Guy and a Girl Alone on a Train. What happens…
September 13th, 2008 by 
Eric Disco
written by Kieron Gillen
drawn by Charity Larrison
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September 14th, 2008 at 12:31 am
What the hell was that…?
September 14th, 2008 at 1:25 am
I thought it was a nice break from the usual. An artistic take on the anxiety felt in this situation.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:07 am
wow that was really original :)
September 14th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Nice one! really liked it!
September 14th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I gotta go with Mr.X on this one
September 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
It gets better the more you experience it.
September 14th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Sadistic guys the creators. But good stuff! :))
September 14th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
sweet. remind me of the days i used to spend in bookstores reading manga.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:20 am
lol that was funny
September 15th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I liked the first five scenes. LOL
September 15th, 2008 at 10:23 am
That was fucking awesome!
September 15th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I totally agree with the metaphor here (if there is one) and the weirdness of the world around you when you’re making an approach. How while in the interaction your world seems strange and crazy. The blue thing going through him (which makes me queasy) reminds me of the nerves I feel (or use to feel) when I approach or about 10 seconds in. The way the blue thing retracts from him, I interpret as that feeling of comfort when you feel the anxiety flush away from you and you’re having a normal conversation with her (almost). The train breaking away, I interpret as when I’m in the conversation with her and enjoying it, the rest of the world seems like it’s not there anymore.
Sorry, this is my own interpretation of the cartoon….maybe there isn’t any other meaning to it, but other than the fact all those tentacles make me feel queasy I like to thing there’s a message in the cartoon of how it relates to AA.
Francis
September 16th, 2008 at 10:06 am
maybe opening with “what’s the book you are reading? has it some good jokes in it?” does a better job than a slightly hostile “do i know you?” (if you didn’t realize it has “laughter in the dark” on its cover; well, for those who know it is from nabokov the same guy who wrote “lolita”, it will be an even better starting point for developing a conversation).
and definitely when she starts “are we going to say anything else?” you go over and say “people talk too much anyway” look in her eyes, gently lift up her chin and kiss her. never miss an IOI.
September 25th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
the analogy doesn’t makes sense to me….the girl is clearly open to being approached so it doesn’t justify the horror going on. so I said what the ****! too.
October 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Dude! What the hell is this?? Trippin, man.
October 24th, 2008 at 12:14 am
I AM CONFUSED!!!! WHAT IS GOING ON???
October 25th, 2008 at 3:25 am
Eerily beautiful.
October 26th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
maybe it’s an all in one story (sci-fi, bloody horror, romance and comedy). Do you have the uncut version so we’ll see the ending of the story?? :D
October 28th, 2008 at 3:33 am
wtf. i don’t get it. flies sucking the eyeballs of the chick at the end? what the hell is going on?? illustrations border on anime and bad cartooning. sorry, folks.
October 29th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
The people who don’t get it should read the comments..
The girl might be friendly, it’s still always an uncomfortable situation..
October 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
This was beautiful. I thought it was a lovely take on the anxiety, the lost feelings, the feelings of being alone. It was brilliant. Thumbs up for you. And, bookmarked.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Dont let anyone ever question your art. Its beautiful.
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:24 am
Uh, so there is a guy and a girl alone on a train and they decide to drop a hit of LSD? Or that’s the best way that I can think of to interpret it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 am
One fact alone is sufficient to prove this. Here the train, boy other girl…. seems so exciting on read I like all the way mocking between them. and a wrong station…. a coffee call … Uh.. look cool all at end. A bye bye.. Hmmm…
November 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
every day, i step off the train and get murdered by a billion tentacles. i don’t get back on.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you this is bad or it doesn’t make sense – I write a lot of weird stuff too and it’s really annoying when people can’t take two seconds to think about what the art could possibly mean before jumping down to comments and saying something about how it makes no sense, or they’re just on LSD.
I love it. I want to see more.
December 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
kinda strange..but clearly portrays the anxiety and nervousness a new encounter brings! why are the flies murdering him in the end tho..with their legs stabbing through his cheeks? that may be a bit much.. pretty cool tho
December 11th, 2008 at 4:37 am
huh ?
that was weird .
December 14th, 2008 at 8:43 am
it was weird. but i liked it.
December 15th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Something similar happened to me in a restaurant with a girl sitting alone a seat away at the sushi bar. I was alone too and actually we both came inside at the same time and the waiter showed us to the bar one by one. However, I wanted to talk to her, but nerves took the better of me and could not speak to her. It was too good to be true.
December 15th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
They are saying what they would like to say but the things that are happening are how they feel. I bet nothing – from a third perspective – happened on that train. To them the world was built up and destroyed through anxiety and missed opportunities.
Very good, very sad.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Ive gone by lots of trains and I’ve never experienced that. But I can imagine someone feeling what the illustrations display.
Good story, sorta Cthulhu like.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:54 am
How refreshing. The chemistry is apparent and the visuals are appealing.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
This is pleasant, but does everyone have to be so cute/cutesy? I think this would be stronger if the characters were a little less cliche pretty, and felt more distinct and specific rather than just some fantasy out of tv ad.
December 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
i LOVE the first comment. exactly my first thought!
December 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
I can definitely relate. AWKWARD
April 9th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
This instantly made sense to me, I guess if you never leave your house or are naturally cocky it wouldnt. I dont know though, it kinda plays on the fear of rejection/social anxiety aspects of life in a really clever way. When you’re approaching someone and you can’t tell right away whether its appropriate or not, but decide to make a stand and fight off the negative emotions (the monsters/tentacles) even though your mind is losing focus and just persevere. Its really a well done and intelligent piece, sort of gives you an insight as to how many people suffer from these intense and usually uncalled for sensations of social anxiety.
April 30th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
What did I just read
May 4th, 2009 at 7:48 am
I think I just went on a mini acid trip, there…
May 4th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
Was totally expecting this thing to get a little more “interesting”, a little “Risky Business”. Man, turned in to a bad acid trip, like Sarah said.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:38 am
I actually enjoyed it.
July 14th, 2009 at 11:53 pm
wtf???
August 13th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
that was really good at summing up how awkward it is to cold meet someone but you really let the two off the hook w/ the whole “meet cute” thing in the 2nd half
August 19th, 2009 at 8:21 am
hoho… cool
November 29th, 2009 at 12:28 am
well obviously the guy watching this whole thing happen is on acid
December 7th, 2009 at 1:46 am
That was awesome. I wish there were commuter trains in my city! (did I miss the point of the cartoon? Perhaps)
April 11th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
BEAUTIFUL!
this is my life, flies & octopuses & all
April 13th, 2010 at 6:33 am
so beautiful…but would he miss his stop in real live? I would hope so much he would!
April 13th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I would miss my stop. :)
May 18th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Well, this totally made sense for me. I had a issue like this, saw a pretty girl everyday, we made a lot of eye contact, but I didn’t had to balls to approach her.
One day I went “f*ck it” mode and went talk to her, it almost looked like I being eaten alive by anxiety. And don’t get the me wrong even though I’m no Don Juan, I can have a decent conversation with a female stranger, it’s the situation that starts to transform into some monstrosity of feelings.
Nice piece. (PS: She had a boyfriend -_-)