Endtown by Aaron Neathery for September 05, 2018

It looks like Dottie got a job as assistant to her former assistant.

And it looks like we may be moving on, after all.

To a new arc, that is.

As in, I suppose this is about as “happy” an “ending” I’ve seen in Endtown.

Not sure that Wally counts. One, he lost his beloved Holly and, two, it was only the Christmas Card that hinted at what Wally and Kirbee ‘s new life is.

No, I won’t forget Chic or Irving.

What’s my motivation?

And the prodigal has come home….

Dolly:“Can I have a desk to write from? Or, right here in the doorway is good, too. I can work right here, if you want. Do I get a pencil from the cabinet, or will a pin and my own blood suffice?”

Make her write obits for Foxworthy and Heather Hoss, too. Also without editorializing…

And write, longhand, 2000 times, “Reporters tackle assignments, not interviewees.”

Dottie had nowhere else to go, really. I’m glad she was given the assignment to write Walt’s obituary. (1) she’s been given a second chance as a journalist and I think she’s learned her lesson, and (2) she knew Walt well and will do a credible job of writing his obit. Without editorializing.

Time to move on. Dottie will do a good job. She learned her lesson…….words can kill.

At least she said “Please.”

Yeah, Dottie tried being an editor before. And we all know how that turned out.

Well, it’s good to see that there are still some pigs left in Endtown.

And it’s good that Dottie has come to her senses and returned to the Examiner. And who better to giver her assignments than someone she considers to be a “rookie”. I’m betting that if Dottie hadn’t left when she did, she would have been the new Editor. Oh, the irony…

Does this mean Dottie is the “rookie”, now…?

The content of this strip is incomparable… Awesome, moving… Great storytelling… :)

“and your will have to cover every groundhog day for the rest of your life”

A few quick news snippets from Aaron.

Endtown has passed 2,000 strips, and has reached its 10-year anniversary.

The original ending was for Denise to be sucked through the canal pump station’s turbines, but that would have taken too many strips to render. However, the plan was always for Denise to kill Walt by slashing his carotid artery.

This story arc is called “The Pork Conspiracy.”

The source of Endtown’s water supply is an underground river that runs through a series of pump stations.

There are several loose ends that will be intentionally left loose, because they are to be addressed in future arcs.

The next arc will return to Kirby, Wally, Chic and Irving. Aaron says there are two arcs left to go before reaching Endtown’s midpoint. As he says, “Big things brewing, big changes coming, big revelations coming down the chute.”

He ends by giving a tribute to the characters that didn’t make it out of the end of the world alive:

Walt Trimble, Philomena Flask, Cooper Hooper, Holly Hollister, Allie Alvarez and Philo Foxworthy.

Do people get paid? Obviously, an idle life isn’t productive, but besides that, what do they get out of working? Pay checks? Cans of beans? Promises that you won’t be eaten?

Numerous mixed feelings.

On the one hand, that not-exchange is golden.

On the other hand, despite Dottie’s handling of the Milk Trials, which seemed very professional and made her seem like one of the leading lights of the paper, her behavior of late has been far less incisive and far more biased and rabble-rousing. In hindsight, one has to wonder about her tremendous behavioral shift during the more racial elements in the recent plot.

Did she drink the Kool-Aid? Or does she just like bacon in the morning?

And is she going to be a professional now, given a second chance (something which Endtown is notoriously unlikely to offer)?

I’ll bet they didn’t poll the surviving wolves.

Where did my comment go?

Why did my comment get pulled?

Oh nuts, wrong comment section. Resetting brain…

@Cheapskate0 – just sit back and enjoy the ride. ☺