Endtown by Aaron Neathery for September 26, 2014

I thought you said it was real food.

Vintage Twinkie, was from a good year. Just smell the bouqet on that packaging.

Chic: “Was I right? You lose your appetite? That’s fine by me, because the rest of the stuff in this chest has a near-infinite shelf-life.”

Of course! The only thing that would outlast an MRE.I’m reminded of that second Hell Rider movie.

Something about the phrase: “don’t waste good food” hit a raw nerve with Holly. I wonder…

I guess in the first three panels he was telling her about the eggs.

at 1st I thought this was a find 5 things different on the 1st 3 panels. It Does seem like he must have been telling her about the eggs. She may be having a flashback to the time in the harsh prison over the cake.It’s so hard when you get knocked down just for trying to do something nice for someone.Does anyone have a clear picture as to what in the eggs they are acually eating?

Careful there, Chic. You don’t want your pet to identify your hand with food.

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Back on the subject, I’d guess that Holly is currently in shock. But who would refer to a Twinkie as “real food”?

Holly’s shock requires explanation. After all, she had no qualms about using mutant eggs to bake a cake, so what’s so different about using the reptilian eggs for food?

It’s possible that Holly is simply shocked at the idea that using mutant eggs for food might be wrong, or that she never thought of it as cannibalism before and so she’s shocked at the realisation, but I don’t think so.

Maybe Holly makes a distinction between fertilised and unfertilised eggs, but the reptilians don’t? But Holly still seems too shocked. What the heck is going on?

People who eat sausage should not ever see it being made.Holly has that look, Ive seen on the faces of countless others.As a Chef I have hacked up more than my share of animal carcasses for primal cuts.I’ve also made a ton of sausages, but I would never put in anything I would not eat myself.That Twinkie may be prewar, and depending on how it was stored it may be somewhat edible.I’ve eaten some old things in my time, really old.More than my fair share of WWII C rations.Those canned hardtack crackers from fallout shelters, (they’re vacuum sealed and still edible as long as it is still sealed)I’ve had tastes of some very old vintages of wineThe oldest thing I have ever consumed, were these little tinned sponge cakes with a shot of rum in each one.They were dated 1916-1919 and were part of rations for WWI troops. I got pretty drunk, but I would not do that again.I had been given a Xmas tin with four aluminum bottle of Budweiser from 2006. I opened one, and had found the beer had not only gotten darker but the flavor and aromatics had improved greatly. The flavor profile was similar to the Trappist style ales like Omegang.But I digress..So what about Holly?Is it possible for a Mouse to be Catatonic?Her present condition may keep her out of the story until she comes to… If she comes to.

What is Chic’s motivation? In the last strip, he said he hated to waste food, but here he is, willing to share his food store with Holly and Jim. He seems to know Wally wouldn’t be with Holly, and is only curious where Jim went. He’s a little young for Holly, and yet he is willing to share his precious food stores with Holly. Why? I still speculate the herpetarium here was once a domed stadium, and all the riprap concealing it was the ruins of concrete surrounding the Astrodome®. This little hiding place may be near the warehouse for all the concessions at the stadium, and Chic may be sitting on this without telling the others. Or did he squirrel this food away? I once ate a fruitcake that was over thirty years old. It was sealed in cellophane, in a tin, and vacuum sealed with plastic. Yeah, some food can last, especially if it is sealed well and cool. Those Hickory Farms® Summer sausages and cheeses can also last for years. I’m open to other suggestions. It could be a little like the old serials, where between vignettes the watchers(No, not those Watchers™…BWAHAHAHA!) or readers sort of apply their own colour and texture. Good thing we have those little tools to scrape off our paint as the picture comes into view.

Shelf life of over a thousand years…

…then Tallahassee kicks a hole threw the wall, grabs the Twinkie, then runs off to kill some mutant zombies. The End.

Do you have any gluten-free snacks?

was on endtown or on a movie the one with the joke about twinkies being still good to eat even if some weapon was supposed to destroy everything thats organic ?

Everyone seems to be assuming that Chic is a youngster. Has there been any mention of his age in the story? He looks young but perhaps he could be an adult?

Twinkies remind me of “Wall-E”, particularly the scene where Wall-E’s pet cockroach burrowed into the Buy N Large Twinkie like snack cake.

He died with his ding dong in his hand,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__enLT7g9I

Looks to me Holly picked Door Number 3.Now cover “I lost the baby”These Lizards don’t loose their babies….they eat them.One more slap to Holly’s view of this reality she lives in.First was a left cross at the Trial…..now the right cross about Eggs…..now wait for the upper cut to her chin…….KO.

What I am really waiting for is a whisker twitch…..

yay pre-apocalyptic food additives and preservatives

Chick has had to grow up quite a bit in his four years. In this environment, there probably was no chance of a childhood, so he matured mentally straight to teenager. He couldn’t interact with the lizard kids, who probably saw him as food that was left out too long.When the lizard kids grow up, I don’t see how they won’t view any non-lizard as food, no matter how mature or smart it is, because that’s what they eat when it’s still packaged. At some point they’re going to progress from eggs to steak and bacon.

Come to think of it, is Chic talking about the cream-filled pastry, or about Holly?

Processing… Processing… Processing… We gotta get the &#$! out of this funhouse. How long before this society decides to raise a few non-reptiles past egg for new and different types of meals? Why not right? They aren’t the right species, and if an egg is edible why but a bit of veal?

By the way, Holly has a pretty good overbite in Panel Four…

I’m confused. Based on the thousand yard stare, I was expecting chopped up body parts still wearing clothing smothered in ketchup and mustard.

On the subject of food preservation, the use of radiation to kill all bacteria in the sealed food can allow the food to be edible for decades.

I think Chic did tell Holly about the eggs. Remember the candling part? The lizards had to wait until the fetus was developed enough to see what it would be. Eggs that were not carrying lizards are eaten. That means when you crack them, you can see what it is that will be eaten. Pretty gruesome for someone as sensitive as Holly.

Panel One: She’s learning about the eggs.Panel Two: She’s learning about Sarah.Panel Three: She’s trying to remember why she left Endtown in the first place.…Panel Four: Your guess is as good as mine.

Early on I remember a certain ‘rhino’ stuffing her face with Twinkies. The radiation turned organic matter to dust, but not Twinkies!

On a side note, what would the lizards think about someone like AL? Have they met people who didn’t change? What would they do if they candled an egg and there was an unmutated fetus inside?

Well as I raise chickens and sell eggs I know precisely why Holly has that look. To refer back to the cake:The egg that was used in the cake was an infertile egg. Those eggs won’t EVER become chicks (or babies) Check basic biology, ya all should have had it in high school at the least. The eggs the reptiles are using are Fertile, they have to be in order to confirm they are not reptiles, Their doing some kind of ultrasound or DNA test, so given that it takes at least a couple of days to a week before the fertile spot in a Chicken egg is big enough to recognize as fertile we’re no longer taking about just eggs. They’re not eating eggs, their eating non-reptile mutant fetuses.

Still waiting for the scream………..

I’ve been wondering, what would have happened to the existing animals? If you mutated to say a cow, and were presented with a fine pre-war, well preserved steak, are you a cannibal to eat it? After all, your true relation to the species is new. I just don’t recall any mention of the fate of all other species.

I think this is the first time we’ve seen Holly’s overbite in profile.

poor Holly…she’s so fragile emotionally and I fear Chic may have sent her over the edge with the eggs/food explanation. BUT she may just find that inner anger/rage and who knows? We may have a rampaging mouse on our hands…you go girl!

The question is how much of the world got hit with zero bombs? Would the missiles be blanketed on all of an opponent’s territory or would it be focused on the major metropolitan areas? My interpretation from this years’ strips is that the "great waste we’ve seen is the aftermath of weapons aimed at Hillside. The spiky ridges where the Lizards live is the edge of the shock waves from the detonation. Beyond this is the countryside the attackers felt wasn’t worth targeting. I expect to see people and plant life there. It is possible we’ll see animals, possibly animals that have mutated to another form. Hopefully we’ll have answers once we get the heck out of Lizardtown.

Jenner is everywhere! Including as colorist on Kevin and Kell.

Because post-End infants are born with animal DNA, and animals mature faster, the faster maturity may be due to the animal part as well as the faster healing. But most animals also have shorter lifespans. There hasn’t been enough time to know if born mutants have shorter lifespans or adult-onset mutants have had their lifespans cut short.As far as what happened to the animals, we do know what happened to rats, at least. The Endtown security rats are NOT human mutants, according to Aaron. But they’re not necessarily mutant animals, either.

Late in the day – weekend, for that matter – and the new Endtown installment about to be posted, I thought I’d chime in..Other posters have noted that, in general, animals did NOT survive WW III, the “end,” or whatever it is called in this strip..Noted above, a possible exception would be the Endtown rats, which I am not aware of since I haven’t been following this strip that far back..The lack of animals is compounded by another inconvenient fact: So far, in this post-apocalyptic dystopian world, we haven’t seen any plant life, either..Therefore, with no non-human animals, and no plants, just what the sam hill are these creatures eating, anyway?!?.If not eggs, then it must be each other!.Perhaps Piotr was right: The eggs are their ace in the hole!