Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 07, 2018

Marx acts as if he just doesn’t care. How I hate him!

I love the peppermint heart!

Wally’s been pretty hardcore up until now. It’s surprising he’d go to pieces so easily.

I hope Wally pulls himself together.

Let’s cut to the end of the sequence.

It’s not like Wally can pinch himself right now..

Marx prefers the kung-fu warrior monk or priest type who prefer a flask of whiskey instead of mushy lovey-dovey sex and marriage. Celibacy and bachelorhood are the keys to survival with Aaron Marx.

Marx is an odd one. He usually acts in a cavalier fashion, but very occasionally shows hints of compassion (e.g. telling Doc that Holly is better off where she is now instead of in Endtown). Sometimes he seems the master manipulator of all he surveys and at other times seems as helpless to do anything as the rest of the Endtown inhabitants.

In this case he’s unconcerned about Wally’s predicament, which makes me wonder whether we are indeed seeing one of Marx’s dreams and not an actual event in the story.

Marx is such a cut-up! Always leaving his audience in pieces! Exit stage left…

Not exactly confidence-inspiring!

I know it’s been said the next adventure would feature Wally, but nothing about whether he would be animate or inanimate!

And I agree with many above that, after a brief stint in the Walt death song story, when Marx appeared to be a caring “god,” he has returned to his pre- Flask jerk personality!

Might be beyond waking up right now.

Marx acting like a jerk is a good thing. It’s when he stops acting like a jerk that you have to worry. Flask’s redemption, Jake’s election, Doc’s confrontation and Walt’s sendoff were all times when we saw a different side of Marx; times when the consequences were serious. When he’s working this persona, the story’s just getting started. ;-)

“Wake up, Grey! Wake up, Grey! Wake up Grey!” —Matt Appleyard to Grey Grimwald in Electromatic Radio

Hopefully, fantasy gingerbread world will end soon.

Maybe I’m the only one, but I’m still not convinced this ISN’T a dream sequence. Guess we’ll all find out eventually.

Why was he after the head of his gingerbread self?

Please remind me again of the purpose of that circular disk/medal that the cat wears (and is now a giant peppermint).

I sure hope SOMEBODY’S dreaming.

No more Wally?

Well, we’ve killed off (almost) all the other likable characters so far, so why not Wally?

Oh, hey, who hasn’t had one of those dreams where they’re turned into a gingerbread cat and then hacked to pieces? I HATE those.

Wally’s naturalization could be a clue to why everyone in Endtown’s world turned into anthropomorphic animals or monsters. If something happened to the world that made it think it’s supposed to have cartoon animals as people, it could have started naturalizing everyone it could. The Topsiders’ suits may somehow block the naturalization agent. Marx said it should be impossible for it to happen to Wally in Candyland World, but if he’s been naturalized before, he might be renaturalizeable.

That is a good point. maybe the goal of this comic is to figure out WHY they turned into the cute cartoon animals.I prefer them that way, Lynn for example was kina ugly in comparison.

Sweet Dreams…

Methinks Marx learnt not to get so attached to people a while ago hence this sort of indifference.

Marx is the worst Doctor.

If this is a dream, then it means something to the story much, much later on. It doesn’t mean that what’s happening now reflects on either Marx or Wally. Maybe this is Irving’s dream, and he doesn’t like either Wally or Marx very much.