It’s all go in Boscastle
Who’s your favourite sorcerous figure on-stage at Witchfork x Oggy Oggy? I know there are a lot of Endora Rahm and Debra Blight fans, but like everyone else, I’m a huge Sorrel fan. I am very sorry to have to disappoint you and say that Sorrel doesn’t appear at any further point in this story. Let’s hope the “Maven of the Craven” manifests in a future arc.
Question, Is the cat in the second to last panel a familiar or just an ordinary household pet?
Or a witch who has shapeshifted?
Or a cat that happens to be a witch?
It is an unfamiliar. We know the type.
The squirrel does seem to be showing a preference for Sorrel. The name that sort-of sounds like “squirrel” if you squint with your ears a bit. Is this a coincidence?
Is the fox interested in Sorrel, or the squirrel?
It looks like the fox is studying the floor plan, no doubt to make sure they don’t miss anything important while they’re there. Foxes are pretty smart.
In my opinion, the squirrel is the most evil thing in this panel. The ones that frequent my garden and yard are demonic. I am engaged in yearslong battle. N
I have to wonder if Debra is any relation to the witch Amity Blight.
Maybe it’s just me, but someone is following them. That witch in the first panel behind the billboard looks familiar and way too much interested.
Or maybe that person is not a witch, but a witchsmeller pursuivant.
Very good one, Sean
And with all the witches in that place they are interesting just in the only two not witch around? Actually, that make senese.
Billie has a real talent for placing her arms in just the right angles so that the patterns in her dress continue seamlessly on the sleeves. Impressive fashion sense, that girl.
It takes a lot of effort to look that effortless.
Maybe she’s related to Stan Stanman.
This is an artistic tour de force. Bravo!
YES! The details are fantastic. Lady with crutch talking to Mountain Man and a dwarf. The guy (kid?) with the hair-horns sitting in front of the sign putting something (a tablet? Phone?) in some sort of pouch (or maybe he’s putting cash into his large wallet). Eyepatch guy peeking out from behind the sign. Just so much going on!
I can definitely identify 2 cats, a fox, and a squirrel, but I’m not sure what the flying creature in panel 1 is.
My vote would be “bat”. I can just make out the pointy ears.
Hm, zooming in on it, the eyes and what could be a beak make me think it’s an owl. Although the gray color may more say bat.
Perhaps it’s an owl/bat hybrid of some sort. I’m not sure what you’d call that, though. The words “bowl” and “oat” are both already taken.
Fans of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job will surely remember Cinco’s “B’owl”.
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or Sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee.
Is Emo Phone Witch two seats behind Billie going to come into play? Or Purple Jumpsuit up above? Lot of good extras this page.
I quite like Emo Phone Witch. Also the Hogwarts dropouts in panel 1. This whole page is a feast!
So there’s a deal between Tredgreyn and Boscastle like there is between Tackleford and Wendlefield?
Presumably, the same feud that exists between any two small adjacent towns.
My favorite daytime TV witch is Bethesda Concurrent. She predicted my hernia, and casts the best black and midnight spells. You’d be amazed what she can do with a ginger root and a carrot peeler.
Shirley I am not the only one tired and cranky about this collab fad? X this, x that, xxxx right off!
I find it tiresome x affected
You know, Maggie, there is such a thing as white witchcraft. Mrs. C probably still wouldn’t approve, but just being here isn’t inherently evil.
Agreed, but I don’t really think ANY of the things on Mrs. C’s list are inherently evil. Maggie is a reasonably nice person, so it’s only natural that she would want to respect Mrs. C’s wishes about what is OK within the walls of Mrs. C’s home. However, she seems to be taking this much, much further than that, as if winning Mrs. C’s approval has become a fundamental test of how good a person she is. I don’t see this ending well.
Maybe less a question of winning her approval and more not wanting to let her down — she’s trusted Maggie with the care of the house in her absence, and Maggie has promised to abide by the rules, however judgey they may seem. (And in Mrs. C’s defence, stand-up parties can be murder on a carpet. All those ground-in canapes.)
Is that Mr 45 talking to the witch with the crutch? If so, where be Romantic Rick? As a well-known ladies man, you’d assume he’d be all over this like a flannel
A little shoutout to Boscastle. I looked it up and discovered it’s a quaint coastal village with its own museum of witchcraft and magic. The ideal location for this event!
It’s a lovely wee place and the museum is absolutely worth a visit
Out of interest, does Reverend Penrose have any actual regular Sunday parishioners at all, or is every civilian in Tredregyn a Satanist? Even the little old ladies prefer to have singalongs at Magus Tom’s joint.
It just seems that between devil-worshippers running his own town, this comic revealing that witches run the next town, and marauding mermen baying at his porch, the poor old vicar really is completely besieged!
Penrose does tell Mrs C to “play them a tape” in Author Unknown part 2, then admits to Lottie that “there isn’t even a player for the tapes”. Does that imply that there isn’t a congregation, either? But then who is “them”? Mrs C does seem expectant that there would be a service, even if she was the only one there.
His Christmas service had a pretty good attendance: https://steeple.church/comic/hes-such-a-delicate-flower/
True, but I understood that was just because it was Christmas: modern Britain may be a spiritually dead nation (someone earlier this year wished me a “happy Good Friday”, which made my head hurt) but even incorrigible heathens who would normally burst into flames if they passed under the lychgate still show up for Christmas and Easter. Even the Sesh Gremlin doesn’t see it as a party-pooper! In any case, it’s not indicative of the usual weekly turnout.
Well sure, I agree it’s not indicative of the weekly turnout (which seems to be pretty close to zero), but nonetheless it means a good number of people DO show up at the church to attend at least one of the Reverend’s services per year. That’s not nothing.
Congregations would just suck time away from monster hunting and axe practice. The Rev. may be pining superficially for a attendance, but in his heart of hearts he’s glad there’s noone there because they would drive him crazy. In any case, I see him as more of an action cleric. He seems like a younger version of Father Unwin from Secret Service, with the Model T, Gabriel, modernised to a lustrous Hyundai, Gareth. Sooner or later he’ll invent the Minimiser (for Desmond?) and become clean shaven and bespectacled.
The Church of England is less a religion, and more a social club with cake sales and infrequent reminders about the carpenter’s lad.
“Where were you? Where were you? Where were you in mid-July?“
I picture the congregation as two or three (max seven) superannuated old dears, every service except midnight mass at Christmas.
I would expect a number of townspeople might come to services just to gaze at the right reverend.
I am paid to play piano for a congregation exactly like that.
That building looks a bit modern for Boscastle. Glass walls? I don’t remember the Witch Museum having a conservatory.
Try to imagine a world where witchcraft is a much bigger deal and Boscastle is a nationally recognised “hub”
It’s not a version of the (real) Museum, which is close to the river (and sometimes in it) on one side, and a cliff on the other. (The second time I visited, the stains from the 2004 flood extended about 4 feet up the walls).