Bittersweet Candy Bowl

83. Small Fry, page posted 6/6/14

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Veronica: maybe get sam to help you drive for double the recklessness

What nice warm colours~ I really like the way this page came out, rosy sunset.

Reader comments

Comment ID #282038

I think he means “kill him with stress”, and he thinks Tess has more of a level head and won’t freak out as badly as his already-stressed-from-work dad. Learning to drive is really all about trusting yourself and your instructor, because when it’s all said and done it’s the instructor giving directions and teaching you stuff.

Paulo should pick up the manual and do the written test first, but he’s gotta pay for that test. Good thing he’s got a job!

Zone June 6, 2014, 1:55 PM EDT.

Comment ID #282050

@Pinki

Because he wants to be less of a burden on his single father who’s constantly overworked from making sure they have a home.

Welcome to the reality of the lower class in countries without a proper safety net to help the poor and unfortunate.

That includes USA.

Suns June 6, 2014, 3:44 PM EDT.

Comment ID #282104

OT: Oh boy I wonder what Paulo is going to crash into first.

@Thanatos:

I’ll support him in spite of you.

‘he was willing to let lucy get raped’

Let me stop you right there.

1. Paulo wasn’t exactly that willing. He got the crap beaten out of him yes, but he wasn’t willing. The same person that instilled that fear of barking used it against him as a tactic. I don’t know if you about fear, but if one is strong enough it could make a person completely shut down. Yes it’s a thing that happens.

2. For it to be ‘willing’, like you keep oh-so insisting, Alejandro would have to have made some sort of deal to Paulo to spare him if he handed Lucy over or just leave his friends behind and Paulo would to have agreed to said deal. But none of that really happened. In fact he was one of the first ones to take a stand against him.

3. There was no rape or even an implication of rape of Lucy. Intent to rape? Yes. Sexually assaulted? Yes but not raped. The story I fell would have gone in a completely different direction had Lucy been raped don’t ya think?

‘HE FLAT OUT STATED HE’D BE FINE WITH KILLING TESS!’

No he didn’t flat out say it. You see this is why people don’t like you. You make very aggregated assumptions about a webcomic character that you particularly don’t like and you REALLY don’t take time to understand what they are saying or what’s going on. Instead you dart to the comments sections after skimming over the comic to make one rant after another about why Paulo is a diseased, selfish and horny SOB. Rinse and repeat. Day in day out.

Paulo is a bonehead, short sighted and hot headed some of the time but there are little glimpses of another side of him that are sweet and caring and that’s why I like and support him.

EDIT: I understand that I am not helping by not ignoring him but I just wanted to get my 2 cents in.