Endtown by Aaron Neathery for October 28, 2016

It’s like what a mentos sees in diet coke!

So how can the team possibly know that they actually escaped?

Whew! Finally made it out of that mess! What horror is next?!?

Freeeeedooooooooommm!!!

Up, up and awaa-aay in my beautiful, my beautiful, ditto ball! ;-)

The question now is: Did “real” Holly get any breakfast? ;-)

And eleven months later, we are right back where we started… ;-)

Wally is looking like a super hero in panel 3. Wonder if this escape is just another layer of the illusion?

o/` They ran away, they boldly ran away! o/`

Why do I get the feeling they ain’t clear yet?

Those eyes follow you all the way around the room.

I wonder if there’s a way to destroy this ship, for though Wally & Co. get away, the ship still remains a snare for unaware mutants who seek shelter.

yeah things definitely went red pill on the story but that’s ok there is almost endless possibilities to where the story can go now.

Honestly when this whole story started I wasn’t feeling to good about Holly, i was thinking they were going to find her in BAD shape. Of course that still may be the case have to see what the truth is and what is illusion

Wally, Lord of the Dittos!

YUSSSSSSSSSSS

off the ship!!!

see ya!

And away we go!!! Next stop Endtown?

Wait… were they aboard the Edmond Fitzgerald?

I’m hearing the theme to “Airwolf” as I look at this strip.

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down….

The wreck of the Fitz?

So did the gang ever get a decent meal, or was that all ditto illusion too?

Did anybody think to grab the leftovers on the way out? You know, just for later.

Is it just me or is the ship going down by the bow in that last panel? Makes me think the ship was previously crashed and the AI damaged, causing it to go bonkers…

Panel 3 makes me suspect that Wally, Kirbee, Chic and Irving might have had real food. I suspect that the simulation of Ernie’s Diner might have involved our crew sitting at a real table and eating real food (prepared by an automated kitchen) while surrounded by a ditto illusion of the diner from Holly’s past. It kind of makes me think of some of the elaborate setups from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit”, the Ink and Paint Club anyone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A

I love this strip, thank you, Aaron. But I’m about to go nuclear with those freaking ads that take over the page and try to give me a free app in the Apple App Store. I just reloaded this page over a dozen times before I was finally able to get the rest of the comments to load and stay up long enough to read them, and to add my own. I don’t play game apps, I don’t appreciate 12+ reloads just to enjoy a comic, I really, REALLY, dislike ads that take my iPad on a tip to multiple page land, and I detest ads that open other apps without my permission. Phew… Had to vent.

wow! How cool is This? Happy to see them all together, safe (relatively) and happy to be away from the ghost ship.

I’m hoping that Holly has worked her way back to the Holly we know and love. I don’t care where they go as long as they all go together…. in a good way, of course.

On the lake at Gitch Gumi …

I wonder if the storms of November came early this year?

I’d like to see Holly work her way toward dealing with her issues. I think the Holly we knew and loved came from her keeping busy enough to not think about the things she saw and did. That’s why she snapped in that cell during the Milk Trial. She just had too much time alone with her thoughts and nobody she could talk to. It would be nice if she could talk with Wally and Kirbee about what she saw.

So, here we are, in the wilderness with no food, water or any other resource.

Since Wally is known to be able to control the dittos, I’m not in any doubt that they’ve actually escaped. Now the question is, do they simply leave or does Wally decide to take command of all of the ship’s dittos thus leaving it powerless? Or does he decide to find the ship’s bridge and enter it, thus becoming the captain and acquiring a useful form of transport (which can even hide itself using the dittos)?

Did anyone notice the ship’s name as they were fleeing from the hold? Fitzgerald, as in The Edmond Fitzgerald, the freighter that went down in Lake Erie in the early seventies. Maybe the gang’s in Cleveland.

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they have to control or destroy the ship!

He ought to have taken the dittos with him to avoid more people going in that trap.

Everyone should be clicking on the ads to help keep Aaron on GoComics.

Is this really the “Edmund Fitzgerald” that they just popped out of?

Hey, all.. Finished Friday’s strip and uploaded it just before heading to the ER. Talk about deadlines.. I’m still hospitalized with leg infection #14 but I’m off the IV and back on oral antibiotics. Fingers crossed that I’ll be released within the next two days. Unfortunately, Endtown will have to be on hiatus until probably the second week of November (maybe sooner, depending). Thanks to everyone for their prayers and good vibes. Don’t worry, this ride isn’t nearly over!

-A

When Wally says “We’re bustin’ out!” We are bustin’ out!!

Really want to get rid of those annoying ads? Don’t be cheap. Buy a GoComics subscription and let cartoonists like Aaron get the money they’ve worked for.

We’ll look for your (hopefully) quick return!

I just kind of hope they can take the ship to Endtown and use it as a vessel to save the people there (however many are left…)

Oh wow, only just saw the comment about your health. Get well soon!!!! Sending good vibes your way.

@Aaron

I don’t comment here as often as others, but I want you to know how much I appreciate you and your comic strip. Here’s wishing you a speedy recovery. Get well soon!

Oh geez, get well soon @Aaron. Take care of yourself. We’ll be here.

Get better and get some rest!

Best wishes and sincere prayers for your quick recovery, Aaron. ;-)

Sometimes storytellers need a break. And what a good one to stop on. Mr. Neathery, take your time. Don’t push yourself too soon. Get better and come back as you’re able.

Yes we have a third cheap skate here. Do these fools think sites like gocomics will last? Not if they continue to cheat.

For heaven’s sake, take care of the leg, Aaron. A nasty case of blood poisoning (sepsis) can occur if not careful.

14? You overachiever! Get well soon. We can wait.. while rabidly clicking Reload in hopes a new comic is posted (which also means you’re ok).

@Aaron Neathery. Wishing you well and a quick recovery

@Aaron Neathery. Wishing you well and a quick recovery

No new panels since last Friday…Are we done here?

Hope you’re on the road to recovery, Aaron. Don’t know if you’ve tried a reputable naturopath; sometimes a persistant problem with the immune system needs a whole body approach.Wishing you the best.

@Aaron NeatheryI do not often comment, but wanted to add another voice sending very good thoughts your way. Endtown is fabulous, which makes it worth waiting as long as necessary for the next new twists.

Get well big guy….Texas needs her artists.

@Aaron NeatheryMiss you! Feel better!

Holy Gordon Lightfoot, Batman!Wally’s turning into a badass with every strip.

Its Wednesday and still no new episode!

The way the first panel is drawn indicates that either the Fitzgerald interior or whole ship is an illusion, or the escape is an illusion. We see Wally “breaking through” the floor, but the floor is intact. The dittos are feral, so I’m guessing the ship is a ditto trap like Sparkplug’s area of Hillside. Instead of controlling the dittos, the AI was controlled by them.

I don’t have an issue with advertising, unless it’s pornagraphic, but I do have real issues with ads that trap you. It loads by itself, jumps through several pages, without letting you return to the original page, opens another app without permission, erases your saved links until you close and open your browser, refuses to release your browser, and does this every time you open a gocomcs link.

That said, it looks like gocomcs got the message and eliminated the out of control ad. It hasn’t occurred for at least two days so far.

You gotta love the Internet, where anonymous people can call you names simply because they can.

Oh, and I will never download that game app that the ad led to. Great way to kill your own product. Way to go game developer, hope that you learn something from this.

Get well Aaron. Thanks for all the dittos. :0)

I miss being able to insert line breaks into my comments. Paragraphs look so much neater.

Aaaaaaand, I have no idea how that double posted…

Just because Endtown is on hiatus while Aaron gets well is no reason to forget to vote for Endtown on gocomics. It’s just another way to show Aaron we care. Get well soon Aaron and thanks for bringing Endtown to a good pausing place.

I hope you get well soon Aaron. Being ill is not fun. Best wishes for a swift recovery.

Another BIG wish for your recovery – I won’t say speedy because I am sure you will probably be back at work as hard and as soon as you can (and probably sooner than you should!). Just take it easy and we will be here for you. :o)

get well soon, at least they aren’t at too much of a cliffhanger part.

Get well soon Aaron

I hope you’re doing well Aaron enjoy your time off if you can. best wishes.

The world’s first dittobender

I don’t do social media. Any word on how Aaron’s doing?

I don’t post often, Aaron, but I wanted to send you my heartfelt wishes for a speedy – and full – recovery. 14 relapses is far too many! Please take care of yourself – you are important! :)

no Endtown for over a week now… what gives?

Aaron. I think you should focus on healing fully before you get back to the strip. id rather have to wait a month or two then wait for a month every two months. also, to others that dont know what happened Aaron has been hospitalized and im guessing is going through recovery and physical therapy and as such is unable to update the strip.

Get well soon, Aaron. Comic can wait. Your health not.

Is that the Edmund Fitzgerald?

@Aaron Neathery – How are you making out?

I hope you’re healing up and will be feeling better soon. Take as long as you need to rest and heal. :)

Aaron posted on the endtown facebook group page that he expected to be back at work by the 14th.

It’s very sad that Aaron is going to lose his health insurance because of this last election. It will probably be the end of Endtown, unless he can get Patreon up to at least double what it is, now. With his “pre-existing conditions” insurance is going to be hellaciously expensive, once Obamacare is repealed.

@ Ponyhome – Give the new president a chance, I have a feeling that the ACA, when reformed will be better and more affordable.

@Olongapojoe If he can pull that off, more power to him. I’ll be impressed. At the moment, however, it looks like someone driving a bus full tilt towards the edge of the Grand Canyon, and a bunch of people saying “No, wait, give him a chance—he promised he can make it across.”

Regarding Trump vs Clinton, it’s like both of the major political parties got together and decided to put forward the least suitable candidates they could, just to prove that they could get away with it.

Regarding Aaron, Please get well soon.

We’re back! Best of health, Aaron!