Endtown by Aaron Neathery for September 24, 2012

Happy in her mischief, ain’t she?

She is crazed, and enthusedThe new guy looks confusedAs he stumbles into the weird sceneNow he’s part of the funHate them? Now he is oneAnd our Flask is no longer betweenShe has run down the hallCould she slaughter them all?From that look on her face, I’d agreeBut her plan will cut shortShe’ll do “mission abort”When she thinks about Petey-to-be=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

Love the look on her face!

That look of crazed joy on her face had to be either the easiest thing Aaron has created or the hardest. I accept both. I checked my magical crystal glob and as I anticipated we would have fun didn’t I. OK. now, if this is her original site, she ( or least I) would seek out the ones who pissed me off the most. Wonder how long the battery lasts on the scalpel.Blessed Be.

That was a clever thing for her to do. Too bad about her lovely tail. Does make me wonder where she is headed, or if she’s just out enjoying running amuck.And of course she hates them all for all the torture she endured.

Actually her eye make her look fairly un-hinged.

Not a whole lot of mutation in it if they mutate into something similar – both whch arent able to communicate. Unless we are talking about an “you mutate into wehat your personality is like” mutation, so all the other top siders are monsters.

There are artists who have sheets already done up with heads in any conceivable emotional pose or posture. This saves them time; but if you know what to look for, it starts to look like cheating. Even Russ Manning, one of my favorites did it.But I have the feeling that panels 2 and 3 were not drawn from anything pre-planned. This is Aaron capturing these emotions right at the moment. There is a uniqueness to each of these expressions. I’ve never seen anything quite like either of them before. Nothing cookie-cutter about them at all.

I remember a topsider who mutated while conscious and dint turn into a monster

we never saw in what he changed into but he was still speaking asking the other topsiders to kill him

Panel 2, Flask singing:“Every time I go to town,Slash biosuits in my surgical gown.’Cause zero scalpels I have found,Slice Topsiders; bring the monsters ’round!”

Psychiatrist: “Anyone can change. They just need to want it enough.”

Shes beautiful when Mr Sanity has taken a holiday….gleeful kitty crazy kitty with a nice sharp knifecarefree kitty laughing kitty off to psycho life…

Now we know another aspect of mutation. When two monsters meet, they immediately try to have sex with each other. Same thing happened when Al monstered a Topsider with another around.

We have a Psycho cat in the building.

Your worse nightmare. A PO’d cougar. With a blade. There will be blood.

I know this has never been covered. But I was looking at the symbols on the Topsider uniforms. Then rechecked the symbols on the APEX uniforms from Sparkplugs past. Vol 2. They are the same. Topsiders are APEX. They are the darned fools who started all this. They display the same arrogance dealing with mutants as they did dealing with Sparkplug and his weapon system. That would explain why no one has guns. In Wally’s revisit he described cases on cases of weapons. Regular ones not Zero type. Then poof. They are no where to be found. APEX would have made sure they were disposed of. At least one thing is clear. You can rip the suits at the neck seal but can not cut it with a normal scalpel. What would a high caliber round do to it?

Did notice one point about the symbols Topsiders versus APEX. The Topsiders is inverted and reversed color. Is that a symbol of their new dogma? And when I referred to last Friday work as “Here’s blackie!” Can you say her lover may have seen this side of her before. I know it is not discussed how she got the nickname. It may have come after he witnesses her soon to come destruction rampage. You think she is going to be satisfied with two? New found power does lead one down a “dark” path if not tempered or use restraint. If she did this to a Topsider colony no wonder they are after her. And not to kill her that would be easy. They would want to put her back in the pit.

Flask has that “It’s a Christmas Miracle” look in panel 2. Zero Scalpels and a boat load of crazy, right under the mutant Christmas Tree.

This scene begs the question of how in the heck they get into environment suits without mutating, or how they keep new born babies from mutating the second they escape the womb. They’ve got to have some sort of air filtration system in place to prevent those sort of catastrophes, otherwise they’d all be mutants by now. And how do they bathe or reproduce if they can never take off the suits? Still, it’s a cool scene.

Aaron…I am in awe…..

I didn’t think topsiders would mutate equally – how interesting that both of these became very similar “monsters”, just one smaller than the other! Crazed cat on the loose! Watch out! ;)

Flask… HAPPY?!That’s actually a good look for her.

Sitting here drinking my latte I have had two thoughts. One, Flask when she can needs to shave her legs. That European look is too much. Second, are those monsters attacking each other or making out? Think about it. Remember back to Al and Gustine. One Topsider becomes a humongus monster, savage, vicious. Then along comes the one Al ran across some time back. True love blossoms. He ever remarks to Gustine when she asks what are they doing. “You don’t wanna know.” Later in the morning the question is asked. “How are our two lovebirds still asleep?”" Wandered off in the night." Al says how he loves happy endings. Just sitting here thinking.

I can’t tell if the newly-minted mutants are fighting each other or consoling each other…

My point exactly.

Flask looks a little too HAPPY!I’m interested in seeing how she gets to Endtown…I am sure that Aaron has a great story planned.We need to see her escape, and her rescue into Endtown. I can hardly wait!

Great job, Aaron.

KUTGW,

Noreen

To Jeff PfeifferWho says they are born naturally. Remember they are genetically perfect. That isinuates control. The glory of nature is its lack of control to some extent. Controlled chaos. This is L.Ron Hubbard “Dune” stuff. Control the genetic lines by artificial means. The Bene Geserit used internal control granted by the Water of LIfe. Knowing the code. Crossing it. Controlling it. All to get the Supreme being they could control. That did not work. But dont stop there read all the “Dune” saga. Heavy stuff. Topsiders are techno. Use computers. Analyze the code. Pick the best features. Cut and splice. That is why a form of cloning come to my mind when thinking about them. Remember clones can look alike but act differently depending on how they are trained. The suits do stretch. Linda the Kowala proved that. It shrank with her. The Topsider with Al and Gustine went much worse. The suit stayed the same size as it had no body to adhere to. He was squishy when stepped on but the suit was the same size.

BEFORE JUMPING ON IT. I KNOW I KNOWFRANK HEBERT WROTE DUNE. L. Ron Hubbard jumped in my mind. Was thinking about his works.

I put Mr. Neathery in the same context as those authors.

Just the four panel shot……man does it drag out the wait. I liked the Modern Tales lay out. It kept the story rolling.

@RW BartonDune was Frank Herbert.

Let us rock the topwebcomics vote. Vote for Endtown 2.0, Doc Rat and Endtown tos. We seem to have fallen quite a bit in three weeks. We started this month as numbers 1 and 2, for Endtown 2.0 and Doc Rat respectively. The last time I checked, Endtown 2.0, Doc Rat and Endtown tos were in positions 30, 50 and 80. I know I have been really sick since the 3d of September, but am back about half my normal strength, and will attempt to get my people voting. They have helped me immensely this down time of mine.@ Everyone : I found something resembling a dimensionometer. After Level_Head posted his "Tear of the Cat, I kind of got into an Al Stewart mood and searched YouTube for of his music. Right there, in four places, 0:34, 1:24, 7:08 and 8:45, in (The Eyes of) Nostradamus, is a painting borrowed from Google images, is a painting that immediately struck me with its similarity to to dimensionometer.http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=qa89bt0GZvQ&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dqa89bt0GZvQ@ Aaron I wish I would have posted this earlier, but don’t let Baltimore discourage you, it was a really tough town in the 1980s when I was in Washington DC. In the 1970s Randy Newman wrote a song that may have helped you put it into perspective. At least you got up there and tried to promote Endtown. What do they say, It’s more important to keep getting up than how many times you get knocked down. Here is a good version of Baltimore with Newman playing a Bechstein. Catch it quickly, since he became a Steinway Artist they try to eliminate his older works on other pianos, but sometimes they pixelate the name of non-Steinway pianos. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rcSb8LgPQc

@ Everyone: Remember to vote early, often and regularly to return Aaron and Jenner to at least the Top Ten. Thanks,JusSayin

Use to live in Bmore back in the late 50’s early 60’s. Unitas was our neighbor. Met Bubba a few times. Nicest guy in the world. I remember his quote for tackles. Tackle the entire backfield and keep tossing them out till you find the guy with the ball. He was a huge man. Baltimoron C’mon Man. WBAL Baltimore Maryland. Lots of history there. I recall Unitas had the biggest hands I had ever seen.

Sorry about the links, I am on a mobile. The Nostradamus I was recommending was simply listed as Nostradamus, uploaded by 2minstral. The Baltimore song I was suggesting had the number 6 after it, it was 6th in a series of songs from a concert festival, but it is hard to go wrong with Randy, as long as you understand he has a peculiar sense of humor. Especially in his earlier works, before he decided to challenge his uncle Alfred Newman’s record of academy awards wins in the film soundtrack category.Thanks surfstuff55, (Baltimoron huh? ;-) ).JusSayin

I’m so late to this party! I finally got to the comic that contains the thumbnail graphic!