February 23rd, 2016
24 Feb 2016 · page 566 of 1306
Putting together the pieces.
Cast: Harriet Barber, Isabelle Holt, Nicola Barber, Sidney Malik
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YAY! Haven't we all been waiting for this? I really want Mal to meet the rest of the Barber family now. Though Mal himself would probably rather not....I imagine the crowd of them have a collection of pretty overwhelming spirits.
Yeah, the complete Barber family spectrum would probably be sensory overload.
And yes, yay for the return of Mal!
Heck I reminder when he saw Harriet and Nicola.
Harriet: Knight in Shining Armor
Nicola: Terrifying Rage Beast
You're a witch Jacky!....nah doesn't work as well.
Anywho, it's amusing to watch Nicola get more and more disgusted as she realizes her theory is likely accurate. Which is understandable, Mal doesn't endear himself even if they have worked together.
Jack-a-boy! Your a bleedin witch! Better ... sorta not really but it's getting there no ?
Called it.
Just making sure--we all called that, right? Pretty sure we all called that.
Yep. If they weren't on to the fact that Mal's got a superpower and it's a Chekov's Gun, they got it rubbed in their face with this:
[http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-20th-2015/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/january-20th-2015/")
He just took the feeling from Wolfe and bound and dispelled Wrath in a manner that even IT had a shocked look on it's face. There's a consequence to that. Big one.
And...it's still fitting all the same...
"in a direction contrary to the sun's course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise."
Where else, but in Widdershins, can you find the Wrong? >:-D
I did not call it :(
Well, points to you for honesty
Jack O'malley may have accidentally started the apocalypses, this could have been the entire comic in it self.
No, it was Wolfe who was responsible, though with the best of intentions. On his own, Jack would never have come anywhere near Widdershins.
yeah, Jack deeply loathe looking at wizards, gives him a headache. going near an anchor? bound to see a lot of those around
And ain't he gonna be happy at the news?
"so,congratz, you are the new witch of Widdershins, which mean you are kinda in charge of protecting the Anchor now, you are going to deal with wizards for the rest of your life" ... "i know you aren't kidding cause i can see your spirit, can you just kill me now?"
Don't you mean good news and best news?
Well, no, I guess 'best news' would be Ben and Mal are getting married and have legally adopted the Hippo of Happiness...
but surely at least good and better?
I cannot upvote this enough.
"So good of God to bring Ben and Mal together. That means there'll only be two unhappy people, rather than four."
"You can see Spirits. Don't you ever wonder where you learned it all?"
"Learned what?"
"You're a Witch Jack"
"Don't you mean a Wizard?"
"I know what I bloody said! You precious flower, you."
"I will throw you in front of a moving train!"
"Geez, no need to be witch about it princess."
"You're a witch, Jack."
"I'm a wot?!"
"You're a witch, Jack"
"I'm a witch?!"
For some reason that entire video just popped into my head, why
it would go more like :" You're a witch jack!" " I'm a wot?!" A witch jack! "A which wot??" " no not a which wot a witch witch jack!" ahh you're daft!
Who's on first?
Oh boy.
And he's gonna be so happy about it, too:)
I'm sorry I can't believe this. Captain Barber tore a piece out of her official log book?! GASP!! I suppose she has just realised Widdershins is doomed and doesn't care any more.
Desperate times call for desperate measures... ;)
You're assuming she doesn't have a backup copy or two stashed somewhere! Or maybe realizing she has to deal with O'Malley again just tends to make her want to tear things.
For those who can't read the journal extract:
"...who claims he entered Widdershins on the morning of the 19th. O'Malley and Wolfe then..."
Pretty sure this has been said before, but: I KNEW IT!
But it wasn't Jack O'Malley's idea to ge in Widdershin, or even be in England in the first place.
Hahahaha what :D
raises a sign saying 'DUM' raises a second sign saying 'DUM' raises a third sign saying 'DAAAAAAAAAH!!'
Three signs. ....Does that mean you got three arms?
Coulda taped one to a knee.
Don't know which would be more amusing, watching Ivresse raise a sign taped to their knee or watching them taping said sign to the knee.
Or a foot. Both feet. High kicks!
On a related note, [silent monks singing Hallelujah.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA").
For those who understand German: [https://www.youtube.com/wat...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm4tVaP18j4 "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm4tVaP18j4")
Hahahahahaha! Danke! My German is pretty rusty, but I understood a lot more than expected. I have to re-watch it soon and actually look up a few words.
Oh, and for those who're reading this conversation, the German is all written so it's not too hard to sit with a dictionary and translate your way through. Makes good practice as well.
or use google translate in another browser window at the same time.
Google Translate should be used with caution, though. It doesn't always translate things correctly and can even change the whole meaning of a sentence. So if one knows a barely minimum of German I'd advise using a physical or an online dictionary instead when watching this video.
I wasn't suggesting typing the entire skit into it - it'll translate single words too, you know. And it's more convenient than a dictionary because you can have it open on the same screen next to something you are reading/watching.
Yes, GT doesn't get idioms correct all the time - but then again, traditional dictionaries don't generally do a great job with them either. I also use Wiktionary and several special purpose online dictionaries b-marked for unusual/tricky languages (eg Latin, Gaelic)
I also like to use linguee, mainly for idioms, it gives a corpus of many in-context "real-life" translations.
I'm pretty sure an exclamation point appeared above my head as I read the last panel.
Well Nicola, that comes as a surprise to very few of the readers.
I guess they should have invited O'Malley and Wolfe to the family conclave after all. It seems likely that Jack is going to have to be involved in cleaning this up, and he's probably going to need to know everything they've just discussed in order to do that.
Oh, and training from Izzy is probably going to be more useful to him than training from Ben will be.
Prediction: when they go to fetch Jack, they'll discover that he's vanished mysteriously.
Well, something has to go wrong some way. We have 100+ pages to fill, and right now that is going to be 100 pages of school lessons. Definitely better that that the world is threatened.
Knew iiiiiiiiiiiiit. And, really, Nicola. How rude. O'Malley is the best news. All the time.
For us viewers, sure. The people who actually have to deal with him might disagree.
Nicola and Ben might have issues dealing with Mal, but Wolfe's got no trouble.
I'm sure dealing with Mal could be perfectly pleasant! 'specially with a nice bottle of whisky . . .
Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES!
Have we ever considered that Wolfe might be Luxuria? He did bring O'Malley after all.
Interesting theory, but I can't see Luxuria acting the way Wolfe did in this strip [http://www.widdershinscomic...](http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-20th-2012/ "http://www.widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/august-20th-2012/") even if Luxuria was pretending to be a nice guy to advance his evil plot. After all, no one who is important is a witness here. Also, Luxuria would probably be motivated to prevent the Barber's from hearing about Voss' warning (that he got for from Envy's thoughts) rather than passing it along like Wolfe did.
And he'd sure as heck wouldn't have let them use the calm to bind and dispel Wrath like they did. Wrath had quite the shocked look on it's face when Mal drove the calm home on him. BOOM! Bound...Dispelled.
It seems more likely that Wolfe would be aligned with the Heavenly Virtue of Benevolentia (aka Kindness). I know that Chastity is the direct counter of Lust, but that doesn't seem quite right for Wolfe's character (to be honest, he seems to have decent quantities of all the Virtues).
Aaayyii! I love this comic so much! Thank you Kate! You da bomb dot com!
I love how we know who she means and why all the 'bad news' but I'm fairly certain that next page the entire house will go 'who, exactly?'
Harry's met him, but since it was about a year ago in comic time the entire introduction was "this is Mal" and she proceeded to nap most of the time they were together she probably doesn't remember him at all.
On the other hand Florrie probably definitely remembers him ("Ye've gotta leave, though. I promised yer sister ye'd be alright an' I like my kneecaps too much t' break a promise t' her.")
Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahaha, Ohhhhh gods.
Well this will go well give Jack O'malley's ...personality XD
I imagine O'Malley's response will be the same as a wise sqid... "With great power comes great responsibility and who wants that?"
[http://freefall.purrsia.com...](http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01733.htm "http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1800/fc01733.htm")
It IS Mal, after all... >:-D
Well, Wolfe did say maybe there would be people who knew what Mal was in Widdershins! And it only took endangering the city or worse for them to take notice!
Ha!
Ooh, I can just hear her tone of voice in the last panel.
You just know Mal will do whatever is necessary with style and . . . surprise. But still, why do we need Barbers? Is it necessary to wipe out the clan? Children and puppies and all? I am imagining a scene a faire involving dogs and Mal and a hippo and little girls . . .
dun dun DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN
PLOT TWIST.
Rude alert, rude alert! Battle stationery! This is not a daffodil, I repeat, THIS IS NOT A DAFFODIL!
I saw this coming and I love it. It's like my head cannon just became cannon.
Two questions:
1) Does this mean Izzy gets to train O'Malley? Guarantee she won't take any of his sauce...
2) Since the witch who released Lust was some sort of ancestor of Izzy's - right? - and if O'Malley was fated/born to be Widdershins' witch - is O'Malley in some manner related to that witch and thus to the Barbers?
3) Special, extra-point bonus question: if he is related, how is Nicola going to react when she finds out?
C'mon Nic, just admit your new hate crush is nothing but trouble :D
You have no idea how giddy this makes me feel.
It's the f**king penultimate denouement up in here!
I can see Jack trying to nope all the way to Timbuktu when he hears this.
Bum bum BUM! Nice!