Endtown by Aaron Neathery for September 19, 2023

Wally is referring to himself in the third person – and being critical of himself, too. Guess the transition isn’t complete..

Terrence is really grieving. And Duffy, why couldn’t Alan make it to the end? Look in a mirror, kid.

They might be joining Alan soon…

two new characters ,,,,, but a loss of a great one

Eloquent ending for a dear friend! Let’s hope our new friends have some really good “character” to add to the story!

The walls closed in on Alan…and if the others don’t hurry and hustle, the walls will close in on them.

Almost-Wally is wrong; Alan was always meant to be a hero. It was his density.

Poignant strip today.

When Alan was “invited” on this journey, Wally was just Wally-grex. Since then, Wally has died, and his grexed self has been added to the consciousness of Cracked Cat. So Wally is gone, and we see the combination (which someone here in the peanut gallery dubbed “Wacky”). So the cat isn’t the same person he was in the past. And…isn’t that true for most of us?

Is Alan “dead” or just in another state of being?

Alan at least had an adventure instead of staying in Unity and being caught in the beginning of its demise.

I have been wondering whatever happened to Wally’s dittos. Shouldn’t they have shown up by now?

Thing is, had Alan stayed behind he’d probably have been “snapped” anyway. At least this way he saved some people.

Well, Bobcat-Boy, the reason Alan couldn’t make it to the end is that YOU wouldn’t let Bird-Man cut off Alan’s freaking hand, as was obviously necessary!!! (Grr…)

It was necessary to have cut off his arm in order to save him but honestly I don’t think they would have had enough time to finish it anyway. This way he was able to save others while being spared the pain of having his arm halfway cut off.

Also, I have been wondering this whole time about the people in the walls. Do they maintain consciousness? I mean they become one with the wall right? If so, wouldn’t that be absolutely awful for Alan to have his last sense of touch be pure agonizing pain?

Nothing gory. {sigh of relief}

who knows, maybe we will see Alan again…. stranger things have happened

Duffy is now the tallest person in this crew

8^)

Had they cut off Allen’s arm, wouldn’t he still have died from loss of blood? Mute point at best.

The bravest heroes are the most scared. But they don’t quit because of that.

RIP Alan. We hardly knew ye.

BOOOO!!!! So stupid

Requiem for a Heavyweight…

Interesting how Wacky has access to Wally’s memories but doesn’t feel like he IS Wally.

“That could have gone better…”

What a bummer!

Alan seems to have….hit the wall in his quest.;/

It’s going to be interesting when Kirbee is reunited with Wally/Cracked Cat. How much of this new person is Wally and how much Cracked Cat? Based on the third-person reference in Panel Two, is Cracked Cat the dominant personality? Or do they take turns? “I’ll be in charge every other day.”

Alan meant what he said, and he said what he meant. And Alan was faithful, 100 percent.

Rest in peace, Alan… You may have been the elephant in the room, but you were the best one, for sure.

Marx had better take good care of Alan. He deserved better than this!

Aaron, this ain’t right. We need to see the valiant survive.

If Duffy hadn’t been here then: Alan probably would still have saved Phoebe, and gotten trapped. Then, Terrance might have stepped in to disconnect Alan from the wall. But how much time would that take? Alan might have fought it or Alan might have let him cut. At least Terrance, and maybe also Wacky (if he had to restrain Alan), would have been absorbed. End of Eden Project, end of everything because no one is left to help. As crappy Alan’s demise seems, Duffy is a new addition, and he could be the key to their success.

I’m sad for the group, cuz I really liked Alan- he kind of kept the perspective grounded.But I’m also thankful when the wall snapped him, it didn’t just move a couple inches. It would have been the darkest comedy if it only snagged the end of his trunk. He’d be hollering for that zero scalpel, but sounding like Tim Conway when he did that bit about the Siamese elephants that were joined at the trunk.“Snit dee noutta neer!”

One thing about it — Aaron won’t have to work as hard to find a perspective to fit an elephant and a bird in the same cartoon frame. But that doesn’t mean I don’t regret the loss.