Curtain Call

Curtain Call is the seventh Widdershins book and the end of the Deadly Sins arc. It is also the longest book by quite a bit. It sees all the protagonists of the previous books teaming up to face off against every deadly sin in reverse order ending with Lust.

Blurb
The spirits of emotion that power Widdershins, England's most magical town, have been overtaken by the dark forces of the Seven Deadly Sins. The only ones who can save the place from itself are daring bounty hunter Harriet Barber, her friends, and Jack O'Malley: the town's uncertain, untrained, and utterly unwilling new guardian.

They may have everything they need to save the day, but when you're fighting monsters of your own making, your own worst enemy may be yourself...

Characters

 * Nicola Barber
 * Harriet Barber
 * Sidney Malik
 * Jack O'Malley
 * Heinrich Wolfe
 * Benjamin Thackerey
 * Ms Acedia
 * Henry Barber
 * Isabelle Holt
 * Wrath
 * Verity Cunningham
 * Luxuria
 * Lei Feng
 * Thomas Macavity
 * Dominik Voss
 * Envy
 * Gluttony
 * Pride
 * Margery Fairbairn
 * Enid O'Malley
 * Sloth
 * Greed

Cameos / Short Appearances

 * Florence de Montfort
 * Nora Fenton
 * Edmund Barber
 * June Barber
 * Annie Barber
 * Cassandra Barber
 * Catherine Barber
 * The Purple Hippo of Happiness
 * Frank
 * Spot
 * Mayor Robert Hackett (possibly in the audience at the Royal Theatre?)
 * Alexa King
 * The Butler / Mr Gula
 * Rosie Bell

Locations

 * Eddie's farm
 * Offices for the Removal of Dangerous Malforms
 * Acedia's Lair (Finch Street)
 * H Barber Office
 * Widdershins Anchor
 * Witch Space
 * Gibbet Street
 * The Royal Theatre
 * The Hotel Gula
 * The University of Widdershins
 * Lamplight Factory
 * Widdershins Bank
 * The Island Anchor

Website
The bonus content for the website after Curtain Call was:


 * 6 pages of character Q&As - this included a 1 page comic about how Mal got his nickname and a 1 page body-swap comic.
 * 11 pages of guest art - including 3 1-page comics, and a replica of Alexa's apron.

Book
The print and PDF releases of Curtain Call included a 4-page illustrated 'Tourist's Guide to Widdershins' annotated by Sid.

Release
The Kickstarter to fund the print release of Curtain Call ran from 20th July - 24th August 2018, and 590 backers pledged £20,658. The unique reward for this campaign was a double-sided acrylic keychain of Mal and Harry. It's super cute!

Easter Eggs / Trivia

 * The speech bubble reading "We're definitely not doing the right thing, but it's too late now" belongs to William Sharpe, referencing his mind control work with Dr Flack.
 * Some of the background staff from Piece of Cake also appear in Curtain Call at Hotel Gula.
 * A Fourth Anchor Society poster is outside Acedia's lair.
 * Acedia found out Mal was back in Widdershins through the same malform removal advert that Voss used to find Wolfe. The same newspaper page is visible pinned to the wall in her lair, with the section that would have Mal's name in circled. Harry can be seen examining it later on, meaning she knew there was a connection between Mal and Acedia before the Sloth flashback.
 * Wolfe passes a pub called 'The Anchor and Door'. Although Widdershin's hasn't had a Witch in so long nobody knows about the door until Mal unlocks it later this book, it's a cool detail showing the history of the town.
 * When Verity first appears in this book, the page has a lot of purple tones and she is in front of a mirror, foreshadowing how Pride is the sin that she has the most trouble with.
 * Several police officers that appear in this book also appear in later books. For example, the man Verity fights in the corridor is the same man Knotty drugs in Hangman's Knot. Poor guy can't get a break I guess.
 * The colour palette changes by scene depending on which Deadly the gang is dealing with next. This is most obvious in the page transitioning between Wrath (red) and Envy (green), or if you zoom out on the website archive.
 * Mayor Hackett can be seen in the audience at the Royal Theatre.
 * The podcast Alexa listens to about Gladys and Edie Shaw is the same one Eliza does in the Modern AU.