Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 15, 2012

To comment on this enigmatic sceneThe duty to me fallsMarx walks away — it seems quite meanAnd took a lot of ballsHe looks uneasy on this walkYou might just say he’s spherefulI’d guess if those white balls could talkHe’d probably get an earful=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

Souls.Blessed Be

Brings new meaning to the word ‘bubbleah’?

They sense his power.

“Sorry, but I can’t help you”

“Us too! Us too!”Marx: “Sorry guys, I’ll take you out for walkies after dinner.”

I think the latest chapter is coming to a close and the next chapter is about to begin. Take your floating pills and put your helmets onnnnnnnn…

What if the white stuff Marx is standing in is the remains of the floating balls that didn’t get pulled into the fountain right away? Maybe that’s hundreds of feet of accumulated souls from thousands of parallel realities that all had their own “End of Civilization as we know its”, and the fountain is just too small to cope with it all.Mike Mole: “Where is my soul in all this?”Marx: “I’m soaking in it.”

This is the comic strip as pure art at its highest.

A tremendous thank you to all of you who participated in yesterday’s discussion. I’m humbled.. and energized to keep Endtown alive for as long as reality permits.

Only had time to draw one item for the Endtown Auction Block this week.. a Halloween-themed Holly & Prof. Mallard vignette. Thanks to everyone for their participation. :-)

Marx can’t deal with all those clingy, bubbly personalities.

As soon as this is all over, I’m booking Marx in for a haircut.

Life is mostly froth and bubble..

More a case of “you dont have to go, but you cant stay here.”

She’s now a ghostly orb now.

You all missed it.They are saying move along, move along.Your work is done. The angle of his back.He is being gently moved away.After all he still has his journey to continue.Can’t think about the past. The future awaits.

Tue was on to it.

Maybe Marx is the Pie-Eyed Piper of Endtown…

Panel 2, the artwork is amazing.

To Jenner.I said it was rant.I know it is the author’s choice.I will always accept “his” conclusion and continue to watch with facination. Aaron wanted opinions. I gave him mine.Just a voice in the wilderness.But boy, can I be loud.And man can he draw. Blind Date is the most beautiful thing I have seen in some time. The photo on the site does not do it justice. The colors, angles of the lines, the ultra fine detail are just amazing.Awwwwwww. Lets just get on with the show!

or,are they pushing him on his way?

To TSOJYou are right.Is is a CALGON moment.Remember those commercials.Oh CALGON take me away!!!!!Gosh Gee. Marx has been everything from Mr. Bubble to the Tidy Bowl man.And the scrubbing bubbles have washed him away.

See everyoneI am not all THAT serious.Just a few beers, soft lights, listening to Rush 2112 at fatal volume, getting my rear kicked on COD MW3 makes me get alittle rantful. (Is that even a word?)Still enjoying the ride.Geeking out now over that high dive. Man he was sooooooo high and then just go. Just go. You know I am glad he did not miss. Imagine “Whoops missed the earth, be back again, I think” “Darned planet moved when I jumped”I remember when the Air Force guy did his jump. Nearly killed him. He had none of that fancy stuff. Just a high altitude suit circa 1950’s. Suffered frostbite, altitude sickness, some brain damage from O2 depletion, once he jumped he had not O2 to rely on. Held his breath. It was part of the U2 testing for high altitude bail outs. Brave test dummy.

Now I recall the Soul Hunter from “Babylon 5.”

Hey I like his hair.When I can finally quit wearing the uniform I plan on just letting mine go wild. Short hair sometimes buzz cut for over 31 years.I am going to let it grow and hug it every day.Simple pleasures.(Probably end up looking like a wildman escaped from confinement)( HaHA Catch me if you can)

To veteran: Thank you for your comments to my comment, but you missed my point. I’m saying that every topsider has within himself potential to be a mutant, as does every single one of his loved ones. There has to be a potent hatred to keep up hostilities, there must be an impetus, a yang to Aaron Marx’s yin.I wish I could remember the name of the novel by Robert mcCammeron that involved Job’s masks (disgusting mutant face-covering growths which at the end of the story fell off to reveal a person’s true nature). It’s an example of what I mean. The group of torturers and killers who try to eradicate anyone with a Job’s mask is led by a psychopath who is hiding his own JOb’s mask. Consider “The Stand” by Stephen King. One group of survivors is led by a devilish evil type of person. Left to themselves, the odds are good that they would not be hostile. Or even consider some of our own wars and hostilities. The KKK, for instance, petered out in the 1860’s when it was tried for the first time, but it gained strength in the 1920’s, just before it was about to peter out again, because a couple of con artists saw a way to make money out of hostility.That, by the way, is one of Aaron Marx’s limitations. He can’t make hostilities disappear en masse.

Did anyone else recognize a well-known rodent’s outline in panel 3?

This has been, so far, an amazingly illustrated and well told story.

OMG OMGMr. Neathery got picked up by Disney CorporationThere goes the neighborhood. They will turn into John Carter of Mars.Great books Lousey Movie. Laughed most of my way through it.Mr. Neathery just kidding. I mean Disney might want to hire me some day. You know, maybe, Nah never happen.Hey Remember Full Metal JacketMICKEY MOUSE song. We did do that. Everything was so as we called it MICKEY MOUSE.To SuleskarryIf I offended then I am truly sorry.I can sometimes go off ranting then sit back and go OOHHHH NO.You are right. I believe it too. Something is driving the Topsiders. It is like some kind of cult driven on by a few convinced they are right and there can be no questioning. The NAZI party became that. Not at first as it was suttle to get everyone on board. Join the band wagon. Here we will tell you who to hate. Now go hate them. Kill them they are vermin. Flask apparently became disenchanted with the rhetoric of the Topsiders. She began to question have doubts. If she ever made them public there would probably have been serious reprecussions. Re-education, retraining, maybe even retirement permanently. No place in their world for malcontents.But being ever the positive one there may develop cracks in the Topsider dogma. Linda may not have converted but Doug may have. There may be more inside that if given the chance may say lets work it out. Maybe coexsist to find a solution and survive. But they may not be willing to speak openly for fear of reprisal. Just like NAZI Germany. There were those who knew, who questioned privately, but fear of being turned in to the Gestapo was enough to keep them silent. Prisoners of their own government. Survival Mode kicks in. Did not Peter refuse to know Christ? Did he fail the test? No, he was human what would you expect him to do.This war has deep roots which have not been examined. It matters not except for background info to see if we are right. What matters is the now. Topsiders scavenge and hunt mutants. Mutants scavenge and hide from Topsiders.Thats why I had the opinion of Marx. His powers he could tip the scale. If he can absorb a missile blast what else can he do? The ultimate weapon. Marx prevented the destruction of 8,000 topsiders. Could he destroy 8,000 Topsiders to save Mutants? Interesting questions waiting to be answered as the story moves along.

Well, I’m still digesting things, but I’m hopeful now of moving on to something else—-I can’t imagine what could come directly after in this sequence, but it’ll probably blow me away when I see it—-if there’s any more, that is.

I’ve wondered about who will appear next. I’d like to see the regulars again, but there are others who’ve appeared in the background I’d like to see, too. There’s this one character, a rabbit who uses a scarf to pull down her ears, I’ve seen in a couple of strips—-what’s her story?

I… am losing my interest in this strip, and I don’t want to. It’s just getting too weird and not-explaining-thingsy… but I absolutely love the characters and the storyline. I severely hope things get explanified soon enough!