Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 23, 2013

Maude’s as good at dispensing advice as she is at giving milk!

Finally – a contented cow.

Maude’s an awfully good sportUnderstanding the needAnd an “infinite” giver of milk, yes indeedWe have reached here a pauseMomentary reliefBut the milk of Maude’s kindness might face Endtown grief…There’s a battle off-screenAnd it’s not likely quittingOver cake that’s not “bean” with “ingredients permitting”=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

Any time now, Linda’s feline antagonist from day shift is going to turn this gesture against Linda.

Maude: “Hey, those were real Tootsie Rolls! Or are you saying there’s something wrong with my milk?”

Hoppers death will take awhile to get over for Linda i think. But i believe she was smiling there in panel four. Maudie and Holly seem like good counselors. Linda will be just fine, until……

To love and cake!

A meme-etic conundrum… Is the cake really a lie?

Linda “Koalaski” is fast becoming one of my favorites…

Is this a portal reference? (The cake is a lie).

I have to admit I can’t get past the image of Maude drinking her own milk. Sharing it, sure, but drinking her own?

Take a closer look at the retro 1960’s table and chair. It’s those little details that add jewels to this comic, if it weren’t great enough. Mister Neathery is not only the writer and illustrator, he is also the concept artist and set designer. Kudos to him.

Happy cows make happy cheese. I would kill for sharp cheddar during the apocalypse, and I’m not even one of the gun-wielding rodents.

I’m sitting at a breakfast table in the early hours of the morning, with a cow who is pouring me a glass of milk. Mmmm… I’m dreaming… just for a moment, I’m in a breakfast cereal commercial. No, wait – I’m awake This is reality.Oh, crud.

@crookedwolf rotflmao.

Hey just because most human adults might think this is odd.b (ie a being drinking there own milk.) We are perfectly happy presenting this to our babies. Would you serve some thing to your babies that would be harmful to oneself.-It is simply the mindset that makes it seem taboo.-What is truly odd is that we serve to our babies and ourselves some other creatures milk. That milk is there for calves not us.

Oh and that final panel would make a fine t-shirt.And it would be a bit of a inside joke as well.

To love and cakeBeautiful statement.Soon it will be remembered as a great moment.Later the Security rats will blast down the door of the entire apartment building using a flashbang breach and shoot up the entire building. Then take everybody (survivors) into custody for investigation, interrogation, body cavity searching, drug testing, samples of milk, and koala snot for DNA analysis. (And personal use)Who says I don’t have a sunny disposition and positive outlook?Seriously a very touching moment. My “spidey” senses are tingling.

I hope their stomachs can take the “unpasteurized” milk. That fresh bacteria in it will give them Montezuma’s revenge like nothing else. Add the eggs? Fumigation of the building would be necessary. Explosive comes to mind.

Ursula LeGuin once said that Epic storytellers could take common actions and invest them with greatness. The love packed into that cake, milk and counsel is far more powerful than than the lesser realities of life and death. Beautiful storytelling, Aaron!

Sooo… Drinking someone else’s milk is ok, but not your own? Hey, at least I know what is going into my body. I don’t know what someone else is puttinging into theirs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG0zDltjL_o

I gather today is “National Pie Day.” And we’re toasting love and cake!

Took a second look at Linda’s chair. Yeah, thats what Encyclopedias were used for in my house growing up.Maybe Endtown may start a ‘Barter system’. A qt. of milk for an egg etc.?

“Now let’s have some cake!”

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“You know, maybe it’s a good thing Mr. Hopper didn’t get to taste this…”

I think that table came from one of the unfurnished apartments I rented in the 80s.

Somehow my earlier comment disappeared. It was that the milk won’t cause the real problem, but the eggs.

Sometimes thats all you have to do to get over anything – face the problem over a glass of milk and let a friend tell you what they think. Somehow I think Maude is going to “bull” over any opposition to Linda’s gesture. Looks like shes got the horns to do it.

Hopefully the sanitation part of Endtown works good at keep the build up to a minimum. If not just makes a bigger bang. The rats would love it. Ohhhh! AHhhhhhh!

Not peeking. More premonition like. The big build up to happy happy joy joy then KABOOM. Just prepared. Just waiting for the hammer to fall. Its up there just up there, waiting, always waiting.

(Here you go. Out on a limb now. Show you imagination is wonderful.)Linda gets picked up going to work. Sack tossed roughly over her head. Taken to a place deep in Endtown.The place of the “Secret Council of Endtown.”She is pushed into a chair and the sack roughly pulled off her head.Her eyes adjust to the dim light.She see shadowy figures before her. Voices question her giving her no time to respond. On and on the interrogation goes.Finally there is a pause. The sweat forms streams down Linda’s face.A voice says: "You have heard the accusations. My “Duchess” what is your verdict."(You from here can finish it yourself.)Submitted with all respect to Mr. Neathery. Hope you are feeling better.

Pasteurisation was mainly to deal with bovine tuberculosis, and it was successful.

Looks like Linda still doesn’t really “get it”. Oh well, maybe next time?

the thing to watch for would be the prions. Mad cow disease. That may be whats wrong with so many of us.

My comment from last night disappeared????No Blessed Be.

Welcome to Endtown. Your life is a lie. But the cake is real!

All I’m saying is that she’s eating a bodily fluid she herself made. It’d be like drinking a glass of spit or tears or something. Whether or not raw cow’s milk is healthy, or clean, is beside the point. It’s that most people – curious breastfeeding mothers perhaps aside – don’t normally turn their own bodily fluids into snacks.