“Eternal Flame”, page 42
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Comments
I felt you on this. They are still teens and pretty much you said right. Mike just have to like legit reflect on himself. So far he's pushing people cast to the side and pretty much not acknowledge it til it's biting him badly. So to that Mike like I said before sit it out. He can state what he have and pretty.much reflect how Sandy push him to do the damage control. So I agree with you 100%.
NeshBearWorks
2021-05-17 07:25:16 +0000 UTCSeriously guys, these kids are still what, Sophomore or Junior year? Sure, some are more mature than others, but look at how far most of them came to get to that point. Every turning point for almost every character in the comic so far has been prefaced with that character's actions coming back to bite them. Now it's Mike's turn, and though some people might think this chapter isn't enough karma for him... it hadn't been just this chapter. Mike has been suffering for practically a YEAR in universe by this point, with everything getting progressively worse for him right up until this, the straw that broke thw camel's back. He's not over-reacting or exaggerating, he's seeing a relationship spanning over a decade, one that sent him in a downward spiral to try and maintain hope of it working out, causing him heaps of stress, which he even cut out Lucy to maintain, (which, mind you, SANDY prompted by feeding Mike how awful Lucy was, saying he shouldn't be friends with her anymore. People conveniently seem to forget THAT little detail when blaming Mike alone for the awful things he said) only to unintentionally be the one responsible for her attempt on her own life, then pushing everyone close to him away as they start questioning his relationship so he can hang onto to his childhood fantasy and delusion, and then... poof. One call, one sentence, and now everything crumbles down around him. He pushed Lucy to attempt to end her life for nothing, he was flat-out awful to his friends when they turned out to be right, and basically wasted his entire childhood fantasizing about a relationship that led him nowhere but down into a depressed solitude. Is Mike instnatly redeemed because of his suffering? Of course not. He DEFINITELY needs to start confronting his own actions, figure himself out, and apologizing, REALLY apologizing, to basically every single one of his friends, not a single one of which is obligated to accept Mike's apology, least of all Lucy. But odds are most of them would because... well, they've matured. But desiring even MORE suffering for a late teen that currently feels like their entire world is collapsing around them because all the consequences of his words and actions over the course of a year suddenly caught up to him in the span of a few minutes? Seems like it would be a bit overkill at this point, no? There's plenty of time to spend on Mike being forced to make up for specific transgressions, he doesn't need to suffer much more before we reach that point.
Alec
2021-05-17 02:47:21 +0000 UTCI think my favorite part of this comic is reading how viscerally angry people get about teenage cats. Like Mike and Lucy both suck, that’s the point, they’re teenagers, teenagers are melodramatic jerks.
Steven Pope
2021-05-16 06:17:11 +0000 UTC
