Called it.
But I really do wonder what was the point. Patrick has basically four seconds left to say “told you so”.

And did we really need to be reminded that Claudia is a heartless asshat? That was pretty well established as is

(Gotta love Alison’s pondering hand under her chin though. She didn’t call it. Alison hasn’t seen enough cheesy villain backstories)

“Hah… of course you know, you’re a telepath…”

“… dear, you only have to be sentient to know about me. I think the dog figured it out faster.”

“You see, Henry, you gave me stab-ility. But now I have to cut you off. Have a knife death.”

But seriously, this must hurt. He obviously deluded himself about his feelings and his wife’s personality for his whole life and now she has taken that from him as he dies, completely alone, although his son and wife are right there. And Patrick must feel his despair.

I wonder if Henry would have been a better person with another partner. Not sure if he deserved such a gruesome death. But then he condoned Claudia trying to kill Patrick.

I just want to make a small note in appreciation of how the red painted on Claudia’s nails is different from the red of the blood and the red of the background. That would have been an extremely easy corner to cut, but the fact that it wasn’t not only demonstrates the evident attention to detail on display in this comic, but but also neatly maintains separate symbolisms for each red.

All of the reds speak to horror and pain. The background red is the distress and agony Patrick experiences thrumming through the air in that bedroom. The blood displays the results of physical wounds, raw and freshly inflicted. But the nail polish might be the worst: the evident, but always literally-manicured cruelty of the wearer.

Called it.

I wonder… Perhaps Patrick inherited his mother’s sociopathy/psychopathy but his telepathy has offset that because he experiences normal people’s thoughts and emotions.

Whelp even patty boy looks mildly surprised there.
SHE DIDN’T LISTEN PROPERLY! She did not stab him in the stomach at all… Stomachs don’t splatter that much.. and he wouldnt’ be coughing up blood. She went deeeep

How accurate are we thinking Patrick is in his assessment that his mother was a sociopath? I’m still wary of believing these memories as presented totally, but at this point it would seem odd to not take the narrative at face value for such a big reveal.

I know there are some more important things happening here but my first thought was “oh Patrick is left-handed.”

The funniest thing I notice about this page is that Patrick has called his mother a sociopath, and everyone agrees, but when I was calling her a sociopath in the comments when she snapped a dog’s neck, there was so much rancor and anger towards those me that I was shouted down and made the subject of multiple personal attacks, then banned from the forum.

You’re all such massive hypocrites. This is my only post I’m making from this account here.
No need to ban this one too. Just want to point out the hypocrisy. Bye.

i fUCKING GASPED

What was it Claudia said/thought on the first page of this chapter? When Patrick’s intrusive memories of this scene were making it into Alison’s dreams? “Break me as fast as you can. I’m trying to kill you. One day you’ll put me back together.”

One of the two people in this showdown already has zero hesitation about violence against family members and a medical condition that makes her focused and effective in the event of an adrenaline rush. Now she has a knife! The other one is a weeping teenager who was brought to the point of collapse because his parents were thinking mean things about him. Patrick seriously miscalculated here, Claudia is not going to go down without a fight, and I don’t think that’s something he really anticipated. Patrick might have intellectually known that she had the capacity to kill him when he saw her kill Skipper and was loaded into the car, but watching your parent harm others and threaten you is still really really not the same thing as having them actually try to kill you, or watching them actually kill another human being for that matter. I would feel a lot better about the situation if Alison really was there with him, because I think things are about to get very, very bad for Patrick.

Just thought of a question: how do you think Patrick’s father was planning on finishing that sentence?

I realized that many people might assume he was trying to say, “Good God, Patrick! What sort of a monster are you?”

For me, I assumed he was about to say, “Good God, Patrick! What sort of a monster do you think your mother is?”