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Zambies

Sue WAIT WAITTTT

whiteboypizza

Excellent speech bubbles on this one

Metal Raven

Damn Sue! She’s got that “Sick of it” look that Mike used to wear.

Zambies

Lucelle will prevail tho ;___; my heart believes it

Sometimes a Badger

Good on you for putting it out there. If this trauma has been nesting for so long inside Lucy, misconceptions need to be brought up and interrogated.

sammy

Oh sue I love you ❤️

Lykky

Shit's gettin' real

Firelilly027

Honestly they both have good points

Rocky Wolfknight

I hope Sue keeps cornering her. It's long overdue for Lucy to get called out

OneTrickDanny

HOT DAMN SUE, you're nailing it! Don't fumble now

Rocky Wolfknight

I'm kinda worried whatever she say next, Lucy will lose it and hit her across the face

nalem

Lucy's needed someone to put her in her place for a while now. Good job, Sue. I'm sympathetic to Lucy, but come on. Who's she to call someone self-absorbed?

Skittiberri

As messy as this is, Lucy NEEDS to hear this. She's not the only one with trauma. I feel bad for both of them ;;

Michelle M.

I mean, I understand Sue’s perspective here. If I were in her shoes and being accused it would be hard to NOT stand up for myself. It would be really hurtful to be accused of this. I don’t know how productive this conversation will be but I think Lucy needs to hear another person’s perspective of what happened too. I have a lot of sympathy for Lucy. I think what happened to her was profoundly traumatic, but her memories of what happened seem to have been distorted over the years.

Yummy

👀

SomeColourMage

that is literally your own logic, Lucy. there's nothing that was ever going to stop that being the response for raging at her over that also it's clearly not a common thought amongst deranged people because it's not deranged to throw someone's words back at them lol

Fiver

This is happening loudly outside, i wonder whose listening in

Kiall Vun Myeret

Now for the hard realisation that she spend so long blaming others for not checking on her that she never bothered to check in on others either

Bats

Sue is making some excellent points! But Lucy IS the only one of them that was getting -sexually- assaulted. And considering she already had issues with being overly sexualised before this, I can def see why it's fucked her up so badly.

Bats

It's good it's finally coming out because none of them ever really talked about what happened to them that day since it occurred.

Boss

I do feel for Lucy, the issue is when you’re a victim. Especially so young, no one wants to be a victim (potentially). You do two things- blame yourself or blame others. Lucy definitely blames others and doesn’t consider others being a victim because she doesn’t want to believe she IS a victim. But in the end putting blame on someone else doesn’t heal or remove the trauma. I also think it’s fair for Sue to say this whether it’s true or not. It’s all about PERCEPTION. And if Lucy is going to have a perception of them then it’s going to be the same for them. If she wants to call them out then the same goes for Sue. But it is baffling how Lucy thinks 12-13 year olds would know what to do other than get beat up. Last thing, it is kinda funny she puts Mike on a pedestal in this situation when the only reason he did anything was because he was tipsy. Who knows what his actual reaction would’ve been if he wasn’t.

Michelle M.

Yeah, I think that’s she key difference in the trauma Lucy is dealing with, vs. her other friends (who were also, understandably, traumatized in their own way). Sadly I don’t know if either of them are capable of talking about the nuances of that right now…

Bats

She definitely does need to be reminded that they were all kids in a really scary situation where some of them had ALREADY gotten hurt. That said, if I were any of her friends, it would absolutely haunt me if I saw that happening to her and felt I couldn't do anything to stop it.

Kiall Vun Myeret

In her reluctant defence, it is important to note that Lucy didn't just experience that night She experienced versions of that night again and again in her nightmares So this is the first time Lucy being unreasonable is pretty... well reasonable It's good Sue is reminding her exactly what happened, even if it's hard to hear

Bats

For sure, but it at least puts it out there and gives them a chance to think about it later when things aren't so heated. They also are STILL kids and being self-absorbed is pretty normal at their age.

Rocky Wolfknight

Honestly I think she has no idea what she wants anymore She keeps claiming and saying she doesn't want to deal with Mike or even want him in her life. Yet after that whole incident with August, she keeps coming back to him, and here she is saying Mike did something that they couldn't. She has everything she wants back, being at the table and others. Yet spites them and STILL goes outside where Mike is and cry and hugs for him.

Frith

stop stop shes already dead!!

Michelle M.

Indeed, she has been reliving what happened to her again and again—she’s more or less told nobody about what’s happened or how profoundly it’s affected her, and she has stewed alone in it for so long. I understand why she feels the way she does, I wish the poor girl could get help. Unfortunately, none of them knew how to deal with this.

Red Miso

They didn't even go in swinging Paulo stepped up first to try and protect them and got folded like laundry before he could do anything and Sue tried to talk them out of it

esinololly

Jesus I actually feel bad for Lucy to hear it like this, as important as this conversation is. I wonder how this will affect the lunch table dynamic now ... Here's hoping for the best!

Steven Pope

I was in high school about the time this comic takes place and there were plenty of Lucies in my life. I wish I had the courage Sue has in this scene.

AlienSpawn

Finally someone called Lucy out, trauma no matter how horrible is not an excuse to be hostile to other people or act like you need be babied constantly and then resent others for concern, hopefully now sue ends her whole, I’m pushing Mike away to pull Lucy in nonsense.

Pel

She IS the only one among them that got close to losing consciousness and was put in what probably felt like imminently mortal danger, I don’t really blame her for wanting that to mean something

Firelilly027

To be honest she needs therapy. Both her and mike, i really feel that is going to be the only way they can move forward in a healthy way.

Crossbreeze

And Sue smashes the Lucy Pedestal herself!!!!

Rocky Wolfknight

That's IF August doesn't keep butting in. His instigation likely set that back for Mike, and Lucy, by a MILE

⚰️ Irani ⚰️

I fell behind 🥺 I'm at a loss for words, this is exactly the type of argument to break a cycle. Though, we need to see the whole and the after for something like this.

kurris

Sue is the one who called Lucy self-absorbed

Paprika

Lucy got sexually assaulted and the shit beaten out of her and has been reliving it in her head ever since but sure Sue you had it just as bad

nalem

If you look at the speech bubble from the last page where it says "You're so self-absorbed," its tail points toward the character on the right, not Sue. See how the next panel the speech tail is pointing at Sue? It's shorter and going towards her face. The context also supports it. Sue is emotional, her speech bubbles aren't round, but spiky to infer her emotional state. Just sayin'

mobsterseeker

I feel bad for both of these girls. I'm worried that such harsh reality checks may be too difficult and confusing to swallow and worried that the fear of thinking back on that day is causing them to lash out in ways they'll both probably regret in hindsight. Even so though I feel like it's important that they're both getting to voice these things. These feelings will only fester the longer they go on while refusing to voice or confront them at all, and things only get more distorted.

SCD

Ouch!

Krymz0nstreams

Well it looks like Lucy's hypocrisy is being highlighted and rubbed in her face. What say you now Lucy stans?

Catcata

that that’s okay :-)

Crossbreeze

Doesn't excuse Lucy treating her friends like trash, the same friends who were happy to be with her again, and it doesn't invalidate the traumatic experience each of her friends went through that day either. Which Lucy is having a hard time understanding.

Paprika

It doesn’t invalidate what they went through but it’s not equal. My previous comment is mostly directed at the other commenters who are so anti-Lucy they’re dismissing how traumatic what Lucy went through outright

Elmanii

@Paprika "But sure Sue you had it bad..." See how easily you just dismissed Sue's trauma, even though she was punched in the face by a grown man and almost had her nose broken? No one dismissed how much trauma Lucy went through that night. Everyone's only pointing out that Lucy dismisses everyone else's feelings/trauma without a second thought. While expecting them to jump through the same hoops she didn't leap through for them. Which is true; she didn't stand up when Sue got punched, only when Mike was in danger. This is not the trauma Olympics; these are children. And you did what you claim other commenters are doing: you dismissed one child's trauma for another. That's like saying we should minimize Paulo's trauma, resulting from his mother abandoning him and starting a new family. Because Abbey has trauma from his father actually murdering his mother. Does that now mean that Abbey's pain trumps Lucy's? Because at least she still has both of her parents, right? That's not how it works. People experience trauma every day, and that shouldn't ever be minimized just because someone else might've had it worse.

Kiall Vun Myeret

@Elmanii wonderfully said If every person could dismiss others trauma cause "they got it worse" then the logical conclusion to that is that only a single person's trauma in the world would matter Which wouldn't be a world i want to live in

Paprika

That’s why I try to correct it in my other comment. And you say no one is dismissing her trauma but all I’ve been seeing is people putting Lucy down for not getting over what she went through and showing no sympathy to the messy way people handle that trauma. Instead they cheer for Sue to put Lucy “in her place” and (like you) condemn her for not standing up to two adult men early enough, which considering what happens to her seemed like a bad idea. The way Lucy is handling things isn’t perfect but the amount of hate in see in these comments are disgusting

Crossbreeze (edited)

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2026-10-30 03:00 There are gonna some people who are happy seeing Lucy being bashed, which I do not condone, and some who are not happy. But I think for the most part the reason why people are cheering for Sue isn't because they want "to put Lucy in her place", it's because however crude the conversation may be, (they're children after all), it puts things into perspective for Lucy. A perspective that has been warped and corrupted by her trauma, and nightmares. Should we the reader expect Sue not to ask Lucy about why she's insulting her, or Paulo, and Daisy, when Lucy keeps doing it on and on without end? How long should they enable Lucy's verbal abuse towards them, and put up with it? Until she finally manages her trauma in a more positive/mature way? And how long will that take? Weeks? Months? Years? Till they're no longer friends with Lucy? It's because we the readers are invested in these friendships why we cheer when characters are confronted with their flaws, (as long as it's done as reasonably as possible, I still dislike what August did to Mike), because we want the characters we care about to develop to be better people. You said it yourself, "The way Lucy is handling things isn't perfect." So we're glad that Sue is not just calling out Lucy, but trying to understand why she's acting the way she is, because it's realistic and it's an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed for the sake of Lucy's development.
2026-10-29 18:55 There are gonna some people who are happy seeing Lucy being bashed, which I do not condone, and some who are not happy. But I think for the most part the reason why people are cheering for Sue isn't because they want "to put Lucy in her place", it's because however crude the conversation may be, (they're children after all), it puts things into a clearer perspective for Lucy. A perspective that originally has been warped and corrupted by her trauma, and nightmares. Should we the reader expect Sue not to ask Lucy about why she's insulting her, or Paulo, and Daisy, when Lucy keeps doing it on and on without end? How long should they enable Lucy's verbal abuse towards them, and put up with it? Until she finally manages her trauma in a more positive/mature way? And how long will that take? Weeks? Months? Years? Till they're no longer friends with Lucy? It's because we the readers are invested in these friendships why we cheer when characters are confronted with their flaws, (as long as it's done as reasonably as possible, I still dislike what August did to Mike), because we want the characters we care about to develop to be better people. You said it yourself, "The way Lucy is handling things isn't perfect." So we're glad that Sue is not just calling out Lucy, but trying to understand why she's acting the way she is, because it's realistic and it's an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed for the sake of Lucy's development.

There are gonna some people who are happy seeing Lucy being bashed, which I do not condone, and some who are not happy. But I think for the most part the reason why people are cheering for Sue isn't because they want "to put Lucy in her place", it's because however crude the conversation may be, (they're children after all), it puts things into a clearer perspective for Lucy. A perspective that originally has been warped and corrupted by her trauma, and nightmares. Should we the reader expect Sue not to ask Lucy about why she's insulting her, or Paulo, and Daisy, when Lucy keeps doing it on and on without end? How long should they enable Lucy's verbal abuse towards them, and put up with it? Until she finally manages her trauma in a more positive/mature way? And how long will that take? Weeks? Months? Years? Till they're no longer friends with Lucy? It's because we the readers are invested in these friendships why we cheer when characters are confronted with their flaws, (as long as it's done as reasonably as possible, I still dislike what August did to Mike), because we want the characters we care about to develop to be better people. You said it yourself, "The way Lucy is handling things isn't perfect." So we're glad that Sue is not just calling out Lucy, but trying to understand why she's acting the way she is, because it's realistic and it's an unresolved issue that needs to be addressed for the sake of Lucy's development.