Coming Apart at the Seams

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* Definitive Edition

**Coming Apart at the Seams** is the second full comic created by Arthur outside of the holiday specials. This comic is numerous stories split into "servings", following Lalia's stuffing shenanigans and her discovering her full pleasure for gluttony.

## Overview

### Serving 1

Taking place during finals, Lalia is asked to fetch some peaches for Jane. However, she instead comes back with peach pies, and is shown noticeably stuffed (her belly forcefully shutting Jane's laptop). **AdjectiveNounCombo**: Lalia reminiscences about how amazingly stuffed she felt that thanksgiving, wishing to get that same feeling somehow. She goes to a party later on where she meets Chad, telling him about her experience, going as far as to think food is better than sex. She and Chan exchange numbers. That night, Lalia wonders if anyone can tolerate her big appetite.

### Serving 2

During class, Lalia actually orders pizza delivered from the classroom window. This gets her teacher upset, and tells her to leave the classroom. Lalia cries and tells them they'll all miss her for the "sweetness and laughter" she gave them, just to embarass herself by standing up, her belly making her lodged in the desk and seat. **AdjectiveNounCombo:** When Jane gets home, she and Lalia go out for ice cream. Meanwhile, Trevor thinks about Lalia as Lalia Phantom mocks him, and encourages him to give up. During this, he finds out about Lalia's Instagram and, while finding it cruel, joins.

### Serving 3

Lalia and her arrive at the Ice Cream parlor, where Lalia proceeds to stuff herself with ice cream, despite Jane thinking it was to help her focus. She orders a ton more ice cream, Jane noting how worse her appetite has gotten yet Lalia not worried about it. **AdjectiveNounCombo:** While this is happening though, Lalia's teacher arrives, and Lalia decides to quickly head home before she is spotted. She barely manages to, even with her belly wedging her between the door. On arriving home, she finds her Instagram has exploded in popularity, Lalia finding it very fun to stuff herself for them. During a stuffing session for it though, she strangely finds it boring, and wonders what is missing compared to the joy she felt back at the parlor.

### Serving 4

A week before finals, Lalia starts having a midnight snack, complaining about how much she has to study. However, she finds a ticket, revealing that she needs to win 100 of them to win a free cruise, which itself expires tomorrow and she needs to have one box per ticket. **AdjectiveNounCombo:** Lalia updates her Instagram on her progress after 40 boxes. This update reaches Trevor though who, later that night, gets teased again by Lalia Phantom, and Jane Phantom.

### Serving 5

By her eighty sixth box, Jane comes back to find Lalia still eating (and tearing open her elastic pants with her belly). She continues to eat her fill while Jane walks away. **AdjectiveNounCombo:** However, when Jane finds the apartment filthy with cereal boxes, and punishes Lalia by forcefully stuffing her with the remaining cereal boxes. However, Lalia begins feeling the pleasure she felt from the parlor, realizing what she was missing before she finds the last ticket for the cruise.

### Serving 6

Lalia celebrates her victory with a final meal before the night's done. After doing some calculations, Jane tells Lalia she ate enough cereal for five years of breakfast servings, which only makes Lalia proud of herself. **AdjectiveNounCombo:** Shortly after this though, Lalia learns that the cruise itself is actually not for another month, so she spends the rest of the week studying for finals, losing all of the weight she had gained from that night. Jane is amazing, but relieved once she finds Lalia skinny again, but soon finds her stuffing herself again. Lalia reveals that she needs a crowd to get that same pleasure, and Jane simply walks out on her, wondering who would be that much into her engorging herself.

## Trivia

* This comic reveals Trevor and Jane to be dating at this point.
* This comic is the first to be revived and worked on by AdjectiveNounCombo once he started collaborating with Arthur. It is also the most heavily expanded because of the additions added:
	+ The original publishing only had 6 servings of 1 page each, whereas the revival had 26 - the first serving having the most pages with 6 in total