Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 25, 2012

Finally, a new arc. I see a compromise concerning Linda wanting to see her son.

Wow. 3 months have gone by already.

And we’re back with Linda the Koala!

Well, those 3 months were the story plot focusing on the what I hope is not the last we see from Flask, but now we get to focus on poor Linda. (yeah, I know she was a Topsider but I feel terrible for her, not being allowed to see her son again, I don’t have kids but even I know that’s the most horrible thing a parent can ever go thru!)

It would seem logical that she has recovered “trama” psychic care. The expression on her face does not convince me that she will follow all rules.Joining the food schrounging in an attempt to see her son? Maybe?Blessed Be

Who’s the snarky “translater”? And we have to see about Petey’s friend in the beer cooler.

By the way, the artwork on this is a beautiful example of character cartooning. Indeed, the bird could be a self-cartoon of the artist himself. (Or am I reading too much into it?)

Orientation, Re-education, Programming or Acceptance of the cards she has be dealt? She does not seem ecstatic about her new place in a strange world. Yeppers, it has been more than three months our time since Marx took his leave of Mallard, with all those dittoes as a security deposit.Marx’s dimensionometer looked like it had a thicker frame than earlier, and the orbits(?) aren’t seen, so maybe he had spares. I would like to see more of Marx, but it depends on Aaron Neathery’s plans, not so much a referendum.If people were involved enough to write and complain or compliment Aaron Marx, that is just a fraction of the people involved in the storyline. 35 years ago I could gave given you the marketing multiplier for various media on what percentage of people with involvement would contact the production, or distributor or advertisers. Then it was a very small number, and people were more likely to write if they were unhappy than those who were happy.We still await resolution of Linda, Petey and the Brain, and What Mallard can do with dittoes, with or without Marx. Holly and Wally have probably been catching up on their conjugating, unless Holly has to work double shifts to makeup for her unplanned leave. So from now on, if any of us have a server that looks like Holly, tip her doubly well.TSOJ mentioned the possibility of a Keep on Truckin auction piece featuring Marx as a Doo-Dah Man. That could interest me in 3-4 weeks because I am booked solid for at least three weeks with assorted medical procedures, Mohs surgeries (plural), a few biopsies, other tests and the big annual CML tests, so I shall be quite distracted. It is really not a big deal, but part of the time I am unsure of my ability to bid, and I know I will be extremely medicated.@ EveryoneRemember to vote for Endtown 2.0 and Doc Rat. I have been inconsistent in my voting and promoting since Labor Day, but shall get better, and there should be some days when I will be able to vote meaningfully.JusSayin

I doubt Linda sees this as a second chance at a new life, with its own freedoms and triumphs. More like a life-long prison sentence with no chance of parole or early release. Arrested, judged and condemned for a crime she didn’t commit. And the rest of the day doesn’t promise to be any better.

I bear-ly recognized her without tears flowing down her face…

Are we (finally) gettting to see some of the members of the “High Council”?

Is it bad to cover council members in bbq sauce? Mmmmmmm-giant KFC.

Can’t believe it’s been more than a year since this arc started. Have enjoyed every minute of it.

…Wally didn’t have to do no three months of orientation…

Hope I’m wrong about this being season 3.

and it’s Miss Kowalski…

And a new chapter in Endtown begins. I, for one, will miss Flask. I can relate to flawed characters, such as Flask, who strive to overcome and move past their shortcomings. However, I saw something in Flask’s eyes in her last few panels that I had never seen before. Peace. Flask finally seemed to be at peace with herself and her lot in life. I am a bit envious of this. I hope that we will revisit her in the future. Well done, Aaron Neathery. Well done, indeed!

To RonLast night I lifted a toast to Flask. I too have been the highest high to the lowest low. I posted once before about how steel and gun powder taste funny. Now that part is done. Marx has done the greatest imitation of Sinatra leaving the scene in yesterdays post. I saw him do that New York song on the Ed Sullivan Show way back when. He exits the same way. Head high, shoulders back, nothing to be ashamed of. Time to move on. DoDah walk? well remember the DoDah is done a particular way. Marx does not leave that way. His is not a “strut” it is a very gentlemenly way to exit the scene. Smoke em if you got em, head back, walk proudly away. Classy exit.NOW the real issue begins.Linda Linda Linda. What is on her mind?Do the rats now have someone to see eye to eye with when they salute?Who is in charge of security?And Foghorn Leghorn as head of indoctrinations.“Well I say, I say.” (in a deep southern drawl) Where is the chickenhawk? Is he gonna get his chicken?And the lady to the side. Typical Government supervisor and probably the power behind the Chicken.(Bill Crawford’s wife maybe?)Three months passed. Three have sworn secrecy.Holly, Wally, Prof Mallard? Arron Marx? (Now a citizen) Flask?????(Petey is a machine not a mutant so does he count as citizen? Probably not.)Even as we begin anewNew questions arise.Enjoy the ride.

Got Blind Date back from the framers.Sits over my right shoulder at my desk in my office. Black frame golden yellow mat to the the art itself. Simple.I have literally watch people come in to talk to me look at that picture and just stare. I have to call their attention back to me. I tell them about how it developed, the story about Flask, the author and artist, where to find the story and more art.Everyone has left stating it is the most beautiful thing they have seen.Women are especially impressed. Seems like they do like “etchnings”. HeHEThank you “Master” Arron Neathery.Peace and hope you get better.

Thanks TSOJ I needed to be corrected. I served my time out. I know no ice cream for me. I promise to do better. (not) (Opps did I say that out loud)How do you do time outs in Japan? I seen it tried with ShinChan but without much success.To surfstuff55I sing okay. Good at harmonies. Baritone to Bass range. Better at being the bouncer.(I can screen all the “hot” women that would show up if we all began to sing.") (Or break through the angry crowds if we had to escape)Da Da DADADA Da Da DADADA.(Me at 240 linebacker build strutting out on stage?) (I dont think the ladies could handle it!)(Maybe run out there like a gorilla, beat on my chest and grunt would work fine.)(Seems like good Grunge music to me)

After what Flask has showed us it is hard for me to have compassion for her. But dang it all I do! I wish her the best.

Over here in Texas we call’em Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.(Ohhhhh I am so going to geta time out for that one!)

Wally did skip that orientationTopsider background was not the deciderThat part of her past is not known. In summationWas saving the others was what got him past?=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

My grasp of human expression is too poor to say what Linda is expressing. I’m guessing that she understands that being stuck here amongst the “freaks” is the best she could hope for but that its hardly appealing.

rickDThat was great I tell you Great.Now if Col Sanders shows up as Topsider leader now we know the real reason for the hostilitiesThrow the chicken at em.

So who gets to be Linda’s Endtown Buddy, the way Ally Alvarez was with Wally?

Otto got it nailed.

Does this means she’ll qualify to become the next Chief of Security?I hope she likes beans…

Now let’s see. Who’s next on the list…a) Holly and Wallyb) Petey and his brainy friend.c) How to place my order for a dimensionometer.

I would guess that Mr. Wallencheski (I hope I spelled it correctly) would be the most suitable for head of security. He’s responsible, emotionally strong and centered, and doesn’t take anything from anybody (Holly excepted, of course).

@Superfrog

No Superfrog, she’s just being a (pain in the) ass

When she breaks out into a redition of HEEHAW Then the story goes downhill. As did the stupid TV show. I watched some reruns. OMG the hair the hair. Remember Family Guy “Ladies and Gentleman….Conway Twitty.”Looked like hair helmets. The girls were cute though. Just the way I like em. Always willing. They may not know whats going on but I am such a ninja (sorry TSOJ) I am in and out before they know it.Ahhh but I dream of course. Too much chocolates and a small bit of ice cream can lead one to daydreaming.I would be the fat ninja falling over everything, dropping my katana, tripping over the guards, and then finally missing the target completely taking out an entire school of those gyaru girls. (Probably get an award for that.)Enjoy kiddies.

As far as Wally being in charge of security remember he tries to avoid conflicts. Admirable traits but when dealing with having maybe to resort to killing I think Wally’s got a problem.His back story shows he developed an aversion to killing after seeing too much of it. He has the desire as when he launched his self at Flask but could he order the destruction of a group of Topsiders who wandered too close. From soldier to general.That would be something to see if he could work through. Whoever becomes head would have to have the ability to give an order then live with it. Generals order the soldiers follow and die.Does a General feel it? A good one does but works it through as he understands the greater purpose.Wally could do it but he is going to have to compromise and grow a pair.

Nebu as usual is full of crap. Speer was no angel. He had an angle to make money and generate death on a massive scale. He rode the power cape of Hitler. He hated Jews like everyone else. Sure he asked for well fed workers (you twit) GERMAN ones. At the time Germany was rationing vast amounts of food to keep the war going. He was concerned his GERMAN workers were not getting enough to eat and they were needed to produce the arms of war. The Jews did not work in the Arms factories. They were not to be trusted. Internal sabotage was every Germans fear. Speer like everyone else after the war when they were losers ran to cover their own ass. Speer was no exception. He was just not involved in the Final Solution. But do you know he worked on the gasses for the camps. That was under his control. He claimed he did not know exactly how it was to be used. How could you not know. It a gas to kill not run a car, power a generator, grow food. To say Speer was a good guy in a bad world and in the context of this story not a good choice.I may be only half Jewish but I will defend my own. Speer was not a GOOD guy.

If one takes offense at some of the things I have posted I do make a slight apology. I guess it just there is nothing we can identify the Topsiders with except Nazis. I would simply like Nazis to go quietly into history and be removed from the picture, NEVER to forget but do we have to constantly bring up the memory. I am more concerned about the story line and where it is going. Finally back to a story. Returning to characters we both love and dispise. Lets keep our human history with us. Endtown history with them.We are constantly here pulling this way and that about this and that and I am just as guilty. I have decided myself to let the story ride and comment in the general sense of where it is going. Bringing all this what if and what about that, and I compare it to this and that banter just begins to sound like so much rhetoric. We are a hundred blind men and women checking out an elephant. What part you touch is what the elephant is to you. Lets stay focused on the story who cares what the Topsiders are like in our world. They are not in our world they are in Endtown’s world. Do you really know what drives them? What they are about? How they became? I dont and I have looked in all the volumes. There are bits and pieces but no definitive answers. I cannot say if they are redeamable or deserve total annilation. I am waiting for the story to unfold. Maybe the best part is not knowing ALL the details.It is just that Nazi kept coming up over and over. Bad is Bad. No getting over that. Even when it is good it can still be bad. Just depends on which end is receiving.

IN OTHER WORDS>>>>>

I noticed that the humanoid horse mutant has fingers, while the late Bill Crawford had hoof-like hands that resembled mittens….see the Oct. 19, 2010 strip to see what I mean. Mutations must vary within Endtown.

The look on Linda’s face says it all. Stuck in a world of talking animals: it’s a chicken-and-nag situation.

@surfstuff55Where do you think Endtown gets it’s heat?