Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 13, 2025

What happened to Wally and Kirby?

“I will believe only what I want to believe or what ### News tells me, no matter how idiotic.”

I’m completely lost. I know he has been writing this for many years but I joined just a few years ago and I’m lost. Why can’t there be written explanations of what lead to his or what has gone on?

A fear I’m having now is, today’s politics may be altering Aaron’s story line.

Or maybe just us. I suppose electing a fascist president could have been seen coming at least eight years ago.

At any rate, using the F word (fascist), it looks like Endtown is going to become a commentary on contemporary politics.

Whether Aaron likes it or not…

This guy didn’t see the “martyr” shot, either. Did it happen?

Looks like we’re about to see how the rats do work, and it won’t be pleasant. I’m guessing we’re going to get into the consequences of artificial people.

Sigh.. another one. Look, we will just have to wait a year or three to find out what happened with Wally and maybe the folks in the boats.

Sigh.. another one. Look, we will just have to wait a year or three to find out what happened with Wally and maybe the folks in the boats.Either you have not been reading the entire history or just forget, but Aaron Neathery does run multiple story lines more or less sequentially.

Sigh.. another one. Look, we will just have to wait a year or three to find out what happened with Wally and maybe the folks in the boats.Either you have not been reading the entire history or just forget, but Aaron Neathery does run multiple story lines more or less sequentially.You seem to have forgotten that we had a two year break from when Wally, Kirbee, Chic and Irving were ejected from the Edmund Fitzgerald before returning to their story after the death of Walt.

Sigh.. another one. Look, we will just have to wait a year or three to find out what happened with Wally and maybe the folks in the boats.Either you have not been reading the entire history or just forget, but Aaron Neathery does run multiple story lines more or less sequentially.You seem to have forgotten that we had a two year break from when Wally, Kirbee, Chic and Irving were ejected from the Edmund Fitzgerald before returning to their story after the death of Walt.That story of Wally, etc took 6 years of our time.

Sigh.. another one. Look, we will just have to wait a year or three to find out what happened with Wally and maybe the folks in the boats.Either you have not been reading the entire history or just forget, but Aaron Neathery does run multiple story lines more or less sequentially.You seem to have forgotten that we had a two year break from when Wally, Kirbee, Chic and Irving were ejected from the Edmund Fitzgerald before returning to their story after the death of Walt.That story of Wally, etc took 6 years of our time.Now we are taking up the story that was left off for 6 years. We arrive some time after Walt’s death

If he didn’t see anything, then who is he to judge what happened?

Things are never so bad that they can’t get worse.

A rat named “Ben.” Let that sink in…

Agitators gotta agitate.

Do us all a favor, take out the wolf, Joe.

Wait, you “genocided” the Guy .. That is the funniest thing I have heard this year. Made my day, thanks!

That wolf agitator is going to learn the consequences behind these four letters, FAFO.

For those who might want a quick refresh reading: The Pork Conspiracy starts—01/02/2017. Or jump to the rats’ mission statement “We are security”—04/05/2018 ; Mavis’s description of how the wolves became patsies “a hated, stigmatized subclass”—05/28/2018; and finally, Grout’s (I like this character) dark forecast “justice has become a deadly poison here”—08/31/2018 . Highly recommend reading all the way through, though. In my opinion, some wonderful storytelling. Also note that what we see happening now was foreshadowed years ago.

Strip is drawn so dark, I didn’t even notice the dead wolf.

Ignore the rabble rouser. See to your partner. But keep your weapon handy. 43 years still manning the line.

Welllll I’m going to hope that Neathery isn’t about to take this storyline in the direction I instinctively feared it might go in, he’s a bit of a pessimist but he’s never seemed to be anything worse than that. While the clear jab at antifascism makes me cringe, I suppose the rats aren’t technically cops, and due to their conspicuous same-species nature they may not even have elected to take up their jobs in the first place. They’ve always been jokes before, so taking time to humanize them is a nice new plot thread. All that said, I still can’t help but miss when Endtown was more of a story about surviving, than a story about dying. Perhaps it’s just not a comic for me anymore, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see.

How amusing , to see that New-Newspeak says ‘competent’ and means ‘MAGA sycophant’.