October 30th, 2018
30 Oct 2018 · page 846 of 1306
For an already terrible plan, this is actually going worse than imagined.
Cast: Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Okay, this guy is waaaay too suave. I know on an academic level that I probably shouldn't trust him, but I can't help but like him anyway. That response in panel one is freaking classic.
Look at it this way, Vincent -- if he does escape then you're PROBABLY off the hook anyway.
It's just a shame he didn't think to bring a supply of spoons
Except for not stopping him?
His job is executioner, not prison guard :P
Let me guess - Will Sharpe invented an orgone accumulator, and the powers that be didn't like it. And back at this time and place, the powers that be had the means to deal with him rather more rapidly and succinctly than they did with Wilhelm Reich. I don't think Dr. Reich was that smarmy, though. Of course, this would be right up Eliza Swift's street...
Eliza: Banned research! Suppressed theories! Secrets and conspiracies in the corridors of power! OOOOOH! I have GOT to build myself one of these cloudbusters!!
>:=)>
...I'd flunk him on principle.
Anybody who thinks they're that hot while smarming that smugly is unlikely to be channelling Popper. <_<
"The dissertation of the century" turned out to be a crime against magic? I'm with Vincent - what the heck was in that essay?!
It explains that there is more efficient, simple and cheap way of doing things than magic? :) Just kidding.
Seriously, I think it had something to do with phasmia-psychology.
>Seriously, I think it had something to do with phasmia-psychology.
That would make sense, since Dr. Flack seemed to be particularly upset by it.
I know the death penalty is wrong and all, but this guy's attitude is making me feel a lot less sorry for him. Maybe there are some more cooperative convicts someplace that Knott could go help.
Okay, so I'm thinking that the Deadly that's gonna be involved here is Pride. This guy is waaaaaaay too smug for someone who is about to be executed.
I dunno, Luxuria managed a similarly smug smile when Queen Elizabeth had it executed for being a very naughty Duke of Kent.
Plus, my money is that this setting has room for more than seven villains. :-)
I thought the Deadly storyline was over? We're starting something new here. (although I suppose the deadlies can still appear)
It is over, as far as I remember, but in-universe, the Deadly attack was just a month earlier, meaning that it's still highly possible for his crimes against magic to be tied up with them somehow. Mentioning them and the fallout from their appearance doesn't mean they'll be back as characters or as the focus of the story... :)
(On the other hand, I also semi-remember Kate saying that this new round will focus on something like Jungian archetypes instead of the Deadlies, so chances are good Pretty Boy's crimes are tied up with those somehow.. :P )
Well, if it's Jungian Archetypes, then this guy, rather fittingly, may fall under the Magician.
I don't know what it is, but something about him, especially in Panel 2, feels like he belongs in the 1920's. Not that I think there's time travel afoot, just, I guess in the same way that Kate has said Jillian Danderby fits in here a lot better than the high medieval fantasy setting she was created in.
Well, Kate has the best comment so far, lol.
I’m beginning to suspect that Will got stuck in a mirror even faster than Dr. Flack did...
He was trapped before Pride even entered the building.
He was stuck there even before Pride got summoned.
stuck? NO it was his choice, his DESTINY to become 1 with that mirror!
Desummoning pride, well now hes no longer in a mirror he's a little upset about it let's just put it that way.
I didn't say he was "unwillingly stuck"
ah its just usually using the word 'stuck' alone often implies it.
Well, sometimes it means other things.
For instance...that it was his home.
Wow these problem people just get more and more handsome. The hair alone . . .
You've been hit by
on the nose by
a spoooon criminal
Sentenced to incarceration/
for his stunning dissertation/
His miscalculation tragic/
for his crime was against magic/
Tho' he frightened his professor/
seems he needed no confessor/
when what walked into his gaol-room/
was a hang-man with a problem.
Knotty are you okay?
are you okay Knotty?
Well no hijinks so far.
Shenanigans?
This brings up a good point--does the tradition of an executioner staying the night in the jail stem from the idea that he can keep watch to make sure the prisoner doesn't escape? That would make sense, as far as why it was considered part of the job.
A thought occurs. What if he's to be hanged not for the dissertation itself, but for whatever research he had to do for it?
I'm not really sure an essay is a good reason to execute someone. Maybe if he was detailing necromantic practices if those even exist in this world and advocating making armies of zombies to kill everyone.
Or maybe he wrote it in comic sans.
...with maliciously misplaced apostrophe’s.
The university has a very harsh plagiarism policy.
Sharpe proposed that the ancient standing stones at Stonehenge, Avebury, Rollright, Castlerigg and other forbidden sites be dug up from their secure burial sites and re-erected, and the Old Earth Magic be released and allowed to re-establish the ley lines across the Kingdom. Such evil was defeated long ago by the Wizards of True Magic. To even suggest such a rash course of action is deserving of the severest punishment. Can you imagine the terrible world riven by prejudice, violence, division and injustice that would result if the Earth Magic were to rise from the depths to rule once more?
I'm sure this'll get trampled by canon eventually but...
I ship it.
Coming back here just to say I TOLD YOU SO AND I SHIPPED IT FIRST.
"You mean you're guilty?"
"Not emotionally."
This dialogue is brilliant, and you're killing me.