Thread 149393949

Sue wants validation edition

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>>149393949 (OP)
he did everything just to get some pink pussy
based

>>149393949 (OP)
I hope we get sue comeuppance in this chapter. She did nothing wrong, no wonder she's upset. Also, we just need to see david be wrong about something

>>149394151
Sue wrote a play that wasn't as well received as Jessica's. David isn't doing anything wrong by liking Jessica's shitty play.

Sue's "boy goes to see evil witch, turns out to be his sister, they lived happily ever after" play wasn't exactly Broadway quality.

>>149393955
Since fucking when, Vero?

>>149394151
David is not allowed to be wrong because that would require the application of basic consequences. His retarded walking meme status grants him plausible deniability.

>>149394175
What David did wrong is shittalk Sue's play forever ago while gushing about how "creative" Jessica's thinly-veiled public jackoff session was.

Another month of this, god give me strength.

>>149394175
It's kinda funny how many people are seriously discussing the quality of the plays in response to this chapter. I do think it's worth noting that David decided that Jessica's play was one he could truly be proud of immediately after hearing Sue wouldn't be doing the play, well before he saw or knew anything about it. I think he just likes Jessica for some reason?

>>149393955
Looks like that's where the archive thumbnail comes from. When I first saw it I assumed something would actually have to happen to piss Sue off that bad.

>>149394990
David does this shit strictly because Taeshi thinks it's funny to act like an asshole without consequences. You know, stuff she can't get away with IRL.

>>149393949 (OP)
Poor Sue, she desperately needs a win for once.

>>149394151
I agree. Personally, I'm really hoping this doesn't end like the last Sue-centric chapter, with Sue accepting she's a loser in the eyes of her friends while in hospital for ANOTHER broken limb. That whole chapter just felt kind of mean.

>>149394175
It was a school play, of course it wasn't broadway quality. But it had quality sets, effects, and costumes, and Lucy's singing was apparently great.

>>149395080
>It was a school play, of course it wasn't broadway quality. But it had quality sets, effects, and costumes, and Lucy's singing was apparently great.
True! All the parts Sue outsourced to someone else were great. It's just the writing and manipulative casting that was bad.

Next page: Sue and Amaya walking away from David fucking Jessica right in front of Madison

>>149395207
>people who write and produce a play don't dictate the design of the set
How the play looks and sounds is literally her job, regardless of her not actually building the thing herself.

>>149395080
I give Sue more credit for coming up with an original story, even if it was weeb-tastic. And it was designed to help at least one other person, unlike Jessica's.

>>149395207
I know you're joking, but still. And Sue's into cosplay, there's no way she didn't do the costumes herself.

>>149395303
The David NTR Show is genuinely the worst arc yet.

>>149393949 (OP)
>David here
>James and Mike aren't
obivously they're furiously fucking on the track while Lucy seethes and copes

>Sue sad her play wasnt received as well as jessica's
> Amaya sad :( Sue asks around, not many remember or like it
>Someone to the rescue says Sue's play was actually good
>People start having fond memories of the play, it wasnt that bad afterall!
>"If only it hadnt incest undertone!"
>"Actually, now that I think about it, only the male lead had the bedroom eyes..:"
>The play downfall was Mike's fault, it always leads there.
>Veronica snarky comment "Geez Mike, you ruin things even when you are not around HEE HEEE"
>Sue is pissy at Mike, and now she wants to swirl the nerd

>Dogs are meant to be black-coded
>only two prominent dog characters are a bisexual aspie from a single mother (David) and a notorious whore (Rachel)
What did Veronica Vera mean by this

>>149395824
It's not all bad! Dogs also have huge dongs!

>>149393949 (OP)
I'll be waiting for the Dessica ship art.

>>149394085
Don't they all have pink pussies?
>>149395824
It would be equivilent to coexisting with another human species.

>>149396439
Cinemasins: That's dogcist.

When people forget "This sure makes things easier, you'd be doing me a favor"
anyway how much until filler ends?

>>149396461
she is particularly pink

>>149396670
>Augustus staked out buildings every night after finding out she was suicidal
>Lucy would've died if Augustus didn't find her (Because he was spending his nights trying to look out for her)
>NOOOOOOOO AUGUSTUS DIDN'T DO ANYTHING HE JUST MADE A PHONECALL

>>149396803
So why didn't he just stop her when she walked into the building from the ground floor through the entrance he 100% knows about instead of sitting back and watching. Don't get me wrong, letting Lucy face the consequences of her actions was really funny of him.

>>149396803
>Stalking is good
>He did not cuddle her, he only followed what the caller said
>He still did a phone call like any sane person would've done seeing a bleeding teen

The picture is more about how people are making it way bigger than it was. Sure he saved her life but in no way he was Romeo about it

>>149396670
>dont call the rapist
i keep forgetting alejandro is still supposed to be a character thats supposed to be threatening or even remotely relevant

>>149396960
She told him she wouldn't do it that one time, so he was there just watching ya know.

>>149397031
I guess his eyes don't work so good.

>>149397006
Why? Taeshi keeps mentioning him and/or his rape attempt.

>>149396670
Lucy on the left is definitely referencing Ophelia

>>149393949 (OP)
I dont even remember the fucking play that much
why is sue being so butthurt

>>149397704
I hope it has something to do with her using the play to help Mike and Lucy make up. Like she's upset that she tried to do something nice and is getting treated worse than the person who made the "fuck Tess and my dipshit friends" play. But I'm ready for it to just be Sue's ego.

>>149397704
Because a decade has not passed inside the comic.

>>149397464
Good eye!

>>149395448
Would Madison care that she's getting NTRd? Or just be glad Jessica's distracted from trying to get her to wear the ribbon?

>>149397746
"tried to do something nice and got treated worse than the person acting out of pure spite" may as well be Sue's tagline. It keeps happening.

>>149397746
A couple of threads ago, someone posted some panels from way way back showing David shitting on Sue's play. Now here he is praising Jess' self-indulgent trash to high heaven.

>>149398204
When was the last time Sue tried to do anything truly selfless? I'd say it's probably when she tried to find out what was going on with Mike but frankly Sue did dererve to have that thrown back into her face.

>>149396670
Aww, that's sweet. The left. It's kind of funny how Augustus might have been teaching her a lesson about consequences by waiting for her to jump. And well Alejandro was a wannabe rapist", didn't get the chance.
>>149397444
Wonder if he's dead or some shit and Veronica just hasn't mentioned.

In a fit of rage from the fact that this is the EXACT SAME FUCKING STORYLINE AS LAST CHAPTER, I have taken up arms and sought to slaughter the inhabitants of the Fallen Desert. I unleashed the Wild Hunt of the Fair Folk upon the Shielded Queen's nursery, where her handmaidens fell to the last attempting to prevent the abduction of their children. I sent forth the specter of the Minotaur, who I had tricked into believing the Shapeless Smith's philosophers were the acolytes of Daedalus who first trapped the Minotaur, and so their mortal forms were rent and dashed till even their great craftsgod could not fix. I opened a gate to the Sunless cove, where the siren songs of the merfolk drew the Nameless Emperor's hordes mad with desire, and so they plunged into the water where even the mightiest of heroes can not return from. These, and many more atrocities I committed with glee. It is then that I gazed upon this ancient battlefield, now silent for the first time in eons, and realized that my rage was not soothed, and the abandonment of so many of my morals and beliefs left me more empty than ever.

Then I did some drugs with the Smiling Healer's acolytes and got pretty high, so I think I can guess Wednesday's page. Sue is hobbling along on her crutches like the cripple she is, bitching about how David thinks he's so smart and that he better not be including himself in the grouping of "few brilliant minds" because he's an absolute fucking dumbass. Amaya just looks at her, and then Sue yells that it's not a nasty thing to say.

>>149397746
Imagine if it's rushed so much that they make out?
>>149397942
An apocalypse can occur and B.C.B would still be going on.

>>149396310
It's still funny to me that instead of giving Mike's POV during volume 2-4 Taeshi was off drawing shit like a comic where Lucy finds out David has a big dick so she has sex with him and it kills her

>>149398234
At Halloween, she tried to drag Lucy out to trick-or-treat and Lucy responded with mockery and needling Sue's insecurities. She also tried to introduce herself to Augustus and got sandbagged. Sue, Daisy, Paulo, and David threw a small surprise party for Lucy's birthday, and again Lucy made things awkward.

>Sue did deserve to have that thrown back into her face.
I don't agree; Mike isn't technically wrong that his friend group was never very supportive of him and Sandy, but that doesn't mean he had to yell and be a dick about it.

Besides, from a strategic perspective, Mike yelling at Sue when she tries to ask what's wrong is incredibly dumb and self-defeating. I mean look: Sue's even like "It's Lucy, right? Things have been weird since she came back...", which is a golden opportunity for Mike to air some of his legitimate grievances about Lucy. Sue WAS trying to listen and support him like he claims to want, but then he turns around and yells at her for no reason.

>>149398562
Naturally this chapter will end with David telling Sue that at least her father fucking loved her, and then they will be friends.

David still feels incredibly forced.

>>149398905
I don’t count the Lucy stuff because Sue actively wants to be Lucy's friend and absolve herself of past guilt. Being nice to Lucy is the logical way to get what she wants. I don’t blame Mike because frankly at that point all Sue has been doing for a good long time is passively take his friendship for granted or act like a cunt with very little provocation. He has no reason to trust her. Obviously he shouldn't have screamed at her, but I dock more points from Sue for finally getting some guff from they guy and, instead of treating the massively ooc behavior as a concerning symptom, she decides Mike is scum of the Earth. Even Paulo tried harder.

>>149399348
Well he IS raping the narrative.

>>149398562
I agree with Sue.

>>149398905
>not confiding in Sue
>strategic mistake
She'd throw anything he'd say back in his face, he shouldn't have screeched but she's a self-centered phony.

>>149398545
Unless he's been hitting the gym or picked up a gun, his return to the comic should by all means be anticlimactic as hell.

>>149399508
I do have to assume that Sue would ultimately side with Lucy over Mike even if he had confided in her. She certainly doesn't seem too choked up about him leaving the table in the preview pages.

>>149398562
This chapter better not be about glazing David's stupid meme abilities and pretending that makes him a real character. Taeshi can assign the spastic dumbass all the "hidden depths" she wants and it still won't work because he's just a bundle of mismatched traits. A walking example of "lol just because" and author fiat.

>>149399510
Agreed. I'm just waiting for the inevitable 2009 Roseville High Shooting Chapter.
>>149399629
It's vague but in my fanfiction concepts I try to make David a more serious character where he has to sacrifice the jolly side of him to help his friends in times of need. Jebberjabber and Rob among others did do similar themes already with David in their's.

>>149399532
>I do have to assume that Sue would ultimately side with Lucy over Mike even if he had confided in her.


She would have. She's the biggest Lucy simp at the table after Paulo. It's not unreasonable to think that anything he would have told her in confidence would eventually be used against him when it came down to it.

>>149394151
>>149394917
>>149395448
Please let this David ass-kissing end, this mofo NEVER faced consequences for any of the dumb shit he does. Worst character of the comic, as I say whenever he appears, and that's saying a lot considering this comic.

>>149399399
Sue DID treat the massively ooc behavior as a concerning symptom. That's the whole reason she was talking to him - and she kept trying even though he was being abrasive, until he started yelling at her. And it's not like she's held it against Mike; the comic doesn't have them interact much anyways, but other than the one when Mike and Lucy were on their way home from taekwondo, the handful of interactions Mike and Sue have had seem friendly enough.

>>149399805
Anon, again, she treated her childhood friend like *scum* after he dared to yell at her for possibly the first time ever. She tried exactly one time, gave up, and got hostile. Even PAULO tried harder to get through to Mike (albeit in the worst ways possible) before giving up. As for forgiving Mike, I am monumentally skeptical. We already know Sue ends up quite content to trade away Mike for Lucy, so I have zero faith in her on that front.

>>149393949 (OP)
ok cool can we go back to mike now please?

>>149393949 (OP)
>next page leak

>>149400329
Not kissing Mike's ass after being screamed at isn't treating Mike like scum, what's wrong with you?

>>149400745
Go back and reread It's All in the Mind, starting around page 10.

>>149399532
She'd throw it back in his face for literally no reason. No wonder Mike's desperate to hang out with the twink. James is rude but he's an adorable brainless slut: everyone else means it.

>>149400329
>Anon, again, she treated her childhood friend like *scum* after he dared to yell at her for possibly the first time ever.
That's not true, he yelled at everyone at Rachel's party. And Sue didn't treat him like scum, she was rude to him ONCE when he was acting weird and eavesdropping, and they spent most of that encounter standing next to each other as they awkwardly watched Daisy and Lucy snip at each other.
>She tried exactly one time, gave up, and got hostile.
That's not true either. She tried at least one more time, and got a less hostile (but still unproductive) response.

>>149401702
>he yelled at everyone at Rachel's party
Not directed toward Sue herself, or her ego, and he was drunk.
>she was rude to him ONCE
That wasn't just "rude," anon, she had no good reason to rip into him that badly. Mild annoyance and suspicion would have been justifiable. We weren't shown very many direct interactions between Sue and Mike after that, but she was happy to condemn Mike along with Abbey (a long-time deplorable in her eyes) as "terrible" because they stated that Arguably Best Girl didn't want to be seen hanging with the nerds.
>She tried at least one more time
That doesn't look like Sue is trying to help Mike in any way. It's just a question, and not stated with any degree of sympathy or care.

>>149401702
>She was rude to him ONCE
You're forgetting her bringing up Lucy when Mike tried to get her to stop pressuring Daisy into talking shit about Paulo. That was an incredibly uncalled low blow.

>>149401863
No no, that was a retcon chapter. I know it's hard to keep track because the characterizations are way too modern and Paulo's salty soggy little bitch routines and trysts with the reset button make him nigh useless as a point of reference. But it does show that (modern) Sue needs very little excuse to treat Mike poorly, especially if he sits there and takes it.

>>149393955
Broke a leg in a funny way.

>>149400745
Sue absolutely held a grudge against Mike for that until the track team intro.

>>149400732
God, I wish.

>>149400745
Exactly. Sue IS sometimes overly hostile, but this isn't one of those cases.

>>149401796
>That wasn't just "rude," anon, she had no good reason to rip into him that badly.
Are you mixing up the events of All in the Mind with that flashback chapter where everybody rightfully hates Paulo? Because in All in the Mind, all she did was call Mike a jerk and ask Lucy if she wanted him to fuck off. It's not like she called him a bad friend, or got up in his face like he did to her.

>That doesn't look like Sue is trying to help Mike in any way. It's just a question, and not stated with any degree of sympathy or care.
"Why are you sad?" is an inherently sympathetic and caring question, anon. The fact Sue asks it at all is demonstration that she still thinks of Mike as her friend and wants to help him. ESPECIALLY when the last time she asked she got yelled at for her trouble.

>>149402112
No I am not mixing them up. At the time of publication, I was floored with how much Sue seemed to despise him. Maybe Sue was harsher because she was trying to get closer to Lucy, but it really soured me on her as a character.

>"Why are you sad?" is an inherently sympathetic and caring question, anon.
No, it's an inherently curious question. The change from angry sperg to calm sadsack is going to inspire something like that. It COULD come from a place of sympathy, but that's not automatic and there is no hint that Sue gave that sort of a fuck.

>>149401920
The retcon chapter DOES feature Sue being hostile towards Mike out of nowhere. Most other examples were in the immediate aftermath of Lucy leaving, when Mike was acting all secretive about what had happened during December. The retcon is set too late to fit into that period, but I put that down to it being a sloppy and unnecessary retcon that mostly serves to underline what a hypocritical soggy bitch Paulo is.

The impression I get from the comic sans-retcon is that after Rachel's party, Sue eased up out of pity. Sue was still mad at Mike for keeping secrets and chasing Lucy away, but her reaction when he said his piece doesn't look angry, more shocked and a bit guilty. Between that and Mike's drunkenly going "NONE a'you act like friends!" I think Sue and the rest of Mike's friends started trying to be nicer to him - it's a few chapters later when he gets into the MMO that they all play.

On another note, this page lends further evidence to David being a psychopath. Look at that grin.

>>149402206
>At the time of publication, I was floored with how much Sue seemed to despise him.
Really? Huh. It's not even the most hostility in that chapter; Lucy and Daisy get WAY meaner towards each other than Sue does to Mike.

>>149402287
I think it just boils down to Sue, like everyone else in the cast, worsening as a character as the comic went on. It got really noticeable around the time of Lucy's return. What you posted is a good example of how much better Sue used to be.

To be fair to David, and I'm shocked to write those words, that looks more like an "oh haha oh wow that's bad" kind of awkward grin. Even he was better written back in the day, in that now he's become absolutely insufferable.

>>149402360
Yeah but, counterpoint, they are Daisy and Lucy. One is a perpetually insecure two-face while the other is a bitchcrafting girlbossing turbocunt projection specialist. Sue meanwhile just has an easily bruised ego and a tendency to hold grudges.

>>149402287
>>149395410
>>149395080
Man, the watercolor pages looked miles better. I miss them.

>>149402409
Me too desu

>>149402409
I suspect that discontinuing the watercolors (something Taeshi enjoyed working on) in favor of more "time and energy efficient" digital coloring is one reason why the comic degraded over time. One took more effort and actually challenged Taeshi to improve her craft. The other rapidly hit a ceiling and she's just been sidegrading her "style" ever since.

>>149402482
Yeah... I get it that digital art is way quicker, but I too noticed a sharp decrease in quality ever since she shifted to digital. It was noticeable she worked extra hard on those pages, it felt like much more thought and effort went into them... even story-wise, things were much less annoying back then.

>>149402532
She used better proportions in Volume 4.

>>149402652
Better proportions than this? Not likely

>>149402685
>Cthulu
>Kermit
Wonder what aquatic creature Mike's next Halloween costume is gonna be.

>>149402748
Seahorse because he's going to be raising Sandy's children

>>149402748
Thank goodness the comic is supposed to end before Junior year wraps up. Watching a bunch of 17 year-olds go trick-or-treating was bad enough, imagine them doing that shit when they're legal adults.

>>149402364
If I may be super charitable, one COULD read Mike's relationships with his friends as them trying to be nice to him after Rachel's party, but when the new year starts and Lucy comes back, they gravitate towards trying to make her feel welcome. Meanwhile, Mike gets super rude and starts fighting with them over nothing, so they start giving up on trying to be nicer to him.

But you're right that most everyone got less likable sometime during volume 5. Personally I blame a shortage of "sweet" slice-of-life chapters to balance out the "bitter" of misery, drama, and recriminations.

>>149402394
That's true! Which is which, though? But that's part of why I like Sue; she's a decent person, just flawed, and in ways that are fairly understandable for a teenager. An easily-bruised ego and a tendency to hold grudges is something I can relate to from when I younger. I can't relate to Lucy or Daisy, even if I try; they just seem weird and possibly unstable.

>>149401941
Stupid Sue can't even walk right

>>149403269
I wouldn't say Mike had *no* reason. None of his friends had ever been supportive of him in the past, unless you want to count Paulo going from a complete asshole to a bipolar who occasionally acted like an actual friend, and even that was a very recent change in-story. By the time they finally start to show a little concern, Mike has zero reason to take them seriously. And of course none of them recognize that.

>>149403736
They had been supportive... on occasion. Sue specifically told Paulo off for being a dick to Mike several times, and was the happiest to find him alive after he did that ninja shit to save Lucy.

I think the thing that makes the most sense is if one assumes that Mike got all aggro due to Lucy coming back. Prior to that he still reacted to his friends giving him shit or asking about Sandy with a smile or a counter-joke. Like I said, his friends seem to me to have been trying to be a bit nicer, and Mike seemed to appreciate it. But Lucy being back simultaneously inflamed his emotions and guilt, AND restarted the unfavorable comparison in Mike's mind between how Lucy's treated and how he's treated.

>>149403209
They're 15, not 17. And with how the BCIs often end, Lucy is going to end up trick-or-treating with her baby in senior year

>>149404101
>I think the thing that makes the most sense is if one assumes that Mike got all aggro due to Lucy coming back. Prior to that he still reacted to his friends giving him shit or asking about Sandy with a smile or a counter-joke. Like I said, his friends seem to me to have been trying to be a bit nicer, and Mike seemed to appreciate it. But Lucy being back simultaneously inflamed his emotions and guilt, AND restarted the unfavorable comparison in Mike's mind between how Lucy's treated and how he's treated.


Nta but i could buy that if BCB was written by anyone with halfway decent skills.

But because of how things actually are and how Taeshi is, I can't take it any more as "I need to give mike's friends a reason to hate him for a while". So his sperg era starts up randomly one day instead of the more believable Mike where he's just more blunt about his treatment by them

>>149404478
A lot are 16 and will turn 17, David is 15 now though and Sandy and Rachel are 17. And well, given what a big simp Lucy is yeah, she's probably going to get knocked up soon.

>>149398905
Honestly I liked this interaction between Mike and Sue because even though she's trying to help Mike, she is obviously nettling him by pushing him to open up about Sandy.
Obviously, Mike didn't open up about Sandy because he's in denial, but because of how oblivious is to social cues because she's autistic she goes and says "well it doesn't seem like she's been texting you and Paulo (the guy you just pummeled) says she hasn't even called you back"
It's an interaction that Mike should apologize for, but Sue was stupid enough to where she could feel really guilty about it.

>>149406225
Everyone was an asshole to Mike just for being with Sandy so he was also rightfully angry.

>>149406466
Well, I can't blame them. Everyone but Mike saw it was a stupid thing to do, as he himself found out.

>>149407467
Yeah but they didn't factor how the long distance relationship would affect Sandy as psychologically deeply as it did Mike, and Mike did want to give Sandy a chance out of empathy for her and in recognition of her prominent kindness.

>>149407467
But they didn't oppose him dating her on the grounds that LDR are hard, they opposed him dating her on the grounds that she wasn't Lucy.

>>149407467
They were mad at him dating Sandy just because she wasn't lucy. That was it.

>>149396670
if Augustus was smart he would snap of picture of her bleeding on the ground, send it to Alejandro and text "problem solved"

>>149408075
Right, that too. They wanted him to date his bitchy abuser. Imagine if Lucy hit Sue or Daisy as often. They wouldn't be so judgemental of Mike. I fear for Abbey if he ever marries a female abuser too.

>>149405295
>instead of the more believable Mike where he's just more blunt about his treatment by them
That would have alienated them just fine because sperg Mike already often stabbed at their egos. Taeshi just wanted to make him pathetic and ineffectual. Non-sperg blunt Mike's criticisms could not be so easily brushed off.

Sue should explode David

>>149408493
Sue, explode this dog's balls.

>captcha: HPNNS
"Hhhhhh, my penis!"

>>149408493
She probably gonna put bombs in his stomach like Tessa (Criminal Minds) did.

>>149408544
Ha, yeah Sue should make David's balls explode!
Wait a minute...

>>149408493
See >>149400732

>>149408170
>I fear for Abbey if he ever marries a female abuser too.
He would murder her in a blind rage and end up in prison.
>>149408489
I mean, before Mike was sperg Mike was anyone ever taking any of his issues seriously? They

>>149409211
Are you going to finish your post anon?