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   SapphireDragonStudios said, about 1 year ago

   By the looks of it, Marx isn’t too keen on Wally’s plan.
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   dirtyoldlady1 said, about 1 year ago

   That is definitely NOT the reason he exposed these to you.
   Wally, you are doing this all wrong!!! Holly, correct him!!! Make him understand that all this occured as a lesson. From the expression on her face, I wonder if she gets it all either?And then he says " and why stop there.!! Extension of a usless war is not the way to win it.
   Found an interesting mag today. Mind Floss. It talks about the civil war army required to wear metal armor, and carry pikes, because previous armys did. It immediately struck me that here was a useless method of war. Proven. Why extend it?
   Come on AM I would have expected this response from Flask, not Wally, not the grin on Holly’s face. I am wondering if all the “jokes” he showed that dittos can do has not hit the right celebreal spot on the two.
   Blessed Be
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   boreas2 said, about 1 year ago

   i doubt wally meant to use dittos as a weapon
   it would be out of character for him

   but about the turning the endtowners invis when they go out foraging is something we all thought it could happen

   now we are about to find out why it wont
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   GuiltyBystander said, about 1 year ago

   I don’t think what Wally’s suggesting to Holly is what Aaron Marx had in mind at all. Has Wally totally forgotten what he just revisited? And how does he figure AM will do HIS bidding? Wrong buttons to be pushing, Wally…
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   Aaron Neathery said, about 1 year ago

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   PS: Good sales = Future Endtown Collections.. :-)
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   Aaron Neathery said, about 1 year ago

   .. and, as always:

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   Three Steps Over Japan said, about 1 year ago

   Easy answers, easy favors… You can’t play the game if no one will explain the rules to you.
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   JusSayin said, about 1 year ago

   Over the weekend I happened to do some digging to learn about Aaron Marx. Under the Endtown Wikipedia entry Aaron Marx is sort of Aaron Neathery’s Tom Bombadil from Tolkien. Having been the mid-70s since I read The Hobbit, LOTR, and the Silmarillion(sp?), I had to dig a bit. Now that I remember him, he was the only one the “Ring to Bind the All” could not effect, for various speculative reasons.

   If he were based on Tom, he could have control over nature, bringing up some unpleasant commercials about shower mold and other molds, yeasts and bacteria and a connection between those cartoon critters and the dittoes.

   AMarx’s calling the dittoball “My Precioussssss, yessssss” may be just a tip of the hat to Tolkien. But in Panel3 he is shown walking off after Wally suggests using the for defensive weapons purposes. “And why stop there” suggests weaponising dittoes, and AMarx looks disinterested at best.
   
   

   In retrospective, AMarx does serve a similar purpose to Tom B. He provides unexpected explanations, sort of a Literary Deus ex Machina, which in Greek Plays, was sometimes lowered to the stage using levers, pulleys and string, who also tied up all the loose threads. Interesting.
   
   I am working my way through Albert at Aaronneathery.com, which is good, so maybe other newbies may wish to read the comics until the books come out. Al, Gustine, Aaron Marx and his wife Melody are introduced, as well as Sparkplug Sanderson, the World’s greatest scientist who happens to be a High School shop teacher.
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   firedome said, about 1 year ago

   @GoldenRoya

   ever since i first saw AM, i suspected he may have been timelord-inspired. he even sorta looks a bit like bits and pieces of several of the doctor’s incarnations.
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    Arcaton said, about 1 year ago

    @Dirtyoldlady1 : One of the truisms of war is that every army, on starting the next war, is trained and equipped to fight the last war. Hence the Polish Cavalry of 1939. One thing about a pole arm or a machete is that it doesn’t need reloading, though
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    IsshouFuuraibou said, about 1 year ago

    @Aaron Neathery

    Preorder away. Thanks for letting us know. For those of us in Washington there will be sales tax, since Jarlidium press is based in Washington. Was only 2.02 for the combo order.
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    Coyoty said, about 1 year ago

    Wally’s deliberately taking things too far to get Marx wound up.
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    DADOF3 said, about 1 year ago

    I seriously doubt Wally’s train of thought is headed toward weaponizing dittos. As was pointed out, it is totally out of character and would completely invalidate what we just witnessed. I sense AM’s look in the last panel has more to do with his attitude toward the dittos (“my preciousssss”) than with Wally’s intentions. Do his powers of persuasion extend to all dittos, or are the one’s in this ball a highly trained group of “pets” that he would not be willing to part with? Tomorrow’s yet another Friday…..
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    DADOF3 said, about 1 year ago

    I would wager Wally’s idea might be to utilize the dittos to conceal mutant activities aside from foraging, say farming for instance. The question I would have though is about sound. We know the dittos don’t produce any, but would they be able to conceal noises as well as appearances from passers by?
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    Pappyvtx said, about 1 year ago

    I agree with Coyoty! Wally is playing with AMs mind now. A mind game for a mind game!!
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