Endtown by Aaron Neathery for November 03, 2011

Only stunned. That explains why she never let go of her gun. But now how will Flask respond?

Yarg. If they’re fully conscious when the virus takes them….

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It doesn’t seem prudent to open that suit Though Linda would find it unbearable She might turn to monster — a big one, to boot Should Flask make her Topside suit tearable For this Linda’s awake, and from what we have learned We’d see some mindless monster arising Knock her out? Hope for anthro? Friends would likely be burned Such a forced change won’t fix her despising =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum

As sinister as Flask as being, gloating a bit in her revenge, after watching Linda and Doug so eager and enjoying the torment they were giving Wally and Holly, I can’t help but feel that Linda and Doug are having (had, in Doug’s case) what’s coming to them. I know “an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” and I don’t personally believe in revenge, but I can’t really fault Flask for taking glee in the revenge she’s dealing to the Topsiders here.I think once we know more about Flask’s story, that might make us dramatically more or less sympathetic to her methods here.If Linda is awake, then turning her into a mutant won’t be an option. I’m assuming Flask is going to kill her – however I’m curious as to whether she’s going to do something differently, like take her clothes (to disguise herself), expose her to the virus (even if she turns into nightmare fuel) or something else. The look on Flask’s face in the last panel leads me to believe that she has something special planned.

Flask handed Linda’s gun to Wally. Are they forgetting the brain inside that will only allow another TS’er to operate it?

You gotta wonder just how hard it is to “convert” a Topsider into viewing mutants as equals that desire the same chances at a happy, comfortable life as they have. So far, we’ve see only three facets of them – smug, overbearing sense of superiority, condescension and contempt; ; abject fear; and overwhelming self-pity. Can you suture on an “empathy gland”, or is the treatment so radical that it kills the subject first? I doubt Linda’s interested in talking to Flask rationally.As for ripping Linda’s suit and turning her into a mutant – being awake she’ll just become something big that will try to eat our heroes. If she were unconscious she’d probably flip out on waking up and try to commit suicide. Either way, the “self-pity” switch would be set to full-bore and she’d blame everyone else for her plight.

like flask you mean

I’m not sure a stunned person would mutate into a hulking monster. The brain is messed up enough by the stun to paralyze the person, so some other effect can be expected. However she mutates, the paralysis may keep her from moving during the process, so if she does turn into a monster, she may be harmless until the stun wears off. There’s a good chance that conscious people turn into monsters because they’re thrashing around too much during the change. If a conscious person is immobilized while changing, it might go more smoothly.

…yum..torture…

cats play with their prey – go Flask!

Flask’s look in the last panel is not one of a cool, calculating military commander in the field (which I agree leads to some gruesome decisions that can’t be debated with the enemy as to their ethicality). It’s a look of someone close to being unhinged.I wonder how often Flask has gone on topside missions? I had the feeling that for proving Al and Gustine’s story, it was a rare sortie for her. She may be one of the few who relish going topside. But.. we don’t know. Yet. We will, and I expect we’ll not be sure how to feel about Flask at that point.

Also, how do people manage to make an empty line separating paragraphs? It erases mine…

How do you say the word “snuffed?”

Soon enough for what? Soon enough to warn other topsiders? Soon enough to defend herself against Flask? A paralyzed individual out in the open would be easy prey for one of those big bags of teeth. Stay tuned…

Linda might not adjust to being a Anthro. Remember how hard a time Wally was having coming to grips with it (keeping his “human” picture) and Wally was not indoctrinated like a topsider. Linda won’t have a Holly to bring her around.

Hmm… she’s not unconscious, but definitely not fully conscious either. I get the feeling Linda’s going to end up like Cooper.

I find it interesting that so many on this forum are so anxious to see topsiders mutated/morphed. That’s a pretty awful way to go, compared to being disintegrated…

wallys expression in 2nd panel=priceless

I was also going to comment on Wally’s expressions in panels 1 and 2. I doubt he realized that the “stun” setting would leave his target conscious. Knowing him, he certainly seems to be feeling some sympathy for Linda. (Despite the fact that she was so recently eager to tear out his and Holly’s brains.) Say what you want about effectiveness in carrying out the mission, but I would certainly say that Wally is about the most admirable character we’ve seen in this run so far.

Dollars to donuts, we’re going to have a ringside seat to a mutation here with an unknown result. So why would Flask mutate Linda where she just disintegrated Doug? Maybe something about her past leaves her with an especially bad hate for unmutated women. Maybe because they have something Blackie can never get back?

I still think the worst punishment for a Topsider is being mutated! Come to the “dark” side…and deal!Aaron you are a god among men :-)

She kinda looks like a fly in that get-up,doesn’t she? Another neat reference!

Alright, seems that some talk on here that Cooper’s theory is correct about consciousness being linked to type of mutation, but so far I can tell, that’s just one mutant’s theory and hasn’t been been proven right nor wrong. The only one who would know is Aaron and if he’s said something about it, I must have missed it.

I suspect that Linda is going to get chance to change her point of view. That’s where the mutants have an advantage – they know how it is on both sides. The fear of forced change etc. then having to deal with that change. The one thing I find disturbing is that the mutants for the most part seem to have lost their ability to empathize even when they should know the terror felt by the topsiders. The Topsider are responding the way 99.99% of the people do with the unknown – fear and hatred. Holly, and Wally seem to be the only ones with empathy, sympathy, or mercy. (Our brain in a #3 can hasn’t been around long enough to show his true tendencies.)

Linda, become a… cow.

She still has a few hinges. She’s not raving starkly like Jackrabbit, she goes along a certain calculated plan. When THAT goes out the window, watch out.