where the characters are in their lives. It's refreshing to see everyone happy and stable. I get so tired of time-skips being introduced with "And all the relationships you care about fell apart in the intervening time!"
Not surprised that the comic hasn't fallen into that trap, mind you. But it's still nice to see, even if it's what I expected.
Glad people like it! This is exactly why I wanted to do this time-skip, what with it being the final book I wanted y'all to get a sense of where the characters are heading and how they're gonna be in future. It's a finale book, but also kind of a victory lap.
they deserve it!!
The last 4 chapters have added so much to the comic. A lot of stories would end with an arc like Curtain Call, but getting to spend time after the big event™ (with potentially a bigger one on the horizon?) seeing how the characters are doing, and not have to imagine it or be offhandedly told in an epilogue, is really nice.
I suspect someone is about to drive a coach and horses through all that happiness and stability.
Oh you ol’ Sturzkampf you 🤣🥰
I'll see your coach and raise you an A&P-mounted regiment. 😉
"I get so tired of time-skips being introduced with "And all the relationships you care about fell apart in the intervening time!"" - my thoughts exactly. Why build the relationships in the first place if you're just gonna rip them apart again??
Which is to say, of course, I'm liking this direction very much <3
or at the very least the ripping apart needs to be the actual story itself, not something dumped into the time-skip
Ben's hair has grown back! I wonder what Eliza thinks of it?
You may not be creative, Mr. Thackery, but you certainly have snark down pat.
Oh gosh, Ben's hairstyle is a blend of his two previous ones, and it looks so cute! I think his sideburns have gotten longer, too. (And he's smiling and looking relaxed for the entire page!)
That house is just amazing, (and such high ceilings 🤣can l move in with my theorbo? Please?)
"You're so bad at complements, I bet if you complemented Pride it would immediately desummon!"
Considering that lowering yourself technically is complimenting everyone else around, isn't that exactly what happened?
That was very possibly the most violent beatdown ever delivered to an antagonist in this webcomic. He punched himself so hard, it broke Pride's bones.
Benjamin Thackerey, graduated from magic school with a degree in magic, defeater of Pride, legendary wizard not officially but close enough: * sips tea *
Looks like someones writing and reading lessons have continued, judging by the blackboard!
Ben sounds a bit like his cousin on this page. Looks like he got a lot more confidence.
Did Ben used to have sideburns??? Oh my gosh, details of having reading/writing class set up back there i wanna cry 🥲
He did, but they weren't quite as long as they are now. Here's the last time we saw him before this page, for comparison.
the chalkboard, the smiling, they're all so relaxed and happy in this beautiful home 😭