You can have more than one best friend, but meg isn’t actually understanding Gene. This isn’t the first time Gene’s brought this up and its more than just jealousy. Gene’s feeling left out and abandoned, and its not just his imagination. Friendships change and it can be hard to deal with, especially when you’re a kid.
As a side note I always enjoy doing these little extra inset panels.
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Meg used HUG
It’s SUPER EFFECTIVE
I just love how her first instinct is to go to physical reassurance, not words.
Wait, why don’t they just go back to the place that they found it? Even if it’s not there anymore it’s the most obvious place to start.
That’s true, but they JUST left that place and teh monster wasn’t there. And they’re scared to go back there.
Don’t argue with The Boss, kid. At least you’re still A best friend.
This also reminds me of the best friend hierarchies from grade school. I don’t know how common this is or not, but most of the girls I knew growing up essentially had a mental tier list of their friends and would make sure, in both subtle/unspoken ways and occasionally overt/telling-you-flat-out ways, that you knew exactly where you stood in that hierarchy. Especially the more popular girls. It’s not something I miss at all lol.
Uh huh. That is 100% a thing.
As long as all friends share the same friend rank, they’re all the best friend! They’re all the worst friend too but we don’t talk about that as much.
As an oldest best friend, this comic makes me feel warm fuzzies
Doesn’t that contact the whole “best” part? You can’t have multiple “best” anything. Someone HAS to be the second best friend.
But when you love your friends you don’t really want to declare anyone second best!
What’s wrong with second best? That’s still almost best! 😀 Like, I prefer pizza over ice cream, but ice cream is still awesome!
*contradict
I love that a public restroom is one of the places they are looking for a monster. I feel like 50% of public restrooms have the creepy-disgusting vibe, even if just a little bit. Perfect place for a monster to go skulking around. Made me laugh.
Thanks!
Newsist?
The friend with the most news.
I always love a scene where it looks like a character is about to start some very avoidable cliche drama just for the sake of easy plot, but syke, another character insta-resolves this by using their words like a normal person. 😀