Endtown by Aaron Neathery for December 01, 2017

Now the wolves are parading Heather’s dead body through the streets?! The mob mentality is definitely still in force. I’m assuming the wolves think they’ve “won”, but what happens next? Have they even considered it?

“The Daily Fang” will crow about the news, but judging from the horrified, dismayed look on that family’s face, not everyone is pleased about a fellow Endtown citizen’s suicide. Many will assume (correctly) that she was driven to it and resent the wolves’ glee, further widening the divisions in Endtown society.

Q: Who’s afraid of the big bad wolves? A: Everyone.

The shocked expressions in panel two (that Endtown is tearing itself apart), the suspicion of the wife towards her husband in panel three (“Will he hate/fear me or will he still love me because I’m a carnivore too”), and the fear in the child’s eyes in all three. I can see both fear/apprehension and hope in her expression. This story line makes me wish for a “Meanwhile…” sort of interlude. A check-in with Wally and Kirbee.

Welp… Endtown as a safe haven is gone. At this point, I’m not sure if it’s safer to be there or the surface. Either way, it doesn’t look good for Endtown’s future.

Now I fully understand why Wally didn’t want to stay.

This is terrible. They’ve crossed a line that they cannot easily turn back from.

Huff & Puff. and blooooooow down your homes!

The young one reminds me of Chick. Maybe they will meet some day.

The wolves demonstrate the madness of mobs … coming soon to streets near you. Especially mobs subtly encouraged by those wanting power, or even not so subtle buffoons.

And I think the child is a piglet. That would engender even more fear.

I guess the wolves have absolutely no fear of any sort of response from the other inhabitants of Endtown…

The definition of rabid.

So, have the Security Rats vamoosed or are they going to setlle the matter with a few well-placed bullets?

Banish all the wolves (and Dottie) to the great wastes.

How much of this is anthro-typic behavior surfacing past their human behavior imprinting, and how much is them just being jerks?

Anyway, welcome to the “land of the free, and home of the brave.” Advance reservations required.

At this point is there anything to salvage, or is this just gonna build up to a “kill em all” ending?

Hey cheer up fans! It’s always darkest before the dawn…….however this is going to be one long night.

Ok, the wordless comics in this arc are REALLY starting to tick me off. Not because it’s bad storytelling, mind you. But rather, because it’s highlighting just how far out the window reason and communication are being thrown by these people.

We STILL don’t know who is killing pigs, where those threatening phone calls are coming from, and what the ultimate goal of any of this fear-mongering is. The culprits could very well be wolves, but there is an argument to be made on the wolves’ behalf that widespread prejudice and persecution based solely on (“race?” “species?” They’re technically a derivative of human, so I’m gonna say…) race is unjust, unfair and only serving to further the fear-mongering underlying whatever scheme is behind all of this.

The trial WAS a farce. No jury has any right to make a call of innocence, let alone curse out the prosecution for A) Doing her job & B) potentially making a reasonable case. Which brings me to what was far more important than the actual verdict and something that actually does peeve me off from a storytelling perspective: We saw relatively nothing of the trial: No evidence, no claim to a proper investigation, no appeals to the rights of the citizenry. We, the audience, don’t actually know how Endtown functions regarding people’s basic rights. We also don’t have a full understanding of what the people know in regard to the Heather Hoss incident. DO the people EVEN know anything about it? There is a legitimate mystery there and no one seems interested in actually solving it.

Then again, I imagine it’s really difficult to worry about the death of a wolf when you are watching a parade literally celebrating the suicide of a woman who was so broken she could barely speak. Which brings me to the other side of this nonsense: There is NO reasonable way that these wolves will convince ANYONE of their cause like this. Even if I set aside whatever their cause actually IS, this act makes them look like monsters.

even taking out the horrible moral implications of body desecration, this is literally interfering with a crime scene, anyone touching that body can have even MORE charges stacked on to whatever property damage they did during this riot.

I remember a scene in “Napoleon vu parle Abel Gance” where, during the Revolution, Napoleon’s rest is disturbed by a mob going by, complete with head-on-a-pole right at his window level. This reminds me of that.

A frivolous question, but how does the lady manage to kiss her husband?

There is going to be some cleaning out in town after this, one way or the other.

Wow.Just…wow.

The place is like Yugoslavia.

You need a Josip Broz Tito or Francisco Franco to keep the place in peace, if not Democracy.

Panel 3: Beautifully expressive eyes.

Hey kids, long time reader, decided to post at long last – I’m enjoying this ark of the story – Loved Holly’s ark; it really set the pace of how fast Endtown would be falling.

What’s interesting in these current events, is that Fenrick’s initial goal was to assuage the fear and distrust Endtown citizens had with the wolves increasingly acting out of control. Wasn’t it? But it seems the wolf colony doesn’t care to alleviate oppression, they want a form of justice – They crave revenge for a self-perpetuating crime. The wolves – like others have said before – are perpetuating the intolerance and discrimination against them selves – hate begets hate. Rather a few members work in the group to take control and get the colony to settle down, take responsibility, they follow one another with no distinct leader – like Sheep, reacting but not thinking deep into what is happening. They’re too high on this power trip to come down.

Fenrick made a good try on helping his ‘species’, even going so far for the ultimate sacrifice – being seen as a traitor and murdered in cold blood; yet, the wolves ain’t having that. And the ball keeps rolling down hill with momentum gaining, on and on until it collides with that unmovable object….

I had said I may take a break from Endtown, but even as dark as it is, it is nothing if not interesting. Also i feel like everyone that comments are friends I value you all too much to give up end town. Also, Aaron N. is such a master storyteller and great artist that even though I don’t like how depressing it is, I really admire him so much.

The Wife my not be suspicious of her elephant husband as much as she may be wondering if he can keep them safe. Elephants are Nothing like wolves.

something tells me this mess is exactly what happened at the lizard colony

The people in the house probably know who Heather Hoss was (since the trial was news throughout the colony); but they have no way of knowing that she killed herself (the wolves don’t really know that either). All they see is that this mob is parading around the corpse of someone that had annoyed the wolves. I think that the folks in the house believe that no one is safe from the mob outside—and hoping that they won’t be next.