Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 19, 2022

He does wear a spiffy bowtie and talks a good line! Maybe there’s hope for him after all.

Yay! No visible debilitating complications! It’s a good day!

I like the little detail, that Wally and Cracked Cat have a similar choice of vocation. Makes you wonder what other characteristics the two share.

Going from color to black-and-white is usually the other way ‘round. Y’know, like “The Wizard of Oz.”

Now where’s Wally? This fellow is Cracked Cat….the Cardoodle Wally was in. Can Cracked Cat and Wallichinsky coexist? We’ll see when he wakes up.

I wonder, when Wally comes too, if he will remember ANY of the details leading up to now?

He’s baa-aack..?

YAAY!! WALLY’S BACK!! WOO HOOOO!!!

Looks like there is some left over data from the old HD. Eh, I’m sure that won’t cause any problems.

the animation reanimator – put that on your CV

Just a little temporary identity crisis. It was a long wait but worth every minute.

“Hell yeah. I’m an engineer, Baby!”

2 November, 2015.

I really like the juxtaposition of Marx and the about to go nova sun in panel 3 – both faces are way too disquieting. Poor little Wally is in for a really strange trip to sensentience.

He didn’t explode, we didn’t explode. Must’a worked. That’s one useful hyperchronometer. Grab the puma and little brother, a spare Holly, and make for the exit.

Mmmm. Micicles. Mice-icles?

Fourth panel – notice the CYMK color print process devolving with the colors (CYM – Cyan, Yellow and Magenta) going up the light beam like the souls in the interspace months ago, leaving the K (black and white) image behind. Only no Yellow though – but then again, the old color technology mentioned recently didn’t have that either! Bravo, Aaron – your comprehensive knowledge and attention to detail is fantastic!

that’s one cracked cat!

Glad to have you back!

I guess no more dittos for Wally?

You know, Aaron wouldn’t have to go so long between comics if he would cut the epic strips into two or three. Then they would be much easier to read, too.

It looks like Wally created his own little soul fountain and sent Cracked to his next incarnation. He’s no longer just a character and is starting to take more creative control. I wonder if this is how the Marxes started. And I. Wally has the potential now to be like Marx, or I, or remain Wally. Marx has done this before, so there may be a Council of Wallys waiting for Wally to join them.

Analogical characters writ alive can be a royal pain if they mix a little. For the character’s sanity in these invidious parallels, they are in.

At least his tail doesn’t seem to be on fire any more.

I see that Aaron Marx is trying to put Wally’s soul into Cracked’s body. Isn’t that rather risky with two souls battling in one body? Wouldn’t that result in insanity?

Sounds like Wally’s singing the theme to the animated series.

Hmm. The Wally we knew was already a grex of Wallechinksy and Cracked Cat. Now grex-Wally is being put into another Cracky. A sort of psychological sandwich—two slices of Cracky with Wallechinsky in the middle? This could be interesting, with the proper condiments.

panel 7 — reminds me of Jon Snow coming back from the dead — similar framing and position.

He looks good, compared to what?I swear I don’t know if this guy is the king of crazy or the king of fools with initiative!

Aside from images of Trixie Mouse threatening Cracked Cat with explosive devices, I don’t recall any hints of their ongoing relationship. It seems Cracky is an inventor of mouse-removal devices (he says “mice”, and not “Trixie”). Maybe in their stories, Cracky is the primary aggressor, and Trixie then retaliates with bombs. She’s Bugs Bunny to Cracky as “Wile E Coyoty:Super Genius”; or Yosemite Sam, or Elmer Fudd.