But that strip isn't about the broad topics of people and relationships. It's about the bar scene. That's a very different thing. Whilst I love people and I love relationships, I dislike the bar scene - I've never met a person I became friends with through the bar scene, and I've never started a longterm relationship that way either.
As a portrait of that particular social scene, however, that strip is pretty ace! It really is a meat market, and I have often felt alienated when out clubbing in the past parrtially for that reason (and partially because I'm slightly antisocial). This strip captured the idea that every person there, while in the middle of a crowed, is completely alone and oddly disconnected from one other.
The exception, I think, is when you go out to a (good, not overcrowded) bar with a group of people who you already know and love, as I had the fortune to do last night. Because then everyone is more or less on the same page and you don't tend to get so many of those thought-bubble incongruities.
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As a portrait of that particular social scene, however, that strip is pretty ace! It really is a meat market, and I have often felt alienated when out clubbing in the past parrtially for that reason (and partially because I'm slightly antisocial). This strip captured the idea that every person there, while in the middle of a crowed, is completely alone and oddly disconnected from one other.
The exception, I think, is when you go out to a (good, not overcrowded) bar with a group of people who you already know and love, as I had the fortune to do last night. Because then everyone is more or less on the same page and you don't tend to get so many of those thought-bubble incongruities.
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