Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 24, 2022

At first I thought it was that all-bean diet sneaking up on them… but it’s the most unfair game of dodge ball ever!

Hey, those snowballs can HURT!

Huh. I thought they were used thought balloons.

Here they come!! Told them to mind the bubbles…they are quite territorial!xD

Elephant down!

Some force is sucking those globs of puesdo-reality toward that fountain-like point; I believe Flask was pulled into a new reality via the same apparition.

Sometimes it’s better to be one of the small toons

I think he found his little brother.

Well, that came out of nowhere.

Bits of reality floating by?

This is it: the apocalyptic house cleaning in the land of lost dust bunnies.

All the Topsiders souls they left behind heading for a new plain of reality?

Souls have mass!

Duffy may have the right idea. Grab onto one (or more in Alan’s case) and float your way to the fountain instead of walking in the debris of destroyed souls.

Looking at that line of souls, I think we need to hear some Conga music!

only tall people are affected

The questions are what are they and what are their function?

That doesn’t seem like a good idea, Duffy.

Souls

One should always look both ways before crossing. Traffic can come out of nowhere.

It’s going to hard to pick up or carry the elephant!

They are Mentos going towards the fountain of Diet Coke.

Oh great, they wandered into a Krazy Kat panel.

Duffy get a ride on that. Before they morph into floating eyes…..

Nothing goes over Duffy’s head.

Lost souls are attracted to the living, who might help them find their way, like Marx did for Flask. He couldn’t help them all after sending off Flask. He didn’t know them, and they would have overwhelmed him. But he could save that one.

How do folks like their eggs?

Smoking bubbles from his pipe. Interesting.

Aren’t those souls of the recently deceased? Coming from the direction they just came from? Hmm. Methinks either the nukes just got the Topsider outpost, or those Amesworth guns are working overtime.

Come on Aaron, you’re killing me with suspense.

When we saw Marx “commit” Flask’s bundle of experience/thoughts to that fountain, she was allowed to remain a single personality in her next iteration; these bubbles going by our boys are all bits and pieces of the lives of ones now “dead”(?)….but, the boys are still themselves, not nearly dead. It will be so very interesting when/if they reach that fountain.

Isn’t Aaron a bit too far south to be having inspirations for a snowball fight?

I just reread the first four Endtown books this weekend and remember seeing those bubbles pushing Marx away after he sent Flask off to her fate