Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 18, 2016

MysteryScienceTheater3000.Marx: “Be quiet, crow.”

Lactose intolerant…and than you mutate to a mouse :)

So the mutation cured her lactose intolerance.

Lactose intolerant and become a mouse?The very definition of irony!

Calling it now: Rob Serling shows up on Friday.

Aaron obviously took his time doing that guy’s face in panel 2. Now the question has to be, why? Have we seen him before? Will we see him again (in mutated form)?And Holly before her mutation is so very obviously still Holly.

So some good came out of her mutation…

To be honest, mice are not nearly as fond of cheese as everybody seems to think. I looked it up and the following bit from an article on CRACKED.COM that explains this particular urban myth.“As for mice and cheese, to start off, mice have really sensitive noses, so Limburger would peel their little mousey faces off. Figuratively speaking. And then a recent study that we hope was funded by a grant to investigate cartoon myths found that mice respond to the taste, smell and texture of food, and will decline something as strong-smelling and highly flavored as cheese. They’re actually drawn to foods with relatively high sugar content, such as grains and fruit. In response to all this cheese/mice humbug, the apparently bored British Parliament released a “technical note” suggesting that mice be caught with, “biscuits, porridge oats, other cereals and chocolate.”……As for mice and cheese, one popular theory (which hasn’t been discussed scientifically, so take this cum grano salis), is that mice were constantly being discovered in medieval cupboards eating the household cheese stash. But this would have been because it was the only food they could get to — the meat would be hanging and salted, and grain would be stored in jars. It was cheese or starvation."Still, my theory is that when someone mutates into an anthro, they change into their image of what their apparent species would be. Since Holly probably never knew that the whole mouse/cheese thing was a myth, she forgoes the usual rodent staples for “CHEESH!”

I’m also intrigued by Chic’s comment that human Holly was pretty. Since he grew up after the great mutation, this is probably the first time he has ever seen the nonanthro humans. I would have expected him to think they were weird or ugly. “Pretty?”

Could just be an allergic reaction to pregnancy, though…

Now this Holly is dress like the one in the Monster story.The scarf is missing.This is a prequel to the forest incident.We may be tagging along for the ride.

I know already……but as this is a comic strip the irony is obvious ;)My grandma never used cheese for a mousetrap – she took a piece of beacon. That worked well most time.

Meant to mention at the last comic that Kirbee was drinking from the carafe of country gravy she ordered in the comic before…

Much more interactive than the scenes the dittos showed to Sparky and even Wally’s flashback. Well, at least Wally and Holly are even now in the “What did you look like before?” category.

Yeah mice like peanut butter.

so I’m guessing she miscarried when she mutated into a mouse anthro and that has been affecting her ever since.

“Have I EVER really known her?”This may be a question that cut both ways in the relationship. Wally seems to have been as secretive about his past pains. I doubt that Holly would have ever learned about the teacher if Aaron Marx hadn’t drawn that assault rifle and then used dittos to help illustrate Wally’s story. Will he ever tell Kirbee about the things that haunt him? Bordavia? The rocket mission?I wonder about all this secretiveness. I suspect that Wally was afraid that Holly might reject him if she knew about the teacher. That may be the case with Holly or she may have just blocked Lyn and the baby out of her mind and kept busy in Endtown to keep it out of her mind. When she was imprisoned and had nothing to do, it came back. I imagine there are a lot of people in the “Endtown” universe who have either ignored or forgotten the past.

We used to own a little store that sold, among other things, chocolate bars. One time, we had a real problem with mice getting into our storeroom and nibbling Kit Kats. We wouldn’t have minded so much if they had limited themselves to one bar, but, no, they had to nibble the whole damned box! BTW, Kit Kat was the only chocolate they liked, and there were cartons and cartons of other brands there. Could that be a selling point?

Oh! Since Doc Chase was supposed to be Holly’s stepfather, maybe the rest of the gang should look and see if he’s anywhere around in this scenario…

I once read (as usual can’t remember where) that jelly beans were good for mouse traps.

“I like these flash backs to the world, of theirs, before it went into cartoon monsterland.”.Amen!.As a newbie to this strip, I need all the help I can get trying to get up to speed on this strip!

Dinner and a movie.

And now we lose Glenn Frey?Man, this year sucks already.

I think we are seeing the end of Holly’s story, just as we say the end of Flask.

Holly evidently loves cheese so much now because she could never have it before the change. If somehow you discover you can have as much as you want now of a food that once hurt you, you will have as much as you want, if you can. Especially if you can’t get it easily in a world where only beans are available. People who were bean-intolerant must be in heaven now. The people around them, not so much.

My earlier comment (not the stupid one just now that posted before I finished typing) seems to have disappeared… cool. :0)

Didn’t know that I could delete my posts. Nice. Now, if I can just get this page hold still long enough to finish typing…

You need to read the other comments before posting. We already know what Lyn looks like (and that’s Lyn) and we also know what Aaron looks like (that’s not Aaron).

Just a note, most cheese contains no lactose. The microorganisms that make the milk turn into cheese munch it all up. That’s why I can eat cheese and yoghurt with abandon, but still put lactose-free milk in my tea. BTW – I don’t eat cottage cheese and given how fresh it is, I wouldn’t risk it without lactase.