A week or so ago, someone posted an altered picture of the office with the toothbrush monster – and with the “contrast” adjusted so we could actually see the monster.
If you’re out there, please do it again!
In the meantime, “the true horror begins” – as in, someone is working on making this monster machine?
Also, are we dealing with the very comic book shown, what was it, over a year ago? (That we still haven’t seen, except for its cover)
And do you think Aaron can ever get a comic posted on the SAME date that it’s attributed to? I don’t care when he posts them, just could he please start attributing them to the dates that he posts them?
I am LOVING all these answers. Speculation is great for a while, but we’ve been wanting this info since the beginning. I just hope she can finish her explanation before (in true Endtown fashion) she’s interrupted by something with sharp pointy teeth.
Again, Amesworth refers to “topsiders” as a different group. Not “once we isolated that element”. Something still had to happen for topsiders to be required to wear the suits. Did they isolate the dimensional element and then weaponize it? Did it get out of hand ..unleashing the true horror of the war/mutations/topsider butchery?
I posted this on the previous episode, but so late that most would not see it. So here it is again.
Hmmm. Why were there cardoodles in the first place? Cartoon critters may have animal appearances and sometimes animal habits, but they also exhibit human behaviors. That’s not really something likely to evolve naturally.
Perhaps Aaron Neathery has embraced Heinlein’s Fictons concept, where the act of creating fictions creates universes populated by those characters. For example, the lead characters in his The Pursuit of the Pankera visit universes populated with 1) Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom stories, 2) Doc Smith’s Lensmen Universe, 3) Oz and others. So the act of creating the cartoons in a human universe leads to the cardoodle universe.
Of course, if the “ficton” idea is applicable, there really is an “Endtown” universe — and all that that implies…
(The below text added today)
OK, thinking about Aaron Marx, he has cartoon character qualities himself. For example, swallowing explosives like any number of cartoon characters created in our universe.
Ravensworth having the comic and a pair of goggles, and being able to make a map of the universes, implies he was involved with the outfit Amesworthy is with. The really interesting part of that is that he did not seem to have a device like Amesworthy is carrying. Was he a volunteer to become a mutant, or did he suffer a suit failure while sleeping? Or something else…
Keep it moving along, Mr. Neathery! This is really fun!
Once in the suit you can never leave the same as you went in it. In a way it’s a prison. It keeps you human but at a cost of zero contact. Forever trapped inside as escaping is a total toss up on what happens to you. Her crew must be trying to stop the multiverse mashing up. Stop the bleed over. Plug the dam. All at the risk of being found out by Topsiders who don’t believe this theory. To them It’s a virus and all mutants must die. Which now begs the question as they are cartoons…..can they die? Or does one part die leaving the other as a monster….might explain the burying of the dead back at Endtown using concrete…..and maybe cannibalism. ;-)
Curiouser and curiouser. It’s almost as if someone was trying to ensure that The Event happened as they wanted, needed it to…
Long post, but thought of the moment:
Wally, Holly, Al, Gustine, Doc, almost the entire lot remember The Event and life before it. And they haven’t aged a day since. Amesworth mentioned the accelerated healing; does being a cartoon by-proxy give them a sort of invulnerability unless the plot calls for it? Foxworthy, Heather, Allie, Portia, Walter, Octavius, and especially Jim and Flask all meet their demise because the story needs them to. Wally and Al, on the other hand, are leads, and mortal peril doesn’t seem to stick. It’s like the “plot armour” trope.
The question comes to front: is death in this universe really death? Flask is in another reality—something that makes so much more sense now—Marx did something for Walter, Portia and Foxworthy were at the end of the Bacon arc, Jim was in the black mass that absorbed Ravenscroft… That would rather make Wally’s universe pretty danged powerful.
Which, at this point, I have to think that Marx is the saboteur who left the comic book and contaminated the plastics. Who else do we know that could have done something like that without Amesworth’s dimension hopping gear that didn’t exist yet? Did he work to ensure that The Event happened? And on another note, do the toothbrush people have some type of Schism Syndrome? Is Schism Syndrome the inability for the two ‘people’ who were put together to reconcile being a single entity now, destroying the both of them? Is it being out of sync with the merged reality, and the black mass is all the people from all the universes who ended up that way and ‘died’?
Remember how Wally, looked at the interdimensional map in Ravenscroft’s room and said he had seen something like it before. I had thought it would be on either Marx’s ship or on the Edmund Fitzgerald, but not so. In looking for something else, I found it!
It is in Wally’s dream sequence after the destruction of Unity. (panels 3 and 4). And Wally’s “guide” is … That Eye he dreamed on the boat.
https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2015/07/27
And in the next part of the dream sequence he sees a Marx-like rider, leading a charge with horses and riders wearing goggles and masks.
https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2015/08/03
The goggles look a bit like the one Ravenscroft wore except that the latter were obviously from a biosuit.
Seems kinda strange, several time someone asks a ery logical question in the comments, and it is directly answered in the next days episode. I thought these were produced weeks in advance, and this whole story must have been created years in advance.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 4 years ago
OK, Aaron Marx, meddling, as usual.
Sounds like the next installment will be a doozy.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 4 years ago
The fourth panel is just showing the Pharos lighthouse lit up in the dark. No other lights to be seen,
Just Neathery having a little fun with us.
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
A week or so ago, someone posted an altered picture of the office with the toothbrush monster – and with the “contrast” adjusted so we could actually see the monster.
If you’re out there, please do it again!
In the meantime, “the true horror begins” – as in, someone is working on making this monster machine?
Also, are we dealing with the very comic book shown, what was it, over a year ago? (That we still haven’t seen, except for its cover)
Cheapskate0 about 4 years ago
And do you think Aaron can ever get a comic posted on the SAME date that it’s attributed to? I don’t care when he posts them, just could he please start attributing them to the dates that he posts them?
LightWarriorK about 4 years ago
I am LOVING all these answers. Speculation is great for a while, but we’ve been wanting this info since the beginning. I just hope she can finish her explanation before (in true Endtown fashion) she’s interrupted by something with sharp pointy teeth.
egonzalez7579 about 4 years ago
https://imgur.com/NIekQBZ https://imgur.com/jD1PMz8
RickD Premium Member about 4 years ago
Again, Amesworth refers to “topsiders” as a different group. Not “once we isolated that element”. Something still had to happen for topsiders to be required to wear the suits. Did they isolate the dimensional element and then weaponize it? Did it get out of hand ..unleashing the true horror of the war/mutations/topsider butchery?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 4 years ago
I posted this on the previous episode, but so late that most would not see it. So here it is again.
Hmmm. Why were there cardoodles in the first place? Cartoon critters may have animal appearances and sometimes animal habits, but they also exhibit human behaviors. That’s not really something likely to evolve naturally.
Perhaps Aaron Neathery has embraced Heinlein’s Fictons concept, where the act of creating fictions creates universes populated by those characters. For example, the lead characters in his The Pursuit of the Pankera visit universes populated with 1) Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Barsoom stories, 2) Doc Smith’s Lensmen Universe, 3) Oz and others. So the act of creating the cartoons in a human universe leads to the cardoodle universe.
Of course, if the “ficton” idea is applicable, there really is an “Endtown” universe — and all that that implies…
(The below text added today)
OK, thinking about Aaron Marx, he has cartoon character qualities himself. For example, swallowing explosives like any number of cartoon characters created in our universe.
Ravensworth having the comic and a pair of goggles, and being able to make a map of the universes, implies he was involved with the outfit Amesworthy is with. The really interesting part of that is that he did not seem to have a device like Amesworthy is carrying. Was he a volunteer to become a mutant, or did he suffer a suit failure while sleeping? Or something else…
Keep it moving along, Mr. Neathery! This is really fun!
Vet Premium Member about 4 years ago
Once in the suit you can never leave the same as you went in it. In a way it’s a prison. It keeps you human but at a cost of zero contact. Forever trapped inside as escaping is a total toss up on what happens to you. Her crew must be trying to stop the multiverse mashing up. Stop the bleed over. Plug the dam. All at the risk of being found out by Topsiders who don’t believe this theory. To them It’s a virus and all mutants must die. Which now begs the question as they are cartoons…..can they die? Or does one part die leaving the other as a monster….might explain the burying of the dead back at Endtown using concrete…..and maybe cannibalism. ;-)
Robert Nowall Premium Member about 4 years ago
Bet I know what comic book it was.
boydpercy Premium Member about 4 years ago
Nothing is ever easy around here!
Ida No about 4 years ago
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But other than that, Mr. Lincoln, how is the play?
sleekweasel about 4 years ago
Shouldn’t it be ‘once the element HAD been isolated’?
crookedwolf Premium Member about 4 years ago
How do they prevent universes from colliding, and if separated. what happens to our heroes?
TylerColtraine about 4 years ago
Curiouser and curiouser. It’s almost as if someone was trying to ensure that The Event happened as they wanted, needed it to…
Long post, but thought of the moment:
Wally, Holly, Al, Gustine, Doc, almost the entire lot remember The Event and life before it. And they haven’t aged a day since. Amesworth mentioned the accelerated healing; does being a cartoon by-proxy give them a sort of invulnerability unless the plot calls for it? Foxworthy, Heather, Allie, Portia, Walter, Octavius, and especially Jim and Flask all meet their demise because the story needs them to. Wally and Al, on the other hand, are leads, and mortal peril doesn’t seem to stick. It’s like the “plot armour” trope.
The question comes to front: is death in this universe really death? Flask is in another reality—something that makes so much more sense now—Marx did something for Walter, Portia and Foxworthy were at the end of the Bacon arc, Jim was in the black mass that absorbed Ravenscroft… That would rather make Wally’s universe pretty danged powerful.
Which, at this point, I have to think that Marx is the saboteur who left the comic book and contaminated the plastics. Who else do we know that could have done something like that without Amesworth’s dimension hopping gear that didn’t exist yet? Did he work to ensure that The Event happened? And on another note, do the toothbrush people have some type of Schism Syndrome? Is Schism Syndrome the inability for the two ‘people’ who were put together to reconcile being a single entity now, destroying the both of them? Is it being out of sync with the merged reality, and the black mass is all the people from all the universes who ended up that way and ‘died’?
I’m going to sit down.
mleugs about 4 years ago
Lately this strip has been a pure info dump on all the questions I’ve been wondering about for the last 5 years or so.
MikeJ about 4 years ago
I just do a two fingered enlargement of the comic on my Android pad, and the contrast changes enough that I can see what’s hidden in the dark.
Buoy about 4 years ago
Does anyone know, has there been any discussion of the transition from human to cartoon and how the type of animal is determined?
InquireWithin about 4 years ago
Well, that last sentence gives me pause. Foreshadowing?
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 4 years ago
Your attention please!
Remember how Wally, looked at the interdimensional map in Ravenscroft’s room and said he had seen something like it before. I had thought it would be on either Marx’s ship or on the Edmund Fitzgerald, but not so. In looking for something else, I found it!
It is in Wally’s dream sequence after the destruction of Unity. (panels 3 and 4). And Wally’s “guide” is … That Eye he dreamed on the boat.
https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2015/07/27
And in the next part of the dream sequence he sees a Marx-like rider, leading a charge with horses and riders wearing goggles and masks.
https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2015/08/03
The goggles look a bit like the one Ravenscroft wore except that the latter were obviously from a biosuit.
https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2019/04/29
theatomicsoul1 about 4 years ago
The Topsiders are going to become WORSE? She… kinda said that in a way as if she’s NOT a Topsider?
BlimmoD.Clown about 4 years ago
Ugh, so this was some kind of Experiment and the Apex employees were selected as a control group?!
kaystari Premium Member over 2 years ago
Seems kinda strange, several time someone asks a ery logical question in the comments, and it is directly answered in the next days episode. I thought these were produced weeks in advance, and this whole story must have been created years in advance.