Widdershins

Widdershins is a web comic by Kate Ashwin, the artist behind the now completed web comic Darken.

The story start with the adventurers of Sidney Malik, a failed magician and wizard who is cursed with a kind of magical kleptomania which results in him being kicked out of university. He also has difficult getting/keeping a job. Later, the story focuses on other characters within the same universe.

The author summarizes it thus:

"Widdershins is an adventure/comedy comic set in 1830s England, with a dash of magic. It’s made up of short stories, some of which will be self contained, others not so much.."

Not to be confused with the novel of the same name by Charles de Lint (even if they are both fantasy works).

Tropes used in Widdershins include:

• Aura Vision: Jack O'Malley can see the "the spirits that form magic and emotion"
• Book Dumb: Jack cannot read or write.
• Clingy MacGuffin: The Mark of Thieves
• Cute but Cacophonic: The spirit of hunger
• Dark and Troubled Past: Thomas Macavity supposedly has one, not that he'd tell you about it. It's too cliched, even for him.
• Gentleman Thief: Thomas Macavity
• Heroes Want Redheads Wolfe has a thing for them according to Jack.
• Impossible Thief: Sidney, not that he wants to be.
• Insistent Terminology: Technically they are called 'Malforms', but most people call them Buggerups
• Insufferable Genius: Ben seems to be either this or a Small Name, Big Ego. His Third Class Degree would seem to point to the latter, but that could be blamed on the fact that he has No Social Skills until we see what he can do.
• Newspaper-Thin Disguise: Oh Thomas, the least you could do is make sure the paper isn't upside down.
• Overly Long Name: Lancelot Sidney Arthur Oliver Malik. He prefers Sidney
• Power Incontinence: Jack can't turn his power off, he gets overwhelmed in areas with lots of people, has headaches when he looks at wizards, and can't even look in a mirror in case he sees his own reflected spirit.
• Shipper on Deck: Florrie ships Sidney and Harriet
• "V" Sign Jack isn't too fond of wizards.