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All the recent drama is a lead towards a Downer Ending for the comic.
Why? Well, keeping in mind the comic's set standards and Tim Buckley's tendencies as both a writer and cartoonist, there are three potential outcomes:
The recent is a step towards a total Re Tool that removes the Two Gamers on a Couch elements.
Zeke is down, Lilah is gone, and Ethan seems set up for the fall of a lifetime (which, if a mental breakdown gets included, also prevents Zeke from returning). That would eliminate the generic Snarky Non-Human Sidekick, Gamer Chick, and Ditz protagonist all in one fell swoop, while also removing two of the big elements that causes random hilarity to ensue. (Ethan is the Weirdness Magnet of the story, after all.) The comic has also been spending more time on Lucas recently, giving him the sort of focus that is usually reserved for Ethan, almost as if to groom him as the central protagonist. Where Buckley intends to go with this? Who knows.
Ethan is currently hallucinating the events after he suffered a nervous breakdown due to Lilah leaving him.
Alternatively, he's been hallucinating all this time due to the bad cereal he eats. Lilah was never interested in him, and his brain has been censoring both it and the existence of her real boyfriend. Sort of a reverse Tyler Durden, if you will.
The story is over for the main characters.
Once the ill-received relationship arc passed, Ethan got everything he wanted, and most characters got some form of closure. Considering that arc was then preempted by non-stop videogame based comics followed by a alternate reality choose-your-own-adventure style webcomic, it's possible we'll never need to see the gang again. We can hope, right?
When Zeke is rebuilt, he won't be Zeke anymore, just a generic X-Bot.
Or at least as generic as an X-Box that has been modded into a robot and then upgraded with new drivers and an X-Box 360 arm can be. When Ethan restarts him, he won't talk, and will stare blankly at and/or crush anything handed to him. Given Buckly's tendencies with making things seem awful then saving the day, Zeke will be self-restored halfway through Lucas' apology, possibly after having run a diagnostic that required his personality program to be suppressed until it completed.
The ''Zalgo'' edits
Since the person who usually suffers from Zalgo infection is Lilah, she must have made a deal with some ungodly terror to have another baby and/or help Ethan become successful. The happy B^U, B^D is just a facade she puts up to keep Ethan happy, or he's just too dumb to notice anything strange is going on.
 are actually Glamour Failure
Ethan is a Spark
Might explain why he's able to build so many technological marvels (like a functional robot out of X-Boxes), why he's mentally unstable, and why he's able to get people to hang around him when any sane person would be checking for rooms to rent in one hand and slamming the idiot's face in a drawer with the other.
All of CAD is actually an episode of Flash Point from Ethan's POV
CAD is just one of many alternate universes of Futurama
As seen here ◊ (not my photoshop).
The plot will eventually get back to the wedding and Ethan's allegedly Jerkass Aloof Older Brother Rory
Someone will call Ethan on his bullshit regarding his brother
For all Ethan's bitter complaints against his brother, Lilah or Lucas is going to say, "Ethan, no offense, but remember when you..." then lists off the various things that he's done (either happening in-comic, referenced in-comic, and even a few things never seen before) and how they've put up with him. Or hell, Rory will say something like "Dude, it was all in good fun... besides, you're no saint either, remember when you set fire to my car?"
Follow-up theory: Buckley's writing is getting worse on purpose.
He's confused Ass Pulls and Idiot Plots with being able to write an unpredictable character. Yes, the ending of the Wedding/Rory Arc managed to defy most of the haters' expectations, but not in a good way. As a goon put it, "I can reasonably predict what, say, Locke will do in a situation because his character is consistent, but it's impossible to say what Ethan will do." I doubt anyone expected Ethan to use his brains to beat the mobsters since it's not skill he uses very often — seven seconds a day, according to him, and it's been longer then seven seconds since the mobsters started chasing him (probably).
Cad is set in the Assassin's Creed universe
Ethan is in possession of a Piece of Eden, the Macguffin being fought over that is used to brainwash people. This explains why people still somehow like him and the universe generally bends to his will. Rory is an Assassin and the mobsters chasing after him are Templars trying to silence him. Ethan may or may not be a Templar- on one hand the Templars are wealthy, powerful and successful so maybe not, on the other hand they're all Card-Carrying Villain and all round dicks so Ethan would fit in.
Ethan is a character in an Adam Sandler movie.
That's why he can act like such an irresponsible Jerkass and still get a pretty woman, friends, and villains that manage to one up his douche-iness.
CAD isn't copying Penny Arcade, but rather Family Guy
Both series have:
The world will end before anyone says anything about Ctrl+Alt+Del that isn't motivated by Hate Dumb
Bet you ten dollars(USD).
The characters that were deleted out of CAD continuity and get you banned for life if you ever mention them in the forums were based on former best friends of the author who he now hates for reasons.
Buckley wrote the "Loss" story arc because he didn't know how to write a baby into the story.
It's a commonly known fact that the characters in CAD are one-sided; Ethan is our wacky video gamer, Lucas is a snarky gamer, Lilah is a girl gamer, and Zeke is a "stupid meatbags" robot gamer. If Lilah was to have the baby, then Tim would actually have to work to characterize the child, sacrificing some of his "monkey cheese" humor to do so. So what did he do? He wrote out the little McManus the only way he knew how.
Ethan lives in a series of time loops.
Think about it. How would he even think of trying half the shit he pulls off unless he'd done it before and seen all possible consequences? My theory is that the arcs we see are the loops that he sees through until he's found what he thinks is a happy ending, so to speak. The failed loops and having seen all those alternate universes where things go so terribly wrong would probably screw him up, explaining his increasingly bizarre behaviour. How many times did he see Lilah die instead of the baby, for example, before he gave up on saving it?
Ethan's store is the only game store in town.
This is why he still has customers, as opposed to everyone not going to a place where they are most likely going to be insulted, and much of the rest of the time injured.
Scott is spying on Ethan.
He is making sure that Ethan's inventions don't lead to worldwide destruction (Embla dying? That was him). Otherwise, he is wasting a lot of money reinforcing his room against intrusion and risking his sanity by staying with an unstable douche for... what, exactly?
The whole story is an adaptation of "real-life" events involving Ethan and Lucas, as told by Scott.
Scott witnessed the antics of Ethan, exaggerated them for the sake of artistic license (thankfully for him, he didn't have to exaggerate them too much), and wound up creating a successful series of novels that are presented in handy four-panel format here. Pity he couldn't find a better artist...
Scott's door
Just throwing this one in here quickly. Kinda obvious, really, but I just can't help myself.
Latest comic + Status Quo Is God = Behind Scott's steel door there is another steel door.
Ted's Future Role
So far Ted escaped and may have some future role what do you think he will do
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