October 1st, 2012
2 Oct 2012 · page 140 of 1306
Hey guys! It's the last week of this storyline, seems like it's gone quite fast, really.. We'll have some guest art, sketches, and character Q&As running next week, then we'll start the next story, Vanishing Act.
If you'd like to send us some fanart, please email me at kojiro_muyo@hotmail.com, and let me know what name you want to be credited as, and any site you'd like linked.
Ask a character a question, and I'll sketch a response! Anyone from either story, it's all good! Use the form on Tumblr here, no need to register!
Hope you're still enjoying the comic, and are looking forward to a new story as much as I am!
Cast: Benjamin Thackerey, Heinrich Wolfe, Jack O'Malley, Nicola Barber
Comments (13)
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If they're all released near Widdershins, they're going to start the internet!
Oh, the horror!
Don't be silly. The internet can't be started in earnest until Lust is released.
The internet is, after all, for porn.
And we definitely need Wrath, for the flame wars and such.
And exactly what part of "all of them" doesn't include Wrath and Lust?
I thought the internet was cats now?
If they're all released near Widdershins...
With Greed being given back his stolen freedom...
With circumstance granting Sloth his freedom...
But nah. It's all coincidence. There's certainly no overarching storyline tying together these otherwise separate events. That'd just be silly.
I notice Mal is looking up rather unhappily in panel 3 -- at the freed Sloth, I would guess, which only he can see.
Um, does Ben know about Greed being released? If I understand the timeline correctly, the final battle at the Thieves' Guild would've only been a few days prior to this. Does Ben know about more Deadlies being out and about? Or has Greed already made his presence known to those who study such things?
I would bet that it's not really known that Greed is on the loose. It wasn't exactly a major and public event, with lots of trustworthy witnesses and so forth. And barring some kind of magic sealing circle, which Greed isn't stuck in any longer, only someone like Mal would be likely to notice it.
I will shamefully admit it took me until today's to actually add two and two together and realize the connection with the previous story (I haven't really checked the comments before today). However, now that I've started analyzing it I find it interesting that most of the spirits seem to desperately want to get back to their "home" but apparently not the "deadlies", I wonder if this could be a key difference. Also, the way Ben says it it seems like there is more to this than just powerful spirits of the less pleasant side of human character causing all sorts of problems. I can't wait to get my hands on more pieces of lore and try to figure it out. It seems very unlikely two (so far) releases in such a short time would be coincidences so I'm curious what design could be behind this and if there are already clues that, by the end of the story, I'll be looking back at and wondering how obvious they were.
Whatever the case after Darken I fully expect all sort of twists and turns before this ends.
'Vanishing Act'...I am going to guess Gluttony or maybe Envy.
hooray! A happy ending. Now I suppose there's a basic question to ask, is each story going to involve a new small cast or will these cast members entertwine eventually?
I.. don't really want to give too much away. Some will be back, some won't, some will be back with different people around them.. Eh, you'll see. Sorry!