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1. about 4 years ago on Endtown

   I suspect it’d be more accurate to compare it to an internet of background-backed-up consciousness that, when singularly motivated, likens itself to a deity out of sheer volume of thought.

2. over 4 years ago on Endtown

   Does anyone else notice the topsider is calling her people “topsiders?” Why would she do that? That word came about as a result of mutants and mutation-immune humans building shelters underground to escape them. It’s a word those people came up with to distinguish the humans up top from the humans who share the shelters with the mutants. According to what this woman says about the topsider thought-process, topsiders would just be “humans” and everyone else would be “mutants”.

   I’m getting the feeling that this isn’t any ordinary topsider we’re in this boat with.

3. over 4 years ago on Endtown

   There are 3 major problems with what she’s saying with regard to the problems topsiders have with mutants: 1) They indiscriminately kill non-mutated humans on sight as evidenced by the first comic of the series. 2) Even if we grant that a mutant is (hypothetically) truly no longer the person they once were, topsiders have seen fit to propagate the issue by taking new beings’ brains and rewire them into machines against their will. & 3) We have no evidence to suggest that the mutants who clearly maintain their sapience are not ultimately still the same people they were before they mutated. Her argument is based on what appears to be an arbitrary importance placed on species. What does it mean to be human? Who cares. I’m more concerned with what it means to be a person and working from there.

4. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   Ok, the wordless comics in this arc are REALLY starting to tick me off. Not because it’s bad storytelling, mind you. But rather, because it’s highlighting just how far out the window reason and communication are being thrown by these people.

   We STILL don’t know who is killing pigs, where those threatening phone calls are coming from, and what the ultimate goal of any of this fear-mongering is. The culprits could very well be wolves, but there is an argument to be made on the wolves’ behalf that widespread prejudice and persecution based solely on (“race?” “species?” They’re technically a derivative of human, so I’m gonna say…) race is unjust, unfair and only serving to further the fear-mongering underlying whatever scheme is behind all of this.

   The trial WAS a farce. No jury has any right to make a call of innocence, let alone curse out the prosecution for A) Doing her job & B) potentially making a reasonable case. Which brings me to what was far more important than the actual verdict and something that actually does peeve me off from a storytelling perspective: We saw relatively nothing of the trial: No evidence, no claim to a proper investigation, no appeals to the rights of the citizenry. We, the audience, don’t actually know how Endtown functions regarding people’s basic rights. We also don’t have a full understanding of what the people know in regard to the Heather Hoss incident. DO the people EVEN know anything about it? There is a legitimate mystery there and no one seems interested in actually solving it.

   Then again, I imagine it’s really difficult to worry about the death of a wolf when you are watching a parade literally celebrating the suicide of a woman who was so broken she could barely speak. Which brings me to the other side of this nonsense: There is NO reasonable way that these wolves will convince ANYONE of their cause like this. Even if I set aside whatever their cause actually IS, this act makes them look like monsters.

5. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   Don’t be asinine. You were not around when these things were “commnplace” among the civilizations around the world. My problem with what I see here isn’t that the wolves are saying “this time it will work.” It is that as far as I can tell, they don’t remember it having happened in the first place. We, the audience, can look at this situation and see it for what it is. But is it wrong of me to be surprised that the only wolf we’ve seen thus far that even pretends to care about the greater social ramifications of this whole mess was a lawyer who may or not have been unsympathetic to his client?

6. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   I’m aware of ancient history where things such as slavery, gender supremacy and other abominable societal rulings were commonplace, but you’d think these people here would at least have some semblance of recent history and a concept of the merit of social advancements made within the last century. Did the Armageddon of the recent war leave so deep a wound in the very foundation of humanity that these people have forgotten what it means to be a rational, compassionate person?

7. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   Didn’t the Civil Rights movements happen in this world’s history? What about World War 2 and the history of Nazi Germany? How do the wolves not realize this is going to end badly for everyone in Endtown? The rationale behind this action is wholly ridiculous and even if they didn’t realize it on conception, how do they not realize that this response to their situation historically doesn’t work?

8. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   The wolves aren’t Nazis. The pigs aren’t KKK or vice-versa. These are people; scared, bullied people who are trapped in a literal box and are being given increasingly more reason to think that their others have it out for them. I see why you’re unsettled by these themes, but understand, that it’s really not the same thing as what’s going on in national affairs. Endtown as a whole is not a nation, it is a small underground city that can only survive if its people maintain their perspective. It can be done, but as the series goes on, there seem to reveal more and more agents at work who are willing to put aside the mental stability of the whole for the sake of their perceived personal benefit (without considering the obvious implications such actions would have on said benefit). Unfortunately, the city is not properly equipped to deal with that and this is the result. I can only hope the people of Endtown come to their senses before things get irreversibly messy.

9. over 6 years ago on Endtown

   Dottie’s not without the capacity for reason. She knows you don’t need personal experience with a societal ill to be able to identify it. Having said that, an assistant editor isn’t an inherently bad idea. Dottie has made it clear she’s not on any side of any race war. Having a second opinion readily on-hand, biased or otherwise, is a wise personal policy. Still, the way this topic came about smells fishy. I REALLY hope this doesn’t turn out to be a wolf propaganda initiative. Mostly because the wolves HAVE to know it wouldn’t work and would only make things worse. Fear makes people do stupid things, but these wolves initially seemed like all they wanted was for the prejudice to stop. If there’s more to it, I’m going to be deeply disappointed.

10. almost 7 years ago on Endtown

    On the one hand, I don’t personally see why species has to matter since (human or animal regardless) they’re all thinking people capable of reason, rationale and free thought. On the other hand, the people in Endtown specifically have demonstrated a consistent tendency to let their fears and prejudices get the better of them more often than not. As much as I enjoy this comic, it’s storylines like this that sometimes make me wonder just how much of this comic is an Author Tract.

    Heather is right: people can be monsters. It’s not even a question that out of the people who become monsters, some “species” will be more common than others. But that on it’s own is not the same thing as “some species are more likely to become monsters than others” (correlation =/= causation and all that). The real question this whole situation revolves around is who did the crime, how and why. Even if Heather did kill Lou, there may be evidence to suggest it was either self-defense or a fit of mentally unstable hysteria brought about by her state of panic from the riot.