Endtown by Aaron Neathery for July 14, 2011

Rooster: God I hope no one herd that!!!

That’s funny!!! Yes, having the light panels simply switching on and off for “day” and “night” seems to be an issue with some of the inhabitants…Is that a coffee mug? Are they drinking liquid vitamin cake, or steamed bean water?

Fried chicken anyone?

Somehow I imagine Wally thinking “He took the words right out of my mouth.”

Holly’s eyes are closed. She’s probably used to hearing that every morning.

morning has broken like the first morning….or maybe it’s that instrumental piece from peer gynt whose name i keep forgetting…

Holly has one of those “this was one of the best nights of my life” look on her face.

At least they don’t have to deal with Daylight Savings Time.

as the rooster crows cockacockadoo and life starts anew on a new day

boy, mousey looks happy

Hmm, now that you mention it, I think he’s looking up and thinking, ‘Oh, Crap, I’m still in a box!’ A big box, but even with Holly to help, that will be tough for a claustrophobe to live with…

Actually, here’s an interesting question that I don’t recall seeing addressed in the strip, nor anyone else asking, to date. What about the “real” animals; I mean, the non-mutant, non-sentient, pre-apocalypse animals. What happened to them? Do they still exist? If so, are there any in Endtown?

Gary Cox@ Wally’s not a user and Holly’s not an enabler, so… it’s Nettlefrisk tea.dwandelt@ Actually, this question gets asked every few weeks. If it gets answered at all, it’s “that will be revealed later”.

My take is that Wally is thinking along the lines of “I’m still in a box.. but I’m not alone anymore. Maybe I can give this a try.”

See Wally – you aren’t the only one who is embarrassed by your involuntary animal instincts….

I am wondering if the true animals may have reverted to earlier forms (dinosaurs, scaly in betweens) and the Endtowners are still working on figuring out how to use them in their new bodies. Also, regressed animals are probably more violent and have further reduced their numbers by fighting. On another note, good to see another Roger Whittaker fan — I thought I was the only one in the States.

Oops, my instincts are showing.

Did he give her catscratch fever? That’s my theme song.

“MORNING HAS BROKEN” by CAT Stevens.and ‘Yes’ Holly does look ….. “Relaxed”. It was 6 years since Wally ‘you know’ and maybe this was her “First time getting caught”. KnowhutImean?

That would be ridiculously annoying, the lights going from off to on like that. I would be sleeping, they would come on, and I would have the “sun” immediately in my face. Then I wouldn’t be able to sleep anymore.

Diseases rarely cross between species unless there is a bridge like constant contact or cross-species transplants. The plague probably didn’t affect animals at first, but the animal-like mutants may have been a bridge for it to cross over. If the plague was intentionally designed to affect humans, then the mortality rate for animals may have been nearly 100 percent, though I expect some animals have survived.

Until further notice, I’m going to pretend that the “real” animals were all mutated into collectible plates. Oh the irony. All these plates, and only beans to eat.RE: Coffee… Coffee is a bean. It could happen.

You’re welcome, surfstuff.. He used to be a standard on radio for the first 20 years of my life.. I miss radio formats that would allow for that kind of music.. :-(

AAww Holly it time to go to work.

“New World in the Morning” was actually written by Whittaker and won several internationa awards.

I have been thinking about the mutations and realized that the mutagen virus must have passed through the animals before humans in order to pick up DNA which then determined the mutation of the human it then infected. The monsters come from virii which carry several incompatable copies of animal DNA.

Love Holly’s expression! But I get the impression that Wally is trying to figure out “what’s next”…

What I wish I had posted yesterday:“Now we dolly back,now we fade to black”With apologies to Steely Dan.

hmmm…just a note sort of tied in to my earlier comment on today’s strip…most of the songs mentioned all came out during my high school years (including “morning has broken”) and they were all songs i really couldn’t stand. now “Hi, Hi, Hi”, by Wings, on the other hand, was more my speed.

Virtually all animals would have died out, at least in the great waste. No vegetation means no food and some very dangerous new predators. Now if there were an area preserved from the devastation of the amesworth radiation; there may still be animals. Plus I don’t know what water does to amesworth radiation. It refracts and deflects most radiation. There may be animal life in the oceans still.

I like KPFT a lot.. Donate, even produced material for them.. But it’s not the kind of station that I can turn on and leave on. Houston has virtually nothing left along those lines.. KODA has stunk ever since they became Sunny 99.1, the light jazz stations are all gone, and adult contemporary is dead here. BAH!! And the weather’s vile, too.. mumblemuttergripe…

hilarious! :D :D

the rooster crows at the break of dawn; look out your window and I’ll be gone—you’re the reason I’m travelin’ on…

Old instincts never die.