;^; Lindaaaaa… Awhile back, around when she first transformed I had no sympathy for the girl. But leave it to Aaron to play my heart strings like a piano.
The “personnel transporter” took her awayTo part of her past, a grim earlier dayShe’s troubled by all that she’s lost up aboveHer son, and her purpose. But what about love?The boy she was with brought no special outcryThough Wally objected, Flask just watched Doug dieWhile cracking wise from old TV shows and suchOther than her lost son, Linda’s shy of love’s touchSo dreaming, she’s indoctrinating herselfHer brain self-extracted, new life on a shelfThat’s seems out of reach, and she’s now quite conflictedThe damage she suffers is quite self-inflicted=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
I feel so bad for her! Does she still have a brain? Is she a topsider inside? Did she just have a horrible dream? I hope that was all it was. Is she broken down inside? Hope Maw will take care of her and bring her out of it. she must be freezing too. Underground is always at a temp that is cool.
No questions that this was a rightous nightmare. “I know” She knew that it was a brain transfer machine?I got a little ahead with the concept that she would be “transformed” back to human and in the suit?From what the nightmare said. And become a spy at End Town. Wish some of you would correct me when I get all wonko about these things. I apologise . See, I cannot even spell good tonight. I love you all.Blessed Be.
DOL, I get like that too. get wrapped up in whether it was a nightmare or real, and similar things. Also I have mild dislexia that I struggle with and a very painful back condition. SO I .understand a bit where you are at
She definetly is suffering from some stage of PTSD but maybe also from Schism Syndrome. In her head shes running to something she recognizes and feels comfortable. Hence that line yesterday in panel four “lets get you out of that suit”. I think linda is slipping…..poor girl
The wheels in her head go round and round. What is coming out?Linda the good? Linda the bad?Lesson here is never leave a person alone who has had a serious head trauma. There is a song in TommySickness will surely take the mind, where minds don’t usually go. Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know. Now we shall learn.
What this girl needs is someone who knows what she was, but still accepts her as she is. She needs a Holly-type to her find healing, just as Holly helped Wally. Maybe Maude can be that good friend… ;-)
I’ll be darned, I seem to be right for a change. It was all a bad dream. I suspect she might have woken up on the dresser wearing the lamp shade. That might be what sent her cowering into the corner. Hopefully she’ll be able to open up to Maude.
I thought too that Maude would find Linda on the dresser in her undies wearing a lampshade. But we were off by a few feet. There’s nothing more sadder than a despondent female Koala sitting in the corner in her tidy-whiteys.
I think the Linda story is really about redemption. By now, she is hardly at the point of recognizing the effect of her past actions on other people. She was able to depersonalize the anthros and treat them as objects. She hasn’t yet even come to terms with them as people. Once she does, the guilt becomes unbearable. Wally’s past was comprehensible and heroic, Flasks past made her present understandable. But Linda’s past? It’s like having been a guard at Auschweitz.
By the way, I like the onomatopoeic words in today’s strip—-“Nok-Nok” and “Clic”—-reminds me of reading “Heavy Metal” and the comics translated from the French…
Also the archaic lightswitch in Panel Three and antique-looking radio in Panel Four—-which leads to speculation about how old the buildings are in Endtown…
I grew up with these switchesAnd wiring of leadAnd such push-button techWas by mid-60s deadThe home’s old designWas a 1928erBut the wiring kindWas from twenty years laterEndtown’s humor and quipsHave similar historiesYou can hear them in clipsFrom old radio mysteriesBroadcast history’s quiteA Neathery forteAnd it’s one more delightThat I strongly support=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
MerriMagic about 12 years ago
Aww..
SapphireDragonStudios about 12 years ago
;^; Lindaaaaa… Awhile back, around when she first transformed I had no sympathy for the girl. But leave it to Aaron to play my heart strings like a piano.
GoNordrike about 12 years ago
Oh my God, poor Linda!
Level_Head about 12 years ago
The “personnel transporter” took her awayTo part of her past, a grim earlier dayShe’s troubled by all that she’s lost up aboveHer son, and her purpose. But what about love?The boy she was with brought no special outcryThough Wally objected, Flask just watched Doug dieWhile cracking wise from old TV shows and suchOther than her lost son, Linda’s shy of love’s touchSo dreaming, she’s indoctrinating herselfHer brain self-extracted, new life on a shelfThat’s seems out of reach, and she’s now quite conflictedThe damage she suffers is quite self-inflicted=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books
firedome about 12 years ago
it seems the nightmare was only the prelude to the total nervous breakdown she’s now having…oh, blackie, what have you wrought…
pam Miner about 12 years ago
I feel so bad for her! Does she still have a brain? Is she a topsider inside? Did she just have a horrible dream? I hope that was all it was. Is she broken down inside? Hope Maw will take care of her and bring her out of it. she must be freezing too. Underground is always at a temp that is cool.
Jenner Premium Member about 12 years ago
Maude has a bowl of something-other-than-beans for breakfast.
Ida No about 12 years ago
Ok, proof positive that Linda is subject to nightmares and PTS. She does not like the way her life is going…
Jenner Premium Member about 12 years ago
Well-drawn anthro cow: a hoof when it needs to be, a three-digit hand when it needs to be.
dirtyoldlady1 about 12 years ago
No questions that this was a rightous nightmare. “I know” She knew that it was a brain transfer machine?I got a little ahead with the concept that she would be “transformed” back to human and in the suit?From what the nightmare said. And become a spy at End Town. Wish some of you would correct me when I get all wonko about these things. I apologise . See, I cannot even spell good tonight. I love you all.Blessed Be.
Jenner Premium Member about 12 years ago
And it goes without saying: I’m utterly sympathetic to Linda.
pam Miner about 12 years ago
DOL, I get like that too. get wrapped up in whether it was a nightmare or real, and similar things. Also I have mild dislexia that I struggle with and a very painful back condition. SO I .understand a bit where you are at
Coyoty Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Sleeping in the bed of a kid killed by one of her people probably didn’t help. He may not be a ghost, but he can still haunt her.
witchspell63 almost 12 years ago
She definetly is suffering from some stage of PTSD but maybe also from Schism Syndrome. In her head shes running to something she recognizes and feels comfortable. Hence that line yesterday in panel four “lets get you out of that suit”. I think linda is slipping…..poor girl
Vet Premium Member almost 12 years ago
The wheels in her head go round and round. What is coming out?Linda the good? Linda the bad?Lesson here is never leave a person alone who has had a serious head trauma. There is a song in TommySickness will surely take the mind, where minds don’t usually go. Come on the amazing journey and learn all you should know. Now we shall learn.
the other ghost girl almost 12 years ago
I wonder if she’s convinced that she’s a brain in a can now, looks like someone needs to see the oracle
DADOF3 almost 12 years ago
What this girl needs is someone who knows what she was, but still accepts her as she is. She needs a Holly-type to her find healing, just as Holly helped Wally. Maybe Maude can be that good friend… ;-)
Robert Nowall Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Whatever it is that Maude (Maw?) brought in the bowl, I bet it brings some powerful remembrance of past lives to Linda…
salenstormwing almost 12 years ago
“They’re coming to take me away, ha ha; they’re coming to take me away, ho ho, he he, ha ha, and the koala bears eat the delicious leaves…”
Dragoncat almost 12 years ago
Okay… At least she’s not sitting on the dresser wearing the lampshade.I don’t make gambling a habit, but I am glad I lost this bet.
Darwinskeeper almost 12 years ago
I’ll be darned, I seem to be right for a change. It was all a bad dream. I suspect she might have woken up on the dresser wearing the lamp shade. That might be what sent her cowering into the corner. Hopefully she’ll be able to open up to Maude.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 12 years ago
I thought too that Maude would find Linda on the dresser in her undies wearing a lampshade. But we were off by a few feet. There’s nothing more sadder than a despondent female Koala sitting in the corner in her tidy-whiteys.
Buzzwronganswer almost 12 years ago
Nothing like waking up cowering in a corner drenched in sweat.
dcp9142 almost 12 years ago
I think the Linda story is really about redemption. By now, she is hardly at the point of recognizing the effect of her past actions on other people. She was able to depersonalize the anthros and treat them as objects. She hasn’t yet even come to terms with them as people. Once she does, the guilt becomes unbearable. Wally’s past was comprehensible and heroic, Flasks past made her present understandable. But Linda’s past? It’s like having been a guard at Auschweitz.
Robert Nowall Premium Member almost 12 years ago
By the way, I like the onomatopoeic words in today’s strip—-“Nok-Nok” and “Clic”—-reminds me of reading “Heavy Metal” and the comics translated from the French…
Robert Nowall Premium Member almost 12 years ago
Also the archaic lightswitch in Panel Three and antique-looking radio in Panel Four—-which leads to speculation about how old the buildings are in Endtown…
Level_Head almost 12 years ago
I grew up with these switchesAnd wiring of leadAnd such push-button techWas by mid-60s deadThe home’s old designWas a 1928erBut the wiring kindWas from twenty years laterEndtown’s humor and quipsHave similar historiesYou can hear them in clipsFrom old radio mysteriesBroadcast history’s quiteA Neathery forteAnd it’s one more delightThat I strongly support=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books