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He will, however, try to crush Mike's skull in, thanks to proximity and habit.
No kidding
>david's there too
aaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAA can he fricking go away for a single chapter so everybody else can get shit done for once? god DAMN it this could have had promise if it was just paulo and mike
Why would he want to crush her skull?
Paulo defaults toward violence. I'd like to see him genuinely strangle or throttle Mike just so that this farce of a friendship can end.
Worst of all is it probably wouldn't. Mike would do some ebin maneuver and counter/break free from him. Paulo would feel better and cry how at least his mother loves him, and They would hug, and things would remain as they are.
>Mike would do some ebin maneuver and counter/break free from him.
But Mike is no longer allowed to succeed. All of his natural talents are either inhibited by guilt or invalidated for the sake of shitty gags.
*catches ur fist*
I miss this version of Mike.
BCB is really a story about how women are horrible creatures that will drain everything from you until you're a husk of self-loathing and insecurity.
Not all women, just the women Mike hangs out with
I guess it's all just extra frustratng for us because the comic takes ages in real life to move an inch forward, but i guess from their perspective it's somewhat understandable to see Mike and the others acting like idiots all the time; for us it's been years and years, but not for them.
Still doesn't make it less frustrating to read, though.
>Breaks his computer mouse
Frickin homie. Never let anyone near your computer
Paulo has burger money, he can pay Mike back.
Paulo still mooches off of Mike and David for pocket change, he ain’t going to pay Mike back the - what fifty-seventy dollars a wireless mouse cost in 2008
How can Paulo possibly forget about the family he could've been a part of if his mom had gotten custody?
Can you imagine how assblasted Paulo would be if she had more than one extra kid.
I wish I could marry Dad cat instead... he looks freaky in bed
>Paulo seduces his mom's new husband to get back at her arc.
>Paulo seduces his mom to get back at her arc
Fix'd
>Paulo TRIES to seduce his mom to get back at her, ends up with him seducing her husband arc
FTY
I wonder what the mom did that kept her from getting custody? That takes some magic normally.
Why would she want custody?
He was a pretty ugly kid, and considering what he grew up to be she made the right choice not to try for custody.
Not really. Most custody cases in real life don't end up in a fight. Paulo's mom probably just didn't want anything to do with her idiot spawn.
Paulo was right when he said "at least your mother fricking loved you", his mother sure didn't.
Good edit. Paulo and Sue should breed.
When you put it like that it's almost possible to feel sad for Paulo
She did not want him at all. She probably had a better job than his dad and everything but whatever went on between his parents ended with her not giving a frick about Paulo either.
>She isn't actually Paulo's mom, Paulo is actually Mike's secret half-brother he just took completely after his dad so everyone agreed to keep it a secret.
She didn’t even want him to begin with, he was an accident
Just like my mom and I. 🙁
why didn't she just get an abortion if she didn't want a kid
david is the doggo, david wins the dick chart
well of course he does
WHY IS DAVID HERE!?!
for forced and unfunny comic relief. that's what he's like in every chapter.
Same reason Paulo hung around Lucy: wait for a moment where their crush exhibits vulnerability and pounce on them like a predator.
Because Taeshi's understanding of comedy, in nature and timing, is absolutely awful.
To have a meme moment where he burst into tears and runs away when Paulo makes a move on Mike and not him.
David will fix the comic
the joke is that mike is a cuck, the taeshi classic
please laugh
PauloxLucy was clearly the preferred ship for ages
I know, but it wouldn't be so annoying if she didn't completely drop Mike and shit on him any chance she got while she was sucking off Paulo
I hope it really annoys her that people despise Mike, she absolutely deserves it, I pray that even when she does her moronic redemption arc for Mike it doesn't work and people shit on it and drive her crazy
I dislike the cartoonish extent of Paulo's reaction here. Isn't this something that should be taken seriously? Big anime tears.
Because the artist can't draw for shit, judging by how every character looks like they came from some late 2010's CN cartoon.
>I’ll come with you
WHY!? Why in God’s name is Mike so attached to Paulo? Does he feel like he has a quota for having a friend who insults him, hits him and breaks his things?
Mike is obligated by reasons of plot. I suppose a reason could be made up; something about battered wife syndrome, perhaps. Mike being so used to abuse that he will take it so long as he is not all alone. Or he is just too darn empathetic.
They're friends. They hang out and exchange casual banter off-screen.
Like father's cuck, like son
>They're friends
lol
Augustus and Sue have become friendly, the endless b***hing doesn't affect friendship in this comic. Even Lucy had friends for frick's sake.
Ah right, the BCI that shows that Paulo has been seething about Mike for years. What a great friend.
Shure can't wait for more queer baiting and Mike and Paulo NOT fricking or kissing or whatever.
Like what is the point? He's just gonna cry and whine about being some hated child or some BS.
The only good that can come of this is Paulo hitting on Mike and getting shut the frick down.
don't care, didn't read, sex with mike
Mike is the inferior option
>batshit crazy ‘moid
No thanks, you can have her!
>Crazy b***h
>Used goods
No thanks
Inferior in what capacity?
Pump&dumpability for one
I don't know, Sandy was able to do so without consequence before she crawled back to Mike with hat in hand.
You bring up a good point, Sandy is both hotter and easier. Still superior to Mike, though.
Abused* not abusive. Mike was right.
I wonder how many homosexuals will take the bait
>despite
She's never topped "ur a gayet"
Thank you sharty bro for ruining the discord brigade comic general, keep going
Threadly reminder that Mike is an abusive chode who's going to die a virgin to the amusement of all
Begone LucyTHOT!
Negated
You're right
The sad thing is how many fans actually believe that.
It's true tho (except abusive part lol)
Sadly, Mike is doomed to sexually satisfy Lucy at some point in the future.
>Sexually satisfying little miss “I never wanted it”
Lmao
Since when has Lucy ever understood or admitted what she wants?
Lucy knows what she doesn't want (choice)
Mike will have loving sex whenever his wife's boyfriend will let him.
>doesn't want choice
>flips out on anyone who tries to make a choice for her
Oh yeah, Lucy knows exactly what she wants.
She wants someone tough enough to force her to accept a lack of choice
Pro-Alejandro poster for my Election 2040 AU. In case your wondering why the date is different from my previous post it’s because I decided the previous year was to far ahead for my liking.
>Lucy wanted Alejandro, but then he got beaten up by middle schoolers (one of whom was stinking drunk) so that took the shine off the forcey fun time
>now she pretends to be traumatized to avoid having to acknowledge how much she wanted it
Woman moment
>She started hanging out with Bad Boy Augustus in the hope that he would do to her what he tried to do to Daisy
One day Mike will snap and her dreams will come true
Your reading comprehension is piss-poor.
>Mike ever having sex
>Mike ever satisfying anyone when he has a canonically small dick
>Mike not taking it up the ass
>Mike not getting addicted to commies in his tummy
Apparently Mike is canonically average. Paulo is large, which Lucy has seen (and still found lacking, so either Paulo sucks that badly or she's just cavernous).
Wasn’t Mike below Paulo?
His is canon small, just not Abbey babydick small
Paulo is canonically larger than average, even notably so considering the reactions he's gotten on sight. Abbey is noted to be small, whereas Mike is somewhere between them. Ergo, he is average.
And Paulo is a canon bottom, so Mike is definitely small wienered
How does the top/bottom dichotomy relate to penis sizes at all?
science proved your penis loses 0.1 inches per year if you either don't have sex for a year or get fricked in the ass.
I'd need to see a source for that.
which one is the doggo
How long until taeshi does make that canon to add more on the mike torture conga
>Apparently Mike is canonically average
He may aswell be smaller than abbey after how sandy broke him.
>How can we fix Mike?
if you go by veterinary slang and his current personality sandy probably convinced him to van gogh his balls for her already
Mike is a plot device whose only purpose is to be hated and laughed at inbetween making Lucy sad enough to thirst after other men guilt free
You are forgetting that he is also meant to serve as Taeshi's emotional punching bag.
I don't see why Paulo is so surprised, he knew she remarried years ago. Did he expect her to be unhappy?
The kid is what did it
He’s stupid and didn’t realize she wanted kids, just not homosexual ones like him.
Yeah. I mean, reliving old wounds can hurt and all, but it's not like this is something he shouldn't have expected at this point.
Also, if i were mike in this situation i'd at least complain about this mf breaking my mouse like that. Those wireless ones were expensive as hell back in the day
Assuming Taeshi was using whatever neurons remain between her ears, Paulo has been confronted with apparent proof that she is over him completely and utterly.
He may not have thought of the possibility of her having other children. Regardless, seeing her happy with his half-sibling means that she COULD be happy as a mother. If she hadn't had another child he probably wouldn't feel so bad. It's like a more specific rejection of him as her son.
as somebody whose been in this situation (not with divorce but parent remarried and had kids with someone else) it still like. sucks? even if you know they're with someone else. when i was younger i was upset he just had a family out there that he actually spent time with. my dad didnt even want to help pay for my college but he put each of his 3 kids through private school. it just sucks either way. doesn't matter if you knew. unfortunately i do think taeshi has pulled off this feeling pretty well
Even crappy sitcoms got this figured out.
>"Eh?!"
forgot how tryhard this comic used to be and still is.
Requesting Paulo's dad practicing the thinking man's fetish
Thank god Paulo is FINALLY crying again
Anyone have the timeline? How many weeks before the divorce did Paulo's mom get knocked up by her new husband?
>BCI says it has Mike in it
>Doesn't
Damn Taeshi really hated Mike during this age, huh
Interestingly, she took the autistic chapter with Lucy flicking her bean over Liam down, I wonder if that means I can post it without getting b&
Suitcase DMCA’d all the lewd comics, you can’t post them directly
might be in here https://tbib.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=bittersweet_candy_bowl+
over 200 more results than e6
They must've cut something, I guess?
>lewd comics
Did they put up lewd comics up as BCIs?
Was it perhaps the source of that edit where Mike jerks off in bed while Blur is still sleeping next to him?
I was gonna ask "How do you just cut out your main character"
Then I remembered Mike was almost completely absent from volume 2 and 3, the most important volumes in this """story"""
Oh god, they're gonna go to the park and see Jasmine with Abbey and Molly, then Rachel with Matt. This is gonna be terrible, also someone post the designs please.
>Paulo sees all these people with those who care about them
>Starts screeching and crying about he’s all alone
>Mike and David have to slap this moron up the head with the fact that he has friends
Oh god please no
That's assuming they aren't just background cameos.
>Jasmine with Abbey
Best ship still in the comic
Remember Abbey and Jasmine WILL unleash years and years of pent up sexual frustrations and feelings. The bridal bed after their wedding, will be reduced to SPLINTERS.
I bet they do roleplay in the bedroom
>Jasmine dressing up as Daisy
Lmao
Kek
She's an inspiring character
this is giving me flashbacks to my friend who broke my suff and stole my onahole
>Mikegays b***h about Mike being a cuckold
>Wtf it's so unrealistic that he'd take Sandy back after being treated like shit for a year
>Meanwhile they're still reading a comic that despises their favorite character because of sunk cost
I don't think Mike is the favorite of anyone here, but i do agree that most people here just keeps reading this comic due to sunken cost. It's mostly just routine at this point.
>Mikegays b***h about Mike being a cuckold
I don’t actually, I think it’s very hot to see a pathetic male like him
Have Mike and Sandy even seen each other in person since the whole ordeal went down? I can't remember.
No, but she said they'll spend Valentine's together (she wants to bang)
>sexually satisfy Lucy
No one man can
So far we have only seen Paulo fail, which wasn't exactly a huge surprise.
Were you trying to make some sort of coherent point?
She will abandon her daughter too
Taeshi is too biased toward girls for that to happen. Hell, Paulo's mom will retroactively be given a good reason to have abandoned her son.
>Even with all of us, we were out-legged
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What
I wonder if the patrons are really so stupid they haven't picked up on Mike's deleteriously oversensitive sense of empathy.
People still sometimes accuse him of being a sociopath for some reason, so yes they are so stupid they didn’t get it when Daisy looked straight at the fourth wall and started loudly telling the audience that Mike’s problem is that he’s a doormat who doesn’t know how to stand up for himself
>Prbly the most empathetic char in this comic
>Sociopath
Huh
The problem with BCB is that Taeshi likes playing around with subtext, and she’s not good at it, but her target audience are so goddamn stupid that for them text is subtext.
>Taeshi had to make Daisy sign a certified paper that said she knew what she was doing when she kissed Mike and takes responsibility for her actions
>"Fricking Mike raped Daisy and is manipulating her"
>Lucy literally tries to rape Augustus while in a position of power over him
>No one says a word, event is shoved under the rug by the cult
>People still sometimes accuse him of being a sociopath for some reason
Hmm, I can't imagine why, obviously mike being able to switch his emotions on a dime isn't sociopathy
it's uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
he's just a heckin kid and he goin thru it! he dindu nuffin! massa taeshi told us mike's a good boy so we all gotta pretend now!
going from crying, to emotionless resentment to ecstatic joy in just a few seconds is something we all do sometimes
You're describing mood swings, not sociopathy.
Being able to go from angry to creaming your pants with joy in 3 panels isn't a mood swing, if you can control your emotional state to the point you get from seething anger to ecstasy seemlessly you are a sociopath
>Being able to go from angry to creaming your pants with joy in 3 panels isn't a mood swing
That's pretty much the definition of a mood swing, shit writing aside.
> if you can control your emotional state to the point you get from seething anger to ecstasy seemlessly you are a sociopath
What makes you think he was controlling it? We've all seen that Sandy has Mike by the emotional balls for no good reason. Though it's not like he had any reason to give a frick about Lucy by that point anyway, so I hope that's not what you're hung up on.
>What makes you think he was controlling it?
That he went from anger to joy in a couple panels?
Normal people can't just turn emotions on and off when they feel like it, if you're pissed off one good thing won't suddenly turn you completely around like this unless you're in complete control of your emotional state
Another example, goes from happy and having fun to remembering he's supposed to be angry and so he goes psycho, this isn't a gradual process over a few pages of mike getting angry because he remembers he has to be faithful to sandy (yes this is the reason for December, it's stated once or twice as moronic as it is) it's just mike flipping a switch to the emotional state he wants which is sociopathy
Again, what makes you think this emotional switching is deliberate or controlled on his part as opposed to uncontrolled mood swings? All you have done is assert your position is true and declared that proves he's a sociopath. But that idea doesn't fly because we've seen over and over again that Mike -can't- turn off or switch his emotions on the fly. He can't turn off the guilt, nor can he stop feeling badly for people who treat him horribly. The best he can do is get himself too angry to care about the plights of others.
As for the Lucy thing in particular:
>realize he's falling into the same well-worn behavioral rut with his longtime abuser
>happy brain chemicals turn off
>all the anger he's built up toward her resurfaces
There is nothing sociopathic about this.
>Again, what makes you think this emotional switching is deliberate or controlled on his part as opposed to uncontrolled mood swings?
Because, again, we know the reason mike was pushing lucy away here and it's not any of what you said, it's simply that mike didn't want lucy to endanger his relationship, he's not angry because he remembers the abuse he's angry because he decided anger would push her away most effectively picrel
>The best he can do is get himself too angry to care about the plights of others.
healthy people aren't capable of making themselves this angry just because they want to be, having control like that is a sign of sociopathy
>it's all Sandy's fault
He should take her virginity next time she visits and then dump her like the trash she is
>take her virginity
Oh you sweet summer child.
To be fair, would you really put it past Taeshi to insert some absurd excuse as a retcon when push comes to shove?
>retcon
The Paulo thing itself was a retcon so it fits.
That's not a good example as Taeshi herself points out that Mike was underselling Lucy's past abuse so they could get back to being friends. Lucy herself called him out on it.
>healthy people aren't capable of making themselves this angry just because they want to be, having control like that is a sign of sociopathy
I doubt that he wanted to be angry so much as it seemed better than the alternative at the time. A lot of people get angry rather than deal with their more difficult feelings (including most of the cast).
It's not the only example, mike's clearly more concerned about staying faithful to sandy than whatever lucy'd personally done
Anon, I'm not saying that Mike's desire to stay faithful did not factor in. It's an aspect of the situation that he did not want to acknowledge for a very long time. But Taeshi has made it very clear that Lucy was canonically abusive toward Mike, that it was a bad thing that needed to stop, and that he was right to be mad at her over it. Lucy herself has admitted that at least twice, if alternate universes are counted.
>But Taeshi has made it very clear that Lucy was canonically abusive toward Mike, that it was a bad thing that needed to stop, and that he was right to be mad at her over it.
I agree with all of that, but my point is that mike didn't suddenly remember she was abusive, he just got angry to save his relationship and that anger eventually lead into her past abuse, and normal people can't just will themselves into being that angry, and inversely they can't will themselves into instantly stopping their anger like mike can
>but my point is that mike didn't suddenly remember she was abusive
But he did, else he would not have gotten so angry with Lucy nor wanted to punish her for past abuses (something he later admitted to when drunk at Rachel's party, i.e. when he was at his most openly honest). At first he just wanted her to get lost, then Lucy pushed the subject and the dam broke.
Also you are back to insisting Mike chose to stop being angry. Yes, people do work themselves up into an angry froth to avoid feeling guilt or introspecting. It's really not that rare. In Mike's case, he feels for others so sharply it could be called a self-defense mechanism in his particular case.
It's a monogamous relationship, and he has trauma from when people called him a cheater explicitly because of how he and Lucy were.
Both called him a cheater and physically assaulted him over it, so much so that Taeshi felt she needed to tone it down in the rewrite.
>healthy people aren't capable of making themselves this angry just because they want to be, having control like that is a sign of sociopathy
What are you on about? Anger is like the easiest emotion there is. And since Lucy was too depressed to maintain her poise, the transition from anger to sadistic satisfaction would be quick and easy.
Mike gets excited about Sandy, which spikes his adrenaline. This allows frustration to become rage, and Lucy just takes it and cries so the rage goes to a sense of satisfaction. Later, after he slept on it and the adrenaline was fully out of his system, regret comes along.
> having control like that is a sign of sociopathy
No it isn’t and Mike shows no sign of being able to control his mood swings
>going from one mood to another extremely quickly isn't a mood swing
Anon I...
Mood swings are not a symptom of sociopathy you mongoloid. If you wanted to diagnose Mike with anything from how his moods turn on a dime it’d be BPD.
Mike was mean to Lucy and did not pick up on the nonexistent signs that she was trying to be a better person at ten seconds to midnight. He also yelled at people because he did not believe they had suddenly begun to actually give a shit about him. So in their view, he must be a sociopath.
it's a comic, we don't really know how much time passes in between panels, ESPECIALLY when there's scarce dialogue
cats have crazy mood swings all the time though
I legit can't think of how else this could be construed than Sandy banging Francis
>That artist never finished that pic
Sad!
How the frick can Mike just let Sandy say that?
Dildo mouse?
Mike's spineless, or he doesn't mind that Sandy got piped while he was moping over his phone waiting for her texts
>How the frick can Mike just let Sandy say that?
Spineless, mindbroken
>Dildo mouse
Mike is not a sociopath, but he is extremely pathetic and broken to the point he will openly take lies and abuse in exchange for acceptance.
Geez, i had forgotten about this dialogue. Painful to look at. He doesn't even show sadness or anger over it, choosing to smile instead. I don't think any man would do that, it's so annoying to see Mike having no spine like that, when previous chapters (way back, i mean) showed him differently.
And yeah, i get that he went through some hard times and shit, but the least Taeshi could've done in that page, and in other pages where he has to live with those memories, is show that he feels sad, angry, or something. Give the boy some stones, for God's sake.
At this point I don't know what would force Mike out of this limbo. He'll take the abuse just so that he's not left all alone and how can that even be fixed?
Only way i can think of is if some of his friends make him realise that this relationship isn't good for him, and that he shouldn't accept it. James was a good candidate for that, but now that he most likely completely lost his relevance, i guess there's only Paulo, Daisy or Lucy for that.
OR, maybe Sandy will end up cheating on him again, and that might finally make him cut ties with her completely after that.
>OR, maybe Sandy will end up cheating on him again, and that might finally make him cut ties with her completely after that.
taking the choice out of Mike's hands entirely by having Sandy frick up again and preventing him from ever showing actual growth would be the worst option
so it's more likely
Hey look, it's dialogue
How can we fix Mike?
He needs to be assertive. I'm sure there's a place he can go to get proper assertiveness training so he can finally free himself.
Did she draw that, and by "she" i mean Taeshi?
Delete his sense of guilt and desire to belong. He was fun in drunk mode, so give him the same emotional liberation minus the inebriation and he should be gold.
I can't reveal that information. We all said he should go gay and Taeshi heard us loud and clear.
Please no
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>three times a week
Lol. Lmao.
Mike and Paulo are inevitably going to kiss in this chapter.
It's going to happen. I can feel it. I will mald. Two bros can just be friends, we don't have to prostitute Mike out to every friend he has.
"Friends" but imagine an infinite number of quotation marks extending toward either horizon.
I agree. Why can't mike just be friends, legit, natural friends, with someone?
I guess it's just this comic's way of attempting to do some pointless drama.
>Why can't mike just be friends, legit, natural friends, with someone?
Because comic discussion within the cult, aka the only sort that Taeshi would be exposed to even through proxy by Suitcase, is dominated by shippers. It's probably the only way she has any hope of improving Mike's image among the fans without letting him self-actualize.
because taeshi has no friends and literally never had any. she literally, unironically cannot understand friendship. all the friendships she draws are caricatures of friendships based on anime.
I do feel bad hearing it, which is why i feel guilty complaining about this comic every time, but it's just that i wish things were different. The comic could've gone to better paths several times.
I dunno, i think she used to have fun writing this comic, but that nowadays it became just a grind and a scape valve of sorts, torturing characters that may or may not represent something else. Seeing some of her tweets and commentaries, she seems to enjoy shitting on men and masculinity, and i feel like the situation Mike and other characters go thorugh are a sort of reflection from that.
Good thing Paulo isn’t his friend
Cry about it namegay
It's not as if she would ever make good on that.
She destroyed any chance of Mike going gay because it was his only salvation. She will monkey paw any idea we put forward.
Taeshi is not taking any ideas from these threads.
My idea is Taeshi should spend more than 10 chapters to finish bcb.
Then congratulations, you think like her fans, i.e. the remotely relevant party she might perhaps sometimes half-listen to.
He's literally about to go gay with Paulo
That will lead to nothing but still
Revert him to volume 1, give him back his
>spine
>heart
>sense of humor
>balls
then spend an entire year writing up filler to insert in volume 2 and 3 showing what mike was up to since she forgot mike was the MC back then
Let him hang with the other table. Establish that yes, you have other friends and you matter, not everything is about lucy(lol) and put yourself first sometimes but try not to over correct. Smack Paulo upside the head when he tries to physically bully ya or make it clear you ain't gonna take that shit.
Lucy gets Alejandro, Sandy gets Francis
Where's Mike's abusive relationship with someone older?
>Mike's abusive relationship with someone older
He also gets Francis.
Daisy gets Augustus, Paulo gets Tess (or Lani), who do Sue and Amaya get?
Sue and Amaya get each other.
Amayastrapon.jpg
Amaya is definitely the abusive one. Sue is too easy to bully while Amaya doesn't let anyone get her down.
She's right across the hallway whenever Mike needs to blow off some steam...
>. Sue is too easy to bully
Sue is the type of person to become drunk
with power, but i also think that Amaya is the type of person to stop someone crap when they are starting to affect her
Sue is the "I'm not drunk I'm totally sober and responsible" type. It's so easy to make terrible life choices if you're in denial about how drunk you are...
Sue is the "date guys to convice herself that she isn't a raging dyke, because the first thing she did while drunk was fricking her best friend 5 years ago" type
Her overconfidence in her own choices, combined with knowing deep down that she's a loser, will have her end up with abusive partners if she doesn't learn.
Or worse, she'll end up just like her sex ed teacher predicted
Sue is the only one who started out as a skinny kid and became more adult (bodily), though I suppose Lucy started out as only a little busty and became more so
This image always puts a smile on my face.
This is good art.
Also, Sue has sort of grown on me as a character, just like other characters that barely appear anymore. You can at least imagine that they aren't as bad as the ones that get under the spotlight more often.
Taeshi be tracing
Who would've thought Sue would end up the hottest of all BCB characters. Paulo should really open his eyes and bed her, even if it's just a one night stand.
Both of them are starved of any positive social interaction, they can't help it.
>Both of them are starved of any positive social interaction, they can't help it.
Paulo b***hes to Daisy on a regular basis and David is hangs around Paulo whenever he can help it. And of course Paulo can always drop by the diversity squad for some Matt time because he enjoys Madison's b***hiness for some reason.
Sue has potential to be abusive.
Isn't the Webtoons edition supposed to catch up with the main page by next year? You'll have to wonder if all these "once a week" posts will eventually bite Taeshi in the ass...
>Angry persons get angry at Taeshi massive moronation
>They decode to find things to cancel her
>Ay lmao
>Comics ends because of that
That would be the best way to end the comic, i mean, i fricking hate cancelation but the irony would be on the thousand folds, and it would be appropiate way to finish the "career" of such an hypocritical, moronic person like her
Paulo is such a horrible person.
I would've abandoned him too.
>page preview has david still running around like a oblivious moron even with his supposed best friend having a breakdown right in front of him
>malicious enabler David theory was canon all along
Based Taeshi
He's letting Mike do the heavy lifting, knowing gray cat will be thrown aside once Paulo has no further use for him.
Why ruin the moment with the mouse smash
However Paulo ends up kissing Mike sure is going to be spicy after this shit
Or it amounts to nothing, with Paulo reasserting his friendship with Mike only to backstab him later as per habit.
This is 100% happening if you know anything about the comic
MAYBE Taeshi will throw a bone and say Mike enjoyed it before going back to this
imagine fricking paulo in the butt
Sadly for you it's Mike with David present, Mike will be the one getting it in the ass
It's established both that Mike has a solid power level and that Paulo's a pillow princess who already gets dominated by literal women let alone modern jock chad Mike
>It's established both that Mike has a solid power level
Maybe Mike 15 years ago
Mike now straight up enjoys being cucked, he's never topping ever
And that's before David is added in
>And that's before David is added in
See normally, if you go yaoi with another anthro, you got a 50/50 chance of topping. But BCB is written by a freak, and it's not normal!
Paulo's fricked women, Mike can't even kiss a girl without it being forced on him and letting them manhandle his face
"Fricked" only in the most technical definition of the word
Mike's shit is literally self-imposed, he has women (and men) throwing themselves at him but he's got that Sandy oneitis holding him back
He seemed pretty receptive to Lucy's smooches, though I have to fault his taste.
Yeah, receptive being the operative word here, he only ever let's people kiss him and never makes a move, little dude's pure bottom and it's why he'll be receiving the barb instead of giving
He did make a move on Lucy back in the day and more recently kissed Daisy (who lost her mind over it).
Mike was ironically more of a man at twelve than he is now where the heights of his masculinity is giving one of his best friends a peck on the cheek
Which boys are written as masculine these days?
imagine paulo trying to convince himself it was just a one time thing by hitting on random chicks in the hallway the next day
imagine paulo being unable to take his mind off how good it felt to be on the receiving end
the premiere choice for paulo correction has been james for a while and even mike but i really think matt could mellow him the frick out tbh
This, but Mike. Imagine his confusion and shame as life grows in a place where it shouldn’t.
god i hope they fuuuuuuuuuck
BCB unfortunately would never be so based even if a proper fricking would cure Paulo
Mike must remain a pure virgin boy until Lucy gets her chance to deflower him.
only if she pegs him. mike is pure bottom. that's why he couldn't be with james.
That probably depends on the level of alcohol in Mike's system.
I wanna do his lil sis.
Haley is #1 cutest girl in this comic
Fricking Black person, acts like an butthole, abuse him for years, and then breaks his mouse, pretty fricking sure the cuck is going to do a "le epic breakdown". Because Mike needs a december on him (because he deserves it, DO YOU FRICKING GET IT????)
Seeing posts like this is are strange, it's like they come from an alternate universe where Mike isn't a spineless cuck because the Mike that actually exists in the comic isn't going to explode on anyone the way you all want him to now that Sandy's talking to him again
But hey more power to you, hope the fall isn't too hard for you when Mike bends over to let Paulo walk all over him like he's done a million times before with a smile on his face like the good little cuck he is
I..What? Yeah that is my point, i was refering to Paulo, and how he will break mike because his mother abandoned him (yabba dabba?), and it will be protrayed as a good thing (eventually), because he hasn't suffered enough, and the only thing that will satisfy Taeshit petty revenge against Mike for wiener blocking her SI, will be him suffering the same fate a thousand time
Oh, cuck autoregisters as Mike in my mind
My b, u right tho, preach
I hope the creator just kills all of the characters in the end
Their behavior is so random. There's no telling whether Mike snaps or sucks it up, and the same goes for Paulo. I just cannot predict their next move, and it's making me so fricking mad.
Why doesn't Paulo learn anything? You'd think the pain would be a good teacher, but here we are again, watching him abuse Mike, even though he was shown to care deeply for him numerous times. Paulo makes it so hard to love him, dammit.
Paulo’s mom figured it out years ago, Paulo’s love is worthless. He treats those he cares about WORSE than strangers. Same thing with Lucy, they should be locked up in a containment ship.
Only if Lucy gets spayed first, their offspring would ruin Roseville
Goddamnit why is the Mike x Daisy child actually cute?
MxD kitten and JasxAbbey kitten will be great friends!
Mike hasn't snapped in a good long while, what are you talking about?
I want to kidnap Lucy, and rape her.
Plot bashing should be in the free space. I don't think there is anyone here that doesn't have beef with the plot of this comic, one way or another.
Sue is bullying and rape
is for*
It still bugs me how huffy Sue got over this. She had never, ever shown any concern about Mike's Sandy situation up until that point. Or really about Mike's own well-being at all, not since the vacation arc.
Why is she wearing so much makeup in that chapter, is she trying to attract someone? Is it Mike?
Anyway, Mike was right, and Sue is indeed for bullying.
Sue becomes everyone's best friend when it's too late to help them out of their terrible situation. Like in her video game, she's role-playing a friend.
Asking for rape
I think Sue does want to be Lucy's friend, but it's hard to tell whether that's because of her Mary Sue status or because Sue keeps chasing validation from people who have yet to disappoint her.
Sue wants to be friends with the idealized Lucy she built up in her imagination. Even David understands Lucy better than she does.
>You know Mike
>I don’t like Paulo
>it seems every time we talk we end up fighting
>BUT MAN WHEN IT COMES TO GOSSIPING ABOUT THINGS YOU TOLD US IN CONFIDENCE I’D CALL UP ALEJANDRO
Sue is a nasty fake friend
>CALL UP ALEJANDRO
Careful Sue, we wouldn't want the Second Confrontation alternate timeline to happen.
>Second Confrontation but it’s Sue and no one remembers to care about Alejandro sexually exploiting her
Lmao
>Paulo tells everyone a rumor that a girl in their year had to drop out because she got pregnant
>Everyone wonders who it could've been and if they'd know the girl
>They all feel a vague sense that they've got more room at the table than usual
Amaya would notice. However, Amaya can't speak, so she fails to get anyone's attention. Mike and Abbey do mention their RPG party used to have a healbawd, but they can't remember what changed. Probably an update or something.
Still a shame I couldn't figure out a way to get Sue into the story without making it too long. The bullying of Sue has grown on me.
Yeah, after reading some of the footnotes for what you had planned it's a damn shame
Thanks, if AI gets any good I'll try to use it to fill out the concepts I had in mind some day.
Slowly. Realised my initial plan for the Madison fic had too much overlap with the prequel.
Why do I want to frick these two cats more than Rachel? It just doesn't make any rational sense.
Rachel is taken and even if she wasn't she has standards. These two cats are available and desperate for any (male) attention.
How long would I have to hang around a pregnant Lucy before running off, to make sure she commits to being a single mother?
Just long enough for her family to find out and for abortion to no longer be an option, I'd imagine. Her family does go to church, after all.
It's a good thing we never got to see Mike and Lucy actually being friends like this in the comic, it's not like the entire premise is about the "tragedy" of their friendship falling apart
Bravo Taeshi!
She's dragged this shit out for so long and exacerbated it so much for no good reason that it's hard to see them mending fences without a major drawn out event that Taeshi has no interest in writing.
I remember them sort of having an awkward friendship way back in the day, but even so, they have so many bad moments between them that they quickly and easily obscure any good interactions they might've had in the past... Which is weird, since the whole comic is supported by this theoretical friendship between Mike and Lucy.
Taeshi's gone out of her way to make sure that Mike's done more harm than good to Lucy, yet has Mike and Lucy plastered all over the site to the point it's the icon, where's all the sweet supposed to be?
Why's it all bitter?
I agree. There's barely a sweet moment nowadays, and even when there is one, it either feels not genuine, or doesn't last for long.
Taeshi probably thinks Mike is too beneath Lucy these days or some such. The only credit I can give her is that Lucy is dumb enough to fall for him anyway.
I don't want romance I just want to see how the frick these two were ever friends and why we're supposed to care so much that they aren't anymore, taeshi took a decent concept of a friendship going to shit over romance and then cut out all the build up "friendship" parts and just had an awful meanspirited mess from basically the very start
We have a backstory for their friendship as kids which was
>Lucy bullies timid Mike into being her friend because she's lonely but he kind of hates and fears her
>Mike finds Sandy and escapes from Lucy's grasp temporarily until she leaves
>Lonely Mike gets attached to Lucy but now she's a tsundere b***h because he ditched her once
So there was never actually a time when their friendship was good.
There was a time when Lucy was just a "annoying person", rather than a full sociopath, and Mike seemingly enjoyed her moronation to some extent, but that lasted for.....10 chapters
That's just the major story beats, we're told over and over again that Mike and Lucy were best friends but we're never shown this, imagine watching P.S, I Love You but they cut out the introduction with Gerard Butler so all you see is some random b***h following the letters of a random butthole you don't care about, that's how confusing and frustrating BCB is to me.
They did have a friendship, but it was a flawed one. Lucy was toxic while Mike kept caving and enabling her. Despite that, they both enjoyed each other's company and shared a strong attraction. Their biggest shared issue now is an unwillingness to communicate honestly. They can't work through their problems because neither will lay all the cards on the table. And of course there is Mike's plot-obligation to stay with Sandy.
>Not wanting to see them getting their shit together, finaly becoming a pair. Only for the magic to dissappear as they realize they barely can't support each other now, yet to stubborn to quit, eventually becoming an extremly toxic pairing. Your power level is...Disappointing
No time at all, can pump and dump and Lucy still won't abort.
That's just for when it's Mike's baby
Bonus points for appearing out of nowhere and doing it again while she thinks you've come back into her life
Your subconscious knows that Rachel is used goods. Goods used by Paulo of all people.
>Implying Lucy isn't used goods
Lucy and Sue are both hot and easily bullied, due to being desperate for approval and validation.
Lucy is super unstable, plus she's mean enough you don't need to feel bad about making her cry.
Sue is more self-aware/self-conscious, meaning she's super easy to bully.
Both will forgive you the moment you show them some affection, so you can bully, then comfort, then gaslight, all you like.
Is that how you fix them, anon? By breaking them down first? How long do you think it will take them to catch on to your malicious plans?
Woah woah, who said anything about breaking them down?
Sure, Lucy's awfulness would make her a guilt-free abuse sponge, but you don't wanna break her. Let her keep that spiteful holier-than-thou attitude, so that it stays fun to make her cry. You want to take maximum advantage of her ability to bounce back from misery to unearned arrogance. Sure, she's unstable, but that just means she'll cling harder the meaner you are!
As for Sue, her well-meaning nature means that she's ideal for light bullying. Complimenting things she's embarrassed about, gently reminding her that her friends don't take her seriously, showing her up, and so on. Her self-consciousness will do all the work, letting you slip seamlessly into being nice and reassuring.
I can just imagine redirecting Sue from trying to be the Lisa Simpson only the cast to competing with Jasmine for tradwife of the year.
Tradwifing Sue would be the ultimate challenge. Only Abbey has the perseverance and the "all women are fair maidens" attitude to make it work.
Their parents are actually getting together aren't they
What's stopping you from assaulting your friends and making sure everything about you?
Not being a hot cat girl with big breasts, a big ass and pretty white fur so I couldn't get away with it
All that stands between you and your dreams is a fursuit. Follow your dreams!
Bold of you to assume Lucy cares enough about Sue to get trapped like that. Sue and Amaya, though?
>Sue and Amaya
That's the thing, Sue and Amaya are too close to each, they'd quickly figure out his scheme. Lucy's desire to distance herself and keep her friends in the dark means it'd be far easier for Alej to keep the ruse going.
Fair enough. I suppose Sue would be the closest female friend to Lucy. Although, Daisy might also work; she's awfully defensive when people point out her loose ways, but deep down she knows she's worse than Rachel when it comes to her horny obsession. Plus, Lucy actually seems defensive of Daisy, forbidding her from fricking Augustus and all that, and Daisy is in with the popular crowd so she has something to lose. Knowing he'd be fricking both Augustus' crush and his savior would also enhance the experience for this theoretical Alej.
I like David to be honest. She's using him to undo all of the development that happens in the story, but if it wasn't for him there'd be plenty of ways the characters could just reset to the status quo. At least David provides an emotion other than "depressing unrequited love".
Large part of the cast is 15, maybe next year assuming the comic goes on for long.
>Large part of the cast is 15, maybe next year assuming the comic goes on for long.
That didn't stop Taeshi from coming up with an excuse to get them across the southern US border when even younger. Paulo has a car and poor impulse control. We all know David would go and Mike can be bullied into practically anything these days. Taeshi could absolutely make it happen if she had the balls.
Taeshi literally thought Acapulco was inside the US. That's why she rewrote it to Silver Shores or whatever.
Taeshi can do a road trip, but it wouldn't end up being very interesting.
>Taeshi can do a road trip, but it wouldn't end up being very interesting.
Well of course not. She is a terrible writer who's only entertainment value lies in baffling her readers and vicarious girlbossing for insecure girls.
>Knowing he'd be fricking both Augustus' crush and his savior would also enhance the experience for this theoretical Alej
That actually sounds hot, why hasn't anyone done Daisy/Alejandro stuff yet?
also I'm hoping Auggie will find out about all the sex Al's been having in his new bed in SC
If Taeshi showed us half as much of what Lucy is thinking as SST does we'd probably all feel far less negatively about white cat
Yeah honestly, getting to see Lucy's thoughts is one of my favorite parts, it's why I was rooting for her.
Until she crossed the point of no return, now I only desire to see her give birth to Alejandro's bastard before getting ostracized, then we skip ahead to Lucy being old, depressed and raising three kids off camming by herself
Would we? Lucy has worn her feelings on her sleeve ever since Eternal Flame. She is emotionally shutting Mike out because he is, for some reason, her critical weakness. That means getting cold, callous, and condescending. All exacerbated because Mike is a total doormat who lets her get away with it. I just don't see much about her that is mildly intriguing or even likeable.
>her feelings on her sleeve
Not her true feelings, just the feelings she knows she should have.
She's still in love with Mike but nobody can know. She's a big girl who learned from her mistakes and should therefore be over Mike.
She's a bit like Sue in that sense, she knows she should be better, so she keeps up the
facade in the hope she starts believing it herself.
I'm pretty sure her current feelings are no less real than her buried love toward Mike. These things have always come naturally to Lucy and it would be weird for her to feel less pissy or distrustful toward him.
>Lucy has worn her feelings on her sleeve ever since Eternal Flame
I feel like the last time we've looked at anything from Lucy's point of view (like how we're constantly seeing how things are effecting Mike) was at the start of double down in Dec 2021.
Lucy's got crazy loyalty to her friends except Mike oddly enough, despite anything else she defends Sue, Daisy and Paulo all the time, she has her positives
>Lucy's got crazy loyalty to her friends
When was the last time she defended any of those people? She's pretended to be nice before, but that's about it. The only one she's arguably loyal to is Augustus, and he's her blatant Mike/pet replacement.
Forcing Paulo to go to Daisy's birthday and be friends again was nice, trying to teach Daisy she doesn't have to chase after dick 24/7 was nice too despite Lucy clearly not taking her own advice
>Forcing Paulo to go to Daisy's birthday and be friends again was nice
Trying to get Paulo out of her hair and assure herself she was a good person. She reacted very poorly when he refused, showing her own ego was tied up in it.
>trying to teach Daisy she doesn't have to chase after dick 24/7 was nice too
It was blatantly dressing Daisy down so she would keep away from Augustus, definitely not an act of caring. Lucy basically called Daisy a bawd to her face.
If her only goal was to bawdshame Daisy so she'd stay away from Augustus why did she have no problem with Daisy tagging along on Halloween and the SAT chapter, that makes no sense
Lucy's always been protective of Daisy, aside from Abbey she's the only one that noticed she was depressed in volume one
>she have no problem with Daisy tagging along on Halloween and the SAT chapter, that makes no sense
It makes perfect sense. Daisy was bawd shamed into no longer seeking Augustus and Lucy saw no hint of ongoing attraction from Daisy, ergo she was no longer a threat.
>Lucy's always been protective of Daisy, aside from Abbey she's the only one that noticed she was depressed in volume one
One or two brief shows of interest does not a caring friend make.
>This is considered Lucy being a nice person
Both those times were reactions to being called out or having her excuses rejected, she wasn't being nice as much as she was throwing a tantrum because the situation wasn't going as she planned. You can't say Lucy "I don't want anything to do with you guys but I'm not going to do anything about it" White at is protective of her friends when she can't deescalate situations she's uncomfortable with and has to impose herself over others while also divorcing herself from any responsibility by saying how much she doesn't want it
Lucy "defends" them, then complain about them in the same breath. We've seen her talk shit behind their backs, attack their insecurities when they bother her, and have an attitude of disdain and impatience whenever they try to confide in her.
Lucy has this idea of how her friends "should" be, and tries to push them into it. That doesn't make her nice.
Also, the idea that Lucy calling Daisy boycrazy was trying to teach her something falls apart when Lucy has called Daisy a bawd to other people, too. Only reason to do that is she's mean and judgemental, there's no benefit to Daisy from it.
>why hasn't anyone done Daisy/Alejandro stuff
I think people already have
>I was rooting for her
You fool!
As an added bonus, Daisy could get further into a pregnancy than Lucy before people realise she's getting bigger. That and he deserves a cheerleader.
>he deserves a cheerleader
He can kindly ask Sue to try out again. She can use the exercise.
>at least some vague long-term idea of how to bring him back in.
Pretty sure she just considers them gone now that Augustus no longer hangs out with them.
kek
>Pretty sure she just considers them gone now that Augustus no longer hangs out with them.
The lingering shot on the cell phone indicates otherwise.
Something tells me they aren't that stupid.
Sue? Maybe not, she acts like she's smarter than that at least, plus she has Amaya.
Lucy? Nah, there's a reason her family doesn't let her walk the streets on her own, she needs an adult at all times. She's stubborn but she's also desperate.
I could be that adult.
Sorry, she's taken
>time traveller: moves a chair
>the timeline
>I don't care what you do with me
Where's the BCI where Lucy makes a deal to go with Alejandro to save Mike and let's him hit it five ways to sunday
That reworked dialogue awakens concerns about future happenings.
>terminally depressed Mike gets kidnapped by thugs
>puts up minimal fight because of self-loathing
>has to stop himself from laughing when they tell him he's bait for Lucy
>points out their "intel" is woefully outdated because Lucy's learned not to put her neck on the line for his sake
>is shocked/confused/pissed when she does show up
>hilariously bad action or supremely anti-climactic talk no jutsu scene ensues
>Mike now owes a huffy Lucy his life and his love for her is reignited or some shit
>Mike now owes a huffy Lucy his life and his love for her is reignited or some shit
He already owes her his life, twice, once from saving him from drowning and once from Alejandro, Mike ended up not really giving a shit lmao
Yeah see, they had some emotional, heartfelt moments in the past, but there has been so much pointless drama and shit that it all got mostly drowned, which leads to people nowadays wondering what even is the point of those two having feelings for each other.
If the story got less convoluted and had way less pointless drama, this could've been a nice SoL comic.
Aside from this chapter, which might as well be a bottle episode for the impact it had on the comic and the characterizations, I can't think of another emotional, heartfelt moment.
Maybe the end of Feline Festivities when Mike is lying about caring for Chirpy and Yashy? A big maybe?
But two chapters in a 20 year story is a drop in the ocean.
I think their relationship would have a draw if a) Lucy were forced to face basic consequences and b) if Mike learned to give as good as he got but in a more playful, less mean way.
Mike obviously gave a frick, but he got too tired of her shenanigans to care. Also he paid her back twice, once with Alejandro as well and later during the vacation arc, so they're even on that account.
Why should Lucy's bad behavior effect how much Mike cares about Yashy and Chirpy?
Mike likens himself to their family and as soon as he stops being Lucy's friend he completely stops seeing them.
>Also he paid her back twice, once with Alejandro as well and later during the vacation arc, so they're even on that account.
Yeah and Lucy feels indebted to Mike for both of those and is hardstuck with him, Mike doesn't feel that sense of debt, in fact he starts resenting her after saving her at Acapulco.
...I'm not talking about the pets. I'm talking about Lucy. And I'm not seeing any signs that she feels especially indebted to him, other than her volume 2-3 regrets for mostly treating him like shit.
The chapter she goes to whine to Paulo about Mike she says how she feels about the savings, also I specifically said he was lying about caring for the pets and you replied saying
>Mike obviously gave a frick, but he got too tired of her shenanigans to care
So I'm a bit confused here
Recheck the comment chain. That comment was not in reply to your own.
>The chapter she goes to whine to Paulo about Mike she says how she feels about the savings
So, pretty much once before it vanishes into the background of general regret. Mike no longer cared all that much that Lucy saved him because he viewed it as her fighting to keep her stuffed animal/punching bag, not out of concern for him as a person. Ergo, it was too self-serving to matter.
Because the pets always dickrode Lucy and if he's not her friend, she won't have him around to see them and they'd probably give him the cold shoulder too?
The pets were mondo moronic and should be left in the past with the fancharacters and other anime bullshit, anyway. They are a fundamental logic break so logic shouldn't apply to them
LUCY likens Yashy to being like Mike’s child when she’s emotionally blackmailing him into not talking about Sandy in front of her. And Taeshi cut so much of Yashy’s lines that actually backs that up it just looks like Lucy was lying to guilt-trip him. And Mike and Chirpy never gave a shit about each other.
Well who cares about the retcon redraws, they make no sense
I've talked to fans who swear by them because the stupid changes back up their arguments.
>Saving him from drowning
That was Paulo, Lucy was useless and nearly got herself killed
>Alejandro
Mike and Lucy drove off Alejandro, if Mike owed her for distracting Alejandro when he was unconscious he repaid her by jumping Alejandro when he was strangling her.
Mike doesn’t owe Lucy shit, and even if he did that doesn’t cover putting up with her being an counter-phobic sadist nut job.
I can't believe Sue will sacrifice herself like that! Maybe she is as good a friend as she claims to want to be!
I'm getting inspired
Yes, do it
Abuse the Sue
Totally unrelated to SC, but I like the idea of a twist on the secretly dating two girls trope, where instead Sue and Lucy both agree to a relationship wth Alejandro so that he leaves the other one alone.
It's funny that, for a pretty good long while, Taeshi didn't like Confrontation because it didn't fit in with the rest of the comic. Nowadays, it's one of the few things that really supports the idea of Mike x Lucy period and provides the most obvious route for their reconciliation.
Lucy definitively going too far and regretting it would be cathartic. You would think, given all of her outbursts, the comic would be leading up to that.
Paulo bragging about fricking her during the play despite knowing she tried to kill herself that night will forever be based
She used him so she can hold this over his head if he ever dares talk back to her.
Lucy needs a big reveal like how Abbey choking Paulo was revealed. bawdshame her until she improves.
>Paisy finally goes somewhere
>Lucy starts seething and moaning about how Paulo’s confessions meant nothing
>Daisy pops off on her that Paulo (and Mike) aren’t obligated to wait forever on a girl who doesn’t even treat them well
>Lucy lashes out at her about sex (again)
>Daisy explodes that Lucy keeps calling her a bawd when LUCY goes through boys like Kleenex.
Holy shit Mike is tiny
Why is Mike responding like a battered housewife to Paulo breaking his property?
He is a battered housewife (male), but all his abusers are crazy and won’t take the plunge to claim him.
Mike always acts like a battered housewife nowadays. The only exception i can think of was when he bashed Paulo's head against the cafeteria table when Paulo took his phone.
Taeshi thinks it's the height of comedy to have Mike pathetically give in to Paulo's abuse, you mean you don't also find the concept of something awful happening to Mike and him not even fighting back hilarious?
Are you crazy?
Alright, that's it. Time for BCB to go into the filter.
It's been nice, anons. Take care.
It's added the the filter. No going back now.
I haven't enjoyed a single page since 2012.
It's for the best.
Honestly I should do this too I just hate pretty much every other character not named Mike or James
Is suitcase still a pedophile?
Yes, but he knows we’re onto him so he had his wife hide his e-girlfu these last few years.
Fricking Taeshi and her lazy ass expressions.
A+, anon. This is exactly what these thread've been missing since handanon stopped.
Frick it I did the whole page.
Who´s the dicky?
Abbey, relaxe
Paulo's half sister
Writing is hard
Yes, but it would be a lot easier if she bounced her ideas off of someone other than herself or her husband who seemingly does nothing to dissuade her bad choices.
What are these CalArts cats?
BCB is an old webcomic about anthro cats facing school drama.
Like that anon said, shitty webcomic with soul, about a guy and his tsundere, quickly loses his identity and the edge it had (alot suprisingly)
Whatever happened to Anons posting leaks? Did Suitcase get them in the night?
The only time it seems like shit frequently got posted was the whole shit-show that was Eternal Flame, then after that, nothing.
Leakanons only leak when there's something interesting to leak
To what end? The comic showed its true colors at that time and enthusiasm plummeted along with any chance of the plot actually moving.
The James arc got it too but then Taeshi ended that as badly as she possibly could have so interest died.
Do you think the swift introduction and even swifted yeeting of James in and out of the story was so that Mike could have some gay awakening and Paulo wouldn't be attached to anyone either.
Just a setup for the *proposed* gay kiss happening in this chapter? I mean, I don't expect anything obviously and she's baited her audience more times than I can count. But that's the only reason I can think of they used James.
NTA, but I think that James was first and foremost a hasty patch job meant to bolster Mike's image among the fans. For all of her stupidity, I do believe that Taeshi has some rudimentary understanding of her audience and therefore the power of a gay ship. It could have inadvertently served as a warm-up for any Paulo x Mike ship baiting...but not a necessary one. Even without it, Paulo could easily be stupid and overemotional enough to put the moves on Mike since the comic's already advertised his one-way crush on Gray Cat. What I don't buy, with or without James, is the notion that Mike is attracted to Paulo that way. Mike's lonely for a friend, but I have never ever seen him want Paulo as anything more. In either scenario, Orange Cat is getting shot down.
>hasty patch job meant to bolster Mike's image among the fans
Nothing changed lol
Not true, he went from #5 "most hated" and being below Mike's Mom on "most liked" at like #25 to being only 15th "most hated" and was top 10 "most liked", and all it took was a little gaybaiting
Wait, by what stats? Where's Lucy on these lists?
2021: https://agentchimendez.tumblr.com/post/670400717241090048/the-complete-poll-results-for-people-interested-in
2022: https://agentchimendez.tumblr.com/post/713705937185161216/sorry-it-took-four-months-heres-the-results-for
Mike was more hated than Toby, which is still amusing to me, I think the 2021 poll was a wakeup for taeshi which is why 2022 was just Mike apologizing for 12 months straight
I can't see why it would change, Mike's not gonna do anything as bad as EF for a while, maybe he'll lose some love for leading James on and denying the fandom of gay cats
Her attempt to rehabilitate Mike's image seems like a mild success going by this image. Lucy's climbed up the hated character rank though, and lost her significant lead over Paulo as a favorite character. I guess even discord drones are getting a little tired of her shit.
>Lucy's climbed up the hated character rank though
That's interesting, I wonder what made the difference. Surely the discord had no problem contextualizing her repulsive behavior as a good thing, as they are wont to do.
>Her attempt to rehabilitate Mike's image seems like a mild success going by this image
Keep in mind this was a year ago, but yeah honestly, like the other anon said she knew she could get people back on Mike's side just by making him gay, he didn't have to actually change or do anything positive, just flirt with sucking dick and all is forgiven.
I'm super curious what it'd be now that he shut down James, but supposedly chimendez is malding and about to leave BCB so we'll never get a 2023 poll
Just a temporary boost
That's a surprise. Still, he'll be kicked back down to the bottom once Lucy has another chance to shit on him. Or hell, once Paulo dresses him down and Mike accepts all criticism.
You mean like full page leak? Most of it was/is just last hurrah before dropping comic completely
why is it that every thread of this comic is just pages of crying cats every fricking time
That's the entire point of the comic, anthro cats crying over anthro cat drama.
The reason they are all so thirsty is because they are dehydrated from all the crying.
FYI, saying that Mike didn't care about the pets doesn't really work because, on top of his desire to avoid Lucy there are meta considerations. Taeshi was gradually phasing the pets out of the comic, meaning they appeared less and less in general, so there would have been fewer opportunities to interact.
Paulo is cute though.
Not cute enough for his mom to keep in contact
Her loss
This chapter honestly COULD use a good story beat in that David, for once, DOESN'T act like a comic relief, and instead confide in Paulo that he too is also hurts from having a parent leaving his life and wanting nothing to do with him - and that this common shared pain also serves to further strengthen the already strong bond they have together as friends...but I have a good feeling that it WON'T have such an angle...
That'd be a good plot for a david chapter but I don't give a single shit about david so I wouldn't like to see it
Honestly, I doubt that he will gain ANYTHING beyond being an epic maymay character.
But anyways...
>Mike pulled out the old hat
Weird how this homie will wear multiple layers on his top half but is the only character who will never wear pants
Also he's really persistent with being supportive for a guy that just had his only support (James) pulled out from under him by the exact person he's trying to help
>Weird how this homie will wear multiple layers on his top half but is the only character who will never wear pants
He would look good in some cargoes. Not that Taeshi could stand drawing them for long.
>Also he's really persistent with being supportive for a guy that just had his only support (James) pulled out from under him by the exact person he's trying to help
I am convinced that James was a messily rewritten MikexDaisy plotpoint that Taeshi clumsily shoved into the story where it made no sense.
Is this a real leak
Does it count as a leak if someone does it like that? I was wondering about it the other day.
I mean, they'll ban you for it if they find out, if that's your question
Based anon.
Why is Paulo such a surly b***h? He's almost a male version of Lucy at times. Mike would be his best friend in the entire world and he just treats the kid like garbage until he wants a pick-me-up. Of course Mike should have learned by now to stop trying, so the problem is self-inflicted.
>David is actually still being a moron babbling on and being absurdly insensitive and inappropriate
>Paulo doesn't say shit about it
>just continues to shit on Mike
Even for BCB this makes no fricking sense. PLEASE retire David already.
i think shes doing it on purpose
Of course she is. Taeshi thinks David is hilarious and of course she loves buttholes.pnd8yp
>pnd8yp
Paulo 'n' Daisy 8 years plowing
I doubt it'd take 8 years before they settle into a loveless stasis.
It sn't so much that David is being his usual autistic self, it's that knowing Paulo and him being freaked out to the point of breaking shit he should be decking David for going on about this shit still. Even with these redraws always being exaggerated for comedic effect, it's hard to wrap my mind around the way Taeshi can't stop flipping back and forth between David being a character and just being this nonsentient background prop/plot devicr for characters to react to or ignore as they please
I wonder if she will bumble her way into making the fans hate David for his stupidity, given their judgemental tendencies.
The only way to sway opinion in the cult is in reference to what Lucy says, remember how everyone was praising Paulo when he tried to help Lucy on her way home and turned on him instantly when Lucy got aggravated by it, almost calling him a rapist even, even before he brought Augustus
David would have to be yelled at by Lucy for anything to change
It's like Taeshi can't spend a single page without finding a way to shit on Mike, he could save Paulo from a burning house and she would still have David comment "haha fricking loser Mike why didn't you do it faster you're the worst character" and then kick him in the nads
Paulo deserves only the worst
> looks at Mike
> "Frick off"
WHY?! FOR GOD'S SAKE WHY?!?!?!
What is this cursed timeline? It's like "Double Down" never happened! It's like we didn't have a whole fricking chapter dedicated specifically to show Paulo that Lucy is a crazy b***h that can't be saved or helped no matter what you do, because she ruins her life herself being such a sociophobic c**t. And then, right after this lesson, Taeshi bumps Paulo right into Mike, and shows how caring he is, and shows how Paulo becomes similar to Lucy, to this broken husk of a person, who has broken his heart again just five minutes ago, and makes Paulo understand all of that and feel guilt… AND YOU ARE TELLING ME THIS LESSON DIDN'T STICK?
Frick you. Tae.
Well, yeah. Paulo had already failed, time and again, to internalize how much of a dependable friend Mike could be. Why should Double Down have been any different? Paulo has always been habitually shitty toward Mike. Nothing short of a major consequence should be expected to force a change.
My main point is not about Mike, it's about Paulo's behaviour. He should've understood a long time ago that his snarky attitude is destructive. And Double Down was the perfect time for this. It has had the perfect juxtaposition of him and Lucy, Lucy being the lost case and him still having the hope.
It's so bizzare how Paulo is basically the Lucy now. He cares deeply for Mike and wants him to be happy, we know that. But he's deeply unhappy himself, and he keeps on hurting himself and his best friend despite his own will.
And we already know how Lucy's story did end.
Damn why is paulo so cute bros?
Mike really needs to nut up and make him his b***h.
Mike could fix him. Mike could domesticate him. One night is all it would take and they'd both be better off and nobody would give a shit about Lucy anymore
>He cares deeply for Mike and wants him to be happy, we know that.
Does he? Usually Paulo is only nice to Mike when he got his emotional ass kicked and wanted some affectionate reassurances. I guess *maybe* Paulo tried to help Mike with the Sandy situation, but it's just so darn easy to read that as him being sick of the situation and trying to solve it by force.
As for the juxtaposition with Lucy, Paulo is *still* moping over how she's too good for him or some shit. So clearly that didn't stick, but why should that be a surprise? Every single time Paulo learns to stop being an butthole he just backslides again. It's the pattern.
Adding to this, I don't think Lucy wants Mike to be happy, either. She tells herself (and him) otherwise, but we have seen her give a shit about his suffering exactly once since her return. Every other time, she either openly encourages it or acts ambivalent.
Paulo should have learned ages ago, but he is trapped in BCB and Taeshi will always press the reset button on his character growth.
> I guess *maybe* Paulo tried to help Mike with the Sandy situation, but it's just so darn easy to read that as him being sick of the situation and trying to solve it by force.
There have been plenty of times when he has shown a genuine emphaty towards his situation with Sandy. It's not like he only talks Sandy when he's irritated with Mike, he used to simply ask about her to check if everything's cool.
Eternal Flame was the chapter that consolidated my opinion on that. Paulo has immediately forgoten all his grudges the second he has seen Mike casually chatting with Sandy at the school. He was so happy back then. I think he really cares.
> Every single time Paulo learns to stop being an butthole he just backslides again. It's the pattern.
Yeah… But what's the point to create all this learning situations? What was Taeshi's masterplan? I remember how James' arc was explained when it was revealed that he's simply replacing Daisy. There must be an explanation to the Paulo's perpetual circle arc too.
> I don't think Lucy wants Mike to be happy, either. She tells herself (and him) otherwise, but we have seen her give a shit about his suffering exactly once since her return
Lucy's broken already. She has destroyed herself and all the good there was in her.
I believe Paulo has been drawn extra beautiful in Double Down to show how all this beauty, and trust, and genuine care couldn't break thought her self-destroying habits. And I'm okay with that as long as Lucy stays the only broken one.
>There have been plenty of times when he has shown a genuine emphaty towards his situation with Sandy. It's not like he only talks Sandy when he's irritated with Mike, he used to simply ask about her to check if everything's cool.
I can think of maybe one time that's ever happened. Usually Paulo is either teasing/mocking Mike over Sandy or telling him how to handle his garbage relationship.
>Paulo has immediately forgoten all his grudges the second he has seen Mike casually chatting with Sandy at the school. He was so happy back then. I think he really cares.
What? Paulo was surprised at Mike's good fortune. He wasn't acting happy for him. In fact the next time Mike came up, Paulo told Lucy he'd happily dump him as a friend if it meant getting back into her good graces.
>What was Taeshi's masterplan?
She has an ancient set of dusty plot points she pulls from a hat and recycles constantly because apparently these are the only stories she cares to tell.
>I believe Paulo has been drawn extra beautiful in Double Down to show how all this beauty, and trust, and genuine care couldn't break thought her self-destroying habits.
He was drawn sobbing like a b***h because he dared to anger Lucy. Also he was weirdly curvy because Taeshi is clearly using female references for all of her characters now.
> if it meant getting back into her good graces
That's where I have to disagree. He didn't do it to win her over again, he did it to make her open up for him as a friend.
Paulo obviously cares about Lucy, but they are so distant that there's nothing he can do for her. Lucy has explicitly told him several times that she doesn't care about him, doesn't consider him a friend and that she returned not for him.
But now, in Double Down, she voluntarily comes to him and chooses him to help her. She puts some trust in him, she's willing to talk, they share a laugh and then she opens up about her feeling a little… And that's the moment Paulo snaps. This is his chance! This is his chance to help her, his chance to really talk to her, his chance to releave her of her burden. After all this years she finally trusts him enough!
And this is the reason he goes all-in. He quite literally doubles down. I believe he was so afraid to lose the moment that he has barely thought about what he was going to say. All of this to prove that he isn't a failure, that he can help because she does trust him enough.
Only to get slapped in the face after yet another "You have never been my friend".
This must've been worse than Abbey's throat slam. If he doesn't learn from this experience, then he won't ever be able to learn from anything at all.
Getting Lucy to open up means winning her over. She is turbo autistic and absolutely refuses to be a true friend to anyone but her one special someone. And even that has a strong element of self-service.
Adding to my comment, when did Lucy get all open and jokey during that chapter? She seemed pretty detached during the walk home and Paulo tried pushing her to open up.
probably referring to this single page
Yeah that's not Lucy opening up. If Paulo thought that was his chance, he's an idiot. Like how many times can one guy fail to learn that Lucy just does not trust him and never will?
Man, Paulo must be so jealous of Augustus being her security blanket. There was absolutely no reason why he couldn't have swooped in and taken his place. Yes, he was dating Jasmine, but it's not like he saw her all that much.
Taeshi has a whole AU about that in the BCI
>There was absolutely no reason why he couldn't have swooped in and taken his place. Yes, he was dating Jasmine, but it's not like he saw her all that much.
Oh, no, Lucy would absolutely not have that. The very fact that Paulo started dating other girls for real made Lucy feel "betrayed" even though neither of them were in a relationship with each other. All he had done was comfort her as a friend and keep up reasonable boundaries. But it was still enough to write Paulo out of the will forever. Also Mike was the only boy she had eyes for at the time. Augustus was her confidant but had not yet achieved security blanket status.
Taeshi really should play with the jealousy aspect but, no, Paulo seems barely aware that Augustus is even around.
Taeshi thought this was very romantic
I had to read through this again to find the panel, I forgot how gross this chapter was with how it just completely trashes mike
I can see why Taeshi likes it, which factors into why she was enthused about Liam. Both were alternative ships for Lucy during a time when Mike absolutely rejected her. Taeshi enmeshes far too much of herself into Lucy as a character, and I really do think she managed to depress herself just by dragging Lucy through the mud. Paulo and Liam were both pick-me-ups for her and Lucy.
Having Mike thoroughly and ruthlessly reject Lucy was something Taeshi herself did, it's ridiculous that she would retreat so hard into two safety ships over a falling out that she caused
God, everytime I think about how dirty she did Mike I feel so pissed off I could break something
Augustus and Paulo are enablers for Lucy's abusive behavior. When Lucy lashes out to Paulo, it's really his own fault.
Dude, why are they even friends? Like, there's only so much bashing one can get before it starts getting on the nerves. Paulo is just constantly shitting on Mike, there is barely any camaraderie between them; for every 20 interactions Paulo has with Mike, there's maybe 1 friendly one.
Mike really does act like a battered house wife most of the time, it's both sad and revolting. Dude should just tell people to frick off and focus on himself, put up some boundaries, specially with Sandy, Paulo and Lucy. Those mfs toxic as hell.
There is only one solution.
Grow will leave jagged edges, better to tweak the threshold setting or use a simple color replace IMO. On the other hand, it's a shitpost so who cares.
>it's a shitpost so who cares.
fair enough.
So I take it David's angle on "found family" will be a red herring as it is way too obvious and Taeshi likes her mid- or late-chapter reveals.
>David's angle on "found family"
David finds his family, in that he discovers he fathered five children during last year's christmas orgy.
Or more likely, "found family" refers to him wanting Paulo's dad to bone his mom.
>Or more likely, "found family" refers to him wanting Paulo's dad to bone his mom.
No shit, really?
We still have plenty of pages to go, we don't know what he's planning on doing the rest of the evening. He may as well go back to Mike's place to parent trap their parents so that Mike and Paulo can make out in peace (until Lucy shows up).
Who knows what David would mean by the word "family" if he considers someone jerking off to you a "friend".
David would be more interesting if he got rabidly jealous when Paulo decides that Mike, not he, gets adoptive sibling status.
Why does every panel I see of this comic have someone crying in it?
I want to BE Lucy
I'm not surprised we didn't get the road trip route. That would have been too ambitious for Taeshi. Whenever she wants a change in scenery these days, it's always the movie theater or the park. Probably because neither are a challenge to draw and effort is harrrrrrrrrd.
ARE THEY GOING TO DO IT?
ARE MIKE AND PAULO FINALLY GOING TO FRICK!?
If by "frick" you mean "At midnight Paulo kisses Mike who then spurges how he has le loyal girlfriend and then nothing happens besides going back to status quo" then yes
I think Mike is well beyond sperging by this point. Apparently Taeshi thinks that he "no longer considers himself correct" and this has made all the difference when it comes to his mentality and behavior.
Obnoxious and gaslight-y as that sounds, it does make some sense. Mike's sense of self-confidence and worth have been broken, so of course he's a wishy washy little wet noodle, who only got mad at David because of his relentless shitting.
>More Alej homosexualry
Ewww
I'm curious as to how Taeshi will frick him up, given he is one of the few things that impart the story any tension at all. Knowing how this comic works, it's clear she has at least some vague long-term idea of how to bring him back in.
It turns out Amaya is a hobby gunsmith, and she exercises her second amendment rights when he turns up to kidnap them.
Amaya 😀 is a good boy, he doesn't have any guns
Sue's boyfriend is cute but not someone who could carry a weapon.
>Lucy's always been protective of Daisy
She gave up the moment she started dating Abbey. As soon as she was no longer competing for the Mike bowl, Lucy lost interest
Cmon he's never coming back or at best you'll see him in some flashback
That's not how the comic works. Taeshi's included clear reminders he is a part of the plot. Yes, their inclusion was years ago. No, that is not an indication that any such plot was dropped. Anyone who understands how this comic works knows that.
Can't believe nobody made the obvious edits for this chapter. Then again, I'm too lazy to do it too.
Those edits would never fly on a blue board.
There are other boards, you know.
To be fair, confrontation was rewritten ages ago. She still regrets it, even with the second rewrite the chapter is kind of cringe.
Trash on Monday?
Sure, why not.
Between her legs, obviously. She's "enjoying the scenery"
Does anyone even have anything to show
Where is her hand?
I've never seen a comic look so ass before
Cringe stories are preferable to super boring stories that try to cater to the fans/lowest common denominator. Cringe at least has some soul behind it, rather than sanding off all the edges to try and spin wheels forever.
I straight up enjoy cringe because 100% of the time it's people putting their honest feelings out there, and that's what Taeshi was doing back in the day
Is Mike throwing Lucy through the air to save her life cringe and nonsensical?
Yeah, but it accomplishes what it's supposed to, it sets stakes and tries to instill an emotion in you that isn't hatred to be exploited for cash.
Entirely true and correct. One man's cringe is another man's kino.
Learn how to use "Grow" in gimp. I can still see that white around the outlines
>no one cares
That's a lie
>but I'll take requests
More Lucy getting involved with Sue bullying plz or perhaps Paulo's mom fricking her new husband right in front of Paulo's dad?
Whether we like it or not BCB has a special place on Cinemaphile
In the pits of hell
Paulo knew exactly what he was doing when he threw Mike under the bus. Otherwise he would not have felt so guilty afterward.
I miss when Jordan wasn't just "Mike if Sandy fully broke him"
>if
How is that not current Mike?
Because Mike still resents it and Jordan is just completely broken in
Jordan almost got his dick wet
Would you still read the comic if it wasn't furry?
*Pfffff* hell no, I'm here for the furry appeal.
furry comic btw suit
Taeshi... was right???
No, she just can't draw and was making empty excuses.
No, that would suck too. I'm fine with the style
No
It's interesting to see, but i don't think so. Would probably check it once every year or so, but it'd lose some of it's appeal.
Bring back Lucyjandro