Editing 92: Sunrise

{{comic
| number    = 92
| date      = April 21, 2006
| title     = Sunrise
| image     = sunrise.jpg
| titletext = Sometimes, I sit on top of parking decks and watch the sun rise. I feel like I should have a guitar or something.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|The title text isn't explained. Why is 4am a bad time to meet other people?}}

Much like the [http://4amproject.org/ 4am Project], [[Cueball]] finds a certain beauty in the way the world looks without billions of humans crawling around on it. He thinks of this as a secret place which thrills him. He wishes to find other people like him who are wandering at this time rather than sleeping so that they can meet and talk to each other. But then he suggests that it is a bad time and place to meet people. Considering this he goes back to his house, probably disappointed, gets ready and goes to a club which is much safer place to meet people but not as unusual and exciting as what he wants.

This comic shows Cueball's tendency towards defying the norms and exploring unusual things and circumstances.

==Transcript==
:[Cueball is on the street. Behind him is a house with a lawn.]
:Cueball's thoughts: I love the time just before sunrise. It's quiet; no one is ever just walking about. It's like a secret. I always hope that I'll find someone else quietly hiding from sleep, and we'll see each other and sit and talk. I guess this is a bad place to meet people. I wish it weren't.
:[Cueball goes into the house, brushes his teeth, and leaves the house again.]
:[Cueball is at a club, disco balls in the ceiling and a giant woofer. Many people are dancing around him.]

{{comic discussion}}
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
[[Category:Romance]]
@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 ==Explanation==
-This comic is about the desire for an intimate connection with another, and the compromises we make to not be alone.
+{{incomplete|The title text isn't explained. Why is 4am a bad time to meet other people?}}
-[[Hairy]] finds a certain beauty in the way the world looks without billions of humans crawling around on it. He thinks of this as a secret place that thrills him. He is excited about the remote chance of finding someone like him who appreciates its beauty. But he realizes that it's the very thing that makes this time beautiful to him that makes his imagined chance encounter exceedingly unlikely. Reconciled to the fact that he will not find a kindred spirit outside this morning, he heads back home.
+Much like the [http://4amproject.org/ 4am Project], [[Cueball]] finds a certain beauty in the way the world looks without billions of humans crawling around on it. He thinks of this as a secret place which thrills him. He wishes to find other people like him who are wandering at this time rather than sleeping so that they can meet and talk to each other. But then he suggests that it is a bad time and place to meet people. Considering this he goes back to his house, probably disappointed, gets ready and goes to a club which is much safer place to meet people but not as unusual and exciting as what he wants.
-At the house, he gets ready and drives to a club to meet people. The club is drawn using an inverted color scheme (white people, black background) to emphasize that it is the opposite of the 4am outside world. The club is dark and full of people, who are the lightest things present, where outside, the natural beauty shines without interruption by human forms. Hairy is seen alone in the middle of the crowd.
+This comic shows Cueball's tendency towards defying the norms and exploring unusual things and circumstances.
-The title text is a reference to a common music video scene (sometimes country music videos) where people play the guitar on parking garages as the sun rises.
 ==Transcript==
-:[Hairy is on the street. Behind him is a house with a lawn.]
+:[Cueball is on the street. Behind him is a house with a lawn.]
-:Hairy (thinking): I love the time just before sunrise. It's quiet; no one is ever just walking about.
+:Cueball's thoughts: I love the time just before sunrise. It's quiet; no one is ever just walking about. It's like a secret. I always hope that I'll find someone else quietly hiding from sleep, and we'll see each other and sit and talk. I guess this is a bad place to meet people. I wish it weren't.
-:Hairy (thinking): It's like a secret
+:[Cueball goes into the house, brushes his teeth, and leaves the house again.]
-:Hairy (thinking): I always hope that I'll find someone else quietly hiding from sleep, and we'll see each other and sit and talk.
+:[Cueball is at a club, disco balls in the ceiling and a giant woofer. Many people are dancing around him.]
-:Hairy (thinking): I guess this is a bad place to meet people.
-:Hairy (thinking): I wish it weren't.
-:[Hairy goes into the house, brushes his teeth, shaves his head (?), and leaves the house again.]
-:[Hairy is at a club, disco balls in the ceiling and a giant woofer. Many people are dancing around him.]
 {{comic discussion}}
-[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 [[Category:Romance]]
-[[Category:Comics with inverted brightness]]
-[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]
-[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]