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I'mma make fun of a bad comic now.
So this is supposed to be showing how horrible Lily's upbringing was, right? By showing her as a child breaking something expensive that her father obviously worked to buy, and then by her mom getting fed up with her teenage angst.
I highly suspect that this is taken from life (as is the next panel, mostly) and this is the pinnacle of Lily's parental abuse... get the fuck over it. Kids get yelled at. We don't have any context for the latter, but it's hard to forget that Lily has proudly discussed beating the shit out of her younger sister for hogging the remote was institutionalized for physically assaulting her father.
Lily has also gone on to scream at, regularly insult and dehumanize, and threaten to murder people she doesn't like, so it's real hard to sympathize with 'people were mean to me'. And she doesn't believe in the cycle of abuse so she can't even excuse being a raging bitch by saying she learned it from you, Dad.
Those two are definitely juvenile teenage fantasies about how horrible her first world middle class upbringing was, but this one actually aggravates me because this is a Pokemon comic. Set in the Pokemon world. Where everybody has Pokemon.
A universe where, in the games, you visit Pokemon schools and the kids all battle you with the Pokemon that they brought to class with them.
Why would anybody in-universe be mocked and shamed for showing up at school with their Pokemon? Especially one that's supposed to be as incredibly rare and valuable as Gardevoir are in this universe. Pretty sure this is what happened:
I'm guessing this was supposed to be the breakup with
Now, credit where it's due, the overall comic is actually a really sweet sentiment and this is probably the most consistent that Mikaila's art has been for the comic in a while. So good job. Issues still, yeah, but... I know what she's going for and the four pages are cute.
This comic has been a creative outlet for me, and my friends, because as absurd as it is, it has been one of the more engaging things Lily's made.
Good for you. I do mean that. I tried to actually read Madhouse from the beginning the other day and had to give up a few pages in. Between the writing, the art, and the awful choice of formatting it just wasn't worth the effort. But if you're getting something out of it I'm glad.
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