Endtown by Aaron Neathery for December 30, 2024

? Was the previous the end of it all then?

This looks like the Heather Hoss trial sequence, and the pig-eater secret society arc.

This would appear to be some time after Walt’s demise. Notice the sign urging a vote, featuring a wolf. Fallout from the wolf riots and wolf massacre by the rats, no doubt.

Looks like the rat has a better chance of going under the fence than over it.

That wolf is really gonna make more friends for the wolves, eh?

I hope these guys are armed.

Scoot under or scale over are the rat’s two choices. Probably will take him just enough time for the wolf to get away. Until he can be tracked down later. As I recall, the rats are pretty resourceful and have a lot of information at their fingertips. (pawtips?)

I hope there will be another story arc later on the fate of Kirbee, Chic, Terrence, and the rest of the Eden Project survivors.

Another officer’s worst nightmare. Alone in a dark alley and you lost sight of the suspect. One of these two is not going home tonight. Two rules a cop should always follow. Never pursue alone. Never leave your partner alone. A rat is no match to a wolf in a fight. Remember both sides have guns after the big riot.

Disappointing to see the non-conclusion of the Eden Project arc; but, that’s the way life is…lots of drama followed by pain and loss

It seems Neathery likes to leave us hanging. No happy endings for us. Just one”Storm of the Century”after another.

Where wolf?

Has this storyline somehow reset to December 2017? The whole Heather Hoss bit?

This would be just after Wally and Molly left. Wolves were accuses of eating pigs. It was only a few, but the situation got out of hand. And now it’s worse. If the rats are patrolling Endtown, thing are really bad. Their only job is to restore order. And extermination is as orderly as it gets as far as they’re concerned.

We never did get an explanation for how the rats came to be. They consider themselves unique from the mutant population.

wow, finally back in Endtown, I wonder if this is a flashback to before it was destroyed or proof that it wasn’t

OK, timeline, folks. This is sometime after Walt died while killing that dreadful pig. We know this because of the sign urging a vote .. for a wolf. Earlier, the wolves were operating as vigilantes and terrorists. Now they are (as someone observed) trying to oust Jacob Jackrabbit.

Wally & Holly left before it was discovered that pig-form mutants were being killed and eaten. It was the execution of one of Jacob Jackrabbits rivals for power and the political turmoil generated by Jacob and his followers that prompted them to leave.

Endtown was not destroyed by the topsiders. The topsiders did indeed use a nuke on where they thought Endtown was, but they were spoofed by Endtown’s defenses. When Terrence mentioned that Endtown was nuked, he said it was several years back. But Wally knew that couldn’t be, because he had been there since that time. So Endtown still exists.

The other thing to remember is that while we experienced 6 of our years for Neathery to tell us about the Eden Project and its destruction, Wally, etc did not experience anywhere near that time interval. Remember that on the beach, someone mentioned having gone to bed and poof here he was. Wally & the guys saw the waterspouts while on the beach, and then went many places and came back essentially the next day.

We have repeatedly been told that time flows differently in different places. And the Marxes seem to be able to manipulate it. It took time to find the mutants they wanted to rescue and then get them to the beach, but the people they moved experienced no time.

Well, suddenly the frequency of posts has picked up.

I forget…what is special about the rats’ origin?

So… that’s it? We never get to learn what happened to Wally and the others?