The surprise is strong with you. o3o

earth to edward
you a freaking jackass...

Oh stop yooooou! Hes JUST trying to help. Tho Mr Beard dose have A certain right to see whom ever he likes, as long they below 18 years of age.

Well... "Hell is paved with good intentions".

True but he do have a point

i don't think that excuse all the "plan behind his back"

I never said it does~

Deep in his heart, he means well. o3o

Also, RAWR! :D

!! =D

the expressions are really good on this page :)

Thanks! It took a while to get them right in this page, but I'll count that compliment as a sign of success! >3

Haha, I like Derek's shirt. ^^
but I still feel Edward has a point. Derek is doing what happened to him in the past. it does feel similar. and if he doesn't stop, he could do the same to Scott. He needs to think of this more clearly. maybe some time alone to mull things over.

Edward is definitely not going by the book, but his point is undeniable. =o

And thanks! =D

so... he's coward

Not really. o3o

the birdie can be right about scott be to young...but that don't justify his actions

It definitely doesn't, but then again, Edward was never one for doing things the old-fashioned way. =o

it's always a bit of a miff to be the person doing something 'for someone else's own good'
Especially when they never really asked for it.

You better hope your sweet stars your positive about what your doing thought
Otherwise all your 'help' comes out as painful unhelpful drama
That doesn't end up solving whatever 'problem' you took it upon yourself to fix.

Not saying edward is necessarily wrong
More just that his 'solution' doesn't sound like one that actually benefits derek.

I don't see how pulling an entire operation and flopping a life upside down will make someone 'get their romantic grips'

Well, we can say that Edward's plan didn't had the predicted results, but it didn't fail as a whole.

In the end, he's just trying to do what he thinks is best.
After all, after dealing with someone for years, eventually you learn what works and what doesn't. =o

It did a thing, sure

Just can't really tell right now if it was acutally the right thing =p

Edward's saying he's Derek's best friend, yet he's moving away because he doesn't want to see him sabotage his own relationships, when he pulls a whole operation doing just that. Edward... you sound like a hypocrite.
I can understand he just wanted to help him, though if the plan doesn't go well intentions will hardly matter if you're doing more harm then good.

I think Edward is so deep in his own mess to go back at this stage. =o

If you could call something absolutely "right", then life would be too easy...

Definitely. =o

They're both in the wrong

Both are too proud to simply admit defeat, though. =o

Derek and Edward just need to fuck each other and get it over with.

Edward does have a point, but he's still in the wrong. If he thinks the relationship is going to fail, sabotaging it isn't the right thing to do. He doesn't want to see Derek's relationship to fall apart, but he isn't taking Derek's feelings into account. He's going out of his way, and behind Derek's back, to stop the relationship from happening so that he doesn't have to see it crash and burn. So in a convoluted way, Edward's only looking out for himself. He wants to spare himself the bad feelings of watching his friend suffer, but he doesn't care much about his friend's suffering.

If he wanted to help Derek out, the best thing he should've done was to just tell him what he felt from the beginning. Either help him learn to avoid whatever ruined his previous relationships in the beginning, or just keep trying to convince him that the relationship is going to fall apart.

At least that's the impression I get from this page. I haven't really read this comic, it just keeps appearing in my FA feed for some reason.

In the past Edward told Derek that this is a bad idea, yet Derek insists on it.
In the end, Edward just got tired and is going away.

Either way, maybe you watched me? That'd explain the comic popping up in your feed. :P

Derek's got a cute shirt~

The second best, that's for sure. o3o

Being right for the wrong reasons and being wrong for all the right reasons seems to resonate between these two.

Quite a lot, in fact! O:

Huh, Edward actually seems reasonable by this.

He does! Doesn't he?

Sei não

Ninguém sabe. :<

Damn. Drama just got to a whole new level.

So much fun! >3

Storywise, Edward makes the plot more interesting. Yeah, some hate him, some dislike his plotting, some are questioning his sexuality. But really the last thing you want from your readers is indifference towards the characters or the story in general. You want reactions, not meh.

Secretly, I'd like you do more with him, at least a simple retrospective story arc. When you live in denial for too long, the denial becomes your life. You keep on feeding it like a cuckoo's egg, until it pushes out all other chickens from the nest. Then it flies away, leaving you alone with a nest empty as a black hole...

Thing is he doesn't make a lot of sense. None of this is stopping Derek from doing whatever he wants. It doesn't really move things forward either. The plots just sort of stalled ever since this scheme kicked into gear.

What you want is characters who advance the plot.

If Edward didn't interfere, this would've been just another comic about two gay guys hooking up (Derek and Scott). They'd make out, and in the morning after, they'd ride out into the sunset (and live happily ever after the last page). That's how I see it.

That's how it originally went, really.

In the second part, Derek got a call from his boss, not from Mike.
And on the next day, Derek wasn't divided between Edward's and Mike's disapproval of Scott, and Scott himself wasn't under Jane's pressure to admit so rushedly something he himself wasn't sure of.

When they both meet, they just talked it out, went home and balls touched.

Sexually appealing? Definitely.
Interesting and novel? Not really.

That's how I see it, though. :P

That's a good show of taste! :)

I grew up with Fur-piled, and matured with Heathen City. These two are like the two sides of the same coin: one representing the struggle of a young person, and the other one describing struggle to survive in a real world, where real shit start to happen. Each kind of storytelling has it's audience, and it's goals. I probably wouldn't be the same person as I am now if I hadn't passed through the easy stuff first, hard ones later.

In fact, the next couple pages are the last ones before returning to Scott, Jane and Matthew.

But then again, if I said more, I'd be saying too much.

I still blame the weekly update schedule.
I think the story would flow SO MUCH BETTER if you could see a whole arc without weekly pauses nor interruptions.
But yeah, after the next couple pages, I guess that anyone who goes back and reads it, might have a different vision on it.

Truth to be told though, I tried to "solve" this situation in a rushed way, and I might have rushed way too much, to the point that things does not makes sense.
I do have some cards under my sleeve, let's see if it matches the dealer's table, though. :P

Yes! Seeing the valley from the top of the mountain is much different than watching it while climbing. I think I'd re-read entire Golden Week once it's finished. :)

wooow, Edward has an interesting point, after this, i give him the reason

BOOM! Ed has nailed it! >3

yup

I totally adore Derek's first panel look away cringing glance from Edward. Nice work on the second panel using Derek's POV of Edward's face.