>Bad People Don't Deserve No Love... Dark days have

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>>77372127

And here we go..

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71OW8RfWDjE

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Oh, Ian...that's some really needless advice

>>77397276
This aint gonna be nice, but then again it hardly ever is.

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>>77397413
No, it's going to get bad and then badder.

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God fucking damn it.
Ron.

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This guy, man, this guy.

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It's not the best thing to say but
Thank you Monster

>>77397593
the cop fucks it up. what a god damn surprise.

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Part 28:
wherein they're both still growing

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>>77397661
Rog is working on limited info...but it is still unfavorable to him

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Yeah...I'd book it as well

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Ian, you're not Charlie Brown.

If anything you're a better looking, more clueless, Orson.

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Damn, he's smooth

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You know what?
I believe in these two dumb kids.

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Joey in a closet is just too much

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His mind is seriously shot at this point.

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Fucking Monster.

>>77397880
>Beth, I love you
Why? She's a terrible person. Everyone in this is a terrible person.

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Part 29:
wherein there's some work to be done

>>77398056
It's explained way down the line

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>>77398056
Oh, wait shit, I thought you meant Monster.
Yeah, no, Ian is a dumbass.

>>77398037
GET DUNKED ON IAN

Has the girl in the trunk in Issue #1 been revealed in released issues yet? Is it the "worst case, go kill yourself" scenario that I'm dreading?

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>>77398099
No chance at all

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>>77398117
The latest any issue so far has been set is in 1987. The first issue is in 1997.

Lapham says he plans to go on as long as he can.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryWEkIS2Y_s

>>77398143
O wow. I expected more significant era-jumps. Didn't realize the 90's hadn't even been touched outside of #1.

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Monster is a, well, aptly named and deserves no real sympathy...but damn if Ron didn't deserve it.

>>77398219
Yeah, no, it's more of a "fill in every blank space possible on this timeline" sort of thing.

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Rog, he ain't so bad a guy.

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>Or Ian
Riiiight

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...goddamn you Monster.

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Jesus...Rog is some sorta supercop

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Right.

>>77398549
joey's face in panel six...

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Part 30:
wherein we can't end...like that.

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You'd have to call it that.

>>77398599
Yeah...coo-coo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOvTmtUFFmo

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Tsk, awww

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Be good, Bobby.

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Part 31:
wherein it's all just good natured fun from now on

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr58WHo2ndM

Alright, it's 1985, but whatever.

>>77398319
Wait a minute, are these the two guys from #21?

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>>77399414
Yeah, Benny and Roger have been throughout the entire arc.

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What a first day!

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I'd say it's the effort that counts...but that's embarrassing.

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That's a signal Leon

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Part 32:
wherein it's just more larks and jovial japes

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Enter - The Finger.

Yes...the Finger.

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Oh fuck.

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Shouldn't have such a brat

>>77400014
Ebin Burn m8

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That's lesson one, kid

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Part 33:
wherein it's all about who you know.

>>77400285
This series has a weird thing with laid-back dads and uptight domineering mothers. It's a little Freudian.

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>>77400563
Completely right.

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Part 34:
wherein it is time for romanza...

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Tonight...on a very special Stray Bullets..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A44GOlZrlVs

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Pft hahaah

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....yeah, that's right Hussey

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Fourth and Fifth panels are fantastic

This arc is hilarious

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>>77401652
It's all in good fun hahah.
God it's this and S&R that get to that really off color dark comedy that this series can get to.

>>77401685
If only Mike had accepted his gayness

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Oh god, Hussey.

>>77401723
If only, if only!

>>77401720

Kinda confused here. Did he kill his friend?

Also, thanks OP. Never heard of this before and it's my new favorite comic.

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Part 35:
wherein you need to believe in love

>>77401831
No, I think he fucked him.
And no problem haha

>>77401736
This whole issue is one of my favourites, just because it starts out feeling like a pretty standard 80's teen movie, AND THEN THINGS TAKE A TURN FOR THE FUCKED!

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https://youtu.be/VdQY7BusJNU?t=40s

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>>77401896
Hussey is so goddamn...jesus christ.
He is definitely a Lapham take on an 80's bad boy.

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Man, getting stabbed in the back when he was 6-7 did not make Kevin any less of a dickhead.

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HAHAHA

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Awww, young love.

TO BE CONTINUED...
As always I hope someone enjoyed this.
I did. See you around.

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BONUS:
The Family Life

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and we are out

>>77397975
breaks my heart when i'm reminded who first issue Janice might be. lapham can always bait and switch tho.

>>77402462
Yeah, I mean if it is her.
If it is, then in a way it sort of makes Joey a retro-active bait and switch in terms of plot significance

This is so addicting. Virginia is giving me major Veronica Mars vibes, but I'm worried something bad is gonna happen to her.

>>77402674
She's got that self assured, confident, and dangerous pluckiness about her. It's endearing.

And yeah, it's addicting. Ran through the whole thing in a few days when I first found it,

>>77398549
fuck man this comic breaks my heart so damn much. bravo laphams.

>>77402594
yeah, it's gotta be one of the two main girls. he can always write his way around it, but it's too significant to the story, i think. then again, wouldn't it be fucked if it's R? really damn Freudian there.

>>77403135
Nah, couldn't be R.
Joey says he's an orphan, Rose is toast by then.

we bump it up for the kids and the youth

>>77403540
The mere prospect that it could be Virginia makes me hesitant to get emotionally involved in this story.

>>77401550
Oh, boy.

>>77408725

>>77409834

up

>>77400165

...frank?

>>77411892
SOMEONE MAKE AN EDIT NOW

>>77406681
really? it's what hooked me when i figured it out back in the day. Virgina's such a great character and Stray Bullets is a crime tragedy, after all.

>>77403540
can't believe Harry's still around in 97. i hope the last issue is his comeuppance via Joey. wouldn't it be great if he ends up with the Mr. Sunshine mantle, post 97? ostensibly, Lapham could write this comic forever and bring it up to the present day. well, if sales are any good. anyone know how Stray Bullets is selling?

>>77412126
It also brings with it a nice twist chronologically. We spend this entire time following Ginny's story and her journey, only for the kid we've only seen in the background to get the spotlight

And yeah, Harry is really durable it appears. I think that it would perfect to end the series with the confrontation of his and Joey. Especially given what we know about them in Sunshine and Roses

The Return of Mr. Sunshine would be too funny, and Lapham could write it forever without bringing it to the present day.
He has 10 years to work with for arcs

>>77412126
>anyone know how Stray Bullets is selling?
Can't find it on Comic Chron.

>>77412164
it would make a nice bookend to the series. i wonder what he'll tackle next after Sunshine and Roses. continuation of the Eli/Virginia story or something out of left field like he did with the first Orson/Beth arc. btw, whatever happened to Amalia? foggy memory here. maybe he could revisit those characters soon, or write a prison arc with Beth.

desu, i kinda wish Lapham's other work was as well done as Stray Bullets. seems like he saves his best for it. Young Liars was great and some of Dan the Unharmable, but i can't seem to get into any of his other work. is Murder Me Dead worth tracking down? or Silverfish?

>>77401085
This could be October 1984, but 1985 is more likely
>>77401860
This is actually November 1985

Also, #37 is January 1986 and not 1984, #38 is March 1986 and not 1985, and #40 is April 1986 and not 1985.

>>77412365
Yeah, both are great. Silverfish is just a fun and exciting crime story and Murder Me Dead is SB level crime.

My internet is too shitty to upload those but what you're looking for is "Murder Me Dead (2014) (digital) (Son of Ultron-Empire)" and "Silverfish HC (2007) (RacerX-DCP)".

>>77412548
cool thanks!

>>77412365
Back when Sunshine and Roses started he says he had about 4 ideas for arcs in mind, so I don't know.
Maybe something in 1987 with Kretch, or some new characters.
Amelia just faded into the background along with Ricky Fish - don't really miss 'em.

But a prison arc for Beth would have good potential.

boom boom boom boom

>>77413315
cool. that's two more years, at his current rate of an arc per year. assuming S & R concludes with 10. i hope he doesn't pull an abrupt exit like he did with issue 40 way back when.

beth prison arc would be a doozy. hell, he could even bring Amalia back for it. not to mention a reunion between Virginia and Beth.

>>77413652
>assuming S & R concludes with 10
Oh, it's going for a full 14-16 issues.

And same. His reasons for the hiatus before were that non-creator owned payed better. Hopefully this has steadied since then.

I also wouldn't mind a series of chaotic one-and-dones.

>>77413706
good to hear we still have about hafl a year's worth of S & R. and, yeah, one and dones would be great after S & R to decompress a bit. maybe back to Virginia's home town to see what those characters have been up to. Besides Love and Rockets, Stray Bullets is the only series that consistently keeps me enthralled with all the characters.

>>77413980
Yeah, I mean, we still have 5-7 more issues to go, but it is possibly my favorite arc so far.
It's well rounded and well, I've always been a fan of Orson haha. His role is way good

Yeah, personally? I want to know more about the Mathematician that Harry wanted.

>>77414812

>>77415952

up

>>77412126
>>77412164
>Harry v Retard-Rage-Joey
Fully expecting that to be the "grand finale" of the series.

>>77401896
really like how this series depicts teenage sexuality as confused children hurting each other in response to their lives not unfolding like they thought they would

>>77418841
that's a STELLAR description. cheers.

>>77418841
...huh. You really got something there.
New thread should be up within the half hour.

Will link.

NEW THREAD
>>77419213

>>77418894
thanks i also would like to comment on how >>77401723
is somewhat inaccurate cuz its clear how this isnt just gay dudes in denial
michael at the very least is bi judging by how invested he is in the girlie mags.
those salacious photos shown during the sex symbolize how both sides of this bj are enacting a sort of male aggression on each other.
there can be no love in this act because its fundamentally an expression of frustration at the girls they simultaneously idolize and demonize as desirable and unattainable.
just like throwing the shuriken at the pinup
there is a temptation to promote positive portrayals of lgbt sexuality in adolescents because of how queerness was and continues to be stigmatized.
but the truth is most all budding sexuality in our society develops in a fucked up and abusive way and the stigmas often make that worse.
that is why this is a good comic.