James will believe anything you tell him edition
>>150850779Hope the track bros boot James for siding with the edgefag bully and the psycho bitch over his teammate
Rare limited edition page comment that isn't twisting the knife in Mike
The comic never answers-WHY Lucy needs Mike when she has a upper middle class stable home life-Extensive friend group with multiple male romantic interests around her age that want her-Makes decent enough grades -Access to health care that extends into mental health careso her parents can easily afford a therapist or two-Multiple people willing to be her security blanket/guard dog if she makes enough of a stink about itThe comic is saying-Lucy literally cannot stand someone being prettier than her having the attention of someone she likes-She is incapable of dealing with her emotions to such an extent she will attempt suicide-Even when said person is trying to make amends with her-Has the power to sway her parents to put her in whatever school system she desires, in spite of her reasons for spilling her ketchup in Curtain Call-Thus undermining the entire dramatic undercurrent the story tried to establish
>>150850779I feel we didn't get enough focus on the "she treated me like shit" part. Call me crazy but I think that's worse that being interested in two girls at once. Is Taeshi gonna pretend that the best course of action for the girl you are "leading on" is to reject her, jus like Mike did?
>>150850779>/co/ BPD diary: October 15th editionFTFY
>>150850868*is Taeshi not gonna pretend*justshit
>>150850847>Veronica: I guess they’re roommates lol>Lucy’s admittedly a little weird ™ about Augustus, but Augustus totally sees her like a sister at this point.Lucy's a gross femcel, she has literally no interests in life except boys. She barely even cares if she lives or dies, just whether she has a boy to latch onto.
>>150850779I would like to thank our based leakers.Taeshi, whatever therapy you're doing clearly isn't working. You're batshit crazy and thats why your characters have to have their brains hijacked to make your shitty plot points happen. Your husband is a shit editor or he'd call this out.
>>150850779Just passing by to remind everyone that Augustus shows signs of sociopathy, and that he only ever did and does things for personal gain, not for sympathy or kindness.Notice how he relishes on the fact that Lucy, which some anons claim he 'cares so much about', is crying, just because it gave him a 'win' over Mike, who by the way at the present moment was doing nothing to incur such chain of events, and despite the fact that Lucy pleaded him not to do.Fuck Augustus.
Mike did nothing wrong
>>150850868Yes? For Lucy (and Taeshi) if you're not hyper focused on a single girl despite her constantly shooting you down and walking around her feelings for you then you're giving everyone else hope and thus leading them on. In her logic Mike trying to just be a friend to Lucy, excuse her constant hostility (until he couldn't) and excusing her explosiveness to others was actually manipulation because Mike wanted Lucy to feel she owed him for all of that. She will blame Mike as being selfish for saving Lucy's life if given the chance
>>150850929So far the only thing wrong he's done is not jump off a bridge already
>>150850847look at Lucy, that girl looks like an abuse victim holding to an abuserare we sure Augustus is taking advantage her?
>>150850925hmmm ackshually you lack media literacy Augustus is a hero and Mike the devil
>>150850925I want the comic end to be the main all killing themselves cause of Augustus's manipulation and him laughing off to university with Lucy's parents money
>>150850847Lucy is such a fucking cunt holy shit.>Lets Aug do his whole spiel, barely tries to stop him. Bitch hits people regularly over far less.>Mike shoves him and Aug continues to talk shit without her stopping him>Kicks Mike in the gut to stop him from responding or saying anything that makes her look bad.>Spews bullshit blaming Mike for everything that leaves out her rampant physical abuse and repeat attempts to push him away.>Lets Aug once again start spouting shit while she cowers on his arm as if Mike slapped her or some shit.Lucy is evil. She is straight up manipulating everyone here. Even if Taeshi makes Aug out to be a bad guy here it's just more of everyone doing shit that makes Lucy out to be a victim.Alejandro is the hidden hero of bcb, he's the only one who can stop her and set everyone free.
>>150850962Umm Ackshually I can counter what with several other people who took up for Lucy without trying to get in her pants..Her MotherHer brothers, Sam and Jordan.Her friends, Sue,Daisy, Tessa,AbbeyHer Pets - Lily,Yashy Randos - ZachHer Rivals - Even Sandy took up for Lucy oddly in Just Beautiful (inb4 Taeshi retcons that one) Madison threw her some sympathy bones in Double DownPeople who still threw Mike under the bus and took up for her repeatedly - Paulo (extensively), David (retardedly), Jessica (lesbo longing) And now, James can be added to the list of alleged people who do not want to fuck her but apparently will stick up for her.
>>150850936It's insane to put all this blame to what was a child. It's so dumb how Lucy went to therapy and no one told her the guy who "manipulated" her was just a kid as well.
>>150851084Infact, isn't the only singular character that is 24/7 constant Lucy hater with consistency that's never ever done anything to benefit her is fucking Alejandro?If we're only to include characters that acknowledge her existence and have an opinion about her.
never forget
>>150850925See my problem with that analysis is that it paints Lucy as a victim of this whole exchange which is what Taeshi wants, but said girl is known to scream, trash, punch, kick, shit, piss and cry her way out of having any involvement or people telling things to her face, and yet she let him air everything completely, her request to stop was there but he did what she always wanted from her friends, which is to pity her, bring down the punishment on Mike, and NOT involve her, do it despite her even. How curious then that the moment it is Mike speaking she recovered that energy and violence, suddenly things had to stop spreading and her usual hostility comes forward, and then she has to back down because doing more would involve her, and instead hides behind Augustus again despite him being the driving force in all of this. Lucy really wants people to not give her a choice and save her from responsibility, it's less Augustus manipulating everyone and more forcing the issue until something happens because Lucy won't ever budge from her pride and Mike is easier to push around
So James watches this whole scene unfold about how Mike needs to stay away from Lucy during lunch, like far away, opposite ends of the track is still too close. Later, James ends up sitting with Lucy inside, at the cafeteria. And when the subject of Mike not sitting with the track team comes up, James' proposed explanation is that Mike just doesn't care about them very much? He doesn't look to his left and think for two seconds about why Mike might not be indoors?I don't know, maybe Mike has one final freakout as he's being abandoned that puts that idea in James' head. Otherwise there's truly no explanation for how much of a shitter this guy is.>>150850962I don't see how any of the following paragraphs justify the point made in the first. A whole wall of text just to say infinite cruelty towards Mike is justifiable if it could make Lucy feel better.>Augustus might come off as needlessly cruel here but honestly, when has anything less made any difference with Mike?I think the data might be skewed by needless cruelty being a lot of people's first resort when it comes to Mike.
>>150851138Alejandro sucks so much, he only does two things in this comic after ConfrontationHorse and Shit
>>150850779James is naive clearly.>>150850847Oh typical, she's clinging to guy after kicking Mike's baby maker. Typical Lucy, the victim player. She'll make for a great wife and mother one day.
>>150850852Lucy is literally written to have BPD even though she'll probably never be diagnosed in the comic. That's it. Her brain isn't normal but it's treated as normal because this is Tae's decades spanning meltdown over her HUSBAND talking to a girl online that one time when they were teenagers.
>>150850962>Let's wear these Lucy glasses>Yep, no one really loved her and everyone was manipulative and selfish>No I don't think about the past, that's bringing old receipts and is abusive>Well you see her friends who didn't want to fuck her were acting to make themselves feel good, yep yep>Of course I'm ready to pull the rug under Augustus the moment she disagrees with him just like when she got mad at Paulo for caring about her, I'm not stupid
>>150851314This James is not a character, the sooner you understand this the earlier you can stop the headaches. This was James, and he's gone now
>>150851349James is not naive, this is beyond naive, it's Taeshi hijacking his mind. You would have to already secretly hate Mike to buy or even care about their accusations, if only because they're being total cunts about it.Taeshi hates Mike and likes torturing him so in her mind she doesn't question why someone would hate him... kindof like she doesn't question why no one calls David out for being an obnoxious asshole.
>>150850962Blatantly ignoring Paulo stopping her from pushing herself sexually onto him because he wanted to be a friend to her first and foremost even tho he was in love with herIgnoring how even the pity sex Lucy herself admitted it was her using himbunch of illiterate clowns reading this comic
>>150851084Mike and Lucy's problems are two sides of the same coin. "They never fucking wanted it" but also they get upset when people move on and only really pay attention to their oneitis. But as obvious as Taeshi's plan is, the narrative always favours Lucy. I know in some way Taeshi making everyone turn on Mike is mostly a plot device but I don't think she realizes it's not really as equal as what Lucy went through.
Send Mike down the wincest route. There's nothing worth salvaging in that school.
I can't even bother to write how Lucy is in the wrong
>>150851473Uh, I think you don't get that Paulo betrayed Lucy by not having sex with her, not asking her out, but going on dates with other girls so he made her feel sexually undesirable? Then Daisy did the unthinkable, she organized a birthday party without Lucy's consent! They're all monsters really.
>>150851473Yeah but you see, she doesn't care about Paulo (right now) so it doesn't count
>>150851160>look closer>all the Mike faces are sad>all the Lucy faces are madwhat does it mean
>>150850847Jeez Lucy is an abysmal whore. Just fucking progress the comic and allow them to cut ties.
>>150851460>it's Taeshi hijacking his mind.anon what the fuck are you talking about, none of these characters have any agency or consistency, there is just whatever she wants them to say or do at any given moment
>>150851084Abbey’s never liked Lucy and he hasn’t been forced to spend enough time around her to get converted yet.
>>150851633Thats what it means when she's hijacking their mind for the plot to do whatever it does in spite of how they should act, but more or less yeah they're all like that now...
>>150850779>>150850847GAS ALL THE WHITE CATSBREED WAR MEOWWWW
>>150851479I find her trying to force this "pottery" is only making Lucy look worse>Both are only wanted because of their bodies and this gives them huge trust issues?Yes but Lucy uses this to her advantage whenever she needs it and actually the only person who is constantly hounding her is golden boy Paulo who also can do no wrong and she never makes it a point to make him stop. Mike tho? His friends drop him the moment his grey ass is off the menu, James even love bombed him until a faster piece of meat came around>Both have been lead on only to be betrayed and disappointed Lucy's idea of being lead on is being nice to her, Mike had someone playing hot and cold with him so much he gave upAnd so on
>>150850779God this is just bad writting.
I don’t suppose leaker anon still has access to the patreon?
I really think she's lost it
>>150851763Executed by Suit and Taeshi...
>>150851810I mean it, she's having some kind of extended mental health episode
>>150851681Lucy’s idea of being led on is a boy moving on after being thoroughly rejected while still being friends with her. Taeshi’s trying to make pottery to this with the Mike James story but it doesn’t work for a few reasons>gaybaiting aside Mike doesn’t actually want to date James, he just wanted a friend who cares about him. If James kept being a good and attentive friend to Mike him moving on to David would have caused zero conflict>Mike and Lucy had a many years long friendship and spent time forming a bond that had actual weight, James shallowly lovebombed Mike and dropped him immediately and in a comically exaggerated way after a few weeks>James actively treated Mike poorly after rejecting him, Mike still treated Lucy as his best friend long after he started dating SandyThe parallel doesn’t work well at all.
You know it's bad when long distance phone cuckshit is the better option
>>150851479Yeah and all the work she did for- how many years? 2-3 trying to repair Mike's reputation and make him seem sympathetic just to pull this bullshit again?I just don't understand how people have continued to read this stuff for almost two decades now and not get tired of it.Reading it to criticize it makes more sense than genuinely being invested in this trainwreck of a story.
>>150851810>>150851829This is bizarre, not even her audience of Lucy stans seem to interpret the the characters or plot events the way she apparently intends it to be interpreted
I said bloody mary three times in front of the mirror and she killed me. Before that she said "the white cat with bpd will end up at the lunch table because the retarded dog will pick her up and carry her there."
>>150851859>the retarded dog will pick her up and carry her thereShe literally doesn't even need to walk on her own anymore lmao. The girl who was allergic to any agency or responsibility whatsoever. Amazing.
>>150851829What were the Goldiemalding months again?
>>150851829Truly, she's super off her meds.James literally did not give a shit about Mike once David was in the picture. He's been characterized as flighty and retarded, why the fuck would he care about Lucy? He didn't give a shit about Sandy and still shot his chance with Mike??None of that makes any fucking sense.>>150851810NOOO guise you dont understand its all about doing a brutal take down of people who slight youuuu - Auggie has to cuss and bitch Mike out cuz Lucy is sending him telepathetic messages by clinging to his arm about telling him off and she killed --err I mean gave away her pets and Yashy isn't there to be her inner-voice shouting like a retard anymore.
>>150851851I believe Taeshi really forced herself to think of Mike as this master manipulator who only deserves scorn or else she would see the direction of the comic and recoil. Imagine being the main force behind Lucyspace and ending up a victim of it
>>150851816The leakanon shall not say, Neither deny nor agree. Also leakanon shall wait a little more, so the leak can happen again
>>150851894November-January.She is priming up.This is intentional Lucy-ass-kissing hours.I wonder if Lucy-ass-kissing chapters overlay with debuting November-January?Might we worth checking out.
>>150851829How is James supposed to be Lucy 2.0 to Mike? What Mike supposedly did to Lucy was only bad because Lucy was emotionally dependent on him and couldn't move on to save her life. James immediately moved on and has never been emotionally dependent on James in any way at all. If anything Mike is the "Lucy" in their relationship, rejecting him but malding when he moved on
>>150851859Yeah it's about time for him to rematerialize and confirm that Lucy is indeed a victim that needs all the hugs and support in the world...Where's a school shooter when you need one?
>>150851829Damn, I can't believe Finn and Felix were encouraging Mike to do to James what he did to Lucy, truly they are horrible friends.
>>150851913James has never been emtoionally dependent on Mike*
>>150851912The page writing depends on when she wrote and drew it, not when she actually released it, though her comments on them will be a total product of her then mindset. Just something to keep in mind.
>>150851859"We can't have Lucy take such an important desicion as returning to the table on her own, we would have to know what she's really thinking! Quick, deploy meme.exe"Her writing is a fucking parody man
>>150851902She could at least make it funny. Have Mike actually go full Reverse Flash
>check the discord>anyone expressing any kind of concern or sympathy for Mike gets jumped for being a "Mike defender">guy says that what Augustus did to Daisy was actually good for her because it showed her that Mike wasn't good for her>cricketslol>>150851829>treated as a Lucy 2.0Would the anon who got on last thread about how everyone's OBVIOUSLY supposed to be equally at fault and we're actually INTENDED to think Augustus is in the wrong like to update their position in light of this?
>>150851950Obviously Taeshi is just memeing haha it's not actually her thoughts she just loves a good joke (at Mike's expense only by pure coincidence)
>>150851895Like a lot of millennial women Taeshi's been diagnosed with ADHD plus BPD, so she's on a shifting cocktail of uppers, anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds that can combine to make her extremely impulsive. She'll ride the high of farming easy engagement with the Lucyfags until they get pissed because she's not actually going to throw Mike under the bus for good (because nothing ever happens). Then she'll flame out and get assblasted because they hate Mike (again)
>>150851912Let's see.. November-January mourning time.Volume 1/2 -27. Flirting with Disaster (6 pages, 11/3/06)A truth or dare question reveals that there’s more to Lucy and Paulo’s friendship than meets the eye.Intermission: Lucy’s Birthday (3 pages, 11/8/06)It’s difficult to prepare a surprise party for Lucy. Will it actually work this year?28. Feline Festivities (16 pages, 12/29/06)Christmas is around the corner, and everyone is invited to Tess’ party. Tension and punch ensue.Most of this is Lucy ass-kissing.49. Wonderland (6 pages, 11/2/09)Lucy wakes up in a dreamy new world.50. A Distance Apart (14 pages, 11/18/09)Sophomore year has begun. While some look forward to the new year, Lucy continues to dwell on her predicament.51. Unrequited (12 pages, 12/21/09)Some secrets don’t take long to slip loose.52. Another Shoulder (16 pages, 1/15/10)As her friendship with Mike crumbles, Lucy becomes desperate for comfort and support.-Definitely is Lucy sympathy inducing, Another Shoulder is particularly indulgent.Weirdly only this but it leans on Lucy sympathy68. December (39 pages, 10/3/11)Winter’s here, but there’s one more assignment before Christmas vacation.V4 - Rachel's birthday party focuses on Mike guilt about Lucy and everyone wont stfu about Lucy.80. Happy Hour (51 pages, 10/15/13)Mike faces the music.-We get about a year of No Lucy but she randomly shows up at the end of Total Recall in V5 for Paulo to be sadge about..Volume 6Then the next year we finally have Lucy returns which is mainly focused on Lucy sympathy/revenge.95. Love Again (50 pages, 10/26/16)Lucy’s back after a long absence, but her new attitude leaves the group uncertain.96. Unspoken Rule (28 pages, 3/3/17)Daisy patches up her friendship with Paulo, while Mike gets a rejection he wasn’t prepared to hear.Dodgeball (p.13)Intermission: Cut Short (2 pages, 5/10/17)
>>150851949If there's one thing she hated more than Mike is fucking up her plot points, so if you ever get villain Mike get ready for that to get eternal flamed into irrelevancy within the same chapter
>>150851950>OBVIOUSLY supposed to be equally at fault and we're actually INTENDED to think Augustus is in the wrong like to update their position in light of this?NTA, but it will go something like this.>I can't fucking believe I thought this woman had a story in mind; she is just crazy.I was malding last thread about the story being dogshit, but seeing Taeshi's thoughts shows she is way worse mentally than I initially thought.>>150851989How do you mald over what you wrote the character saying, so hard you bend reality to torture them, and then get mad at people liking it? Genuinely, how the fuck does this story function when the 2 characters shitting on Mike have done way worse than him?
>>150852019BCB has a several month buffer so these don't really mean much
Ebin mastermind Mike emotionally cheating, taking girls left and right when?
>>150852051It already happened and it's been happening all this time if you are to believe the author
>>150852019V6 and Beyond; these chapters have Lucy being shown either as 'not that bad' 'wronged' or the 'golden prize' to be won. They also show her in a sympathetic light. Again overlapping the November-January time when Taeshi's ego is apparently the lowest..99. PDA (6 pages, 12/4/17)Madison finally tears into Lucy, but it falls on a deaf ear.100. High Expectations (30 pages, 12/19/17)Abbey copes with rejection. Mike bristles at Sandy’s mere mention. Paulo stumbles upon a lunchtime rendezvous.Paulo grabs the phone (p.12)“What the fuck is this?!” (p.22)105. Witch Hunt (44 pages, 1/7/19)Something evil’s lurking in the dark.Kermit’s pissed (p.10)(Nothing in 2020 but I presume its because they made Eternal Flame so long and were prepping for the controlled release in Feburary 2021)114. Double Down (62 pages, 12/8/21)Put yourself first every once in a while.(Nothing in 2024 but we get extensive Paisy shipping) I assume Line in the Sand is to gear up for Mike-suffering and Lucy-asspats chapters to span November-January.So yeah, it is pretty consistent that Taeshi makes Lucy-pandering chapters during her ritualized Suitcase humiliation months between November-January.
>>150852044That just means they can intentionally drop pages whenever they want.The timing is pretty hilarious if it's absolutely totally by accident.
>>150852044BCB also tends to do chapters out of order whenever Taeshi pleases so
To me, it seems like Veronica projects Paulo onto Mike. Like she went actually insane and forgot who did what
>>150852149Fucking those two girls after flirting with Lucy was a dick move but Lucy's led Paulo on more than the opposite has happened.
>>150851859Of course, we can't have Lucy wanting things, everything just happens despite her, she's just a victim and has love and friendship forced upon her despite how obviously she is alone and has no one
>>150852159Remember when Lucy fucked Paulo before she tried to off herself? I wonder what Taeshi would say about who was manipulating who there?Oh who am I kidding, it was Mike!
>>150852198Lucy outright said she led him on and manipulated him on their carnival date, but that can be retconned anytime
>>150852198Also her forcing herself on Augustus after getting btfo by Sandy again. Eh whatever, at the end of the day Lucy only truly wants Mike deep down in her heart and we can only hope that she gets monkey's paw'd with her ongoing bullshit to make him want to treat her like the plague.I am going to guess she will also be completely miserable at the table too despite everyone sans maybe Paulo treating her like a queen
>>150852208Didnt she also basically say Mike was right about her being an abusive cunt and he should have every right to despise her during EF? Of course, that was only allowed when she thought she could reel him in again.
>>150852208No you see that was Lucy sacrificing herself by being honest, which frees her of sin, just like how she's the only current attempted rapist in the comic but that's swept under the rug in all discussion because "it was Mike's fault"
>>150851248I completely agree that Lucy is to blame too, it just pisses me off to see that some people believe Augustus himself is being manipulated by Lucy, when he himself takes delight in manipulating others for his own gain.
>>150852208>You thought Lucy was cuddling up to Augustus for comfort? Lmao, she's just doing that cause he called her cute! Get this bitch a glass of water cause she's THIRSTYSince the most gross option seems to always be the explanation I say Lucy had sex with Paulo because she wanted to feel sexy before she died and didn't give a damn that it'd break his heart. Still doesn't, except that she was worried he'd despise her for it. Good thing he's a simp!
>>150852019Forgot this insanity is going on for almost 20 years now
>>150851460Mike should learn from Lucy, if he was an asshole forever nobody would expect him to be nice all the time like he does now. He always chipped away his own time and energy for others that that's what they expect, him caring about himself is suddenly and out-of-character asshole defining move to everyone else.>>150851486Based. Bet Haley would let him lick the hell out of her pussy if it meant cheering him up too. They can gangbang Chris when he gets older.
>>150852372>They can gangbang Chris when he gets older.You're so fucking gross I can't handle it
>>150852372Please self-eugenics yourself
>>150852372This isn't the trash thread and even if it was the response to that would probably be the same... what the fuck man
>>150852279Oh, no doubt Augustus is doing everything out of his own volition, but we have yet to see if there really is any kindness behind his actions or if he's just tired of this constant game of walking on eggshells and is betting on Lucy not taking it against him because she'd be out of teddy bears (assuming Paulo would not drop Daisy like he has done before for Lucy)
>>150852372why do you always obsess over the toddler characters
>>150850962At this point I don't think they even know who this Mike character is and just assume everything Taeshi shitposts about is true
>>150852372
>>150850925Augustus spent many nights looking out for Lucy after finding out she was suicidal and literally saved her life because he was wasting his time trying to take care of her for no gain.>B-buh it was 4D chess and he wanted a place to stayHe never thought she was coming back>Augustus is relishing Lucy crying just to hurt MikeI love the cope that Augustus is actually the one hurting Lucy here while she's clinging onto him for comfort.>Mike dindu nuffinMike's a double dealing ratfuck and Augustus easily baited him into showing his true colors after he broke his promise, and when Mike realized that he assaulted him and attacked Lucy just to try and shift blame and remain innocent in James' eyes (Mike sperging out is the actual reason Lucy was crying by the way since I know you can't help being disingenuous)
>>150852708There he is!
>>150852708I was wondering how long you'd take to show up
>>150852708>he attacked LucyNo he fucking didn't
God, I think I actually would rather be following Paulo for once
Can Mike just transfer schools already? Ordinairly I would be against giving the bitches what they want, but in this case I think he would genuinely be far happier
>>150852733Sorry for the wait friend, I work for a living so I can't dismantle your whiny mikefaggotry as it's posted.
>>150852372Too far.
>>150852815Sorry bud, but Mucy MUST happen no matter what
Now this is just stupid, in what universe you would be hanging with a friend and after some weird comes and say a bunch of shit you just side with him? Im not saying that mike is right or wrong, but not telling the white cat with black years to just fuck off is something unreal. >hanging on the break with your pal>some gay fuck comes and say a bunch of drama>"fuck off">everyone forgets it in one weekIts not like mike beat the shit out of lucy or is suspected of rape, he was mean, just really mean, nothing more nothing less.
>>150851486as always, psychotic shit in the comic, and mindbroken gooner bullshit in the threads. bcb and /bcb/ are made for each other
>>150852708>Guys, Augustus was totally waiting for Lucy there>You know, not getting any sleep on a school night when he's already afraid of being held back>No, he couldn't possibly have been running errands for Alejandro and happened by after it was done>So why didn't he try to stop her?>Uh.... because Lucy's a strong independent woman who don't need no man?This is deranged Lucyfag headcanon and I'm not accepting it unless you can cite literally anything from Taeshi to support it.
>>150852839I am genuinely curious as to how. Maybe he'll get amnesia while trying to throw himself off a bridge and make the whole situation more gross as everyone else takes advantage
Threadly reminder that Taeshi had an affair with Suitcase by encouraging him to cheat on Goldie when they were together in 2003 because she is entitled to him for liking him. This comic is self-insert attempting to justify that actually the other girl was cheating despite being with him first, because Taeshi/Lucy is entitled to the guy of Suitcsse/Mike she is intoTaeshi is a cheater and encouraged and affair, as much as she tried to guilt and rewrite that Goldie was the one to do so to look justifed, and one day this will said to her publicly in person.
>>150852855Sorry being less than ideal and compliant means you are worse than Hitler to some people
>>150852027Meow Love is literally 5x times better than BCB and I didnt even watched it
>>150852890Anon it does not matter how Mike feels about the issue or if he even wants to be with her as long as he is with her and Lucy gets her Teddy bear to rip apart like a stressed chihuahua, Lucy doesn't really care about his circumstances or feelings, not even when they were still hanging with each other, she didn't give a shit that he "died" but that he left her alone that one time>>150852737Don't reply to the troll
>>150852896Taeshi and Suitcase are an example of why you should not ever marry someone you met by e-dating online in middle school
>>150852872Unless you think Augustus is a psychic and just knew exactly what day Lucy would jump you have to assume he was checking every night, I know critical thinking isn't your strong suit but you have to try.>Have you considered.... le sleepy?Wow, it's not like he was being forced to skip entire days anyway good point retard.>Why didn't he stop her then heh"Why didn't Augustus just read Lucy's mind" is really all you have?> I'm not accepting it unless you can cite literally anything from Taeshi to support it.Support what? The comic?Have you tried reading it first?Make an actual claim and I'll debunk your schizo headcanon as usual but you have to be more specific first.
>>150852821So you are american, got it
>>150852855I'm sorry but I think the whore/relationship crasher is right to side with the abuser/attempted rapist and the gang member/attempted rapist against Mike here because he was mean and that's worse
I think the comic jumped the shark again by making mike go back to his status quo of licking his virtual girlfriend ass. We are already a really really long time seeing mike in this state of "boo hoo, i'm in a toxic relationship", i understand that people irl can regress, but the way things were made looked to clumsy, we could have at least some mike and lucy time or giving some doubt to mike's mind after sandy tried to make him forgive her for the betrayal. This time you can cleary see the puppet master strings on the characters instead of they feeling real, the writer wanted so much to mike to suck that she forgot to make it believable, i can only see people picking lucy sides by projecting their real lifes and beliefs into the comic, not by just trying to read the characters. Now mikebros are just dumb too, mike sucks now, taeshi killed og mike after the art change and we will never see him again.
>>150852959I know I am referring to the flavor of how they get there.>Amnesia route>Mike just goes full apathy and lets Lucy "get with him" but doesnt really have any emotions to anything she does>Lucy does yet another 180 and Mike just accepts for out of nowhere sunshine and rainbows ending>They fuck off from each others' lives for about a decade or so and end up starting fresh by chance
>>150852988That wasn't obvious when I continuously bullied you for being brown and talking in broken English like a third worlder?How slow are you lmao
>>150852985We literally have a page where Augustus goes after Lucy to tell her not to jump and then he stops because she says she wont. Despite her being obviously a mess. If your excuse is "le eheh mind reading powers" than why are you not saying the same to lucy with "le eheh read me mind" stuff. Just stay on your Lucyspace and dont bother talking to walls by building walls
>>150853011Yeah, the difference with Mike is he's constantly getting unfairly shit on so you see him as the underdog vs the author herself.It makes you want so bad for him to break free, but he never will.
>>150853027Denise, there are other countries besides yours and the indian guy who, as far as I know, always uses an alias Just saying
>>150852985>Unless you think Augustus is a psychic and just knew exactly what day Lucy would jump you have to assume he was checking every nightI literally said the opposite you idiot, did a red haze descend in front of your eyes or are you too dumb to understand that I said I assumed he happened upon her while doing shit for Alejandro? Let's go with your retarded headcanon>No, man you don't get it: HE WAS THERE EVERY NIGHT FOR LIKE A WEEK WAITING FOR HER>HE SPENT ALL THAT TIME WAITING SO HE COULD WATCH COLDLY, NOT TRY TO INTERCEPT HER OR EVEN CALL OUT AS SHE STUMBLED WEEPING THROUGH THE SNOW, CLIMBED UP A MULTISTORY BUILDING AND JUMP OFF THE ROOF>THEN HE DID THE ABSOLUTE MINIMUM: CALL 911, DO WHAT THE OPERATOR SAYS, DON'T RIDEALONG, DON'T NOTIFY LUCY'S FAMILY WHAT HAPPENED>YOU KNOW, AFTER HE'D NOT WARNED THEM IN THE FIRST PLACEYou're a retarded mutant if you think that makes Augustus look good.
mmm mike suffering
>>150853080No but you see, stalking is cute when he gets the girl's upmost loyalty
>>150853059Mike is to this comic what Meg is to Family Guy. Both are shit, but they get fucked over so hard by their setting by far worse characters that it gets aggravating to watch after awhile and you long to see the torture doll successfully bite back
>>150853110Yeah if this comic was written differently it wouldn't be as frustrating to see Mike get shit on, he has plenty of flaws. It's just extremely unbalanced and Mike is treated like a criminal while other characters have done many similar or worse things to him and never get this treatment
Mike did everything wrongW lucy and W augustusFuck Mike and Mike sympathizers, they're as bad as Paulo sympathizers were back when they deluded themselves into thinking Abbey was wrong about him.
>>150853051>Augustus trusted Lucy when she said she wasn't going to immediately kill herself so he must've read her mindWhat the fuck lol, how do you function being this dumb?>>150853080So instead of Augustus checking for her every night like we know he would, since he spent the entire New Year's Eve waiting for Lucy to come back down, your theory is he just happened to be out doing an errand for Alejandro and just so happened to walk by the building Lucy was scoping out for her suicide.And for some reason your tiny brain thinks that all these coincidences is more likely than Augustus doing what we've already seen him do.>Augustus showed up late so that means he didn't careYAHOO back to the mind reading argument of Augustus needing to know precisely what Lucy is going to be doing or else his actions are invalidated, good one anon Second time asking for you to actually make a claim, but I know you'll pussy out because you know your schizo delusion won't actually stand up to my ability to actually read a comic I talk about.
>>150853178I can kill you with one punch.
>>150853178Most Mike sympathizers here probably agree with you about Paulo and Abbey kek
>>150853110Meg occasional gets wins though.Mike's wins just seem to exist to fuck him up later. When is the last time he had an actual win that wasn't undercut?
>>150853150It doesn't help yeah, you have a cast of characters with heavy flaws that are allowed to suffer for them or have them affect the way they interact with others, and then you have characters like Lucy and Paulo who can get away with everything and suffer none of it, and every small slight against them is worth of pages of them suffering like Paulo being called mean by Daisy or Lucy not being girl no.1. And then there's Mike, whose every action can be judged in the most twisted way by the author, if he does is manipulative and if he doesn't is negligence
>>150853178>W LucyLucy will never have a true W as far as she is concerned so long as Mike is with Sandy and not with her. At this rate though, Mike isnt going to touch Lucy with a 39 and a half foot pole even if he did finally break up with Sandy for real. Maybe Rachel x Mike is an option though. That's ripe for drama
>>150853202You have yet to explain why if he cared so much he didn't just report her to the school
>>150853231rachel is literally anti drama. You saw how she noped the fuck out when she saw paulo crying.
>>150852372would you say this to your pastor?
So, any of you dudes still think it can end with mike and lucy marrying and making lots of babies? A long time ago thats the end thought it would fill my hearth with joy, but reading it today it looks like it wont happen.
>>150853279I mean more toward the others. Paulo spergs out with his Mike envy again and Lucy seethes harder in silence only for Rachel to not give a shit for either.
>>150853178Taeshi made Suitcase cheat just like Lucy cheated lol
>>150851320Irrelevant ass character with potential
>>150853298The author is insane and can do ehatever she wants, so by that logic it is certainly on the table. As for it being handled *well* that's extremely unlikely. As mentioned, best route for that endgame is to go relatively clean slate where they split completely and potentially reconnect post college or something
>>150853258Because this is a highschool drama you dumb mongoloid.>Why didn't they just tell le parents or teacher and destroy all stakes and tension
>>150853101Remember when Lucy had a brain?
>>150853298Generally speaking, who even wants that outcome at this point? Pretty much everybody hates either Mike or Lucy and would hate for them to get together with the character they despise. Maybe the people who want them both to suffer I guess?
>>150850779Why are the bottom panels not reversed? Why would you call your friend a freak and THEN try to verify the accusation? Taeshi you goddamn moron.
>>150853298Reader answer: no, even if you don't take sides and avoid bringing up their sins Mike and Lucy are just not right for each other. Whenever they have shown any attraction depicted by Taeshi it is explosive or depressing and a spur of the moment, they can handle a relationship least of all a family like that, there would be no honesty and a lot of dancing around their problemsAuthor intent answer: Yes but you're not going to like how, it'll require a lot of character assassination, no reader will be happy about it and it'll be on the last pages of the comic so you won't find out how it goes nor get a reply from the author explaining anything, also :)
>>150853202Who said anything about likelihood? I didn't, I would have said Lucy got lucky, saved by the grace of Taeshi. You argue like a pajeet, niggling over bullshit because you're axiomatically wrong>If Augustus was waiting for her and he let her jump then he's a piece of shitYou can't escape this problem so you're tying yourself into doublethink, it's embarrassing.>Augustus had to know Lucy was going to try to kill herself or he wouldn't be there>But he couldn't know that Lucy was going to kill herself of he'd try to stop herPick one.
>>150853350>You can imply common sense for this but not for this!Noted>>>/v/
mike is still cute but this is getting really really really boring now. see you all in another year
>>150853426>t. James after seeing David run
>Daisy, Lucy and Paulo can whore out all day long>But nah, it's mr 3 kisses total Mike who's the devil Casanova hereHow can we stop him
>>150851681>>150851831As a semi-mikehater, I will say that the level of care and attention Mike wants from his friends is kind of unreasonable. He's been shown to withdraw and get all sulky just from someone else being the topic of conversation. Plus, due to a combination of Taeshi massively overusing blush and Mike's core character trait being "obsequious", it's not *totally* insane for Paulo/Daisy/Lucy/James to think Mike was leading them on.The parallel between Mike and Lucy is that they're both attention-hungry prima donnas, who's apologies are usually late in coming and somewhat passive-aggressive. But the parallel that Taeshi is trying to draw isn't that, it's that they're both lonely because they're popular and attractive. Which is already nonsense, even without taking into account that Lucy uses sexuality as a weapon all the time, while Mike is asexual and repulsed by sex.
>>150853452>He's been shown to withdraw and get all sulky just from someone else being the topic of conversationWhen has that happened aside from James?
>>150853406>I didn't say likelihoodYou're literally saying it's more likely for Augustus to randomly stumble onto her than to just be out there every night, that's what "likelihood" would be you stupid faggot.What part of "He can't know when she's going to do it and clearly got there late" is not registering in your street shitting mind?I'll break it down nice and slow so you can take it in.>Augustus knows Lucy is suicidal>He knows where but not when>Two choices is total coincidence that he just happened to walk by (Your low IQ take)>Or he was checking every nightThis is now the third attempt at me telling you to make an actual claim like you said you would, pussy out again please.
>>150850779Wait, has Track Twink ever interacted with Sociopath and BPDemon before?Because responding this way to random people randomly accosting and accusing your new friend of some VERY hefty things with no proof whatsoever is WILD.
>>150853467I'm guessing the page of Mike looking sullen when Daisy comes and shows him she's dating Paulo after both of them had a thing going for him. I'll give anon that, it didn't make much sense for Mike to look like that when he rejected both AND knew they liked each other (somehow), aside of course from jealousy because he's stuck fucking his phone
>>150853495He saw Lucy clone herself inside the arcade and be wholy unpleasant when he invited her to share a multiplayer machine, aside from that nope
>>150853495He interacted with Lucy before at the arcade. It was basically her being a rude cunt to him because he was with Mike
>>150853467James isn't even a good example of that either, he lovebombed his ass and then started obsessing over David. Everything after that bullshit date night was James giving the feeling he couldn't give a rat's ass about Mike.Whatever issues Mike has are too muddled by James being a speed slut and hyperfixating on his latest crush.
>>150853495>Wait, has Track Twink ever interacted with Sociopath and BPDemon before?No this is the first time he has interacted with either of them in fact. >accosting and accusing your new friend of some VERY hefty things with no proof whatsoever is WILD.James literally heard Mike say Lucy treated him like shit and when he started to go in depth she kicked him in the gut and said a sobstory to guilt trip. James is a cunt. Mike seems to only attract assholes or people who pretend to be nice.
>>150853563No he met Lucy before which makes this even more baffling>First encounter with Lucy is her being extremely hostile and bitchy>Next encounter she kicks his supposed friend in the gut before he can say his side of the story>lol she's the one in the right!
>>150853337That would be extremely blue balling.>>150853382>Generally speaking, who even wants that outcome at this point?Me.>>150853392>no reader will be happy about itI think i can be happy about it, i really enjoy happy sugarish endings, I don't think even in the current state the characters are shown to have some affection towards each other, with some events happening they can trully live happy lives in a pausible way.
>>150853558I think Mike's clinging to James is a pretty new character development anyway as a result of his plummeting self esteem and depression and collapsing Sandy relationship making him desperate for care and affection. I can agree with the first anon that it's a flaw but it's hardly the way he's always been
>>150853467What >>150853499 mentioned, plus during the period prior to Eternal Flame, where Mike was a cranky bitch rather than a depressed bitch, he repeatedly got super mad at Daisy/Paulo when they were talking about stuff other than him. I think it was supposed to be "Mike mad because Sandy BAD", but it comes across like he's salty just because he's not the center of attention at all times.
>>150853605>i don't thinkI meant "i think".
>>150853387>>150851829
>>150853619Didn't he get mad when they criticized Sandy or pointed out he wasn't doing well? Show me an example if you have some but I can't remember anything like that happening
>>150852708>Mike sperging out is the actual reason Lucy was crying by the way since I know you can't help being disingenuousIt was not, oh master of reading and great defender of the great literary work of art that is BCB. She was crying because of the situation as a whole, being forced to remember hurtful memories and to interact with the person associated with those memories.
>>150853605>With some events happeningGiving Taeshi the benefit of the doubt, how many events and chapters do you think it would take considering you need to1) break Lucy's iron prison that keeps her from having agency and have her accept this relationship in a healthy way2) give Mike his spine back, not in a "don't give a shit" attitude the thread loves to joke about but I'm a way where he can actually put himself first and not try to keep everyone happy all the time3) do prevs DESPITE the rest of the cast who will prevent 1 by coddling her and 2 by pushing more guilt into himHard mode) Keep them in Roseville, no "they just start over" shit
>>150853597Fair but they aren't even interacting here. Has Lucy said anything to James specifically this entire encounter? This is very baffling for James to trust wither of them. The way Augustus has been acting should also throw everything he and Lucy have said into question.Espcially as it's a bit too convenient.>Some huy you don't know starts saying a bunch cryptic bullshit that visibly upsets your friend.>You notice and then said guys girl(?) Comes and hides behind him while delivering his weird speech.>Said friend now appears agitated as said guy also said he will continue to do this toll Mike complies. He did not whisper this and said it in front of everyone present.>friend shoves the guy and after said shove this new guy is laughing about it since he seems to have baited your friend.>Mike tries to set the record straight by implying the so called victim abused and lead him on.>"victim" proves the accusations has some weight by immediately kicking said friend in the gut too make him be quiet.>The girl says some sobstory and blames It all on Mike. After you just saw said girl kick him in the gut. Clearly something is not right here.>Friend looks uncomfortable.said guy who started this whole thing is now controlling the convo again.It would be more reaosnable to assume Mike is being bullied by the white cats than believe a single thing out of either of their mouths. The second Lucy kicked Mike and then tried to shit blame is classic gaslighting.Agustus literally said this will continue until Mike does what he wants and who was clutching onto Ausgustus this whole conversation?
>>150853728Which she could've stopped at any time instead of uttering half assed protests against Aug.
>>150853769As proven with Mike and Paulo, Lucy is not above using force to stop someone from talking either.
>>150853642That was what set him off, but him initially getting mad was just over them talking. Same thing in witch hunt; he gets all bitchy when he sees Lucy trick-or-treating without him and calls Daisy dumb for thinking it's not meant specifically to spite him, then calms down briefly while Paulo is making him the center of attention, then actually blows up when Sandy is mentioned.He wasn't WRONG that Lucy was trying to spite him, but still.
>>150853764The only sense I can make of this is the emphasis on James' love of movies and books and being an airhead. He's seeing drama unfold in front of him like in his stories and is swayed by the narrative of the abused housewife who no one believes (but he can! Because he's self aware!) versus the violent husband who abuses her (Mike reacted poorly! He fits the character!). Let his imagination fill in the blanks and you got James thinking the right side of the story is to side with Lucy. I'd that makes sense it was FUCKING GENIOUS of Augustus (or Taeshi) to open the hostilities setting up the story, just like she started the chapter showing you Lucy's nightmare, you're already being told whose side you should take before you can even form your own opinion
>>150853824>Last panel.It's funny cause it is true. Paulo has both lead surprise attacks aganist Mike and slammed his head into the table way before Mike did.Oh and the image you posted is Mike being a cranky bitch about the s-word. Not jealous.
>>150853824Also, there's this page comment. It's gratifying to know that I'm not the only one who notices the numerous smaller retcons.
>>150852460Well his twitter is full of cub porn sooo....
>>150853948what the fck now
>>150853824It feels like a stretch to say either of those are Mike being mad because he's not getting attention? In your picrel he just seems crabby and taking it out Paulo because he's being annoying. In Witch Hunt Lucy being there and trying to spite him obviously puts him on edge, Paulo makes him feel better by being friendly and distracting him from that until he touches on another sensitive issue for him. I don't see strong evidence that Mike wanting excessive fawning and attention from everyone was the main motivator of those outbursts, it only makes sense to think that if you're trying to retroactively apply Mike's current characterization onto his old characterization.
>>150853824Samefagging but the retconned dialogue seems to support that Taeshi is trying to warp Mike's sperg era to fit the current vision I guess, but I still don't buy that's what was going on when those chapters came out.
>>150853985>Mike's current characterization onto his old characterization.Very current characterization. This shit didn't exist in most chapters for sad sack Mike. It only seems to really be a thing after Agustus starts being unreasonablelt demanding. Prior to that he was just sad cause James is a flake, though with how fast he turned on mike here, James could just be a snake.
>>150853298>So, any of you dudes still think it can endI don't think there's an end to this. This drama can be played out until she's physically unable to write more.If you want a vision of the future, imagine Lucy yelling at Mike who quietly looks down at the ground sadly, forever.
>>150854062Ding ding ding we have a winner
>>150854062>imagine Lucy yelling at Mike who quietly looks down at the ground sadly, forever.I prefer a dead eyed Mike playing with the kids just agreeing with what Lucy is saying so she's stop. Never kills himself of course, wouldn't wanna scar the kids even as adults.Maybe a good end where Lucy dies when the kids are like 2.
>>150854016Do you think she is still good to old pages and changing bits to fit better into the current narrative? Has anyone checked if she changed the pages she referenced when Lucy said Mike was leading her on by being nice?
>>150853748>many events and chapters do you think it would takeThat's a good question, I still believe that Taeshi has some qualities and as someone that never wrote a thing, i would do far worse, but if you put my head at gun point:Each one is not one specific event, but i think it could go something similar with this.>mike dumps sandy (or sandy dumps mike) for real this time, he's miserable and we get more mike's tasty suffering, make him truly alone instead of just shoving new characters or making him going around his other friends, cut ties with everyone, except sue for some reason but no one cares about her>everyone being happy and not even considering mike, nothing really happens here, just goofy stuff and gags, maybe the dumb gay dog that i forgot the name says his name and everyone gets uncomfortable and changes the subject, also he appears on the background sometimes, but no one looks or talks to him>alerrandro build up, half of the chapter is connecting his come back, in other half Lucy sees mike miserable once again, but she's afraid remembering her last experience>Lucy finally reaches out to mike, he seems recovered from his gremilin phase, more mature. He ends up apologyzing for all the stuff, lucy apologizes too and they just live some days in a normal routine, mike still distant, but he seems happy alone, lucy is also happy>they decide to hang out in someplace "for adults" because they will graduate soon, Lucy invites Mike as a gesture of peace and he feels uneased and worried to see al the people he distanced himself of. >alejandro shows up in the place by "luck", a lot of pages of suspense and horror, everyone gets beaten and in some way alejandro drags everyone into an alley similar to what happened before, He has a gun or a knife too.>mike comes to save the day foo fighter everlong style, beats everyone, saves the day, but is stabbed in the process>almost dies and they apologize to each other again but in a more emotive way
>>150853469I heard you the first time. It's a false dichotomy. You're saying>Augustus was there and Lucy was there so the only explanation could be that he was there for Lucy!Except Taeshi provided an alternate reason for him to be there>Another Intervention: Total coincidence, Augustus was going to jump off that roof but in the main timeline Lucy got there first!And you can't prove that's not true anymore than you can my preferred take. Seethe more about your headcanon Augustusfag.
>>150854300after that mike goes to the hospital, everyone is happy to see him back, everyone cries some more, they are okay with each other again, hugs and kisses, it shows mike recovering and him and lucy getting closer again, playing video games like the old days, then they start dating and we get lots of epilogues of everyone and a time skip with them being married.I know its cringe, but that's how i can see an happy ending with both of them getting married,
>>150853985>>150854016I think even if you go back to before Lucy slam-dunked herself, there are still some parallels between her and Mike, if you squint. Both are all friendly and cuddly to people who they KNOW are nursing a crush (Daisy/Lucy in Mike's case, Paulo/Mike in Lucy's case), laughing and smiling when flirted with, but then angrily rejecting anyone who makes a move. Lucy gets mad when Paulo pays attention to other girls, Mike gets mad when Lucy pays attention to other boys.And in more recent chapters you have Mike and Lucy both being kind of sad over Daisy and Paulo getting together, and getting mad at each other for hanging out with Augustus/James respectively.The parallels are there, but the structural flaw is in degree: Mike never smacked Lucy or Daisy for being "disloyal", or crawled on top of them begging for sex. Mike is a hypocrite and kind of subtly selfish, Lucy is a compulsive liar and very openly selfish.Basically Mike is a pill, whereas Lucy is an atomic bomb.
>>150850779So... does the very first reason got explained? She was in PRESCHOOL. Is Taeshi saying kids were already hitting on a toddler?I would like to imagine almost none of whatever this trash is would happen if Lucy just didnt run over a girl's doll and insult their game.
>>150854382oh my god it's another "the bci is not canon until it helps my case"
>>150854062>>150854152You know, it's almost like she is cursed by some old god to relive her trauma by wasting away her life redrawing the same bullshit until she dies. Or like maybe some old myth from ancient greece or some shit.It's kind of hilarious, it may actually make a very funny webcomic in it's own right.But wow, what a psychotic loop! Do you think she gives herself a hit of heroin everytime she completes the Mucy suffering cycle? I feel like this is some pavalov style training she did on herself.>>150853469Hilarious exchange, bravo on out reading comprehension-ing the simps Anon.That being said, its pretty weird pretty much nobody else in her orbit noticed her being suicidial. I know her mother is like really retarded and incompetent - but everyone else in her peer group too??Lucy didn't even hide her depression very well, fucking amateur.
>>150854450How many times do we have to repeat Lucy rejected him, and the daisy "date" was thanks to Abbey gaslighting
>>150854480It would have sooner than later, her thing here is she wants to be included but doesn't want to fit in, she wants to do her own thing and not being allowed to is distressing to the point of turning into a complex. She could force herself on Mike because he was too kind to push her aside, she felt welcomed and could do things her wayIf I remember correctly there was a page or two of kids hitting on Lucy when her boobs started showing up, but Taeshi wrote them talking like truck drivers so it came as ridiculous
>>150850779so we'll never see Abbey confronting Augustus ever again huh?He bonds with Paulo and became the most irrelevant character in this comic - at least Tess went to college, Abbey just removed himself from existence the second Augustus is anywhere near
>>150854450>Mike gets mad when Lucy pays attention to other boysI won't entirely deny the jealousy angle, but there's definitely more to this than there is with Paulo and Lucy. Mike goes through a lot of shit because of how seriously he's expected to take Lucy's feelings for him, but those feelings seem pretty shallow with how quickly she moves to Paulo when Mike's not available. And Augustus is just a worse version of the same, like, to this day he's expected to accept the role of "all Lucy had" and take that responsibility very seriously, yet he can be easily replaced by the guy that manipulated and tried to molest Daisy? He puts up with years of Lucy's shit because he thinks he's important to her, and then it seems like her teddy bear could've been anybody.Basically Mike was right at Acapulco.
>>150852958Is not as funny when it's a guy punching a girl
>>150850779Considering how easily Mike is gaslit with guilt, he should come out of this unironically believing he's never actually loved anyone and is, in fact, incapable of it. A notion helped along by the universe bending over backwards for crazy girl, her selectively sociopathic white knight stooge, and Speedlust McDipshit here.
>>150854720>she moves to Paulo when Mike's not available. Or when they thought he might have died and it was more about Lucy then him.>and then it seems like her teddy bear could've been anybody.I don't think we can use seems at this point. It appear her teddy bear can be any male. We have a precedent with Paulo and how she was gripping onto augsustus this entire conversation too.It both treats these males like teddy bears but also means Lucy has even less agency then a damsel in distress since a d.i.d will tell you she wants help or someone. Lucy, cannot stand on her own. Even as a character she can't, now.
>>150854671Unfortunately that's the good ending for most characters in this comic, to just be removed from existence, lest they become unrecognizable versions of themselves.McCain, Kizuna, Carson, Tess... they're all in peace now.
>>150852795>Hard cut to the lunch table>Daisy and Sue are having a spirited but friendly conversation about Colton Harbright book yaoi pairings>Paulo and Amaya are fucking around with Tech Decks Probably the most at peace the table has been, can't wait for this White Cat bullshit to land
>>150851810>>150851829Truly, her only hope to recover from this is some huge rug pull. Because if she really believes this shit, Taeshi is a madwoman who cannot write her way out of a paper bag.
>>150853387Taeshi was so enthusiastic to enhance the Mike torture, she forgot to proofread her own work.
>>150854836I think it'd be Suitcase suddenly leaving out of nowhere.>>150854866Once again proving Suitcase is useless as an editor.
>>150853764Well you see, anon, it's simple. James was only ever meant to hurt Mike. That is his purpose. He will fulfill that directive no matter how tenuous the justification that Taeshi can mutter to herself and refuse to share with anyone else.
>>150854784This, as much as Mike deserves some of the shit he gets for not setting boundaries and letting things get out of his control he very much made an effort for Lucy, forgiving her spicyness and asking others to do the same, trying to have normal conversations with her and giving her positive reinforcement about how kind she actually was (?), and took her seriously most of the time, considering how she would react to things. Lucy was never reciprocal, enjoyed whenever he ate shit by someone else's hands (usually Paulo), got angrier every time she felt something was expected of her and had a special set of rules that only applied to him
>Taeshi going off the deep endShe's out of control, a mad woman! When was the last time she was this delirious?
>>150854784Her teddy bear can be any male but her favorite person can only ever be Mike, she seems pathologically unable to get over him no matter what she does.
>>150854062Ohohoho I can't wait for you to read what I've got planned.
>>150854940Yeah, how dare Mike! Didn't he know by doing that he was all she had? By being nice to Lucy he was signing a lifelong commitment to put her needs over his and to anticipate her every desire even while she's lying to him
>>150854788too bad, now more then ever I would like to see Abbey beat Gus to a bloody pulp>>150850847he would be baffled by this image
>>150854963Literally the suicide attempt? She wrote that as an out for the comic
I don't know what the fuck Taeshi's trying to do with Mike's character, but it's too incoherent to mean anything.
>>150852372>They can gangbang Chris when he gets older.kysthe "when he gets older" is optional
>>150855028She’s trying to shoehorn in pottery that Mike is just like Lucy so that means he had no right to judge her and deserves everything he gets
>>150854991>By being nice to Lucy he was signing a lifelong commitment to put her needs over his and to anticipate her every desire even while she's lying to himYa, joke, but the narrative makes it so. If mike fondled Lucy's ass when they were in grade school, he might have been free of her; that or it would make it worse.Honestly, this narrative about Mike and Lucy's relationship is bizarre.
>>150855059If that is the case, it's so incompetently executed that the actual intended message comes across as Lucy being fucking nuts and her delusions are being fueled by the same take-Lucy's-side-ism phenomenon that Mike identified way back in Happy Hour.
Mike's biggest mistake was not following through until fagcat's face was a red pulp on the ground.
>>150851829God dammit
>>150855125It'd make more sense if Augustus was maliciously enabling her, he seemed pretty offended last time this came up, and Lucy wasn't nearly so pathetic then, either in what she was upset about or her rubbing up against him because he called her cute. Guess not though!
>>150855187That'd be risky of Augustus, toying with his meal ticket who's already shown suicidal tendencies.
>>150855227This is the same Augustus who tried to sexually assault Daisy in broad daylight and hoped to God she didn't report him to the police later. With emo cats' appearance being highly recognizable.
I went back to start the chapter over again and it's even more depressing than I remembered. Mike looks ready to an hero at any moment.
>>150855295To be fair, he's learned since then. And, more importantly, to be realistic: We're watching James be subverted in real time. Augustus will behave however Taeshi wants and/or needs him to. It's the same thing she does to every character, being a hack writer and all.
>>150855227Well sometimes Augustus likes to live dangerously, you can't be a coward all the time without feeling like you're not in control of your own life. So say things that are guaranteed to set off Alejandro, encourage Lucy to double down on her insane trust issues, gotta do something to pass the time!Not like he's ever tried to talk her out of writing off Paulo, Daisy and Sue for no reason.
>>150855109It really is, this chapter was the equivalent of Taeshi flipping the table and looking for whatever she could use>Mike pays attention to LucyIt's only to make himself feel better!>Mike doesn't pay attention to LucyHe was all she had and he ignored her!>Mike tried to pursue a relationship with LucyHe's being a creep! Lucy doesnt want him like that (she does)>He doesn't pursue a relationship with LucyAfter all she's done for him what's wrong with him!?Reminder narratively the only reason Mike was forgiven for not accepting Lucy's confession was that he had a girlfriend already, if his only reason was him not liking her like that he would have been bullied into accepting
>>150854720>>150854940That's the "matter of degree" I mentioned. Mike's jealousy is both less pronounced (at most he's been all self-pitying and resentful, whereas Lucy's reaction to jealousy is violence) and more fair given their history (Lucy clinging onto him for years and claiming to "need" him, to the point of committing suicide over it) than Lucy's. But he was still jealous, despite having claimed to want Lucy and Daisy to leave him alone since he already had a girlfriend. It's selfish, but an order of magnitude lower intensity than Lucy's selfishness.My reading of Mike is that he was/is popular, and he's accidentally let it go to his head a bit. But he's not actively, willfully mean-spirited like Lucy is, he's just thoughtless - he says things without thinking ahead or qualifying, and then gets upset when he inevitably gets misinterpreted.All that said, on the subject of jealousy: I find it hilarious that Paulo sobbed out "I WAITED FOR YOU" to Lucy when he spent the entire summer fucking Rachel.
>>150855344Alejandro must be a bigger wuss than Paulo if him shoving Augustus gave him mild discomfort but Mike shoving him made him start sweating
>>150855187another fun factAugustus can call her worthless and is no biggie Mike calls her a parasite and is the end of the worldwhat a piece of shit lol
>>150855350It's the final boss version of Taeshi's unwillingness to write a foundation for a plotpoint she rushes out and demands everyone accept. Or she's just embraced her BPD and ramming her own personal Titanic into the iceberg, laughing maniacally and expecting it to turn out well.
>>150855384He can also tell a suicidal person point blank to their face that he doesn't care if they die. Augustus was a cunning warrior, and a good friend.
Which girl would be best for Mike?
>>150855384>Augustus can call her worthless, and it's no biggie>Mike calls her a parasite, and it's the end of the worldLucy, without exaggeration, said Mike was all that she had, completely ignoring all her friends who had tried to help her in many different ways and outstretched their hands to her. She would be both an awful girlfriend and IS a terrible friend.
>>150855434Paulo after pimp hand correction
>>150855434his sister
>>150855434Stacy, probably. Though let's be real, Taeshi would turn around and ruin her too, just to spite Mike.
>>150850847weekly "Kill yourself Taeshi".post.
Mike should rape them
>>150855434Felicia>sporty but not a sore loser>tsundere but not a raging bitch>supportive>HUGE TITSShe's like Better Lucy. Felix could work in a pinch but Felicia would really make Lucy seethe.
>>150855513*with words. He's got a way of hitting critical weak points and doing lasting damage using those.
>>150855449>Paulo after pimp hand correctionhttps://youtu.be/uTwtAJt1JAs>>150855464Having him date his sister would not even be that big of a jumping shark moment for this shit either and would lead to drama she could milk for years.
>>150855464
>>150855549Lucy would be so fucking pissed.>"you even chose your own SISTER over ME?!"
>>150855626I mean what does she even expect at this point? She's doing everything in her power and/or allowing any events to transpire that will kill any sort of relationship between them.
>>150855536Even better:>That's actually Felix's twin sister, and they both want to share Mike
>>150850779Lynch James. Kill James. Make James the victim of a hate crime. Beat James up. Hire bullies to strangle James and break his legs. Out James to his parents about his homosexuality. Follow James home and set his house on fire. Poison James' cafeteria food. Blackmail James using his ex boyfriend. Hire a sniper to headshot James. Turn all of James' friends against him. Throw James off a cliff while he's rock climbing. Hack James' parent's bank account and drive them into financial ruin. Spread rumors about James being a rapist and a pedophile. Destroy James' locker. Bleach and shave James' fur so it can't grow back. Step on James' tail and rip it off his body. Give James a penectomy. Push James off the school rooftop. Make James transfer to a ghetto school district and turn him into a drug addict. Give James Halloween candy with razor blades inside. Curbstomp James and break all his teeth.
>>150855680Based
>>150855428>Why does everyone have to decide what's best for me?>Ok Lucy, what's best for yourself?>SHUT UP! I don't want to decide! I never wanted to
I almost thought about not dropping the hammer this time but then I remembered that retard dog is a useless piece of shit and this is just padding because you hate your readers, even the most smooth-brained dickriders who clap like seals at your every childish thought, you fucking bitch.
>>150855434Rachel>Sad, miserable catShe loves this shit>Sexually repressed This would prbly work in her favour if she ever wants "normal" relationship
>>150855712>AUGUSTUS YOU DON'T GET IT!>NO MEANS YES!>BUT I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU NO WHEN YOU WON'T TOUCH ME!>GOD DAMN IT WHY WON'T ANYONE RAPE ME!?>>150855723based!
>>150855712>>SHUT UP! I don't want to decide! I never wanted toLast time Lucy decided something, she ended up in the hospital.
>>150855723based once again anon
>>150855723If this is actually the solution, then Lucy and Augusts can both go fuck themselves with chef knives. Where the fuck was David?
>>150855723Based and fuck David.
>>150855723I always knew that our local 'garbage day' tard, David, would back his fellow sperg
>>150855723OH SHIT HERE COMES DAVIDwere not expecting the clap back look at those faces
>>150855447I do want to know what leaps in logic the cult has to do now to reconcile "Lucy is right and Mike is all she had" and "Lucy is wrong and there is people who love her aside from Mike" because it can't be both, you can't both display Lucy as a loner and as someone everyone loves without putting her logic into doubt, she doesn't get to deserve both love and pity
>>150855723God I HATE the tone of this comicLike why is it now this tone whiplash goofy comedy bullshit not even 2 panels after something serious
>>150855723>Sorry doesn't mean much if you keep doing exactly the same thingLmao, look who you're defending Auggie. Poor final fantasy cat, he wanted to go to college but Lucyspace has given him a psychic stroke. Probably shaved off at least 10, 15 iq points.>>150855815>Mike is a monster who tricked her into being so dependent on him.>Also the people who love her don't do so correctly, look at how Daisy organizes Lucy birthday parties without her consent. Like I know they're doing their best but they've got to do better for Lucy.Like this, Lucyfags are way more crazy than Taeshi.
>>150855626>Said by the girl with congenital problems due to incest in the family ITS POTTERY
>>150855680I'll give you one better. Turn James into Lucy's new teddy bear
>Retired Tess and McCain>Kept Dav*d
>>150851829Crazy to think that the only reason such a horrible cunt won't die alone is that she found herself a man who's even more pathetic than she is.
>>150855723>doing exactly the same thingThis is gaslighting done on an industrial level.>David's suddenly back to further the plotI can't believe that even Taeshi thinks this is acceptable from a writing standpoint.
>>150855907McCain wouldn't have stood for this bullshit. He'd have shown up sipping a juicebox and gone "Well you DID hit him a bunch", and then Augustus and Lucy would have said "Shut up McCain!"
>>150855723>Mike now owns the outside>runs solo to get his feelings out>over months of constant training, finally outpaces meme dog and becomes the school’s premier jockAre we ready for the /fit/Mike era?
>>150855956>Taeshi>allowing Mike any kind of winAnon, we are in the middle terminal bullshit death spiral/Lucy asspat hours.
I like david because he gives as many fucks about the cat slapfights as I do (none). >>150855723
>>150855723The meme dog did a big meme
>>150855723>Wish granted! We'll FORCE ALL THE LOVE YOU SAY TOU NEVER HAD FROM US
>>150855723>the last leak is still up>the lucy's a size queen complitation got dmca'dlmao
>>150856057I wonder if Taeshi's IRL bullshit has grown insufferable along with whatever the hell she's spewing out across the pages and Suitcase is too resentful to stop the leaks.
>>150856123My theory: Mucy really isn't happening, so Suitcase doesn't give a fuck if Taeshi won't give him his otp.
>>150856178Paulo and Daisy is his OTP, no matter how much Taeshi tries to insist otherwise. It's also clear Taeshi cares about Paisy way less than the abomination that is no-wait-this-will-actually-be-really-dramatically-romantic-by-the-end-you'll-see Mucy.
>>150855938McCain is simply too much of a real nigga to exist alongside these charactersCan't wait for a reveal when Mucy gets sorted and it's revealed McCain was present the whole time, but they would completely forget his existence after telling him to shut up
>>150855956Mike won’t be able to get fit because he’s been starving himself, he’s probably going to destroy his health
>>150856209There's no way Mucy can be portrayed as romantic. Them hooking up after all this drivel is just going to piss everyone off
>>150855723YOU MEAN THAT THING LUCY AND GUS COULDA JUST DONE FROM THE START?! WELL GEE WHAT A THOUGHT!
>>150856259The implication they would or even could get together already pisses 95% of all readers off.
>>150855723Wow even the retard dog stated the obvious solution that could have avoided this whole nonsensical encounter
>>150856209I’m unironically with Taeshii, Mucy is flooded with angst, but it has something to talk about, even if it shouldn’t actually happen. Paisy is just a narrative decaying of both characters. Daisy doesn’t need to have self confidence, she gets to just enjoy that she is fuckable after all. And Paulo is just proven to be a fuckboy of no consequence, worse now that he’s bi so not only is he incapable of a platonic relationship with a girl, he can’t chill with a bro without feeling a tingle in his bussy.
I'd call BCB a truly worthless creation, but that's not quite true. Because it aptly proves that anyone under the sun can write better than Taeshi does.
>>150856302Yes, the thing I have been pissed off about since this entire forced bullshit. THIS IS A SCHOOL. Lucy could even wear a fucking headphones if hearing Mike is the issue. Doesn't Lucy get an allowance?
>>150856357BCB writing be like>what if everyone acted like a retard and then the actual retard came up with all the obvious answers?
>>150856253Took me a while to find this
>>150855723Wow would you look at that next Monday's page just leaked too
>>150856209Hm... hold on.>Last webtoons update was nearly a year ago: Method Acting, December 2024>Taeshi's responded to a tumblr ask about it by explaining that she can't handle that herself and Suitcase isn't scheduling the updates because he's "low-energy" (wtf?)>May 2024 Drawstream: Suitcase suddenly bitched about how "I wish Mucy was canon", Taeshi tried to pass it off as a joke but Suitcase wouldn't walk it back.Ok, /bcb/ will call me crazy but I'm convinced. Taeshi has sunk Mucy and Suitcase is passive-aggressively getting revenge on her by not doing shit he used to
>>150856554Mucy has always been Taeshi’s OTP. I think it’s more realistic to assume they have issues beyond whatever is going on in the comic kek
>>150856601> I think it’s more realistic to assume they have issues beyond whatever is going on in the comic kekMaybe the baby thing?
>>150856057the what?
>>150856554Considering that Mucy is now essentially Taeshi's own warped perception of her own relationship, I assume he got pissy when she revealed the depths of her psychosis toward his feline effigy. Or maybe she just got super insufferable while writing this shit out, really rubbing in the whole Season of Mourning thing. Why would anyone have the energy to deal with a significant other that makes it clear they think never EVER forgiving you for a misstep you made as a teenager is sane and rational? Especially when the whole Susan debacle was arguably much worse.
>>150856648Probably, Taeshi’s been ramping up her baby desires and he’s not budging. There’s also suitcase’s gambling addiction
>>150856676Seriously.>MisstepI don't think they were even together at that point. It's just insanity and makes her come across a psycho bitch.
>>150856677>There’s also suitcase’s gambling addictionEven though Taeshi is a dumbass womanchild, she's got to be bothered by that. Any significant other would be. There are few things more unattractive than a gambling addiction.
>>150855723i can't tell if this is real or not
>>150856648That sounds entirely possible. Honestly, it might be a lot of things. Taeshi sounds like an absolute chore of a person to manage and going all baby crazy as her biological clock ticks down surely cannot improve that situation. I just had a stupidly terrible thought. What if this Mike sabotage bullshit is a passive aggressive stab at revenge or hostage-taking? As in Taeshi will redouble the shitting on gray cat until Suitcase agrees to give her a child?
think it's time to go on another bcb haitus until december.
>>150855723Based AF. On the note of retards, where's our resident one AIMultiavenger?
>>150856916The FBI got him
>>150855723The fact that Taeshi dropped those spoiler sketch pages suggests that she is very proud of this lurching messy blunder of a plot.
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>>150855723>keep doing exactly the same thingNIGGA PLEASE ELABORATE
>>150855723>Mike going outside is bad because he's "forcing himself on Lucy">Meme dog forcing Lucy inside is cool tho, totally funny lolHere is how you can redeem this bullshit arc Taeshi, make both James and David bring up what Lucy just said, that she had NO ONE all this time and was alone, just fucking make them see she doesn't consider any of them her friends, but keep a recriminating tone. Let's see miss i-dont-want-it being forced to open up or come clean. Either you fix your fucking self insert by forcing love into her or make her admit she doesn't care about them and she's just being selfish by clinging onto Mike. Stop abusing your narrative
>>150856934Dropping those pages was frankly a masterstroke because the possibility of Paulo being the only one in Mike's corner is all that's kept me reading
>>150857045Sorry is not enough, Mike also has to offer his life to Lucy and take his eyes out as to never see another girl. Obviously
>>150857045Yeah, I'm wondering what the fuck James could possibly mean because nothing fits. It's clear he's making a lot of assumptions but unfortunately Taeshi is fucking terrible at communicating the responsible fits of insanity.
>>150855723>sorry doesn't mean much if you keep doing the exact same thing>while Lucy clings to him arm like a helpless waif as she didn't launch her ass Arkham Batman style across the field into Mike's abdomen five seconds agoBut no, Lucy's apologies were real, she took hecking accountability, never you mind her continuing to be violent when it suits her. And she continues her bullshit with Paulo, too, just for anybody who doesn't care if Mike gets fucked. She apologizes to Paulo at the end of Witch Hunt and is hanging off his arm during Double Down. At times like this I can't help but think "she's just trolling" anon might be onto something. This is like getting every question wrong on a multiple choice test, you have to know what the real answers are.Also, can anybody think of any time Mike "lead Lucy on" between Eternal Flame and the first goddamn half of volume one? Is he really trying to act like this is a recurring trend? It feels like this whole thing is being ghostwritten by a random Lucyfag patron instead of the original author.
>>150857158>Mike "lead Lucy on"Wait, is James hallucinating that Mike somehow "led him on" as well?
>>150857158The only logical explanation is that Gus has no idea of their actual history and is only lead on (LOL) by what Lucy has shared. Lucy has just told him about the guy that won't correspond her feelings, not that he used him as a punching bag constantly and helped get with said girlfriend to start with
>>150857209I have no idea, nothing that is happening makes a lick of sense. It says something when the meme dog is the one to say the only logical thing in all this (Mike might have but he got fucking kicked in the gut/groin for his trouble)
>>150857209Anon, James doesn't speak in this page. Augustus is the one with his mouth open in that panel.But also, yes! Apparently he is hallucinating that.
>>150857220Doesn't Augustus know full well why Lucy and Mike had a falling out? She was hanging with Augustus and confiding in him for months.
>>150857241Probably to some extent but we already know Lucy is a compulsive liar. She likely gave him a "lucy vision" version of events.
>>150857234My bad, I got used to the stupidity level going beyond maximum and accepted the apparent retardation at first glance.
>>150857209I guess? Wasn't James the one who's been pulling away from Mike anyway?
>>150857209That's Gus talking, but yes, that's the insinuation. Complete fucking insanity.
>>150857241I think we got tricked by Taeshi having a character defined as "someone who's keeping tabs on the group" and assumed he'd know. His dislike of Lucy was about how someone who had everything was willing to waste it all because a guy didn't correspond her feelings, not that she caused it by being hostile and demeaning to said guy
>>150857158Uh... he kissed her when he was twelve and uh... was kind of flirty in Off To The Movies? I think she's just kind of insane, she's including that time she was nerving herself up to confess to Mike but picked a fight instead as proof of how Mike's been playing with her feelings->Lucy's complaining about how Mike only used her to make him feel good about himself on the flashback panel to after he'd saved her stupid hydrophobic ass from drowninggod fuck this bitch. Does she even care about her own life?
Sad Lucy is all I am here for.
>>150857209but didn't Mike literally try to make it clear he wasn't looking for more romance autism and just wanted a friend with James? Then James went okay and proceeded to chase after faster dog cock?
>>150857427>Does she even care about her own lifeConsidering she tried to kill herself I'm gonna go with no.
>>150850962These comments are gonna look double-weird when we get back around to the actual root of all of this (the nightmares) and remember that they have absolutely nothing to do with Mike at all. Augustus is being needlessly cruel on a hunch that’s totally wrong.
>>150855723>Endless fucking drama by felines>Based retard canine waddles in not giving a hint of a fuckMan's best friend indeed. Dogs>cats.
>>150855723>mike once again is gonna be a pushover and let lucy have his spot on the tableI really thought he was gonna tell everyone to fuck off this time, not this sad bullshit again
>>150855723Real page soon.
>>150857441And now he's sad and hurt cause he feels like he's only worthwhile if he's fuckable
>>150857583Character progression is not allowed. Though honestly its a blessing in disguise. The table is toxic and this way they get to deal with Lucy's perpetual storm of bullshit with no Mike to act as a lightning rod. Maybe at that point they'll go "Huh I think Mike had a point"
>>150857492I read the discord chat the other day and they were talking about how Lucy was totally extremely bothered by Mike being outside even though she generously and bravely said she didn't mind, and Augustus was just reading her mind and protecting her like a gentleman
>>150857441>romance autism and just wanted a friend with Jamesat first, after the confession, he kinda wanted James to still pin for him
Why are there so few dogs in BCB anyway
>>150857653They keep getting killed by overly emotional cats.
>>150855723>"Sorry doesn't mean much if you keep doing exactly the same thing">over a frame of Lucy, who just kicked Mike in the guts>after having a flashback to doing so a few pages priorI hope this is intentional lmao
>>150857653They're native to a different land but were brought to BCB's country for slave labor a few centuries ago
>>150857158I mean, doesn't matter what Taeshi says or wants to portrayLucy is both a bitch and a whoreMike was right into going ballistic, his only mistake was feeling guilty for that mess of a piece of shit
>>150857492Nah, he's dead right about Lucy: she wants Mike punished for not waiting forever to be hers but she doesn't want to get her hands dirty.>>150857441Man, I have no clue, Mike specifically doesn't want James and David to hook up but "straight guy wanting to friendzone the gay guy" is so fucking weird that it'd make more sense that James' plan to seduce Mike was working but he moved on too quick and Mike's in denial that he's a queerosexual and should break up with Sandy in favor of cocks.
>>150857653Minorities
>>150857652this is implied, not assertedTaeshi wants to imply it but made a shitty job of itAnybody will feel like shit if you have somebody that show you to be a friend when you are really low and he drops any interest in you the second afterIt has nothing to do with wanting to string people aloneIf taeshi really thinks that's "wanting to string people along" she is mentally ill
>>150857717Honestly, at this point I kind of want Suitcase to get sick of Taeshi's shit and dump her. Hopefully she'll be forced to get her life together instead of committing suicide, but that'd probably have to come after getting sent back to the funny farm by her family.
Why do they love non committal gaybaiting so much
>>150855723Meme dog will follow by saying something like "then me and James can go inside too and Mike can have the outside all for himself forever!", Augustus will smirk and agree, Lucy will be mad but leave without looking at Mike again, James will give Mike a final dirty look and leave as well.
>>150857773Because Taeshi decided what ships were supposed to matter in the 2000s when she didn't give a fuck about gays, but times changed and she wanted to pander to the tumblr crowd. But she would never actually change or derail her original ships to make it happen so we just get bait that goes nowhere
>>150857802Nah, that implies that Lucy would be making a decision, and that's out of character. David is literally going to pick her up and carry her away, with James trailing after him while Augustus stays outside to berate Mike.
>>150857717Taeshi suffers from wanting to get to her plot points right away, even if they are loops. The story could have benefited from having Mike and Lucy spend some days of peace before taking Sandy back, then she'd have a reason for Lucy to feel betrayed, same as making James' disregard od Mike a slow burn instead of instantly dropping him would, make Mike question why he's feeling this way and maybe face his feelings, not just making him look desperate for a guy after he said he didn't want to fuck him
>>150857652He literally just wanted James to treat him like he did before they kissed. He poured his heart out to James about how he appreciated him being there for him, then James kissed him, then Mike rejected him and offered to quit the track team to avoid BEING AROUND AND BOTHERING HIM, which James emphatically refused and insisted he wanted to stay friends.James isn't a bad guy for cooling off his infatuation once he got shot down, but Mike isn't "stringing him along" or fucking "Lucy 2.0"ing him, he just wants someone to care about him beyond his availability as a partner.
>>150856504ominous
>>150857807gay
>>150857834Mike was acting a little pathetic and desperate with James but he's been hurting nobody but himself, James doesn't even like Mike enough anymore for Mike to string him along
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY PISS COMICS?
>>150857802Nah, meme dog is as asshole but he too is written to avoid responsibility, it'd be easier to force Lucy back to the table and have her being her bitchy self but complacent with having her simps back and avoiding any responsibility and just leave it at that
>>150857951>Have her simps backShe never lost them. All she truly cares about is Mike but is just continuing with her psycho bullshit. Guarantee next time she gets any inkling he is back on the market she will try reeling him back the same way she did in Eternal Flame. She is indeed a parasite
>>150857928Whether intentional or not, the James and Mike relationship so far is pretty dark. Least to me it is. I know the intention is probably to make Mike look like some sort of monster, but that's not how it reads.>>150857938?????
>>150858007Duh
>>150857951Having David suggest it also prevents Mike from having any moment of noble self-sacrifice. His job is to sit there and take the forced disenfranchisement on the jaw like a good little voodoo doll.
>>150858006>the James and Mike relationship so far is pretty dark. Least to me it is.Eh, it is sadly just the cycle with Mike's close friend group. >If he is not putting out, they don't care>They will side against him for Lucy, even if they are were not friends with her.You can argue that James being a turncoat is darker cause Mike's hallucination from Augustus' demand was square on the money.
>>150858038>Mike got to smell Lucy's pissI wonder what it smells like
I always figured the table would abandon Mike in favor of Lucy. What I wasn't prepared for is Taeshi squandering every single fucking chance she had to set it up and relying on this level of absolute retcon-slamfiring horseshit.
>>150854671Abbey resolved his trauma (offscreen so we wont see or hear how he handled it) is off having adventures with Haley and his harem of underclasswomen (no we won't see or hear about anything they do)
>>150855434> In Mrs. Tweedy voice:"All of them!">>150855723YES! FUCK YES! BASED DAVID, WOOOHOOOOO! I love how he's saying it with that cute dopey gleeful expression too, cherry on top. Also thanks for the free Patrescription.
>>150858292We've seen how he and Paulo """bonded""". Do you really want to see how Taeshi would have written his character growth? It's for the best he got to do it offscreen.
Fuck Taeshi's bullshit, I'm not reading another page of this garbage. This chapter was a litmus test and the passing grade was Mike beating Aug's ass for saying all this shit, but I couldn't even get that. I like the threads but I despise this comic completely.I choose the Schizo Adventures of Devil Mike ending.
>>150858404Objectively the superior page
>>150858404>When you spec in Half Light
>>150857688>>150857716I'm not sure what I'll write, cause in my headcanon felines evolved in Israel and dogs in Europe, and despite earty civilizations originating in The Holy Belt, Europe became a technological powerhouse earlier than other civilizations in real life. Maybe a Middle Eastern feline imperialism over Europe occurred in this universe.
>>150858404Fucking based
>>150858404>David sitting there eating glueI missed that. Amazing detail.
Good news anons, Taeshi now thinks she could extend the comic so that it ends on Lucy's birthday instead of Junior Prom! You'll get a whole 6 more months!
>>150858404hopefully this means I won't have to see any more cringe incel comics about Mike becoming an ebin woman beater
>>150858540She better never end it.
>>150858404>David earing glueYou da man
>>150858540>given the new stuff I wanna write about that involves a considerable change in the story, it could really.. last as long as November of their Senior year!Mike suicide attempt and/or transfer to a different school, I beg you. Free him!
>>150858404Post it on the discordLet them know the truthSilence their inane babblingsYou know how catharchic that would be?
>>150858540>Lucy's birthdayAn excellent point for Mike to enact a family-wide murder suicide.
>>150858540>Mike's face when
>>150858599Is someone here on the discord that can do that?
>>150858540
>>150858590>the new stuff I wanna write about that involves a considerable change in the storyShe's in full "gleefully knife Mike in the chest over and over again" mode, isn't she?
What would Mike do with the Death Note?
>>150858642Cheaper than meds
>>150858540>Taeshi now thinks she could extend the comic so that it ends on Lucy's birthday instead of Junior Prom! Just fucking have Alej kidnap Mike in a suitcase already.It would be a quicker end than this.
>>150858023>Shhhaaaaaaa
>>150855723RARE david w
>>150855723Anon is BEEG WAR HERO!Unless this is actually Taeshi or Suitcase in disguise... The lack of punishment for the leaks is somewhat suspicious, when in the past they were instantly removed.
>>150858404This is art
>>150858540Fell for it again awardAs long as you give her the easy payday with your outrage bait and 4chan advertising she will never stop making this comic
>>150858771Yeah, I'm sure anons are lining up by the dozens to pay money for the thing getting leaked right now.
>>150850779I still remember the good old days when this comic could’ve went in a much better direction. It’s a shame, what could’ve been.
>>150858404
>>150858867If only...But if it happened Taeshi would've just fucked it all up another way. She cannot stop herself from torturing Mike.
>>150858867I knew from the beginning that James was meant to be the false hope that lifted Mike up just so he could get dropped all the further and harder. But, MAN, I had no clue just how fucking bad that drop could get. There's hitting rock bottom and then there is getting impaled on wooden spikes rubbed down with the author's excrement.
>>150858867>>150858944bros....why did it have to go so wrong.....
>>150858977cause Taeshi will melt into a piss puddle if Mike is not suffering 3 times a week
>>150858802They actually brag quite a bit about making what they do on Patreon despite any leaks it's still around $3k a month if the "most popular" option being $5 is true.
>>150859043I just find the notion that these threads act as free advertising to be laughable. A cursory glance at the comments should be all that's needed to dispel that notion.
It's amazing how this comic becomes a slow descent into madness when the roles are reversed. >Augustine would probably know better than anyone that Luke is a psycho and is truly only backing him for the perks that come with it.>Luke is crazy, imagine what being ostracized from other boys at a young age and preferring girls' activities after years of trying to be close to Michelle would affect him and his relationship with his peers>Michelle's breakdowns seem much more understable when everyone else should be able to see how unwell Luke is, not just her>Daniel is a fat incel who wants Augustine after she did something genuinely malicious to him, which in his desperate mental gymnastics means she wants him>Paula is still easy but now gets all the sex she wants and is way worse for itHow do the other characters and their situations change through the genderswap lense?
>>150858540oh wow more of this comic to moan and groan at here with you Anonstruly the only thing that brings meaning to my life
>>150858977Even though it was never going to happen, how the James stuff went down is the biggest mistake since EF. All Mike needed was a decent group to hang out with to balance out all the bullshit, but instead she had to make Paulo and David hijack James's attention, turn him into a flaky speed slut to justify it, of course make Mike refuse to hang out with the rest of the team because of these bullshit issues she could've just as easily written him getting over by hanging out with the rest of the team... Everything just leads back to torture for the sake of the Mucy endgame with shouldn't be possible but Taeshi will force anyways.
>"no actually you see every nice thing Mike has ever done toward Lucy was just to make himself feel better and emotionally cheat on Sandy">nobody in the scene to call out that this is bullshit>authorial intent so fucking inscrutable at this point that it's anyone's guess if this is supposed to sound like insane bullshit or is Taeshi's authentic view on their history nowI remember on a drawstream that Taeshi once mentioned that she likes having characters' internal monologue spelled out explicitly but Suitcase hates it and always tells her to cut it, and I think he's a bona fide retard for that, because how the fuck is the audience supposed to discern the intent of the story when one of the central themes is that your two main characters never fucking talk about how they feel?
>>150858867>>150858944>>150858953Alas, realistically, Mike could never end up with James or anyone else,otherwise we could have nice things like MikeXStacy. We all know that Lucy is, somehow, the endgame on this comic, or at least, it is something that needs to be fully resolved before moving on with anything else.The whole comic literally spins around the MikeXLucy dynamic. Not saying that that's a good thing, it's just the way it is.
Solution: Mike gets permanent brain damage from an attack by someone Lucy convinced he was satan, winds up in a vegetative state. Mike gets to suffer eternally, Lucy gets a teddy bear that will never talk back or leave her.
>>150859236I'm pretty sure that Suitcase pulled the whole "ambiguity" thing out of his ass because Taeshi is just real fucking bad at getting her intent across. She used to throw bitchfits about readers not being psychic back when the site still hosted its own forums. Eventually it got so bad that she'd spell things out in the page comments, complete with little police siren light gifs, as if you the stupid readers were the problem. So it was either deal with her inevitable meltdowns or convince Taeshi that her chronic incompetence as a storyteller was actually high art.
>>150859244Hell is a place in Michigan
>>150859331We've been firmly stuck in the lower left quadrant for ten fucking years.
>>150858977I can't help but feel like something happened behind the scenes that we don't know about. There's been this sudden onset of extreme contradictions in Taeshi's writing, both in the comic and on social media. James is notable for how recently he was introduced and rapid the turnabout was, but the one that really sits with me is Another Flame, which another anon brought up recently. It's full of stuff that directly contradicts the story Lucy and Augustus are spinning here, and it's only a few years old. Yet page after page, you see Taeshi on bluesky, shutting down or making light of any criticism of Augustus. What happened?
>>150859414For now, I'm going with the theory that Suitcase is fed up with Taeshi and not bothering to correct her writing, purely because it's the most cathartic option.
>>150859437I can guarantee that Suitcase follows whatever she says because she defends whatever bullshit he says. They're insane and they're worse together.
>>150859236>every nice thing Mike has ever done toward Lucy was just to emotionally cheatThe main reason I'm invested in the story at this point is to find out if New Years Resolution was properly executed foreshadowing to set up that this whole "stringing along" thing is bullshit, or if the moral of the story Taeshi is writing is, authentically, that Mike being open-hearted with his friends is self-serving and evil.
>>150859543It would be unbelievably based for Paulo to think back to this moment and tell Lucy that she's fucking insane and selfish.
>>150859543>Six? Seven?God damnit
>>150859078They act as sustenance for the emotional vampire that makes the comic.
>>1508590433k a month really isn't great, though. That's 36k a year, which I'm pretty sure is barely above the poverty line.
>>150859684It's genuinely a lot for a comic on Patreon though, presumably at least Suitcase has another job even if it's part time.
>>150859377Eternal Flames actually started Feb. 8 of 2021so to be correct we are stuck in this shit for 4 and a half years
>>150859796We're very, very slowly inching towards Mike doing something drastic
>>150858404Anon, you have to keep reading so you can keep giving us masterpieces like this.
>>150858038Damn we need a followup of Mike fapping with it at home or something
>>150859684Well, there's the patreon, the ads, and maybe a few books and paraphernalia sold here and there, so who knows.
>>150859615>hears Mike out so that he can actually talk about the things he feels so guilty about, to someone he can trust not to abandon him over it>tells him Sandy is never going to give him the emotional fulfillment he needs and deserves and convinces him to dump her>when people give him shit for siding with Mike he tells them they're being psychotic and willfully ignoring half the storyI dream, and dare to hope
>>150860375Stop hoping, that's how she keeps snaring you.Leave while you can.
>>150859615>>150860375That'd be great, it'd instantly make Paulo a much better character, make Lucy be accountable for something for once, and make the story recognize that things weren't just Mike's fault... but we all know that's impossible.That being said, based on the previews/leaks, it does seem like Paulo is at the very least hesitant to jump in the Mike hate wagon.
>>150860375Done, after Paulo leaves Mike happy at his home he trips on the way back home and suffers an accident, his father can't pay the bills and they have to move after selling their home. Thank you for playing Twisted Candy Bowl
>>150860503>>150860534The reason there's never been a Maulo BCI is because it's actually endgame. Trust the plan.>>150860588>Paulo is nice to Mike with no ulterior motive>his curse transfers to him instantlyTragic
>>150855723I am going to actually be delighted if David cheerfully tells them to fuck off
>>150860640We've seen WIPs from later in this chapter already. David goes with them, along with James. Everyone but Mike and Gus end up at the table.
>>150860640You know damn right he means the table anon, in the leaks he even congratulates himself for bringing Lucy back. He's not telling them to just move if they can't stand seeing Mike, he's telling them to come to the table so Mike will fuck off
When and why did a pedo diaperfur start tripfagging in /bcb/?
>>150857683I think it is, because if it isn't then Taeshi is really fucking losing it. Like it has to be her intentionally making Lucy and Augustus as ridiculous and hypocritical as possible
>>150860749After he got ejected from every other online space that discusses BCB. I am not exaggerating.
>>150860750She's leaning into all this way too hard. Even if part of her rationalizes that she'll clean this mess up later, Taeshi is drunk on the Mike torture and cares nothing about the impending hangover.
>>150860775Well that's just great, now we have a pedo with shit art and (somehow) even shittier takes stinking up the threads.
>>150860803The patreon is over 650 subscribers for the first time in years, she's drunk on the validation. She'll crash the same way she did the last two times this happened since she's not planning on making this the Lucyshow
>>150860821This is 4chan, that description fits half of the site
>>150860803I mean I know people say she loves torturing Mike. But from what I can see, she actually also loves slapping Lucy down. So this might plausibly be setting Lucy up to slap her down
>>150860859>since she's not planning on making this the LucyshowI feel like she actually is planning on that, but will crash out and reverse course once the Mike torture withdrawl kicks in.
>>150860889LUCY DON'T TOUCH MY FUCKING PANCAKESLUCY GETGET OFF THE CHAIR LUCYTSSS TSSSS TSSSGETDON'T YOU PUT YOUR PAWS ON MY PANCAKES I SWEAR TO GOD
>>150860896>she actually also loves slapping Lucy downUh, where? Lucy is not allowed to truly suffer for more than five seconds at a time unless it's to invite more asspats and ply reader sympathies.
>>150860908I never wanted your fucking pancakes>Eats the pancakesWhy did you make me do this?
>>150860918The biggest twist in the comic to date is Lucy getting the ground yanked out from beneath her in the most brutal manner possible
>>150856554Remember how Taeshi took a year and a half/two year hiatus of updating 3x a week to redo volume 1 explicitly for the purpose of uploading it to webtoons?LmaoThis shit with Suit is hilarious is true.>>150855723Thanks for the leaks.
>>150860938And you've not noticed how the storytelling priorities, depiction of characters, and basic respect for continuity have all changed since then?
>>150860859>The Lucy show She doesn't have the skill to pull that off. You would need a script where the main character •Cant voice her opinion•Cant take desicions•Is stripped from agency•Reacts to everything with apathy or hostility •Doesnt follow along other characters •Has no hobbies aside from being angry and Karate sometimes•Is loved by everyone despite putting no effort in being likeable •Dislikes hanging out with anyone that's not her Teddy bear, family included•Mike cannot show up as not to derail from her so that's like 60% of her character gone•Must he the main force of the chapter
>>150860938That happened exactly once and Taeshi has been, in her words, making up for it, since then
>>150859796It's been like that since Lucy's return, when Mike pathetically sought after her forgiveness.
>>150858404You cooked with this one, good job
>>150855723It was nice knowing you, leakanon. Your services will not be forgotten
>>150855723I unironically don't want to hate Lucy.But I'm digusted at how badly Taeshi is trying to write she in the right and make a parallelism where there is none.She just can't accept that she wrote an abusive piece of shit that should better herself without writting "but akchually the men was in the wrong too!! actually he was more in the wrong!!"the worst part is that, not only MIke does not come out as a villain, but Lucy comes out as a complete sociopath piece of shit
>>150855723Thank you for your service.
>>150861184I'm suprised he's still around after monday's leak. Is suitcase not paying attention lately?
>>150855723You're a hero, but what made you even consider giving them money?
>>150861325Obviously, it is Suitcase. He's had it with Taeshi and is leaking her catcomic on 4chan while screaming and cursing at her anonymously.
>>150860918NTA, but since Lucy came back pretty much every scene she's been in can be summarized as:>"Hey Lucy, we're friends right?">"Sure, whatever.">"Well I'm worried about you, is something wrong?">"I'm fine, fuck off.">"Are you sure?">"I never fucking wanted it! I hate you!"So blatant denial aside, it seems like Lucy's pretty unstable and miserable too, she just gets more of a free pass because her friends feel guilty because apparently everyone knew about her suicide attempt the whole time despite that being blatantly and repeatedly contradicted I FEEL LIKE I"M TAKING CRAZY PILLS. But even with that free pass, it's implied that Lucy is burning through people's patience with her. Paulo claims to be done, Daisy still thinks she's a bitch, even Sue seems to have doubts.Now all that said, I have ZERO faith that any of this will come to anything, because BCB is a long litany of obvious setups and spectacular fumbles. The list of dropped arcs, ignored epiphanies, and unresolved plots would just be a synopsis of the entire comic. Taeshi has produced enough unfired chekov's guns to fill an arsenal.
>>150861253To be honest I'm asking myself if Lucy actually has any personality traits other than being a sad mean bitch. She... has a nice singing voice? She used to play mommy to the pets but traded them in for Augustus? She plays video games but only when Mike is also on screen? She just seems like a tight little bundle of nastiness. Weird shit how Taeshi "made it up" to Lucy by stripping out anything that might be endearing about her.
>>150861325>>150861342You know, I mentioned it before, but I do find it suspicious how the leaks didn't get automatically punished this time, when they used to be instantaneously removed before. Could indeed be.>>150861253Same. I legit don't want to hate anyone, i understand Lucy, I think Mike is an idiot and what he did on EF was terrible and didn't make any sense, but it is a bit ridiculous that only Mike gets shut down all the time, while Lucy never ever works on becoming a better person herself, and still the whole universe in-comic takes her side no matter what, despite the fact that she often disregards her friends and that she also treated Mike poorly many times before.I mean, I think it was acknowledged in a few pages including in some BCIs and stuff, but it never had any real impact or consequences; she didn't change, and people still never held her accountable for them.
>>150857427That was NuAnCe about the relationship and a desperate attempt to be with Lucy! If only Lucy spoke up there about real feelings... naaaaah
>>150861444IIRC suit uses telemetry software and ridiculously contrived details on the patreon pages to identify leakers, but I'm willing to believe anon's theory of him slacking off on purpose because three of the piss comics were posted on this thread (or segments of them) and those are usually taken down by DMCA instantly, and they are still here. That's sloppy even for him when he's also known to take down links to the library within hours
Hey guys I have a leak from the bcb.database, directly from taeshis desktopIt turns out the Track Team was retconned to be (almost) all dudes who hit on Lucy to get the white P
>>150861426She needs other characters to bounce off of since her personality is mostly reactive. What what little bits we've seen of her on her lonesome before being found out show she goes to the tree to kick it and maybe introspect, and she does like videogames to the point of being able to finish them almost instantly when on the arcades, but we are not allowed to follow her during these moments. The last time we had a chance to see things from her point of view showed no real thought from her aside from suffering her PTSD and exploding at a groveling Paulo
suitcase is this a cry for help
>>150861623Geez, is this for real? I can't tell if he's joking or if it's indeed him venting
>>150861666There's a lot of people who have the sort of relationship where they sort of affectionately poke fun at their partner. It's sort of a combination of flirting and a way of being comfortable with each other. Suitcase and Taeshi are one of those couples who like to pretend they have that but every now and then they get way too real and bitter about it.
>>150858007>>150858023no way this is real haha
>>150861716There is the forever lost media of the Jasmine pissing in a catholic confessional that one anon allegedly owned and refused to EVER give it up. I assume he is the commissioner.There was one leaked pannel but even that got DMCA'd.Luckily I made an artist recreation.
>>150861897His reasoning was "I respect suitcase too much to post it". Beats me
>>150861938Guys I found the secret Jasmine comic.I hope its everything we all dreamed of.
>>150858404MEGA!!!!!
>>150855922Nah this happens more often than you think, the only fact is that she can draw cute characters, the nerdy fat bitch in your 9th grade classroom couldn't do that
>>150855821Because Taeshi has BPD. Seriously, this stupid fucking cow loli retard can't be fucked to actually do herself a favor and go to therapy properly.
>>150862148"Allegedly" she's been in therapy for several years and is medicated. She also ended up in a psyche ward because Suitcase was trying to rizz up a 16 year old fan and they 'broke up' for 2 weeks while she stayed with their friend.That was like circa 2011.. it's been over a decade and she somehow has gotten worse.I think she's beyond saving, she needs a lobotomy.
>>150857086Same here lol. The slightest hint of Maulo, be it romantic or just bromantic, is the one of the few things that keeps me going.
>>150857086>Paulo being the only one in Mike's cornerUntil he gets sucked into Lucyspace again and boasts about how he'd turn his back on him in a heartbeat if it pleased Lucy
>>150862675Yeaaaaaaaaaah about that.>>150862806Pretty much lmao.. Paulo is a fucking wishy washy shit-ass friend. A total simp and really lame.Paulo being randomly empathetic to Mike and all the gay-baiting tension is just Taeshi's desperately clawing to keep any Mike-fans on board with her psychotic loop spiral she has commited herself doing until she ceases to draw breath on this earth.
>>150862906You're prolly right but shush, lemme dream. I'd like to think that current Pollo won't stand for Lucy's shenanigans anymore
>>150855723Does Veronica understand what a comic relief character is? Does she think they're supposed to be happy-go-lucky and detached from literally everything 24/7? Or is she purposefully trying to make David an unlikable, useless piece of garbage?
>>150862906This page doesn't work on me, I interpret it as Paulo being lost in a moment and trying literally anything to get Lucy to talk, since she's opened to him a bit on the previous pages. It's a shame he never understood just how crazy and distrustful she actually is.
>>150860923> sensible_chuckle.gif
>>150860627There’s that MikexPauloxLucy BCI
>>150861444It’s been common for suitcase to take a few updates to root out the leaker. I would have expected it to be faster given how this anon isn’t even taking any precautions to not get caught
>>150862675Good taste anon.>>150862906I unironically think the most exciting thing that could happen in this scene would be for Lucy to tell him that Paulo said that.>an actual act of completely indefensible petty cruelty from Lucy herself instead of a proxy for once>Mike in actual shambles over something besides worstcat>Paulo is the only person in the story who understands Mike's abandonment issues and would realize the gravity of the betrayal>gives Paulo a straight-up noble reason to tell Lucy to fuck off>sets him up to spill his guts to Mike about how much he cares about him, in a way that he has desperately needed to hear from somebody for the last six years>friendgroup tension on a relatively level playing field for once, with Daisy stuck in the middleMaulokino is the most thematically appropriate way things could go from here and I'm not even shitposting.
>>150863267I do think that is where it’s going based on the leaks, though I don’t expect it to be well executed
>>150863138I dunno which one that is but polyamory is gross and dumb and I simply do not acknowledge it.
>>150862984>>150863267I'm sorry for your cope, but you should know by now that Paulo can and will stab Mike in the back if Taeshit so wills it. Not because that's what he's supposed to be as a character (it's not) but purely because it'd suit the author's batshit-insane agenda, no more, no less.
>>150863360I suspect the next Maulo development is only going to be setup to drive Mike even further into despair. Showing him he still has Paulo if no one else, then making him lose even that. The Mike torture train will not stop until Mike dies or attempts.
>>150858038Yes Taeshi obviously has a bit of a piss fetish. It's not just that there's multiple piss comics (and an entire piss chapter in the main comic) but the fact that she always draws her girls with blushy horny faces while pissing
Anons, I know it may be frustrating for you guys here today, but I have brought Best girl and Sue over to help ease the anger you are feeling. Please don't let this anger consume you.
>>150863414She got commissioned by a known piss fetishist. Which is why they didn't want the piss comics to leak out. This was never about her.>>150863451Threesome material
>>150863487Did she get commissioned by a piss fetishist to write an entire chapter in the comic that centered around Lucy pissing on one of her crushes?
>>150863512What chapter are you talking about? There is no chapter centered around Lucy pissing on anyone.
>>150863573The chapter where she pisses on Paulo while she’s sick
>>150863580NTA but I only remember the chapter where she pukes on him while she's sick>captcha: AAWWG
>>150863619She did both
>>150863619>>150863649Actually taeshi retconned it to a second puking but in the original version it was piss
>>150863267I do think this proposition is going to come back to bite Paulo in the ass now that Lucy is forced back in the table and Mike exiled when he's asked to show some loyalty
>>150863649>>150863619
>>150863580That was a two page pee joke (probably an in-joke with the piss commissioner being part of the inner community and all), not "an entire chapter in the comic that centered around Lucy pissing on her crushes"
>>150863267
>>150851414Why would you post the edited version? Here's the original.
Remember anons!Kiss Lucy!Hug Lucy!Cherish Lucy!
>>150863957Nyo!
>>150863267I see Paulo, Sandy, and Haley being Mike's most suitable companions. Hell, even David, they're most likely to stand up for Mike and never drop him like a dime, though David will as we see from the page preview.>>150863487Mike just needs to impregnate all the girls, including Haley. Lucy too just to shut her up and humble her.>>150863742Ha, wow. Diabolacle edit. Black, or at least low saturated brown furred n-gg- Mike, who's probably real in The Candyverse out there.>>150863957Based.>>150863836I adore this. This is real out there in The Candyverse too. Now kiss.
>>150858404This is sooo good, anon. Please don't leave us. Meme dog eating glue is the cherry on top.
>>150864060On night mode I couldn't tell and thought it was fucking popcorn, but glue is way funnier.
>>150861253Taeshi has unironically written a pretty good portrayal of a young abuse victim in Mike. Lucy, her self insert, is the real victim according to the narrative though. It's an interesting peak into that type of mind.
At first I was pisswd about how Taeshi is fucking Mike over again but then I became based and realized this will finally end his homo relationship with James
>>150858569>noooo not my precious womenfaggot
>>150864122What I'm thinking of about a lot is that without Mike in the picture what is Lucy? Tae has made such a focus on Lucy as a victim, how "lonely" she feels and how she can't trust anyone, but it all comes down to her reaction to Mike, to suffering his presence or is absence, so what is Lucy to do without him to excuse her own actions? What character does she have that is not driven by the narrative forcing her into action? Can she really hold the attention of the reader if focused on? She's more like a plot device nowadays, or an idol for the cult to imprint on, and without choices and consequences to remain pure for praise
>>150864224But faggotry is based
>>150861413>it seems like Lucy's pretty unstable and miserable tooYeah, in those little five minute long increments. Outside of those she is explicitly shown to be fine, like at New Years Eve.>it's implied that Lucy is burning through people's patience with herIn a clap your hands if you want to believe kind of way. Paulo has already decided she's a bitch, backtracked, then been perfectly willing to throw Mike under a bus for her. Now that Lucy has accidentally gotten him together with Daisy, he has another reason to "owe" her while ignoring Mike's own efforts. Lucy's family all still worry endlessly over her and show no sign of getting fed up. Augustus took her bitchcraft on the chin and went full edgelord white knight for Lucy's sake.>even Sue seems to have doubtsShe has done nothing with Lucy but try to suck up, even taking the girl's ego jabs in stride where she would have no patience for anyone else.I want to believe this is all a very messy, incompetent setup for Lucy to realize she is a selfish dumbass cunt with brain problems, but why should that happen when she's only gotten this far because the universe keeps bending over backwards to enable her? Yes, logically she should eventually burn through everyone's patience. But logically, she should not have gotten this far in the first place. This is beyond merely burning through a supply of backlogged goodwill: It's enjoying the power of having an horrible all-powerful goddess on Lucy's side. And I just don't see Taeshi withdrawing her protection to leave her precious avatar high and dry.
>>150864312I mean, it IS sticking it to the man
>>150864266Obviously the solution is to shit on the table instead. Spread out the misery while they lift Lucy up and she screeches about never wanting things. Then her status quo barely changes.
>>150864266That is why I have said it before that Mike is the star of the show. Lucy isn't allowed to be a character because to be one means she can be faulted and flawed. Paulo's character development is cyclical, and if it had succeeded in the first place, Lucy woulda have never come back. Daisy's issue just got solved in the most narratively bland possible way. Mike, as a person, is flawed, but Taeshi accidentally made it so that he has a lot of things that can be stretched for years as a character, and he is more defined than Lucy.>Mike feels Lonely and cannot trust his friend. Unlike with Lucy, this actually has some basis in the comic.>His old niceness to the point of being a doormat to sperging were absolutes that were bad that can be corrected till he is back to old Mike.>Track team can have him build friendships outside of his friend group and have him evaluate them. Then contrast it with James, who so readily believed someone who used to be Mike's friend. All while doing track.>family drama involving Hailey and parents' likely divorce.>Mike's "relationship" with Sandy is finally ending, and how a now "free" Mike handles it.>Again, contrast with the friend group: His relationship with Paulo and how it has changed. Mike, as a character in theory, could benefit from the Paulo show treatment of being the MC for a while. At the same time, he can still spiral down or have highs and lows. The issue here it requires the writer of the story to treat him like a character and not a punching bag.
>>150864362Watching Taeshi try her hardest to write around the fact that Lucy is nothing but a mad cunt is kind of amusing, in a way. And then infuriating when reality is shoved back as to not acknowledge that fact.
>>150864537>And then infuriating when reality is shoved back as to not acknowledge that fact.Acknowledging that fact would make Mike have a point in calling her a parasitic cunt. Lucy saying he was all that she had and latching onto augsuts does that unintentionally by invalidating any other person's efforts to help her. Same with her doing nothing to stop Augusts when seen, she can or she could fucking use her words.
>>150864060I like making edits and stuff but it doesn't matter how good they feel, the next actual page will go back to these characters acting retarded in ways I hate. It's been said a million times but this comic isn't bittersweet at all, the sweetness is just there to elevate these characters out of their miserable holes for a moment, then they're slapped back down for the stupidest reasons for the agenda to continue...Mucy is endgame no matter how retarded it is.I'm fairly sure Taeshi is setting Mike up for a suicide attempt but given her record it's going to be handled so badly the execution will make me even more pissed off than the idea itself.I have no idea what Paulo is going to do with Mike and I wouldn't be surprised if this stupid double date bullshit ends with him hating Mike too, and even if it doesn't, something else will fuck that up later anyways....And seriously fuck David, I hate meme characters.
>>150864572I wonder if Modern Augustus even recognizes how Lucy's claims devalue him. Or maybe he's such a stooge now that he's fine being disregarded and used so long as Lucy is better off and Mike is made to suffer.
>>150864580>Paulo tries to reconcile Mike and Lucy>white cat bitches him out and reads her sob story fanfiction from atop her soapbox>he sides with her against gray cat
>>150863957Everyone here would love Lucy and say "I can fix her" if Taeshi would just give her some realistic external consequences to being such a cunt.After she came back, with what attitude she had, every chapter should have been about her burning every bridge and blaming everyone else. It doesn't matter what you've been through: no one wants to hang out with a cunt unless they're just trying to bang her. At this point in the comic she should be the isolated one, not Mike. Instead all isolation she gets is self imposed and everyone else loves her so much they keep trying to break it.But whatever, Taeshi managed to guilt Suitcase into marrying her despite her insanity and abuse, so as far as she probably believes Lucy is just a diamond in the rough just like her, and not a turd covered in gold leaf.
>>150864777It's pretty telling how much coddling and patience Lucy gets despite all of her bullshit whereas Mike got "unpleasant" and everyone started to despise him.
>>150860191I say this could have turned into a very interesting suspense and true crime comic during Eternal Flame, just watching the other characters piece together what happened to Lucy and what Mike did
>>150864634He's back into goon mode, doing whatever he has to to avoid the womanchild in charge starting a sperg out and taking it out on him, you could almost say it's a survival instinct since that's how he dealt with Alejandro for years
>>150864959It’s hilarious how easy it is to read it that way even though taeshi almost certainly didn’t intend it
>>150865061This whole comic is like that thing your brain does when you read words out of order and still makes the sentence make sense, here it is working really hard to make the comic logical
It's been fun...Get out while you can.
>>150864819As I once read a comment say in a random video :Nobody cares until the people pleaser stops pleasing people. Then all hell breaks loose
>>150865251I really wish that the table, in Mike's absence, would implode thanks to Lucy and other preexisting sources of bullshit.
>>150865361I still think the point of no return will be Lucy exploding at Sue, who has not yet experienced that herself and who is also driven by guilt but on a smaller scale. Paulo is a simp, Daisy is a flake and David is a meme but Sue and Amaya have no real reason to stick around after the illusion is shattered