Anonymous
6/12/2025, 12:24:20 AM
No.148973950
>>148973735
I don't think he's heading for a suicide attempt. I think it'll be getting into a physical fight with his dad or fainting dramatically at a track meet due to malnutrition and stress or something. Something that will basically force somebody (hopefully Paulo but probably Lucy) to ask him what's wrong.
It's very weird writing. If there's a central theme to the comic (at least in the back half) it's that not communicating with people you care about is catastrophic for you and them, so it's kind of fucked up that the resolution appears to be shaping up to be "just double down on bottling up everything until your pain becomes so impossible to conceal that someone finally notices and rushes to your aid, despairing that they neglected the severity of your suffering". All the more reason I view Mike as a hurt/comfort avatar and not an authorial punching bag.
I don't think he's heading for a suicide attempt. I think it'll be getting into a physical fight with his dad or fainting dramatically at a track meet due to malnutrition and stress or something. Something that will basically force somebody (hopefully Paulo but probably Lucy) to ask him what's wrong.
It's very weird writing. If there's a central theme to the comic (at least in the back half) it's that not communicating with people you care about is catastrophic for you and them, so it's kind of fucked up that the resolution appears to be shaping up to be "just double down on bottling up everything until your pain becomes so impossible to conceal that someone finally notices and rushes to your aid, despairing that they neglected the severity of your suffering". All the more reason I view Mike as a hurt/comfort avatar and not an authorial punching bag.