Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 03, 2014

That. Was. Scary.

Insane in the membrane.

Not chased by wolves, though. Those are phantom raccoons! Love the last one… Great art work!

EEK!!!

Well, and notice that his demons aren’t anthros; they’re full animal raccoons.

Brink, please say “hello” to Over.Over, this is Brink.I hope you’ll both turn into good friends. Because you’re going to be spending a lot of time together.

well that was…… interesting

Looks like the LSD is kicking in! Too bad Jim’s on a bummer, he’s gonna need a shot of Thorazine and some TM to get himself re-centered when and if he comes down man.Seriously.. Aaron, nice depiction of Jim’s being sucked into the animal state. That last panel would make a great t-shirt.He’s gone Saint Looney up the cream bun and jam!Since we don’t know how much of Jim’s brain is wired human, it may be possible that there is still a rational part of his mind may have a front row seat to the coming horrorshow. Unable to stop the bit of old Ultraviolence that is impending.

Wow!

AHH!! Oh man! I was half asleep when I pulled today’s strip up, getting ready for school. I’m awake now. o.O I hope Holly or someone can get through to him, but he never got that close to her or Wally, and I doubt Sarah will put forth much if any effort to save him. This isn’t looking good! Poor Jim!

Swallowed by the raccoons in his own mind…

An Edvard Munch moment! Jim’s descent into bestial madness also reminds of another story where a talking animal resorts back to its bestial self. In C.S. Lewis’ final book in the Narnian chronicles,‘The Last Battle’, there’s this talking tom cat character named Ginger who gets scared by a demon and can no longer talk. This was due to a curse that if a talking animal was no longer good, it’d be turned back to being only an animal.

This artwork is phenomenal, but too much like something I might see in my own dreams..

Poor lil’ guy.

Didn’t I see this in Watership Down?

Like a shot in the gut—Quite a panel, that last one…

I know we’ve speculated on whether Flask underwent a schism when she snapped in the pit. If so, I wonder if it was as extreme as what Jim is undergoing. I have a feeling that he is on a one way trip to a world where only primal feelings exist. Have others had something less extreme and managed to come back?

Okay. Well, if he dies, Sarah’ll have one less problem to worry about, won’t she?

poor Jim…gone to the raccoons…too bad……I wonder if there is help for that??? We shall see…

and I agree…the artwork is fabulous. Bravo!!

Man that’s sure a mess of words…..How bout….surrealistic?

Direct consequence of sacrificing his entire life for the bimbo Sarah, hope he uses those teeth to rip her throat out.

But, but, but…! I was expecting Turtles? Turtles all the way down!!! Or at least penguins? Vote!

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Very good depiction of the descent into madness. I guess, it is like I would guess one path would take. @Veteran: Good job on the filk in the last strip’s comment section.

Beautiful!

Sarah will soon get to see the fruits of her betrayal.

Jim is paying for his xenophobic sins. I hope he regains his equilibrium – with a better conscience, but he may become just a loose cannon… Oh well, our heroes will need a chaotic diversion to effect their escape from the Lizard’s version of Animal Farm, and Jim is a prime candidate, eh?

PFFT. Well done Sarah.

Aaand he’s in the walls with Holly and Chic. >.<

Makes one wonder one small thing…..at the very bottom of the images in panel 4…..is there a human screaming at the very bottom as it is consumed? Loosing the last vestiges of humanity.

Wow, talk about going down the rabbit hole. Or, raccoon hole, as the case may be!

Holly will have her work cut out for her. Does anyone have a leash?

Very nicely presented.

our patio has been occasionally invaded by actual animal racoons…five of them…they are furry little agents of chaos IMHO.

Aarron showed a remarkable ability to portray a complete mental/emotional breakdown. After I had a traumatic event I drew a picture that my teacher said showed that also. The sun had sharp jagged teeth, the train was heading to a train-bridge out and a rabbit was tied to the tracks with a shark snapping at his tail. That was most of it.

That last panel is trippy, awesome artwork.

I wonder if there are different levels of schism. Do some people get a milder attack and find it easier to snap back to being mostly rational? Or is there just a uniform progression where the victim goes over the edge hard (like Jim is doing), expend the worst of their animal energy on a rampage and then once their energy is spent, they find a somewhat calmer equilibrium. They never leave schism, but they kind of learn to live there.

Excellent! It’s like the Eternal Nightmare album cover by Vio-lence.