Endtown by Aaron Neathery for February 17, 2012

AT LAST!!All safe..

Thank you, Aaron for this unusual happy Friday. Still have questions but no stress this weekend.

I made it back here to the forum Just to listen to Captain Flask’s yuks (I might be the entire quorum Of all commenters wearing a tux) But her confidence seems quite misplaced Like it all went according to plan Now we might learn, ‘ere he was erased More of who Petey was as a man But it’s now almost anticlimactic To see Holly and Wally again Once the dittos made “entrance, dramatic” We’ve been wondering just where they’ve been =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum

Tears in my eyes. And not on my pillow. I got up in time to catch this wonderful stretch of the imagination. Offer him a beer, Take him on a tour. I hope Friday lets us know when and how long this “alter” of personalities occured. Where did the switch come. There, is Linda which means our bad gal was a bad gal up to that point at least. Is she tamed???Boy the questions go on. I am so excited!!Blessed Be

A PS for above. I don’t make funnies about my emotions. If I say I am excited, it means I am excited!!!Blessed Be.

and flask finnaly speaks again !!!!!

Good news, but still lots of questions!I’m still fascinated by the the amount of work Aaron put into the piles of trash.

I woke up so happy this morning and now I know why! Right now I don’t care who have taken them because it is so wonderful that they are all together! (And is that the transporter?)

Captain Flask, turn around. A thousand people want to slap you and then hug you.

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On th eTop Webcomics list, Endtown 2.0 has 517 votes and ranks at number 108.VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Check the sides of the container bins! Maybe there’s a notice flier for the recycling service. You can call them and see if they have any need for a used satellite rocket…

Cool that they are all alive and supposedly well, but who or what has caught them?

Do you think there’s a rocket hiding under all that stuff?Still bugging me…

An explanation is needed for this.

Hey, there’s the vacuum cleaner! A rotary phone? Must have been in a museum somewhere….

Of course, our heroes don’t know about the dittos. They were evacuated from a different location, and were onboard the ship when the dittos “erupted”. They are blissfully unaware that the reports of their deaths have been greatly exaggerated.

Now that’s a relief.

yes!!!!!!!!!!!

Cat food. At least two of our heroes won’t go hungry.

Looove the teddy bear on the very top of the pile. Very nice touch.

Alarm clock rolling down the pile……it was like, “Okay, it’s time.” And there they were. Thank you Aaron, this makes my weekend!

WHOA!!! No cliffhanger on this Friday. Just a lot of story catchup to do. Way to go, Aaron! This is some really great stuff. How do you do it?

So the switch took place sometime after Petey left…. I’ll have to go back to try to figure it out.

You know, Aaron seldom seems to draw detail for no reason. Look at the level of tech represented by the identifiable stuff in this pile: rotary telephone, old style “Kirby” vacuum, radio with a large manual tuning dial, turntable, coffee percolator, vinyl record albums, wind-up analog alarm clock, mixed in with a few computer monitors, a microwave, and something that looks a bit like a dvd player. Strange mix to be just the flotsam of a supposedly high tech world of the near future. Don’t have the foggiest what it might mean….

Now this is one cliff I will happily throw myself over!

BTW, good to see you back here Aaron! Hope you are well on the mend.

For the sake of accuracy make that “trashpile” (I had to look back to be sure). :-)

so the rest of the gang is on this ship (or in the lair, or where ever they are now) and they’re alive too. The TS van is still with them too. but while it’s great that they’re still alive, they also seem to be prisoners as well.

So,our band of heroes were rescued by a mysterious airship as dittos were distracting the TopSiders. Is it a stretch to suppose that the dittos have a master of sorts, who pilots the airship that defies physics? HmmmMmm??

I’m just wondering how the hell Petey ended up in my garage… Or at least that’s what it looks like…

Oh, and cliffhanger? Oh yes. Our heroes are alive, yes, but safe? And to whom do they owe the rescue (or capture)? That remains to be seen…I still think Sparkplug has made his peace with the dittoes and is now on the good side. He wasn’t actually evil, remember, just a little crazy, likely a result of the trauma of catching his mutated wife licking her chops after eating their daughter. The trauma of falling may have snapped him out of his delirium. His last words, after all, were “I’m sorry”…

I was just thinking, assuming they get out of this pickle, if Mallard has any more robots laying around, he could salvage the brain from this PT and Flask could have some competition. Or it could simply provide Petey a love interest if (as is my theory) he turns out to be Flask’s father / brother.

I’m loving it all…and I just started reading with the strip that Holly was fighting with Linda before she was mutated. So I am enjoying all the talk that fills me in on the background story. AND I have to say one does get emotionally involved with these characters. And I have voted every day at your insistence! Aaron, your artwork is fabulous, your storyline captivating and I’ll be a loyal reader for life!! Thank you all for keeping me apprised of what is really happening as certain things are sooo confusing if you haven’t followed from the very beginning. So you have at least one new family member!

Thinkl Ambrose Bierce…“An Occurrance at Owl Creek Bridge”…the main character escaped a hanging and returned home all before—-SNAP!…dangle, dangle, dangle…

I just hope this isn’t something like that…

I agree with JanBic, Cindy, you need to start at the beginning. Everything that is going on will be a lot clearer, except of course to dozen or so loose ends you’ve probably been reading about. Aaron’s a great storyteller and character developer, so the time spent will be worth the investment. I read all of 2009, 2010 and Jan through around Oct 2010 in three nights. I’ve been a daily reader ever since. Glad to hear you’re voting too. We need just a little help to get this into the top 100 comics.

Ranking is now at 103, with 558 votes! C’mon folks! A couple more, here? ;-)

“Five Weeks in a Balloon” made Jules Verne independent as a writer. I wish Aaron the same success with this new adventure.

Hooray!!! They’re alive! I have plenty of questions like I’m sure many others do, but what a great way to start my weekend! Thank you Aaron!

WOOT! Glad to see our heroes made it this far! (I’ve long since given up trying to predict where things are going on this ride, tis just too WILD!)

Many of the things collected in the trashheap are antiques by TODAY’S standards. How long has this thing been up there? Most everything’s been wiped out topside, where’d they get an old rotary phone, a toaster that looks like vintage early 1960’s, a radio from the ’50’s? This ship raid a museum? Of course, the story does not necessarily happen on our planet……..just one that hugely resembles it maybe.

What else? Well, two people there are dead and animated by machine bodies. The Topsiders wanted to make it six.

Just think…Only two more days until we have some idea what’s really going on here.I LOVE IT!!!

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yet another Friday cliffhanger… Oh, yes, I signed up on TopWebComics to vote for Endtown.

When I voted today from work (after voting from home this morning), I was at lunch. So I took look at the top ten Webcomics. All I can say is, WTF?!? Endtown has better drawing, better writing, and way more heart then the ones I looked at. People need to know!

Thanks Aaron, I came about a thought on observing how shapely Flask is that you may be taking ideas from Judge Parker. His ladies are totaly within the angelic family.Meaning, couldn’t exist as humans. Flask is real.And you are the goodie.Blessed Be.

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Thank you, Aaron…you’ve made my day.

KUTGW,

Noreen

Hi, I discovered this comic a few weeks ago and have read the entire posted comic series to date. The wally story line is the best one so far, I was very emotionally shocked when they were ‘dusted’ and relieved to see it was not ’real. I have voted on the Top Webcomics list, and as someone else here said, this strip does need to get noticed, it has better heart and story than most of the “top” ones listed currently.Thanks AAron for a story that has more to offer.

Splendid. Say Arron, I sensed a bit of ‘Steam Punk’ style in the choice of lighter-than-air craft chosen. Intro to a new character?

“Can’t wait for the Monday explanation of all this!”Which week?

Sometime in May, maybe. :-)

Wait aminute. Can I vote more than once on My telelphone?I own just a house phone. If so I have about 20 to 30 votes to present. Worth it and then some.Blessed BE

very good… all together again, they may not be safe, but at least they’re together, right?

I have tried to vote on that website but haven’t figured it out. Any help?