Thread 150274915

Augustus still thinks he's some kind of anime antagonist edition

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>>150274915 (OP)
I like how Augustus focuses on the one somewhat legitimate grievance anyone could have with Mike instead of Lucy's Sandymalding since the ensuing WTFs all around would break the spell.

>>150274915 (OP)
We are 12 pages in and still nothing worth discussing

>>150274915 (OP)
Worst in all a' this is Mike's lack of action as per usual. He just has to not give in to Augustus bullshit, and stand his ground.

But we all know how this will end, with Mike all teary-eyed excusing himself and fleeing the scene. James asking what's wrong with him, Augustus saying his side of the story, and everyone going against Mike, again. Very inspiring and bold.

>>150274986
Yeah I'm kind of surprised by how boring this is

This is going to end in Mike wanting to kill himself even more won't it?

>>150274915 (OP)
I fucking hate how spineless Taeshi has made Mike to let this bullshit happen.
Fuck the rest I want evil Mike now, just take a trip downtown and tell Alejandro where Aug is shacked up. That'd at least be entertaining.

>>150274986
Almost a quarter in!

>>150275033
The goal is to drive Mike to suicide so he knows how it feels. Then he will apologise and kiss Lucy's ass and the story can end.

>>150275017
Taeshi gleefully knifing her husbando's voodoo doll is just business as usual by this point. As is Mike refusing to fight back, especially following the last chapter.

They love each other!

>>150275052
>The goal is to drive Mike to suicide so he knows how it feels. Then he will apologise and kiss Lucy's ass and the story can end.
Worst of all is, I think that'll be it indeed.

At the end, he'll 'understand what lucy went through', apologize to her, make peace, break up with Sandy, and each will go their own way.
But this will take at least 10 more years to happen.

>>150275054
What even drives a man to submit himself to torture like this?

>>150274915 (OP)
>We can't make the suicide attempt serious you guys! It would be too much to handle for the cast
>We can use it to torture Mike tho it was very much his fault he literally carried Lucy and threw from the roof, fuck Mike I wish he was dead GODDAMN
>btw I've seen you people are hating on Mike too much, if appreciate it if you tone it down because it's actually NUANCED
>now if you excuse me I have to write an author comment where I joke about Mike being aborted retroactively fixing everyone's lives, as a joke

>>150275182
She's his meal ticket (gambling money)

The arc of this comic is so fucking funny
>kid grows up with a girl who beats the shit out of him constantly
>he likes her but she rejects him
>he ends up with a girlfriend who likes him for being sweet
>the violent girl flips around and starts pining for him and guilts him for caring more about "someone 100 miles away" than her
>everyone in their social circle gets angry with him for rejecting her
>after months of this he harshly tells her to fuck off
>weeks later he apologizes and then she tries to kill herself and he blames himself for it
>the long-distance girlfriend cheats on him and then guilts him into taking her back the same night
>while miserable and rudderless he makes a new friend and starts to feel better
>new friend turns out to be vapid and fickle
>suddenly Daisy's molester turns up to try and guilt trip him out of going outside
>when he doesn't comply the molester begins character assassinating him

>the most egregious party in all of this is Mike because "he didn't set boundaries!!!"
lmao

>>150275139
Why, though?

I'm legitimately asking. What are these two supposed to see in each other? Lucy is a turbo bitch who offers a crumb or two of kindness once in a blue moon. Mike is a spineless worm paralyzed by guilt and it's a miracle he's out-sobbed by Paulo. He's certainly not the same cat Lucy fell in love with. Does Taeshi actually like this current dynamic? Imagine if Sandy vanished off the face of the earth and these two got together as-is. Would this be a /good/ thing in her eyes? Because whenever she talks about Mike and Lucy having a favorited green space on the relationship chart and drawing pics of them being functional, it always comes across like a case of personal headcanon--which should be impossible since she's the damn author!

>>150275324
It's almost like this comic has degraded into a blatant womanchild revenge/power fantasy.

>>150275327
Childhood best friends who share hobbies and have a lot of history. Of all the stupid shit in this comic, them being attracted to each other is pretty natural.

>>150275363
The single hobby they share is video games and "they are childhood friends" only makes sense if you ignore everything about who they've become and what's happened between them.

>>150275327
You're right Mike should go after a much better woman who will care for him and make him happy

>>150275052
So I'm guessing this chapter will be one quarter Mike guilting, one quarter him sperging out and losing everything, one quarter Lucy back at the table while everyone bitches about Mike, and one quarter Mike at home all alone in his suffering except for Sandy being her oblivious self.

>>150274915 (OP)
I need the Mike apology lucy jumps meme comic because this is insane. Everyone who is close to BCB in general is insane. Im not joking when I say that everyone reading this needs therapy (me included, I have a session in an hour)

You would not believe the number of people on the discord whose take is literally
>Lucy's abuse was Mike's fault because he didn't make it clear that he didn't like it

>>150274915 (OP)
The unintentional comedy element is how Taeshi keeps wanking off to her own amateur level writing.

>>150275395
That's not Stacy

>>150275449
It's okay to blame the victim so long as he's got a penis and identifies as male. Which in Mike's case is a necessary clarification these days.

>>150275449
They are right! Like beaten and abused wives who don't leave the marriage obviously are ok with how they are treated and yall bunch of snowflake to think otherwise. Like imagine having all day alone and not do an escapee, and instead waiting for the abusive husband. Only people who are fine with this would stay, right?

>>150275395
Literally anyone other than Lucy or Sandy would be a better choice. Even Daisy, who will probably ruin everything with her grass-is-greener mentality, would at least be sorry about it.

>>150275324
>the most egregious party in all of this is Mike because "he didn't set boundaries!!!"
don't forget the emotional cheating, very important part for Taeshi

>>150275486
>Amaya comes out as trans
>treated like one of the guys by her girl friends
>instantly becomes depressed

Shockingly, Patreon is still going fairly strong with having majority correct takes.

>>150274915 (OP)
So in this film I guess the "husband" is just a guy that rejects his friend's marriage proposal and gives her the cold shoulder for a while. Because that's what made Lucy suicidal; she was thinking of killing herself before December even happened.

"Shockingly evil" this dude has sunk so low, he's a worse simp than even Paulo.

>>150274986
"What does Mike do" was the draw for this chapter and so far the answer is "literally nothing"

>>150275511
A sane comic would portray Mike's insistence that he cheated on Sandy first as delusion born from trauma. Specifically, Paulo's fault. But nowadays I am certain that Taeshi believes Mike 100% deserved it. She can't even pay lip service to the notion that's wrong.

>>150275449
Honestly discord is the only place to discuss whats happening right now in the comic since 4chan is (understandably) entirely focused on discussing the comic from a writing standpoint rather than just analyzing the comic itself, and most people there are suprisingly reasonable. The problem is some people are just so dedicated to "mike was wrong" that they cant just accept the obvious conclusion that mike and lucy have both made mistakes and gone too far. Lucy abusing mike was obviously wrong and even taeshi agrees but mike haters cant concede even something that obvious

kek

>>150275532
See, if Augustus is the one to "December" Mike, then Lucy--in her ignorance--is kept innocent of any wrongdoing. It's a bit of narrative legerdemain with all the subtlety of a fog horn.

>>150275568
I don't necessarily disagree but the handful of crazies on discord really are fucking psychotic and you can tell everyone is afraid to call them out for it.

>>150275395
It would work which is why Taeshi has forbidden it from being ever considered

>>150275568
what is happening right now vs discussing the comic from a writing standpoint
What exactly is the difference when the absolute bullshit that happens in-story can't justify itself?

>>150274915 (OP)
See Mike you just gotta start out-bullshitting everyone else.

>>150275583
Imagine Final Fantasy Cat learning the meaning of regret, through intense physical pain. Sure Mike would be vilified for it, but that's inevitable anyhow. Might as well get some catharsis while you can.

>>150275532
>Kiall Vun Myeret
That's the guy who gets bullied because he doesnt like Lucy. Don't use him as a valid comment on patreon

>>150275607
That's Lucyspace baybeh!

>Mike fucking snaps
>physically threatens Augustus
>smug goth cat is suddenly brave because he's "endured worse from his old gang" or some shit

>>150275689
>bullied because he doesnt like Lucy
That's like being bullied by downies for having fewer chromosomes.

>>150275666
thank you anon. This pic is how I feel everytime I read Augustus bullshit

>>150275717
Reminder that Gus is a pussy

>>150275689
Poor choice of example maybe but I still think overall people are fairly critical of what Gus is doing, even if some only do so on Lucy's behalf.

Is it really the same person? They really learned how to cut down on the word count, I didn't even recognize them.

>>150275776
>continuity
>consistency
>meaning anything in BCB
I'd lol but we're all suffering together. Nothing else in this forsaken comic matters in the face of Current Plot. All will be rewritten, rewritten again, and ignored as Taeshi desires.

>>150275808
I see people cheering Augustus on and making excuses for him. As usual, Mike is ultimately in the wrong because Augustus and Lucy could not possibly sit anywhere else outdoors.

>>150275776
taeshi said on stream that augustus is basically the whimpiest male. he's all talk

>>150275327
Lucy and Mike being together at all would be such an awful ending without growth from both of them, which won't happen because Mike is not allowed to stand his ground without divine punishment and Lucy is not allowed to suffer without the world rewriting itself to accommodate her. Even if they made up Lucy would rather die than be open about her feelings and letting herself be vulnerable, and she really doesn't give a shit about others if it doesn't affect her too, and Mike while being very kind, loyal and attentive is a doormat who would let her do as she pleased until he snapped, or would just live with resentment towards her constantly. There's no ending Taeshi can come up with that isn't set for disappointment

>>150275829
Yeah my favorite flavor of this is
>but Augustus doesn't KNOW what Mike is going through unlike us the audience, so from his perspective what he's doing it GOOD because Mike is JUST BAD
which is hysterical, since Augustus is the ONLY ONE who knows that the entire Sandy situation is the result of Mike being caught between two forms of pathological people-pleasing loyalty

>>150275845
It's never going to happen but at this point this boy needs a serious throttling. Imagine him cowering behind Lucy while Mike assures her, through grit teeth, that he's only going to kill Augustus a little bit.

>>150275913
Habitual Lucy fans (and these are the only type would would approve of this nonsense) must by necessity remain at least somewhat divorced from reality. It's impossible to maintain these takes otherwise.

>>150275327
Don't forget that Mike and Lucy actively make each other worse. Lucy's mere presence fills Mike with both resentment and guilt until he's lashing out at his friends over anything/nothing, and Mike makes Lucy start spilling escalating amounts of spaghetti until she's attempting to rape the nearest boy and sobbing about how she wishes she was dead.

I don't care what Taeshi says, if Mucy happens it WILL end in a murder-suicide.

>>150275479
Mike+Stacy produce Mike and Sue as kittens?

>>150275910
I wonder how much of current Mike/Lucy dynamic is personal wish fulfillment. Living with Suitcase is demonstrably unpleasant--just go read her diary comics. It must be galling to be so utterly reliant on that sort of person, even if Taeshi does love him. But in BCB, Mike's emotional state is completely at Lucy's mercy. She alone can absolve his overwhelming sense of guilt. The equation is reversed in favor of Taeshi's self-insert. So to her maybe this really is ideal.

>>150275679
Very nice, anon. I appreciate your riffing on the nightmarish facelessness, though it doesn't make it any less unnerving.

>>150275940
>Lucy, darling, light of my life. I'm not going to hurt -
>Back off, jerkface!
>You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said I'm not gonna hurt him. I'm just going to bash his fucking brains in.

>>150275379
Pretty much nailed the nail on the head.
>>150275363

"It's normal to be attracted to someone who has terrorized you for literal years on end, they played VIDEO GAMES?!? Or RACED sometimes?? Please don't look at all the abuse or all the betrayal."

I think they have more reasons to not be attracted to each other then real chemistry or attraction. The only reason Mike gets extra retarded and blushes about Lucy (only sometimes) is when Taeshi is using hand of god to push her OTP.

>>150275845
That's why he fucking sucks ass.

>>150275434
Jesus Christ, Taeshi is spreading mental illness like a fucking STD.
We're all gonna get the BPD AIDs from her dumbass.
Can we quarantine her? Maybe lock her in an asylum to be perpetually sedated while she scrawls bcb comics on the walls?

>>150276149
Mike snapping and getting a bit flamboyant with his language would be entertaining, even justified because he's supposed to be an avid reader. One of those ancient traits that Taeshi occasionally dusts off once she remembers they exist.

>>150275052
>The goal is to drive Mike to suicide so he knows how it feels

It would be actually interesting if this shit pushed him over the edge and Augustus, and by extension, Lucy, have to deal with that

>>150275568
I kind of get what you're saying, as I have in the past been mildly irritated with these threads diverging into meta-analysis rather than discussion of the comic or characters.

But I think that in the aftermath of Participation Trophy, discussion of the comic or characters is basically impossible. I could handwave or headcanon away the teleportation, the psychic dream sequences, character arcs skipping like a broken record, etc., but how is one supposed to engage with a story that will blatantly contradict itself at random except by resorting to meta-analysis?

It's genuinely funny how Lucy didn't have to improve as a person or learn a damn thing about how she treats people. Everyone and everything just decides to start shitting on Mike instead because that's somehow "easier" from a writing point for the author.

>>150276566
I still think Mike has too many reasons to avoid suicide, but logical outcomes are not Taeshi's forte. Then again, a suicide would prevent her from tormenting him further, while a failed attempt risks handing him power. Neither are outcomes she would desire.

>>150275395
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iT9GM0FpjlEd2cHBKTXD-sqQOHYlB-w5/view?usp=sharing
Here's the LoRA, didn't have it in time for the trash thread so sorry about that

>>150275568
>that they cant just accept the obvious conclusion that mike and lucy have both made mistakes and gone too far. Lucy abusing mike was obviously wrong and even taeshi agrees but mike haters cant concede even something that obvious


The problem is how uneven Taeshi is about handling this aspect. Lucy has yet to really have any consequences for her bad habits since coming back that dont last longer than five minutes. She did not realize, "Hey, I was a shitty friend and I should try to make up for it, or at least break things off civily." She just decided to girlboss it up and act like Mike wasn't shit up until EF's "I NEVER WANTED TO SEE YOU SUFFER!"
Meanwhile Mike suffers too damn long for any little thing. It's like he's being cosmically punished for something he actually apologized for. What he said in december was harsh but the anger wasnt unfounded. You can't play the tsundere thing as serious all of a sudden and still have it all back on the guy that got abused. His old friends are still willing to roll him into a train for Lucy, the track team was a bait attempt and he couldnt even have THAT without it being snatched from him to a degree.

Both have made mistakes but it's like Lucy can do what she wants, but Mike can't do a damn thing good or bad without it taking a bite out of his ass in the same day.

Hey, how come some of the AI slop from the late trash thread isn't on slopbooru? What happened to those Amaya BDSM slops, or the one where Lucy was trying and failing to be a sfw streamer?

>>150276917
I just didn't want to drown the new Jas/Amaya gens with Lucy because someone might've wanted to use them as examples, and I know people don't like how much Lucy there is in any case
I can upload it later tonight.

>>150276792
> "I NEVER WANTED TO SEE YOU SUFFER!"

Guys you have to help me. I remember this line clear as day. People here reference it constantly. But it doesn’t exist in the comic archives. I’ve (painfully) read through the entirety of EF again looking for it and found nothing.

What the fuck happened? Did it get retconned out? Does anyone have the original page? Am I getting gaslit by a webcomic?

>>150277718
It's on eternal flame, the page where Lucy scolds Mike for thinking (rightfully for him) that she was pleased Sandy was cheating on him. Are you sure it's gone? She even kept it in the reuploads

>the loser that tried to rape daisy is cornering mike again and lecturing him about not being nice enough to a girl
abbey, wherever you are, please come remove augustus from the premises

>>150275327
I think the idea is that dating Mike will fix her and then she will open up and blossom like a flower

>>150277990
It’s not there!

>>150278018
It would be fucking hilarious if Abbey showed up just to knock out Augustus and tell everyone what he tried with Daisy, then leave without further comment.

>>150277718
I think it's a reiteration of the whole conversation "do you think I like to see you suffer? Is that how you think I am?"

This is probably the most infuriating webcomic I've ever had the displeasure of reading and I can't fucking walk away.

>>150276061
I think the male kitten has stacy eyes, and female kitten while having mike eyes has a mix of fur color, I should open some drawing program and see if Mike + Stacy fur makes that tone

>>150278348
Taeshi knows this for many of us, she takes pleasure in that ;)

>>150278156
>>150278209

Did taeshi think she was cooking with this? Lucy has been nothing BUT bitchy to him since he came back!

>>150278592
*she

>>150277718
She did do some minor edits, including a change up to some of Mike's expressions so he never acted pissy toward her, so it's possible that line got altered as well.

>>150278432
lol no she can't even bring herself to read these threads cause she's weak

>>150278720
>She did do some minor edits, including a change up to some of Mike's expressions so he never acted pissy toward her, so it's possible that line got altered as well.


NTA but for what purpose? I recall her going back to edit old pages from over a decade ago too.

>>150278018
>>150278157
Abbey is too busy hanging out with his newer, better friends to consistently problem-solve for his worst friends. He took a moment out of his busy schedule of being flirted with to remind Paisy that he's better than them, but that's all the time he could spare.

>>150278209
No, I remember that exact line being there. Unless I’m literally crazy. I can’t even find it in the Internet Archive version of that page.

>>150277718
>>150278831
I went and checked desuarchive, and unless I'm missing something the line was always "You think I LIKE seeing you like this?"

But I do remember it too, so either we both paraphrased the line in our memories the exact same way, or something fucky's going on. Maybe it's a mandella effect.

>>150278884
>so either we both paraphrased the line
make that three lol

>seething over a completely fabricated line for five years
That's so us

>>150279085
I mean, the meaning it's still basically the same
I also think a fanart started it but I may be tripping

>>150278749
>NTA but for what purpose?
Man who fucking knows. I guess it bugged her that Mike was getting so demonized following EF. Since Taeshi completely failed to address the big obvious reason why that happened, and kept trying to add context plus a whole what-if? scenario, I'm guessing she was really attached to EF's ending and wanted to believe a few minor touch-ups would make up for it.

>>150278884
Yeah, I also can’t find it in Eternal-Flame-era desuarchive copies of the pages either. The earliest references I can find in text (not images) are from September 2021, months after Eternal Flame.

Was it in a different chapter or is this literally a collective hallucination?

>>150279175
"suffering" and variations are also used a lot when it comes to mike

>>150279232
My working theory is that someone used the line as a summary and a couple of factors came into play:
1) Everyone recognized its succinct accuracy
2) No one wanted to go back and reread pages of absolute horseshit

>>150279232
Closest thing I can find is this line from Augustus in the chapter afterwards.

Why would you even read this shit?
Just to suffer?

>>150279412
Every page, I can feel the appeal of Mike, and of Paulo... even the Whitecats. The ships that've been sunk... the character assassinations... won't stop hurting. It's like they're all still there.
You feel it too, don't you?

>>150279339
Augustus really is just a fire hose of hot liquid bullshit when it comes to Mike and Lucy. What exactly /did/ Mike owe Worst Cat after that night, hm? Augustus sounded reasonable because readers thought this whole exchange was over Mike forgetting about Lucy come next morning. But no, it's because Mike wouldn't dump Sandy and date Lucy. Nobody is obligated to give her either of those things, and demanding them is insane.

>>150278407
>>150276061
Im not sure where the female kitten should wear Stacy bow, but Im sure the male kitten must trip over his dad old scarf

>>150279339
>>150279555
"You owed Lucy something after that night" is still incredibly creepy. It sounds almost exactly like something out of an incel/femcel forum, complete with threatening >implications.

All it needed was Paulo watching and thinking "Why do women only want guys who treat them like shit?", while Daisy watched HIM and thought "Why do guys only want bitchy bimbos who walk all over them?". Which come to think of it is basically their canon dynamic.

>>150279339
>"You owed lucy somethign after that night"

No, he didn't. It's creepy to even think that.

>"Now she's back to square one. All because of something she predicted. Something she KNEW you were gonna do!"

No, she never showed ANY progress. At all. Progress would be her realizing she was actually shitty to mike when she first came back instead of girlbossing. If anything she found a replacement in Augustus and probaly thought she didn't have to change a thing as long as somebody was there to be the new Mike. Second, if she knew Mike would do this, then why even get her hopes up and get pissy when he does? Why not plan your next move AROUND that? Yeah you aren't dating him but friends is a start, despite how much of a nuked earth it is now.

>"She only fell for your bullshit because she can't stand to see you suffer"

She was nothing but spiteful towards him since coming back. She was a major part of his suffering so what was going through that peabrain of her's whenever she shit talked him. What bullshit was taeshi smoking on when she came up with EF and the aftermath?

>>150280633
One of the worst things about BCB is how it's impossible to tell whether Augustus is canonically huffing Lucy stan copium and Taeshi's in no rush to end Mike's suffering, or he's canonically correct because fuck you it's another Taeshi jack off session and you're just along for the ride.

>>150275845
She also said that no one outside of Lucy's family and Mike knew about her jumping off a building, but that didn't stop her from changing her mind.

>>150276084
>just go read her diary comics.
But I don't want to do that. Just give me some examples anon.

>>150278809
I'm kind of surprised Taeshi hasn't had Mike and Abbey fall out yet.

>>150278809
So are Jasmine and Abbey canonically dating now?

>>150280633
>Mike can physically force his former friend to spend hours comforting him in the snow
>But Lucy expecting even the slightest amount of consideration in return is evil because Mike doesn't owe her anything
I can't tell if you're just in that autistic lone wolf phase teens go through or you're genuinely this stupid and disingenuous but either way
Lol
Lmao

>>150281502
Taeshi's portrayal of Suitcase's treatment switches between "loving caring husbando" and "thoughtless rude asshole" at random.

>>150281626
>physically force
kek she shoved him away and could have walked away at any time
>hours
kek you have no idea how time works
>even the slightest amount of consideration in return
kek you think forcing Mike to date her is a "slight amount of consideration" because you're a needy girl or a fat turbovirgin

tl;dr you're an inbred brainlet who calls everyone else stupid lol get fucked

>>150281610
It's only a matter of time, assuming that Taeshi even cares enough about Abbey to bring him up.

>>150281625
No because that would distract the readers from the author mandated relationships, like, uh, Paulo and Daisy, the sure like being in the same room as each other huh?

>>150281626
>Hours
Oh it's you again, are you still huffing paint?

>>150281625
I'm pretty sure Taeshi hates the idea. In fact I'd be a little surprised if she didn't hate all potentially good ships.

>>150281762
>Ermm actually Mike wasn't forcing her to stay there despite physically stopping her from leaving twice because she could've tried harder
Great argument from the resident r9k faggot
>Actually Lucy just wanted to date Mike instead of being treated like she mattered at all
Here's the part where I bring up the AU chapter that proves Lucy wasn't looking to be Mike's girlfriend and you come up with more pathetic cope
It's amazing you'd call anyone a virgin when you talk like the biggest sexless loser to ever crawl out of a basement
>Tldr this is why you're alone seething over a cartoon girl all day

>>150279339
It all circles back to how FUCKING BULLSHIT IT WAS TO HAVE MIKE TAKE SANDY BACK AFTER REBOUNDING TO LUCY SUCCESSFULLY IN THE SPAN OF 5 MINUTES!!!

>>150281929
>Lucy's legs don't work okay she's actually an invalid
lol ok

>actually Lucy just wanted this headcanon cope i just came up with
lol go argue with Taeshi she wrote this shit

>REEEEEEEEEEEEE
Sorry for wrecking you so hard as usual lol try being respectable someday

>>150281998
Taeshi can have her forced drama but at least make it make fucking sence
>Leave the reason open because ITS SUBTLE, MAKES THE READERS THINK
>Readers are fucking pissed, explain context in post making a script of the phone call
>Uh, your readers don't actually read shit, surprisingly, make a comic with the phone call script, but make it a BCI because how fucking dare you not read my mind
>Your readers take this as you saying this isn't canon, you've fucked up now, add a chapter to the actual comic about the phone call now!
>Oops, turns out your writing is shitty so it comes up as Sandy being scared Mike was going to kill himself and he taking her back because she's begging. Too late, damage is done and no explanation will ever put anyone on Mike's side
>Continue to shit on him, might as well

>>150281998
Mike and Lucy would have been a disaster anyway. Gray cat should have just walked away from both awful white cats.

>>150282224
>explain context in post making a script of the phone call
She made that a patreon exclusive at first. It's really funny how unprepared she was for the readership-wide confusion and backlash.

>>150282225
Add to that in the BCI (so take with a grain of salt) where Mike didn't take Sandy back Lucy went straight back to her old bullshit and lying that whatever Mike decided to do, like taking Sandy back, wouldn't bother herband she soooo doesn't need a relationship at the moment, wink wink

>>150282313
No idea what was going through her mind at all, who makes a plot relevant event that changes so much and then goes "you know what we need? Status quo within the same chapter"?
I mean, you could at least give it one or two chapters for Lucy to actually get her hopes up and Mike to cool his head

>>150282224
>Oops, turns out your writing is shitty so it comes up as Sandy being scared Mike was going to kill himself and he taking her back because she's begging. Too late, damage is done and no explanation will ever put anyone on Mike's side

Easiest lay up was that Sandy was the one threatening to off herself and basically scared Mike back into the LDR. Sandy was already at her lowest point reputation wise to readers. Her doing something like that wouldn't have been out the realm of possibility.


>>150282296
Honest to god not sure what she expected. That shit left everyone confused

>>150283401
IIRC it was Suit's idea and she was very proud about it untill she wasn't and you could feel the animosity towards him for a month or two

>>150282012
>>Lucy's legs don't work okay she's actually an invalid
They might not work right sometimes. Lucy didn't exactly land in a good position, tbf.
>>150283908
Honestly, they are both idiots there, considering how easy it is to bait Mike into guilt. Using suicidal shit, having Sandy do it over the phone would have been perfectly easy and kept Mike in character. Sandy would be thoroughly assinated further, but Taeshi already through ehr off the roof.

>>150283908
Pic related. I get that convincing Taeshi that her chronic issue with clarity is actually a good thing nets him fewer temper tantrums to deal with, but pushing this whole ambiguity thing has worsened the comic's writing immeasurably.

>>150283401
After reviewing On Call and Burnt, I'm pretty sure the official party line is that Mike feels that Sandy is owed a second chance because she, at long last is (allegedly) putting him before herself (read: doing the bare basics as a gf). But only because he's (again, allegedly) the one person she can depend on. Mike doesn't want to leave her completely isolated the way Lucy was (ignoring that was entirely self-inflicted by Lucy and that Sandy--her protestations to the contrary--could easily get herself another boyfriend. After all, she's already done so once and he's already admitted to Augustus her pleading was not honest). So despite the necessary retardation, I suppose that makes Mike's decision to turn James down understandably within character and not pure plot-mandated timeloop bullshit. It's too-much-empathy-and-guilt syndrome again.

>>150284839
*and Burnt Bridges

>>150282012
>Lucy has legs so she can walk away from someone literally holding her in place
>Bawww the actual comic is headcanon because it doesn't gel with my pissy faggot worldview
Zzz

>>150284909
>anyway here are my schizo delusions again
nobody cares lol

>>150279555
>>150279668
>>150280633
I mean yeah Augustus is shitty and all but I’m still not over the fact that I was apparently part of a weird niche Mandela effect. I still have no clue how the idea that this was a literal part of the comic was incepted into my brain and that bothers me.

>>150284962
I make one small post dismantling your gay little fantasies and you spend the whole week seething about it, I don't even need to know who you are because I just reply to the dumbest post in the thread and it's always you lol

>>150285019
I wonder if Taeshi has seen this

>>150284839
>It's too-much-empathy-and-guilt syndrome again.
Meh, least you can say Mike is mostly consistent there till he isn't (when he is very pissed).
>>150285019
Ya think Mike would throw Paulo under the bus when the feds come at him for CP?

>>150281929
>Here's the part where I bring up the AU chapter that proves
The AU chapter that proves Lucy is bugfuck insane and will revert to her whole tsundere "I-it's not like I like you or anything, baka (TN: baka means jerkface)" bit at the slightest opportunity?

That AU was the final dip of the mast below the waterline for MikeXLucy as a ship. It had already run into several mines and been blown to pieces by artillery, air attack, and torpedoes, and its deck was below the waterline even before EF, but EF was when the ship finally lost ALL buoyancy, and that AU was the final line on the after action report that read: "lost with all hands.".

>>150279631
Very nice, anon. I like notSue's bratty smugness, and notMike's tripping over his scarf.

Incidentally it's still weird to me that accessories are apparently heritable in BCB. It makes sense for the style and all, but it's strange.

>>150285008
>malding cope
nobody cares lol

I found this shit an article in the Bad Webcomics Wiki (which hasn't been updated in YEARS)
Who even is the audience for this shit?

>>150285549
Woah there, anon. You seem to be treating the threadly retard with something beyond the mocking contempt they deserve. Please understand it has already been proven they will never engage in good faith.

>>150285774
>Who even is the audience for this shit?
People not unlike Taeshi herself. So mentally unwell womenchildren and poorly socialized insecure teenage girls.

>>150285201
I might also be completely wrong because Taeshi has dreamed up a much more demonizing interpretation. The canon is subject to her whims, not established events, after all. But I would like to think that part of Taeshi still gives enough of a shit to try and justify all the torment as a necessary endless staircase in Mike's character arc.

>>150284996
Okay, so I think I've figured out what happened. Someone mushed together
>"I NEVER FUCKING WANTED IT"
with
>"You think seeing you like this makes me HAPPY?"
To produce the composite line "I never wanted to see you suffer". From there it memetically infected various other anons including me, fusing the two lines it was formed from in our memories. And since no-one wanted to go back and reread that dumb bullshit, further fuzzing of the relevant memories and reposts of the composite eventually led to it becoming the assumed actual line.

>>150285906
I'm sure it helped that the line handily embodied Lucy's words and general hypocrisy.

>>150281833
I don't know that they do, actually. Both Daisy's hobby of sloppily making out and Paulo's hobby of managing to bottom in straight sex have been going unsatisfied lately. That kind of withdrawal from activities they enjoy is not a positive sign.

>>150285781
I know, I'm just riffing. I do think that AU was the final nail in Mucy's coffin though, in that it conclusively proved that EVEN IF Mike and Lucy spontaneously made up and decided to just ignore all the awful shit they've done to each other, their relationship would still be an unhealthy house of cards. They'd both revert to the tsundere denial schtick that made them start hating each other in the first place, and presumably the cycle would repeat ad infinitum like some Silent Hill 2 shit.

>>150285906
>the only reason she fell for your bullshit again was because she can't stand to see you suffer
They're just confusing what Augustus said with what Lucy said. If only Taeshi would make it clear whether he's supposed to have been gaslighting Mike or not because I have no clue what he means by "fell for your bullshit again"

>>150286164
Mating press all of them.

>>150286179
>I do think that AU was the final nail in Mucy's coffin though
I'm right there with you, assuming that Taeshi does not actually believe this shit is healthy. Remember that she /is/ together with Suitcase so has to be huffing some amount of copium regarding unhealthy relationships. But I digress, Mike and Lucy lied to each other and themselves during EF and they kept right on lying throughout Another Flame. Easy routes only, no serious self-reflection or taking more responsibility than they absolutely want to. I really do not like how Taeshi can write with such a heavy hand sometimes but absolutely refuse to spell out when a character's take is supposed to be right or wrong. But then I suppose doing so would out her as nuts pretty quickly.

>>150286197
I believe that Augustus seriously believes what he's saying. What's less clear is whether Taeshi herself believes it. Remember that Gus got pissed with Mike when Lucy closed herself off. Guy wants to shift the blame.

>>150278740
Maybe, but Suit does, and he probably tells her the short version of it.
I am 100% sure some of the stuff she does are purely out of spite for people here; it feels way too directed and specific to be just a coincidence.

>>150285549
>claim Lucy's only mad because Mike won't date her
>but also Lucy being happy just being Mike's friend in the AU chapter means nothing because she still likes Mike despite neither of them wanting to act on it
At least the way you guys can look at a comic and come away with insane interpretations is still funny.
>>150285723
mad

>>150281927
I would image so too, but according to the chart she filled, she said they are a great match and she approves, so there's that at least.

>>150281927
I would imagine so too, but according to the chart she filled, she said they are a great match and she approves, so there's that at least.

>>150286828
i accept your concession kek

>>150286999
>still mad

>>150281929
>The AUs are not Canon until I say so
Taking that AU to account only shows what Lucy wanted, and It was a single Mike. She herself said that they needed to cool off before anything so to talk next day. Mike wanted to talk but Lucy didnt because he was not single and ready to mingle

>>150287038
oh shit sorry i thought you grew a brain lol
my bad

>>150287089
>still crying but totally not mad

>>150287105
>still malding and projecting
lol just like you do every thread

>>150286284
It still tickles me that in that comic Lucy brought up "I wouldn't date you btw, I shouldn't be in a relationship" not just once, but a second time pushing into it because Mike agreed with her instantly, like she was expecting some push from him anyway. If anything I appreciate that Lucy's character is constant on it: she has learned nothing, is lying to herself and won't open her feelings despite favorable conditions to do so. If the BCI didn't focus on just one scene we would see her scolding him in front of the table just to keep her image up

>>150286164
This but they're all crying because they're more trapped than we are.

>>150287124
>literally triggered beyond reason

>>150287142
They are sick to their stomachs because Taeshi controls their fates. Jasmine is borderline exiled from reality. Rachel got brain damage. Lucy has to want Mike no matter how pathetic he gets.

>>150287166
>still seething and coping
lol try it 15 more times maybe it'll work then

>>150287190
>every post more pathetic and desperate than the last

>>150287225
yeah but enough about you amirite? kek

>>150287270
>he reaches new depths of mad

>>150287278
yeah i know not getting the last word in drives you nuts you basic bitch haha

>>150287318
>we already reached the "haha" level of mad

>>150287332
followed right by the repeating shit because you're too stupid to manage anything more part lol

>>150287365
>now mad and humiliated at the same time

>>150287369
>hallucinating victory for the 23rd time
lol

>>150287389
>ends every post in a fake nervous laugh level of mad

>>150287412
>hallucinating victory for the 24th time
el oh el

>>150287421
>24 hour seething

I suspect that the Lucystan anon is just a troll aiming to spam. Their style of shitpost reminds me of the guy who used to mald about how the thread was "shilling" a comic by "lolcows".

>>150287428
>hallucinating victory for the 25th time
lol

>>150287437
Well yeah obviously. But he's pretty shit and easy to piss off so that's funny.

>>150287449
>still failing to look not incredibly mad

>>150287465
>hallucinating victory for the 26th time
lol

>>150287470
>effortlessly infuriated

>>150287470
>hallucinating victory for the 27th time
lol

>>150287494
whoops meant for >>150287474

>>150287494
>>150287507
>mad and too retarded to make a post

>>150287515
>hallucinating victory for the 28th time
lol

>>150287522
>he finally figured out quick reply

>>150287526
>hallucinating victory for the 29th time
lol

>>150287527
>he says shaking with rage

>>150287534
>hallucinating victory for the 30th time
lol

Are those two just one single anon with DID?

>>150287543
>this owned

>>150287553
>hallucinating victory for the 31st time
lol

>>150287568
>intellectually dominated

>>150287576
>hallucinating victory for the 32nd time
lol

>>150287580
>slavishly devoted to mad

>>150287550
Sometimes I forget this comic is for teenagers...

>>150287589
>hallucinating victory for the 33rd time
lol

>>150287598
>buck completely broken

>>150287601
>hallucinating victory for the 34th time
lol

>>150287609
>eternal mad

>>150287616
>hallucinating victory for the 35th time
lol

>>150287618
>mad but learning to count

>>150287622
>hallucinating victory for the 36th time
lol

>>150287626
>still mad

Could you two stop edging each other and bust already

>>150287632
Look I'm going to be frank. The spergfag retard is just going to keep coming back to every single thread, try to bait with braindead takes, and give the same boring repetitive replies over and over and over again.

>bla bla bla everyone but me is a coping malding sperg
>durr hurr hurr the most retarded take you've ever seen but if you don't agree with me you're a schizo
Every single thread. It's never anything different, and it's so fucking BORING. I wish everyone here would just tell them to shut the fuck up instead of trying to engage.

>>150287630
>hallucinating victory for the 37th time
lol

>>150287673
>get blown the fuck out every thread
>lose all faith in yourself to win an argument
>piss your pants when other people don't follow your autistic order to create an echo chamber
also
>mad

>>150287692
>hallucinating victory for the 38th time
lol

>>150287705
>mad and coping

>>150287719
>hallucinating victory for the 39th time
lol

>>150287747
>agenda failing, very mad

>>150287753
>hallucinating victory for the 40th time
lol

btw you're not supposed to include punctuation in greentext
minor spelling mistake so i win
mald seethe and cope
lol

night loser see you next thread

>>150287782
>reaches his apex of impotent crying and mad

I know given the subject these threads are inevitably inhabited by teenage furries but god damn some of you are retarded as shit

>>150287673
The problem with your "strategy" is that you and the troll shit up half the thread with this dumbfuckery, thus playing straight into their hands.

>>150279631
They're pretty cute! A little dorky looking, but cute. I think it is to these threads shame that the obvious troll is getting more replies than the new art.

>>150279668
Pic related.