Part 1>>146744508Part 2>>146759807FInishing up
Oh, I'm just in time for the best part.
>>146774875Hell yeah
>>146774875>>146774883I know, right?The space adventure Arc is my favorite part 2, even if it does drag for a little in the middle IMO.
>>146774890Hell yeah
Here it comes...
God the back to back fakeouts were so fucking brutal when they first dropped.
LET'S GETSAD!
>>146775119>it's not what I want
>>146775156Ally looks cute with this hair.
>>146775231She's also filled out a bit, it's been over a year that she spent dead and not growing. Her body in Hell is what she would've looked like if she hadn't died at the talent show, same as Jennifer having her augments disappear when she died, it's her natural form.
previous storytimer here, i made a list of all the songs gob posted with the comics and those he included in the spotify playlistshttps://rentry.org/6crf7uh8i find listening to the relevant songs enhances the experience
>>146775315Somewhere I've got the bottom two panels as a 4chan banner, I'll post is after storytime is over.
>>146775315This is another one of my favorite parts from this comic.
>>146775338Return of the King>>146775346Trisssh immediately choking out her relatives is more hilarious after reading the one-shot about her origins.
>>146775048Is this revenge of the rhino guy from One Punch Man, given his outfit?
>>146775515Bottom 2 panels on the right make a great reaction image.
>>146775346I never noticed Ally's sister blushing at Pasqualo before
>>146775693oh yes
>>146774881>everyone dies somedayre-reading this stuff is just a blast
>>146775634>THIS BRITISH TRUCK FULL OF GLUTENartist-chan drew him on the wrong side and they had to cover for it, huh
>>146775119This is actually the most important page. Remember it well, new readers.
>>146775315everytime i read this page i like to imagine Ted didn't even finish the sentence before the chicken guy just up and said bye to everyone
>>146775338>what's his name finally gets to wear his "born to suck dick" shirt like he always wanted
>>146775391>the one-shot about her originsexcuse me?
>>146775874I'll post it later.
It Hurts.
>>146775886Still one of my favorite webcomics.It's not fair.
I'll be honest, I never really cared for Tubsy in IH and he's also ruined Allison in PFM.
>>146775973That's not the point. They cared for him. Or did they?
>>146775306>element of harmonyman the foreshadowing
God I love Pasq's journey from this point onwards.
>>146776035This point on is why it's so fondly remembered.
>>146776176I remember edatlin did a recording of this line and his voice was perfect for him
>>146776176I love that, years later, he's still seething about people liking the talent show rap
>>146776176this comic got it all.banging babes, character development, drama, jokes, whatever the fuck this shit is.>>146776206http://gobolatula.com/ithurts/?page_id=3534>>146776292>the callback to like, 300 pages ago with the porn and jackhammer>touching your own penis is gay
>>146776326not only that, the callback to his hat being a symbol for his hate or whatever.
>>146776374I just realized, when God is talking about anomalies, he was ignoring Jen and talking only about Pasqualo.
>>146775669I never liked how neither Trisssh nor Mark got any finality or closure on what happened to them, this is the last time we see them in the comic
>>146776410I think that may be kind of the point.
>>146776549This is the empty planet Aurora sent all the turtles, turtlenecks,a nd other turtle related things.
>>146776609https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlZzJZ8IJ04
>>146775398To think that this is the closest that we'll ever get to seeing Trisssh and Kimmy interact with each other
>>146776467God's got his reasons.
>>146776609FUCKING G4 KBPS?!?!
And here it is, The final comic. The one that truly elevates this dumb little comic into something truly beautiful.
I want to make something someday that someone loves as much as I love this series.
And that's it. The end of my favorite webcomic.I'll be posting some of the supplemental things in a little, and I do plan on story timing the sequel series, Please Forgive Me!!! soon.
>>146776778What 10 to the thousandth power looks like>>146776995Thank you for this storytime OP, I'm curious to hear what new readers think
>>146776577Top 10 most horrifying deaths, shitting yourself inside out.
>>146776908>that fourth panelYou know, a lot of that is what Aurorasqualo was/is doing in PFM and she's obviously still miserable. The real answer is Pasqy's shitty parents but a universe without them would presumably mean he never exists either.
>>146777298>You know, a lot of that is what Aurorasqualo was/is doing in PFM and she's obviously still miserable. This is why she tries to warn Pasqualo that giving up his place in the universe for her isn't what she wants. There's a hole inside her that's meant to be filled with her purpose of making Pasqualo happy, and she can never do it, and she'll never even know why it is that she's the way she is.
>>146777551I do wonder what the end result is. Does she give up her place to bring the the "real" Pasqualo back if it ever reaches that point or does she learn to find actual meaning? I assume that she can't just No More Pasqualos a new universe.
>t. first timerThank you, anon. That was damn great read and better use of my time than my finals.So does Katie get really screwed in the end? Her boyfriend that she genuinely loves disappears and the last thing he said to her was that she was crazy. Man, she probably thought about that until Hell froze over. Hopefully I wasn't speedreading to not notice that they did actually all forget Pasqualo when he didn't board the bus.Then the universe is reborn and he's reincarnated kind of but as a girl so unless she's gay now or always was bi she didn't don't have anyone. but I assume they still could be friends and that Aurora!Pasqualo would still bring her back from the brink like the original universe.I dunno, it's just fucking sad to think about her being so happy with him and now she might never have that kind of relationship again (for the first time?). Reminds me of playing different routes in romance VNs, shit feels weird knowing that what happiness people could have had.
A quick "non" canon one-shot made by the creator's wife
>>146777880>Man, she probably thought about that until Hell froze over.It's fine, she was probably swallowed by hellfire long before then :)
Here are most of the specials
Absolutely brilliant.(I still want to know how MagmaSpider joined the group)
>>146776652lol. There are songs where you can almost kid yourself it doesn't sound that much different. This ain't one of them.
Obviously a lot of this was winged, and a lot of this was planned. When do you think the planning started, and how much?
>>146778372Pretty sure the broad strokes were there since the beginning, hence all the foreshadowing. I remember Gob saying that originally he was gonna have Aurora be the villain, Idk how quickly that changed.
>>146778358okay audiophile
>>146778970You listen to this and listen to the proper version and tell me you don't wince at the lowered quality. And frankly if you hear no difference you really should see a doctor, because I have significant hearing loss and can tell.
>Don't want to hurt anyone, ever>Would LIKE to make everyone happy>Ultimately exist just to make one particular person happy>Begin a relationship with him, know what it is to be loved>Create a world where his depression is gone, at a terrible price>Lose his love
>>146776588The Space Rhino Leader was no evil, he wanted to ensure his last word was the N-word
>>146776973Overrated woebegone male disposability slop
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>>146779314*was so evil
>>146775860BUMBIS NOOOOOOHe had so much hate to live for!
>>146778128I hate that Mark makes Trisssh happy, but I'm happy she's happy, I guess? Fuck Mark though.
>>146775895Okay, yeah, that kinda fucking sucks. Forshadowed by the Peeplops line earlier, damn.
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>>146779469>>146778012>>146777880I like to think that the whole gang got whittled down by random hellfire, one by one, maybe over the course of decades or even centuries, each time forgetting the lost.
>>146776549>hot dog minesI love how the Tubsy said hot dogs were the source of his power and it turned out to be canon
>>146776099>Man, I really wanted to breed dachshunds...
>>146776408>Stop>collaborate>Doesn't put a "listen" in there somewhereThis irks me far more than it rationally should, which is "at all".
>>146776481So wait, doesn't this mean God has to go to hell for touching his dick?And he'd deserve it for giving his dick to a guy who will never ever use it on another human or sentient being.
>>146779619This fucking image gets me.
>>146776973>>146776995>>146777022Oldfag who read up to the part where Trisssh absorbed the internet when it was still new and lost track of it, thanks for motivating me to finally come back and finish it. I didn't stop reading it for any particular reason, I just forgot to keep up with it. I really appreciate you bringing it back up for me, that was pretty fucking good.
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>>146775533>>146775539God I need her so bad
>>146780072('-')7Reading this horseshit was a privilege and a pleasure.
>>146780202are you a giant fat ginger?
I remember there being a strip where Aurora was talking about how she felt being AURORA, or something, and she said "it hurts!!"Anyone know which one it was?
>>146776410They're basically living their best livesTrisssh gets to kill anyone who displeases her and has someone who constantly compliments herMark gets to live out his depraved sexual fantasies
>>146780835>>146747454
>>146780875That really is an incredible Title Drop.
Part of the IH Storytime tradition is for people to post their book sketches, right? Cheese forgive me for the lowish quality phone pics, I didn't wanna risk fucking my books up in the scanner. Request prompt: Rutherford throwing away his ANGER shirt like the Spider-man No More cover
>>146781280Mr. Jones making Ally a shop class mecha body out of tools and old wood
>>146781297Pasqualo giving a sitting-in-chair-backwards after-school PSA style lecture to the Principal, who's taking notes
>>146781307The Space Rhino leader is begrudgingly converted to the Turtle Neck Club by Bill
>>146781318Satan jumps the shark, but in the "jumped in a dark alley" sense of the word
>>146781326Pasqualo and God in The Creation of Adam, but with Pas smugly flipping God off
>>146781333Whoops, forgot to actually attach the pic
Old Pasqualo trying to cheer up New Pasqualo ala Charlotte
Katie trying to steal from Ally's Secret Meat Safe
Aurora and Trisssh doing the fusion dance
>>146781360Very poignant with our current context
Reminds me I should pick up the books for a Christmas present this year.What should I suggest? I have ideas for a few but definitely not enough for all 6 books (plus PFM v1)
>>146781413keep in mind gob likes anime, especially berserk, dbz and sailor moon.So if you like anime, throw some shit together. Like Tubsy in the hyperbolic time chamber or something.
>>146777823>I assume that she can't just No More Pasqualos a new universe.I don't know but I want her to try. Let her go full ksbd Jagganoth with the genuine desire to stop her and every Pasq suffering. Would be fascinating if a universe with a happy Pasq or No more Pasqualos means the whole system will come to an end.
>>146781446just don't put him in the gravity chamber he'll break that shit
>>146776966>gives her his place in the new universe>everything gets worse, apocalypse asideDammit Pasqualo.
>>146779619I think that as well, but I don't like to think it
>>146776086fuck you satan
>>146781371The Legendary Meat Safe, I hope there's mostly jerky in there.
I'll always love this for being a webcomic with an overarching story that actually saw it all the way through to the end and stuck the landing. Extreme fucking rarity.
>>146781413>check store out>190 bucks for the books>alright that's expensive but doab...>see shipping priceslike, what the fuck?
>>146775974>>146775982>>146775993>>146776001>>146776007>>146776020I try not to reread It Hurts! too often cuz this string of comics manages to hit me like an earthquake almost every time. I remember rereading it during 2020 and it made me genuinely cry. It's phrased really stupid but the phrase "We'll meet again no more forever". Pasqualo and Ally, the emotional core of this comic, will literally never see each other after this moment and it fucking hurts. Even worse cuz Ally doesn't even know.
>>146776413>>146776419I love this moment cuz from Pasqualo's perspective it seems like she's finally reciprocating his love but she's really just throwing a pity party and Pasqualo's simply the closest person to her for a hug.
>>146779857Rules for Thee but not for me-God
>>146782620I wonder who was the last of them, still remembering Pasqualo (who wasn't erased, just gone) but not remembering anyone else from their time together at post-apocalypse school?It was Ally, contentedly playing video games and waiting for Pas to return, ignorant to all she'd lost.
Which IH girl would youFor me it's either Trisssh or Katie
>>146784064What if Trisssh was just Trish?
>>146784080Still probably would, she cute as a gorgon and human plus her personality makes her more attractive
>>146784080>weird angry eyebrows girl who desperately wants to be bossed around by a stronger manliterally stephanie
>>146784080I fell off CFM some time around the asylum trip, been meaning to get back into it, but I'm curious, has the story ever said anything about the merger or casual interconnectivity between whatever monster realm Trisssh, Magmaspider, etc all came from and this version of Earth? Obviously the ultimate reason is because Pasq tweaked this iteration of the world to allow it so his friends could all meet up again, but I don't recall if the characters themselves ever comment on it or if it's simply been the status quo since forever and they think nothing of it.
>>146784379I haven't read too much of it either, but the unanswered questions about how the world works seemed like part of the narrative ride imo. I do need to catch up on it myself.
>>146783418Single shipping heavy books internationally is expensive
>>146776973Thanks for the storytime
>>146784636i checked for curiosity and i can ship a 50lb barbells overseas for less.and i reckon a barbell packs a lot less nicely than books
>>146776153>the dead angels are all smilingdamn, didn't see that the last time I read this. that's messed up
>>146785256>If it's the last thing I do, Ally.It Hurts!!
And with that, the universe was reset, this time without our Pasqualo.
>>146784379It seems to be a unique trait to the town they live in. Katie seems pretty suspicious of the monsters and anytime a character comes from out of town they respond to the craziness around them as if it is uncharacteristic of the outside world.
>>146775347dude was really in his The Smiths phase
>>146785308Their relationship always seemed weird to me. I know they are supposed to be platonic friends, but it feels like they are written to be romantic. Even ignoring the fact that boy girl relationships that aren't romantic never get that buddy buddy, it still feels like its romantic minus the intimacy.
>>146786410>he never gets best friend kisses
>>146785360>>146785371>>146785379Well fuck I never saw this one beforeIn conjunction with >>146781360It makes me feel that their is some fuckery about in terms of Old Pasq in the new timeline. Likely nothing to be directly commented on as its outside of focus of PFM and would just add unnecessary baggage but it leaves me questioning.
>>146786709>Aurorasqualo decides to punch God right in the face>gets to heaven after long journey>tfw it's IH!! Pasqualo on the throne this time>or Satan, either or
>>146786519yes
>>146785379Where the hell was this from? I don't remember reading this at all and I swear I read everything of It Hurts!!
>>146783418Go through a forwarder, it'll be cheaper and faster.
>>146787680it was part of the website but now you have to read it via the books
Only IH? Because the answer is Melanie but she's not in IH.Actually, I can't remember if Gob or Josef have said whether or not characters like her and Patience would have existed in the IH universe and we just never saw them (presumably they died during the apocalypse).
>>146775973>I'll be honest, I never really cared for Tubsy in IH and he's also ruined Allison in PFM.Agreed. Between this, Steven Universe Future, Amphibia, Voltron... I don't get why so much modern /co/ content is telling us "friends grow apart, and that can be messy but it's okay!"Bitch, I've lived that shit. I hate it, and it makes for as enjoyable a read as a transcript of my parents having sex.
>>146776973thank you for the storytime. this should be my 3rd or so time reading this and, sure enough, it still hurts.
>>146788176>thisIt's literally the opposite though. Pasqualo and Ally growing apart is making things worse and decidedly not okay.
>>146788743"It's okay" in the sense that "you have to accept it, and fighting it will only make things worse." That was the message in Steven Universe Future, Amphibia, and this. Voltron's a little different because it just went "and they all drifted apart, such is life" in the epilogue. And killed the fandom overnight.
>>146788800What do they have to do with anything? I'm saying that in PFM it's explicitly not shown as being okay.
>>146785320>chance in helllol
>>146788805In PFM what's making things toxic and awful is that Pas isn't going "good for her, maybe we can still write when she's in college with her boyfriend on the other side of the country." The message is still very much that it might suck, but people are going to drift out of your life, and you have to accept that.Which isn't exactly wrong, but it's a moral I'm more than a bit sick of.
not OP but i figure i will dump god dammit
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>>146788869No, Ally has been basically ignoring Pasqy in favor of doing everything with Tubsy and when she's not ignoring Pasqy she's forcing Tubsy into things that were mainly just there for the two of them. She's also being incredibly judgy of Pasqualo for "not just getting help" and comes off like one of those bitches who goes to therapy and suddenly acts like they're mature and enlightened. Again, the way it's portrayed doesn't really strike me as the reader being told to accept them growing apart or that Allison is in the right since the two of them have been shown, throughout multiple universes, to be way too important to each other.
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>>146788937Ally has not handled it well, but I do think that the underlying message is still "people will drift out of your life, and it sucks, but it's part of life and you have to accept it." Again, not untrue, but holy shit it makes for utterly joyless reading/watching.
>>146788981am i going to hit the image limit before im done?fuck my life
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>>146789066>BillOh hey, Katie's dad
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>>146785379Man, I really love this one.
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>>146789110THE ORIGIN
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>>146789148fuck i did hit the image limit what now
>>146789159make a new thread once this one dies I guess
>>146789110>pow, gangsta shit is a multiversal constantWhose skull is getting punched out in PFM?
>>146785299Real life struggles right here
>>146783418Damn, those tariffs already hitting like a bastard huh?
>>146788911Man, it's like if Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff turned into a JRPG.
>>146783418Have them ordered to a friend in the US, then have that friend ship them abroad. Is that how postage works? I don't use the mail.
Did we reach PFM!!!'s twist yet? The lack of offensive humor really burned me out.
>>146788995Yeah, i mean it's not untrue and people DO need to realize it's okay to drift away from people... but that's often because you can find OTHER people to drift into. And sooner or later you DO find people you can and will spend the rest of your life with. It's fine if you don't, but I think a lot of media trying this moral loses the thread by not including the fact that the whole reason it's okay to drift apart from other people is because you can find other people to connect with in your life.
>>146789184there isnt that many pages left to go
>>146789473dadsqualo died but nothing's really happy beyond that except for special agent terry gross (no relation) from ppdp showing upin the most recent comic he's murdered the police chief so maybe something is happening, it's just a very slow burn
>>146789130>just by existing, you rape me of my money and joyso good
>>146789492There's also ALL of Please Forgive me...
>>146776966>>146776973God damn what an ending. I hadn't caught up on It Hurts in... like half a decade.
>>146785308>>146785312Ally is so fuckin cute it hurts my soul
>>146784026Ally probably goes full hikikomori with the justification that someone should be at the apartment in case Pasq shows back up. I imagine Katie would be more active in looking for Pasq but she gets killed looking for him, and now Ally is wondering who was bringing her food.
>>146786709It feels like Pasq somehow made a new world where they both get to exist, but perhaps he just doesn't interact with her? He's made his peace that they can't be together but that he shouldn't be selfish and destroy the world with it. She gets to exist too and be a good person, and he's realized he enjoys having his friends and being a good person, and that's good enough for him.
>>146788995Again I don't think that's the case at all, I think you're just projecting.
>>146790225>and now Ally is wondering who was bringing her food.I wonder how memories shift around when someone gets erased from existence, that one creepy demon guy forgot all about BigMe when he (it?) got flamed, and his new memory was of having always been alone.Weird to think of hell running out of steam eventually, freezing over like a black hole evaporating away to nothing.
>>146790429Projecting would be if I laid my own baggage onto it. I don't think I have any baggage in this regard. Hell, I still talk to my BFF from High School at least once a week. If I'm wrong (and I don't think I am), then I'm wrong, but not every incorrect interpretation of fiction is projecting.
>Get caught up on Please Forgive me>Last update: October 8oh
>>146790922Well, that's better than i was expecting. I figured it'd have been years.
>>146784379pretty sure it's like a twin peaks thing where all the weirdness is kinda localized entirely within the town and reality breaks down in parts of it (the woods specifically)
How the hell do people handle webcomics with inconsistent update schedules? I mean, is there some way to get a "hey, it's been updated" alert that I don't know about?
>>146791097Just check in now and then every few months and binge, that's what I do whenever I've caught up on something.
>>146791097RSS feeds used to be a thing but honestly I never really bothered to get a handle on them. Are they still a thing?
>>146788937It seems strangely on-point that probably the best and most uplifting conversation Pas has had since her father died came from a serial killer. But then again he's a very screwy serial killer convinced he's a good guy.
>>146775973I still can't believe that Ally watched Aurora!Pasqualo brutally murder her own shadow-doppelganger while it wept + confessed to intense loneliness + begged for help, and then never really followed up beyond a "you good, girl?"
>>146780072>Searching for posts with the image hash ‘dPRMYhKcStgJl+MLYEzZ5Q==’. >1 results found.Holy shit. Hi Gob, I loved your comic. I'm not going to say "it got me through dark times" or anything like that, but it sure as fuck helped. Thank you for the art!
>>146791439It isn't anon, sorry no. I saved that pic from when Gob did post in the IH threads, which is like a decade ago now. I haven't seen Gob show up on /co/ in a long time, though if PFGM threads were consistent like IH ended up being he might lurk and doodle for us again. Honestly the consistent threads helped me stay up to date when It Hurts!! was still going, and the lack of attention here made it harder to follow weekly.
>>146791560>and the lack of attention here made it harder to follow weekly.Made Please Forgive Me!!! harder to follow weekly, I mean.
>>146791560He's posted a few doodles for PFM. I'd post them here, but we hit the image limit.
>>146791588If OP wants to storytime that I think enough anons are on board with it to follow, but that's a tall order for him after a whole weekend up storytiming It Hurts!!
do please forgive me !!!!!!
>>146786410It's probably a holdover from God Dammit!
>>146789978Please Forgive Me is shit.
>>146792075You're shit!!!
>>146792111I wanted to like it, but it just wasn't as funny and the story wasn't going anywhere.
>>146791657Oh, I do plan on Story timing PFM. I was gonna invite Gob and Josef when I do. I didn't want them to think we were only interested in their older work. I could have blazed through in half the time with this, I just had other things to do.
>>146791125>>146791097RSSOwl is a good client, you can customise how often it updates. On Windows it gives you a push notif when something updates, it's great.
>>146775392I'm reminded of me and my boyfriend a little too much for my own comfort.
>>146792075I like it better than IH, Aurora is a cute MC and it reads more like Garfield, the gags are more universal
>>146775444>practically a straight dudehmm
>>146775613his little :3 face always makes me happy
>>146775649something i love about this comic is all the people with funny shirts and/or hats in the background.
>>146775740he's right you know
>>146775619>>146775625My dreams
>>146776325would
>>146792159>The story wasn't going anywhereWhat an odd thing to say.
>>146776441why is god kinda...
>>146776481why is God such a faggot
>>146776491>magmaspider in the background:)
>>146792480Yeah, it definitely went somewhere.It went on hiatus! Dohohohohoh!
>>146792494>>146792499Cause he needs that fey charisma to lead the Band of the Hawk
>>146776973I did a salute and forgot I had a really gnarly injury on my finger and it bonked against my forehead :(
>>146778088shit I just realized I might be in a hotel in New York on Christmas day, and I might not be able to execute my super special secret plan of making the Chinese food from scratch for this year. damn.
>>146776539Holy based
>>146775147callback to Gib's OG comic
insane how good of a decision reading it hurts from a filename thread on /v/ more than a decade ago turned out to be man
>>146776438>God damnit :)
>>146791097>>146791125most webcomic online still have an RSS feed.some even have it but don't show it, or it's tucked in some weird corner.anyway, have PFM'shttp://gobolatula.com/pfm/feed/outlook supports it, i just slapped it in there and i'm all good.
>>146785485Allie is so precious
>>146791125I use Feedbro on my browserbut I never check it lmao
>>146792529lmao
>>146774819Weird
>>146793305Thanks!
>>146793314The look on her face in the last panel always gets me, the sheer delight.
