Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Totally forgot there was a time when The Simpsions were funny.

and punch and kick and kick kick kick kick kick
the Mikie and Lucy shooooow~

I….understand none of what are clearly quite a few references here.


Should I feel bad about that?

Why shouldn’t he be frozen?

…oh, Itchy and Scratchy….right… .



If you’ll excuse me, geek-honor demands seppuku.

No!!!!! Easily forget-able dog girl don’t leave, your futile attempts to get noticed by David are one of the more hilarious portions of the comic, please come back!

WELL THAT WAS THAT NOW HOW ABOUT MAKING MCCAIN A MAIN CHARACTER?? ITLL BOOST UR RATINS!!!

…This made me burst out laughing for like a good minute or so.

…….Heh? OO

… Who was ❚❚❚❚❚❚ again?

I just read through this entire comic. I hope you’re happy as I have yet ANOTHER of these damn things to follow!

Haha, but seriously, I’m loving the story so far. I’m a sucker for sappy teenage drama like this, and I’ve fallen in literary love with your characters. Can’t wait to see how it all plays out~

maybe they will die on their own planet……… ….

well, ❚❚❚❚❚❚ being an alien makes sense

funny

was ❚❚❚❚❚❚ a dog

Poor ❚❚❚❚❚❚, at least I suppose it was a quick and painless death. And I don’t think she will be that missed, specially by David.

Simpsoms reference with included sunglasses is win.

You better hope the makers of the Simpson’s don’t sue you for copyright.

Oh taeshi, must you alienate her?

the second panel is drawn in simpsons style right? or am i the only one who thought that

fdf

Whats those numbers and letters at square 4?

Am i the only one who notices that make and lucy have the same expretion through the whole comic?

@ Kou

Imma guess that’s the images cell data number thing.

I don’t know exactly how it works, but its like the image is drawn on a piece of plastic, which is then overlayed with other pieces so that they can be moved around at will. It’s definetlly an old method.

Maybe there’s a smart person around who knows what the hell i’m on about.

It’s a Simpsons parody! Yaaaay!

@BCBDisciple: It’s actually drawn on something called cel-paper or something along those lines.

Lol. And they’re both like.

… O

Cel-sheet, that’s what it was.

Thanks for the explaining.

LOL SIMPSONS PARODY, nice ;D itchy and scratchy aint nothing compared to lucy and mikie.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHA The SIMPSON

hehehe xD Simpsons

hey bout the incentive, what was Mike looking for? o .o

Noooooo!, now i’m sad, i knew she was leaving but i jsut didnt wana belive it (PS: Got the refrence(’s) before reading comments )

I laughed so much… that was one of my favorite parts from the Simpsons

You jacked that from Itchy and Scratchy I think..,

Greatest ending ever

Why is mike in an ice block? Or is that some sort of blue plastic/fiberglass/whatever material wall to protect most his body from Lucy?

You actually redrew the picture 3 times *applause* soem would’ve copied-

Lucy lacks the chainsaw.

heh… hilarious. You gotta love the Simpsons joke(though you’ve got plenty of material to use, since The Simpsons has been going on for 20 years). Definitely put this in my favorites folder and read more often.

FFF haha. I was reading this page this morning in class and my classmates LOL’d too.

Bye bye, ❚❚❚❚❚❚~ ;w;

Spoof of The Simpsons Itchy,Scratchy and Poochie show episode.
Minus the chainsaw.

Haven’t posted in a while thigh i mean to do so more often and I liaghed
my but off when i saw the Simpson refrence and lucy looks cool in all the panels.

wait….where is that turtle that tripped Paolo (or how ever you spell his name)

Haha this is hilarious!
I love how Lucy looks in all of the panels - so cute :3

Oh wait, I think I know why Mike’s in a block of ice. Cause of Lucy’s cold shoulder.

Gosh that was lame.

look at my bolded text

Third panel: *Insert canned laughter*
Sourth Panel: *”Live studio audience” cheers*

I do hope this is just another gag and not the actual final farewell to everyone’s favorite forgotten canine. :’(

Also, I never realized how much shorter Lucy is compared to the other characters…

That’s right, kids, ❚❚❚❚❚❚’s DEAD!

*cheers*

Major props for this one. Oh, how I love crack and silliness.

I like how the space occupied by the speech bubbles in the first panel suddenly collapses in #’s 3 & 4 so that ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is only a few feet from Lucy & Mike instead of a couple yards like at first panel.

/snarky criticism

Seriously though, good on you for actually redrawing each panel rather than copy/pasting and shifting elements around.

But I like Her! I must be the only one….

but who is she? xD

Farewell, ❚❚❚❚❚❚…

Gah dammit… She was one of my favorite characters!
This better be a gag comic, or YOU DON’T GET A COOKIE! (::)

Nope, not a gag. =3

Why is she leaving again?

I KNEW IT!

good riddance
she didnt add ANYTHING to the comic

Just read the entire archive in one night, and I’m obviously completely hooked! <33
(Man, there’s probably loads of these comments but, yeah.;;;)

why ❚❚❚❚❚❚ left? well aleast she won,t be miss …. rigth?

well, bye bye ❚❚❚❚❚❚. we shall remember you~
(maybe not xD)

aww i liked having ❚❚❚❚❚❚ around…btw davids my actual name

ang bagal naman ng access ng com. wag na matingnan ang mga chapter nito.

I found your comic through an ad on “Housepets” and just finished reading through the archive, I am enthralled by the story and will definitely be coming back for future updates, keep up the great work.

This is sad. I was sure that ❚❚❚❚❚❚ just needed one more chance. She didn’t go really far while trying to catch David’s heart. She had plenty of potential to go overly dramatic while trying to get her relationship working. Now David will be forever stuck as comic relief.

Well.

Yep.

Alrighty then, i guess it WAS the last we saw of her.

Reminds me of a Family Guy episode were Peter said that the network was gonna cut their budget making poor animation!

Love the Simpsons joke <3
I am loving your comic already…even though it isn’t simpsons .3.

Man Mike is one cool guy. Also NOOOO ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is gone! But the name does kind of coincide with her being not of this planet. And how did she die in space hit an asteroid run into tie-fighter?

Random Simpson’s joke? Not a necessarily a bad thing.

that was very strange… very very strange

Goodbye fair ❚❚❚❚❚❚, we shal miss you

i’m gonna mis how david always forgot her name

i love this comic so much, i understand it better then my own life! wich i know is kinda sad, but if you take this comic, mash it together with twokinds, a skewed paradise, happy hour, concession, furthia high, 2g, parallel dementia, emergency exit, and beyond reality, you get an inkling of what my life is like. it’s actually even crayzier than that, but that’s the only way i can explain it. btw, these are all webcomics. and i agree with taco on this one

I don’t know why I keep reading this comic O_O I like it a lot, but it started out quite fun and just kept getting more and more depressing, but i’m hooked!

Did I forget to take my meds again?

For those confused, it’s a reference a Simpsons episode involving Poochie, a temporary character on the cartoon-in-a-cartoon show of Itchy & Scratchy.

OMG, I can´t stop laughing xD

That was so awesome, I love your drawings ;D

lol when did you get an AD on bear nuts?

… :[

The Lucy,Mikeie and ❚❚❚❚❚❚ Show?

Needs Moar Lucy with Chainsaw

Yo this coic is awesome

*The Ninja silently opens a filing cabinet in the government archives. The pages don’t even rustle as he searches through the folder. He finally finds what he was searching for…*

@What is my name??: …There’s a coffee stain on the page, but it looks like your name is Justin…or is that an ‘o’…stupid government record-keeping…

*The Ninja sneaks out grumbling angrily about federal bureaucrats*

awwww… ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is gone ?
too bad,the episode where she appears the first time is one of my favorites.

i don’t get it???

why is he frozen???

strange????????????

is she trying to be dumb like david

❚❚❚❚❚❚ was apparently a fan character, and then was being removed from the comic, so this intermission is just to remove her with some closure, rather then just having her disappear.

Like many others, I found the comic through a link from Housepets. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying (And spent a few too many late nights reading through the archives!)!
Thanks a bunch, I can’t wait to see more!

its friday 5:52pm what time dose the thinggo on

only 2:55 here, but still…

…. Simpsons.

XD

HEY. You and your awesome comic kept me up until 4 AM. THANKS FOR DEPRIVING ME OF SLEEP :

R.I.P ❚❚❚❚❚❚

She’ll probably show up again
Oh, and I counted, and as with most good comic authors, I saw this trend >.>
Comics posted in 06 - 28
07 - 13
18 - 2… (but they were good)
09 - 8 >.<
10 - 2 so far, and already 4.5 months in… meep

Im all scarederated now! At this rate, if you finish in 2015, you will be posting 1 welldrawn comic per year >.<
meep.
Im probabbly just ovverreacting tho

I think I am acually going to miss her

WOW

Simpsons did it!

She’s gone?…….THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ‘SHE’S FRICKEN GONE’?!

uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

❚❚❚❚❚❚ was pretty cool T .T

What is Mike even doing

*facepalm*

I…don’t think I’m going to accept that she’s gone. Not until there’s some kind of in-cannon explanation. Something as basic as “she moved away” would suffice. Heck, I’d even take the “transferred to another school” hand-wave without (much) complaint.

It’s funny just how many people do’t get the simpsons reerence, I guess not everyone has watched (literaly) every simpsons episode like me

-pushes down Lucy and Mike billboards-

I saw this episode a few days ago

HOLY CRAP! SHES AN ALIEN!

WHY THE HELL IS MIKE FROZEN!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously why is he frozen…

That is a good question… Why is Mike frozen? Symbolism because he’s being so cold to Lucy? Or is it just one of those “why not,” moments?

Simpsons Meg and Dante, watch it.

so she will never be used again………kinda new to the comic, and have just reread the whole thing, i find it very sad to just take out a character. i liked her, she was a good comic relief (no pun intendid). at least it diddnt kill the story.

I think I missed the part where ❚❚❚❚❚❚ poofed o.o

Where’s Lucy’s chainsaw?

looks real… I liked ❚❚❚❚❚❚…

that was the best Simpson’s episode ever…well actually no, it sucked, by today’s standards at least

back to what i wanted to say. i don’t feel anything for her. i didn’t really like her and she was basically two jokes that got reused over and over again so i think this needed to happen sooner or later before it got old

I totally saw this coming. !! -ego- -ego- x3

I love that episode!

Whoa, Mike surely is cool!
Cool enough to freeze himself

Wow, I just saw this Simpson’s episode the other day I couldn’t stop laughing when I thought of this, it actually makes sense now!!

I love ❚❚❚❚❚❚ why did she have to die =`(

SO…MANY…QUESTIONS.

Now all we need is for it to be revealed that “Maishul’s” imaginary sandy actually forgot about him years ago and he’s actually been receiving letters now from To Catch A Predator’s Chris Hansen. He’ll show up there and chris hansen will step in and say “Why don’t you sit do—wait what? You’re a kid? You’re actually a KID, this entire time? … Cut. Stop the cameras. I can’t ❚❚❚❚ing believe this ❚❚❚❚.”

SO AWESOME FOR DOING THAT <3

So we just have a character die completely outside of the story? She´s even marked Deceased in the characters list. What?

Goodbye Shadow ;w;

“So, ❚❚❚❚❚❚ was an alien?” “I guess so.”

Wait… HUH!?!? I’m rather confused, sure I understand that the title says she is gone… (I know the reference you’re throwing at us too Lol.) though I’m just really confused as to what happened really… in the words of Mike… “I’M SO CONFLICTED!!!”… okay, done there, still just downright confused.

aliens come back… but the one that came out of black mesa never die!
CURSE YOU HEAD CRAB!!!!!!

mike frozen

She…Died…WTF?

haha Poochy from Simpsons!!!

she died because mario encountered her in space
P.S.he had yoshi with him

lol encountered with mario and he had yoshi

lol just like simpsons itchy and scratchy and poochie

I…..what?

Wait…WHAT? O_o

lol love that Simpsons episode…sad to see her go though oh well.

The name’s ❚❚❚❚❚❚ D, and I rock the telly! I’m half Joe Camel and a third Fonzarelli!

…

No one is going to get that.

did noone see that mike is in a block of ice?

Awww, I liked ❚❚❚❚❚❚ x_x At least you didn’t make it seventeen scoops of angsty, so I thank you for that!

hm.. i wonder why, again this page has the most comments i think, wrong again for me:P

haha simpsons reference. awesome.
i remember seeing this scene in the episode, i laughed for about half an hour after it was over.

DAMN YOU FOR REMINDING ME!

Couldn’t stop laughing the first time I read this! I still crack up every time I read this page.

So someone threatened to sue unless she was removed?

@Kevin: Noooo, not at all. I just didn’t want her in the canon comic anymore.

0.0!
Awkwerd much?
Im prety shure that infringes on copyright in some way

Wait what was this?

wait.. what?
o.o

Buwahahahaha.

Simpsons.

…I still don’t get why Mike’s frozen…

eh?

Old comic but I must say, second panel, I can’t help but imagine ❚❚❚❚❚❚ suddenly speaking in an incredibly deep masculine voice.

awww, ❚❚❚❚❚❚ ;w;

I wanted you to do something amazing to make David remember your name (or say something that sounded closely like your name, lol) before you die! ;w;

I liked youuu, I’m gonna miss you

I do not know what happened, so fill me in by sending an email to this address: tstriker1@gmail.com

So ❚❚❚❚❚❚ was poochie??

OMG that was the best thing i have ever read in my life. This is like pure epicness, i mean did you see how much emotion was in this? It beautiful. T_T

@ Skyen: Yeah!

you got that from the simpsions
lololololololololololol

yay for poochy style exit. only one thing, Lucy is missing the chainsaw.

That was INCREDIBLE.

awesome simpsons reference

NOOOOOOOOO i love ❚❚❚❚❚❚!

Someone explain why you got rid of ❚❚❚❚❚❚?!

I had a fancomic set up with ❚❚❚❚❚❚ as a final plot point/joke set up. I look at the character page, and I didn’t know you were serious about killing her off!

❚❚❚❚❚❚, please don’t go :C
we’ll remember you :’(
(except david, but who cares)

well, its not like all friends always stay with you through h.s. and what she was doing would eventuilly get old i guess. cus the only thing about her is that she likes david

………………..looooooooooooool

Well, ❚❚❚❚❚❚ will be back and she’ll pair off with David.

KizunaxDavid and SuexAlec. Yes, I’m a terrible abomination.

lucy looks so cute in the first panel, looks like she could make a redick sammich

why she leave and why is mike frozen

She left because she isn’t an official(?) character and had to be terminated. ):<
Also this is a sort of parody of a simpsons episode.

Mike is Frozen in the same position all the time
they don’t seem the least bit surprised that she’s FLYING

Why is Mike frozen?

@TalonStripe I’m not surprised at all that ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is flying because she’s so clumsy that she could already fly in her own way

laaaawl, simpson’s joke?

WOW!! i didnt know she came from another planet!!! COOL!

lmao

LOL

Ah, an old Simpsons moment…

I laughed so hard at this.

Poochie FTW.

Aw, I liked her, I thought her head phones were cool

Aww I liked her too, her constant trials to get David to notice her was a good add to the comic in my opinion, though I have to think that killing her may have gone a bit too far…

No more ❚❚❚❚❚❚…

…..wait,… WTF. ❚❚❚❚❚❚❚ out now, I don’t really care but. That was pretty sudden

TH-TH-TH-TH-THAT’S ALL, FOLKS!

Anytime I’m feeling depressed, I think about this page and laugh my head off.
Goodbye, ❚❚❚❚❚❚. You will be missed.

YES! YESS! YESSS!

Old Simpson Reference for the win!

Why she is died?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I never really got this, until I recently watched an episode of The Simpsons.
Like, horrible movie editing, just froze the picture and made a rough ”cut out” of the person and moved it out xD

Hehe…
for all those in the world who don’t understand this:
You know the Simpsons, right?
And the Itchy&Scratchy Show embedded in it?
A long time ago, the makers of Itch’n’Scratch tried to introduce another caracter. I forgot his name, but he was a beagle. But because he outright RUINED the show, they ejected him in the next episode just how you can see it here, except I think the word “painfully” was with the death message…

What? She’s dead? NOOO! We’ll miss you …. wait… what was her name again?

NO! I WANTED DAVID AND HER TO KISS! ITS NOT FAIR! ):

i seconded zilla

uuuuuuuhhhhhh???????:question:

She died? Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat…

wait is kazuna gone for good? i really liked her lolz;_;

Noooooooooooo she made bcb very funny with her clumsiness. Refer to the field day episode of bcb chapter 14 I think

So… why. is mike in an ice cube?

I agree with skyen. If no ones been readin my comments, I keep up a hardcore #1fan thing for McCain going cause he’s my #1 favorite comic character of all time.
Go McCain!

YOU GOT THAT FROM THE SIMPSONS!!!!

lol simpsons epXD

WTF?

How original…

It’s nit like David will remember her.

Simpsons did it.

Love the ❚❚❚❚❚❚ censorship

and then ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is out of the character….. SHES GONE FOREVER!!!!!!

TAESHI, WHY R U MAKE SHE OUT OF ALL THE CHARACTER/???

Actually my Crimson guards Have her in a stasis chamber. She was Caught just before Entering the Void. So technically Shes still Alive….Kinda…Sorta.

you cant kill her off! she was in the group!!!
she went with them to acapol- acapoluo- acaphfdf… that place with them!!! shes permanately engraved in the relationship chart!!!
sir… i challenge you to fisticuffs!!

Best comic you’ve ever made.

*claps*

Well, that’s one way to kill off a character…..

aww, so we don’t see her again *fakes sadness*

I’m sure this is making fun of something, but I have no idea what. Why is Mike frozen from the neck down?

So ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is officially ousted from the comic?

Simpsons reference!

why is Mike frozen?!

y is mike frozen in ice…..?

um, okieokie then. I would be laughing really hard, but im trying to figure out what happened
XD

I’m attempting to say her name without being censored… here goes…K
I
Z
U
N
A
Did it work?

It’s like TEN SUPERBOWLS!!!!!

K
I
Z
U
N
A
was a pretty strange character anyway..
But still.. My question is to this….. WHAT? I don’t get it… Is this some kind of reference or….?

the comic is a reference to the simpsons episode when homer made a character for ichy and scratchy

Ahhah! So THAT’S why he has a scarf! Without it, he freezes immediately!

I’m sorry, the hell just happened here?

I really wish ❚❚❚❚❚❚ would be back. She was a fun character, why’d she haf ta die!

WHAT? YOU MEAN SHE NEVER GETS DAVID? D8
but they were so cute o^o even if he WAS a clueless idiot DX -cries-

OMFG I GOT THE REFERENCE! THE SIMPSONS! THAT DOG CHARACTER IN ITCHY AND SCRATCHY!

LMAO you are so awesome for this reference !

soooo is she really gone? I don’t want her to leave!

Disappointing. San-I didn’t like it. David and Her are perfect together. But my opinion doesn’t really matter since he’s in love with the silly Flower Girl who doesn’t have a name currently and who wasn’t with him as much as ❚❚❚❚❚❚. But David’s David. And the Author probably already has a plan and needed her to leave. If anything this will be a negative point for me and won’t ever change unless she came back, and this issue was renounced as a “Troll”.

…I sound way to serious didn’t I.

I STILL don’t understand this. I mean, I know that ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is a fancharacter and her creator wanted her out of the comic, but WHY? Did he/she not like the way she was depicted? Did they feel like you weren’t writing her in-character? I don’t get it! Help me out here!

And why is her name censored?!

Hahaha! Oh, ❚❚❚❚❚❚, you so dead! Awesome Simpsons reference there. Nice!

Everyone started Mourning the day after this page came out. ” No, NOT ❚❚❚❚❚❚!”

…. the simpsons did that
i wonder if matt groening can sue you for that…
i hope not, i really like this comic

Yeah—*yawn*…

Ryoushi-kun, the Simpsons did everything. South Park even made an episode where the fact that they did everything was a plot point. The title of that episode was “The Simpsons Already Did It”.

Why the heck did yo u get rid of ❚❚❚❚❚❚ !!! I liked her. I wanted to see her dating David !!!!! WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL SIMPSONS FATALITY!!!


FLAWLESS VICTORY!!!

wait… what?

YES! Useless character gone!

i know this reference its from the simpsons episode where homer gets a job as a character on itchy and scratchy show

Still doesn’t explain why they have to censor her name out >3>

Also…

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DX

*cries*

*sobs*

*Angsts*

*pulls an early “Mike”*

*Angsts some more*

*continues reading*

I’ve been reading through the archive and always wondered why her name was censored in comments, I don’t know the story behind this and I could be way off the mark, but the whole thing comes off as a petty grudge of some sort.

I’ve been digging the comic and will continue to enjoy it, but I am disappoint.

Apparently, Kizuna’s creator got cheesed off at Taeshi for not including ❚❚❚❚❚❚’s backstory (said backstory involved Kizuna being the daughter of yakuza agents who were whacked by rival gangsters, and Kizuna herself narrowly avoided being killed herself… by killing the hitman sent after her. Not intentionally, I think, but still not exactly pleasant.) Anyways, Taeshi wanted to use Kizuna first and foremost as a gag character (not unlike David, actually), but Kizuna’s creator was having none of that, and demanded that Kizuna be written out of the comic altogether.

@Squin a bit of drama fitting of the series, wouldn’t you say? makes for a nice arc.

THA ❚❚❚❚?!

……I just had a big fanfiction idea…..

Panel four made me cackle!

check out ❚❚❚❚❚❚ on panel 2

I love how ❚❚❚❚❚❚ is censored now.