February 19th, 2019
19 Feb 2019 · page 876 of 1306
They're professors from the department of exposition.
One's actually a cameo from a Patreon supporter, check out the Patreon for a bunch of extra sketches and such!
Cast: Eliza Swift
Comments (39)
Events
ThoughtBubble
14 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
Harrogate Convention Centre
Manchester Megacon
31 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027
Manchester Central
TA's inadvertently letting Eliza know which desk to search. Such helpful people (they are irl, too). :)
True, but judging by the "fwump" of Professor Mario's stack of papers and exams, they're not heading back out again any time soon.
Heh. "Professor Mario"! But I think they're both finished their marking and are heading home.
Ah, yes, that makes more sense. I had parsed his opening line as meaning they were coming in to do their last bit of grading, rather than coming from said work.
>Professor Mario
He reminds me of a stockier Groucho Marx.
Probably more her buisness than you'd think.
How many student wizards were disappointed when they learned that the department of "ex-position" was NOT involved with teleportation research?
Isn't that under the Literature Department?
What fun for the Patreon supporter! Which one, the dark haired or the light haired?
The light haired one. He's my boyfriend and it was a Christmas present. :) I can't wait to show him this!
Don't tell me, let me guess: the important part isn't the desk but the papers themselves. Perhaps the important paper is in that stack?
Ta, indeed. Now Eliza know what to ransack.
Though she does have to contend with this professor, who presumably will be remaining to mark papers. And who may very well be Sharpened...
He may be, but I'm not sure that matters if Sharpe isn't present - I don't think we've seen the effect triggered without someone actually seeing him.
Hope you're right. I also hope Eliza isn't too proud to resort to puppy eyes if all else fails.
Deeply concerned with student welfare, that fellow, I see.
You can tell that this is before the days when students were worth £9000 a year each.
The professors’ comments about Flack (“How’s she doing?” “She seemed fine, actually.”) make me curious, especially since they didn’t remember about Will until a little later. If their concern isn’t related to Flack being distraught over the execution of her student, is there something else going on with her physical/mental health?
Huh. Helpful Faculty Members are Helpful
Widdershins is truly a place of magic, wonder, and mystery if academic faculty are actually helpful.
Does anyone else think the timetable might be for enchanting the staff? Maybe multiple professors are in on Flack's scheme.
Honestly, I feel like if my university had a Department of Exposition, my grad school career would be going much more smoothly.
The thing that I find most disturbing about the Sharpening process is that it is either so inconspicuous that people do not notice that she is doing anything while she mind controls them OR it looks so innocuous that no one gets concerned when she mind controls them.
She might be deliberately finding targets when they're alone. Like Sharpe in his dungeon cell or the porter doing some sort of maintenance work in the magical equivalent of a boiler room.
Wait is nobody saying anything about "that student of hers"?
Did we already know that and I just forgot, or did the prosecution majorly mess up, or did she manage to mind control the whole school into forgetting he was her student?
One might wonder whether he was ever even a teacher, but even if he was they did a pretty lousy job of their investigation- like not having any proof that he had done anything (except maybe his own confession, but when mind influencing things are involved one might ask for more rigor in the investigation)
I’m not sure what you’re asking here, honestly. No one ever said Will was a teacher; he’s Dr. Flack’s student (or was before he got arrested.)
Did they get to you too?!
I looked over the beginning and it seems I was confused because he was presenting to the class...
Or do I only think that because someone altered my memory?
Ah, you mean this page? [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2018 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/november-9th-2018") I think that was a student thing. He mentions having to finish writing the paper before the next day’s class.
that's correct, he was presenting it to the class. he's a student. or.. was, i suppose.
Oh, they expelled him out of the University before his hanging? Now it is a disgrace.
Presumably it was a seminar-format course. Most of the seminars I was in leaned heavily on students presenting to each other. No idea if it's the same in the UK; the details of education tend to manifest quite differently on either side of The Pond AFAIK.
That... that is a very disrespectful way to talk about someone who is about to be executed. But the GLK is nice. Makes me wonder if he made a noise that sounded like GLK or if he just said it.
By the way, has anyone here been having trouble posting Widdershins fanart on Tumblr recently? It appears that the tags are not working properly for me...
Panel 3: Have to say, I am very impressed at the intense expression Kate has achieved with only a mere sliver of Eliza.
Remind me again what a "marking" is, in this context?
i think the US term is "grading".
I did not know that.
A nameplate could have also shown which desk was hers, but with less exposition. Please don't tell me this is the only way you could think of for Eliza learning which desk to search.
Of course it isn't, but a nameplate couldn't have communicated the rest of the info that's on the page :) Trust me a little, please.
So she wasn't the type to write a memo to herself titled "My Evil Plans" and leave it in plain sight?
"is your name bruce then?"