Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 25, 2011

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    DADOF3  about 13 years ago

    I was afraid we might go here…

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    Sabreur  about 13 years ago

    Oy. I was kinda hoping she’d stay unconscious for the rest of the mission…

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    SapphireDragonStudios  about 13 years ago

    I’ve been wanting to draw some fan art for Endtown, and today I finally got around to it! http://neo-dragon.deviantart.com/#/d4h7wib http://neo-dragon.deviantart.com/#/d4h7x3t And I both feel sorry for Linda and want to slap her (or watch Flask come in and slap her).

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    DADOF3  about 13 years ago

    Of course, she wasn’t too worried about creating orphans when she was in the brain harvesting business. What a note to end the week on…

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    Level_Head  about 13 years ago

    Linda wails that she can’t see her son again So the logical question is: “Why?” “They would kill me! The ones who I once called friend!” And again we must ask of her: “Why?” “We kill mutant freaks! Always! It’s what we do!” And once more we would press her with “Why?” Then at some point, she’ll realize, “I’m just like you…” There’s no need for the changed ones to die For the changes at Endtown are merely form Not deserving such death and derision They could live, and share resources: That’s the norm Were it not for Topside’s cruel decision All around them, the “plague” nibbles every day Waiting for an occasion to change them But they’ve changed, deep inside, in an awful way They’d improve if the plague rearranged them =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum

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    bikenboatn  about 13 years ago

    She has some difficult choices ahead of her.

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    Jenner Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Remember, she’s a teenager, and she’s been brought up in a neo-Fascist society. She’s had a severe trauma to her sense of self, and she’s suddenly bereaved of her partner. Give her a chance to get her grief out of her system. Five minutes. Then slap her.

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    aneathery  about 13 years ago

    The Endtown mini-comic that I produced for Comicpalooza 2011 is now available to YOU for the offensively low price of $2.50 (price includes s&h, international add $1 for each copy ordered ). Besides sporting a snazzy full color cover, it contains an all-new 22 page story that is available nowhere else. And just because I feel like doing it, I’ll sign and personalize (if desired) each and every copy I mail out. Simply pay via PayPal using my email address, aaronneathery@gmail.com, and be sure to include your mailing address. If you can’t pay with PayPal, send payment to:Aaron NeatheryPO Box 920558Houston, TX 77292And, just so you know, I’m completely open to donations. The cat and mouse that live in my head will thank you. :-)

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    Herb Thiel Premium Member about 13 years ago

    WOW!

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    Francis362003  about 13 years ago

    Lets hope this girl is the first to change things.

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    3hourtour Premium Member about 13 years ago

    ..yet,Linda was perfectly willing to torture and kill these ‘monsters’.Linda is still this child’s mom…whether she is a monster or not.This is what ignorant, bigoted,blind hatred brings.Maybe,Linda’s change could be the catharsis that starts to begin change and peace to some of the Endtowners and topsiders(but then Flask might put t poo poo on the topsiders party,so I doubt it)…Great strip…

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    davidf42  about 13 years ago

    Aaron – you have created the greatest comic strip of the modern era! Congratulations!

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    davidf42  about 13 years ago

    I bet her son will play a huge part in this story later on, when he becomes an adult and learns what happened to his mom!

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    Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member about 13 years ago

    i checked out “devil bird” late last night. between that and the heartburn my national eat yourself into a food coma day ended on a interesting note. im looking forward to more.

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    Demonick  about 13 years ago

    “Couldn’t happen”? Have you noticed the fact that several patrols, at least the ones that our protagonists have run in to, have gone out and never come back? Al and Gustine killed some, Wally killed at least one(accidentally) and Flask…(shudder)…and we’ve seen at least one TS become infected and mutated into a huge monster, only to shortly after fall in love with another huge monster. So, they lied. They should have said it CAN happen…but it’s rather unlikely.

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    Pangolin  about 13 years ago

    Meh, think nothing of harvesting brains, but we need to worry about our children. Sounds like you’ll need to get used to thingdom, my dear little monster.

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    Dragoncat  about 13 years ago

    It is written: “Do unto others, as you would have others do unto you”..She may feel bad about being turned into a koala, but had it not been for Wally’s act of mercy, she would have changed into something even worse. After what she and her deceased partner was about to do to them, she got off pretty easy..In the event that she does go to Endtown with the others, let us hope that she does not have the pleasure of meeting a certain jackrabbit.

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    MacBeth51  about 13 years ago

    Linda would have been great as a guard at Auschwitz

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    BeniHanna6 Premium Member about 13 years ago

    Oh come on MacBeth51, playing the holocaust card? How would you feel as a young mother to be ripped from your child? Well the bleeding hearts will now realize that there are complications with their, “everything or one desires to live”, attitude.

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    noreenklose  about 13 years ago

    Holly should tell her that it’s the TS fault that they would “shoot her on sight”. The Endtowners won’t hurt you if you don’t try to hurt them first. If it was the other way around, Linda would be harvested for her brain, she’d still be alive, and would probably not even REMEMBER she had a son.Holly looks staggered in panel #4, great drawing today, Aaron!

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    awesome person  about 13 years ago

    i hope linda bites flask’s head off

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    Coyoty Premium Member about 13 years ago

    She knew the job was dangerous when she took it. If it couldn’t happen, then why did she think she was wearing the suit? If there wasn’t going to be anyone or anything to fight out there, then what were they patrolling for? Why did she think they gave her a gun? They had a brain extractor; did she think her client was just going to sit quietly for a deep permanent?

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    DADOF3  about 13 years ago

    Aaron, listened to ‘Devil Bird’ and it was great! But one thing really stood out: as soon as I heard him speaking it hit me, Matt is Al! He sounded exactly like I immagined Al when reading through the archives. I realize you authored both of their dialogues, but the inflections and manner of speaking were exactly what I associated with Al. Thanks for the great work, Endtown is magnificent. I can’t start my day anymore without it!

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    RHJunior  about 13 years ago

    “Genetically perfect?” When simply being EXPOSED TO THE AIR will turn him into a mutate? That’s not perfect, that’s a complete dead end.

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    farren  about 13 years ago

    DADOF3: Just because a mutant has been infected with the virus does NOT mean that they are a “walking, talking virus factory”. I cannot recall (although it might be so) that it’s ever been said that an infected person is a carrier, that others can get the infection from previously infected people. There are plenty of counter examples even in our own lives.

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    Mediatech  almost 13 years ago

    A koala in despair, you’d think it was the end of the world or something.

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    Ida No  almost 13 years ago

    Oh, I should mention that Aaron’s given this particular story arc a title. Any guesses? (It’s not “anoesis”.)

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    Jenner Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    For your interest, I’ve just posted a raw sketch of Flask. You’ll see just how hot she is in a bio suit.http://s4.zetaboards.com/Endtown/topic/8973842/2/

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    RHJunior  almost 13 years ago

    My point is that a species that eliminates all those with an immunity to an environmental condition, e.g. a virus, is not a species that’s going to live long. So far as we’ve read, the topsiders kill anyone who’s been exposed and survived…. mutated or not. They are systematically removing their ability to survive from the gene pool. And just going by a layman’s knowledge of genetics, that viral immunity probably comes with a host of other attributes that humanity can’t do without.

    WE can assume that the residents of endtown are now immune to the virus—- specifically because despite being exposed repeatedly to the topside they never become reinfected. (Just think of how many times you’ve caught the flu, or the common cold.) This is apparently also a GENETIC attribute, spliced in along with the other morphological changes, because if it were merely an autoimmune response the Topsiders would be able to synthesize a vaccine from the survivors they’d captured.

    It’s also apparently not contagious after metamorphosis, because they’re perfectly willing to use robots and vehicles and weapons controlled by organic brains…. a rather messy and fluid-y and contamination-y proposition in and of itself.

    This is further backed up by the fact that quarantines and even mass exterminations did not slow its spread…. consider that the mad scientists’ wife was in a safe community, far from any possible mutant contact.

    Plus, the thing works TOO FAST. The topsiders go from first exposure to mutation in less than thirty seconds. So it can’t be “walked out” of an infected zone to a new neighborhood before the infected are spotted, identified, and shot.

    So the mutants weren’t the carriers.

    My guess is the virus was a weapon, genetically engineered to be a one-shot, one generation mutagen—- seeded over the planet by rocket in an inert form. Probably in the dust, or in the air…. once it finishes playing cut-and-splice with its host’s DNA, it self-terminates— like a self-deleting computer virus. Or, considering its bizarre effects, something worse. A terraforming virus… or more accurately a terra-REforming virus…. designed to infect and reassemble an alien biosphere into an earth-like one by transforming the plants and animals into earth species—- and any sapient species or potential sapient species into mindless malformed mutates, soon to die off. And apparently it was still in “beta” when it got accidentally released into the environment…. or, like the disintegration technology, got drafted into the war as a bioweapon.

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    DADOF3  almost 13 years ago

    So, do they now go after the kid? Hard to see this ending well, but Aaron has never dissapointed yet!

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