Endtown by Aaron Neathery for March 01, 2022

Holy cow. What’s going on with Wally?

It looks like the cat coughed up the canary.

I wonder if the Dittos are actually Souls that Wally saved from I/EYE.

… it’s almost too dark for me to see…

The cat is out of the bag.

Is … is that a PHOENIX?

Man, I hate when that happens…

Wally always appeared to have a good soul and tried to do what was right. For lack of more information this episode, maybe he is becoming an angel (of sorts)?

The dittos are coming out of Wally.

Wally has….evolved.

Man – it’s hard enough to get just the CAT back into the bag…

Quick to blame? Geez, maybe it’s because you never explain anything but know everything, Marx; like, can John Cena see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

Blame Aaron Marx because he’s there.

The Teacher?

I wonder how much longer the strip will be? Or, is that..taller? The strip format has been changing since January (I think someone else mentioned that the 4 panels had gone away). Along with the disappearing panels, the strip is no longer “square”. It has been getting taller. Today’s is the tallest so far. This is pretty cool. But I wonder how much extra work this is making for Mr. Neathery. The previous format was partly a product of his drawing/working area. He was drawing the strip on paper, then scanning it, not drawing it digitally, though he added digital effects.

“A band of angels com’in after me…com’in for to carry me home.”

I usually love speculating on what is happening, but this is hard.

This doesn’t seem like Ted. It is more like something….else…has control of the dittos at the moment. Could this be the Oracle? Or whatever is in charge of the nexus fountain?

In the Christian mythology Satan (uber bad guy, eternal screw up, quick to blame others {sound like anyone you know?}, all around bad actor) appears as “an angel of light”: Aaron’s art work here is superb! All of that dark leading up to a spreading pillar of light!!

Is there anything left of Wally?

Clean up in aisle 3

Definitely looks like a Phoenix, I hope it will be a rebirth of Wally. Maybe we can get a rebirth of Blackie, she is my all time favorite character.

Someone just invited themselves to the party…

By copying the image and then use Preview on my mac to change the exposure, I see that in the third frame from the bottom that Wally has coughed up a “hairball” of shimmering material which gets whiter and taller as we go through the two lowest frames. As to what it is, I haven’t a clue. It is suggestive of an angel, but who but Aaron Neathery knows?

When the guys got dropped on this plane, things went really cosmic.

Wally and the others are there but not in view, unless they are the darker material at the base of the “angel”

The way things are going, it seems unlikely that that will be a good angel…

But AM’s appearances usually mean that one should expect… well, actually, better not to have any expectations!

Eye uses the dittos to take its true form — Angel of Death?

Remember, dittos can look like anything they want to. There really isn’t a “true form.”

Uh-oh a “transformative event” in progress for a major character.

There’s not one mention of how Duffy is concerned for Wally? Give him credit for speaking up to Aaron in spite of not knowing who he is.

BTW, Where’s Alan and the peacock?

Always knew Wally was special

I wonder if this is Aaron’s way of transitioning Wally out of the strip? He’s been the longest-lasting character BY FAR (next to Marx) and Endtown has always been driven by storylines and not personalities. Will Duffy become the “main” character for a while if that’s the case? I don’t see Alan or Squawks in that role.

Praise the Lord, I saw the Light!

Well, well indeed.

A phoenix rising out of the ashes. Or an albatross. Which ever hangs around your neck better.

Wally No! O.O

With Aaron saying “Well, Well…” I got the impression he knows exactly who came out. In fact with Wally’s response to Aaron’s remark about the “cookie indecent” Aaron knew there was something wrong with Wally. Now with this and $10US you can get a venti coffee af StarRucks.

“Well, Well. Look what was dragged in with the cat”

Angels are where you find them.

Should I … try not to blink?

Wally is a spiritual being, transcending the reality planes.

Where’s the gang?

I wonder if Marx is grooming Wally to be his replacement so he can ‘retire’?

Ditto PurgeA Holl..iday coming

Wally is now an Angel and will save all the souls. He will bring them back to earth in their human form and start the happy earth over.

Whatever that thing is…it isn’t nice, regardless of the wings. I think it’s been hiding inside Wally for some time. I’ve been trying to figure out when Wally might have become “infected”. Taking a quick look back, I’m guessing it was when Wally met Ravenscroft. That thing was powerful in or around Eden. Wally passed out soon after his meeting and then “It” came out and threatened Kirbee and Chic. The thing also had enough power to snatch Ravenscroft later. Maybe it didn’t need Ravenscroft any more since it had found Wally. heh…just guessing, as usual. Here’s where Wally Met Ravenscroft: https://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2019/04/12

Any thoughts about the lights going out throughout the last installments?

Wow, they say that when it gets darker, the light will soon come out, I think this is one of those cases!

The eagle has landed.

So that’s what Wally was hiding from us?