Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 11, 2013

A perfect ending to the week!

He’s a harmless old man. I know what that’s like. She did a good thing.

Given the ingredients, that cake might be better off uneaten.

that is SO Sweet! tears of joy and gratitude. He has found his Trudy and feels loved again! Maybe she looks similar to his Trudy.Linda looks worried in the end, Like what must she do, keep making him cakes? He is old, so maybe he will die in his sleep a happy man!Or maybe Linda is afraid to fall in love with this old feller.

He’s a tad like the skeleton from The Last Unicorn. I can’t even taste anymore. But I can remember.

I really wanted to taste it!! It had to be good because of all the attention and yeah,,,, love put in it. Linda is a full and valuable member of End Town. I think we all accept her as one of the best. Had disagreement with my MD. He saw me last last night and called an ambulance and sent me to ER where whey checked me for 1)heart attact.. no, 2) conjestive heart… no3)blood clot… no 4) ulcer… Bingo. So now I am on a really bland diet. No chocolate cake for me. Boo Hiss. He never listens to ME…. My original diagnosis of PhenomFibrose he ignored my protestings until I told him my father had died of it. Another Boo Hiss. Don’t fuss. I am fine!!!Blessed Be

And now the other waitress is going to ask where she got the ingredients. This is either the start of a food fight for Endtown or a legal fight for Linda…

I forgot to add that aside from telling my favorite off colored jokes I told EVERY one about gocomics and EndTown. Most of them made a note of the info and promised they would check us out. Blessed Be

It may not have been about the cake.

Is Mr Hopper going to eat that piece of cake, after all that, or is he just going to look at it?

FINALLY! Linda’s finally opened her eyes. She sees Endtowners as people instead of monstrous diseased creatures, and done something sweet for an old man she hardly knows. From the look on her face, I’d say that she’s had a tough life topside, and no one’s actually told her she matters much to them, except her son. Hopper’s gratitude is a new experience for her.—— I think Holly’s in for a pleasant surprise..the old Topsider Linda has vanished, and in her place is a sweet, kind, caring person.

Linda’s life as “fiend” aboveIs hardly to be missedShe’s had a child: Has she had love?She’s likely never kissedDelusions she’s no stranger toIn Topside life and recentBut love and tenderness are newHis treatment of her? Decent!=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

now if only Meg will keep quiet

The first time someone’s expressed love for Linda, probably since before the apocalypse. Before it was pity, not affection…

Linda got a boyfriend,

Sweet ending to the week. I am still on the fence. Watching and hopeful.

Excellent way to end the week. Can’t wait for. . .as Paul Harvey used to say, " And now, the rest of the story." Really want to see what’s behind Mr. Hopper, Trudy, the cake and LInda’s future roll in all of it.

Thinking about it, I think she recognized a kindred spirit…she’s recently lost everything, and she found someone else who’s also lost everything.

So happy for this outcome — Aaron, you have a real gift for making us care about these characters!

(I still want to know if it’s a good cake though. It’s the baker in me, I guess!)

Recipe for Miss Fogarty’s cake:

There were plums and prunes and cherries,There were citrons and raisins and cinnamon, tooThere was nutmeg, cloves and berriesAnd a crust that was nailed on with glueThere were caraway seeds in abundance

Such that work up a fine stomach ache That could kill a man twiceafter eating a slice Of Miss Fogarty’s Christmas cake.

Hopper may not have been looking for THE Trudy, but A Trudy. Like Diogenes looking for an honest man, he was searching for someone with the determination and ingenuity and desire to accomplish a seemingly impossible task. Endtown needs people who can use their imagination to fix its ongoing problems, and the empathy to do it for others if not for themselves.

At long last, his search is over!Now what?

DOL agree about h pylori bacteria. Many doctors don’t yet know about it. Ulcers are caused by bacteria, and can be permanently prevented by eating certain vegetables.

That cake…is not a lie.

I have over the past couple of days gone back to the beginning (2009 I believe) and read all of Endtown. I have never done that for any comic ever.

Endtown is officially my favorite comic.

Does it matter? If you wanted something so much for so long, would you destroy it?

Are we getting some ship teases? :D

The cake only mattered as a symbol, now the fun begins as Aaron takes us down the path…

Just a side observation.Isn’t chocolate bad for dogs?

Tootsie rolls are not chocolate. They are chocolate flavored and do contain some cocoa. But they are a chocolate flavored taffy.

Now whether there is enough cocoa to affect a human sized dog? Or even if they would give a good flavor to the cake?

But that cake is love, and ink/pixels so does not matter.

Great story.

I’m Kaiser. No changes. There is a story that I like to tell about doctors. What do you call a doctor who graduates at the bottom of his class? You call him doctor.Blessed Be

sniff

I just thought of something. What if Mr. Hopper isn’t the one with the problem? What if Trudy was someone who had Alzheimer’s, and what’s so important to him is that she remembers about the cake…

By the way, does anyone have an update on Aaron’s condition? Is his condition improving? Did he have to go back to the hospital? Is he maintaining a positive attitude or losing hope? There are a lot of us who are concerned and would really like to know!!!

@dirtyoldlady1 YIKES! You’re right.

AWWWWW!!!Bless your loving heart, Aaron.Lovely.KUTGW,Noreen

I’m seeing a lot of new commenters to this strip. Welcome to all of you. This is by far my most favorite strip also.

Hey Aaron, hang in there and trust that this is temporary. Maybe you will never have this happen again and let it be! You are so gifted, and knowing when you have “got it” and that it’s RIGHT and that you can do more things that you knew you could!

Mr. Hopper is a human with dog features, so chocolate is not necessarily poisonous to him. The cake may also have chocolate coins in it, not just Tootsie Rolls.If he does have a reaction to chocolate, that will be more drama for the story, as Linda has to deal with almost (or actually) killing someone with kindness.

Meg: “so, where’d you get the stuf?”Linda: “ummm, I had some powdered eggs and powdered milk from when I was topside.”

In her three months of orientation, was Linda shown a film: “Just Say No To Milk”?

What if Trudy baked her cake with oatmeal and Tootsie Rolls for other reasons?

Maybe the cake...Is a lie

Well, didn’t Linda go through the portal when Aaron Marx picked her up and tossed her through?

i dont see how the cake is a lie since Linda made it there with the items at hand

So, Linda is the lie…

Stop making me cry, Dammit!

God, you are so good at storytelling. Praise on top of praise to you.

BBWolf28, DITTO.