Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 27, 2020

COLOR! For regular readers we know serious doo-doo is gonna happen.

Ruh-roh! Looks like the gate to Hell just opened up and is swallowing the gateways…

This goes way beyond the normal Endtown state of affairs — SNAFU.

Looks like Dr. Brushworth was spared an eternity as sentient dental hygiene. Unless the flames mean she’s only traded one damnation for another.

Wonder if Dr. Reinhardt will be staring out of his visor in confusion and terror at a bunch of toothbrushes around an empty suit soon?

Classical reference.

Man, that third panel visualizes a real horror that we associate with uncontrolled transubstantiation.

To give you an idea of what I mean, imagine you were the person in a German city during a firestorm bombing who watched burning bodies sinking into molten asphalt. (True story, mentioned in Max Hastings’ book, Bomber Command.)

Run, Forrest! Run!

Well, this is not going any too smoothly…..

If that is Wally in Panel 4, what happened to the others?

Ah well. Go with the flow, Walechinsky.

Run? WHERE TO?!

A thousand doorways, locked between the pendulum and the fiery pits.

Getting out while the getting is good.

Somebody wake up!!!! This has to be a nightmare! (In more than the normal sense)

That’s what happens if you don’t brush regularly.And flossing?…..

True Nightmare Fuel!

There is a transition from pure chaos to order the tooth brushes are all forming an orderly linear pattern. the gates are all collecting in a pattern, no more snaking and winding tentacles of gates. There is something in the wind, however, not as much as a true disaster but a breakthrough, I suspect it will lead us into a new story arc.

Dream sequence?

Oh goodie, it’s a Portal to Hell. I’m so glad we all came along for this ride. Alas, there’s no big Red Floating Robot named Max to hide inside.

I seldom comment here because I usually learn a lot more from reading everybody else’s comments but over the years of reading this strip, I know color means something major. My comment is, “WOW!” But where are all the Aaron Marxes we saw gathering together and where is “I”?

Oh Sugar Honey Ice Tea!!!!

I could be imagining it, but in the last panel it almost looks like letters are being formed.

Gotta say – for a black an’ white strip, Aaron has always been able to use tiny bits of color for great effect. This though – the color in contrast is amazingly impressive and expressive. Just continues to show the genius of Aaron’s talent.

Aww heck…

She must have got bit.

I think we need to clarify our perspective in the 4th panel: think of that right side as a waterfall, where the left top side is above the waterfall cliff and the bottom right is heading to the bottom.

The black blur on the bottom right is the suite, the red is stretching as it’s “falling”, then there’s Wally and elephant man (name?) at the top of the panel “in front” of him.

My Dental hygienist offered me a complimentary toothbrush and was somewhat frightened by my response. The responding officer pointed out that no one can really know what dimension the complimentary toothbrushes are coming from, but I’m hiding under my bed anyway.

That can’t be good for the floor.

Into each life a little apocalypse must fall…

Classic Wally tail-fluff — don’t blame him a bit! That’s terrifying.

I wonder what condition the rest of the tower is in, now.

Under normal circumstances, I’d say Aaron is ending the strip – by sending them all to where the sun don’t shine.

But we still don’t know what happened to Kirby, Chic, and Irving.

Are they now the pop-ups at Coors and Wrigley Field?

Always look at the bright side of life…

At least, in color, we should be able to see a lot more of what’s going on in this comic strip. In black and white, often Aaron shades out the most important features of his artwork.

Going over temporal falls.

I wonder what thought seems to have stopped Wally in his tracks?

This is the way the world ends…….

And now hear the roarthat none can ignoreThe thunderous clatter of splintering wood and lives that are claimedAnd none who have witnessed allCan think of a nobler cause than perishing inthe toothbrush rain

Reminds me a bit of Raiders… ;-)

Thinking about it….

I think the portal worked as Amesworth intended. I think the flames are actually from the other side of the portal, from the Topsider lab, which since we last saw them has gone all FUBAR, either due to the stress of opening the portal, or from Ted’s interference.

This is just my [likely incorrect] theory, but I say Wally & Co. will drop into the lab, along with all the Amesworth bits, to deal with the crisis in-progress or immediate aftermath.

We shall see!

Now in color for extra nightmare fuel!

Wally and the gang visit the ninth circle of hell

Moving on to the NEXT iteration, Wally has changed into a medium-sized purple dragon.

Time for Wally to recall his ditto army and fashion himself an MRAP; or at the very least, a very sturdy flameproof barrel for surviving the falls.

Hey, I hope nobody will have the idea of making this strip into a pop-up book!

Good bye Doctor Amesworth!

He’s stopped running in panel 4. Interesting.

Across a thousand worlds, a thousand portals open and that what was came spilling forth. The Dentines of the Molar planet was tickled for the new supply of brushes. The Tooth and claw beasts of Helgamon was instantly terrified and fled. Everyone across all the other worlds began changing… A few here, a few there until they all succumbed to pearly white dentures and minty fresh breath.. that is before they too added to the growing horror of the toothbrush existence. Across the lands, across the sky’s, all the filth of the spoken word was scrubbed away and left nothing in their wake. Don’t look now and don’t now but there might be a brush just waiting for you in your bathroom cupboard…

So long and thanks for all the fishSo sad that it should come to thisWe tried to warn you all but oh dear?

You may not share our intellectWhich might explain your disrespectFor all the natural wonders thatgrow around you

So long, so long and thanksfor all the fish

The world’s about to be destroyedThere’s no point getting all annoyedLie back and let the planet dissolve

Despite those nets of tuna fleetsWe thought that most of you were sweetEspecially tiny tots and yourpregnant women

So long, so long, so long, so long, so longSo long, so long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long and thanksfor all the fish

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hang on to that suit! the material could come in handy, especially the goggles!