May 19th, 2020
19 May 2020 · page 988 of 1306
sad to report that mcm may, mcm manchester and mcm glasgow have all been cancelled! understandable, but still sad. hope to see some of y'all at next year's round of conventions instead.
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Eliza Swift, Gren, Jack O'Malley
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No wonder Mal has a headache, after a train ride with all these people. I wonder if he knows Ben is there in panel 5...
I've taken it's more like the crowd on the station hurts him. There are a lot of people between Ben and O'Malley, and also it seems Mal looks another way!
It's probably a cumulative headache - first the crowd on the train, then the crowd at the station.
Not to mention having his head thumped whenever someone knocks on his door. Can't help matters, I daresay.
Perhaps the American goon is a powerful wizard.
It tends to be wizards that cause this reaction in Mal. While Ben is a wizard, we have seen that his aura is not all that bright as far as wizards go. Some have speculated that there are a lot of wizards here in the station for graduation (Nah & Pat), but as Sturzkampf has pointed out, it is also possible that big American fellah is a powerful wizard himself. It could, of course, be both reasons (or neither).
In the beginning of ch. 2, we see him suffering among the big audience of Wolfe's violin. It got better when Wolfe starts to play, though.
I see all the comment section shippers made a cameo in panel 2
I'm pretty sure there are more shippers who aren't there.
I see Ben continues to have only the front half of a plan.
True, but I'm sure he'd prefer time to carefully work out a plan, and he realizes he doesn't have that time, so credit to him for bravely jumping into awkward and dangerous situations to do what he can.
Better than having only the back half
I hate to imagine what Captain Barber would say if a man were to offer her a hand to help her down from the train.
Well, Eliza did offer him a hand to help him up on the train, so they are quits now! :)
We see who has the high ground in this relationship ;D
The real page cliffhanger...waiting for Mal to finally deal with that Ecstatic Eminence of Energy, Eliza
the front two characters in panel 2 make me think of Nursey and Dex from Check, Please!
Are some well timed wizards walking in between Mal and Ben there?
Probably. The graduation is soon.
constant people headaches would make me antisocial too
"He got off the train in <name of previous stop>" strikes me as a sufficiently plausible lie here.
And we didn't get off there because . . . umm, we were coming here to update you, er, your boss, that is . . . Yeah, umm, you know, just to let you know, umm, how our search was progressing. So . . . you should go tell him now, and, you know, leave the station right now. Yeah.
If you cut out all the umms, it's a pretty good reason.
Is this guy a Confederate veteran of The Late Unpleasantness Between the States?
'Cos that sure looks like a Confederate uniform.
If the timeline of history is the same as in our world, the Unpleasantness isn't Late yet - this is still only the 1830s.
duh
{hides face in shame}