Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 02, 2011

So now that Flask realizes that Linda is only stunned, will she kill her, or tear her suit so that she becomes an anthromorph?

Judging by that smug look of glee on Flask’s lips, it looks like she’s going to enjoy what happens next way too much for Wally’s liking.

The last panel could be understood In several different ways Lip-reading here, it’s not so good Linda’s seen better days But “better days” for her means killing Of Endtown’s population Flask’s statement makes me think she’s willing To stop that situation =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum

Well, I was wrong about Linda being killed. Wally only shoots to impede. As for Flask though, remember how big cats respond to prey that stops moving. It’s not food if it just lays there…

I can understand Flask’s way of thinking, but she’s wrong. There’s no future in her approach. Killing every Topsider you encounter will win you the skirmishes but not the war, and certainly not the peace. They can’t wipe out every Topsider on the planet. They certainly can’t think that if they kill all the nasty ones, then only the friendly ones will be left. Underground and Topsider population will collide sooner or later, inevitably. When that happens, both sides will need people with Wally’s and Holly’s moral compass, if any peace is to be negotiated. If no attitudes can change, and if no peace can be negotiated, then there will be continuing conflict until both sides have worn each other down, one side is annihilated or subsumed, and the other remaining will have lost any shred of credential to call itself human. Which, of course, is what this argument was all about in the first place.

Maybe Flask now realizes that when he said he’d killed that other Topsider with an improvised catapult accidentally, he wasn’t trying to be modest, but really did not intend to kill them.

More points in favor of the theory that she is not actually as intelligent as she is convinced that she is.

Maybe they should realize that Linda’s gun is firing off a white beacon of light to any other topsiders in the area.

Lindas out, so if they do rip her suit and she morphs she should get a manageable mutation.

…very good art today ..

Point taken. But if Neathery were writing nothing but a combat story, it would be boring.

To think that I could have inspired someone to quote George C. Scott quoting George S. Patton! My work here is done.

Happy trails Doug.

You think someone might notice that beam shooting into the sky like a beacon?

It’s a interesting profile of flask. Shows unusual anatomy.

where did Holly run off to?

I also ask: Wheres Holly?

Okay I was wrong yesterday. They (or should I say Flask) wasted one crash test dummy (i.e., a topsider). And now Flask wants to waste the other? Face it, Wally, with Flask, you’re just talking to a wall.

Hey, we still don’t know what was going on to our intrepid crew’s left before Flask shoved Wally on his way a few days back…

Man, that’s one nasty sharp toothed snarl in the last panel.

Perhaps top siders are not as bad as they seem. From their point of view, the worst thing that could happen to a person is to become a mutant. Becoming a useful article has to be one step up. From their view they are being merciful.