Endtown by Aaron Neathery for February 25, 2024

10:40 EST – first comment! So flying deckchairs and falling head-first cat with very floofy tail. Is that a window he’s headed for? Any guesses what the other objects are?

Looks like Wally/Cracky’s ship has come in…hope for a smooth docking!

I wonder if that’s Holly’s ship, and if Walley’s headed for a reunion?

It appears that he is falling into a window in a brick (or maybe stone) building. In fact, in the last panel he (and a deck chair or two) have passed through that window, which has broken into shards of various sizes… There is a desk lamp immediately behind Wally.The cube may have been in the room, as it isn’t seen in the other frames.

Note that the deck of the ship is splintering as it hits the building.

This is definitely Aaron Neathery at his most surreal.

(Sonic The Hedgehog Sega game theme tune plays in my head)

All those hours of Sonic Pinball are about to pay off!

The floors of the skyscraper are mostly perpendicular to the ship’s decks. But whether the building will hold together better in the impacts with ship and ground is the big question.

Yoiks! And away!

Down and down, he goes, and where he lands, nobody knows!

I’m unsure if anything is in motion besides Wally..?

Wally’s heart will go on… After all, what’s a falling ship to a toon but a minor inconvenience?

Rearranging the deck chairs?

Now I’m free, Free fallin’.Yeah, I’m free, Free fallin’…

Wally’s doing a pretty good job at staying afloat here, despite all that’s going on. I do have a worried feeling though that at least one of the current gang isn’t gonna make it out of here alive…

Why do I get the feeling that everything is frozen except Wally?

Welcome to GRAY TITANIC ZONE.

Asked earlier, where are Wally’s companions? Whether they were ahead of him or behind him, now it appears he is without them.

And it appears, at one installment of four panels a week, it may be months before we know anything.

While it is easy for me to say that maybe Wally goes on in this adventure without them, nevertheless, the others seemed to have something to offer – especially Duffy, not to mention the topsider peacock scientist.

But then, Alan had a lot to offer – and he was the first to be offed!

“Clear the deck, cannon ball coming in”

so we’re going full Sonic the Hedgehog here

Cartoon ball bouncing time!!

Maybe someone could donate the strips to the Memory of Mankind time capsule in Austria, for our descendants a million years from now. I tried to but couldn’t get the strips into my memory to send off.

Oh, oh. I don’t see the other members of the gang.

None of this stuff may be in Wally’s reality. This just might be echos bleeding into this one. Lots of noise, signifying nothing.

OK but wait – how the heck did he get that high, anyway?

Tuck and roll Wally

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic…

His tail is so prominent here, that I wonder if I’ve ever seen it before?

I do not believe Kate Winslet is going to be waiting for him on the prow.

It’s been a while since the last episode. That’s not good for me, in my old age I lose interest and lose track of the storyline. Just sayin’.

Stop. Drop. & Roll!