Endtown by Aaron Neathery for May 23, 2016

The heat is on!

Here be Monsters! There be Dragons!

Now the horses are approaching the starting gate And there they go!! And it’s Stooge Hand going to the front Cabbage is second on the rail Beautiful Linda is third by a length And … Buddibomb

So now we know why Doc Chase uses a cane.

…there’s abnormal and there’s fearsome. A humanoid mouse girl that’s less than 2 feet tall is definitely NOT the latter

well, someone is not getting a break. I agree it’s too up-front for them to call holly a monstrocity on that scale. This might partly be the state of holly’s mind talking. That, or Arron’s going a little far with the reactions. That said, THIS is where holly finds out a helpful element of her mutation. “Ain’t nobody’s managed to catch me yet.” The newly minted Ms. Mouse can really run!

Just wait until they see the REAL monsters!

When she learned that she can run.

At least Holly knows what’s going on when a Buddibomb says “Bad” and knows to run. Poor Ethel had no idea.

I really did Not expect this, and so many of them! Here she is learning to outrun anything! They need to jump in to a metal room and lock it from inside. Oh man, this is bad. Good thing adrenaline can make super-human strength! Or super anther, or something. What we need is a quick monster mutation to happen, or maybe one just did, just out of sight beyond Holly and Doc..

And now we must run…. ;-)

How cheap were those Buddibombs, because damn, everyone seems to have them. What’s the black market price for autonomous hand grenades?

Doc seems to be coming around in panel 2. but he may pass out again from being pulled over debris or else it may be a while before he can even stand.

On third look, they are coming in their direction from everywhere. We need that famous cartoon Mounty to rescue “little Holl” off the path of danger.

Just remembered, the Buddibombs only go off when they are away from “the normal” running away is the exact wrong thing to do. She needs to turn those adorable feet around and head into the crowd. I don’t think she remembers that yet, or hasn’t put the 2 other examples together yet.She could bite into someones’ clothes for good sticking power.

Wow, Holly sure got the hang of her new feet pretty quickly!

“Look what I got today!”“BuddiBombs! Are they armed?”“No, they’re legged.”“Oh, that was bad.”“Bad?”“Ooh, they talk! They must be like Furry Bees™!”“So how was Donny today?”“He was a little monster…”“Bad!” “Bad!” “Bad!”“Yes, he was very bad, little Furry Bees! Oh, look at them run to Donny’s bedroom! I think they want to play with him!”

Unequivocally Worse Day Ever

RUN, Holly, RUN!!!

They’re designed to protect their owner, so they didn’t go off on Ethel until their owner Holly was a safe distance away. Ethel’s husband wasn’t their owner, so he was collateral.If any of these bombs’ owners had gotten a safe distance away, I think their bombs would have gone off without consideration for the other people. Apex would convince the public that it’s a feature, not a flaw.

Buddibombs don’t seem to coordinate their attacks. They all attack the first threat they see, which results in overkill of a mouse, and then there are none left for the second, such as a dangerous, huge monster.

All those people in the restaurant have just been exposed to Holly. It didn’t seem to take long for her husband to start mutating after he walked into the bathroom, saw her and turned and ran out. By the bottom of the stairs he was changing. The bombs may be after her right now, but if all those people start changing, she may lose a bunch of them as they turn around to go after newer mutations. Things are going to get bad really fast in that restaurant.

I see assumptions that Buddibombs are designed to protect their owners, well that is part of the sales pitch. That is how Apex is getting them dispersed far and wide, they are to sanitize the area around a mutant, just like they "containment crews with their napalm guns. They probably could care less if their owner dies in the blast or not. Sanitize, sanitize, sanitize…

As the old comedian use to say“FEETS DONT FAIL ME NOW…..!!!!!!!!!!!”What sounds do we want……Scooby Do, old Looney Tunes, or Merry Melodies running noises. Maybe some old Benny Hill??

Uh-oh…looks like there’s gonna be a lynching…

I’m guessing that some people have such a powerful fear of the unusual and the unknown that they are not able to tell the difference between a cute mouse girl and a monster.

It occurs to me…Holly is known to be pretty fast on her feet. Only Wally could catch her when she was chased.

Clean up on aisle 15,642!NDDC is going to have a field day with this scene. And there aren’t any cops left to come in and blame Holly for the mess.

Boogedy, boogedy, boogedy ’round those buddibombs, Holly! Someone else is going to mutate, which should provide the break Holly & Doc Chase are going to desperately need from the pursuing buddibombs.

Don’t worry, Holly; things only get really bad when they say

We know they both escape. Now we get to find out how.

That’s what I said.

“We need a distraction, Doc…”“Waiter, there’s a really big fly in myAWWWK!!!”“That’ll work.”

Bad a bing, bad a boom!

I still an suspicious of the true mission of the Buddibombs. We’re told that they are designed to protect their owners, but how do we know if that is their actual programming. Do they protect their owners, or do they sanitize the area in case the owner is no infected too?

Holly Hollister… Widow… Mouse… Searching for a way to tap into the hidden strength that all mutants have.Then an encounter with Buddibombs after crashing into a restaurant alters her fear factor.And now, as she runs for her life and her stepfather, a startling increase in speed occurs…

I like how Aaron shows Holly’s human teeth behind her massive rodent incisors.

Doc Chace was a good looking man, I mean he looked better as a man than a , Badger?

So much for my theory that the buddibombs wouldn’t identify Holly and Doc as threats.

buddibombs might be slaved to each other to go after the ‘greatest’ threat. So when the diners start mutating they will change their targeting to attack them and ignore Holly and Doc.