Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 24, 2012

Can I try Google Translator on Kowalski’s last words?

How much more trouble…Now they have to subvert all those other trucks too, And do so quickly.No matter what will happen, this feels like it will so alter relationships or terminate same between TS and Endtown that the comic will not survive.

Another Polish last name… Could be on the continent and actually Poland. or just in the right place in America.

I think Kowalski was chosen as Significan Name. (Author’s joke: she turned into a koala.)

Interesting how her suit shrank to fit her new smaller size.

This is actually pretty telling about Topsiders. Look how quickly they discarded Linda after she stopped being useful to them, almost as if they had written off as lost as soon as she was assigned patrol for the fake rocket. I guess now we know where Flask gets that trait from.

The Ursa Major Awards. I think Endtown deserves one for Best Anthropomorphic Graphic Story.I will quote Chuck Melville, creator of the comic Felicia, with some information he posted elsewhere. He was not talking specifically about Endtown, but those who want to see this comic get due recognition may care to nominate it, and later vote for it, in the Ursa Major Awards. The process is a little more involved than in the Top Webcomics site, because it has safeguards to make it as fair as possible. And the Ursas only have a short window of opportunity, so don’t miss out. Chuck Melville said:It’s that time of year again when the Ursa Majors are open to nominations for the best Anthropomorphic works of the past year (2011). Head on down to their website (http://www.ursamajorawards.org/) and send in your choices for consideration in each of the available categories. There are a lot of talented folks and worthwhile works out there who deserve recognition, so don’t hesitate to nominate ANYTHING you think deserving and which falls within the Award’s parameters. (And if you have trouble thinking of anything, check out the Recommendations List for ideas.) And spread the word!Nominations end on February 29th, and the voting begins on March 15th.Chuck later continued:Right now, the Ursas are just looking for nominations; the actual voting comes later. Details are at their website. Go here http://www.ursamajorawards.org/nominations.htm for info on how to submit nominations, or go directly here http://www.ursamajorawards.org/nominations/ to enroll to nominate. You’ll be sent an encrypted key for login to the nominations form. You can enter up to five choices for each category (or you can skip categories if you’ve no nominations to make). (The encrypted key is necessary, as it limits each participant to making one set of nominations, and just one ballot when it comes time for voting.)And here http://www.ursamajorawards.org/ReadList.htm is 2011’s Recommendations List of furry webcomics, fiction, books, movies, video games, etc, if you need help in picking selections for nomination. Note that the list isn’t a complete one, just recommendations sent in over the past year by fans; and note that you are not limited to picking from the list only, as you can enter anything at all so long as it came out during the past year.

chuck melville’s name sounds familiar. did he have anything to do with a series of books called “the furkindred”? i believe the series was published by a company called mu press.

Aaron needs your help!!!Again, as mentioned over the past couple of days, Aaron’s been racking up medical bills, and you know how artists are when it comes to health care coverage. He needs all the help we can give him. Please consider commissioning some original art, or go to the Endtown Underground and click on the donate button.After that, as Jenner mentioned above, please nominate Endtown for the Ursa Majors. The more visibility Endtown gets, the more chances there are that the comic will become sustainable.

@ TSOJ and Jenner: How does that work? Does one recommend the entire corpus of a title, or a particular story arc of a comic, or just a particular day? I guess furry webcomic is the category this belongs in, of those listed by Jenner, but furries carries a discomforting connotation for me. I am a fairly new reader, but I have looked at some of the archives, and my methodology was haphazard. The story references throw me curveballs sometimes, but the amount of, and attention to detail in the artwork is stunning2( or amazing, incredible(American tense), fascinating or maybe a little transportive. I am having trouble finding the right adjective, and hope stunning2 prints as stunning squared.

I will try to help Mr. Neathery if possible, but having medical challenges of my own I can certainly appreciate the costs of treatment. If anyone has not priced uninsured medical care lately they cannot appreciate $3000 tests and $1200 prescriptions for one course of antibiotics. It really scared me when the pharmacist put on a N94 mask when he saw my paper prescription.If it were possible I certainly would purchase some of Mr Neathery’s original artwork from the strips.

When Lucinda Williams got sick, her fellow musicians put together a nonprofit to help her and other struggling musicians with med bills. I think that project was called Sweet Charity, and is still quite successful, and has helped many musicians. Maybe the biggies in comic strips(Trudeau and others) could organize a similar program and after it got off the ground they could get corporate funds and government grants and United Way funding.

I hope that Linda now knows what kind of people she was dealing with.

Hell hath no fury like a team leader who put her formerly human butt into a defective biosuit to guard a fake rocket from a sadistic sociopath, her heroic biomechanial sidekick who used to be somebody special, and a pair of anthropomorphic lovebirds with nerves of steel and a common revulsion to unnecessary death, and finds herself not only transformed into a mutant marsupial in need of a whole new wardrobe but also cut off from her genetically pure male offspring by her compassionless former compatriots who are now intent on harvesting the contents of her recently rearranged cranial compartment for repurposing into a future of memory free public service controlling some useful high tech appliance.

Somehow I get the feeling that the TS’s are not going to let Linda transfer her 401k balance to the Endtown benefits plan….

…Of course you know..this means whoa waaa….

I just sent a little something via Paypal to help with the medical expenses. If everyone chips in a couple of dollars, I’m sure it would help.

“click”, schools out. play time!

I get the feeling you won’t like Linda when she gets angry…..

Panel 4: The Pine Valley Drive-In.

Linda’s much closer to Wally & Holly size than to Flask.

This comic series is a work of genius. It is long overdue for the recognition it deserves.Wally and Holly should just untie Linda and let her take her frustration out on those Topsiders. After all, nothing’s more dangerous than “a mutant with a grudge”.

I realize Linda is upset (understandably!), but she shouldn’t forget about her 17-year-old partner who also put his ass on the line…and is now one with the landscape.

Is it Friday??? I normally expect this kind of cliffhanger on Friday!

I guess Flask and Whatshisname won’t have that much to discuss after all.How many Topsiders does it take to screw a light brigade?

Perfect! the stage is now set for the mass PT revolt. Since all PTs look the same from the outside, if they mill about and raise a dust cloud, then all take off in different directions, the TS won’t know which PT is which. Hopefully Petey was on good terms with all the other transporters and they will cooperate. It’s about time for our little metal friend to get back into the story….

Reminds me of the story about when the Lone Ranger and Tonto found themselves deep in Indian Country and surrounded by the entire Apache nation. The Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and said, " Things look bad old friend. I don’t think we are going to get out of this one." Tonto though for a moment, then turned to the masked man and said " What you mean ‘we’ paleface?"

I miss level head. I always used the link at the bottom of his poem to vote for Endtown. Does anyone have any info?

Great work today, Aaron. I hope you are better soonest!

Little “cute” koala Linda…having a volcano sized meltdown. Not that I blame her.

KUTGW,

Noreen

Any possibility you might consider posters. I would buy one. I don’;t know how you would contact producers of them.It would be hard to determine which “foursome” you might pick.Please???? Blessed Be.

We need to be like all the other 1st world nations and have nationalized medicine. Tax is not a dirty word, it’s a price we pay to keep people healthy, firefighters and libraries public and other infrastructure. I used to hate taxes, but now I’m older I see how things should workThis is a great comic and I wish there was a book to buy of the back story. I looked back a whole year, and still never got to the first of it. I would like to buy an annual book..