I would not be at all surprised if I were to discover that women, or at least a reasonable subsection of women from my past, really think like this. If I could harness the power of retroactively-discovered nookie potential and use it for fuel, I’d totally be able to at least drive to work a couple of times. It’s nice to discover that you weren’t quite the loser you thought you were in high school / college / whatever, but only for values of “nice” diluted by bitterness and frustration.
On a completely different note, welcome to my first attempt at thought balloons! I’m not at all happy with how these ones look, so we’ll see if I can find some way to get better-looking ones in Photoshop next time. Or just avoid using them from now on.
-=ShoEboX=-
as a woman, i can confirm your suspicion and say yes, we do think like this, or at least i do (sorry i’m not from your past).
the real reason i wanted to comment, though, was to say that i think the thought balloons look quite fine! i think they match your style well. it seems like exerting a lot of effort into perfecting them might not make as dramatic a difference as you think… but who am i?
and since this is my first time commenting i should probably also say i love partially clips, no matter what the thought bubbles look like.
Yes, I think it’s best to avoid thought all together.
Wow… this strip has gone to pieces since it went under new management. The humor’s gone desperately lame and feels like it’s now dedicated to a miscalculated dive for the lowest common denominator.
Oh, for the days of the couple in central park, or the girl drawing art and ragging on her shrink, or even the man building the birdhouse.
I actually had several chances like this where the other person actually spoke out loud. I wasn’t into that sort of thing very often, and the few times I was that this happened it was either at an inopportune time, with an inopportune person (a person that I either didn’t like or knew I shouldn’t “encounter’ despite liking), or a place that we would get caught within several minutes (as we quickly proceeded to prove). I really only retroactively care about maybe three of the times, and I still probably wouldn’t do it differently if I had the chance, unless I were to have the option of using a virtual reality life simulator instead of the actual past or merely changed my reaction from an emphatic no to a “not right now, but thank you”.