Endtown by Aaron Neathery for January 22, 2018

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    Cheapskate0  almost 7 years ago

    A cartoon making fun of cartoons within a cartoon – nice touch!

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    Mominexile Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    I love this comic strip. Thank you, Aaron!

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    RDT64 Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Dottie should consider that little diddly about fighting monsters…

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    KSClaw  almost 7 years ago

    I wonder, does Jake get the reports about what they found out about the pig carcasses? Or is that strictly police business?

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    mr_sherman Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    This could be the beginning of a good team to figure out what’s really going on in Endtown.

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    Mr. E. Bullterrier  almost 7 years ago

    Provoking an unstable radical, like Lucas into a murderous rage and then killing him, is an interesting method of extracting information. Or had Jacob already decided he won’t get anything useful from him at that point?

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    mr_sherman Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    The rat in panel four might have something to say about prejudism.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  almost 7 years ago

    What a nasty job, clean up.

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    yangeldf  almost 7 years ago

    As someone who watches a lot of cop and procedural dramas I gotta say I am VERY interested in getting to the bottom of the pig murder case.

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    salenstormwing  almost 7 years ago

    Oh boy, they got the mop & bucket out.

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    WorldFusionRadio.com  almost 7 years ago

    She is half correct. Prejudice persists because the assumptions are not thought about, but where do the assumptions come from? Jacob is correct that there must have been a catalyst to turn the fear of the Other into the assumption that wolves are eating pigs. That’s where Jacob’s earlier comments are important—does embracing their mutated forms necessarily lead to turning on each other? It seems to me that the shadowy forces that were feeding propaganda to Foxworthy are the catalyst Jacob is looking for that is creating the assumptions of prejudice.

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    Robert Nowall Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    Well, they were howling in the middle of the night. Disturbing people’s sleep doesn’t endear one to anybody…

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    sailorbeefcake  almost 7 years ago

    At least the pig murders are finally being addressed again, it’s been far too long since the spotlight was on them.

    But again, Jackrabbit has a point in that it doesn’t truly make sense why people would just blame the wolves and no-one else, especially when Endtown is crawling with other predators. The people really behind the murders might have something to do with it, it’d be better for them to have a scapegoat rather than simply casting suspicion on anyone in Endtown with sharp teeth.

    I gotta say that Jackrabbit should cool it with jeering at cartoon tropes though given that the pigs in the strip are shown to be tiny and helpless and generally piglet-like, whereas real pigs, even the smallest ones, range from medium dog-sized to 700 pounds. It’d be a very different sort of feeling if the pig mutants were closer to Gustine’s stature, haha. A lot of the mutants seem to have cartoony animal-tropes – Holly loves cheese, the rats are numerous and horrible, that short-lived snake woman talked about ‘smelling fear’, Maude heavily lactating in spite of (from what I remember) never having children, etc.

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    RickD Premium Member almost 7 years ago

    I also was hoping Lucas would say who was “inspiring” him. Now he’s metabolically-challenged, so no answers there. Maybe in his home?

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    Ida No  almost 7 years ago

    So, we’re back to the pig murders. And yes, some of the wolves may have had reason to believe that some of the non-wolves were hiding their leather purses and pigskins from them when they got on the buses, or when entering hospital waiting rooms. Getting the side-eye when they chased after pigs and chanted “suu-iiiee”. So, what was really at the heart of all that, that stuff that made their loins burn like that?

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    DADOF3  almost 7 years ago

    It’s pretty obvious that this whole kerfuffle has been concocted from the very begining. Now the real purpose may be just to depose Jake, but I’m starting to get the feeling that there is more going on than just that.

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    Tue Elung-Jensen  almost 7 years ago

    True, it could be an assumptions … but then people are ignorant who tend to believe a lot of things that isn´t true – taking it for granted without, or possibly because they simply can´t, research things for themself. All it takes is a few people spreading a rumor, and the wolves acting accordingly.

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    ganhammer64  almost 7 years ago

    It’s really starting to seem like the wolves were just a distraction for something else….

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    Urbane Gorilla  almost 7 years ago

    I’ve just been following this strip for a few weeks, but went back to the beginning and caught up, and one observation I have is that the commentary has been getting a whole lot more thoughtful and intense than in the early years. Makes the strip more enjoyable.

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    zorro456  almost 7 years ago

    Jake is more Dirty Harry Callahan than Winston Churchill.

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    DADOF3  almost 7 years ago

    Things running a little late today?

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    SelinaEubanks  almost 7 years ago

    The strip was uploaded hours ago Aaron doesn’t know why it’s not coming up.

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    aneathery  almost 7 years ago

    Sorry, everyone. Today’s strip has been on the server since 9AM. Not sure what the problem is. Hopefully it will appear tomorrow.

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    davidf42  almost 7 years ago

    Thanks for the update, Aaron. We’ll patiently wait for tomorrow.

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    Ida No  almost 7 years ago

    Death to the server!

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    Ida No  almost 7 years ago

    Nothing seems to be updating right now. Death to the server! Aaaa-oooouuuu!

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