>>150826226
this point could be made about so many different things in this comic, but the problem is, where is the payoff? how many times do we need this buildup where everyone in the universe shits on mike but you see they're in the wrong mike actually has a point but no one will hear him out and everyone fucks with him or abandons him or he self-sabotages again etc. when does the payoff come? james wasnt a solution to the problem, he was a deus ex machina that basically just spawned in to mike's world to give him a chance to be happy that DIDN'T involve his real friends or girlfriend actually being good to him and that turned out to be the biggest low blow yet now that he's team lucy too. we can only do this loop of "guys, mike is OBVIOUSLY justified here" so many times before the reality sets in that logic isnt a factor and everyone really is out to get mike