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Corny ass teenagers edition

Website: https://www.bittersweetcandybowl.com/
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>>152009474
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>>152009474
So drama when?
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>>152009482
Oh wow, shocked that Tiff actually shows up.
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>>152009533
When Tiff inevitably "dumps" Jordan's ass right there and then, then goes to leave with her actual boyfriend.

Jordan then manifests his very own "Jordanspace", and turns the narrative against Tiff. Claiming she manipulated and led Jordan on, etc.
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>>152009558
Same, isn't tiff normally wearing a hat or am I miss remembering? Why they dressing up for a date a McD? This ain't the cheesecake factory.

Oh and this page is boring.
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Yawn, wake me up when we get more Maishul pages.
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>>152009533
Never. This is Paisy. True drama will only ever be hinted at while the readers are served a "conflict" weaker than LaCroix.
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>>152009474
Paulo a Burgertron is probably better than most restaurants those days, what with the economy in the shitter.
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>>152009558
Her boyfriends dropped her off
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>>152009482
tiffbros we are so back
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>>152009582
But Tiff is a girl and Jordan is the butt of jokes. No, no, this will be a blunt allegory for why Mike sucks ass for pining after Sandy and should have chosen Lucy instead.
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>>152009606
What's the full image (or is it WIP)?
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>>152009621
Wouldn't put it past her. I've just learned to laugh at this dumpster fire rather than get mad at it.
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>>152009474
Christ this is so BORING. You could've at least made it interesting taeshi you hack.
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>>152009582
>and turns the narrative against Mike (somehow)
Fixed that for you
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>>152009628
Jordan gets cucked on a subway
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>>152009533
Calling it. At the end of the double date, Paulo is comforting/ass chewing Jordan over Tiff. Jordan says Paulo is a good guy and wishes he and Lucy were together instead as a slip of the tongue. This causes Daisy to sperg out, malding over Lucy yet again on how she always gets the boys or some such shit
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What if Tiff actually likes him, but she's a chronicly online autist that sucks at communication.
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>>152009474
Would post some art from my game project today, but I’ve been struggling to get anything out recently
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>>152009533
Tobi shows up at the burgertron, barks at Paulo, and molests Daisy before leaving.
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>>152009482

He's still missing his medallion Taeshi YOU FUCKING HACK!
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>>152009697
>molests Daisy before leaving
Not before remarking that she's "Made Fresh" as he gropes her
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>>152009533
Just for a change of pace I'd love it if Tiff DID actually love Jordan and she's just on a level of autism rivaling Lucy's where she can't show it and can't be arsed to be polite about it
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>>152009606
Can't wait to see this completed.
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>>152009715
That'd require for taeshit to have any creativity whatsoever. She's laser focused on a narrative she wants to spin, and it'll take an act of God (patreonpiggies) to get her to budge.
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>>152009474
>When even they can feel how bullshit that was
We ain't ever gonna make it
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>>152009621
>blunt allegory for why Mike sucks ass for pining after Sandy and should have chosen Lucy instead.
How many times has Tiff hit Jordan? Always gotta ignore that massive elephant in the room with this comic.
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>>152009606
Damn that's hot. Love seeing stoic ladies break their mask over a good dick down.
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>>152009698
50 years in mspaint
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>>152009835
Oh whoops, I was gonna make it for editing and left the first panel white, LMAO.
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>>152009835
Ah, only difference is the one speech bubble being blank, right?

Not an insult whatsoever, I can only do really shitty edits using markup
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>>152009729
That's a shame, imagine if it made a callback to Mike and Sandy with Jordan asking Tiff to be his girlfriend and her responding "I thought we were already a thing"
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>>152009474
Oh, so that thing she was bothered about on the car ride was just her outfit. I was hoping for something a little deeper. I'm just going to go ahead and abandon any hope of any real tension in their relationship for now. At least I might be pleasantly surprised, later.

>>152009621
The allegory never really worked and is worse than ever at this point. The versions of Mike and Sandy that vaguely resembled Jordan and Tiff are old news. If Jordan is Paulo's practice dummy for confronting Mike, he's going to be woefully unprepared. Although I guess Taeshi could always just "reveal" that Jordan was always secretly just like Mike, and we just didn't see it because he's a side character.
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>>152009943
If Jordan is just like Mike, do you think Lucy gets incestuous thoughts about him sometimes?
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>>152009990
Lucy doesn't really want to fuck Mike, she just wants to own him. So, no.
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>>152010019
Yeah, Lucy doesn't really 'love' anyone, just what they do for her.

Also, I hate that Line In The Sand was something Taeshi tried to frame as self-inflicted, when it was just 4 assholes ganging up on Mike and Mike's friends at the table not giving a shit about him over Lucy's blackmail.
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>>152009943
>If Jordan is Paulo's practice dummy for confronting Mike, he's going to be woefully unprepared.
It would be a mistake to even think it would work. Even if Jordan were like usual Mike, Paulo knows Mike is not acting like his usual self and has in fact been getting worse mentally. He is aware of Mike not eating and was even worried it has gotten worse alongside him being dodgy. Plus woth how Paulo handles issues, he could make the issue worse if he tries a one size fit all.
>>152010060
Taeshi may have a potentially terrible view of friendships.
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>>152010060
Best I can figure of it being "self inflicted" is Mike promising to not go outside earlier to Augustus and then going out anyway which led to the whole shitshow. Not like that should matter though since that was a totally unreasonable demand in the first place and Augustus should have gotten punted in the nutsack. I don't blame Mike for 180ing on that when he momentarily slipped out of his depression in an effort to hang out with someone who seemed to give a shit about him (only for that to turn out to be a trap too)
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>>152010060
That chapter was such utter horseshit. Augustus started that whole with his insane request of Mike not going outside during lunch. That's how it always starts, first it's during break, then after school, then DURING classes. He was gonna keep moving the goalposts and Mike would've been forced out completely. Now Mike should've said no to this bullshit request in the first place, but Augustus would've gaslit and blackmail Mike into compliance anyway cuz that's the kind of asshole he is.

If Mike wasn't harassed by Augustus, he would've been let down by James more naturally. It was already in the process with how much James was glazing David and ignoring Mike. So Mike would've ended up realizing sooner or later that James is a flake anyway and would've moved on by himself.
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>>152009533
NTR soon
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>>152010128
Yeah, no matter what Taeshi tries to pull, Augustus Lucy David and James are simply unsympathetic.
Especially with Lucy's lies about she was always led on because Mike wanted to be friends, and Lucy only pursuing Mike once he was taken.
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>>152009533
Mike's in Burgertron doin the blair witch pose in front of the cashier, he was sent there to get food for his siblings
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>>152009742
Sandy never hit Mike.
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Cripes, I can't wait for more Amy art. I'll write the fic some today, since I don't have anything to do.

I just have trouble with thinking of what to start with, So I'm putting the basic concepts in parentheses and filling it out later
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>>152010220
My apologies, I skipped ahead. I was talking about the idea that Mike should date Lucy. For all Paulo knows, Lucy gave Mike the equivalent of Low tier God speech and kicked his ass.
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>>152010239
Maybe Amy saving Mike from oncoming traffic after he carelessly wandered into a busy street? She then notices how haggard he looks and her protectivr instincts take over from there
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>>152010239
>trouble with thinking of what to start with
Just steal shit from other fics or novels. OR read at least one million of trashy romance novels. You know, the ones that +50yo women read everyday.
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>>152010239
I would start with the question "what does Amy like about Mike?" and find a way to draw that out of him.
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>>152010300
Nah, I mean like the beginning sentences.
>>152010266
And it won't be that, I have something more in mind.
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>>152010359
I'm going with her liking his kind heart, and drawing off of previous threads of her being slightly scatterbrained, so she wouldn't stand for the bullying Mike has endured.
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>>152010060
You know, if not for the usual Taeshi horseshit going into overdrive, there is a decent story in there someplace.
>Mike is gaslit into believing he was always a horrible abuser who selfishly led Lucy on
>which means his feelings of love and wanting to be there for her were just masks of self-delusion
>experienced James' shallowness firsthand
>his parents are getting a divorce
>Sandy mostly just thinks about herself
>his friends sided with Lucy with only Paulo bothering to check up on him
>but Paulo also has an obvious need to be loved so that might just be clinginess
>Lucy herself only wants him as a trophy to affirm her own worth
>Paisy implodes hard because of course it would
Mike, in his depressed state, could easily conclude that love does not actually exist and adopts a nihilistic attitude about it. Leading an eventually "victorious" Lucy to discover, much to her thorough dismay, that Mike only got with her out of his cynicle belief that so-called love is just two people using each other to feel better about themselves. Simultaneously calling Lucy out but also absolving her of guilt when she absolutely does NOT want to acknowledge that nasty part of herself, amd further affirming her fear that she is genuinely unloveable.
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>>152009482
Oh. David is trans?
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>>152009588
Taeshi was too lazy to draw a fancy restaurant.
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>>152010483
All NOTblack people look the same to Vero.
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>>152010395
An idea: He saves her from something, but in a self-sacrificing, "I'm a terrible person and my life isn't important so I can risk it however I want" kind of way. She tries to thank him, he tells her to stay away from him for her own sake, then he faints from the strain and she has to help him from there.
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>>152010519
Does she not just use 3d models and trace over/stylized em? Alot of Mangas do that.
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>>152010455
All of that does sound pretty intriguing, it's a damn shame vero can never conjure up such nuance
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>>152010539
Oh, you only needed help with the opening sentences, sorry.
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>>152010571
Because Mike is the designated torture toy, and Lucy can do no wrong.

Because apparently being a prick is good and wanting friends is manipulation.
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>>152010587
Yeah, I have the whole outline there, just what to write when Mike goes home early and tries to jog a path (no spoilers on what it is) for an upcoming race.
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>>152010592
>Because apparently being a prick is good
That's women for ya
>and wanting friends is manipulation
That's insanity for ya
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>>152010611
Yeah, this comic is a comedy for me now, just seeing what the mind of a BPD person looks like.
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>>152010483
You know it would be so FUCKING funny to imply David is this stupid clown childish boy out of some dismorphia and once there's Danielle instead turns out the real persona is a disinterested no whimsy cunt
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>>152010483
Tiff is more of an actual character than David is.
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>>152009533
The drama will be Paulo and Daisy realizing that Tiff is only using Jordan for a free lunch and trying to convince him of that. It will end with Daisy luring Tiff off somewhere so the boys can talk. Paulo will lay everything out for Jordan because Paulo's an expert on health relationships now that he's settled for this 3rd best pick - with Paulo slowly realizing he doesn't have much going on with Daisy.

But in reality, the drama is going to be Jordan spending the whole time talking about how worried he is about Lucy. Why? Because he hears her waking up screaming in the middle of the night from nightmares and doesn't know why. But Paulo and Daisy do - or at least think they do. And also because Jordon doesn't know who's going to be Lucy's keeper and security blanket when he and Augustus graduate. Jordan will ask Paulo to take care of her because he's always been such a good friend to her - which will piss Daisy off.

Except it won't actually piss Daisy off since she'll have a change of heart because omg! She had no idea Lucy was soooo sad and had it this hard!
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>>152010750
Lucy always needs asspats apparently.
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>>152009533
Tiff will be lesbian and fall for Daisy who will have to decide between a passionate fling with a suddenly horny dog or her dog water of a narratively imposed boyfriend
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>>152010376
>>152010609
As first sentences in the stories go, anything can work, don't even have to be something from the very beginning, (but adding any kind of hook to what's gonna be happening in the story is preferable). Describing the current day, the mood, the weather, the path before revealing that grey cat runs through it, the crash into scatterbrain blondie if you roll with that drawing of them meeting (crash most likely due to squirrel and slippery ice, it's still the ambiguous "already raining instead of snowing but not past 14th february either" in the comic), even using scene from the middle or the end at the start, anything that gets the story rolling, and you can always return and change the beginning when story rolled plenty
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>>152010750
>Daisy and Paulo just watching Jordan spilling his spaghetti
>Tiff looks up from her phone for the first time the whole meal
>so why are you two even a couple?
>they have no answer
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>>152010835
Ah, something other than the squirrel- didn't know that was their first encounter, thought it was just them running into each other's arms.
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>>152010060
Same woman got surprised people sided with Mike and hated james. She has a shit view of friendship and how stuff actually works.
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>>152010870
Best to just view anything she posts on her blog as insane ramblings and not an explanation of anything.
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>>152010849
She's still so freshly made you can roll with whatever you had on your mind, don't worry about a thing. And don't worry about what would be the start, as long as it starts your writing, from inner monologues of Mike or Amy to description of scene to actual moment of meeting with "how we ended up here?" flashback to whatever
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>>152010911
Ah, prologue will be long and them meeting, immediately following Line In The Sand.

Also, I headcanon her as having other dog traits in forms of her hobbies, but I don't want to accidentally spoil the plot by saying them.
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Reminder that Rachel x Disgustus is also on the horizon
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This is what, the fifth time we had a chapter located in Burgertron? It's always the school, Burgertron or Lucy's house these days. Give us something new to look at, Taeshi.
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>>152010992
Inside of an unmarked white van, where Abbey and his family are arguing as to why their method of helping Molly sell Girl Scout Cookies isn't working.
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>>152010924
>other dog traits in forms of her hobbies
If Mike will merely pretend that he threw a frisbee for Amy to catch, he's getting on the lilshit list

>>152010976
Along with them leaving the comic into the sunset as they graduate, so if the ship will start there - it will be "locked in" by default, with no need for Taeshi to explore it or write about it unless someone pays enough for such BCI
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>>152010976
Nah, Taeshi castrated Augustus. So Augustus won't get with anyone. I think its cause he rejected Lucy or some shit.
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>>152011065
according to one of her tumblr answers, yes. He rejected Lucy so he can't be with anyone else. It instantly means he cant get in a romantic relationship.
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>>152011080
Maybe being rejected by or rejecting Lucy destroys your sex drive?
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>>152011010
Well at least it's something different. Beggars can't be choosers.
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>>152011065
>>152011080
>>152011101
Doesn't mean he can't get with Rachel if Taeshi will decide on spaying her too. And fans of either or both characters will be left figuring out themselves what dynamic they'll have outside of "her slowly fixing him"
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>>152010992
>Give us something new to look at, Taeshi
Maybe we'll get a chapter dedicated to Sandy, what's been happening to her with her work, her side of the whole Francis debacle HAHAHAHA WHO THE FUCK AM I KIDDING she isn't allowed to be anything other than a faceless, one-dimensional villain now
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>>152011080
It's still so fucking funny
>Augustus rejected Lucy, so if he doesn't want my Mary Sue why would he want anyone else?
Literally turned him into Lucy's eunuch
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>>152011274
Did the penis chart include Augustus?
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>>152011333
It wasn't an actual chart, just Taeshi giving a size order of the 4 main male characters (when Abbey was one and >implying David). Only the boobs chart includes more characters
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>>152009474
>Im not being too much am I?

What the fuck Tae..... why must you write retarded OOC shit all the time why. But LE DRAMABAIT, srsly fucking why why Cuckcase really needs to crack the whip and tell her to stop doing retarded shit. When she legit goes full retard with some lines.
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>>152011530
>Cuckcase really needs to crack the whip and tell her to stop doing retarded shit
Patreonpiggies are being good paypiggies regardless, why the fuck would he tell her to stop?
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>>152011215
Like we gonna see her until the divorce ark starts, just so she could visit Mike and have the polar opposite of their previous date
>No friends there to meet and greet her, only a lonely Mike, at max maybe dismissive glances from far away from some of them
>Mike's also looking like shit and barely standing
>Promised trip to restaurant is wasted because Sandy can't eat much due to work and the one for whom restaurant was booked has zero appetite for anything
>Trip to mall and attempt to get him to the arcade to "do what he wants" fails too as he refuses to be anywhere near there
>Her trying to drag him to the tree to run around at their place only gives him anxiety attack or makes him lash out in panic
>Going back to Mike's home - there's no happy family to greet them either, at max Haley who was playful last time giving them a stink eye
>Back at Mike's room there's nothing to do, she's the one who has to get console out of the box
>Tries to at least get intimate with Mike since last kiss attempt was ruined by her, but he starts crying catching her off guard, as he murmurs something about being a bad boyfriend and a person
>Very close to 0% but not exactly 0% chance of Sandy actually reacting to this with panic and "something is VERY bad, start talking, now" instead of just leaving

Because Taeshi thinks that parallels are such amazing writing tool that even when used hundreds of times they stay fresh and captivating, why waste all the years she spent on setting them up?

>>152011333
Just Abbey<Mike<Paulo<David with korat on average (and David of "literally kills Lucy with it" size)
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>>152009474
this is legit the first time I seen a page of this comic on 4chan that is actually happy with no hint of revenge or future drama basically being on the next page. I seen 4chan posting pages of this comic for years now. Is this meant to be the reward after countless pages of "friends" treating each other like shit? Or is it just going back to the way it was and this page is just an abnormally.
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>>152011599
>reward
lol
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>>152011530
Please, he lives to get pegged by her. By now she's got him trained to bend over by command.
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>>152011599
Only cuz it's boring as shit. We're back to Mucy discourse, or rather its antithesis
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>>152011599
Just author trying her best to sell the audience on those two being endgame couple that will solve their issues with no drama and come out on top. Also failing at that even in official places, outside of people who don't care for context just for the result of "they became a couple, this is locked in now, muh OTP canon"
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>>152009715
Tiff went fuck another guy at the dance. Some love.
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>>152011720
Sort of. The "drama" will be some extremely mild turbulence that is played up as some huge thing, like the stupid don't tell Abbey situation readers are supposed to take seriously.
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The best part of Mike fucking up and finally facing consequences is seeing how smug he was when he stupidly thought Augustus wouldn't do anything about it, only to revert back into a sniveling worm when it turned out Augustus actually has a spine.
And since Mikefags couldn't stop chimping out on the patreon and discord Taeshi thinks she hasn't gone far enough with Mike and she'll have him do something even worse lmao

Life is good.
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>>152011814
Almost but you don't quite get it. Taeshi is insane, it's not that Mike did anything wrong, and it damn sure isn't that Augustus of all people should be the person to serve him, it's that Taeshi has decided Mike's behavior is suspicious and Augustus's pure with no ulterior motives at all due to her BPD kicking in.
Lean more into Mike being a shifty bastard who was just using James, that's more accurate to what she thinks... maybe, idk the bitch is crazy.

That sick fuck wanted to hang out with people, how dare he.
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>>152011814
>Augustus actually as a spine
Little bitch was shivering over a minor push until the Mary Sue intervened. Same as always. He talks mad shit until it gets real. Mike's mistake was not breaking his nose.
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>>152011917
>feeding the troll
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>>152011080
>according to one of her tumblr answers, yes
...what? I would think it'd be because he's a manipulative creep who girls would avoid like the plague because he literally tried to rape one. It disgusts me to no end that Taeshi refuses to recognize that even if he wouldn't do that now, there are some things that people will never stop thinking about when around you, and it's not like he ever got punished for it to begin with.
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>Drama
Who cares. Back then at least we had drunks, sex, actual fights and meme suicide. Now? Everything is sterile and boring.
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>>152011992
I'm criticizing the troll, he's too obvious and he bores me.
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>>152012047
But Taeshi thinks assholes are sexy. Unless they are assholes to her, of course, at which point you should feel very sorry for her suffering.
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>>152009533
A discussion on dog racism will be had after a racist cat insults Jordan. Tiff's will be ignored by Jordan needing Paulo and Daisy to call out Jordan for ignoring Tiff's feelings.
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>>152012118
>An entire page of Jordan spilling his spaghetti and accidentally throwing dog slurs at Tiff while Paulo laughs his ass off and Daisy does a thing and stuff.
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>>152012047
Her logic was literally "if he wouldn't get with Lucy why expect him to be with anyone else" as insane as that sounds
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>>152012257
I can't imagine why people get up on their high horse round here with Watsonian-purism when Lucy's so transparently a skinsuit for Taeshi to fantasize about having sex with cute catboys.
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>>152012166
>turns out dogs are REALLY turned on by racism
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>>152012283
>for Taeshi to fantasize about having sex with cute catboys
*for Yaeshi to fantasize about getting comstantly validated by people because she's such a cool collected asshole who also deserves all of the sympathy at all times. I'm saying that sex is not a big priority for her.
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>>152012283
Foe her to have sex with catboys AND have everyone validate her awful behavior
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>>152012586
Nah, if that was the big thing for Taeshi she'd write chapters where Sue or Daisy suck Lucy's dick and Mike or Paulo or Augustus never come up. That never happens. Taeshi has no interest in Lucy except for self-insert shipping. She even awarded James to her because she decided she like James/Lucy. She'll eventually alienate the Lucy-stans because of this.
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>>152012688
Doesn't Sue suck Lucy's dick basically every chapters she's in now? Her last one was even about how Lucy must have it so much tougher than her, so she can't whine about her play anymore.

>>152011101
It's akin to rejecting Aphrodite. One must be a eunuch to say no.
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>>152009718
This is pretty old. I was coloring it, but gave up. I might just redo it to be honest at this point.
The doodle just gets the point across though
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>>152012688
Sue basically does that already. She already does, or will envy Augustus's position with her
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>>152012688
>She likes James/Lucy
On what fucking grounds lmao James has zero personality besides gay slut.
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>>152013580
Maybe under some weird lens that he's Mike but retarded
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>>152009474
I get that they're still in the puppy love phase so the hollow gushy bullshit makes sense, but god damn, it can't end fast enough. They're just boring. The "chemistry" is them being in love with the idea of being in love.
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>>152009474
Man Paisy is so fucking doomed. I feel bad for any fans of Paulo or Daisy as individual characters.
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>>152009735
Well, at least the breakup arc in 2032 will be cathartic.
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Genuine question, what actually constitutes “chemistry” between characters? What’s the difference between chemistry and no chemistry as I always keep hearing?
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>>152009904
That'd be cute and sweet, so no. This is Bittersourbowl.
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>>152013799
Personally, having chemistry is bouncing off each other well when in a scene together. If you ever played Deltarune that's has a pretty good example of chemistry vs no chemistry.

Susie and Kris have chemistry. They are in sync, comfortable around each other, open but willing to mess with each, and are generally fun interacting with each other without it just being some romance shit. Meanwhile Susie and Noelle together is an example zero chemistry. They are at their worst and most boring when together. They are reduced as characters by being around each other
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all of that body fat yet still she's flatter than amaya
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Reminder that adult Lucy would be 100% down to abandon her husband and 2nd child in order to get another whiff of Mike.
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>>152013864
>Susie and Noelle together is an example zero chemistry. They are at their worst and most boring when together. They are reduced as characters by being around each other
We’re really just disregarding their hangout at Noelle’s house?
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>>152014077
I have seen it, and he is right still. The character reduction i actually way worse for Noelle than Susie, too.
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>>152013799
If I was forced to describe chemistry with one word only, that word would be "connection". When two characters connect on some deep level, connect as human beings, then there's chemistry between them. Characters without chemistry do not interact with each other in a special way, they are basically strangers to each other.
Chemistry is the reason for readers to believe that two characters would want to actually spend time together or seek each other's company. Without chemistry, there's no actual reason for them to interact at all.
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>>152014077
No. They sucked during that too. If anything Noelle became more of a bitch in that instance
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>>152010239
I bring some belated Amy content, the awaited bellyrubs as well as headcanon that maybe she wears clothes because she got even shorter fur than Mike? Don't want to cause any accidents and show too much stuff. Christmas requests are coming too but slowly, for the reason called "had to work on christmas", very sorry for that

>>152013799
I see it as characters both being "in synch" and connected enough to be comfortable with each other without too much effort, be it friendship or romance or passion. Not sure what would work as the best example in BCB outside of fan content and Taeshi's noncanon thoughts on different pairs like Lucy-Paulo, but Paulo and Daisy both pretty much aware of their lack of that: Paulo sure is comfortable and "at home" around Daisy, too much even as he's chill if they break up over their future careers, while Daisy wants the opposite from their relationship, aka more effort, passion and pizzazz and being treated and proudly paraded in front of everyone like his previous girls. And so far they compromise in mostly Paulo's favor, hell it wasn't even Daisy who was worried if Abbey learns that he was right about both of them and if he will be hurt or not by that

>>152013864
Calling two dorks "zero chemistry" because they are still awkward (and deer got a LOT of Dess shaped issues to resolve beforehand) and not on "sharing one braincell" level like Susie and Kris or "can instantly tell something is off when entire town fails" like Noelle and Kris is a bit too far. Even if lizard just happy to have her first real friends while deer is losing even more braincells from horny thoughts than Daisy when dreaming about all five boys and Sandy agreeing to be her harem and kissing her together
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>>152014342
I don't see that as an excuse. Noelle has shown to be far better as a character when with Kris. She was at her best during her walkaround segment in Chapter 2 and then went right back to being one note shit the second Susie entered the same scene as her again. Noelle and Susie just don't mix well together. Noelle's also pretty shallow since the only thing she seems to give a shit about the persona which is why she completely forgets about her in Snowgrave when (You) flex your dominance
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>>152013864
I knew I shared this thread with anons of taste
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>>152014342
Glad to see they both got their turns at belly rubbing, both seem to really enjoy the physical contact. Sorry to hear you had work on Christmas Day, anon.
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>>152014342
This artstyle is very cute. The Amy content always makes things nicer.
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>>152014342
Yet again, the only source of joy and light in this damned comic is a fan character.
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>>152014342
Good Mike and Amy content
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New BH

Inshallah they will find him
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>>152016052
Damn, I gotta get back to drawing BH content. I've been busy
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>>152009835
Do you think this has the same curse as the real medallion?
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>>152014342
Hell yeah. Grab that cat belly, Amy. Also, I saw somewhere, at some point, someone asked for Amy/Mike Christmas art, or I just made that up.
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>>152014077
>Their time together
>Which was spent talking (badly on one side) about a third person behind their back and using the other as a surrogate big sister
I don't think he is
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>>152014036
I find that completely unsurprising, and somehow it'll be Mike's fault because Taeshi is a hack.
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>>152016052
Doesn't mary's mom end up dating this guy in the time skip art?
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>>152016365
Holy peak, thank you for the blessing. Mike X Amy is the only thing keeping me invested in this webcomic, besides the old and non-retconned early days that exuded early 2000s charm.
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>>152012047
The thing is that Augustus is now a fan favorite, which means he has to look good for the patrons and that includes indulging in Lucyspace and being always right. Taeshi wants to eat her cake and have it too which is why she always comments on the comic like she's part of the peanut gallery agreeing with the popular (and controlled) opinion. You can say she stopped seeing the characters as tools for the narrative and instead is using the comic to play house with them
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>>152014036
Is Augustus anywhere in FITR, or has Sue supplanted him as Lucy's handler?
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>>152014342
Cute
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Call me weird, but I totally think Lucy is into DDLG/CGL. She clearly wants to be coddled all the time and not given choice. All she needs is a pacifier and stuffed animal to calm her and she’d act normal.
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>>152016611
>Lucy is into DDLG
She grew up with an absentee father, did it really need to be said?
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>>152014342
God bless, this thread is instantly golden.
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>>152016365
Finally, some good fucking content. I live for this shit.
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>>152016586
Maybe Alejandro got his treasonous ass
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>>152014342
Will he resist the urge to kick her with his feet?
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>>152016625
It needed to be said because I had that thought on my mind- I also thought of Lucy having a Mike plushie she cuddles with every night.

But imagine for a moment that Mike is forced to go over to Lucy’s house by plot shenanigans, only for both Mike and Lucy’s family to open the door and see her age regressing.

Instant disinterest in Lucy from Mike, and both families start kink shaming her.
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>>152014342
This right here. The sole reason I'm here. This makes it all worth it. Keep up the good work anon
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>>152016365
Really adorable anon, bless you
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>>152016723
We all musr take such risks in life.
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>>152014036
BCB is a very frustrating comic to read, because it dedicates enormous effort to arguing that Mike and Lucy should never interact again and then proceeds to have the entire comic orbit around the prospect of them making up.

>>152016723
She's a big girl, she can handle a few love punts from her tiny boyfriend.
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>>152016611
Someone should replace this with Lucy and Alejandro and the bottom with Mike and all the girls who had a crush on him.
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hey lads, i'm trying to put together all of the deleted website content together so i don't have to go searching for it, and i can't get more than a few pages of Cracks In The Ice off of archive.org. i know CITI isn't included with the other BCIs anymore so could someone upload it here? thanks
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>>152018170
Lucky for you i downloaded the library
Here's cracks https://files.catbox.moe/27qsb6.zip
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>>152018341
9 and 10 seem to be duplicates, anon.
Any new stuff from the library you could share with the thread?
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>>152018385
I'm not sure if there's anything super secret in it. Mine was downloaded at the start of november so it's possible that I don't have the latest version.
The most interesting stuff in it is cracks and also the abby daisy piss comic but i think everyone's already seen that one.
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>>152016815
>>she can handle a few love punts
How about a few love bites?
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>>152016815
It is kind of ridiculous.

I might be crazy, but I think the problem is that psychic dreams and teleportation aside, BCB is grounded enough that Lucy and Mike get judged by semi-realistic standards. If the tone was more gonzo and Mike and Lucy's feud involved like, bloody fistfights, trying to get each other killed, open threats of suicide, then Mucy would actually seem LESS toxic.
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>>152013978
She has six nipples, like any healthy, wholesome pussy.
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>>152018747
>Mike get judged by semi-realistic standards. If the tone was more gonzo and Mike and Lucy's feud involved like, bloody fistfights, trying to get each other killed, open threats of suicide, then Mucy would actually seem LESS toxic.
Oh so the same issue as breaking bad's Skylar? Too real. So we should bring back the pets and actually just make this a magical girl/boy drama comic.
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>>152013978
Difference is Amaya would have rocked that dress
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>>152018747
>>152019182

If Taeshi did a Cerberus retcon once more to restore the comic to its former glory, I would be overjoyed. No more shitty drama, just more sex and magic and everything else that used to make it charming.
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>>152013978
>>152019365
Need art of it nao
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>>152018497
Where’s that comic?
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>>152019571
unfortunately i dont think she could do it. Not only has she been on the "Serious drama and consequences" track for far longer than not, she'd find it much harder to put mike through the wringer in a situation where everything is lighter.

Him having the worst time of his life is basically the lynchpin of this comic now
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>>152019743
I know she hates Mike, but she could easily just retcon everything as a dream if she ever comes back to her senses.
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>>152019935
I don't believe she can, just because she's now very dependant on the money of patrons who have a very one track mind about this comic now, so if she backed off or steered to a different direction she risks pissing these people off. Remember she loves acting like she's a reader herself reacting to her own characters and has shown to be upset when people form their own opinions about characters
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>>152020017
But can't we dream?
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>>152020017
She was perfectly fine telling them to can the Mike hate when it got too intense for her own liking. Taeshi won't change tracks because this comic, as it currently stands, is all her with no filter. Anything thrown in to please the patrons first jas to please Taeshi. And that is why I suspect that Paisy might actually implode. Not because Taeshi values organic drama (we all know she absolutely does not), but to punish Suitcase who likes the ship.
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>>152020120
>She was perfectly fine telling them to can the Mike hate when it got too intense for her own liking
She got mad people didn't get her "nuance" and stormed off from her own discord, that's not "asking them to can the Mike hate" and less considering she didn't take a single step back in the comic. The only thing that has made them consider their hate boner for Mike was that time one of them said the quiet part out loud hoping for Mike to kill himself and they felt into a moral panic
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>>152019365
What a hottie
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>>152020355
>She got mad people didn't get her "nuance" and stormed off from her own discord, that's not "asking them to can the Mike hate" and less considering she didn't take a single step back in the comic


This was EF wasnt it? What "Nuance" was there in that whole situation? All she did was show that the status quo will continue.
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>Rachel picks up Mike
>turns out all these pent-up feelings and frustration make him an absolute beast in bed
>both have finally found their perfect match
>happy end
I fixed your shit comic, Veronica
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>>152020355
She stormed out of the discord sometime after making it an actual rule that the Mike hate had to be toned down.
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>>152020669
Rachael x Mike could have been fun before Augustus joined the table.

Then again, if they had a secret thing going, maybe it could be. Meeting outside of school away from Rachael's usual group.

>>152020714
>She stormed out of the discord sometime after making it an actual rule that the Mike hate had to be toned down.


It was her fault it got so bad in the first place. What did she think making him a sperg and sad sack for over a decade while giving him no good moments would do?
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>>152020658
It was a "you're not hating him the right way" thing, about how they didn't get his character right and were misunderstanding the (not on the comic at all) story beats. And then you've got her coming up with dissonant blog essays about how all fan interpretation that doesn't put Lucy in the right and a victim is wrong and author comments that sacrifice actual context for ironic beatdowns of the same character constantly. No idea how her readership could not get it
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>>152020669
I want to bet Taeshi forced Rachel into simping for Augustus mostly so people wouldn't want her to get with Mike and forget about Paulo's fuck up
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>>152016343
He settled with Daisy, that's pretty cursed.
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>>152020911
We’re talking about the author who thinks friendship and not breaking up with your GF for your abuser is evil.
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>>152020911
>It was a "you're not hating him the right way" thing, about how they didn't get his character right and were misunderstanding the (not on the comic at all) story beats.

what does she mean by "The right way"? What other reasons and routes could she have given besides "He unintentionally made Lucy try to kill herself and snaps at all his at the drop of a pin lately"? Her story beats are right there, as retarded as they are, so what else is there to do besides to hate Mike for that? She's even gone back and retconned old pages to make him look worse!
>And then you've got her coming up with dissonant blog essays about how all fan interpretation that doesn't put Lucy in the right and a victim is wrong and author comments that sacrifice actual context for ironic beatdowns of the same character constantly. No idea how her readership could not get it.

Yeah there's no way this comic could ever grow beyond her current fanbase. It couldn't go large scale because it wouldn't be long before "Bittersweet Candy Bowl is a comic about how you should just let yourself be physically and emotionally abused so everything stays normal' would become the main tagline for its reputation.
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>>152021017
The objective is to grow the fan base so people view it as a pro abuse comic
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>>152021017
And the 10 year OOC shitfest was stupid. Besides, the only reason Mike wasn’t praised for his outbursts is because it wasn’t for Lucy’s benefit.
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>>152020777
>It was her fault it got so bad in the first place. What did she think making him a sperg and sad sack for over a decade while giving him no good moments would do?
I think Taeshi's views on sympathetic and forgivable behaviors are notably defective. She is BPD and has seen many a time that her fans will both circle the wagons for their favorite characters, no matter what they do, and mindlessly gobble up nigh whatever she puts in front of them, which does not help her to course correct. Now, it's true these fan behaviors largely do not carry over into sympathizing with Mike, but it is also readily apparent that Taeshi rejects unwanted aspects of reality and embraces convenient delusions. I suspect that Suitcase heavily filters what fan comments and questions actually get back to her. This creates an impression that she is successfully pushing whatever message or intent appeals to her at any given moment, as governed by her mental problems. I also suspect it has only partially succeeded, since this latest vilification of Mike feels sudden, poorly set up, and perhaps even retalitory.
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>>152021017
In Taeshi's mind Mike's original sin and what he should be judged for is not being an obedient dog and wait patiently through punches and unpersoning for Lucy to mellow out and accept him (not "want him back" because that'd make her look weak). By not pushing through her rejection and trying more and more despite her hostile reactions he failed her, and by taking Sandy (note the only thing that made Lucy regress on EF was that, no matter whatever Taeshi pulled out last chapter) he betrayed poor Lucy before she was able to get out of her cocoon (or got tired of leading Paulo on as her second option)
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>>152021421
>So if Lucy isn't going to get a taste of her own medicine and Augustus isn't going to get punished for his shady shit, how exactly are you planning to "torture" Lucy?
Suitcase needs to tell her to just stop interacting with her fanbase altogether, if for no other reason than she's fucking terrible at it.
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>audience supports Mike
>taeshi gets mad
>audience hates Mike
>taeshi gets mad
What is her problem?
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>>152021421
I'm surprised Suitcase left through a comment complaining about the current direction of the comic, but then again they're both assholes so he probably told her to dunk on it
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>>152021421
How old is this fucking womanchild, again?
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>>152021637
37 or 38. I remember her stating her age in one of the recent real life comics she made about wanting a kid
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>>152021571
She'll take it out on him, so that was a mistske.
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>>152021421
I could only hope she meant the part about moving away and cutting these people out of his life, but that's still just the lesser evil.
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>>152021421
a response like this would kill hope of any of this actually happening, which would kill off reader interest. Why would you even answer like this?
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>>152020355
"It's nuanced!" gets dragged out whenever somebody hears a strong opinion they don't like, and almost every person that says it has an obvious bias of their own. I think there's this presumption that everybody would have the same opinion if they just had all the facts. They don't consider that you can completely understand a character's motivations and still not sympathize with them or their actions. With a comic like bcb in particular it seems weird not to understand that taking a side is part of the appeal in the first place.

>>152021421
Once again my reaction is both
>do these people not know they can post shit somewhere other than Taeshi's ask box?
and
>does Taeshi know she can simply not reply to some asks?

She does seem kinda incensed though. I wonder if it's anything they actually said or if she can just tell from the writing that this person is probably from one of the unofficial spaces.
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>>152021524
apparently there's some "Just right" zone that people are supposed to strike regarding liking or disliking Mike. But nobody knows what it is because she's off her rocker.
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>>152021421
>question kisses her ass and asks about something without making waves
>"haha yeah actually fuck Mike it's all his fault :)"
>question genuflects in front of her and asks if character who acted out of malice is acting out of malice
>"it's funny you think that... actually it's Mike's fault and they're just retaliating because they're hurt hope that helps :)"
>comment skips the praise and wonders about character motivations and possible story beats
>"who the fuck are you? :)"
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>>152021815
She's seething because she's not an author, she's a child playing dolls with her comic, so she's not hearing "this is what your work gives me to think", for her it's "you're playing incorrectly" and she can't stand it
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>>152021342
>By not pushing through her rejection and trying more and more despite her hostile reactions he failed her, and by taking Sandy (note the only thing that made Lucy regress on EF was that, no matter whatever Taeshi pulled out last chapter) he betrayed poor Lucy before she was able to get out of her cocoon (or got tired of leading Paulo on as her second option)


This is one of the things that bugs me about it all. A girl that hits him on the regular already told him no. Why would he risk an even more violent reaction from her. And when Mike wasn't going along with her shit, she'd literally run to Paulo and use him until Mike came back around. If those two should bond over ANYTHING, it's that Lucy used them as security blankets.

Augustus talking about how Lucy regressed because of the end of EF made no sense because we never saw her have any actual improvement when she came back. She hated all her friends and did all she could to shit talk Mike up until the tree moment. You could argue the dream stuff, but that dream shit is directed at everyone. We've seen Paulo, Sue, and Daisy appear in the same dream that Mike or Alejandro (or some odd fusion) appears in.
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>>152021524
Its called being a woman with BPD
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>>152021800
A couple of possibilities, based on her personality--unhappiness that anyone could possibly believe something so contrary to what she was going for, or pissiness that someone basically figured out her general plot ahead of time. In either case, her response is to bully and mock because she never outgrew being a /b/tard, just changed her branding.
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>>152020355
I genuinely don't know what the fuck she was thinking. She engineered that whole chapter to, unequivocally, make Mike the bad guy. And it was so forced too, the pacing was absolutely shit. There's no hope for this shit fest
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>>152020936
This. Rachel would've pounced on Mike first chance once she saw how he became her type. It would've been FAR more interesting if it was her and Mike hanging out instead of James. She's an established character already, AND has a complicated history with Paulo. James was totally unnecessary.
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>>152019182
Pretty much, yeah. I actually had a lot of sympathy for Skylar, since all her bad decisions were made under stress due to the much worse stuff WW was doing, and he wouldn't let her divorce him.

For the purposes of a satisfying narrative, the romantic redemption of Lucy the cruel villain works better than the same thing for Lucy the paranoid weirdo, despite being less realistic. It's why I'm hoping the next arc with the table is Lucy continuing to throw shade and Sue or Daisy going "what the fuck Lucy, what have we ever done to you?" only to get screamed at. That'd be a good start, and ideally Lucy would escalate to like, openly telling her friends "I will kill myself unless you do this for me", seeking out Mike just to beat him bloody, trying to sic Alejandro on people via Augustus's phone, something like that. Once Lucy goes EVIL rather than just being shitty and mean, then her redemption might be fun to read rather than feeling contrived.

And the same applies to Mike. I'd be a lot more interested in the redemption and recovery of Mike the hateful asshole who tells his concerned friends "fuck off, you never really cared" than I am in the "redemption" of Mike the depressed asshole who tells his concerned friends "It's fine, I deserve it".
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>>152021017
>It couldn't go large scale because it wouldn't be long before "Bittersweet Candy Bowl is a comic about how you should just let yourself be physically and emotionally abused so everything stays normal'

Every day I pray this comic catches mainstream attention so that someone gets pissed enough to "fix" the damn comic themselves with their own version, the Snoot Game treatment if you will. Amy's a damn good start at least, not much of her yet but she's still pretty new.
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>>152022213
But anooon we need our gaybait! It surely paid off with all the new fans/patrons who definitely didn't drop the comic after line in the sand!
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>>152021890
That sounds very straightforward and probable.
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>>152021524
That strip made by that guy that does the duck dad comics comes to mind as a parody of her mentality here. I don't have it on hand but it goes:
>Little girl comes in asking dad if he wants to play pretend, he says sure.
>Next panel there's toys all over the place and she's got a darth vader mask and a ballerina costume on and is shouting at him "You're doing it all wrong!" and he replies "HOW? I don't even know what we're playing!"
She's a little girl playing pretend in a fantasy world with her cartoon cat dolls and is mad you're not reading her mind and agreeing with conclusions she can't articulate.
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>>152022253
The problem anon is that the comic is built on so many faulty based that fixing one makes a chain reaction where many others have no reason to be. You would need to write a telenovela script to make it as dramatic yet fun to read, and by that point it would be indistinguishable from BCB. Just trying to make sense of Lucy's family would give me a headache, they're well off and are loving and supportive and have seemingly no flaws aside from a lack of spine, and yet you have to reconcile that with the fact Lucy despises being open to them or their care
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>>152022253
To me, fixing the comic is just turning it into an Always Sunny type story since it's fucked anyways. None of these fuckers grow so at least make them aware about it and use it for humor, unfortunately that requires a self-aware author which Taeshi is no longer capable of being.
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>>152019182
>So we should bring back the pets
Only if you promise they'll be swiftly killed off. I hate those fuckin' things.
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>>152023011
Lucy will ignore them and make them unhappy, then they will go confront Mike and blame him for that, and then they'll jump off a bridge because without Lucy life's not worth living. This gives Lucy remorse and on their graves she blames Mike for taking all her attention from them
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Realistically, how the fuck could Mike bring himself to trust anyone again after that shit James pulled?
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>>152023500
He doesn't. Not until Lucy basks him in her graceful mercy, and saves him from himself.
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>>152023011
>Only if you promise they'll be swiftly killed off. I hate those fuckin' things.
No, they'll go on fun adventures with Lucy, but Mike's pet will stay behind to talk with him. After a heartfelt talk and a mission together, they truly reconnect. Mike even gets to show off his speed and fighting ability(he is trained, remember?) All to show to Mike, even if his parents divorce and his sister blames him, even if everyone of his friends leave him for Lucy. He will have him. Even reaffirming this by going to stay with Mike, but promises to always be with Yashy (romantically) despite her hating Mike & Lily disapproving.

He is killed near the end of their 3rd mission when Mike is forced to team up with Lucy, and it is Lucy's fault, but Mike gets blamed by Yashy & believes it is his fault cause he is now broken again, but worse. This is still BCB.

>>152023500
>how the fuck could Mike bring himself to trust anyone again after that shit James pulled?
Punch Augustus unconscious in a bloody rage. At best, he would have to be half on guard at all times or always ready to detach from people emotionally. Neither of these is a good idea long-term or even short-term.
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>>152023500
Get lucky and actually find legit homies. Have a similar situation as Line In The Sand but have em tell whoever the aggressive nonsense party is that time to go fuck themselves and have Mike's back regardless. Then when he inevitably breaks down to his "I am bad!" shit have em reassure him
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>>152021421
>post aggressive schizo rant in the field where a question is supposed to go
>wtf why didn't she answer seriously
Mikefags are the most autistic, least self aware group I've ever seen on 4chan and it's hilarious watching you guys run into a brick wall over and over again.
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>>152022575
Easy to explain, Lucy wants all choice taken away from her and made to do whatever her new handler wants.

Her confrontation from Alejandro didn’t produce nightmares, all the screaming was from creaming herself.
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>>152023500
He would need a hard reset. Bring him somewhere else so he doesn't feel the pressure of his family or his old friends, put him near people with no ulterior motives to want him close and that will cut him whenever he starts talking shit about himself, maybe someone with a bit of a past too that sees himself/herself on Mike and wishes there was someone to help back then. Let him have actual hobbies and take sports for the love of the game and not for competition, he need to see worth in something that's not relationships. Mike's problem is that his best friends are also his bigger bullies, his other friends are too fairweather, his family has high expectations of him and his sister doesn't seem to want an amicable relationship with him. Dude can't be chill with anyone or anywhere, even his hobby has Sue terrorizing him whenever she's not mad at him on Lucy's behalf
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>>152023500
Logically he can't for a long time. Any complements he gets will either wash over him or put him on edge because of how fast things went to shit with James. He'd also be afraid of hanging out anywhere in the open or else augustus and Lucy roll up to ruin any good time he has.

For mike to recover, he needs to be far away from anyone he's been involved with before. From his friend group and even possibly his family. He needs to be around a brand new set of people for him to even begin the process. I'd say send him to therapy but that shit just does not exist in BCB.

He'll eventually come around, but it could take a good while.
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>>152023703
Yes but you'd think someone that wants to be told what to do would enjoy being coddled by her family, it's not like any of them is pushing her to better herself or deal with her problems, they don't even want to get close because she gets upset. She doesn't just want to be told what to do, she wants it in a way that justifies her crossing her arms because there's nothing she could do about it
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>>152023789
Fucking funny but I bet if you sent him to "live with his aunt" just like they did with Lucy that would actually fix him, which is funny because again we are taking Lucy's plot points and giving them to Mike
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>>152023833
>she wants it in a way that justifies her crossing her arms because there's nothing she could do about it
She was like this before Alej ever touched her, so that excuse doesnt work.
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>>152023863
Lucy hates consent, remember that- the best possible ending for her is to be paired with someone who doesn't care about the word no.
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>>152023703
True, if Taeshi had any balls she would have Alejandro come back and complete Lucy's character arc.
Not even just because it's hot, but Alejandro has everything Lucy wants and needs.
>Is aggressive and dominant, Lucy hates people who are overly nice, getting negged turns her on
>Bullies people, Lucy would find him funny like she finds Paulo's bullying funny
>Will have total control over her life and body, Lucy hates having to make choices
>Will finally give her the babies she's wanted her whole life, the pets were always just a surrogate
>Wants her and only her, hyper fixated, would probably kill her before letting her leave him you just know Lucy would find this romantic
>And let's be honest, he's like twice her size and probably has a big dick because he's dark triad, Lucy's a size queen and she would finally be fulfilled and filled
And after a while, and a bunch of babies, Alejandro will stop being associated with negative emotions, she won't even be having nightmares anymore!
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>>152024114
Turns out they were wet dreams all along.
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>>152024323
That explains the baseball bat
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>>152014342
I wanna see Mike motorboat Amy’s tits
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>>152024602
Too bad, you have literal tickle art first.
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>>152023855
>Fucking funny but I bet if you sent him to "live with his aunt" just like they did with Lucy that would actually fix him, which is funny because again we are taking Lucy's plot points and giving them to Mike


We're never going to actually see that portion of lucy's life because taeshi would have to come up with a reason for why Lucy didn't learn her lesson regarding the fall out and why she even decided to come back in the first place.
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>>152024635
Lucy came back because she wants her old teddy bear back no matter what, it's pretty obvious.
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>>152023640
>aggressive schizo rant
>aggressive
Here's your (You)
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>>152024635
>why she even decided to come back in the first place.
There is no other reason. Even in-uni, she can't answer it because the answer would make her a crazy bitch.
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>>152024635
I still like the explanation that she was just that unbearable at her aunt's and was miserable at school because she couldn't queen bee it up
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>>152024635
Has to be dumb or embarrassing since she refuses to answer when asked
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>>152024616
:(
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>>152024793
A chapter or two about how her attitude doesn't work with anyone outside of the roseville regulars would have been good for her character.

But that means she'd have to develop, and we can't have that now, can we?
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>>152024669
Nobody in this comic has an actual reason to do most of the major plot things they do. It's impossible to imagine any plot line having a satisfactory ending because there's no wrong ideas to correct or anything to learn.
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>>152024592
Our dedicated janitor having another defensive fit deleting normal posts
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>Still no new page of consequences
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>>152026393
Normal in that 4chan is full of the kind of autists who would post that kind of thing, true.
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>>152027053
The hell happened?
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>>152027411
Janny couldn't handle the truth nuke
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>>152027450
What was the gist of it?
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>>152016586
Nope just Sue. Lucy gets with a rando and Sue has a giant unrequited crush on her while dating Themaya
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>>152027826
Are they dating Amaya, or is Sue simply Lucy's new handler while Amaya finds someone else?
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>>152027911
She's actually dating Amaya, she got bottom surgery and Taeshi confirmed this for some reason
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>>152027911
Lucy cries a bunch over Mike. Sue comforts her but Lucy is angry that she is doing so because Sue is dating Amaya and wouldn't get it. Sue takes her to bed after a drunken vent session and kisses her while she's passed out. Chloe (Lucy's kid) catches Sue and she tells her to promise not to say anything.
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>>152027985
when did she do this lol
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Many fall in the face of chaos. But not this one, not today.
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>>152027985
I hope it's not canon, Amaya is best girl.
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>>152027985
Do you think this is her second try at that joke she was going to make about Sue and McCain? Like that they were secretly dating all along but nobody noticed?

If we Amayapost hard enough can we get this one cancelled too?

>>152027999
checked

I guess now we know why Sue is such a sycophant for Lucy. Poor Amaya, honestly. Far too good for worst girl.
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>>152028092
That Sue's too good for Lucy?
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>>152028146
I think he is saying Amaya being stapled sexually to sue.
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>>152028174
Fair, Sue being gay for Lucy would explain a lot.
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>Fork in the road but also there's a weird sideplot tangent about trans Amaya and Sue cheating on here
This sounds like bullshit
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>>152028272
Yeah, both sound like BS.
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>>152028209
It would explain everything. Sue would be female Mike minus the abuse. Speaking of which, Lucy should hit sue.
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>>152027411
Malding about Mikefags.
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>>152028272
Or Sue is just a would-be spinster lesbian.
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>>152027411
From a glance at the archives, that one samefagging anti Mikefag got one of his posts pruned kek
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>>152028683
Ah, is he a recurring troll?
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>>152028701
He pops in occasionally whenever Mike VS Lucy talks comes up to bitch and insult "Mikefags" for bait. Then when he is ignored he replies to his own posts. He got people taking the bait back during Line in the Sand when the topic was more relevant and people were pissed at the nonsensical events transpiring, but with the current Paisy shit he is mostly ignored.
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>>152028759
>eternally butthurt anon talking to himself again
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Uh oh, the thread is dying better start samefagging another epic argument, god forbid we don't have a thread up to advertise BCB 24/7
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>>152027466
"Schizo rants about Mike are funny, but they're far the worst thing on this site", in reply to >>152023640

>>152028683
>>152028759
>Everyone who disagrees with me is one person, still
Oh, give it a rest you dumbass. If you think anon(s) are trolling then don't feed them.
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>>152029288
I for one think there could indeed be multiple desperate anti-Mikefags with the exact same opinion who corral together and cheer each other on like some sort of female bathroom support group.
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>>152028759
We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had discussion. We had FitR spoilers. We had everything we needed and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, not fed the troll and had all the posts you ever wanted. It was perfect. But no, you just had to take the bait. You, and your pride and your ego. You just had to be the man! If you'd curbed your autism, known your place, we'd all be fine right now.
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>>152029423
>curbing autism
>4chan
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>>152027826
>>152028092
As a Suefag I declare jihad upon Taeshi. A thousand sorrows on her head and may Sue escape from the samsara of le demiurge into the loving arms of fancanon.
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>>152028209
I think the real message here is that Lucyspace bends even sexual orientation to feed Lucy's ego. It wasn't enough to award her Mike's almost best friend; expect James to suddenly become bisexual but only for Lucy somehow.
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>>152029423
Okay, now THIS is epic.

All my reddit gold to you, sir.
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>>152028759
>Schizo anon thinks everyone who disagrees with him is me
That's very flattering
Also despite you desperately begging people not to reply, it never works because unsurprisingly most people aren't as mentally ill as you and are capable of having a normal conversation
I had a lot of fun last thread btw :^)
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>>152029761
You write like a redditor.
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>>152029788
>write
lol
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>>152029788
>C-calling me out is lame and le reddit!
Fuck off, Milhouse.
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>>152029758
I appreciate you going with this specific fedora tipping image anon.
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>>152029845
>Schizo anon thinks everyone who disagrees with him is me
Hey, I found this useful sentence a few posts up.
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>>152029933
>calling someone a redditor is reddit incarnate
Oh shit, better change the website's name to r/4chan then.
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>>152029967
>more reddit slop
>>>/reddit/
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>>152030250
Pack up the thread, boys. This NPC is stuck in a script loop.
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Didnt the Mikenag appear during the Reddit uprise? Or is it just a coincidence? Anyway it's been a week I missed, and it seems nothing happened in comic. How original!
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>>152014342
Slow, slow progress on requests

>>152016365
Yep, few of the requests were Santa Amy pics. The two finally kissed, nice

>>152024602
>>152024616
He'll have doggo melons and more later

>>152014468
Don't worget that it was like 3 days in the story, out of which the two interacted for few hours total, compared to both deer-human and lizard-human. Noelle still needs to fix her issues first either way, which ain't gonna happen at least until the post-game because plot is all about deer family's loss affecting everything, just like goat family's loss in a previous game
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>>152031647
Am I glad he's frozen in there, and that we're out here
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>>152031647
>golden scarf
Surely this is not a reference to something that would piss Taeshi off, right?
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>>152013864
Even though you control Kris, who is fully aware and resentful of the situation, it's amazing just how quickly Susie and Kris sincerely warm up to each other and how believable it is. They're both kind of retarded goofballs who pretend really hard to act like they're not, so seeing them be so comfortable around each other is fun and charming. Good character development there on both sides, which is impressive when Kris has literally zero dialogue.

I hope Toby is aware of how little chemistry Susie and Noelle have, because Noelle just comes across as a hormone-raddled weirdo whenever the topic of Susie comes up and it feels less like a cute crush and more like like an unhealthy obsession. It'd be more interesting if the game was actually aware of this than try and sell us on the idea these two could actually be a couple. Even Kris and Noelle have more chemistry.
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>>152031647
Amazing!! Great work anon, I love how you draw her pouting in the second panel
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>>152031647
Cute art anon
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>>152031685
Maybe cause Mike is on the golden route?
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>>152031647
>Yep, few of the requests were Santa Amy pics.
Phew, so I'm not completely crazy. Nice.
I love that Christmas outfit you designed for Amy. Bad time to drop the scarf, Mikey boy.
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>>152032740
I just decided that if Amy is also kind of a reference to, well, another Amy, might as well start adjusting hedgehog's enormous wardrobe to doggie in shorts. Which is also ironic because one of the winter outfits includes blue scarf
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>>152031647
Thanks for drawing my request anon, looks great
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>>152032758
Hell yeah. I love me some wardrobe variation.
Oh man, you just brought me back to all those Flash dress up games that were popular on Deviantart a 1,000 years ago. I can't believe Flash is dead now.
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>>152031647
Amazing. Fucking amazing. This was a good thread for Amy content.
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>>152029518
I pity Suefags, their girl has been reduced to the lowest form of a Lucystan. The only hope left for Sue, is if she actually calls out Lucy on her bullshit. But as FitR shows, she's doomed to be a yurifag who enjoys the abuse. BCB ain't beatin the "love your abuser" allegations.
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>>152031647
Haley, no!
Awesome pic, anon. Mike's similar pose makes for a great comedic bit.
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>>152024039
>>152024114
Augustus is basically a "safe" version of Alejandro when you think about it, made this way so Taeshi could write in that fantasy in an acceptable way, but making him the safe alternative also made him boring and Lucy craves violence.
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>>152033343
To be way, way more fair than BCB will ever deserve, FitR Lucy is, at the very least, a pathetic sadsack version of the character rather than the canonical ubercunt queen turbobitch we are largely stuck with. There is at least something in her for Sue to sympathize with. Now, why she finds Lucy the Walking Mess attractive, I don't know about that one. It's quite stupid and really just serves to validate canon Lucy's paranoia that people only ever want her for her looks. Though perhaps it is a blessing, of sorts, to know Lucy is correct in believing her body is the only attractive thing about her.
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>>152033514
>hmm...him attempting to rape Lucy would be really hot!
>but that implies she's weak and vulnerable and NO I AM NOT--er i mean no Lucy isn't
>aha!
>i will simply have Lucy the one who tries to rape HIM instead!
>and it will be very understandable and worthy of synpathy because Mike Bad and because i said so
>fuck i am such a brilliant writer
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>>152033343
It will never beat those allegations, because the moral of BCB is that you should stay with your abuser and never dare think of leaving them.
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>>152031647
>hairdryer
They're gonna be here a while
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>>152033890
Better call her dad, he's probably got a few ice picks lying around somewhere.
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>>152033890
>>152033432
Haley is gonna help with speeding up the process, don't worry

>>152033527
To be even more fair, clearly all adults there are sadsack versions of themselves. Comes with the fact that original Fork - just like Grave Concern and few other stories - came out when Lucy was still away with no hints of returning so "she never did", and Sandy cheating was not a thing so it "never happened in those timelines", and thus many conflicts between cats went unresolved while planned character growths never happened. Still means the implication that canon Sue is just like the rest, hates Mike and likes Lucy because she loves Lucy, most likely while not being aware of her gay thoughts
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>>152031647
>>He'll have doggo melons and more later
Nice
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>>152035136
Bet Amy will look quite fetching.
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>>152009474
Today's page
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>>152035832
Based Tiff drawing clear boundaries and enforcing them. Mike could learn a thing or two from her.
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>>152035887
Don’t be silly anon, Mike’s friends would beat him for enforcing boundaries.
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>>152035832
Last panel eyeroll(?) looks atrocious
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>>152035887
Oh god, reading this have me a sudden premonition that watching Jordan be a little cuck bitch is going to somehow translate into “leading someone on is super wrong” and thus Paisy turn on Mike, this time with feeling.
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>>152035902
Don't be silly anon, Mike doesn't have any friends. Lucy would teleport in to beat him, but she's his enemy.

>>152035927
Taeshi's weird bean-heads look especially bad in profile.
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>>152035832
that dog girl looks really fuckeable
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>>152035832
Where's my ntr taeshi?
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>>152035952
This. Unironically. Cuz God forbid a teenager make mistakes.
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>>152035952
What gets me is the double-standard where Tiff and Mike are badwrong for maintaining "We're not dating" with Jordan and Lucy, but Jordan and Lucy are a-okay for failing to accept "no" for an answer, even when repeated clearly and explicitly multiple times.

Does lack of respect for consent run in the white cat bloodline or something?
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>>152035832
preview, dogs love the stardust burger I guess
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>>152036035
TiffxMike when?
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>>152035832
The H A N D strikes again.

Where's that cute orange catgirl Jordan fucked at the dance? Why doesn't he simp after her?
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>>152036053
David's gonna show up isnt he
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>>152036133
oh fuck, I forgot james works at burgertron, that faggot probably invited david
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>>152035832
It's getting funnier to me that they think putting clothes at all on is dressing up and then go right back to being naked the next day.
You really have to go all or nothing when it comes to clothes.
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>>152035832
The second hand cringe is strong
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>>152035832
I already like her. She's that best of the 4 (not a challenge)
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>>152036053
>Jordan took Tiff here solely because he thinks it's what dogs like because he sees a lot of them there.
>The whole date is just him trying to appease whatever stereotype ideas he has of what dogs like.
Now THAT would be fun.
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>>152033343
Sue... poor accursed Sue. She struggled long and valiantly against the chains of fate. But le demiurge is cruel and capricious, and set torments on Sue, labeling her virtuous strive as "hubris". Sue wished for respect, and to make things better, but all she gets are broken bones and dreams.

I must imagine that somewhere, somewhen, Sue is happy. For this is truly the darkest timeline.
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>>152035832
>>152036053
>Taeshi clearly enjoys designing and drawing fashion and clothes
>cleverly uses them to communicate additional information about characters and scenes that would otherwise be difficult to infer
>characters are naked 90% of the time

Why?
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>>152036251
Lazy artist
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>>152035887
>spoiler.
He has tried. Won't work
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>>152035887
She's not doing any better than Mike did on his date with Daisy imo. Like she's still going in there with him.
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>>152035832
Ha! Jordan wants to fuck his sister but dog
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>>152035952
>leading someone on is bad
>hanging out with someone who has feelings for you is leading them on
>NOT hanging out with them is like being an abusive spouse
Damned if you do, and so on and so forth
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>>152036166
I hope James ruins Paulo's date.
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>>152036425
He likely will but he should not have a beef with Paulo.
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>>152036227
Well isn't Taeshi lucky she made a McDonald's parody and not a KFC?
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>>152036054
What do you mean 'when'?
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>>152036485
Who is to say it will be malicious? Could be David shows up, butts into the Paisy date in some fashion which will bring James in
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>>152036425
>James jumps to ruin Paulo's date followed by David and some other schmuck
>Thinks Jordan is trying to get with him, ignores Daisy completely
>David eats their food instantly to force them to pay attention
>Tiff has a speed eating kink so she leaves for David
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>>152036264
It worked fine back when he did it - he'd spelled things out to his friends, and thus gotten on better terms with them all. But for some reason he forgot how again around the time of that psychic premonition dream he had, just before Lucy came back. And since then he's just been a pill about it.

>>152036321
She's doing a bit better, in that she's explicitly shooting down the possibility rather than allowing Jordan his fantasy until he presses the issue. But apparently Jordan doesn't understand consent any better than Lucy does.
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>>152036514
That's cute anon
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>>152035832
>Having Tiff use Jordon for a free lunch by making him think it's a date could have been "the drama"
>Instead, Tiff is very upfront about how it IS NOT a date

So, what's "the thing" that is going to make this the big, awkward date that's been teased?

Will it be Jordon simping too much? Him going on about how sad and miserable Lucy is? Tiff questioning why Paulo and Daisy are together? Mike having the audacity to exists and getting lunch too?
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Alright this is definitely the chapter where Tiff gets more depth to her character, for sure this time guys
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>>152036853
Not mine bud. Artist name is Long Department, or something like that



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