Endtown by Aaron Neathery for June 01, 2016

Where will they find refuge? It appears that everyone is carrying Buddibombs (at least the women are), where is a mutant going to safely hide out?

Looks like poor Holly has gone round the bend. Only a crazy person would run screaming into traffic. Given what she has experienced so far I don[’t blame her!

Hey check it out! There is a Horn and Hardart over there, anybody got a pocket full of Nickels?I want some of their pie and coffee.

I’m still questioning the logic behind the retail sale of explosive munitions to civilians. Because, geezus, everything’s exploding. Who was APEX’s marketing director: Michael Bay?

Poor Holly. At least Doc is keeping his head, of course he’s been through substantially less than Holly….

Possible Apex thought process: “Well it looks like the mutation is hard to catch unless you have direct contact, so if we blow up/burn everything in the vicinity, we’ll eliminate the problem” Doesn’t look like its working, though.

There was a time, not so long ago in South Africa where Homeowners could sell and posses land mines, yes that’s right. Not only that, you could legally outfit you car with under door flamethrowers or taser studded door handles to prevent carjacking.This is how bad Apartheid was, that it created such levels of crime to make such things necessary

On the whole… I’d say Holly’s handling this rather well.…I wonder when we’ll hear some commentary from Wally & Company.

Wait, who was doing the screaming? So lost in this. This used to be a cute and funny comic with a really cool background story, now its getting very chaotic and disturbing.

So, yesterday’s explosion was just one Buddibomb that followed them into the incinerator. Today’s is the whole floor of the cafe. What next? The building collapses?

She looks very mouse like in panel 2, way more than usually when she looks more rabbity.. She is in total freakout!Good job on Doc Chase in keeping her out of harms way.

Aaron loves Horn and Hardarts. Expect them to be everywhere in Hillside.6 days to The End of the World as We Know it. And counting.

My experience of Horn & Hardart is in NYC. Is it anywhere else?

Sooner or later, all the buddibombs will be gone. They’re expendable and use-once after all.It’s possible that Apex deliberately distributed the bombs in hopes of stemming the virus outbreak, but it’s also possible they were simply profiteering from the panic and had no other agenda.

I thought there was at least one Automat still open, in Philadelphia, I thought, but it seems to have declined into a coffee shop. The last one in New York City, the one at Third and Forty-Second, closed in 1991.

Totally lost it, yep she’s crackers.

I find it interesting that Doc, having mutated (and we don’t know if he’s aware that he has) recognizes the mutated Holly. If we think back to Ethel, she didn’t realize that there was anything different about herself, just thought she was having trouble using her arms. So, therefore, Doc or Holly may not realize they’re any different themselves. Therefore, why wouldn’t either of them look at the other as a “monster”? But he instinctively sees himself has her protector. Curious.

This must be a universe that split off from the Fallout universe. They have a 1950’s style culture, but have maintained a 1950’s economy though they have 22nd century technology.

If you remember the Flaskback story, the supposed reason that “Typhoid Marys” (humans who were immune) were vivisected was to see why they survived contact with the virus without mutation.I don’t buy the notion that the end of human civilization was Apex’s plan. There’s not a lot of money in that. I could see them being short sighted enough to capitalize on people’s fears without thought of the possible outcomes but I imagined Apex’s executives thought their gravy train would keep rolling on forever and not blow up in their faces.

Here is my take on what Apex planned to do and the ultimate result Apex got from those plans.

“The best-laid plans of mice and men often go asunder”.

Maybe that should be Men and Mice…

Between having a miscarriage, turning into a mouse, seeing her husband turn into a horror, then blown up by the very bombs she brought home, seeing Doc shot by weird vacuform men, turn into a furry critter, having to save both of them from flaming death in a crashing car, being chased by an angry mob and horde of bombs into another den of monsters where they barely escaped with their lives… it has been a very long day for Holly.

This has GOT to Be Holly’s worst day ever!

And this why you never, ever, EVER say, “things can’t get any worse”