Endtown by Aaron Neathery for June 05, 2023

Hold onto your hats, we are in for a bumpy ride, folks.

And, besides, no plan survives contact with the enemy… I mean bureaucracy…

Aaaaand Wally’s back in command of Wacky. Tighten your cinches, cue the William Tell overture.

Yeah go Wally!

Wally is certainly surfacing in both action potential and command of appropriate language! Ride ’em Catboy!!

Gato al rescate! go Wally!

“If you don’t know what to do…do nothing.”

“Plans are for losers who can’t think on their feet!”

Belongs on a T-shirt.

Abandon “Your Location Name Here”! Women & Children first!

I like Wally/Cracky’s enthusiasm, but I wonder what lives there are to save? The Marx crew removed a number of people of “significance” to some unknown location while Wally and the others were on their odyssey into unknown realms. Now that they are back, who or what remains? As the anthro Eden officials noted to themselves , they understood that they were merely background filler, and if the primary characters (like Wally, Duffy, Ala, etc.) were starting to grasp what was going on, the filler characters were going to need guidance as to how to handle that new situation (August 30, 2019). The problem is, the topsiders running the Eden experiment (presumably the providers of potential guidance) are now all gone. And since the other anthros aren’t running anything anymore, is Wally/Cracky going to try to rescue them and take them somewhere? And if so, where? Ravenscroft’s apartment and its map? The beach and possibly that voice recorder? A ditto-generated interdimensional construct?

Questions, questions.

I checked back a few years and this Wally has the part in his hair on the opposite side from before. I know it’s a small detail, but that’s another difference from the “old” Wally.

This is Cracky + Wally in action. Hopefully both can think on their feet.

re: the situation. To quote a famous pilot, “It’s worse.”

Terrence seems to be recovering from his multiple shocks. “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.” – Samuel Johnson

Who among them have the means to stop this contraction or collapse?

Cracked Cat gets cracking

In the comic, Cracked’s plans always fail. But that’s because he was up against them miserable meeses. Wonder how a combination of Cracked’s Rube Goldberg designing and Wally’s mechanical engineering turns out.

Don’t get in his way!

Like my old partner told me on the job at day one….”Dang it! Do something!”

So the plan is not to have a plan. Got it. Wait…

Ah there’s a bit of the old Wally.

He’s speeding up :-)

…says the character that should always land on his feet. Otherwise, “Fortune favors the bold.”

Aaron, thank you for a strip that I always look forward to reading. Just about every one of them is a cliffhanger. Now I’m looking forward to finding out why you had them sent here.