Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 28, 2015

Jim Lives!Either that, or whatever else lives behind the walls came and ate him.

This does not bode well….

So Holly did bite off his fingers. That’s… disturbing.

Hmmm… creepy.

It’s called a digital search.

Jim should have used Kayak to research going out of his mind.

From the smears of blood, it looks like JIm was dragged off.

Elvis lives!Zombie Elvis?No, Zombie Jim!This will be fun for a bit, I didn’t think for a minute that Jim was dead, we did not see him die..Just maniacal laughter and a cut to the next scene.She better not turn around too soon and end the scene early, only to find Jim was behind her the whole time. I wouldn’t go in there without a shotgun, a spot lamp my rowdy friends and some beer.Raccoon Hunt!

It’s like a gruesome game of “Pick up Sticks”..Ot Lizardtown: C.S.I.

Hah… I knew the Jim-thing was still around! Okay…suspected. Feared? I’d also thought at least some fingers had been bitten off. But Holly is protective, not vindictive. The Jim-thing did not feel pain, so the only way she could have gotten it to release Chic was to bite the fingers completely off.

Maybe Jim has a future as a pie rat? We may get a reveal on what happens to people after they go through schism? Flask went through schism syndrome, but she had sorted out her mind …, well no. Flask had learned how to cope, but still had not obtained Bodhisatva when she tried to fly the Opabinia Queen into TopSider base.I know cochroaches can “hibernate” for about a year by shutting down their breathing mechanisms. I suspect Jim is still alive, and may exact revenge on Sarah. Or maybe Jim has sublimated into pure energy, kind of like dittos. That is just a speculative idea, but could explain dittos. “Ghosts” usually aren’t tangible, but maybe are a trick of the senses. Jim did sort of mirror Aaron Marx’s mindset. Or Bobby could wake up and realize this is a Wizard of Oz, or Amazing Adventures in Wonderland, or some other sort of dream? So many possible answers, and questions, too. Maybe we would like to see the world set straight, but the world doesn’t always get set right in real life. TopWebComics voting links in email. Thanks, JusSpeculating

Sure, chicken fingers are okay, but raccoon fingers are gross.

So IS that a finger in cells 1 & 2? Kind of looks like Irvine to me.

Yikes….just because I don’t like them does not mean I wish them to be killed…… Yikes!

Finally got the answer to that question. She did chomp his fingers off.

Ah, a new spin on “finger food”…

Kinda makes you wonder just how effective that gas is… six years, some chemical weapons have half-lives, some of them expire in months… who knows what it was they really pumped into the walls?

And if the mutation allowed Jim to fix a broken back and get away so quickly, then Wally may be in for a very long attempted suicide by boxing.

Think there’d be any chance of Marx popping up here, just dropping in for an egg breakfast and a little mischief?

When she said “Put your hands where I can see them,” she didn’t think it would be in instalments.

Does anyone else hear the theme song for “CSI: Miami”?

I sure hope he doesn’t attack Kirbee, she is a very sweet soul. I’d say that Jim is definitely an undead. A zombie or some other kind of thing. I hope he has left aand is up with the reptiles to kick some reptile hineys.Tention is very high.

So many thoughts in these comments. a few I idn’t know what wass being mentioned. going to take several re-readings of them.This is the best group ever for great comments!

Maybe that’s why the dead in the Endtown colony are encased in cement.

Ruh Roh!

But if the dead don’t stay dead, why is Wally committing suicide-by-Phil?

Ultimately there are two possibilities. First, Jim wasn’t killed by the gas and is possibly hunting for new victims. Secondly, there is something else out there that dragged Jim off. I’m guessing the former because its simpler. We don’t have to explain why the gas killed Jim, but did not harm this second entity. We don’t have to explain what this second thing is doing behind the walls, what it lived on and why it hasn’t entered the colony proper and targeted the lizards. Finally, we don’t have to explain why whatever it is hasn’t targeted Chic. Any decent story teller should be able to come up with explanations for the above. For the moment, I’ll shave with Occam’s Razor.

and with apologies to Monty Python…… Jim: "I’m not dead yet…I feel happy!!! "

How again did she cut off his fingers using her apron?