130. Victim Complex, page posted 8/12/26

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Victim Complex — Page 24

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Veronica: This sequence makes me laugh a little, like Lucy is acting like she’s being told off by a principal or a parent or something. As if she was just caught smoking.

to be fair mike is certainly her addictio--

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Comment ID #210183

His look really gives watch in gonna catch you when we get home

Zambies  

Comment ID #210184

The next page is gonna be rough, isn’t it?

Druda Gaming  

Comment ID #210185

Oh Mike’s gonna pay for this isn’t he

Washington BC  

Comment ID #210186

And he quite literally didn’t do anything…

At point, Mike isn’t paying, he’s being robbed by Augustus

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210187

For some reason I just keep thinking of the Spongebob camping episode where Squidward keeps getting mauled by the sea bear. “WHAT DID I DO THIS TIME?!” “I don’t know! I guess he just doesn’t like you!”

Washington BC  

Comment ID #210188

You must be my sibling.

I just posted a comment talking about how next panel will be the SpongeBob episodes where the Townspeople kicked the old man’s butt when the old did nothing wrong

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210189

Ooh you’re so right though

Washington BC  

Comment ID #210190

He can smell the bs lol that or mikes stench

ABCDBUTLUR  

Comment ID #210191

“Lucy, don’t lie to me… you’ve got Boy Smell on you”

M0use  

Comment ID #210192

Oh Lucy dudeee ahhh

Berry  

Comment ID #210193

Yeah, it feels awful to be ignored, isn’t it?

OneTrickDanny  

Comment ID #210194

I hope he rats her out 😒

Brittany  

Comment ID #210195

That was effective, but yikes. Auggie saw right through the tactics.

Becca  

Comment ID #210196

Lol oh god is Auggy about to verbally put Mike into the ground?? Also I think it’s cute that Lucy actually paid enough to Daisy to know she’s got a speech coming up!! Daaawww :)

esinololly  

Comment ID #210197

Bro Mike didn’t even do anything this time and he’s still going to get torn a new one

Washington BC  

Comment ID #210198

Right!!??

esinololly  

Comment ID #210199

Verbally alone!?

I think this time Augustus is gonna take advantage of Mike’s condition and actually throw paws with him.

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210200

I don’t think it’s been mentioned much but Lucy is super perceptive and very aware. She just has certain… Mike-shaped blindspots

whiteboypizza  

Comment ID #210201

Tbh Auggy just never struck me as the type to throw hands! Psychologically throwing hands though….

esinololly  

Comment ID #210202

True, but I think he might just be angry enough to try this time, especially since Mike is in no condition to fight back too

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210203

Oh dear

Joselyn Rivera  

Comment ID #210204

Thank you Lucy for covering for Mike (even though he did nothing wrong here).

Now we can move on to a nice calm comic pan-

Augustus… what that look on your face?

Augustus… please don’t!

Augustus!….

Noooooooooooo!

Please spare Mike! He’s has quite literally done nothing wrong.

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210205

Expert level dodge

Insomni-act  

Comment ID #210206

Augustus glowering beneath the speech bubble is cracking me up

Nev Ravenoak  

Comment ID #210207

Augustus’ senses are tingling. Time to take it out on Mike!

Metal Raven  

Comment ID #210208

I can probably predict that Augustus will go to Mike for answers, or will find Lucy by herself and ask again what happened

Yummy  

Comment ID #210209

She’s delaying the inevitable, but will probably dismiss him later at home. Or retaliate by bringing up his phone ringing off the hook in the other room. Either way she’s absolutely spiraling.

Blaster824  

Comment ID #210210

Daisy’s obliviousness (kinda) saves the day (for maybe a few pages)

she clearly has issues trusting you, dude. you’ve directly ignored her while she’s pleading you to stop doing something allegedly in her name, and even if you don’t know the extent, how do you think people feel when they know you’re constantly carrying around a reminder of someone they clearly have bad history with?

SomeColourMage  

Comment ID #210211

Trust is really not the issue. I think you are using the wrong word(?)

Also, did I miss where she asked him for that? (Asking for real).

Honestly It’s not so complicated. Lucy doesn’t want to confide in her friends because they are the ones she doesn’t trust. She doesn’t want to “bother” Auggy, and then she gets an anxity attack, goes outside, and has a mental breakdown on Mike. She goes back in, knowing she shouldn’t have done that, and bam, Auggy confronts her. She gets nervous and flustered because she knows she’s supposed to keep away from Mike and so doesn’t want to say/admit that she “messed up” and went to Mike. I get her.

As for Auggy, I think he’s having mix emotions between feeling he failed to watch over her and feeling a pinch of “we are trying so hard to keep you emotionally safe but then you just go to him? What is this all for, then?”

But, uh yeah, those are just my thoughts.

WitchDoll  

Comment ID #210212

she outright told Augustus to stop the second she entered the fight in Line. before that she’d made it clear that she really didn’t want him doing anything about it. as much as it may have been causing her issue, she did not believe her existence should fetter Mike or vice versa, they both still have a right to exist in areas that they may sometimes overlap. that and the phone were two separate points that both have straining effects on what they feel for each other and how much Lucy’s willing to be open to him

and yes, trust does factor into it, even if it’s not the only factor

SomeColourMage  

Comment ID #210213

I’m sorry, I don’t understand the first part.

Out of all the others, Lucy trusts Auggy the most, second place after Mike (if they were still friends, or a couple). After everything she and Augustus went through together, that trust can’t be erased so easily. If anything then Auggy is the one to start having some trust issues to let her be alone during lunch. ;>_>

Lucy is also annoyingly stubborn and wants to deal with her problems all by herself, so I think that stops her from properly asking Auggy to shut that phone up. :/

Maybe in the next chapter, Lucy will finally put her foot down regarding that buzzing.

Either way, I think you’re wrong, and you think I’m wrong, so we leave it at that, i guess.

WitchDoll  

Comment ID #210214

This glare has never ended well before…

Lil_Brimstone  

Comment ID #210215

Even if he confronts Mike and he admits nothing happened, Augustus will still find a reason to push Mike further and further down than where he already is.

Relathain  

Comment ID #210216

Jordan and Augustus are about to jump Mike and I’m scared

Grey Dev  

Comment ID #210217

I have a feeling James may wanna put in a few hits too

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210218

Why do I get the feeling what goes down next, is similar to the SpongeBob episode, when townspeople kicked the old man’s butt, when the old man did absolutely nothing wrong?

Crossbreeze  

Comment ID #210219

“I love the young people”

Snowstar837  

Comment ID #210220

Running to daisy is sick lol

M.L. Scotland  

Comment ID #210221

So I was partially right, but the way I was wrong makes it worse.

Countdown to NO WITNESSES, but somehow it’s Mike’s fault in 3…2…1…

Slipdance  

Comment ID #210222

Holy deflection, Batman

whiteboypizza  

Comment ID #210223

ah, the perfect person!!

Sablix  

Comment ID #210224

Deploy the tactical Daisy smokescreen

tooie  

Comment ID #210225

Lmfaaaaooo

esinololly  

Comment ID #210226

Concequences can’t catch me if i keep walking away

Kiall Vun Myeret  

Comment ID #210227

It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup…

Mandy Seley  

Comment ID #210228

Her face in the third panel is adorable

Snowstar837  

Comment ID #210229

Augustus is starting to look like Mike after one of his arguments with Lucy.

Sometimes a Badger  

Comment ID #210230

I’m worried Augustus will do something that may cost him his scholarship or may bring attention to his home life

⚰️ Irani ⚰️  

Comment ID #210231

Like what if he gets in trouble and they call his parents and for once they answer?

⚰️ Irani ⚰️  

Comment ID #210232

Daisy also being someone that Augustus isn’t comfortable being an ass around 👀

Cynnat  

Comment ID #210233

Oh my, what’s this? Is Augustus about to understand why Michael use to get so mad at her?

SeebeeNangins  

Comment ID #210234

He mad.

SCD  

Comment ID #210235

I feel like Augustus is going to be angry with Lucy, not Mike, becuase he might see this as her “wasting” the help he’s giving her.

Auggie keeps doing what he thinks is best, which is keeping the two of them apart, and now it looks (to him) like Lucy is deliberately speedrunning her next crashout despite his best efforts.

He’s just starting to understand what it’s like to be “normal”, and now he’s looking down the barrel of more responsibility for the girl that (imo, rightfully) blames him for part of her CPTSD.

Man, V & O, you know how to weave a story’s threads so tightly that the characters always feel like they only have one option (which is of course the option that causes the most DRAMA)

Elizabeth Hunter  

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