Are we just not making threads anymore?
The fuck is he looking spooked for?
>>155032418He just saw a ghost walk past him.
>>155032387but I was told augustus was gonna dehumanize le heccin mike>Are we just not making threads anymore?would be for the best
>>155032418Looks more like Gus is also confused as to why Mike looks utterly dead inside. Maybe all white cats are retarded, even the partial ones. But seriously, I think he's just unsure what happened outside since Mike is neither happy as a clam nor a guilty wreck. It doesn't fit the alleged pattern.
>>155032387and Lucyfags somehow insist she's not a manipulative cunt
>>155032448T'was indeed foolish to expect consistent characterization. When will we learn?
>>155032387do not ̶r̶e̶a̶d̶ look at this comic
>>155032387Literally smug that she's avoiding any kind of consequences. Sure is helping takinh her problems seriously
>You're at the school cafe >Little white gremlin smacks your waifus ass and give you this lookHow do you respond without sounding mad?
>>155032418The logical interpretation is that the combination of Lucy's current play, Mike looking just done with everything, and what they did in LITS had him start to realize "shit maybe Lucy WAS the problem."But this is BCB so don't be surprised if its just genuine confusion as he tries to hash out a way to blame Mike for this.
>>155032507Knock them both up
>>155032387Yeah I'm surprised it took this long but maybe the climax derailment was too annoying. The worst part is this won't signal any change Augustus' mind about anything he's done. It's just a convenient little speedbump so Taeshi doesn't have to follow up with basic consequences.>>155032469It's almost impressive how this whole chapter has been almost nonstop negative PR for bowcat. Maybe that's why Taeshi's been running interference on tumblr; it was just too much objective suckage for her little ego to take.
>>155032418You'd look spooked too if a zombie just walked past you.
>>155032387>pic WTF, Lucy, literally having an "I stole your girl" moment on Augustus for someone who's supposed to not receive karma. Augustus is reaping what he sowed, kek.
>>155032418>wait a minute... Am I the baddie?
>>155032387Lucy is a good person
>>155032418The fleeting realization that Lucy was the guilty party and Mike was right. This will go away either next page or next chapter when he also realize "Oh wait, she just my meal ticket. What do I care? So long as she remains relevantly stable so I can continue to mooch and ride off to college then all's good."
>>155032587Not even that because Lucy already forbid him from approaching Daisy if he is to live under her roof, so it's more like teasing him with the power she has over him
>>155032523>But this is BCB so don't be surprised if its just genuine confusion as he tries to hash out a way to blame Mike for this.Well naturally. Otherwise, Gus would have to accept personal fault and acknowledge he made a bad call. Denial is so much easier, especially in the face of his inexplicable patience with Lucy.
>>155032595Yup, definitely
>>155032387Lucy cucking Augustus by getting handsy with Daisy
>>155032507>>155032541Lucy would still claim she never wanted it, though
>>155032387preview I guess
>Lucy is only happy when she's inflicting misery upon othersWho would have thought?
Lucy is a sociopath.
>>155032674Wondering if this is a "that was too close" expression or if she is seeing Mike walk by and is having a mental glitch like "why didn't my crying work this time?"
>>155032684>Screaming sorry to Mike>Once behind closed doors turns smugIs this a sociopathic action, or just bpd?
>>155032674>Haha isn't Lucy being an asshole fun? Now hold on while I make this a retroactively morally right thing
>>155032696It's her realizing that she's making contact with D*isy, BLEH!
>>155032674Lucy did nothing wrong.Mike deserves this. Daisy deserves this.
>>155032651Not only Augustus, but she's also cucking Paulo. Teddy bear number one is out of commission, so teddy bears number two and three are going to have to endure the pain of being cuckolded so Lucy can feel a little better, even if she doesn't want to.
>>155032674And of course she's still not satisfied.>>155032696I'm honestly surprised there are any thoughts running through Lucy's head at all. It sure looked like she was happy to abandon them asap. But then her only alternative is listening to Daisy's prattling and of course Lucy would tune that out.
>>155032696She just realized she's close to a friendly person giving her positive reinforcement and attention and do she feels like throwing up
>>155032737Maybe Lucy fears water because she's part witch and would melt.
>>155032705Lucy has shown to be capable of feeling bad in the past even if for selfish reasons so probably BPD and just general malicious behavior. Though she has been displaying general sociopath tendencies
>>155032387>>155032418Nah for real, fuck Augustus for being fake as fuck. He doesn't give two shits about Mike. Hell he'd celebrate and pop the champagne if gray cat killed himself, seeing as he's the lynchpin in precipus Lucy's suffering. Afterall, Mike is responsible for every single thing
>>155032705She didn't apologize to Mike, she said sorry because she didn't want to see the consequences of her actions at all, so mentally she shoved him into a box and taped a picture of him on his prime again as to not feel badBut to answer your question: yes
>>155032705The sorry wasn't genuine. She was just saying words at that point because things weren't going how she hoped.
I wonder how Taeshi is going to handle people talking badly about her self insert, this isn't like the Paulo chain yank where people can say he promised so it's on him (he didn't)
>>155032764Bow cat is way too comfortable with her current safety net. That's why she's being so stupid and careless, because consequences have become a largely foreign concept. As before, she'd rather just ignore any potential wrinkles and assume they will smooth out on their own. And she's probably right, given how remarkably tolerant most everyone around her has proven to be. Does anyone here really believe Augustus will start to see past whatever rose tinted goggles Taeshi's gorilla glued to his face? Or that Paulo will wake the hell up and realize he's being manipulated? Or that he'd even care?
>>155032418"What the hell is wrong with him?"
>>155032418A spooky ghost just walked by him
>>155032387
>>155032782>>155032798I think that Lucy actually did feel sorrow and regret. But those are both uncomfortable so she did indeed shove them in a box. Then she weighed the flaps closed with a rock made of compacted denial and self-congratulation, and scribbled "stupid sexy abuser" on the cardboard with a sharpie.
A quest has been thrust upon Devin. I bet he's absolutely going to open the box himself, or in some way ruin it
>>155032938Apparently she didn't feel too bad if she could flip at the ring of a bell like none of it ever happened. It's not the first time she's shown to be spouting bullshit before.
>>155032855>Does anyone here really believe Augustus will start to see past whatever rose tinted goggles Taeshi's gorilla glued to his face? Or that Paulo will wake the hell up and realize he's being manipulated? Or that he'd even care?Taeshi has a bad story of pulling resolutions out of her ass and making convenient things happen, so Augustus suddenly remembering Lucy is not to be trusted or Paulo feeling bad for riding the very convenient status quo train instead of derailing it isn't that unexpected, remember both have author favoritism so she would defend whatever position they took
>>155032952I can't believe Mary was so assblasted she's sending her own best friend a revenge pipebomb.
>>155032674jesus daisy is gigantic
>>155032960Like I said, my interpretation is Lucy just reminded herself that Mike is canonically an awful manipulative abuser who she managed to resist through sheer willpower and other flavors of smoke blown up her own ass. Perhaps this is the result of Taeshi trying her hand at pottery again.
>>155033031daisy chub chub
>>155032776I mean, if not for Mike's actions then he wouldn't have his meal ticket
>>155032988Everyone hates Mary for a reason
>>155032387>>155032469>>155032550It honestly sickens me how Lucy can ONLY act friendly towards Daisy and many others when it suits her interest/she wants something out of it.What pisses me off the most is that she NEVER gets reprimanded by it, and NEVER will.I mean holy shit Taeshi, would it kill you or your ego if anyone ever did reprimand Lucy for her bullshit? What the fuck man.
>>155032776Toward the end of Burnt Bridges, I suggested that Augustus' strangely understanding and mild take on Mike's "mistake" could open the door to an odd friendship. It would make some sense, given Mike had plenty of past experience with Lucy and could offer Gus insights on any inevitable roadbumps. Of course that's not what happened. Goth boy turned into a eunuch with endless wells of patience toward bow cat and Mike became his number one enemy. I think that plotline could still work if Augustus regrew his balls and Mike was too tired to hold a grudge...but I also wouldn't hold out hope for anything more interesting than Augustus beating Mike with a pinata stick and wondering why nothing changes.
>>155032952>I think I know the one worthy of delivering my gift>It's uh...It's YOU Devin
>>155032913kek
>>155033122>I mean holy shit Taeshi, would it kill you or your ego if anyone ever did reprimand Lucy for her bullshit?Arguably, it almost did. The December era coincided with both Lucy and Taeshi's eroding mental state and climaxed with a trip to the funny farm for both. It might well be that Taeshi self-inserted way too hard and got caught in the emotional backwash. Which may be why she retired Lucy for so long and then got so much worse after bringing Lucy back/indulging her worst tendencies. I'm not married to this model, but it suggests that Lucy slipping into denial might be why Taeshi's gone all cracked on us.
>>155033122You're only allowed to call on Lucy's bullshit for 5 minutes before she screams and you're forced to admit her shit is fragrant and you're wrong for calling her out, or you get a lobotomy like Paulo. Like literally the last time someone tried she went straight for kicking the shit out of him
>>155032387WHY ARE YOU SURPRISED YOU FUCKYOU WATCHED HER DO THIS WITH A SMILE ON YOUR FACE
>>155033227Both sides of the same cat, same reaction
>>155033227I think he's just having a hard time fitting zombie Mike to his expectations. Lucy went outside because ???, came back, was afraid to tell him what happened, and Mike doesn't look like he could care less either way. So what the fuck happened out there?
>>155032550Honestly I've kind of enjoyed the last couple chapters because of that. It's still poorly paced and executed melodrama schlock, but it's satisfying to see Lucy suffer, rather than just getting a one reaction-shot page of Lucy looking troubled and being told that counts as her suffering.Plus it's nice to get some clean, unambiguous examples of Lucy being an asshole to everyone. No "she's being honest" or "it's just jokes" framing to muddy the waters, she's just being a spiteful little shit and trying to make it everyone else's problem.
>>155033416>Plus it's nice to get some clean, unambiguous examples of Lucy being an asshole to everyoneReminder Lucy asking Paulo to check on Mike's wellbeing to then yank his leash was considered "a good thing", so I would put much hope in that as hard as it would be to spin it this time
>>155032952>Are you a bad enough dude to deliver your sister this box?And yeah, Devin is absolutely going to fuck this up somehow.
>>155033416>but it's satisfying to see Lucy sufferAs you said, I do like that it's not random little one-off transparent pity pleads. But the extended "suffering" Lucy now endures is not unlike that of a spoiled toddler. It's mostly self-indulgent and steeped in her own ridiculous expectations. I liked when Lucy had that ten second long epiphany about being the bad guy, but she dodged that real quick. Now if this is just the start of Lucy's conscience eating away at her as she sinks ever deeper into denial? That I could be happy with.>Plus it's nice to get some clean, unambiguous examples of Lucy being an asshole to everyoneAgreed. It's just too bad Taeshi had to go and undermine that by claiming Lucy is too fucking stupid to tell when she's being a passive aggressive asshole while her intentions were pure.
>>155033461He'll change the timeline by opening the box and ending up the murder victim instead of his sister.
>>155033448>Reminder Lucy asking Paulo to check on Mike's wellbeing to then yank his leash was considered "a good thing"Taeshi's spun so many insane yarns that I forget what exactly she said about that. Hell, I didn't even remember she defended it.
inb4 damage control of>No you don't understand. Lucy was just trying to check to see if Mike was okay! Her intentions were pure! She's just can't express them well!
Wow Daisy doesn't mind having a surly parasite attached to her arm this is so cute!!!
>>155033749This take probably annoyed Taeshi. Can't this patron see that Daisy is blinded (per mandate) to Lucy's suffering?!
>>155033749Daisy likes Lucy and that means she's a horrible abuser hurting Lucy
>>155033808By acting nice and supportive toward Lucy, Daisy has been dishonest and so earned herself more thinly veiled insults from bow cat.
>>155033653IIRC it was something like "she was just reminding him, it was Paulo who took the desicion"
>>155033878An arrangement Lucy rejected but it just cycles back around to Paulo being a shit friend
>>155033878Ohhhh, of course! There was no intent behind that reminder. Lucy just randomly brought the topic up out of nowhere, complete with Gendo pose.
>>155033122What the hell is going on in that pic?
>>155033749You cannot be this dense on purpose my god >Isn't it cute how they are being used by Lucy? :3
>>155033635>YOU OPENED THE BOX. WE CAME.
>>155033965Made when we were speculating if the fourth shadow on Lucy's nightmare could be someone besides Alejandro, and one idea was a sort of "Shadow Lucy" as in having to face herself, and the others are how Lucy sees her friends, with Sue being a servant due to guilt (her play playing part in the suicide attempt), Daisy a jealous cat that only served to make her look good in comparison, and Paulo a simp asking for more
>>155033749Lucyfags really do live in a lower reality
>>155034065I forget, in Persona you actually have to genuinely face your shadow in the end even if protag beats up the boss right? I feel Lucy would never unlock her Persona in that setting
>>15503374>This video is cute! The cat is giving the family of fleas a ride and sharing some of her blood with them!
The butt touching saga continues!
>>155034408Even if it's only at some angles, I appreciate that Mike suffers less from terminal beanface syndrome these days.
>>155034408The expressions were RIGHT THERE anon
Can we go back to rapedog and his calico buddy, they seem fun.>>155033749>"Aww look how sweet Daisy is to Lucy!">"I need to be careful, this bitch might use pills next."
>>155034523I concede. Well played, anon.
>>155032418>Mike Was Right expression
>>155035226your art style is so simple yet so perfect
>>155035226Well done!
>>155032387Bro just watched his girl come from the bedroom of the roommate they're both supposed to hate.
>>155035392Not only that, but right after that she ran into the arms of his crush. These last few pages are being absolutely humiliating for Augustus.
>>155032387I can't help but see the bubbles around Mike as stink flies
>>155032387I just noticed, last page Lucy was going "let me help" with the stack of trays that Daisy was carrying, but she's not shown helping. If Daisy's still carrying the trays then Lucy's just making things more difficult by hanging off Daisy's arm.
>>155035621I appreciate the accidental thematic reinforcement.
>>155035621and it seems she is still doing so for next time
Damn, everyone hates Lucy & Co. pulling this shit.I know we dunk on patrons in here, but I give them some benefit of the doubt. First because these probably aren't the same ones calling for Mike's head, and second because as much as I talk shit about how much this comic sucks and is paced glacially I do still appreciate that it's published as a webcomic, for free, and relatively consistently. As opposed to being abandoned, or only published on some fuckin' social media app that you have to make an account/pay for. I hate when artists only post shit on twitter/bluesky/tumblr/patreon/whatever.
>>155032387Feeling sad about his actions better not be this fag's comeuppance...
>>155036179Im tired boss. Patreons sperging at the dragonbob still don't understand that in EF the kiss initiator wasnt Mike, but Lucy..
>>155036221There's a few diehards, but the overwhelming consensus seems to be "goddamn, Mike didn't even DO anything and he's gonna get fucked on again"
>>155033749Lucy looks like she's back to losing her shit again. How does Daisy not notice this? why is daisy THAT much bigger than her when normally they're about the same height?
>>155036641>How does Daisy not notice this?Same narrative convenience that made everyone ignore her starting hostility and her absence from the table >Why is daisy THAT much bigger than her when normally they're about the same height?Daisy has always been HUUUUGE and Lucy a shortstack, what?
>>155036641>Taeshi>consistent heights>perspective
>>155037880>"Good victims and bad victims"Isn't this the bullshit axiom she's been operating on to make Lucy seem like she's persecuted? What in god's name does she think she's preaching? That good victims apologize when they're in the wrong?
>>155037880Mike should just kill himself as a powermove.
>>155037880Wasn't she the one complaining about the apology police when it was Paulo's turn to apologize for being an asshole?
>>155037880>How dare Mike play the good victim and, in doing so, make others look like bad victimsPerhaps, if Lucy weren't a bipolar freak whose actions most people can't rationalize, it would be easier for most people to empathize with her.
>>155037964How dare people not like Lucy when she is a jerk. That's just victim-blaming.
>>155037958Taeshi is just a cunt who thinks other cunts are funnyIt's why she's miserable and alone and will never be a mother
>>155038056Hey now that's not very nice.
>>155036455It would be funny if Taeshi just kept heaping shit onto Mike to the point that even her big fans are starting to notice how unfair it is.>>155037880>I really hope Mike gives a genuine apology for everything.He has tried this and Lucy rejected it. Lucy will not give him the proper time of day unless she has a shot at him romantically. Paulo getting his face slammed is the same as Abbey chooking him out in the bathroom. It doesnt fit in the bubble of that moment but when folks are mad at you, they will remember a ton of shit you've done wrong to them in the past. He yelled at sue and IIRC he did apologize for that. Sue just likes to hold grudges.Taeshi even had Mike apologize to the gang at the start of the James arc. >Mike treated as a saint. Good victims, Bad Victims.Mike gets treated as such because, even when he fucks up and recognizes it, he gets overly punished copmpared to other characters. Mike has not had a single solid win since the suicide attempt and especially not since Lucy has been back. Him getting so much sympathy now is because LitS was just that lopsided of a move. His life has just been falling the fuck apart for no other reasn than him blowing up at Lucy once out of the many years they were friends.Lucy gets shit because she has shown that she hasn't learned a goddamn thing and people notice how much the comic bends backwards to give her justifications and outs. The Defense that keeps being ran for her, and by extension, david, james, and augustus doesn't help either. Lucy's "Suffering" now but its been a few weeks compared to the more than 10 years she wrote mike getting shat on.
>>155037880>When you feel bad for Lucy GOOD, when you feel bad for Mike BADGEEZ and here I thought this arc might be getting somewhere
>>155036832>Daisy has always been HUUUUGE and Lucy a shortstack
>>155037958Yep, she said it was classist and ableist people were expecting a more full-throated apology from Paulo to Abbey only to give one to Sue that she said was completely insincere so who knows what she means by good victim and bad victim.
>>155037880I'm looking into this "good victim/bad victim" thing and I've found like three different definitions on the first page of Google alone (a bad victim is someone of an undesirable social category, a bad victim is someone who does "irrational" things that make their situation worse like returning to their abuser, a bad victim is someone who gets angry about being victimized and advocates for themselves in a way that annoys people) so I'm willing to write it off as a fake thing for the "If you don't love me at my worst you don't deserve me at my best" crowd. It strikes me that none of these really describe Lucy, though... unless... Second Confrontation is canon...
>>155037958>Wasn't she the one complaining about the apology police when it was Paulo's turn to apologize for being an asshole?In the case of Mike and Lucy, in her mind she wants people to be even handed. To dislike them but also still hold some amount of sympathy for them. If you like one too much and hate the other too much then she gets upset. But she's botched this on paper so everyone likes one and shits on the other without any shades of grey. She can toss around the word "Empathy" all she wants but she doesn't even have it for some of her own characters.
>>155038094>he gets overly punished copmpared to other charactersLine in the Sand is literally the one, singular time, where Mike suffered any consequence for his actions.
>>155038066Neither is her
>>155037880I was going to try and parse this so-called Good Victim/Bad Victim mentality before realizing it would be such a tiresome fucking task. Who knows what this crazy woman believes, the way she's been writing lately?
>>155038100Not only did she imply it was classist/ableist for people to expect Paulo to apologize, she decided that anyone who doesn't like Paulo was just projecting and thus could be written off.>>155038094>Sue just likes to hold grudges.Based?
>>155037929So it's a cope about how she's completely failed to establish moral parity between Mike and Lucy? An attempt to validate her annoyance at so many people sympathizing more with scarf cat?
>>155032952Look at how happy Kieran is to know that he has one less competitor since Mary will not be entering the Devinbowl.
>>155037880
>>155038475Yes
The possibility that Taeshi is overcompensating because she got absolutely blindsided by the amount of support for Mike over Lucy is hilarious. I get she marinated in Lucystan Central for like a decade, but come on. How could anyone write what she did and expect no one to criticize Lucy?
>>155038624Anon, she's legally insane.
>>155038624Because the BCB in her head and the BCB on her pages are two different things. She's not mentally well and, whether she realizes it or not, it leaks into her writing
>>155038964Some of the best artists are not of sound mind, but she refuses to go back to watercolor. Imagine cel-shaded BCB, like a 90s anime,that would be a treat for my eyes.
>>155038982the problem is not all unwell minds are alikeI will say there's a bit of genuine genius in taeshi. I mean, there's a reason we're all still here, she has some solid ideas it's just that her mind is a mess at this point. if suitcase was an actual good tard wrangler just imagine
>>155039037She's good at hooking me in when I'm about to quit,and then finding new ways to disappoint me further.
>>155032418Augustus has thrown everything he has at Mike, and there was even a recent additional bout of psychological assault by Lucy, and yet Mike still stands. Battered and drained, but standing nonetheless. And so Augustus is forced to face the fact that while many might fall in the face of chaos, not this one. Not today.
>>155039093a trifling victory... but a victory nonetheless!
>>155038122His mom made the right choice
>>155037880The thing making all this shit so much worse is that if Mike doesn't have any reason to be the bad guy, she'll have him pull the most baffling shit imaginable to make him one and even then the punishment will be ridiculous.
>>155039169Mike could murder Molly on the next page and people would still give him excuses, so it all cancels out in the end.
>>155039364He should do that, maybe then the comic will have some fucking energy
>>155037951>mike kills himself because of depression from being bullied and abandoned by everyone>lucy falls asleep at mike's funeral>SNORE change the channel augustus!>everyone laughs as mike's casket is lowered>everyone in the comments section talk about how mike killing himself was his last ditch effort to get sympathy by exploiting everyone's emotions>a tasteless move and the world is better now that he's gone>taeshi nods in approval>mike's death finally affects lucy in such a visceral and existential way that she starts warping reality in and out of the comic until our world is sucked into the lucyscape>her head starts bulging and her body balloons as if infested with infinite tumors>everyone watches claps and talks about how poor lucy is still dealing with the loss of mike, that cat bastard>seconds later they all spontaneously combust, cursing mike in their final moments>mike is then resurrected and looks up, seeing lucy's warped and grotesque face covering the entire sky>tentacles come down for mike>he sighs and accepts his fate
>>155039364Anon, why do you hate Mike so much? You know full well that he is a man of compassion, forbearance and character who would never do such a thing.
>>155039600
>>155039600>tentacles come down for mike>he sighs and accepts his fateYou lost me there. What would actually happen is him yelling>Unholy foulness! I will take you with me!before defeating the eldritch monstrosity in a suicide charge, placing it back under a slumber until one day it does truly awaken and hatches from this fragile shell of earth and rock, bringing about our inescapable end. But...that day is not today, thanks to the self-sacrifice and strength of one Greycat.
>>155039364Make excuses for being that based?
>>155032387bitch
>>155032952>>155038501i need more panels of Keiran smiling immediately
