Holy shit! Yeah god forbid Mike wants attention from his only true friends. I thought this was an assault but he's really just clamping Augustus' mouth shut.
>>150554703Puttin the fear of god in him
is something finally happening or is this just going to end with mike being villainized even harder
>>150554730"Listen bitch, I have a very particular set of skills!"
>>150554703>>150554730Fucking FINALLY. >>150554756Mike will be punished horribly for this. But at this point, I'll take a fun collateral damage-heavy act of self-destruction over the vain hope that Mike could possibly be allowed to crawl out of the pit.
>>150554703He's projecting Lucy onto James and it does not fit at all. I mean it barely fits Lucy. He liked James before he even knew he had a crush. And I guess it makes sense that the mind that sees being near the same track field as "haunting" would see Mike quietly third wheeling as stringing James along.Complete nonsense but you're supposed to read it as a truth nuke. Oh well, at least we get to watch Gus shit his pants for a bit.
>>150554756>or is this just going to end with mike being villainized even harderObviously.
>>150554703>Mike's going crazyAbout time.
>>150554730You thought December was bad? SAY HELLO TO FUCKING JANUARY!
>>150554703>inb4 anons complaining this came out of nowhere when it's been hinted plenty of times why mike was so fucking obsessed with james, all the while they kept denying every thread
>>150554874Augustus is projecting Lucy's behavior onto Mike, not James. How exactly does Augustus reaches this conclusion when he should know next to nothing about Mike's relationship with James? That's the power of plot, baby.
>>150554756Oh there is no way Mike doesn't come out of anything not a villain, we knew it was going to happen anyway, leaks or not, but it's nice to see he's going to maul Augustus before that. Also I'm betting NOW Lucy might intervene because she needs to look good and letting Augustus get beat up might make her look like she wanted it
>>150554756they all hate his ass after this, we know what's the outcome lol
>>150554932I meant like he's acting as though James is a victim of tricky Mike's schemes in the same way Lucy was.
>>150554756thinking this is anything other than "fuck Mike LOL, I'm a writer with BPD: the comic" is a mistake
>>150554703Good Michael. Do it.
>>150554703nothing significant will come out of this in the long run but I'll enjoy whatever is about to happen while it lasts
>>150554936>Also I'm betting NOW Lucy might intervene because she needs to look goodSurely she will guilt trip Mike out of rage mode, but for the moment it's nice to see gray cat's turbospergout throw her for a loop.
>>150554957Alright, I see what you're saying. They're one in the same, though, and not well thought out.
>>150554703Not beating the accusations that you wound up Augustus to get back at Mike Lucy
>>150554874Augustus is full of shit but he's touching one of the most sensitive fibers of Mike, which is his loyalty and fear of being a cheater/an abuser, Augustus already decided Mike is the antichrist but he's now accusing him of using James like he accused him of using Lucy. Paulo really fucked his psyche with that mob beating him upRemember the reason Mike is pinning for James is because he love bombed him and then left him hanging for meme dog, Mike has been third wheeling knowing James might as well not care about him and now Augustus is painting him as an abuser for wondering where did all that positive reinforcement go
>>150555025this was me with eternal flame
>>150554874I think Augustus is implying that Mike crushes on James but is too attached to making him and Sandy work, so that apparently means having Sandy means he doesn't "deserve" James, and it might be true since Mike is blushing and telling Augustus to shut his entitled fascist bitch ass Siamese ass up.
>>150554952I think Augustus had never had to deal with pressing someone's actual berserk button, forgot Mike has fucked Paulo up for less
>>150554756Oh Mike is for sure going to be villainized over this. We can only hope that he follows through and socks him before tard dog and Lucy intervene (because of course only NOW Lucy will intervene when Mike grows a spine). They're going to paint him as the bad guy no matter what so might as well make it worth it and make that little fag never fuck with him again
>>150554936It would stem from "Well you look pretty pissed off and pissed off people are evil. Not Lucy but others.">>150554952Augustus: "Enough! I am a god you dull creature, and I will not be bullied by AH!"
>>150555076The thing is, we're still not sure what Taeshi herself thinks of all this. Yeah, your analysis is objectively superior in terms of character consistency...but what if Taeshi has decided that Augustus is correct? You know, for the sake of pottery and damnation. We can't discount the idea that Mike is flipping out because he knows Augustus is right (though putting gothcat in his place by spelling out the truth would be infinitely more satisfying).
>>150554703>Lucy meekly holding on to Augustus while he takes control of her lifeI'm glad Augustus knows how to treat Lucy right
>>150555106He was basically raised by Assaultejandro.
>>150555106He fingered his boss' button and got slammed up against the wall for his trouble. That said, at least Alejandro had reason to go easy on his resident bread stealer.
What bothers me most about BCB is how many interesting possibilities we could follow but we usually have to go with the worst.Like, imagine here if Mike let his rage win, fucks Augustus up and decides to roll with it for some time. Burn the table down. End things with Sandy. I mean yeah, impossible. I don't even see what the lesson would be here, because I right now can't think of an ending to this path... but it does seem more interesting than have the universe shit on Mike for standing up for himself again.
>>150555172>What would the lesson beDon't bottle shit up until you explode. Abbey could probably chat with him in such a scenario. How to work out his emotions and anger. Open up. Get therapy etc. Abbey's no stranger to rage
RAPE HIM HAHAHAHA YES!!! RAPE!!! YES!
>>150555220t. Lucy
>>150555172Literally, just let mike embrace his "villain" status, even when he really isn't one. No one really wants to see more pages of mike sulking.
>>150554703>Lucy says she wants Augustus to stop>proceeds to stand there and let him keep talkingGirl your spine was fractured you didn't lose it
Imagine if Mike did fuck Augustus' shit up and Lucy had to take her live-in babysitter back home and explain that he got his teeth knocked out by a little twink a head shorter and two years younger.
>>150554703If the last 3 and rest of the pages in this chapter were just Mike beating Aug into a pulp it'd be far more satisfying than any of this bullshit.Is he even going to actually slug Aug or is he just going to shake him a bit?It's Taeshi so I'm betting on the lamer outcome.
>>150554922>it's been hinted plenty of times why mike was so fucking obsessed with jamesWhich is?
BCB sucks, go read a better webcomic
>Mike leaps to covers Augustus' mouth with his hand to shut him up instead of throwing a damn punchThere's liking men and then there's this, come on now
>>150555280MY MAN
>>150555280Would love to but it stopped updating
>>150555172Well, during Double Down, at the library, Daisy told Mike he needs to stop flipping between extremes and find a happy medium. To stay his core kind and thoughtful self while not letting people walk all over him. I guess Taeshi thinks this is one more stepping stone on the way to whatever she thinks that endgame would look like.
Punch him, Mike. Do it! Anything is better than this gay(er) sephiroth rejects talking. At least Sephiroth could back up his shit.
>>150555244>Augustus creates something much worse than the monster he planned to slayI've seen much worse pottery.
>>150555329YESSIR
>>150555262She never wanted it, you see. And if she did, it's everyone else's fault for not anticipating and catering to it. And if they did, they're terrible for not believing her.
>>150555280But there are just so many of them!
>>150555369Why is Lucy even here?
>Aim for the kidneys, left jab>Crack the jaw, right hook>Right foot on his tail, pull. Snap>You can practically taste this rapist little turd's blood on your lips>Throw a punch. Throw a hundred. Pound your fists on his face until it's pulp
>>150555332>picthea is so based
>>150555388I literally gave you one right up there
>>150554703Why did Lucy even come over here if she's just going to silently grip onto Augustus while he humiliates her?
You know for 2008 there are quite an overrepresentation of gays at this high school
>>150555280wtf is this off brand bcb?
You know, I was sure these two panels were going to show up after Mike had been utterly destroyed and left in the dust. Then Augustus would stand there all cool and collected while Mike sperged to no effect.
>>150555413What's that furry comic about and is there porn of it yet
>>150555413
You know in a real high school this would absolutely destroy Gus' reputation Imagine seeing the imposing bad boy tough kid getting shut down by manlet MikeNo one should ever take him seriously again
>>150555332the porn didn't
>>150555511What porn, unless you count those hideous abominations from that alt dude as porn
>>150555280would bang the horse coach
>>150555389Probably to bail out Augustus and then shame Mike into submission for daring to manifest a spine. In a better comic, Lucy would be here to share in the blame because Decembering gray cat by proxy to remain innocent would be incredibly lame. And in a /much/ better comic, she'd be within Mike's explosion radius so her own bullshit got laid out in the open for all to see. BCB has been very shy about taking her to task.
>>150555501Lucy is now seeing a real bad boy in development. The only chad that can protect her from her nightmares that is Alejandro.Big Mike, will save her
>>150555433>>150555467Short cat helps college basketball team regain its former glory, there's a compelling story, awesome action scenes, and an entire cast of adorable girlies>is there pornbarely
>>150554922Yes, as Taeshi has been building Mike for some time this is technically right, but it also in the bigger picture reads like horseshit. Lucy is always so aggressive and angry at people doing things she supposedly doesn't want, but she's letting Aug do this anyways and just giving half-assed protests when she could pull him away easily if she really wanted to. She wants him to do this, she thinks this is correct, because conveniently it absolves her of responsibility for her own fucking suicide attempt.That's why it's frustrating, this development doesn't feel natural and never has from Mike's side, it feels forced in to make him the bad guy because a crazy bitch tried to commit suicide when he snapped at her. Taking what Aug says here as fact even recontextualizes Mike's apology for going overboard after yelling at Lucy as just keeping on her good side just enough to keep her obsession with him going.
>>150555539>he doesn't know
>>150554730>>150554703 You know what, even if this is supposed to be shown as a bad move for mike,Good for him.Gus deserves to have his shit rocked if it comes to that. His "Above you" speeches only work on people that wont hit his ass and he clearly didn't expect Mike to get physical.Also lucy being here is pointless. I imagine Taeshi only put her here for acountability avoidance reasons
>>150555560This emerging version of Mike must quickly be smothered in its cradle. Lucy does not want to be afraid of Mike and he is quite suddenly giving her good reason to be. Taeshi wouldn't like that very much.
>>150555076>Remember the reason Mike is pinning for James is because he love bombed him and then left him hanging for meme dog,If Taeshi's intent was to show that Mike was projecting lucy onto James in some way and that it was bad, this is where she messed up at. They didn't have a natural drifting apart or anything. In the same chapter, in the same night, in the same HOUR in universe, she had James drop Mike for David.So it reads more like whiplash for Mike and the exact same problem he wanted to avoid coming back. That if one of his friends can't get romance from him, then they drop him like a rock. It's particularly bad this time because James made it seem like Mike finally found someone drama free and would actually stand in his corner even as a friend.
>>150555413there's an orca girl now? Yeah I'm thinking VCD is in
>>150555564>fem!Mike got away from her toxic friends, switched from Track & Field to Basketball, and went to college out of state to start over
>>150555700You know what makes sense? That Augustus is projecting what annoys him about Lucy onto Mike. All so he can take out his frustrations with her on a pathetic weakling he cares nothing for. But all this could easily be Taeshi's poorly conceived and clumsy attempt at pottery. She's slapped the clay onto the spinning wheel, is trying to force a shape, but the stubbornly deformed blob is whipping around and threatening to splatter on the wall. Sure, the cult will praise the result as high art, but it'll remain an obvious mess.
So I actually reread stuff from vol. 1-2, and it bothers me that Mike got all resentful and fell out with Lucy when Paulo has:>Repeatedly "joked" about Sandy not existing>Called Mike a cheater and incited a mob to beat him up (repeatedly)>Bullied Mike relentlessly for being "fruity"/"pansy">Dropped Mike like a rock whenever convenientThe main thing Lucy did was be unappreciative of Mike going out of his way to keep her happy when no-one else could. Which makes sense as to why Mike would get resentful and start seeing her as a burden, but all the really bad shit: physical abuse, bullying, manipulation, it was Paulo who started all that. Hell, he's even the one who actually CAUSED Mike to fall during Acapulco by fucking around with David while crossing a thin, unsafe rock formation despite being told not to because it was dangerous.
>>150555846That doesn't make sense at all actually, sounds more like pathetic bargaining on your part.
>>150555564Please tell me the author isn't in the same mentally sinking ship as Taeshi (actually insane) or Flakops (just needs a hug damn)
>>150555904>Mike confronts Paulo about this>"at least your mother fucking loved you"
>>150555904The big difference is that Paulo was anything but Mike's best friend at the time. Paulo was Mike's bully and, outside of the occasional foolish hope that things could get better, gray cat expected that kind of treatment. There was no sense of betrayal that came with Mike realizing his alleged best friend and once-upon-a-time love interest was carelessly using him and did not seem to actually give a fuck about him as a person.
>Discord/Patreon users ITT: care about le heckin mouth like it matters or the plot of this shitheep matters>Actual 4chan users ITT: care grey cat likes men so it’ll be better porn fuel
>>150555209The thing is that he was getting to that, he wasn't trying to push himself on James ala Daisy, he was genuinely asking him why the sudden drop of interest from him when they could still be friends like he said himself, maybe to reaffirm to himself that he isn't haunted to people dropping him if not able to fuck him. This is just Augustus throwing all his insecurities on his face to see what it takes to make him back down betting on Mike not retaliating
>>150555966I'm starting to think Mike's relationship with Lucy and Paulo has warped his perception of relationships heavily. What you'd described isn't healthy.
>>150555551I thought she was a cow
>>150555934They seem pretty well-adjusted all around, and the comic is still pretty focused, so I'd say you're good
>>150554703>>150554730KILL THEM ALL
Amaya is playing the long con. She wants the Korat cock but knows that if she, a lifelong voicelet flatty tries to go for him when his confidence is too high she'll be given the forehead kiss and sent on her way. The benefit of being a mutician movie clerk is that you perfectly blend into the background in spite of being a named character. She's in the corner of every panel, biding her time, waiting for Mike to be at his lowest, then she'll sliiiide in from the right with a bucket of caramel popcorn, and understanding smile, and a mouth with Dyson levels of cock suction. She'll lead him into her dad's cinema late at night, use her employee keys to let themselves in after closing, throw on a dubbed anime movie and then suck that sad little Korats balls so dry he forgets his own name, she'll blow any memory or Lucy or Sandy clean out of his mind, Mike won't be able to hear the movie over the near jet engine sound of Amaya sucking his soul out from his dick. When she's done Mike will have UOAHd so loud he'll have lost his voice and when the credits are rolling the only thing either of them will be hearing is the cure yet forceful panting from Amaya as she pushes mike onto the sticky cinema floor and bites his neck, pins his arms above his head and mounts his fat blue grey dick. Any resistance will be met with a mute fury as she subjugates Mike and makes him her creamy little cum kitty. Mike will wander home afterwards, the smell of amayas sweat, saliva and pussy thick on his fur and scarf. He will have been so enraptured and dominated that he will have left his phone behind. Amaya will send Sandy a picture of her face smiling whilst she dribbles cum into her palm, the message under it will read "You lose. The quiet kitty gets the cream." Before she throws the phone into the trash and begins planning their 2nd date to the drive in theatre where she'll try to make the car extra hot on the way there so she can lick the sweat off mikes face whilst she fucks him
>>150555278Anon wants the answer to be homolust but it's because James gave him positive reinforcement when he was almost hitting rock bottom and then pulled the rug when he didn't want to fuck, Mike felt for an actual abuse tactic that James "accidentally" pulled by being stupid and horny
>>150556002Why do you think that Mike got so enamored with James? It was the first (apparently) healthy wholesome relationship Mike had enjoyed in a long time.
>>150554703>>150554730>>150554756>>150554831Mike will 100% get shat on by either James or Lucy or both, but at the very least I hope he goes down swinging, calling on Augustus and Lucy's bullshit, and getting them down of their high horses.At least that's what I'd hope, but I suspect he will attempt, it will backfire instantly, and things will become even worse yet again.
>>150556047>Anon wants the answer to beThey don't actually want an answer, just an excuse to mald and shit on anyone who dares to disagree with them.
>>150556002It has.If anything, Mike and Paulo should have slugged it out at some point. But taeshi keeps flip flopping on both of them.
>>150555965That'd be great lmao
>>150555389To look good by comparison. Look at her being composed and calm while Mike is loud and hostile! Look how she came to stop this instead of retaliating like the grey menace. Look at the poor victim!It's why you were shown the nightmare at the start of the chapter, so you don't forget how you're supposed to pity her and excuse her actions for they are not her own
>>150556068There isn't a single person around him in this moment that doesn't deserve a hard slap at least.
>>150555422Have you seen their discord server? That shit is gayer than a pride parade marching inside George Takeis asshole. I really hope Taeshi doesn't bother interacting with her community because having seen it I'd say it's 99% vocal trans people pasting their flags into chats and yelling "MIKE IS BI! MIKE IS TRANS! PAULO IS GAY! LUCY IS TRANS!" over and over. It was both astonishingly opaque and shamelessly self-serving. "THE THING I LIKE MUST REPRESENT ME!" is cancerous to art.
>>150556027too based too be real
If asked nicely and told it'd make someone happy, Mike would put on a skirt, collar, and cage.
>>150556087Taeshi has never been great at drawing fights. Plus a slug out between guys doesnt have to end friendships, and Mike and Paulo could come out of this sitting pretty as friends.>>150556062>It was the first (apparently) healthy wholesome relationship Mike had enjoyed in a long time.And just like all his other relationships, it fell apart when said person couldn't choke him with his scarf.
>>150556002It really has, it's why he's so desperate to get some validation from James. All Mike needs to stop suffering is a friend that has a healthy interest in him and doesn't want to fuck him AND isn't forced away by the narrative. It's why people are mad he didn't take the track team's offer to hang with them instead
>>150555413>everyone is a lean anthropomorphic terrestrial quadruped mammal>thick orca bitch in the back Orca threads have trained me for this
>>150554703I want them all to drop dead.
>>150556087There's only two outcomes of a fight between them and one is Mike OBLITERATING Paulo, second being the first punch to his face forcing character development on him and making Paulo apologize for indulging in a fight
>>150556298There's also a frog and a bug, this comic has something for everyone
So anyway somehow in a very homophobic year where Matt still cant be open and the two lesbians sometimes watch their back before kissing, Augustus KNOWS James is gay? Is he still stalking the cats, Mike specifically? Or is James so open only him can act gay around the school without being bullied? And even so, isn't this kinda an outing to AT LEAST Lucy, a person James doesnt know, and maybe even David?
>>150556141This is why I think she can't course correct anymore even if she wants to, the fanbase she interacts with and is deluded enough to pay for this doesn't want a good story and she doesn't have the confidence to tell one anyways.
>>150554730>Listen here you cum-slut
>>150554703Imagine getting this panel spoiled at the start of this arc with no other context. I wonder
>>150556214Unless Lucy asked.
>>150556494Augh is talking about Lucy and he doesnt even realize, how cute
>>150554730>WOULD YOU LIKE ALEJANDRO TO KNOW WHERE YOU ARE NOW?!I wouldn't call it based but I would laugh my ass off if he said this.
>>150554703>putting his gay crush on blast like it has anything to do with him or Lucy or is anybody's goddamn business except Mike'sYeah fuck it, kill him Mike
>>150556523I wish this wasn't purely an accident on Taeshi's part. I doubly wish she'd been hyping up the Gus-is-right and I-hate-Mike crowd just so she could laugh all the harder after pulling the rug out from under them.But, alas.
>>150554703While it is good to see Mike standing up for himself... It's frustrating knowing that Lucy is about to girlboss on him for crossing the line (in the sand) by getting aggressive with Augustus. And that Mike is just gonna go sulk with his tail between his legs and be abandoned by his only friends (again) because of Lucy.>>150554898Holy kekI laughed harder than I should have at that
>patreon comments last week were all saying how Mike deserved everything for daring to venture into Lucy's sacred space>this week half of them are going "yeah Augustus deserves to get beaten lol"Fascinating
>>150556607Most of them are still "Mike bad, tho."
>noo Mike you're not allowed to want to have a best friend without fucking them that's literally evilIs this how BPD people see the world?
>>150556607Just wait for Lucy to speak her gospel and they will follow whatever she agrees with
>>150556657Maybe Mike should go be friends with one of the 12 people who don't want to fuck him instead of following James?>this is how Mikefags cope with being wrong
>>150556460Shit is pretty fucking weird. I can't believe we lost Matt for fucking James of all people. I guess in Taeshi's retarded brain Matt was too old to have drama with Mike about gay stuff and was only a thread to lightly hint at the Gay-Paulo show that went absolutely nowhere for nothing. Matt was just filler.But since she saw how rabid her fanbase was for yaoi-slop she made James to not-make Mike or Paulo date/fuck him.>>150554703Lucy's hand hanging onto Augustus like a fuckin toddler is so goddamn cringe holy shit.Also this page is cringe because Mike is just gonna sperg and then James will be WOW, WHAT A DOUCEBAG and they all leave to go inside while he cries like a soggy bitchin the field. "N-NO you can't, don't go.. JAMES-CHAN!" holding out his hand all dramatically as they glare in his general direction.
>>150556523Now I want a transcript of Augustus whole ramble from the start, and see if all of it actually applies to Lucy, because at least the "husband abuses wife and instead of believing her they stone her" is an apt description of Mike and Lucy's relationship
>>150556657James' fluffy reminded him of how assblasted he was that Mike turned up his nose at Daisussy when Gus couldn't even get crumbs.
>>150556606It'd be nice if Mike was the one drawing that line instead by standing up for himself. Of course we know he loses James and leaves the table, no matter what, but doing so on his own terms would be much more satisfying.
>>150556695>consolewar bullshit>>>/v/
>>150556657>>150556695The thing about BCB everyone tangentially has BPD because Taeshi doesn't have the mental fortitude to write anything other then everyone having BPD.That's why it's so exhausting.And again, she is trying so hard to villainize Mike but unfortunately, she also wrote Lucy so by default he is the better character since everyone is constantly taking a diarrhea dump on him. So in essence, even if Lucy spilled her ketchup a thousand times over, she would still be parasite shit-tier in terms of characters.Which is probably sad for Taeshi since she can't have her fursona be beloved by everyone.
>>150556695As it's been set up, Mike wants to have a very close platonic relationship with someone without it being romantic. But all his friends who show interest in that reveal that they want to fuck him, and then massively dial down their attachment to him when he rejects them. Apparently that's evil for some reason.
>>150556783Be sensitive, anon. Mikefags stole his catalytic converter and scammed his grandmother out of a $500 itunes giftcard.
>>150556607Modern online discourse:Just become gay and half the opinion shifts in your favor Now that Mike has the most direct page hint yet he might have some gayness they will support him
>>150556870That might actually be Taeshi's thought process. After all, to get her readers sympathetic toward Mike, she's tried nothing and is otherwise out of ideas.
>>150554756He DARED to oppose Demiurge's will. What do you think? The upcoming punishment will be the Cain levels of curse
I don't understand how Mike is supposed to be leading James on or "using him" when James doesn't even like him as much anymore and Mike is clinging on for scraps. It's pathetic but it's not really manipulative or wronging James.
>>150556925He dared to oppose Taeshi by doing exactly what she wants. So it's TIME TO DIE MICHAEL!
>>150554703Holy shit, an interesting face expression! Fucking finally. I've though Taeshi's spark of artistic creativity has been long extinguished.
>>150554703Reminder that the retarded brown dog is also present
>>150557102Thanks for a reminder, day is now ruined.
>>150554922Hinted? Taeshi's come right out and said it. Mike's not counted among the straights because he's in love with James, and they're still trying to cope that Mike only wants James as a friend.
Welp, I guess no more fem Augustus
>nooo my le heckin mike can't be allowed to suffer and be flawed at the same time
Why is antiMikefag pissing his diaper so hard this thread in particular?
>>150556964Augustus is throwing shit at Mike using templates of what he thinks he's done to Lucy and hoping his guilt fills in the blanks, he knows blaming him for the suicide attempt is bullshit but Mike already thinks the same. His mistake was trying to take away from him the reason he's "breaking their deal" for to start with
>>150557182He didn't even really lead Lucy on either though. She led him on during middle school while being too immature to actually handle getting into a relationship with him and then Sandy swooped her while she was sitting on her thumbs. After Lucy confessed their friendship fell apart and Mike distanced himself. Even while they were friends and he dated Sandy he resented her dependence on him.
>>150554703GIVE HIM THE CARMELO ANTHONY MIKE, SLICE HIS THROAT RIGHT THERE ON THE TRACK FIELD
>>150557246He might mean the EF kiss. But this whole thing has been trying to absolve lucy of any guilt and role in things being how they are now.
>>150555209>Don't bottle shit up until you explodeWhile yes, you can't just sperg out at every little inconvenience or misstep others make around you and your feelings, that's not what's happening here. Augustus has come up to Mike in front of his friend and whatever the fuck David is meant to be and started shit by hitting each and every one of his sore spots and airing out his dirty laundry. If Mike didn't kick the shit out of him for it, he'd lose almost all self-respect.
>>150557113>Taeshi: Mike is bisexual>/bcb/: Hrmm Mike clearly is straight and only wants a best friend to go on dates withRemember when Daisy offered Mike unconditional support and made it clear she wasn't into him romantically, and how Mike literally didn't say another word to her until she started dating Paulo, where he started moping about it?
Also how the fuck do James and Mike go back to being friends at the end of the volume if everything supposedly goes to shit????
>>150557425It's warranted to strike back at Augustus but Mike is still exploding here because of all the anger he's pent up inside him over the last several chapters. He's going too hard and it's going to bite him in the ass because the universe has it out for him
>>150557425>While yes, you can't just sperg out at every little inconvenience or misstep others make around you and your feelings, that's not what's happening here. Augustus has come up to Mike in front of his friend and whatever the fuck David is meant to be and started shit by hitting each and every one of his sore spots and airing out his dirty laundry. If Mike didn't kick the shit out of him for it, he'd lose almost all self-respect.So you think Lucy should've hit Mike during December?That's kind of unhinged.
>>150557427Guys, this isn't working, no one here is taking the bait. Maybe if we post this again like, I dunno, 15 more times, someone will actually care. We gotta pump those numbers up!
>>150557441I don't think any of those are real panels but just vaguely referencing developments Taeshi probably hadn't drawn yet at the time, if James and Mike are ever friends again it's not happening by the end of the volume
>>150557246Mike has led Lucy on twice: once by denying that he was in a relationship with Sandy despite her sending him gifts and love letters, and once by getting all flirty with "I picked it to match the color of your eyes" after she fulfilled his plea for pity in EF.In both cases though it was extremely brief. In the first case Lucy was fine once he actually admitted Sandy was his girlfriend, and only got freaked out when Mike started resenting her as a friend. In the second case Lucy was big upset because now she knows that even the full might of author fiat and spacetime manipulation can only give her a chance against Sandy's powerlevel for a couple hours.
>>150557488You're being obtuse on purpose, also of she did would you be surprised?
>>150557425or you know he could simply shut Augustus down immediately by saying "You're a rapist"
>>150557427Mike is obviously bi, but he's not biSEXUAL, because he's not sexual at all.Girl, Boy, Amaya; Mike doesn't care so long as they tell him what to do and that he's a good boy for doing it.
Nothing good happened to Mike since like... Model Girlfriend. And that was 9 years ago
One thing I fucking hate about Mike, no matter how much I hate Lucy more, is his pentup anger becoming sperging outbursts.
>>150557539If you think Mike is justified in hitting Augustus because he was "hitting all his sore spots" then you have to believe Lucy would be justified in hitting Mike.>nooooooo it's different because Mike is my self insert and he a good boy he dindu nuffin
>>150557609You'd think practicing karate would give him a safe output for his anger, but so would for Lucy and nothing can ever stop having that cat angry
>>150557609Yeah. The thing I hate the most about him is that nowadays he is only able to either be a total pushover or a complete sperg gremlim. He DOES NOT operate outside these two gears.Worst of all is that things weren't always like this. In the past he was a kind dude, but that occasionally allowed himself to get angry and defend himself without losing his shit, but ever since the art style change and the lucy suicide attempt, he only works on the two modes previously mentioned.
>>150557609Yes, men tend to be confrontional AND extremely emotional when it comes to relationship related stuff . You'd know that if you were oneMore news at 11
>>150554703YESSSSSSSSSSS
>>150557671You sound upset, maybe you need to hang with people that are more up your speed >>>/v/
>>150557721Lol self reporting yourself as a chimpanzee? That's new. My buddies cant gaf we chill
>>150557427I'd sooner believe Mike is asexual then bisexual or pansexual.Dude has zero sex drive what so ever and doesn't seem aroused by anything ever.>>150557597This.>>150557113Is she implying Augustus is gay? What about Abbey?The entire track team is gay?All the parents too?Jasmine and Hayley and their posse?Please.She's got like what, 4 central gay characters and two tacked on ones?Jessica,Maddison,Matt, James and then (gay but not really) Daisy and Paulo?I guess you could throw in Felix.Im not counting David,Amaya or Sam because they are basically non-characters.
>>150557609What primary bugs me about the spergouts is their inefficacy. Compare how Lucy's own spergouts are usually treated like mic drops. If Mike was allowed to make salient lasting points while pissed the fuck off, they might still be regrettable but not insufferable wastes of everyone's time.
>>150557783Sam is gay?
>>150557751>Random, meaningless babblePlease stop embarrasing yourself. I'll call your tard wrangler to come pick you up
>>150557783If Taeshi still subscribes to the shrodinger's sexuality theory of character orientation, these few are the only ones she's totally settled upon. You know, for however much THAT's worth.
>>150557671She would be! During December, when Mike actually did such a thing. The vast majority of her violence was before that, over minor annoyances, though. Plus, at the time of the violence anons complain about, Mike was her friend instead of some guy whose stated goal is to harass her every day until she fucks off. I mean, at least December was a one-off.
>>150557441Pretty sure 2/3 of these panels are events that have already come to pass. Only the allegedly explosive double date is yet to happen.
>>150557671NTA but come on dude, most people on Mike's situation would've already at the very least told Augustus to back the fuck off with his harassment, and then proceed to punch or push him if he didn't. Those are two young guys arguing, some hussle and tussle was something bound to happen under the circumstances, specially considering Augustus passive-aggressiveness and the fact Mike didn't even do anything in this scenario. That'd get under anyone's skin.
>>150557929I'm going to assume the double date will end with not only a Mike and Sandy breakup, but also fucking up Mike's friendship with Paulo and Daisy, leaving him truly and completely isolated just in time for his suicide arc next volume
>>150557783See, this is what bothers me about Taeshi, there's not a single thing from her that can be taken seriously or canon because she's so married with posting things with irony that she can shit on a character for a while arc and then be upset that people though she actually believes that. And for a comic like this build on Jenga blocks people will grasp onto anything she says, seriously or in jest.Never take anything that's not happened on the actual comic as truth, and even so be careful because the characters themselves will forget huge chunks of it
>>150557246I agree with the prior anon that Augustus is just using his own highly biased view of how Mike's treated Lucy, like trying to shove a square peg through a round hole. Remember that he thought Mike owed Lucy for her role in Eternal Flame. So far as Augustus is concerned, Lucy's assumptions and subsequent disappointment are the result of Mike being a vile little manipulator. Or, considering how that doesn't really align with Burnt Bridges, maybe he just thinks Mike can be gaslit into agreeing.
>>150557958>his suicide arc next volumeYeah, and that'll take at least like 5+ years to happen. In the meantime it'll just be more and more torture, with some specks of meaningless stuff like Paulo and Daisy.
>>150557958That would certainly fit the pattern. Though on the other hand it could be a big low-drama nothingburger that Taeshi insists is a huge gamechanger even though the status quo only budges by maybe a centimeter or two.
Mike's plan to shut up Augustus is to effectively boop his snoot.I wonder if this will result in him getting suspended?
>>150558021It'd be nice if Taeshi decided this will be Mike's asshole arc instead. She does love those.
>>150558093He already had that with the sperg arc
>>150558089Preview James doesn't seem to think Mike's been thrown off campus, let alone the track team.
>>150558104No, that was Mike being a useless angry sperg. There is a big difference, in that assholes actively inflict pain on others. That's what delights Taeshi.
>>150558089August is an asshole but he doesn't strike me as the type to snitch or go to the teacher to get someone else in trouble
>>150557712Imagine Michele and Alejandra making out
>>150558089>boop his snootexpelled for uwu-related actions.
>>150556141>That shit is gayer than a pride parade marching inside George Takeis asshole.holy shit thank you anon
>>150558093>>150558150She does like assholes (David, Augustus, Paulo, Lucy that ither lesbian cat...) but Mike is not allowed to be one, his job in the comic is just suffering.But to be honest I think it'd probably be a bit cringey to see Mike attempting to be one, since it'd be out of character for him. I say this with some experience because whenever this happens in other comics or movies and stuff, it tends to be really not good.
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>>150558156The way he has managed Lucy's mental health should make that obvious>>150558089I'm more surprised he actually just shut him up, we've seen he's not above actual violence
>>150554730Wait wait wait, how the fuck does Mike pull down a guy who's been drawn like five feet taller than him, by the mouth, then shove Augustus down so far that gray cat's actually *bending halfway over* and is still looking down into his eyes? Is Augustus supposed to be down on all fours? On his stomach? Or is Mike suddenly gigantic? I knew the art plays by Steven Universe rules, just not the Steven-is-big-as-he-envisions-himself conceit.
>>150558286It'd be Spiderman 3's Emo Peter all over again. And yet still an improvement over the alternative.
>>150558156I mean a teacher seeing it happen. They are kinda being loud.
>>150558373>Spiderman 3's Emo PeterYeah exactly what I was thinking lmaoI mean it could be funny and memeable and stuff, but it wouldn't achieve the intended purpose of making Mike a more respectable character, I doubt it'd do him any good.
>>150558360Being inconsistent about everything is the only consistent thing about this comic.
He grabbed his mouth the same way i grab my dog's mouth haha
>>150558469Obviously nothing is going to happen expulsion-wise. Lucy and James are right there, witness to everything.
>>150558482Mike doesn't need to be respectable at this point, just fun or at least amusing.
>>150554703Man, where are the adults whenever Mike snaps like this? Not saying his outbursts are unwarranted, but I do sometimes remind myself that the setting is a school.
>>150558541Where are the adults for anything at all?
>>150558360David is giving him uppies
>>150558541lol it's almost like this is a comic that features characters behaving completely inappropriately for their supposed age and the supposed setting
For how EVERYONE is treating Lucy as a damn Toddler who cant do anything at all (characters and patreons)... I may start edit all her panels with a diaper and pacifier. Im sure there is at least one dude who will be happy
>>150556460I think James doesn't get bullied for being gay because he's one of the few jocks that Roseville's got. Same reason Jordan doesn't get bullied for being a manlet twink. Matt is unathletic, so he doesn't get the pass.
>>150558615That's hilarious, the ultimate consequence dodger
>>150558360Mike inexplicably doubles in size, picks up Augustus and throws him like a bowling ball while Lucy does the B^U pose from Loss This is not a joke
>>150558660That would be hilarious. I wish you were telling the truth.
Mike is a sad dork that never got The Girl, and never will. Is that why /co/ sides with him so much? Feeling a personal connection?
Mike right now
>>150558788It's Augustus, so the dog would have to be an arthritic, toothless mess incapable of fighting back.
>>150558788Would this be racist to do to a dog in-universe?
>>150558615Honestly, that's a fair reaction.
>>150555280I'll read B.C.B and the cute anthro athlete comic. Eventually.>>150555332Devie ya did it, ya finally baked for her oven. All that fucking was worth it.>>150555389The shoulder grip of encouragement for Augustus. I'd say discouragement but she's not saying shit. Content with letting it happen.>>150555413Alina's pretty. Hmm, wonder if she and Mike would make a good ship. Also the hell, didn't know there was an orca in this.>>150555467There is yes, and Sonokido actually draws some. Not much of Alina though, yet.>>150555551Same. I don't know about this but B.C.B is short of hot teachers. Lani is there.>>150555539The politically correct term is erotica. :) At least I'd hope they tell a story.>>150555564Cute. As wholesome as this is, the "basketball gloryhole" idea that popped into my head won't leave. Now I got to make it, or someone else can.
>>150557844Asexual according to Taeshi which falls under the LGBT+ spectrum.>>150557867Not much, weird she even dares to explore it given how awful she is at writing romance and relationships in general.>>150557992Yeah, it's annoying. She expects everyone to be as autistic about her webcomic as she is.>>150558615Perfect, if not a bit fetishy.
>>150556062He had a moment of "Wow, a boy kissed me, but I wonder-" and just couldn't decide if he had feelings. But going by that B.C.I there's a chance he would've taken up the offer, and he's blushing on this page so Bi Mike Confirmed.>>150557427Well the art isn't confirmed to be canon.>>150557609Well he is rightfully sick of having his feelings trivialized.>>150557783He doesn't have the option to have sex, he believes in monogamy, his girlfriend in another town, and he's also a teen and probably thinks he has to wait. Unless he wants to fuck a male it's not worth the risk of knocking up a female.>>150557844I think he would've raped Mike by now if he was.
>mike le bad again
>>150557844Sam is a siscon
>>150558698Judging from all the cringe incel posting about Lucy getting raped, yes.
>>150558117There's no way in hell anything short of Mike beating the shit out of Augustus next page will result in this resentment towards Mike that James and David have.>>150558482Being possessed by Venom would give him more of a spine at least.>>150558541They likely don't care what happens.>>150558615Infantalism Lucy, lol. God can we have an arc for once where Lucy's entitlement and temper makes her the isolated hated one and for once Mike gets cathartic happiness?>>150558821That's actually pretty interesting, imagine if there was an offensive "muzzle gang sign". Throw in the B slur and I imagine it would be speciecist, or breedcist.
>>150558698>>150559039And I'll make the third post so we can all be gay together! Amirite, my fellow Liggers?
>>150559129>There's no way in hell anything short of Mike beating the shit out of Augustus next page will result in this resentment towards Mike that James and David haveI don't know, a lot of us were expecting the motive to be lame and basic, like James buying the whole 'oh noes poor Lucy' story because Mike isn't allowed to defend himself. But now he's watching gray cat go ballistic, which is already a way better reason.
>>150558965Everyone is a bisexual in denial.>>150558965>My single biggest inspiration for writing romance and drama though...Also yeah with Kinktober coming up we need all the fetishes we can get.>>150559037He's more like an abuse apologist, wouldn't say he's deeply affectionate towards Lucy as opposed to just overprotective.>>150559138I'll pass. I'm on the other side of the coin. The Miggas.>Team Mike.
>>150558698I spent my highschool years working through my absolutist and fascistic tendencies, so I identify with Abbey, personally. Mike always struck me as a bit of a diva.
>>150559191What bugs me is what little context he has, he doesn't know what the hell Augustus is talking about but now this angry outburst will turn him against Mike and that's more of James' own fault.It would be fucking funny if Augustus just said with some Sherlock deduction that he knows Mike is bi for James. But it doesn't matter, won't change anything cause this anger from Mike will look so bad that nothing but resentment towards Mike will occur from it (as seen in the spoiler page).
>>150559228Ah, Abbey. Leader of the MRMA Movement. Make Roseville Great Again.
>>150558660Big if true. Mike realizes he's fucked and goes mutually assured destruction on Augustus' dignity.
>>150559342Ah shit sorry. MRGA*. Typo.Deport Auggie.
so what are everyone's opinions on james at this point?
>>150559354I don't think that's possible. Unless he brings up the Daisy molestation. If he physically attacks Augustus he'll just elevate Augustus as a helpless victim while making himself look villainous.
>>150559309You're not wrong that Augustus is making some pretty big leaps in logic.>Michael insists on running around outside with a couple of boys>he even defied me to do it and therefore...>of course!>that means he must be a jilted needy bisexual!I just assume this is the plot putting words into Gus' mouth.
>>150559379A beautifully written character like everyone else. As a person he's sweet, could pay more attention to Mike instead of clinging to the closest hot athlete. Whatever happens next I hope we get a proper friendship arc with him and Mike where Mike confesses that he does love James, poetically after James begins to hate him for whatever reason The Universe gives.
>>150559379Gaybait, worse than Matt
>>150559379Another sad case of character assassination. Or that's what I would say, had he not been an obvious trap since day one. It was nice to enjoy his bait side while it lasted.
So is the result of this supposed to be that Augustus tried to destroy mike's social life every time Lucy has a bad dream?Lets say Mike stays in after this, even at a whole other table, but Lucy still has the bad dreams. Then what? Augustus is going to make a nemisis out of Mike to blow off steam?and of course Lucy isnt lifting a finger to actually stop it. Saying "No" is good enough for her because she tried, I guess. Doesnts matter if Augustus actually keeps it up.
>>150559404Yet if this were a Criminal Minds episode he'd be 100% right in that stretch of a deduction. But he's probably been watching long enough and maybe saw Mike blushing more than once while staring at James.I have a prediction, the next page Augustus turns to James going "See, he actually does like you back but is obsessed. He'll abuse you like he did to Lucy so he doesn't deserve you", and James will just believe that cause he saw Mike attack new hot guy Augustus. "Oh no, he must be a psycho abuser cause of his violent temper", which is ironic bullshit cause that's what Lucy has been like for years, and Augustus knows that that's bullshit, but doesn't care, cause he's willing to do anything to make Mike miserable.
>>150559439I'd love to see Augustus go down the hole of dedicating his life to making Mike suffer, and Mike just loses it to the point he tries suicide and Augustus regrets it, or worse for him, everyone else sees through his anti-Mike agenda and calls him out.
>>150559439>Lets say Mike stays in after this, even at a whole other table, but Lucy still has the bad dreams. Then what?Given how unreasonable the first "request" was, there's really nothing stopping Augustus from making more and more demands wherever he thinks Mike has an option.
>>150559469I think this is going to get dragged out across at least two more pages. Mike will self-immolate and only come to his senses after it's too late, once James is thoroughly disenchanted.
>>150559439>Augustus tells Mike to kill himself
>>150559499>>150559486Augustus just being shitty to mike now because he's decided to make an enemy out of him is really dumb, but I can believe Taeshi would do it.It feels like him suddenly up and doing this would make more sense if we could actually see how these dreams mess with Lucy on the day to day.
>>150559486Augustus isn't the type to feel guilt unless he cares about the other person, i.e. Daisy. He might regret his actions toward Mike, but only if they bite him in the ass. Given what's happening now, it'd be more entertaining if Gus developed a lasting fear of shorty mcgraycat.
>>150559439And what if Augustus wasn't satisfied with that and he forced Mike to shoot up the school to make Lucy happy?Dear God I can't believe Augustus could (hypothetically) do something this evil, he's clearly in the wrong because of your infallible slippery slope argument.
>>150559538Even with Daisy he doesn't really feel guilt, just regret that it didn't work out.
>>150559515I'm down for any path.>>150559520100%, but at least we have a grasp that they do mess her up. All the more indication it's Mike in her dream.>>150559538It would be poetic if he had a fear of hurting Mike in the future, out of guilt from seeing Mike hurt himself. Mike's guilt comes from the fear of hurting Lucy.
>>150559579>It would be poetic if he had a fear of hurting Mike in the futureBut he wouldn't.
>>150559520>this would make more sense if we could actually see how these dreams mess with Lucy on the day to day.forget the dream, lucy forced herself into augustus more or less because of mike, I can see why he would have a vendetta against him already, I wouldn't put it past augustus to see lucy's dreams as a residual of EF
>>150558117god I hate David so much it's unrealYou can't have a meme character choose when to be a meme
>>150559601>lucy forced herself into augustus
>doesn't just take a swing at himCome the fuck on
>>150559191If someone retarded emo cat started harassing my friend out of nowhere and my friend punched him I would join, not be mad at my friend.But of course, James is a homossexual so he has no concept of friendship
>>150559439One anon here goes rabid at the term but it is a slippery slope, if Mike gives in then there's nothing they can't force him to relinquish, remember they walk the same path to school, have karate together and several classes too. Nothing stops him from going "actually that's not enough" just like Taeshi herself and her cult refuse to let go of Mike's sins
I gotta restart drawing bad boy MikexLucy content
>>150554993Remember what he did to AbbeyRemember what he did to DaisyTATAKAEUntil all our enemies are destroyed> Eren probably
>>150559625David could potentially be fixed if he got hit with the same deconstruction bullet Lucy's tsundere gimmick did. Have him suffer consequences for being oblivious to shit.but Taeshi doesn't do this so it's like he's still stuck in 2008 while everyone else moved on.
>>150559601>Lucy forces herself onto Augustus and blames Mike for letting her down>Augustus confronts Mike but quickly backs down as soon as gray cat gives him a remorseful sob storythen later on:>Lucy shows some mild discomfort when Mike happens to be outside>"i must ban this problematic cat from the track specifically during lunch which is definitely a reasonable thing to ask instead of just moving literally anywhere else">"yes this will help Lucy by a measurable degree i am certain of it">"grr how dare Michael defy me">"time for me the definite good guy in this scenario to go destroy his friendship and grind him into the dirt"I think spending time with Lucy has impacted Gus' sanity.
honestly though, why do read this and overanalyze each page, it's a grown ass adult constantly revisiting her weird trauma from 20 years ago and it's not even good trauma
>>150559728David, like most of them, can now only be fixed if corrected with cock
>>150558117This is so shit.Mike was so honest with the gay dudeThe other members of the track team were rightFuck this dumbassFuck David too
>>150559728it would be amazing, but she probably doesn't see it that way.Feels like Taeshi lives in another universe compared to most of /bcb/. I really can't understand the decisions she makes
It's been FOURTEEN FUCKING YEARS since December and we're still doing this shit.
>>150559760Gives me something to look forward to throughout the week. Otherwise I can't explain it
>>150559767Mike is so honest with James that's he's currently beating up Augustus for talking about Mike's history, I wonder if James would've let himself catch feelings if he knew he was the 8th person to incorrectly assume Mike wanted more than a phone as a girlfriend.
>>150559760Someone from either the discord or suitcase himself keeps spamming this comic on this board when we told them to fuck off and stop making a general, so since they will never stop spamming threads might as well rip it apart when not making them squirm by making porn of these characters
>>150559836>we
>Mikehaters passive aggressively malding all thread long over a rare and very temporary Mike winSee it's funny because not even the discord hugbox is enough to contain the rage.
>>150559767We don't know whether Mike will turn on James and rip him apart.
>>150559891>you think Mike losing all of his friends because his past finally caught up to him is a winI've never seen someone disassociate over a comic before lol, what else is going on in your delusional fantasy?
>>150560034See? A mild poke and you come running and jeering. What's the matter, not enough voices in the old echo chamber calling out for a crucifixion?
>>150560095>Mikefag throwing out bait againKnock it off, these threads already have two trolls too many: almulti and the comic itself.
>>150560095>Bawww don't break my delusional safe spaceJust try to mentally block out being laughed at, you're apparently good at believing your own bullshit.
>>150558360Mike can actually throw down when the plot allows him to. Also Augustus is a pussy when things get physical
Augustus is basically bullying Mike.The whole "stay inside and never go out" is completely crazy.Is weird that people defend this.Augustus needs to get his ass kick.
>>150558117Oh right, I had forgotten David takes credit for bringing Lucy back, so he has to be involved in taking Mike down and considering the few pages left it'll be done in the most unfunny and forced meme way
>>150559129Nah. Mike could have done nothing at all and they'd have just bought the "oh poor Lucy" shit and treated Mike like a pariah because Tard dog is a retard and James is an idiot who just sides with whoever's fastest (tard dog)
This comic taught me that if you are girl you can mistreat others and everything will be forgiven with almost no effort.But if you are a guy then you will be ostracized forever.Actually pretty accurate to real life thou.
>>150559864ok suitcase
>>150560348>if you are girl*If you are a pretty girl
>>150560209Yes yes we know how this goes. You will seethe and mald and ineffectually sneer in a desperate bid for attention that everyone in these threads can see through. Yawn.Anyway, this is just to let you know that it's really funny that Mike of all characters can trigger the fuck out of you this hard. I'll be ignoring your worthless posts from hereon out.Ciao!
>>150560292>Augustus is basically bullying Mike.He said he was going to continue doing this until Mike complied. He is bullying Mike.So what needs to happen is Mike punches him, and then a teacher sees that and suspends Mike for not letting himself be bullied.
>>150557488Do you really not see the difference between your best friend crashing out on you when it's just the two of you and getting carried away and someone who is pretty much a stranger coming up to you in public for the sole admitted purpose of starting shit with you?
>>150560309>so he has to be involved in taking Mike down and considering the few pages left it'll be done in the most unfunny and forced meme wayPicking him up and dumping him in a trashcan?
so what happened after december where Taeshi just decided that Lucy doesnt have to improve herself as a person. Mike's been getting punished for this longer than the start of the comic to december itself.
>>150560385What's probably going to happen is Mike's anger sputters out after he's done irreversible verbal--but not physical--damage, leaving him feeling guilty enough to cede his place at the table to Lucy. It'll be something he deeply regrets while the others stay grumpy at him for calling out their insecurities.
>>150560348I mean there's also Sue who gets triple punishment for her hubris to level things out
>>150560367Tess, literally a member of a gang, she was forgiven.Jess, literally bullied said girl and fucked a boy to get at her, everything forgiven.Lucy, literally punched, kicked and verbally abused almost everyone in the cast. Nobody resent her at all.To be fair other males also breezed it out of the "you are bad person" thin easily.Augustus sexually asaulted Daisy and basically was gathering intel for a gangbanger rapist. Everything forgiven.Abbey is very disturbed, basically assaulted and threatened Paulo, everything forgiven.It generate a sort of whiplash that everything that Mikes does seem to have other level of gravitas compared with other characters. Like when he does something bad is double bad just because.
>>150560448Literally "she had suffered enough so it was time to level things up", whatever her idea of that is
>>150560448She went from > I'm above the whole thingTo> I need my creepy friend to bully you out of being outside until we graduateWe need an evil Mike arc were he goes alone and just don't give a fuck anymore about all of these fake friends.The only solid bros are Abbey and Paulo even if one is disturbed and the other a whore.
>>150559820>Mike's historyHe's making shit up anon, if you believe he's "stringing James along" you're dumber than the cult
>>150560484>Augustus sexually asaulted Daisy and basically was gathering intel for a gangbanger rapistCorrection he almost sexually assaulted Daisy, but was stopped before he could rape her. No one else knows about his alej connection, or literally everyone would think Lucy is fucking insane. ALso nything he could say would be even more dssamble since he would have been working for the guy that beat them all in a back alley and almost raped Lucy.
>>150560560>No one else knows about his alej connectionDaisy knows. She made the connection because Augustus referred to Mike as "green eyes" right after Abbey pulled him off Daisy.
>>150560560It just makes me mad.Yeah Mike called Lucy a parasite, maybe it was too harsh.How that's so much different to Sue treating Paulo and David like complete lowlife retards basically every chapter?But one thing is "le big bad" and the other is "just le jokes".Give the dude a break.
>>150560509>the other a whorepaulo needs to do something else to be a "solid bro", I'm not forgetting he was about to throw mike under the bus in doubling down
>>150560583>Daisy knows. She made the connection because Augustus referred to Mike as "green eyes" right after Abbey pulled him off Daisy.Oh... and she hasn't mentioned this to anyone else? If so, why?
>>150560597Or Abbey elbowing Paulo on the fucking neck like a psycopath.He is not "that bad".I'm drunk and malding at these fucking cats.lmao
>>150560484To be fair Abbey wasn't forgiven, the choke is what put his relationship with Daisy on the edge, and Paulo pretty much shat on him whenever possible and doubled down when told to stop, even by Daisy. You see the asshole that's bullying Mike right now? Not even he brought up his dead mom to make fun of him like Paulo did. If anything Paulo is the prime example of getting away with it. His only grace was distancing himself from the table
>>150560616Nope, she wimped out and just said she "had a bad feeling" when Lucy asked her, which left it a nasty surprise for Little Miss I Didn't Want It when she followed Augustus home.>why?Because Augustus is hot, duh.
>>150554703The one thing that would improve upon this is if the next page is Lucy, James, and David pulling Mike off Augustus, who begins to deliver another scathing monologue but BUHGAWD IT'S ABBEY WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!
>>150560639I don't remember Paulo mocking Abbey dead mom.Shiet.
>>150554703oh shit first thing I saw opening /co/
>>150560616Because WHAT IF Augustus wanted a relationship with her?
>>150560616We don't know that Daisy never told anyone else that. Mike did consider Lucy to be absolutely pathetic for latching onto Augustus of all people, so it looks as though Daisy shared some details, at least. Honestly, if Mike did not about Gus' connection to the gang, now would be an excellent time to drop that bomb on top of his head.
>>150560536He did string James along, you're just a retarded simp and refuse to admit it.
>>150560730Ok, show us how
>>150560701If one of their "friends" ends up dead or kidnapped, you can actually just blame Daisy or Lucy.Actually, that is a way to not have any of them related to Miek posisbly trying to kill himself.>Have a near broken mike wondering around>Alej sees him>Alej kidnaps himThere, now Alej is back in the story, and Mike didn't kill himself. Now Taehsi can have Mike actually physically tortured on screen.
>>150560663>Because Augustus is hot, duh.>>150560701>Because WHAT IF Augustus wanted a relationship with her?These, honestly. Augustus is a boy who Daisy still wanted attention from but also wanted to forget about. Out of sight, out of mind, but also it might be cool if he tried to seduce her again tee hee~
>>150560730He did not string him along in any way.He is trying to be close to him because now he is fawning to David and Mike have a problem with people wanting his dick and stopping being friends when he doesn't give them his dick.He was 100% frontal and honest, even offered to drop the running track team.
>>150560758Lucy is definitely the one most at fault here because she knows the current situation. It was so incredibly stupid to invite Augustus into her home. The only reason they're both okay so far is because Alejandro is a lazy idiot.
>>150560730Do you people know the difference between being nice and stringing along? Being just friends and stringing along? Literally being the past crush (new crush is a dog) vs stringing along??
>>150560614>I'm not forgetting he was about to throw mike under the bus in doubling downPerhaps it is naught but a headcanon, for we all know that true canon is ever in flux within he BPD ravaged mind of Taeshi, but I think that is also the chapter when he fully commits to being on Mike's side. After all, Lucy offers him only scorn and hostility to his attempts at friendship, whilst Mike comes across him distressed and offers him nothing but kindness and compassion.
>>150560809>The only reason they're both okay so far is because Alejandro is a lazy idiot.I mean, I wouldn't fuck up my meal ticket out of a crackden either. There is no reason for him to want to help Alej. Actually, isn't this 2008? Can't you just Dox Lucy, or is that not a thing yet?
>>150560597Lucy IS a parasite, and Paulo and David ARE lowlife retards.>>150560632Paulo deserved it.
>>150560842>but I think that is also the chapter when he fully commits to being on Mike's sideThe next chapter Paulo crashes Mike's "date" with the excuse that "Mike needed to be taken down a notch because everyone prefers him to him" and introduces the plague that is David into his life. His idea of friendship is being male Lucy
>>150560883Alejandro knows that Augustus and Lucy go to the same school. It really would not be that hard to figure things out from there.
>>150560597because white cat tried to kill herself which suddenly makes the parasite thing so much worse than anything ever despite the fact he apologized and she accepted. Lucy sucks
>>150560939Hasn't it been months in-universe? You would think he would try stalking the area to find out where Lucy lives.
>>150560983Everyone is such hypocritesMikes deserves a better comicTAESHIIII
>>150560921Paulo's lingering jealousy toward Mike, coupled with denial over wanting to rail his gray furry ass, kind of poisons any potential friendship between them. Paulo still defaults toward using Mike or his things as a stress ball.
>>150561000That's why I said they're both very lucky he's both stupid and lazy. Anyone else nursing that kind of grudge would've found and stalked them down inside a few weeks.
>>150561000>>150561035SC is basically canon, and in that, catching/raping Lucy is Alejandro's personal side project rather than his primary interest. He and Toby have to get money SOMEHOW, they aren't homeless, but they also don't have jobs, so they must sling drugs or run a protection racket or some other easy money kind of scheme.Basically, I assume that Augustus and Lucy haven't been followed up on because Alej sees getting confirmation on what happened to the little punk who was supposed to keep tabs on the highschooler he wanted to rape as a low priority kind of thing. He probably thinks Augustus got shot for shoplifting or something and figures he'll get around to it eventually.
>>150561016>Paulo still defaults toward using Mike or his things as a stress ball.Mike is lucky this isn't old Bcb, or Paulo would have fondled him more than Lucy. With the way Mike is written now, he might not have fought back.It is actually really weird how Mike perfectly embodies Lucy's old supposed issue of people only wanting her for her body. When it came to Lucy, it seems like, for some reason, people like her personality, but with Mike, they lost interest if he doesnt want to fuck them. The Comic would be better if Mike were a girl.
>>150559595Maybe if it was hammered into him that he caused someone to kill themselves, especially when that's what he condemned in Mike, and if others around him shame him, then he'd feel regret.
>>150561131> Mike is lucky this isn't old Bcb, or Paulo would have fondled him more than Lucy.What are you talking about, the comic went from a wholesome standard romantic comic to > all teenagers are homosexuals> let's explore queer sexualityI know, I'm here for the long run
>>150561128See, that would be perfectly reasonable save for the fact we've seen that all Alejandro does is sit around all day and seethe over Lucy whenever his chipped tooth acts up. Having to work because Augustus isn't around to lift groceries anymore should piss him off all the harder.
>>150561207Again, I assume he just sells drugs or shakes down local businesses. A few hours of "work" a week doing the kind of low-effort, high-risk criminality where being lazy, quick to anger, and holding violent grudges are qualifications rather than detriments.
>>150561131>Taeshi tries to create pottery between Lucy and Mike>copy/pastes a long running Lucy issue onto gray cat>whoops it fits him a lot better and makes Lucy look even more nuts than beforeBravo, Taeshi. Another flawlessly executed writing choice.
>>150560484>Tess, literally a member of a gang, she was forgiven.To be fair to tess, she had to work for it. Took a good while for her.>>150560730He did not string james along at all. James dropped him the moment Mike didnt want to date him and he saw david run faster.
>>150561345I mean, she has given Mike more reasons to actually wanna kill himself. >Has for years believed his friends are fair-weather or would ditch him for Lucy.>"girlfriend" is a guilty tripping skank>Any friend he wants to make just wants to get into his pants>Golden boy of the family, and parents' marriage is not great.Lucy's issue was never a great thing since it made her an actual parasite on any BOY she latched onto. Sue herself has pretty much has offered to be in the same role, but Lucy doesnt want a female to latch onto. In fact, Lucy rejected all her friends, even when they offered an outstretched hand or were concerned.
>He did not string him along in anyway>He just took him on a date despite being taken>He just told his gay friend that he was the only thing he has to look forward to>He just told him about how unhappy Sandy made him despite knowing he'd never break up with herAnd considering Mike was smiling like an idiot as James said "I'll always be down if you change your mind tee hee" he was planning on keeping it going until David came along and suddenly Mike lost what he thought was a new dedicated fangirl to drool over him one-sidedly.>Mike holding hands with his platonic friend after sharing a kiss
>>150559836I or someone else can make a Kinktober /trash/ thread mid or late next month, if everyone wants to make stuff for it.>>150560195I don't troll. Time is precious, better spent on passion and love than toxicity and hatred.>>150560725Yeah, Mike has zero idea Augustus worked for Alejandro, but knows about the Daisylestation.>>150561000Yeah, but plotting a crime takes planning and time regardless of how complex, especially to do so without getting caught.>>150561128I might as well headcanonize existing fanfictions to the existing main timeline but I don't want to risk any future contradictions since the main timeline is still ongoing. At least it's still going at all, Lackadaisy on the other hand seems to be dead in favor of the show.>>150561131If this were old B.C.B, Mike wouldn't fight back as Paulo slapstick bullies him by violently beating him up.>>150561345That sounds like it would be intentional.>>150561381Morally the characters aren't perfect but if the rating was higher or if the story was darker in general, we could fill niches of characters like excessively violent bullies, wannabe gangsters, perverted rapists, drug smugglers, school shooters. Those options exist theoretically and in fanfiction so these characters could be way worse, and the main timeline is a grounded drama instead of an action story where way worse can happen.
>>150561456James did a wrong by taking Mike out on a date without even telling him, and even more so led him on with hope that he could have a better romantic partner only to drop said hope in favor of David, so the first wrong he did wound up being in Mike's favor only for the favor to be thrown away and now Mike's miserable.
>>150561456look at this evil dudehttps://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c118/p4https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c118/p5playing with the poor faggot feelingshttps://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c118/p9https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/c118/p10
>>150561468>If this were old B.C.B, Mike wouldn't fight back as Paulo slapstick bullies him by violently beating him up.That too, I was assuming Paulo still becomes Bi and adds sexual molesting alongside the bouts of violence.
>>150561448Lucy's behavior makes a lot more sense if you assume she's incredibly sexist:>"It's fine to hit boys, they can take it">"A bit of sexual harassment is just boys being boys - it's a compliment, really">"Girls are dumb backstabbing whores, female friendships are all about jealousy">"Boys don't cry">"It's only rape when a stranger/stalker does it"
>>150561548> "Imma rape you Mike, but don't worry cause it's romantic slapstick comedy so it's not really rape it's more like extreme dubconesque totally consensual sex that can be played off cause we're males."
>>150561456>This is the cult's reading comprehension It wasn't a date for Mike, it was hanging out with a friend. I know you don't know how that's like but it doesn't end with them wanting to dick each other, that was a surprise to Mike. You can appreciate someone without wanting a relationship with them, or at least he can, God knows no one else in this comic does
>>150561554there is nothing wrong on having a non queer realistic vision of the world thouher problem is that she is a bitch
>>150561591After Taeshi saw the light, every cat became potentially gay, so there is an implicit sexual tension in almost every interaction.Which is queer coded but pretty insane.
>>150561456>He just took him on a date despite being takenHe didn't realize it was a date>He just told his gay friend that he was the only thing he has to look forward toI don't think Mike knew James was gay, he was just trying to tell his homie that he thankful for his friendship.>He just told him about how unhappy Sandy made him despite knowing he'd never break up with herVenting to a close friend about relationship issues is something we all do. Well, something that those of us who get into relationships do.At most you can say Mike is an oblivious moron for not cottoning on to James's romantic interest earlier.
>>150561631As a shipping enthusiast that appeals to me.
>>150561584>> "Imma rape you Mike, but don't worry cause it's romantic slapstick comedyPretty sure, Kimi ga Aruji de Shitsuji ga Ore de had a rape joke like that. Someone stop the passage of time this is nearly 20 years old.
>>150561638It's really funny that Mike thought he had finally a platonic friend not related to the table. The fool
>>150561456Mike didn’t know it was a date, and James already knew Mike had a girlfriend and tried to homewreck anyway
>>150561694Something to add to the list.It kind of reminds me of the movie Singam. There's a moment where the main female character Kavya jokingly tells Singam that if he doesn't reciprocate her crush, that she'd spread a rumor that he raped him as a blackmail threat. You have to see it to believe that she said this in a manner that was intended to be an edgy tease, and Singam felt flattered by the threat. Retrospectively it was, off-putting. Felt like something Lucy would say to Mike, and if the gender roles were reversed the characters and the viewers would freak the fuck out.
>>150556702Reminder that James entire arc was originally supposed to be with Daisy, and this was swapped with a male oc for who knows what reason (probably gaybait)At the same time, an arc where Matt gets over Jordan being straight by trying to go for the grey lookalike cat would have been really enticing, especially when Lucy/Jordan finds out
>>150561638Mike being an oblivious moron is obvious. Since Lucy's return, the entire comic has been:>Mike is mad/sad about some bullshit>One of his friends goes "Hey Mike, [useful advice/offer of support]">Mike either flips out for no reason or brushes it off while tearing up>Mike doubles down on whatever is making him mad/sad>Reset, next chapterOccasionally the script is flipped and Lucy has a go around instead, but it's the same pattern. She's mad/sad, someone tries to help, she reacts with hostility, nothing is solved.
>>150561584God, shut the hell up, you annoying cunt
>>150561952>make shit up>get mad that taeshi didn't do the thing you made upthe absolute state of /bcb/
Thinking about it, it's kinda funny just how afraid BCB has been on calling lucy out on her bullshit and having it stick and have her develop from that.It's a comic that's afraid to tell the lead girl to stop being a turbo cunt for some reason.
>>150561609>realistic vision of the worldOh hi Lucy, how's it going. Still never fucking wanted it?
This got weird, like, at this point any kid would start to fight each other. You all remember HS right? Even you were a pussy it would be almos impossible to be so gay with other man like augustus is being right now without being punched in the face. I was a fucking nerd and already got in fights because of dumb shit like that. The cats should fight or fuck.
>>150561952>an arc where Matt gets over Jordan being straight by trying to go for the grey lookalike cat would have been really enticing, especially when Lucy/Jordan finds outDoes it not sometimes drive you to madness that of all the timelines in which Taeshi goes down these greater paths, we are stuck on the one where is she at her most inept?
>>150561952The queer fandom is basically financing Taeshi for life.Heterosexuality has been verboten
Repostin' last one before today's.
>>150554703>>150562323And today's! BCB but it's actually fun!My disappointment at the "punch" Mike was implied to be throwing in the spoilers just being a face shove is immeasurable, like, Taeshi this shit is just LAME.
>>150562299NTA, but YES. YES IT DOES. Matt and Mike would get along like gangbusters, since Mike is desperate for attention and Matt likes hanging out with dumb athletic twinks.
>>150562353>>150562323lolthere is more to these?
>>150561456The comic hands out so many reasons to hate Mike and still the discord cultists work themselves into seizures cooking up new hallucinations to mald over.
>>150562271You gotta remember this comic is written by a 40 year old woman who is severely disillusioned with her gambling addict husband but also views him as the archetypal male. She does not grasp that, as Kenny Rogers sagely put it, "Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man."
>>150562380>gambling addict husbandgestalt on this?didn't knew soupy was a gambling degenerate
>>150562366Kindof but the others aren't connected.
>>150562271Taeshi's agenda is Mike isolation here, even if she knew how to actually write teenage boys she'd probably just do it this way anyways.
>>150562502to be fair she already stated that James and David are both retards.So Mike feeling ostracized by tards it not that unrealistic.They are not supposed to have a nuanced point of view.At this point i just want David to eat shit. I hate the whole "comic relief character above everything else" skitch.
>>150562550>to be fair she already stated that James and David are both retards.Like... literal retards?
>>150562372You don't get it anon, Mike OWED him!
>>150558954Get your grubby fucking hands off VCD you drooling retard. I actually don't even want to see porn of these characters, but if I did I would sooner blow my brains out with a rusty 12 gauge than have you be the one to do it
>>150562403He mentioned on the draw streams he bets on baseball teams, there is also that famous repost of when he asked the bcb discord for money to gamble with
>>150562158I think it's just how she's supposed to be as a character, characters don't have to be morally correct so it's interesting to see where their problems take them and what they lead to.>>150562660If you're interested, Sonokido already has porn of them.
>>150554730Yo!!! This is Lowkey super hot!! Too bad the anime avatar at is gonna show up and kill my mood
>>150562711>I think it's just how she's supposed to be as a character, characters don't have to be morally correct so it's interesting to see where their problems take them and what they lead to.this is true, characters can be faultybut the narrative seem to imply a moral of the story
>>150562353>Tha-*cough* that rite...>Ges yer twink ta hold you bashkpic relI was hoping for a punch too, but the mouth grab has its own advantages. I mean looking at next page's preview, not only is Augustus still muzzled and afraid, but Mike has forced him to his knees, judging by the height difference. Kind of a power move.
>>150562755I'd have to hear it straight from Taeshi but I heard that she did say some fucked up shit.
>>150562770I think he must have shoved Augustus down flat onto his back, or at least into a sitting position. The height difference between them pretty much demands it.
>>150562353What's with Lucy's "fuck not this again" expression?
>>150563173>THIS is the best he can do? I gotta manipulate better attack dogs...
>>150563225Alright, that's pretty good.
>>150562363That bowling-alley chapter was so cringe and frustrating. Then the followup conclusion intermission was fucking lame too, Taeshi really baited any Jordan x Matt shippers til the last possible second huh?It was all that attention on Matt being an incel only to just - brush him away and forget about it? Like what was the fucking point??So what, James could come in and be a more shit gay dude?>>150562403Yes he was begging discord users for 3k to bet on crypto.
>>150561952I don't remember this? Just he was a male Daisy clone that worked with Paulo that showed up in minor side comics before being canonized.Mike x Matt could be interesting, but since Taeshi has to keep everyone perpetually minors, she wont ship a 2 year age gap between a 16 and 18 year old.Like, just fucking retcon Matt to be 17. It's not that fucking hard.Just like Witch Hunt would've been way more interesting to have a teen halloween party instead of them acting like tardlets trick or treating?Im pretty sure Taeshi knows nothing about how teenagers act anymore.>>150560560All we see is him push her against a tree and kiss her. Taeshi keeps the camera away from him for a good time so we can't really see how skeevy he is being. But the way she frames how the characters talk about it you'd think he almost stuck his dick in her.This is also immediately after Daisy forced a kiss on Mike.
>>150562353TOP KEK
>>150563932>that picJesus how pathetic can you be? Knowing that Mike is partially based on Soupy makes me think he deserves all the torment Taeshi puts him through slightly more.
I finally went back and read some of the older parts of the comic to figure out why people hate Mike. I don’t understand… Lucy was literally being a shithead to him first???
>>150564265>sane readersStarted sometime around or after Taeshi decided to assassinate Mike's character and grind his reputation into the dirt. Even if they went back to read the old material, first impressions are a big deal.>the restImmature teenage girls and mentally ill womenchildren self-inserting as Lucy.
>>150564341I think for a lot of people it's less a matter of first impression and more that if you started reading anytime in the last 8 years, you probably binged through the part of the story where Mike is a decent guy in a day or two, while the part of the story where Mike sucks has gone on for YEARS.Like, I read from the beginning first, and found Mike boring but basically sympathetic, but I am so fucking tired of him and Lucy's "oh no they love but r toxic 2 each other" bullshit by this point that my well of sympathy has run totally dry.
>>150564407That's a good point and surely a major contributing factor. Over that period, the comic's only done three things:>example # 7391 of why you the reader should hate Mike>aren't you excited for another taste of La Croix er I mean Paisy?>moar asspats for Lucychan!ad nauseum
>>150562688>>150563932what was he even thinking, isn't the discord full of underage kids
>>150559672Started on some. Here's the first shitty one
>>150564723Looking pretty good to me!
>>150564640IDK, 3k is not small change for most people.It's reenforces my belief he is at least and perhaps Taeshi too are trust-fund kiddies and that's why they've been able to live the lifestyle they have.We at least know Suitcase comes from a family of lawyers since his dad wanted him to go into his law-firm before he ran off to America to live off Taeshi's teet.>>150564253Well, if you really wanna know what December was based off of.Some may still argue that BCB isn't based off of Taeshi's personal life, lmao.
>>150554703All of Gus' accusations fit Lucy to a T, but I can't help noticing the first word balloon lingering over James applies to him as well.
>>150554703Finally, something good in this stupid boring comic
>>150554703>Moments before new SDT scene
>>150561456This is what the hip youngsters call "Trolling" nowadays, right?
>>150564861I remember this page, but I didn't quite remember how she said she didn't even like drawing BCB.seeing it again, I do feel bad for her. I can relate. Doing something you don't actually feel any more passion about sucks, specially regarding creative stuff you used to enjoy, since you need to invest time and effort creating a story you don't really care that much about, but you can't just say 'fuck it' completely, both because like it or not it'd affect the livelihood, and also because it is a part of your own history, since you invest so much time doing it.I don't like the comic as it is right now, but its bad direction is a symptom of several unresolved issues. I know the page is old at this point and stuff, but I do hope things improve.
>>150564723They love each other!They should make Augustus watch
>>150564861Oh they absolutely are trust fund kiddies, or at least getting some serious financial support from their families. There's no way two people can live off the like 3 grand a month they make from patreon.>>150565391It could be worse, she could do what the creator of Stand Still, Stay Silent did and let her unresolved mental issues cause her to join a church of fundamentalist Calvinists and renounce all her previous works.
>>150565391The context iirc, is when Taeshi lived in Australia with Suitcase and was immensely unhappy there. I think they completed their degrees, said fuck it and moved to the US for some reason.This was early on in the 2010s or so.I think she's since then brow-beaten Suitcase into a certain lifestyle now she is the primary breadwinner. So I can't feel too bad for either her or Suitcase because they are both constantly terrible to one another it seems.
>>150565650Well worse still they live in NYC, like in Manhattan or something. Which is crazy expensive.But they also constantly take multiple international trips per year - so yeah trust fund kiddies.Which probably explains their arrogance.
Christ man, Augustus is a pathetic projecting piece of shit. I hope James doesn't buy any his BS and this ruins Augustus reputation and he gets the beat down he so deserves without Lucy helping him.
>>150564530Don't forget:>teasing ships that won't happen like JordanXMatt, JamesXMike, DaisyXSelfesteem>Paulo going "being an asshole... le angers people???" for the 55th time>Mike or Lucy being presented a solution for all their problems on a silver platter then slapping it away for no reason>starting a plot involving side characters then abruptly cancelling it to make room for more of the toxic relationship show>retconning stuff and hoping readers won't notice
>>150564530The problem of the series is a problem of the modern "live" creative mediaAuthors let the readers influence what they produce for one reason or anotherIt could be money or it could be wanting to appeal to fansBCB became a lot gayer thanks to the queer movement, it wasn't supposed to be a series about 90% gay cats exploring their gaynessOn the same note because more than half of the fanbase shit on Mike, then Taeshi write chapters shitting on MikeIs really not that hard
>>150554730Its about fucking TIME someone rapes Augustus. Ive been saying all this time
>>150566315Melanie raped him years ago but as he is a male he does not get to play the rape victim card like Lucy
Hm, so perhaps the (or more accurately, a) reason why Taeshi has Augustus acting in Lucy's stead is because even she couldn't force herself to believe that guilt-ridden Mike could explode like this on Worst Cat.
>>150564723Who's that with Lucy? Mike? James?>>150566659Is that a retcon cause last I remember she just kissed him first and he voluntarily gestured sexual consent, it was shown off panel off course.>>150566659Mike should give that honor to Abbey. Or Daisy, or Paulo. Gang rape is always an option.>>150566885It's wise to assume that this story is completely seperate from Veronica's real life, unless she repeatedly says that she imagines or fantasizes that she's in the place of her characters.
>>150555332Is he sitting on the floor jorking it with his pants on lmao
>>150567087Ha, that's what I thought! "Fuck she's so hot I gotta get this out now!"Now I'm wondering why Clover wouldn't want him to stay in in this one.
Mike finally showing his true colors, good. Hope he gets everything that's coming to him. Hope Lucy unloads on him for kissing her.
>>150567144I hope Mike does on Lucy for beating him since childhood.
Even with mike about to clap augustus' cheeks, if Lucy does take this opportunity to take his spot at the table it kind of undermines her whole "i never wanted you to be miserable!" "I just want everyone to leave me alone!" shit. Its pretty fucking spiteful especially considering mike officially has like zero friends now
>>150566082We already know he is going to because James is a retarded drone only interested in the fastest set of legs.
>>150567425Based on what we've seen so far (for what little that's worth), Lucy wouldn't want to think of herself as punishing Mike, even if watching him suffer would make her smile inside. So either Mike gives up his seat and Lucy takes it for lack of excuses to back out, or this spergout backfires so hard that Lucy decides Mike absolutely deserves his exile.Regardless, I have this bad feeling that David's not in frame because he's using his meme dog powers to hunt down Sue and teleport her into the scene. All so she can judge Mike and shame him into leaving so Lucy can rejoin the table.
Is this whole comic just endless suffering? Why keep reading?
>>150567144And Lucy finally gets what she deserves: a reminder that her replacement security blanket is a useless edgelord who will fail her when push comes to shove, leaving her all alone and vulnerable. Everyone wins!
>>150567601In the fleeting hope that Lucy will roofie Mike
>>150565142>SDTWas there anything new added since Mike/Daisy?
>>150567668What's SDT?
>>150567144I hope Alejandro unloads in her for messing up his teeth.
>>150567702Super DeepThroat
>>150567893Oh that one. I know there's a spiritual successor to that thing, but behind a paywall
>>150556027Taeshi would never…
>>150567601Suffering being emotional is the appeal. >>150567893Sounds like a superhero. Fights crime by letting villains deep throat them.
>>150567144>>150567642It is kind of funny looking at it that way. At the end of the day Lucy 'really' wants Mike above all else. This whole stunt just pushes him even further away from her and makes Alejandro look like a pussy when push actually comes to shove. Her nightmares are only going to way worse now as she really has no protective figure in her eyes now.
>>150568080Meant Augustus whoops
Is this the first time someone's actually getting hands on with Augustus for all his constant bullshit prodding and antagonizing? Mike doesnt pussy out the way Abbey does and Lucy isnt jumping in with her anime kung fu like she did with Paulo
>>150568080It's not as if Augustus was saving Lucy in her dreams anyway. Her subconscious knows he's an undependable wuss.
>>150568157I'm sure that Taeshi will have Lucy or meme dog interrupt before Mike reaccumulates too much personal dignity.
I think that Mike will we getting the "I'm out of here treatment".He will feel his friends never stand with him.His parents are divorcing so he be given the chance to go live away from his current school.He will take the chance.If we are lucky and Taesh ihave some balls Lucy will get some flak from all of this consideregin that IS her fault that her creepy sociopath friend wanted to force a kid to stay indoors basically forever and bullied him to do it.
>>150568586That would still be a long ways off. Mike has Daisy and Paulo at the very least, and we've only seen one argument between his parents. Taeshi will be in no rush to put Mike out of her reach.
>>150567018That's Mike
>>150567087Is flak0ps drawing porn now?
>>150561131Genderbending story would be banger
>>150568695Ah, got it.>>150568815Aww.>>150568706It's more suggestive than explicit.
>>150568815Cute
>>150568815Hot damn, good job dude.
>>150568815It would be extremely obnoxious
>>150568934Paulo and David turning into women for one day. We all know what they'd do.
>>150568815You guys will do anything but admit that you too are gay for Mike.But nice Michelle art.
>>150568815Is this AI? Can't even tell anymore
>>150566217>Authors let the readers influence what they produce for one reason or anotherYeah you said it all man, I hate this.At the end of the day, authors just need to make a genuine story, one that they legit care for and enjoy doing. They don't need to go out of their way to appeal to this or that group, they just need to do their thing. If it is good it will find its audience.Trying too hard to appeal will often lead to a bunch of inconsistencies in both character development and in the story itself. The characters and the story tend to become an unrecognizable mess, or a terribly exaggerated (aka 'flanderized') version of themselves. Also, the author will likely lose the passion they had for the story, because it'll no longer be the thing they intended to do on the first place.
>>150568815It would be retarded i hate coomers
Taeshi has made it clear that Mike and Lucy will continue to orbit and make each other worse indefinitely. They will both continue to vacillate between openly hostile resentment and "oh but I love them" no matter what the other does, and the universe will conspire to keep them going even if it has to teleport Lucy in front of Mike like a random encounter. If one takes the AUs as "in-character" like they supposedly are, then not even Mike being married with a kid and Lucy being dead will prevent them from continuing this bullshit.Inshallah Mike and Lucy will commit murder-suicide and finally put an end to their toxic bullshit.>>150568934For you.
>>150569439I thought it was at first.
>>150569471>>150556141Bingo Bingo ding ding ding.Once again the discord predators ruin everything.
>>150569477Too scared to face Lucy/Lukas shittyness?>>150569439Where do you see ai?
>>150568815>>150568934>>150569477It would be interesting to see how different the dynamics and general public opinion would be in certain situations.I wonder how differently people would favor or hate the characters, if at all.
>>150570427
I'm dropping this shit and reading VCD. Looks more fun, less depressing, less... discord driven IYKWIM.
>>150570467switch the gender and it becomes a story about a Girl Failure and a fucking incel
>>150554703Put him in his place Mike... DO IT!!!!
>>150570661Thank you for seeing the light brother, the ballin' comic is my new favoriteI saw there used to be VCD threads, can we get them going again or hell, what if we rebranded /bcb/ into a furry webcomics general, it's criminal that a comic like BCB is hitting bump limit, might as well put that popularity to good use. I know a few more that are worth a read
>>150570661BCB festers inside like a parasite, 450 message thread of everyone hating the comic and yet they still check the updates. You'll come crawling back.
>>150573614It's true, I thought I was free and left /co/ behind, but when I see these threads I have to see what retarded shit happened. It's like crack.
KILL HIM
>>150573614Im an old fag.I was reading this shit when it was just broken doodles and about romance instead of queer science and a universe were everybody is gay.I'm here to the end and I'm not even a furry or into furry shit.For me was just a bittersweet cartoon comic.Doesn't mean im not gonna mald like crazy until the end.
>>150574254I don't even mind the everyone-is-bi-until-stated otherwise gaybaiting, BCB has always been kind of fruity, MikeXPaulo or Carson were part of volume ONE.What I mind is the whole damn comic now is just spite and despair - Paisy only happened because they'd burnt down all their other options, Mike and Lucy don't DO anything except make each other miserable, Sandy is a cheating whore who exists to drive conflict, James exists to drive conflict, David exists to drive conflict, Augustus exists to drive conflict. When the comic does show characters being happy or affectionate with each other, it's so muted, plain, and chaste that it feels like watching acquaintances at a social function. No-one is happy and none of them are allowed to do anything differently. The only characters who are allowed to move on, get better, and solve their problems are side characters that Taeshi doesn't like or care about who then disappear from the comic.There's no sweets here, just bitterness.
Mike: https://youtu.be/f8aBEyN8vgU
>>150576641You just reminded me of how Taeshi had a chapter of Lucy exclaiming out loud how she didn't want to be close to her friends and wanted to drive them away, followed by a chapter showing how much fun she was having with everyone sans Mike culminating on her throwing his proxy birthday present into the trash (she didn't want it), then a chapter of her happy with her family on new years saying how fortunate she was and that she felt alright with everything. Followed by pic related. Happiness is just a plot accident always
>>150577899Isn't this a Meet The Robinsons reference?
>>150578593Yes, only the last bit of text is edited
>>150576641You've said it quite well.Those are the main complaints about the comic, yeah: it's just bitter bickering and sadness, the rare 'happy' moments just don't feel sincere anymore, it just feels like it's just a short intermission or a setup for yet more drama and pain. The bitter moments wouldn't be so bad if things were at least more or less balanced, but for years now it has just been some slow, weekly torture sessions.The 'everybody is bi' thing is a bit strange, since it's just not how things work IRL in most environments, but it's not the worst part of the comic.The side character thing I completely agree, it's something I've been saying on these threads for years: the only 'good' characters are the side ones, but that's just because they aren't focused on, they are often just ignored and used as tools for some minor plot progression, or they get retired from this comic and get to live a happy life in the shadow realm.The characters that DO get very focused on tend to be ruined, even side characters. James is the greatest example of this: he was a normal, plausible character when he was introduced, but ever since he was dumped he had the fastest, greates downfall I've ever seen on a character. Dude immediately falls in love with the next pair of fast legs he sees.And yeah, the characters generally just suck ass. Mike is spineless and annoying, Lucy is bossy, indifferent to others and annoying, Paulo is annoying, same goes for Daisy, David, and, of course, Augustus.
>>150577899Even in the Halloween and Lucy's birthday chapters, no one was really having fun together in the chapter as a whole - there were one or two pages where they seemed to be having a good time, but Lucy's random hostility made the whole thing tense and awkward.I think it's been almost a literal decade since the last chapter without someone crying, fighting, or being depressed. Even the era where Lucy was scouting out rooftops had more levity and sweet moments.
>>150580308You know, saying all that about barely a page/chapter without crying or groaning reminded me that I was gonna make an excel spreadsheet trying to see if there was a streak of some character having tears in their eyes each page and document it.I'm going try and do that again, though what else should I try to keep track of? I think "face with no eyes" and probably some varient of a shocked expression
>>150580646Continuity errors would be fun. They're harder to spot, especially since Taeshi keeps going back and airbrushing them out, but there are a TON of chapters where the layout of a room or the position of things in the background changes from page to page, or even panel to panel.I still find it hilarious that Taeshi straight-up forgot that Sue's leg was broken and had to go back and replace Sue in the page where everyone was running.
>>150579275Really looks like something out of the actual comic though lmao
>>150580928Thanks, I made the edit
>>150580204Sue stonks going to the moon
>>150581211Sue stinks more like
>>150582850kill yourself
>>150570661I can definetly recommend VCD, fun characters, nice story and pretty damn good action (if you like sports)>>150573516That idea sounds great but at this day and age i'm not sure if the threads would last too long before being moved to /trash/Makes me miss the latchkey kingdom and (pre relentless shitposting) poppy threads.
>>150581057great edit, fannel. It is also super accurate
I want to see more girl!Augustus edits for these pages.
>>150586506I'll see on the next few pages. If you got any requests, shoot
I hope Mike kills him
>>150586932Remember when Augustus' much older friend went full cradle-robber on him? And how he seems to be the only actual rape victim in the entire comic despite the implications about Lucy and Daisy?
>>150587782Nah, not doing that one
>>150587782All she did was gently kiss him here, and he voluntarily had sex with her. They're also only two years apart.
>>150588154The age gap used to be significantly wider before Taeshi retconned it.
>>150588704Right, I heard. What was it originally? Surprisingly under New Jersey Romeo and Juliet laws a 13 and 17-year-old can have consensual sex. Maybe she went by that. But any wider gap than that could've subjected old Melanie to legal scrutiny.
>>150587819understandable thank you for your service
>>150588894The comic doesn't take place in a real state
>>150577899The perfect edit, really. So simple, so minimalalist, so lulzy.
>>150589449They should go back to kissing instead of yelling
>>150589875Oh, I see. Still that is my headcanon as well as those for other writers.
These two should kiss
>>150590406I see you figured out my password.
>>150590406Kiss to seal a suicide pact.
This is my new tag from now on so there is no confusion.
>>150591289Good for you
>>150591355>removed name>forgot about tripcode
>>150591355kek retard
>>150591289You're an attention whore like Almuti, post like anyone else
>>150591428That is not me so I'm fucking puzzled.
>>150591620I can imagine
>>150591671Secure tripcodes don't work either if you use "password" for a password
>>150591671Done.
>>150591781Wow you guessed Bibbit's tripcode https://desuarchive.org/_/search/boards/a.aco.an.c.cgl.co.d.fit.g.his.int.k.m.mlp.mu.q.qa.r9k.tg.trash.vr.wsg/tripcode/%21%21W6ph5Mm5Pz8/
>>150591817That's impossible, I generated that randomly. I'll try again.
>>150591817Hope it works. On the plus, secure codes narrow down authentic posts.
