Endtown by Aaron Neathery for March 24, 2017

Uh oh, better get a move on you two!

Having a girlfriend move in with you is supposed to be a happy event.

This is a time where darkness is not your friend. Should have cut the phone….leave in the morning. Wolves hunt mostly at night…..mostly.

Perhaps Walt should fix them a nice knuckle sandwich, they look hungry

Well, you know it’s a bad guy, he smokes. (Times I really really miss it, even after 20 years.)

The observer certainly belongs to the Genus Canis. Unless there are a pack of others near by the current threat is low. The wolves don’t hunt alone.

You just know this guy is sinister. He’s in the dark and he’s smoking a cigarette.

DIAT60 and ROBERT NOWALL: You’re both right. Aaron may be using smoking as a stereotype to indicate a probable “bad guy.” However – (1) This is inconsistent inasmuch as he has also shown enough smoke that others have asked, if there’s no food, where’s all the tobacco coming from? Don’t forget, we saw Aaron Marx smoking cigars! And – (2) Another strip, Dick Tracy, with current artists Curtis and Staton, are liberally using smoking among “good” and “bad” guys – though, notably, Dick Tracy doesn’t smoke, and his sidekick, Sam Catchem, appears to have given up smoking this last year. I mention Dick Tracy because, seeing it now, reminds me of how things were when I first entered the work force in the 1970s – when everyone smoked indoors – as compared to today, where smokers have been banished from almost all public places. // As an aside, Colorado has since “legalized” marijuana, giving new life to an old George Carlin joke – “No smoking! Except for the pot smokers! Go ahead! Light ’em up!” (At least, I think it was GC who cracked that one)

At this moment, I sure wish this was a seven day a week strip. Only four strips a week, and I see at least eight strips of “action” about to take place. As with Dick Tracy, action is a good thing, but while that’s going on, it looks like yet another two weeks before we have the possibility of any explanation of what the sam hill is going on in Endtown.

Walt and Portia, the next Wally and Holly/Kirbee to leave Endtown, never to come back?

Neighbors: “Finally. Now the property values will go back up and we can sell this dump for a profit. Then we can use the money to build a tower casino.”

Does the silhouette belong to the same scummy character that Walt didn’t file charges against, I wonder?

I wonder if Portia is a mini-pig? Most pig breeds I know are pretty huge!

Size and degree of mutation are inconsistent. Flask remained tall and with much of her human characteristics, while Wally shrank, and some mutants are more realistic than toony.

The mutations appear to follow each person’s subjective idea of cartoon animal. “Immunes” like Albert apparently didn’t think much of toons and didn’t change much, while some like Holly’s snake friend changed too much.

Everyone changed to what they thought a cartoon animal should be like, including Holly thinking she should love cheese because she’s a mouse. Portia is how she thinks a cartoon pig should be.

Looks like the smoking man is actually a smoking woman! While the outline looks like the wolf bitch who got in a fight at the seamstresses’ it could also easily be a sheep or goat.

I’m still standing by my theory of the ones being behind the harassment being a cult of farm animal mutants that have gotten all high and mighty about fulfilling their proper “use” under the rationalization that the only thing pigs are good for is meat.

could that guy in the shadows smoking be a pig himself?

could be a duck’s bill, too.