Endtown by Aaron Neathery for December 17, 2014

Poor Jim, we hardly knew you.

Hey, folks.. Just dropping in to let you know that the Endtown Patreon site is finally, at long last, up and running:

www.patreon.com/endtown

It’s all part of my mad scheme to keep Endtown going long enough for me to get around to explaining things like.. well.. THIS.. I mean, just LOOK at today’s strip. Insanity.. tsk.. Anyhoo, back to the mangled possessed raccoon ghoul.

Ahhhh… laughing gas. ;-)

Poor Jim. Trapped in a world he didn’t make. Trapped by a ladder, too…

Stumpin Jim Flash, its a Gas Gas Gassss!At least Jim will finally be shut up for good, Unless the gas just makes him stronger like our famous NYC rats.I’ve seen a few near CPW back in the day I would swear were anthro sized.So who knows?..Jim is having the last laugh first.

Looking at the bloodsplatter at the back of his head from the fall, the ladder bar across his neck, I think he was doomed regardless without the additional gas. Poor poor Jim.

“Kill you all… kill you all… kill you all…Ahaahaahaahaa…”

Only about 3 feet tall (tho ugly now), busted up, maybe trapped under a ladder, inhaling poisonous gas…butthe Jim-things laughter still threatens further horror. Nice job, Aaron.

That entrance is in the kitchen area. A good guess by our Lizard leader that Chic may be there not knowing of the other exit they are headed for.I reckon the loss of blood, the fall, and probably a heavy metal ladder did poor Jim in the end.Laughing the laugh of the maniacal ghoul all the way to the end……….Death takes us all he figures…..I will go first laughing all the way. The old Jingle Bells to Hell song.

Well, I know I called it, but I probably wasn’t the first..Jim’s dead..And I think Aaron is right: We need an explanation!.On a human level – and these critters are supposed to be humans – am I alone here? THIS JUST AIN’T RIGHT!.Said numerous times by many, Jim didn’t deserve this. But that has got to be the understatement of the year!.As many of you have reminded me: These people have lost everything – possessions, friends, family, even their human bodies. But wait! The worst is yet to come!.But the worst never really seems to come. This story has been, for about the year that I have been following it:.No matter how bad things get, don’t worry! They’ll only get worse!.Even at the darkest hour – when things seem that they are at their worst – they continue to get worse!.National Lampoon’s Deteriorata…

Still feel like I lost a page after she mentioned him loosing his hands. Since before that she had the rope in his mouth.

Hmm. Something else funny..Is it just me? Or, in the last panel, has Jim thrown off the ladder?.Reports of my demise are highly premature – Mark Twain

He’s got a good sense of humor!

The gas has come, not its time to see if Chic was right about that last hole.

Hey, isn’t this how the Joker got started? Maybe if he survives, we’ll get to see him fight batman. Who is an actual bat in this reality.

thanks for the update Aaron…I am curious just how you are going to pull all this together! I wonder what that toxic stuff does to already mutated people….does it make them worse??or do they change back?? Tune in Friday for the continuing saga of Endtown………..

Oh great, now they’ll have that dead raccoon smell behind the walls…

Like the old saying goes… “Leave ’em laughing.”

He’s dead, Jim.…er….Jim’s dead, Jim.~Bones

Well that escalated quickly.

Lizards at an APEX site:Should we keep the zero guns?Nope.Rifles and ammo?Nope.Vehicles?Nope.How about these havy canisters of poison gas?Okay.

So yeah, good work Miss Lizard. You just killed your ex on the same day he became your ex. Record timing… slowclap

Laughing gas?

Jim is in a state where he can see the train coming at him and he does not even care he is on the track.That is the laughing of a maniac fixing to die.

His death will sever the connection he has between himself here and the other place the rest of him is at.His soul will finally be free of the bodily restraints. I don’t want to get down on Jim…..I hope his soul finds peace.Even if he was an enemy.

That was Jack Napier. Alan Napier played Alfred in the Batman TV series.

Yes, Poor Jim. Gave up everything he had for love – and was betrayed in the end. For him at least Endtown is literal…

@Wabbit The Irony here is, if the gas is truly toxic, he will die a bit faster if he has more blood ( if the blood pressure is low, it won’t transport the toxins as quickly ). A sad distinction in hoping for a humane end.

Just hope the unstable nature of his new mutation, aggravated by the Schism Syndrome, doesn’t find a catalyst from this gas.

Do we know for sure that it IS poison gas? While there were a lot of innuendos and that they wanted to get rid of Jim but that could mean they knock him out and throw him out of the colony.

maybe he will mutate again …like the ones who were awake and really turn into some kind of monster which will wake up the lizard people and then of course our heroes can save the day!!

Okay, Jim’s getting slightly creepy now.

Something’s not natural about Jim, and not just psychologically. He knows things he shouldn’t, and does things he physically shouldn’t. I don’t think the gas will stop him any more than twisting his neck or losing his fingers did. Aaron indicated in his Dead-Eye series that demons are a possibility in other universes, and they may be a possibility in this one. They might have a base in nanotechnology, as the dittos do and maybe the mutagen. Rogue nanotech would explain the rapid transformations of the mutants, as well as apparent telepathy and talking water and resurrecting fruits and walking dead raccoons.

And a mad monster raccoon finds a egg nursery.