Endtown by Aaron Neathery for April 25, 2016

He may be a screaming abomination, but Lynn knows what’s up. Run run run!

WOW! Ever Creepy! He has human hands still!He is leaving the house , possibly so it won’t blow up Holly. Monsters Have Sentiments, they can love each other and feel bad when they hurt. Maybe argument about this, but I Prefer to think Lyn is being noble in his own way.

I kinda wanted to sleep tonight.

“O Lord, bless this thy Buddibomb, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats…

This is not the face of a man desperate to protect the woman he loves from harm. No, this is a man in 100% terror running away from explosives that for some reason insist on chasing the wrong person.

His back legs have toes. He would be an interesting character if he doesn’t become exploded. those BuddiBombs can sure be speedy. Hey Shon, you are right. so Holly must have been pretty lovable.Couples argue and even yell at each other while arguing. We haven’t seen her as she was when being happy, being , normal, before all this trauma, except for at the baby shower.

Indeed Lyn is being noble, for even though he’s become a monstrosity, he has enough wisdom to get away from the house so that the pursuing buddibombs don’t destroy it and Holly when they finally have attached themselves to him. Farewell, Lyn.

Oh no! Not the plastic flamingo! Oh the ornamentery! ;-)

quite horrifying…..

This story just gets better and better!

Panel 3 is monster Lyn’s POV. Quite horrifying in its own right.

Neither Lyn nor Holly have any reason to know what’s going on. Lyn (as far as we’ve been shown) has no idea people are changing into monsters or anthros. Rumors are spreading, but that’s all. Lyn is in pain, but he can’t know what’s going on. He wouldn’t be thinking “I’m changing into a monster so I’ll run away to save the mutant mouse thing.”

Rick D we don’t know what Lyn knows. He’s working for Apex, but we don’t know in what capacity. He certainly knows there’s monsters and knows Apex doesn’t want him or Holly to talk about them. Lyn isn’t stupid, I’m sure he’s aware Apex has some information that the general public doesn’t have.His brain may now be in his tail, but it appears to be still working.

I do believe this is the first time we have seen anything from the perspective of one of the “nightmare fuel” crowd. ;-)

Whoops! Sorry, I thought this was Cyriak’s website.

I notice the front “feet” are actually hands.Of course, now what will the neighbors think?

And unlike poor Ethel, he clearly knows thast the buddybombs are after him as the “bad”

Part survival instinct, part love for his wife. He does seem to have a certain amount of awareness, which brings to my mind the question of how much their mental state influences their final look. For instance Lyn has a need to know what is going on so he turns into a creature with many eyes. Holly sees herself as a meek, submissive spouse so she turned into the mouse.

poor guy. should’ve stayed in bed today, he might’ve mutated while asleep too. things would’ve been very different, still bad though.

Can we assume that people will change once they have made contact or been in close proximity of someone who has already changed?

..gosh…this is exciting…

So many screaming mouths…must make an interesting sound…

Looks like he’s covered with eyes, too…They asked us how we knewHolly’s Lyn was throughWe of course surmisedMutant rays appliedHas a bad downsideWe had to bear in mindLyn’s left humankindSpreading like wildfireBuddibombs ariseMultiplying eyes…

Lyn never did like those Buddibombs…

Upon closer inspection, his toes look more like fingers. Including his back feet.

This may be an indication that Lyn was able to escape the bombs and survive to be the director of this play. We have seen at least one “monster” remember a human life (Sandy), so Lyn could have kept his wits about him and stayed low through the End. He could have been picked up later by the Fitzgerald and allowed to stay. He couldn’t go back to Holly the way he was, but maybe he could have kept tabs on her through Lucranean connections. The dittos could read his mind and give him a way to communicate despite his body’s restrictions.Maybe the Lucraneans ARE “monsters” that remained intelligent and maybe became more intelligent through their mutations. They could have formed a new society and are scavenging the old one. We haven’t seen a Lucranean yet that we know of, so we don’t know if they’re human or mutant or extradimensional or from the center of the Earth.

I don’t believe he is running to save Holly.Monsters kill. They are maniacs. I see him leaving to rampage the neighborhood as is the monster way.That human part of Lyn is probably so far gone its not even a small blip on the radar.I guess they will probably be shutting down this block of homes soon. That is why only air cars can get in. Isolation in case of infection. APEX was well prepared in case of outbreak. This is not even WWIII yet.

How about the fact this monster still has all fingers?

@ Salen Stormwing

Quoted from the First Book of Armaments…

Do you suppose that Monstrous mutations are a physical manifestation of the Schism Syndrome?

Even in mutated form, Lyn seems to know a little more of the Buddibombs’ MO than was let on.

Monster Lyn still has five fingers. Does that mean something? Maybe he has retained a vestige of his humanity?

Look at panel 3, it’s from his perspective. Focus is failing ( brain is shutting down). In “normal” disease & injury processes the brain will shut down higher functions first ( thats why diabetic emergencies are sometimes mistaken for intoxication), in strokes and head injuries again you can lose higher functions as the brain pulls resources back to the stem to survive. His shout to Holly was probably his last functional thought as his brain began to restructure. When this fades- he’s gone.

Was thinking that, maybe, when he fell down the stairs, go knocked out for a few seconds, or at least senseless, and started mutating. Then woke back up in the midst of the change, making for a semi-lucid, slightly more human featured monster. Just a crazed bat’s two bits..

I suppose an important issue would be if Lyn is still Lyn even though he mutated into a monster.

Does Holly even know she’s a mouse yet?? Did we ever see if she had looked at herself?? We know it is curtains for Lyn…but what about Holly???

1) Great touch that the front legs are really arms and hands. 2) Mr. N really shows the pain and panic Lyn is going through. 3) Pink flamingo – whimsical “normality” in a crumbling world.

Notice in 2 that the tail Lyn head is crying.

I count three buddies underfoot and three approaching from behind, so it looks like Lyn is drawing all of them away from Holly.

C’mon y’all. It’s 10:00 o’clock already.

I must admit, I am becoming just a bit concerned. I hope Aaron’s ok and it’s just a technical delay.

It’s a few seconds short of noon. I hope Aaron is not sick! I do worry about him. And I have an inkling of how much time has to be devoted to doing such amazing details to each panel.

I’m with DADOF3, its good to see that people are concerned. I hope Aaron is OK, and that this is just a technical glitch.

Perhaps the manure spreader slipped a cog… Would that be considered “technical constipation”?

We get so wrapped up in the story, sometimes we forget the person working so hard to create it all. This is a masterpiece of visual storytelling!

A pretty strong storm passed through town this morning. It’s quite possible power has been knocked out in Aaron’s neighborhood. I hope that’s all it is.

I just tried to email Aaron but it failed. has his email changed from the gmail account?