Endtown by Aaron Neathery for May 01, 2013

MASSACRE! Oh Mr. Neathery you know how to keep us coming back!

And thus began the Boston Massacree…

Get rid of the witnesses. Then no one knows which rats did this. Run rat, run. Public doesn’t see them a face often, maybe wouldn’t recognize them in a line up.Hey speaking of rats. Wasn’t our check was using rats to flavor the beans? So not all rats are in the army.Blessed be

“When the only tool you have is a hammer…”

There was a comment yesterday that the crowd wouldn’t touch the rats because they’re backed by the High Council. So maybe now we’ll see the HC rush in and rescue our three rats…

Even this blast is an accidentOne more bottle just hit one more headThough not planning to murder, there it wentThe trigger is tripped with more deadThis is their fault, the rat patrol detailThey’ve no training to handle a gunThus instead of arrests here at retailWholesale killing of crowds has begun=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooVote for Endtown ClassicThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

Those rats will be hung and strung once its done. In any case its the end of da police.

How did GoComics let THIS one through?!!!

So who will this next bullet hit?

Here’s a song that fits. I can’t improve on the words.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp5JCrSXkJY“For What It’s Worth, Buffalo Springfield.(If someone can embed the link, I’d be grateful.)

Wow…… A sad, sad day in Endtown…

I have a feeling this is going to be a very Uncivilized Civil War.

Rat 1: “Why aren’t they running? We’d shoot before and they’d run! It always worked in the past… We wave the guns and they run away. That’s how it’s supposed to work! We shoot, they run. Why aren’t they running?”

“Why did you fire, officers?”

“They bumped our heads.”

And this, friends, is why you’re supposed to use proper trigger discipline. Keep your finger off it until you’re absolutely ready to fire. Then again, these fellows used to always seem ready, but by the look of their sweaty foreheads, they’re certainly out-numbered.

The pig is going to be red-shirted next.

If Flask was still alive, there would be no witnesses.

Who said that last panel was thier gun going off?

And it ain’t even Friday yet!

..funny that is happening around Kent State time…

“Is that a Zero Ray? Or just a boatload of bullets?”-Looks like the same muzzle as the rats’ guns.

We’ll see, of course, but I think p4 represents all 3 rats opening fire like crazy.

It’s still a bottle fight against guns..

You know, between being gunned down by Topsiders while scavenging for food, and being gunned down by Military Rats in my ‘home town’… it’s a sad day when I think the giant unending apocalyptic wasteland might be the safer place to be right now.

I still have the comment by the HC that the blood of the sinners would flow in my mind. This incident was not engineered….hopefully. It could have been. Not by coaching the rats (they are obviously scared), but by sending them and expecting things to escalate as they have. How hard wouldit be for the HC to declare this a “mutant products riot” and declare a full lockdown “for public safety”?

The rats haven’t demonstrated much intelligence to date. If they wanted to disperse the crowd they might have fired bursts over their heads…but last panel indicates otherwise. First shots through Spike were accidental.

That’s it…kill all the witnesses.

this cannot end good…….

I don’t see anyone in the crowd holding rocks or bottles in panels 1 and 2 (or having them nearby on the ground for that matter). So, I guess the cowardly guys in the back had them while the guys up front collect the lead. Typical. To quote a quote, “What’s so civil about war?” Yup, it’s a comin’.

Jayce_CYeah, but I’ve always believed that Aaron had a lot more class than to end things by killing everybody off. I mean this is “Endtown”, not “Blake’s 7”

rickD is right. I said the same thing. This is a set up. Rat Security should have never been sent to a bar fight. Its like sending in the US Army for a domestic disturbance. Police tactics are much different than Security tactics. I sense Velda’s hand behind this.They did show up. Ordered dispersal. Like normal the ones fighting turn on the nearest authority. I know I have see and been in that before. The Rats have no other means of defense other than leave. But can’t they are surrounded. However like me they are not required to. I by law and court decisions do not have to retreat once I am there. The better part of valor may decide but I am under no orders to leave and authorized to use whatever force necessary to protect lives and property including myself.A bottle was tossed and a weapon discharged. Cause and effect. The crowd should disperse but no they turn (as I have seen before) and the Rats do the only thing they can once attacked. Fight back.I have been in situations like this. Nearly got to violence. Weapons were drawn and leveled. Orders were given but ignored as the crowd was spurred on by emotions closed in around us. One person said to me about 10 feet away “We are going to kick your ass”. My response “Then you will be the first one to die”. The crowd heard that and began to falter and then fell back. I was a trigger pull from what the Rat had done. The High Council wanted this. They are willing to kill whoever they want to get the aims and goals into Endtown law. Someone has it in for Endtown. The Who and Why elude us for now.And the story is just ripping.(I bet you when Allgood hears it he will be appalled but Velda will say like she did before. The Rats are just out of control and over reacted going PAST their orders. She said that when they took Maude and Linda. These poor guys were just tossed to the Lions.)

Who’s tossing the bottles??

Many revolutions have begun exactly this way, an angry crowd, some nervous troops, and a gunshot.

The question’s been asked since the beginning of the trial: “Where’s Velda?”. What influence does she have with Security? What influence does she have with the High Council leadership? WHO is the leadership of the High Council? I doubt the police as we are familiar with them exists anymore. When the bartender talked to Denise, is she all that’s left of the police, the dispatcher?

I stated before. There’s a criminal element in this and now I’m prety sure there’s a crime boss looking to take over for some reason and I would like to know what it is.

Of course, with Aaron’s excellent storytelling, I’m probably wrong. Yet I do recall the story introducing Holly reading “I, the Jury”, a detective novel which I haven’t read (yet). There may be something there that may give a clue.

At least the cat lady was escorted from the scene before things got even more ugly.Doc Chase is going to hear about this!Will Professor Mallard…?

It looks like Endtown is in total chaos. Those damn rats have gone NUTS! The question now is, Who will be responsible for bring order back and protecting the citizens of Endtown? It damn well isn’t the rats.This is just plane CRAZY!

I hear this song in the background for this….. Buffalo Springfield…“Stop Children Whats That Sound”

Yah know, a thought just occurred to me. In the last panel, all we see is the muzzle of A gun, not necessarily the muzzle of one being carried by the rats. Could it be someone else firing on the rats to protect the crowd? Hmmmm…well I could be overthinking it and it could be the rats mowing down the crowd.

Or… Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising.

Or… Black Sabbath… War Pigs

Sorry, but bottles against automatic weapons is just plain dumb under any circumstances. -On the other hand, Al Capone famously said “Always rush a gun and run from a knife” so…

Massive computer failure, and efforts to fix it, will limit me to short comments through my Nook Color for now. At least they’ll be short…

Despite claims that it’s about the Vietnam War protests, “For What It’s Worth” is about riots on the Sunset Strip in LA, circa 1966…

I will need to check my finances. I am also without insurance. Please tell Aaron I hope he gets well very soon.

I will need to check my finances. I am also without insurance. Please tell Aaron I hope he gets well very soon.

..good stuff,Stuff..thank you…

..that rats shooting Endtowners could be making the case for the court that Endtowners are not just human anymore…

Thanks Darwinskeeper for that. You see what I see. This is being set up for some reason.The trial may even be stopped as now the High Council has something BETTER to use to seize control.And you know who started it all.LINDA and the cake.And we still have not heard from her.

This is somewhat belated…but was Spike the guy Maude “expressed tough love” for back in November?

Why did all of them mutate into rats, is it a common mutation?

Three Steps Over Japan…NOTHING like this ever happened on her watch PRECISELY because of the things that you say about her."Please explain…I don’t understand.

“Not if you’re angry, and sitting inside a giant pressure cooker…”

Not a good choice of words, given the events that occur 3 weeks ago.

I’m coming back tomorrow again in the AM too see theevents that will unfold. Until then posters…pleasant…dreams? [ Door Creaks and Slowly Closes Shut ]

I know personally how easy it is to have the lazy trigger finger. Very quick habit to get into. They are under an extraordinary amount of stress, but I’m pretty sure the idea of spraying bullets into an unarmed crowd goes against what they have been trained to do.Someone commented that the rats only hit someone by accident. Spike wasn’t intentional. That muzzle flash doesn’t show what direction it was pointed in, just that it WAS fired. I hope that was just the “Back off, or the next time won’t be an accident.”

It’s worth noting that back in Kent StateThere were folks there just to agitateAnd reports that I’ve gotSaid the very first shotWas fired at soldiers, with hateSo some aspects match what we see hereThe attack, and the hatred and fearBut the finger-on-triggerMade this issue biggerNow things get exciting — that’s clear!=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooVote for Endtown ClassicThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

Wow……….. this comic strip makes me feel…..

Didn’t know it was recurring. I’m sorry to say. I do buy his work. Do my best to support him. Personally I prefer putting $$ straight to his Han when bidding

Hate middleman lolHope you get better AN!

The Silverwolves

Who Was it Maude did a tough love on?I agree that it seems like some one is behind all this. It would be a several leaders who can benefit and to make money from it, both. I don’t know that would be but money is always a motive__

maybe someone wants to hold Linda hostage for some reason. maybe. Although this would be unlikely, or if someone is holding her son hostage, grasping at straws here.

Wabbit, to add on, who in Endtown know about Linda’s boy? Even through orientation. And even so, who in Endtown would be collaborating with the TSers? Lunacy at best. Not ripping on you Wabbit. No offence

Oh, I saw this coming the moment those rats turned up on the scene…

Another late thought—-I’ve been distracted today—-but, in Panel Four, it’s implied that one of the Security Rats fires that gun. But we don’t know for sure. It could belong to someone in the mob…

An homage to Fritz the Cat, eh?