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14 Nov 2026 – 15 Nov 2026
Harrogate Convention Centre
Manchester Megacon
31 Jul 2027 – 1 Aug 2027
Manchester Central
Today's targeted advert on Widdershins = funeral directors. Thank you so much.
I'm getting prescription glasses. So jealous.
It's been [Videogamer.com](http://Videogamer.com "Videogamer.com") for me every time I've visited in recent memory. Though I'm opted out of every targeted ad service I could find, so that might just be what this site defaults to when no targeting data is available. People who read web-comics also being gamers seems like a pretty safe bet to me, demographics-wise.
Accepting that adverts are a necessary evil in exchange for free content, I'd rather have directed ads that might actually be of some interest. At my age you expect ads for funeral directors and gentlemen's incontinence pads. I do, however, object to the assumption that all sixty-year-old white British males regard Genghis Khan as a dangerous pinko, so I'lI want to see ads for the Brexit party conference.
Accepting that ads are a necessary evil and begrudgingly tolerating their presence (within reason) is as far as I'm willing to go. I'm not gonna click on them anyway, regardless of how "personalized" they've deluded themselves into believing they are, so they might as well keep their algorithms to themselves.
extremely fair. i keep getting ads for lasik, which i don't need because i already had it, so they're not exactly pinpoint accurate yet.
I hope you mean the ads. It'd suck if the Lasik surgery wasn't accurate.
the laser did actually fail to fire for one eye so round 1 wasn't super-accurate tbh
Actually, the ad worked exactly as intended: you mentioned it to another group of people. That was the best investment the ad agency ever made.
except i neither remembered nor passed on the name of the place in question :V
Personally I go for the AdBlock + Patreon combo: more money for the creator, less money and data for the ad giants. Unfortunately not everyone can afford that, though =/
And today. Dietary supplements to combat joint pain. Also advert for laptop computer that I do not object to at all.
If they were really accurate, I'd get nothing but porn ads.
I'ma blame that for the deodorant ad I'm getting, then :D
Roast Sesh 🔥🔥🔥
the takings in the... tills ?
the money in the apothecary's till :)
ooooh
You might call it a cash register?
Cash?
Huh, I wonder if she was just nearest where greed hit or if that's the one she's most susceptible to. Love these questions and the answers!
If one looks at the map, then yes, greed was the nearest one to Swift's shop.
Yeah, I think if it went strictly by "Which are you most vulnerable to" I would think Envy (she hates being shut out of Knowing Important Things) or Wrath ("THE WHOLE DAMN SYSTEM IS ROTTEN AND SHOULD BE TORN DOWN!") would've won out.
I was half-expecting her to say she'd been part of the Wrath-induced mob at the Gibbet Street station. Although now that I think about it, the mob was calling for the prisoners to be hanged, and even under the influence of Wrath I think she would remember how her best friend feels about that.
I could see her staging a counter-protest. Which might be a rival mob or might be just her alone brandishing weaponry.
Hell, I could see Eliza staging a counter protest by herself even without supernatural influences.
I would've guessed Pride. Not the self-absorbed sort of pride like Will, but the "I'm the smartest person in the room, and I know it" sort.
Actually, yeah, probably Pride would be her biggest weakness out of the 7. Though the smug passivity of literally dwelling on in one's reflection doesn't suit her well. The people have a right to know! Both the facts in question and that Eliza knew them first!
I need a poster of Eliza's global destruction (the sheer epicness of it is epic)
Will's one of the bubbles on this page! [https://widdershinscomic.co...](https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-14th-2017 "https://widdershinscomic.com/wdshn/july-14th-2017") sorry idk how to proper link
"I only got in because my parents are rich," or "I've been lying about my exam results"?
(None of the characters visible on panel look like Will to me, but some are low-detail enough that the might not not be Will.)
The one that's like "we're not doing the right thing but it's too late," he's not in the frame though.
The "we're not doing the right thing" is part of the set with "I've been having second thoughts about the wedding" and "I've always loved her". That's probably not Will, just a little vignette Katie fit into that one panel. Always thought that was neat.
I didn't think those three were coming from the same person, though. I assumed each speech bubble was coming from a different person having their own Humbling Epiphany(TM)(R) (patent pending).
I didn't say they were from the same person, I said it's from the same set. It's a story about three people, two of whom are getting married and don't want to, and the third who actually does love the bride.
Kate confirmed it was Will on tumblr :) [https://katedrawscomics.tum...](https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/185517859312/buggerup-busters-so-i-was-just-rereading-curtain "https://katedrawscomics.tumblr.com/post/185517859312/buggerup-busters-so-i-was-just-rereading-curtain")
Ms Swift, have you never tried shooting the mountain anchor first? Or possibly experimenting with ribbons and gum?
How about a metal rod with a sharp point at one end? A globe can't be hard to pierce, and there's no risk of ricochet.
Ribbons and gum?
Take a thin ribbon and use a little gum (that's glue, not chewing gum) and attach one end to Widdershins. Stretch the ribbon around the globe so it passes over Everest and then round back to Widdershins. Then mark of distances on the ribbon to locate the positions of the other two anchors. I've been trying this method to locate the fifth and sixth anchors, but with limited success.
I'm wheezing over that last panel. Poor Knotty, all that tea...
I AM BECOME ELIZA, DESTROYER OF WORLDS!
I laughed pretty hard at the fact that Parsley is rating people based on how easy they are to bite.
Cats are generally adorable, fluffy little sadists.
Beware: "5 of their 6 ends are pointy" -Calvin, about sleeping Hobbs
Haha, yeah, I loved that too! Probably true of my cat too. I can never tell if they're love nips or leave-me-alone-and-just-be-my-heated-chair-while-I-nap-in-peace nips...
Soft and squishy, soft and squishy, sharp and pointy...
Heck, he only gave Knotty the tea so he could watch him spit-take.
Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
to the name of this town in a desktop globe
exit wound in a foreign nation
marking the home of the one this was written for
Will really out here bein a bottom huh
will
i didn't hit send too fast this is all i wanted to say
Not that I was around back then, but considering the time period Widdershins most of the time showcases, would fancy globes really be something that's considered antique?
do not overthink the single panel joke, my friend
Why, I'd never...
...
Stop doing that. :D
I mean, I'm not saying it wasn't possible. Could be that the older globes are just more ley-line accurate than the modern "sciency ones". XD
I have a suggestion for Eliza. If nothing else, it might make her lectures a bit more popular.
She'll need to introduce her globe-supplier to a certain local pastry-chef, and point to some Norwegian "ebelskievers".
"Like those, but bigger. And you'll need to be able to frost them with as accurate a globe-pattern as possible."
Or she might look up a confectioner, and ask for marshmallows or similar 'soft' stuff (still capable of retaining its shape at room temperature for at least an hour) the size of her head, dipped in some sort of sugar-frosting and, again, decorated with the most-accurate possible globe-pattern.
If worse comes to worst, she can always hire tattoo-apprentices to practice drawing globes (WITHOUT inks) on the largest oranges, apples, and coconuts available...