Bittersweet Candy Bowl

129. Tickets Please, page posted 5/18/26

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Veronica: I like that Mike is always the easy option when it comes to talking about a sensible person, even though Mike hasn’t been very sensible in a long time. But Abbey believes it!

Anyway thank you Daisy for helping Paulo with his vocabulary lol. Where is she, anyway?

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Comment ID #155991

Sue still annoyed at his therapy speak she dont believe him

Gootz

Comment ID #155992

Tbf I wouldn’t believe him either. Doing too much. But as a reader, I love Paulo, and Sue has been mean and out of pocket the whole chapter, so she should be nice to him lol

Nev Ravenoak

Comment ID #155993

Funny, she did the exact same thing to a certain depressed cat we know

The Chosen Revolutionary

Comment ID #155994

Can’t tell if he’s just gone into work mode or being EXTREMELY passive-aggresive with his “apology”. Either way, Sue is NOT taking the olive branch judging by her expression xD

Steven Marshall

Comment ID #155995

Omg - I wonder if Sue is gonna spill to Abby about Paulo dating Daisy… Suuuurely she is not THAT petty right? (I fully believe she might be that petty LOL)

Alex M

Comment ID #155996

Ugh, I could see her doing that… hope it doesn’t happen!!

Becca

Comment ID #155997

Sue please don’t say anything to trigger your haters 😢

Zambies

Comment ID #155998

there’s no way this is going to work

SomeColourMage

Comment ID #155999

Sue blushing pretty hard in that first panel. Sometimes I wonder if there is also an unspoken hate-crush dynamic.

HappySalutations

Comment ID #156000

Its probably from the sheer embarrassment of “losing to someone lesser”

Red Miso

Comment ID #156001

Sue don’t you dare bring up Daisy

Fiver

Comment ID #156002

Alsoucy being the first one to say Mike is very funny all things considered. I wonder how confused James is about this

Fiver

Comment ID #156003

Damn. Lucy lies as easily as she breathes. Not a single hesitation with that cover-up.

Alec

Comment ID #156004

Mike has been an actual good influence on Paulo as much as Daisy, give the boy some actual credit.

AlienSpawn

Comment ID #156005

Lucy immediately understanding who not to say is hilarious. Just tell the man already.

Aesthete Noire

Comment ID #156006

That was approximately as effective as spitting on her face.

Lil_Brimstone

Comment ID #156007

Paulo that was a lot of good sounding words to say, some of which were great things to express, so like good start? But I can’t help but notice that you’re going straight to talking about forgiveness for your past actions and nowhere in that speech did you technically quiiiite say that you’re sorry. That might help!!

mobsterseeker

Comment ID #156008

the funny thing is that this is probably the most competent attempt at an apology in all of BCB and it’s still awful

SomeColourMage

Comment ID #156009

so glad I’ve been a Paulo stand for it all, I’ve been his stand sense the beginning!

Golden_Fennec-231

Comment ID #156010

I agree, Mike is a good influence to others.

SCD

Comment ID #156011

Good lord I hope Sue sees the silver lining in this play at conflict mitigation from BurgerTron HR’s playbook.

I especially like how Lucy is “Oh I know who you’ve been speaking to.”

Good work Mike, let’s see if this leaves a lasting effect.

LackLuster