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Bittersweet Candy Bowl

48. Pick Me Up, chapter posted 3/31/09

Page 11 of 11

Pick Me Up — Page 11
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Taeshi’s Commentary On This Page

Last panel: sucks. His body is distorted, look at that twisted blobfoot at the bottom.

Anyway, no matter how much I whined throughout this chapter, I did like the concept of having another outsider looking into Lucy and Mike’s conflict. Zachary was the observer in the summer vacation arc, and it basically seems to have a pattern of Lucy being freaken nuts.

People might slap me on the wrist at my recent PauloxLucyness. I want to basically come out and say I freaken LOVE PauloxLucy, and I GUESS it might have affected the story a bit (Considering that not everything is set in stone), but I guarantee you that anything absolutely crucial to the comic is not changed to be more PauloxLucy. Certain things cannot change, and by certain things, I mean the ending. So no matter what happens, the ending will not change.

And regarding PauloxLucy, this didn’t really come out of thin air. There has ALWAYS been a tension between the two characters, going as far as Paulo’s creation. In the original Bittersweet comic (The comics I did when I was twelve), Paulo was built as a sole love interest for Lucy, someone that would take Lucy away and be a “better” person. Paulo was even hinted as a huge interest in the first chapter of this revival, Lucy was fawning over him etc. So of course, even now, they’re gonna have their clashes, but one thing’s for sure, Lucy’s never going to fully go his way. And Paulo knows that. The page before, they weren’t even NEAR making out. They would have never gone that far even if Mike didn’t appear.. Paulo just likes to push his luck hence the ass-grab.. I mean why not? He knows he’s never gonna be the one. Might as well cop a feel once in a while and get as much as he can, that’s how he rolls.

I SHOULD SLEEP.

18 Reader Comments On This Page

Comment ID #2753

GRABBED ASS-ASS GRAB-COP A FEEL!

Loyal Reader April 6, 2010, 8:36 PM EST.

Comment ID #4903

PauloxLucy forever :P

Giraffe April 16, 2010, 10:25 PM EST.

Comment ID #4935

heh heh heh… since you admitted it here, i guess I wont be worrying about this relationship in the current pages >:D (2010)
YES!!!!!

Rift April 17, 2010, 1:16 AM EST.

Comment ID #5437

o___o you’ve bin doing this sinse you were twelve….o___o…ww wwwwwwWTF!!!! D:

LucifersAngelFeather April 18, 2010, 2:05 PM EST.

Comment ID #5657

I second Rift…but I’m still fidgeting.

Jerk April 19, 2010, 3:17 AM EST.

Comment ID #6736

Awww an end to the comic… I understand its hard to keep a story like this going, but it breaks my heart.

Daborior April 21, 2010, 10:05 PM EST.

Comment ID #7239

Sixth Panel:
Bipolarism hook in the face FTW.
WORD.

El Legendario April 22, 2010, 4:20 PM EST.

Comment ID #9549

lol paulo

bored April 28, 2010, 6:00 AM EST.

Comment ID #14801

I think the best thing about this admission is the fact that you didn’t say that things wouldn’t end up Paulo x Lucy, you merely said it wouldn’t be made any more so. ;D

The biggest thing about this comic is that it reminds me of… well, myself. And not in a good way. I was Mike back in high school, though my (female) friends (at least a couple of whom had crushes on me, as well as probably a few other people :( ) were much less ascerbic and vice-versa. And of course, I pined away for someone I couldn’t have… not that I’d change anything, but reading this comic, I get more of the female point of view, and man, it would have sucked to be someone who liked me in high school.

I really love your comic, and am now an avid fan. Thank you for making it!

Titanium Dragon May 4, 2010, 8:06 AM EST.

Comment ID #39888

*Supports PauloxLucy*

Rock Kenaro June 8, 2010, 6:49 PM EST.

Comment ID #45817

This is really cute ^_^’

Ju June 17, 2010, 9:11 PM EST.

Comment ID #60576

PAULOXLUCY FOREVA LOL

weeeee! July 17, 2010, 5:49 AM EST.

Comment ID #60743

Mike’s line “So are we cool then?” reminded me of the last page from “Unmerry Melodies.” For those who want a link for quick reference, it’s the 4th page of the 24th chapter. Quite a lot has happened since then, though.

Mick G. July 18, 2010, 3:49 AM EST.

Comment ID #68368

Paulo x Lucy

Your Random Name here :3 August 2, 2010, 12:33 AM EST.

Comment ID #69254

Hehe, I like your little commentary on this Taeshi!

Skykitsune August 3, 2010, 7:48 PM EST.

Comment ID #73163

Atta boy, Paulo! >:D

RyuPuma August 11, 2010, 10:46 AM EST.

Comment ID #80918

zomg reminds me of one of the first comics…Things are going back to normal?

Manwithnoname August 24, 2010, 1:37 AM EST.

Comment ID #83057

Last panel is like “Haters gonna hate” :D Boy’s a playa!

Lax August 28, 2010, 3:53 AM EST.

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