Find the Lady
20 Feb 2015 · page 467 of 1306
How is it time for volume six already? My word. Well, let's get cracking.
Cast: Henry Barber, Isabelle Holt
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GENDERBEND.
Oh this is going to be fun.
Oh. Oh! I didn't even... oh.
... Oh.
Let's do this.
oh my god I didn't even realize, not even a bit
Oh yes, yes it is!
Okay, people. Lady Ashwin has listed two characters as being IN THIS PAGE, above. Henry Barber, and Isabelle Holt. Which means that the people here are the Barber clan's patriarch and someone who I really hope is Sidney's mom, but is in no way a gender bent character. (Sorry. That would have been cool.) Gotta point out, Sidney has never been the timid, curl-his-hand up sort.
It's worth noting I only added on the listings later. Sid really quite rarely would look nervous, especially in the face of interesting danger!
Well, now I feel half-silly twice. Once for thinking I'd missed the listing, and once for getting all worked up thinking everybody else missed it too.
Haha, don't, you're the one who gave me a little hope by pointing out that Sidney doesn't act like that!
I almost pointed it out yesterday, suggesting that we've been around Ben and his typical reactions-in-the-face-of danger.
You deceived me. Do you enjoy toying with my trust? Is that it? Why must you hurt me in this way?
Oh hush. You know you like it.
On the previous page it says that she is Grandma Barber.
A chapter about Gramma and Grandpa Barber?
I sure hope so 030
Sidney and Harry were related all along!!!1one
They can't be! They can't be a couple if they're related!
It depends on how closely they're related, if they are. Most places allow first cousins to marry.
I'm quite sure about that as the big grandparents' backstory was announced in the last chapter...
New characters?! Yay! :D
I was hoping that the comments would be able to tell me who the two characters are. Instead, there are three different theories. I suppose I'll have to be patient and wait for the story to tell me what's going on
I cheated and checked which one Kate A upvoted. Spoiler alert, I guess?
The characters on the page are LISTED above the comments, y'all.
They weren't before, I mostly did it because people seemed to be getting hyped for a thing I wasn't doing!
I like Harry especially as the gender is already is, guys! Her whole point is going against gender conventions, it'd kinda blunt that to just make her a dude.
Sorry, sorry. I'll calm down.
Oh don't, I was only replying here too in case someone missed the other reply. No-one's done anything wrong! :)
So genderflipped Harry heads straight for Florrie's wardrobe?
Thank you - I like androgyny and going against gender conventions - yay Harry, keep expanding people's ideas of how women look and what they do.
Are we finally going to meet the elusive Barber brother?!?!?!?!
I hope so. I've been dying for a cameo.
Ah, would this be the chapter on Lust?
Oooh a new pair of protagonists \\o/
Have you ever thought about a Gort cameo?
I think Gort was on a poster. Jill showed up once also.
Gort doesn't thrill me as a possible crossover/cameo.
I'd like to see Jill and the Barbers butt heads...
Jill was there back in No Rest for the Wicked.
Personally, I want to see how Lady Ashwin (I am totally stealing that appellation, AJ) would handle putting Komiyan into Widdershins. He's already got the 1830's era pawn-broker glasses, but I wonder how he'd hide his ears...
I believe I've missed the Gort-one, but we have had a couple of Darken-cameos: [http://www.dragoneers.com/c...](http://www.dragoneers.com/crossovers/index.php?comic=Widdershins "http://www.dragoneers.com/crossovers/index.php?comic=Widdershins") :-)
Was that "Gort With The Wind?"
Jeepers, I don't know! I read Darken AFTER the Jill cameo, so I only know the Gort one happened because of the comments.
Let's see, we've had gluttony (4), envy (5), pride (3), greed (1), sloth (2). Wrath and Lust are the remaining ones, right? (Despite Wrath's cameo in the last chapter.) I'm leaning towards Lust for some reason.
Judging by the red hair and pipe, I'm guessing that the genderbend theory is the correct one: that fellow looks remarkably like Harry, which would make the lady there Sid . . . though these could be entirely new characters as well, won't know until the story starts!
Not scowly enough for Harry?
Hmm, very possible. Genderbend was my first impression on seeing it, what with the pipe and the glasses on the lady, but it could well be wrong.
Why, who else wears glasses? :)
Resemblance could still be because this is her Grandad and they're related.
The characters listed for this page are Henry Barber and Isabelle Holt. Not Harry Barber and Sidney Malik. So this can't be genderbent.
Ah, I hadn't noticed what characters were listed.
I've been meaning to ask, how did you choose the name Widdershins? I know of two different uses of the word, and I'm curious about what meaning it has here.
I only know of one (anti-clockwise, especially as the direction used for spells and spooky things.) What was the other?
Specifically, widdershins originally meant walking anti-clockwise around a church, which superstition claimed brought bad fortune. More recently, it was used by Terry Pratchett in his Discworld series as the direction opposite the spin of Discworld.
Looks like lust will be making their debut, this promises to be fun.
It could still be new characters! My genderbend theory was just my first impression. Like another reader said, the man isn't scowling like Harry usually does.
And considering that the last story ended with Wolfe saying that they need to talk about something he learned about the Barber family, storywise, a chapter about the Barber clan's parents would seem to make much more sense.
(And honestly, I'm finding gender-bending stories becoming a major cliche, so I'm glad Widdershins isn't going ahead with one when there's other stories to tell in its universe.)
Lovely cover. I'm guessing from the colour-theme that this is Lust because it looks a darker deeper red than the colours Wrath was last chapter. Gotta admit I've been wondering how you'd do Lust since I read book 2.
Also because I am a bad person I sent you drawings of the Purple Hippo of Happiness and the crown jewels.....I'm not sorry.
Oh my. Looks like it's time to see the adventures of Henry Barber, then? My money's on Lust for this chapter, which I'll be very curious to see.
No surprise that Harry could use a shave. Very chic Sid!
Aaaand LUST is in the building.
This'll be good.
If this is a switcherooni, what of Gren?
I'm just glad to see a pipe smoldering.
There are probably clues in the colors that I can't see well. I don't think her hair is the same color as Harriet's, but I can't be sure. Lots of ponytails in this comic. Her nose is much too dainty for a Barber. He has a Barber nose....
I do know that that is NOT Harriet's pipe! She favors a bent stem, and that pipe shape is a classic straight billiard.
And so, with great faith in Miss Ashwin's story-writing skills, I am expecting something much more clever than a body-switching yarn.
I would like to posit yet another theory: We have been sent into an alternate universe! Where Sid is a female accountant, and Harry is actually a Harry. Except slightly more confused than usual, instead of angry.
OOOH! New characters! Gimmie gimmie gimmie!
yes to the yes to the hells yes! i was wondering who those two were from the TWC incentive!
This is the easiest Where's Waldo type game I've ever done!
Okay, we got the front page and I'm already hooked for this chapter... well played Kate, well played...
So it's time for the grandparents story!!
excited noises !
Hey, remember when a demon was about to blow up a mansion full of people to summon another one?
No, no, that was okay.
NOW I'm scared!
Edit: Oh, wait, they are not gender bent characters, false alarm, thank Christ.
Hm, is "Find the Lady" the English version of the French saying "Cherchez la femme"?
It's the name for "find the pea under one of the three shells." But you are also right, it could mean "Cherchez la femme" as well.
Ah, in that case this would be a good time to link me to those so I could make up for that ;-)
Is that like Find the Fish?
Hoohoo~! :D Another chapter with Henry! And, dare I hope, Sid? ;)
So, with the title of "Find the Lady," I'm wondering if there will be a game of Three Card Monte? ( [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-card_Monte") )
"CAD'S CRADLE!!!!"
Is that... HARRY AND SID?!? O.O
Ooh, this is where I lost track of Widdershins! Everything from now on will be new for me!!!