this chapter starts with mike and lucy fighting over nothing! i'm sensing a pattern. here's a cute drawing of lucy:
ah, i love the blob proportions.
so this chapter is kind of... sad, actually? this is supposed to further elaborate on how mike and lucy bonded as little kids, but it's just a lot of them fighting and not having fun. this is the first thing lucy does when mike gets near her:
lucy tries to give mike the "i can do anything you can do!" speech, but then mike gets distracted and walks away because he's in preschool. after being rejected by him and a singular other child, lucy decides that she has no future with anyone and plays alone out of spite.
look, it's katie and stacy! stacy says at some point that she and katie have been friends all their lives or something like that. this is proof!
anyways, mike sees lucy sitting alone, and decides to be a good kid and reach out to her. then, this happens:
if you've read bcb before, you will probably find this sequence really funny, because it looks like a parody of stuff that happens to these kids, like, a decade later. high school lucy is still repeating behaviors that she adopted before she was in kindergarten. that's so fucking funny, what's her problem?
anyway, now that we've established one important negative lucy trait, here's another- they spend the rest of the flashback hitting each other with whatever ball they were tossing around.
not even mike's playmates are having fun...
the chapter ends with lucy snapping mike out of his reverie to try to continue their argument. mike, emboldened by positive(??????) memories, concedes and gives lucy a hug. then she beats the shit out of him.
i swear, this stuff is like, required reading for anybody who wants to know why mike is such a huge dick to her later in life.
back to the main comic yet...? not even close! next up, another graveyard chapter: Development of Friendship!