Blackie acts like she’s power-besotted Even as she’s seen plans become rotted One more part of the show That she might not yet know Has Wally told her they’d been spotted? She knows mutts replaced all of the crew In the dome — and it startled her, too She did not find the “gift” And it’s causing a rift Yet she still thinks the launch will go through =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum
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. :-).. and original Endtown art is still for sale. Contact me for details @ aaronneathery@gmail.com
CAPTAIN BLACK, to the tune of “Mack the Knife”, by Weil and Brecht. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZIOh, the shark, it’s gotta swim, dear,And the duck, it’s gotta quack.Flask the cat just loves to kill, dear,So they call her “Captain Black”.When the shark shows its teeth, dear,Ruby claret starts to squirt.But the zap gun of the CaptainOnly leaves a pile of dirt.Indiscreet words from her workers,So she gave ‘em both the sack,’n let the cleaners sweep up the pieces.That’s the way of Captain Black.There’s a skirmish, and some captives.Now there ain’t no turning back.And the rule is: “Take no prisoners,”In the rulebook of Captain Black.Holly Holl’ster, Wallechinski,Both got sent out to attack.They got spotted, so they slaughtered.They followed the advice of Captain Black.In the city, in the launch room,Three dead robots in a stack.“Keep your tendrils off my missile,”The first and final warning from Captain Black.Now the city’s in the cross-hairs.Dreadful vengeance raining down.And that kitty, she a-smilin’.Looks like Blackie’s back in town.Those who missed my Christmas song: “God Rest Ye Merry Endtowners” (’cause it was right at the end of the page for December 23) can find it in the Endtown Underground Open Mike page.
I read this last night and was intrigued by the shading in the last panel. But reviewing it again this morning, I’m much more impressed as I realize what I’m actually looking at. Very well done, Aaron! Detail like this is what makes EndTown such a standout strip!
Unless one has worked on a project, one has an almost insurmountable obstacle in altering project data to make the project do something other than what it is intended. It is easy to, say, rip out the guts and destroy the wiring. It is very hard to reprogram the unit. You need both knowledge of how it was programmed, and a very good memory for the details. Frex, if you wanted your GPS to display the wrong coords, even if it was modular, could you just replace the chip and have it do so? Well if you were the one that developed that unit, and had the schematics or the exact way that the coordinates were created, stored, or displayed you might have a chance. =-=-=-=- So the above tries to bring a touch of engineering to this comic, with the understanding that the ‘comic logic and physics’ is likely to prevail, ==-=-= Also, it is just one rocket. While your usual V2 was a disaster, it was at most a block wide disaster. The need to get to orbit does mean that there is more fuel, more explosive power, but there is a limit on how much one rocket can do. Again, likely comic physics will prevail.
firedome almost 13 years ago
i get it…blackie wants as close to genocide for the topsiders as she can get…that cat’s holding one helluva grudge!
Level_Head almost 13 years ago
Blackie acts like she’s power-besotted Even as she’s seen plans become rotted One more part of the show That she might not yet know Has Wally told her they’d been spotted? She knows mutts replaced all of the crew In the dome — and it startled her, too She did not find the “gift” And it’s causing a rift Yet she still thinks the launch will go through =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum
Ida No almost 13 years ago
Check out Aaron’s and my Christmas cards on the Endtown Underground.
crystalwizard almost 13 years ago
waiting for the plan to backfire
Level_Head almost 13 years ago
The cards were quite delish! (I added a Christmas wish) =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum
aneathery almost 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. :-).. and original Endtown art is still for sale. Contact me for details @ aaronneathery@gmail.com
Jenner Premium Member almost 13 years ago
CAPTAIN BLACK, to the tune of “Mack the Knife”, by Weil and Brecht. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIrS5dtTZIOh, the shark, it’s gotta swim, dear,And the duck, it’s gotta quack.Flask the cat just loves to kill, dear,So they call her “Captain Black”.When the shark shows its teeth, dear,Ruby claret starts to squirt.But the zap gun of the CaptainOnly leaves a pile of dirt.Indiscreet words from her workers,So she gave ‘em both the sack,’n let the cleaners sweep up the pieces.That’s the way of Captain Black.There’s a skirmish, and some captives.Now there ain’t no turning back.And the rule is: “Take no prisoners,”In the rulebook of Captain Black.Holly Holl’ster, Wallechinski,Both got sent out to attack.They got spotted, so they slaughtered.They followed the advice of Captain Black.In the city, in the launch room,Three dead robots in a stack.“Keep your tendrils off my missile,”The first and final warning from Captain Black.Now the city’s in the cross-hairs.Dreadful vengeance raining down.And that kitty, she a-smilin’.Looks like Blackie’s back in town.Those who missed my Christmas song: “God Rest Ye Merry Endtowners” (’cause it was right at the end of the page for December 23) can find it in the Endtown Underground Open Mike page.
Jenner Premium Member almost 13 years ago
In fact, there are LOTS of Endtown songs at the Open Mike site: http://s4.zetaboards.com/Endtown/topic/9276045/1/#new
Coyoty Premium Member almost 13 years ago
If the rocket can be reprogrammed with a substitute chip, I’m assuming it doesn’t have a brain implant.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member almost 13 years ago
SEE! i told you. its gonna be hijacked. the MUYANTS are going to get the high ground and find out where the topsiders hide.
Niall-Can almost 13 years ago
I just had WAY too much fun singing all those, Jenner. Thank you!
Bronkster Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I read this last night and was intrigued by the shading in the last panel. But reviewing it again this morning, I’m much more impressed as I realize what I’m actually looking at. Very well done, Aaron! Detail like this is what makes EndTown such a standout strip!
OdderOtter almost 13 years ago
Wow! Open Mike started recently..
OdderOtter almost 13 years ago
Unless one has worked on a project, one has an almost insurmountable obstacle in altering project data to make the project do something other than what it is intended. It is easy to, say, rip out the guts and destroy the wiring. It is very hard to reprogram the unit. You need both knowledge of how it was programmed, and a very good memory for the details. Frex, if you wanted your GPS to display the wrong coords, even if it was modular, could you just replace the chip and have it do so? Well if you were the one that developed that unit, and had the schematics or the exact way that the coordinates were created, stored, or displayed you might have a chance. =-=-=-=- So the above tries to bring a touch of engineering to this comic, with the understanding that the ‘comic logic and physics’ is likely to prevail, ==-=-= Also, it is just one rocket. While your usual V2 was a disaster, it was at most a block wide disaster. The need to get to orbit does mean that there is more fuel, more explosive power, but there is a limit on how much one rocket can do. Again, likely comic physics will prevail.
perceptor3 almost 13 years ago
Hmm. Does Flask want the rocket for reconassaince? Or something more. . . sinister? #KABOOM!#