Endtown by Aaron Neathery for March 24, 2014

Very early on, it was suggested that more than normal atomics and Amesworth weapons were used in the war, and really weird physics were at play with weirder results. Maybe this is one of those?

Wally: “Why, do you want to find the tourist shops to get a t-shirt? If so, grab some corn dogs for the rest of us on your way back to the PT.”

What’s left of the oceans? Waves?

Aside from the odd topography, are those clouds new? Clouds once indicated water vapor. Surface water vapor. The entire planet isn’t a dust bowl, Yay!

Just to entertain my childish curiosity, what happens when a cat and/or a mouse eliminate bodily waste in the great waste? Ordinarily, bodily wastes are loaded with microorganisms and viruses. Do those microorganisms and viruses automatically mutate, turn to dust, or just sit there, without any bacteria to nosh on the waste and generate their own waste, and microscopic carcasses to function as farmland? I haven’t seen any flies to hurry the process along, but surely some opportunistic waste processor could develop from somewhere, maybe carried in the water vapor, or a windstorm. Perhaps from a monster, or other mutant, or even some untouched area beyond the dragons on the edge of the great wasteland? Or, are those the dragons? Very slow moving dragons.Remember to SUPPORT THE ARTIST! . Buy a print from a previous auction, or simply donate. aaronneathery@gmail.com is a good way to contact Aaron for prints or books, and he might even be able to tell you how to buy e-books. Support your artist, he still has living expenses, responsibilities and medical troubles. Don’t hurt your self over-donating, but don’t hurt yourself by not supporting a fellow human being who provides excellent art and storytelling. Okay, they are all arts, but I simply don’t know the proper way to refer to the creative, graphic and storytelling combo platter.You could vote! Please? . Vote ENDTOWN . Vote Doc Rat . Vote Hubris . Vote Kevin and Kell . Sincerely, .

JusSayin

I may have to recommend another comic strip soon, but I’ll let the tension percolate a bit.

It looks related to Sandy. It seems to have tentacles with forked ends like Sandy’s, that she used to see, and it looks like it’s looking at them.

For any weaponry that could have created that piece of Hillside where Sparky lived, this would be a piece of cake. ;-)

Apparently, the topsiders haven’t seen as much of their world as they thought. Strange things of which they are not aware.Hmmm…When they were telling Wally about the great waste, they left out a few details, quite unknown ones, it seems.

Is this maybe the dittos trying again to tell them something they need to know?

Mutant waves?

this could be another case of flash frozen rock, like that folded over city.

I think Dr. Seuss just rolled over in his highly mutated and radioactive grave.

possibly trees or lamp posts bent over with the force of the blast then covered in ash. (think tunguska)

Ah, a wonderful Neatherscape..

That Topsider attitude is alive and well in Jim. He hasn’t used Wally’s name once – only “Cat”.

And this is where things get interesting…

Landscape by Cake Boss? Almost looks like frosting peaks on a homemade cake, or the tops of a Dairyqueen treat.

It looks like molten blast-glass that cooled quickly enough to keeps their wave form but Aaron will most likely come up with something unexpected.

OMG! Immortalized by Level Head! I can now throw away the bucket list. I am truely ( & most sincerely) honored beyond words… ;-)

To heck with “Aliens”. It’s “Predator vs Predator” on “Doc Rat” today! ;-)

An endless land of kitty-litter.

I would venture a guess….the edge of the Eastern Alliance lands.Those tips on the ends of the “waves”….lamp posts??Tentacles of some monster yet to be seen???So my guess is two routes….over it without Clive……or skirt the edges till you find the path to get in.

@the other ghost girl: First thing I thought, but I dunno….@Coyoty: Oh, Sandy….that was horrible. I try not to contemplate that too much. Poor litle girl.

Little cat feet, was that “spark plug sandy, Sanders”?What little girl.this has me lost.

Yes and no.I remember in the “Gustine’s Quest” arc that one of the first things Al and Gustine find in the city of Hillside was paint marking the changes in the Amesworth radiation levels. Thus, Amesworth radiation does linger to some degree, just not nearly as much as nuclear weapons.

Well, at least I was right about beginning a new part of the story—-not the “meanwhile back in Endtown,” though definitely a new part of the current arc…

Holly upon seeing it…..“QUICK GRAB A SURF BOARD………………….SURFSSS UPPPPPPP!!!!!”Too bad they were going east would have been nice to see some California Girls.

I wouldn’t try to predict whether this whatever-it-is is or isn’t moving…

The Trinitite effect is actually fairly limited, just the surface material not already displaced by the initial fireball expansion gets little more than a glazed effect, not a literal molten glass of any real depth. Real melting of volume takes time, as well as heat, and a nuke explosion’s initial release flashes close-in material to vapor, if not plasma, and the fireball doesn’t dwell for more than a few seconds, both cooling and rapidly rising away from the surface.

It’s meringue or marshmallow fluff.