New It Hurts!! Special

Storytime, anyone?

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They seem to be acting awfully normal, this time around...

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This was actually funny.
And then the characters beat the audience around the head with the joke so hard it gives them a concussion. Why? Just make a gag and leave it alone, what the fuck is with this style of 'humour'?

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(not sure if I should have this spoilered or not since it kinda concerns the ending of the series... better safe then sorry I guess.

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And that's all for now folks. Discuss amongst yourselves if you feel so inclined.

thanks for sharing OP

I can't tell what's happening in the third row rightmost panel

I think it's meant to be somewhat vague, but the implication is that when Pasqualo created a new universe, he created one where he could go back and spend one last day hanging out with Ally. I'm open to other interpretations, though.

thanks OP

how was this stupid ass web comic so good.

Damn this is good. Almost reminds me of, like, a Peanuts special or something.

Buuuump.

Last bump of the night.

That was sweet.

Thanks OP

Ally's mom sounds like my mom

Thank you OP. Art is shit of course, but the story is very sweet. Closer to how I remember me and my friends actually talking and acting at that age than most things I've read.

FUCK, Gob just had to go and twist the knife, didn't he?

Jesus, right in the feels. Thanks OP.

Thanks OP, and thanks gob

The more time passes, the better this series gets.

youtube.com/watch?v=qFeZpbL2roA
youtube.com/watch?v=AetL4m7TNEY

Don't forget the music from the update page itself!

I JUST WANT PASQ TO BE HAPPY.

I don't get what you people see in this comic.

and then they fucked

you underestimate how much tumblr is actually on Sup Forums

Wow, that is actually magical.
You go into it thinking it's some sort of stand-alone special, you think "This is nice, an alternate view at some things or perhaps a flashback" and then the comic goes "Hey fuckface, check this shit out" and you realise it isn't stand-alone Pasq, it isn't alternate pasq or flashback pasq.
It's our Pasq and he knows. He fucking knows.

Gob damn.

I don't care about Tumblr this, Reddit that, or what the fuck ever, but I'm just absolutely confused as to why I'm seeing all these "wow, incredible!" posts.

Like
as if just having the character know how things are going to turn out alone makes for some kind of heartbreaking story.

>I don't understand how people can get invested in a long story, I don't like it, stop doing that!

Guess what, we've been reading about these characters for years, of course we're emotionally invested. Sorry that you don't like it I suppose, maybe you can try one of the other threads?

>Getting this defensive when someone asks what other people see in the comic.

Of course.

DAMN that was good. Now my day can only get worse from here. Fuck you for that, Gob! You made my day peak early, like the Olsen Twins' showbiz career.

God of the new world.

>Getting defensive
That user is literally just answering the question by saying we're invested because we put so much time into following the story and getting to know the characters. This comic is carried by them. There's a lot of endearing charm to the way they interact and joke with each other and the relationships they have awfully genuine and sincere. Above even the crazy shift in tone and atmosphere people are just in love with these characters and want to see them through it all.

>Lotta Berthas in that fuckin' family
Fuck me backwards this writing kills me.

I was talking about the passive aggressive, thinly veiled gtfo at the end. And honestly, I was hoping for something better than "we've read it for a long time," since you could call Twokinds and Questionable Content amazing by that logic. At least you're adding that you like the characters, which is something to go off of.

>this comic is bad, why do you read it?
>"i like it"
>but it's bad, why do you read it?
If you gotta ask...

Even after ending, this comic still brings feels.

I got more the impression that after he touched that glowy thing he became the pasqualo of the future that recreates the universe. That's why he suddenly starts acting different.

Sup Forums promised me there would be porn a month ago

There's been porn

But he doesn't exist anymore

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>people who come into threads specifically to tell everyone how shit they think a particular comic is

You must have an interesting life

>the hell do people see in this
>It's good because I've been reading it, go somewhere else

If they didn't give a non-answer and get passive aggressive I wouldn't have said shit. Even "I like it" is better than "because I've been reading it for a long time."

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But that's not what they did.
They explained how a single joke was ruined and asked why the comic defeated its own joke. You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

I wish I had saved the image of Suitcase of BSCB infamy asking the exact same question to post in reply.

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What about this is tumblr at all? Genuinely curious, or is it just that you don't know anything else?

Fuck Gob that was beautiful. Ally and Pasq's friendship is the purest shit ever.

Heh, me too creepy dude.

Tumblr doesn't seem to be too aware of it hurts at all. I think it had an update feed but it got paltry reblogs.

You kinda have to read the whole comic

fun fact: the joke about horses in this one was different in the original and as a professional horse expert I had to calmly explain to gob what ponies were

Thank you very much!!

And thank you for all the kind words, my peeps. I hope you all have a pizza-filled Friday. I mean that with my entire heart. I hope that every activity you do today involves pizza and that every object in your surroundings is suddenly made of pizza. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, Happy Saint Frosty's Day, Happy Chilly Willy Day, and Happy Angry Charles Day.

>Yes, all this time I thought part of the MLP fanbase was sexualizing baby horses.

yeah man they're just sexualizing mature independent mares, totally normal, good thing you apologized on twitter for that grave misunderstanding

>I had to calmly explain to gob what ponies were
>Yes this is true. I didn't know that ponies weren't just baby horses
You fucking guys, goddamn. Excellent work on this special by the way, happy to see it.

>not a thing that ever could happen

But if he had the power to remake the universe then he actually could have made that happen- Pasqualo you moron!

They're not just baby horses?

Given the style of humor in It Hurts! I think tumblr would probably throw a fit about how problematic it is

But you wouldn't know that because you're a shitposter that doesn't read comics

Happy whatever to you too gob! But December just started tho

ponies are smaller, horse-like animals that practice brood parasitism against proper horses, laying their eggs in the horse's nest in order to get the horses to raise the ponies as their own

>having thread about a comic
>some nigger comes in and starts asking stupid questions and gets asshurt when people tell him to read it himself or fuck off

Why do you feel entitled to our time?

>ponies
Those are only cartoons. Ponies aren't real.

>eggs
yeah, as if we didn't know that they reproduce through spores
nice try

They're actually capable of self-fertilization in extreme circumstances, but it makes them feel very uncomfortable.
>captcha: allee numbers

For those who haven't realised yet. Pasq is wearing a MOTHHER FUKKIN TURTLENECK!!!

For me, it's Kwanzaa

gob i just wanted to say that when i noticed the hell test foreshadowing the rest of the series, it made my peepee hard

Haha I'm happy to have hardened you sir or ma'am.

how does he start acting different? Like Ally said, he's being more mature than usual for her sake since he met her that day.

WHAAAAAAAAAAT?!
NEW IT HURTS!! IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE.

Of course. His mother used to live there and probably left her turtlenecks there.
Daddy-Mcdaddad is totally the kinda guy to give his son his mother's clothes as hand-me-downs so he wouldn't have to spend money on Pas (and so he can laugh at his son for technically wearing women's clothing).

Gob is no Alex Ross, but dammit all he nails character expressions and reactions PERFECTLY.

she is happy, now.

Gob, I mean this when I say no other comic has given me such a mix of emotions and no finale anywhere has filled me with more emotion than the finale to It Hurts!!!, I look forward to what you have planned in the future you magnificent bastard.

I hope one day when I get off my ass and make my comic it's at least half as good, man.

Thank you so very much! I really appreciate your kind words. Best of luck with your comic!

So was the theory basically correct here?

i think it got lost. he wasn't fucking up because he was taking cues from how pasq!aurora did it?

I know that this is gonna sound kinda copouty but I'm not 100% sure. I just kind of wrote it letting it write itself in a way. I'm not trying to sound profound; I am in fact a dumb piece of shit.

I will tell you what I intended, whether it makes sense or not.

This comic is sort of a prequel to the series and a sequel at the same time, kinda sorta. In The End, when Pasqualo used the egg to create a new, fair universe for all his friends (including Aurora).

I was kind of obsessed with death when writing/drawing the last arcs of the series and something I hear a lot is your whole life flashes before your eyes when you die. That's kind of what this special is, sorta. One of those moments of Pasqualo's life flashing before his eyes before he fades away into nothingness and Aurora takes his place in a brand new universe. What doesn't completely make sense to me is that it's a slightly more mature Pasqualo hanging out with Ally. This is a memory sort of altered where he acted like the friend he wanted to be to Ally. It was like the older him that was fading away was actually living in his younger self's place. In the end he caught a glimpse of Ally and Pasqualo in the new universe being happy together. Then he remembered what was actually happening. He wanted to stay in the memory just a little longer but it was just time to walk up that hill. Or some crap.

Whether or not this re-lived memory will influence the new universe I'm not sure. I can't imagine the new universe Pasqualo chucking a bike at Ally's garage. Then again that's up to Josef who's writing Please Forgive Me.

the writer has an extremely good handle of emotion and post-modernist / ironic comedy and the plot has an extremely good delivery hidden under all the memes

Hype for Please Forgive Me!!! 2018 can't come fast enough.

It had heart and wasn't afraid to make fun of itself. It was very genuine.

Thanks for answering my question and making me cry again, that's basically what I assumed and it's decent closure.