Endtown by Aaron Neathery for March 04, 2015

The lost generation…

This ain’t no Yolk folks! What did she see? A Ravenous Raccoon munching down?It made her run away in fright that’s for sure.Whether those wet footprints she’s leaving are yolk or something else that’s yellow, remains to be seen.

Okay, gang.. Here’s the deal.. I’ve been asked repeatedly what the heck the name of this reptilian colony is and, frankly, I don’t know. I wrote down a long list of possible names before I started this story and not one of them appealed to me. So I’ve decided to have a contest to clear up the matter. Send your lizard colony name suggestion to aaronneathery@gmail.com with “Name That Lizard Colony Contest” in the header by March 31st. The winner will receive the original artwork for the strip in which his/her name for the colony is finally revealed. One suggestion per contestant, please.

“I believe that children are the future.” Well, if their eggs are their children (and nutritional source), it looks like the colony may have no future…

“I’m looking for a raccoon!” ::crack:: “Where’s the raccoons?” ::crack:: “Ah, there’s my boy! Come to Daddy!”

Panel 4. One set of foot prints out of the room. What/whoever did this did not leave through the same exit. This probably lets Sarah off the hook. If it was Jim, he definitely got better fast, because he was able to take down 2-3 adult reptiles 3-4 times his size.Assuming that the boxing match is about to be disrupted, this may be one of the better opportunities for Holly to grab Wally and Clive and book out of here. Chic can stick behind and face the big Egg Trial.

It looks pretty clear there’s both blood and yolk. And one clenched cloaca..

I still think it’s Jim who did this. He certainly made an eggs-travagant mess of the place. He’s definitely cracked, but will the yolk be on him?

Lizard lady wanted to watch violence, well, here it is.

I don’t believe this is Sarah’s doing. I could imagine her killing one lizardette with her bare hands and smashing the eggs. I can’t buy her killing two mutants of her own size and strength in hand to hand combat. For similar reasons I don’t believe Helena could be responsible. That leaves Jim who the schism syndrome seems to have altered into something that can withstand poison gas and is probably faster and stronger than he previously was. That is unless the furry mutants who were gassed years ago were still alive and have chosen this time to have their revenge on the lizards.

his fingers may have grown back…..we still are not sure if it is him, but no ‘body’ makes it more likely…..the dittoes are asking for help… from something else???? There is sooo much to keep track of….Aaron you are confusing me something terrible!!! Keep up the good work!!

I’m wondering that if Jim did that incubator room massacre, how did he know the exact location of the incubator room? Only Sarah saw this room on her tour with Ptior. I’m wondering if there are other mutants who live behind the walls, away from the lizard folk…and unknown to Chic, that’re using what happened with Jim as a front to commit their vendetta against the lizard men. So while the lizard men chase after a supposed undead raccoon that’s mutated into a more horrid beast, they’re actually going up against cunning foes who know where to strike and whom.

I won’t underestimate the fact that Jim may have survived being gassed, mutated into something more bestial, and is now able to use his sense of smell to locate the eggs. Still, I think he’s going to be more of a red herring than the actual culprit in this crime. Time and Aaron Neathery will tell, so all I’m doing is speculation.

Call the chef – omlettes for dinner — and mystery meat . Tastes like chicken.

Here’s hoping Veteran’s working a lot of overtime because of the storms in hs area being the reason he’s been missing for a few days.

Let’s see here. In the space of, what, less than two weeks?, Jim has been morphed into a raccoon, been (apparently) rejected by the love of his life, the woman for whom he sacrificed his “humanity” to save, been imprisoned, threatened, humiliated, and had his fingers bitten off, so, yeah, I think he would be very willing and quite capable of committing this atrocity.

And speaking of atrocities, that sentence of mine fits the profile, don’t it.

Well I guess this may put the fight off.

I’m in awe of Mr. Neathery’s talent in showing such grief and horror on a reptilian face.

The reptilians probably would call their town “Pleasantville” or similar.

@Trantor0815 & @Three Steps Over Japan , I’m guessing you will be proven right on Jim in a new form. I would suggest he could have taken these nursery caretakers anyway. Holly fought Jim and escaped,(Holly already had a survival record- she does know to fight, thats an important distinction), if the caretakers had never had to make a fight for your life choice, a hollow eyed- whispering- mutilated- boar raccoon is going to kill you.

He didn’t do this single handed.

Hmm I hear Raccoons are just as destructive as foxes in a hen house…..

I still find myself wondering if there might have been one or two others hidden in the walls like Chic that hasn’t been shown yet. Aaron makes so many twists and turns, it could even be rogue dittos for all we know.

The Saurians are awfully saurious. Just Saur.

I have a feeling the hatched lizard babies were killed, too. Now she has cracked, and is leaving a trail of evidence in her wake.…I don’t want to suspect Helena, but I shudder to think her motive could be that if she was not able to be with her son, then why should anyone else have theirs.

I don’t see Helena doing this. Its one thing to be angry at a situation, so angry that one would use one’s own husband as a punching bag. Its another to murder three women in cold blood and then break every egg and slaughter every infant in the colony. There’s also the question of whether she would be able to kill three women with her bare hands particularly as the two in the nursery would be alerted by the sounds of hovac coming from the eggery.Sarah is a little more possible if only because we have seen her kill a topsider with her bare hands. Still that was with even odds and the element of surprise. This would be a lot harder. Also, I had a feeling from her last time at the nursery that she felt something for the baby lizards. I couldn’t quite see her killing them.Knowing how good I am at guessing Aaron’s storylines, Friday’s strip will show Helena with her dress soiled in blood and egg yolks.

Her footprints might be squished voids in the slurry. I was candling my eggs the other day and dropped one, it was a bloody mess.

My hope is that at least some of the ferries survived the mass genocide and have gained enough strenght to stage this.This does seem unlikely, but it would be a good revenge for them against the nasty reptiles. But what and how did they eat, and seems like Chic would have seen them.But maybe Chic does know about them and senses a kinship with them.Only one person knows for sure; our favorite artist/storyteller!

I too am glad we were spared the horror of what was inside the nursery.Patti may end up with her own schism. But probably is just traumatized.

Re: Colony name.

Elizardbethton? Newt York? San IgJuana?

Jim plus a sub-set of dittos might be a thing, as they have demonstrated a mental connection/communicative ability. Such would help with his “reading” the fears/weaknesses of our heroes.

I wonder when Clive will show his face/brain again :-)

Yup. Jim’s been veerrry busy. Raccoons LOVE eggs.

I’m thinking… Reptillinois

Well, they could always scape the floor for the world’s largest omelette. In a survival situation the best place to store food is in your belly rather than lug it around or let to spoil.

For the name I’d say either Rome from their behavior or London from their modest proposal for survival.

All ova.

Someone could have plugged Clive into a killing machine.Or the culprit is someone or something we haven’t been shown before.I still think it’s Dead Jim.