>>9023045Rusty was only nice to Chalky OUTSIDE of school, and i really don't know how you can take this as anything Rusty trying to fit in with the other boys and teasing Chalky.
Even the panel where they're walking away from school shows that Rusty likely wanted to look cool to the other boys, which means he was friends with them. Rusty was on the bottom rung of friends with the other boys, but he likely was friends with other kids.
Do you not remember being a kid?
The comic purposely only insinuates what happens outside of the panel, because you're only supposed to see the hypocrisy and why he grew up the way he did. IT drives home the message the author is telling.
He's not going to show any positives that Rusty might have gotten from being an asshole.
>>9023047>you claimed it was his meekness that would fail him and now you have shifted pointsWhat are you talking about?
Someone like Rusty BECAME his friend because he shared being picked on like him. Do you think no one else was ever get picked on? When you go into middle school, it's a whole other world and set of kids. Out of hundreds of other NEW kids, someone would have identified with Chalky and came up to him too like Rusty did.
Again, you guys are treating this way too literal, thinking real life is as 2d as the comic.
>You haven't read the other stories? From what i've read, the actual book is different from the comics appearing here. See
>>9019821 where they become friends in grade school. The book Rusty is a more fleshed out version of the early side comics. Prototype Rusty vs book Rusty.
It's very different. a cautionary tale of a collector vs a bumbling father not doing a very good job and his son who believes he has powers to escape his dejected life
