Endtown by Aaron Neathery for May 18, 2015

Holy Smokes, RacMan!

Ummmm… This would be a good time to run.

So, going crazy in this world gives you crazy superpowers including (but not limited to) pyrokinesis, wall climbing, ignoring loss of blood and/or digits, and super-jealousy. Good work, Sarah.

Rationality returns to Jim, kind of…but probably too late.

And this is why Gustine the rhino was concerned about developing schism syndrome in the first story. It’s not pretty.

Yikes….ouch!!!

Sarah: “Don’t look at me. I’m not with him.”

Man, oh man. What a job, Aaron (N.)!

WOW! Story, artwork – perfect.

Ok, I get that Jim doused himself in lighter fluid, but how do electric lights flair up like that?

STELLA!

Burn baby burn, disco inferno

Da raccoon, da raccoon, da raccoon is on fire

Possibly gas lights and not electric?

Or maybe those lights are candles hidden inside the shades, but they look either electric or gas.

I really do think it would still be a great idea for Holly and Wally to run.

Run….like the blazes……..

Say “Ahhh”!

They should run like a bat out of hell.

Yep, Poor jim definitely should have just let her die from the cancer.

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…

Nice pyro techniques…..Whitesnake style…..I suspect Jim has probably had enough time to seal the exits.You want your lizard medium or well done???Now we will see how much Sarah is worth to them.

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”

“What curtain?”

“Oh…@#$!”

Someone had made a comment a day or so ago about Sarah being a “throwaway character”. I don’t agree with that definition…but I did notice that once she had made her “choice” the narrative didn’t follow her any more. My opinion was that after that choice, she became one of the lizardkin—and so her fate and her story became blended with theirs. However, we may see her in the next installment—since Jim-thing has called her out.

All I can say for sure is that I’m having great fun waiting for each new strip.

I bet it’s a little hard to recover from being burnt to a crisp.

It has come to the point where we will see if Jim-thing is merely a delusional raccoon (a single raccoon-metor will fall); or something more (something REALLY REALLY awful is revealed by the flame). Wednesday can’t get here soon enough.

That’s pretty sad.

@reedkomicksI once accidentally set a tissue on fire when it touched a small camera spotlight. Those klieg lights probably put out enough heat to broil an entire cow so it’s not a far fetch to believe those lights could ignite the gas.

Now that is a tater trap!

I’m burnin’ I’m burnin’ I’m burnin’ for you…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipqqEFoJPL4

“What’s going on?”

“It looks like a magic show…”

“I didn’t know there would be one after the fight…”

::FWOOM!!!::

::applause::

“Whoever it is, he’s good!”

See how they run like pigs from a gunSee how they flyI’m crying…..goo goo g’joob

Lizardtown (or whatever Aaron has decided to call it) has no electricity. The tunnels were lit with torches. So the lights would have been gas or something else that would have exploded on contact with the kerosene or whatever the lamp held. As for Sarah, I think we’ll see her again, but whether or not she will show any remorse at all is anyone’s guess.

The flames seem to have pulled that bit of Jim’s humanity back out. Too late, though. :(

And it was all because of you Sarah…

Actually, I thought of Marlon Brando. “Stella! Stella!”

It ain’t “Streetcar” and Jim’s no Brando, but it’s getting interesting.

I’m on Fire. By Bruce Springsteen.

Holy smokes!

And she probably wont care.

Aaron, GREAT ARC!!!!Now, get busy and get our favorite characters out of this MESS!!!!!;-P

I’m sure this wouldn’t have happened if they had some Bears in the colony,…

The worst part… the colony is gunna have the smell of burnt raccoon fur in the air for days or until the smell of burnt lizard flesh overwhelms it.

Last, and certainly least – and, perhaps not to be noticed by much of anyone since the next new installment will be introduced tomorrow, not today….In Boston, a man is on trial for the marathon bombings. Here at home, a man is on trial for the Aurora theatre shootings. In both cases, the question is not whether they have the guilty persons, nor whether these persons went through a considerable and complicated set of pre-meditated planning and execution of their crimes..The defense attorneys themselves have already pointed at their clients and said that they did it..The question in both trials is this: Were these men “insane” at the time they planned and executed their crimes? In other words, did they know what they were doing is wrong?.Is Jim a representative of criminals who claim innocence by reason of insanity?

@Tarry Plaguer

I made the “I can only do it once” joke days ago.

Ah, yes… His final act of revenge. Having everyone think of Sarah who broke his heart in the first place, thereby making her responsible for everything he’s done.Can’t wait to see how she tries to talk her way out of it.

We can’t blame Sarah totally. One needs to go back to when Jim and Sarah were “adjusting” their uniforms and Jim cried out his identifying phrase when he evidently first saw her in the altogether. Thereafter we all saw Sarah stomp out of the room yelling “DON’T SAY ANYTHING!”

Well, so much for a quiet night’s sleep. That there’s nightmare fuel!

Schism syndrome might lead to conversion into Ditto’s. As the mind fragments and breaks apart so does the body and the mutagenic genes conserve themselves as Ditto’s?

Amazing storytelling Aaron, you have outdone yourself….again!!

I have had Johnny Cash’s song Ring of Fire stuck in my head for days now..