I will...eventually 5/8/15

[Weltall84]

I'll put this in Dalek-speak for your Alex:

*turns on voice modulator* EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN!!!!!




That joke aside....dude Candi ain't buying your shit...fess up douchenozzle.

[LadyObvious23]

-___- He's scared of his Grandmother isn't he? Totally understandable but he can try to pretend that he isn't.

[Weltall84]

-___- He's scared of his Grandmother isn't he? Totally understandable but he can try to pretend that he isn't.

Doesn't surprise me, but damn that boy needs to grow a set. Nobody likes hearing someone go "Ha I was right!", especially when the source is a hypocritical old bat; but until she's dead he has to man up and deal with her eventually finding out that he and the girl she didn't approve of broke up. At the very least she won't bat an eye about his infidelity if he brings it up considering she let her husband cheat left and right on her without making sure he needed an ice pack for his balls everytime he came in the door.

[Triple J]

Candi's expression in that final panel is absolutely perfect, it sums up her and our own feelings spot on.

[BenjaminT]

Maybe he got kicked out of his apartment (after getting in a fight with Nate?) and is homeless. He doesn't want to call his grandma until he has everything worked out in fear that she'll force him to come back and live with her. Candi's going to grudgingly let him crash at her place until he finds an apartment....

[prime_pm]

"...cause, technically, this phone is all I can afford right now?"

[PaulJones202718]

It could be anything. He could not want to admit that she was right about Linda, he could not want to admit that his living arrangements have changed, he could not want to admit that his grades are in the shitter or he could not want to admit that he realized what a creep he's been to pretty much everyone in the Foundation House for no other reason than he's a spoiled brat who thinks he farts rainbows. Either way, he needs to man up, take his medicine and not get Candi dragged into his bullshit.

[Sylvanaerie]

I really like the strip today. The juxtaposition of grey walls behind scruffy Alex, reinforcing the 'hiding out' and his furtive, sideways glancing, versus Candi's energy with pretty sunny blue skies and fluffy clouds giving an impression of fresh air and general openness and (in the final panel) her expression of "My bullshit-o-meter just pinged off the charts".

Alex is obviously avoiding and afraid of taking his lumps, not realizing by putting it off, it's just making it worse because his grandmother is just going to be more and more worried cut off like this, and on top of having to deal with any number of "I told you so's" and "Now you can go back to the 'nice' one", he is going to have to deal with the load of guilt she will dump on him for 'making her worry'.

[Attalus]

Maybe he got kicked out of his apartment (after getting in a fight with Nate?) and is homeless. He doesn't want to call his grandma until he has everything worked out in fear that she'll force him to come back and live with her.

We can always hope m

Candi's going to grudgingly let him crash at her place until he finds an apartment....

Um, Linda, his ex, is still staying there......

[BenjaminT]

Candi's going to grudgingly let him crash at her place until he finds an apartment....

Um, Linda, his ex, is still staying there......

Linda is at Becca's now. Although it would be funny if Linda and Alex were both hiding out in different rooms of the same house.

[Wi1dfire]

Either way, he needs to man up, take his medicine and not get Candi dragged into his bullshit.

In fairness, he's not responsible for Candi being dragged into this, aside from his overall responsibility for the mess in the first place. There are quite a few things he's done to make Candi's life miserable, but that one Brujita came up with on her own.

[UnstoppableTaboo]

This does indeed look like Alex is just being a dumbass and avoiding responsibility. Darn, and here I had hoped it might be more substantial. Well, I guess we'll see what his reasoning is~

[Mew-Universe]

Candi's expression in that final panel is absolutely perfect, it sums up her and our own feelings spot on.

I was about to say this myself, but you took the words right off my keyboard.

[carbuncle1992]

Seriously, Alex is wallowing in so much self pity he's just letting himself go. I'll be surprised if the next panel isn't him telling him about his miserable circumstances.

[PaulJones202718]

Seriously, Alex is wallowing in so much self pity he's just letting himself go. I'll be surprised if the next panel isn't him telling him about his miserable circumstances.

The look on her face in the last panel tells me that she's successfully interpreted his "miserable circumstance" as "being unable to convince some girl to either become his personal penis sheath or to resume that role."