Endtown by Aaron Neathery for February 14, 2012

I set my alarm clock so I could catch this when it turned over to Tuesday. UUMMMMM…. No coment at THIS time.Blessed Be

Another of Mallard’s inventions?

There’s a ship in the sky! How it goes May require me dropping to prose But as to the “who” These wonders can do: I would bet it’s the Man with the Nose Has old Sparkplug returned from the dead? We are seeing now “low tech” instead Of Topsider techniques And since it’s been weeks Does he still regard mutants with dread? He once wanted to kill every one Though a loner, he still had some fun Worthy of a Topsider This anthro-derider Controlled a World-Shattering Gun =|====/ Level Head Vote for Endtown 2.0 And for Doc Rat, too The Endtown Forum

OMG! It’s the Dreamfinder! “Imagination, imagination! A dream… can be… a dream come true. With just a spark… in me and you!” Does this mean Figment is a mutant?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nhEEBPnuro

Is Alfred E. Neuman stoking the fires under that craft’s boiler?

Not really, but it’s the first thing that came to mind. Always enjoyed that pavillion. Nowhere near as good now…

When you vote, don’t forget to vote from your smart phone as well (different network).

Yay! Silliness!

Jules Verne lives!

Not quite the UFO I was expecting …!

This is why I love this comic! Go, boat, go!

So, is it Sky Pirates? Time Bandits? Bird Thieves? Cloud Covers?

It’s Philias Frogg.

So now we get to spend the next “5 Weeks in a Balloon”? Does that mean Holly used to be Barbara Eden and Wally was Red Buttons? (So THAT’S what is on his shirt!!!) It all makes sense now :-).

Our little band of Manimals get to fight on..\\//_

This is getting very interesting.

Flying ship, on the cloudlineSet them free – so easy

It’s Peter Potomuas.

OMG, it’s got training wheels!!!

Aaron does love us! For Valentine’s, he gives us.. an answer. Just one, but it IS one! :) And now, on to the new questions…

Teddy Ruxpin lives!!!

What’s the TS gonna do with a buffer? Shine up the dust?

Dr. Mallard to the rescue??

Someone called blimp a day or two ago, good call! I hope all our hero’s are somehow safely aboard and on their way back to Endtown!

Level_Head, you are great. Love the comments!

What me worry?

Peter Potomus???

Classic Art versus Science problem with the air ship.The gas bag isn’t large enough to displace enough air to lift the ship.

For realistic proportions, if you postulate the ship is the relative size of a cucumber, the gas bag needs to be the relative size of a watermelon.

it IS a balloon! CALLED IT!

What going on here? Only the good lord (and Aaron Neathery)knows.

But we’ll know something tomorrow (hopefully).

I have a feeling that they’re not friendlies, though. they used a net gun to capture petey. if they were friendlies, I’m sure they would have used a different method.

…I think only the smart people mutated…

Hard to tell, but almost looks like a USA flag (dark field in upper right) on the back of that ship. Then again, I though propellers were training wheels. Gotta admit though, training wheels would be funnier. Speaking of which, I guess this thing don’t land. Otherwise, the props would take a beating. Rope ladder over the side?Vacuum cleaning the dittos……with a convenient backpack collector. Perfect for today’s mutant housewife/househusband or amateur nanobot collector. From Hoover.

“IT IS BALLOON!!!” (Obscure F-Troop reference) :-)

I like the way that vacuum cleaners appear occasionally. The

rats used one, and maybe i saw another one before this time.

Maybe it isn’t a vacuum cleaner at all. Could be a hand truck, either way is kinda funny.

The FurtherAdventures of the BRASS GRIFFIN!

Can you imagine a vacuum cleaner in the middle of a million square miles of dust deep enough to conceal some of the huge whacamacallits that we’ve seen previously? You turn the thing on and it immediately digs a hole and tries to bury itself!

Master of the World?

That’s right DAD, “We’re the Heckowee.” (Another F-Troop obscure reference.)

It’s the Flying Dutchman!!!

…if only…actually, I was thinking more of a “hey petey, up here!”

Actually , that ship reminds me of the trip to the moon in the vessel held aloft by a vast balloon made of frilly underwear in “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”… It’s a Terry Gilliam “must see” as far as I’m concerned…

Wonderful!

Yes, the tribe was called the Heckowee because the original chief got lost and when he looked around he said, “Where the heck are we?” The name just stuck. This was relayed to Cpl. Agarn and the Sarge by…..hmmmm…..what was the Chief’s name? Was Running Bear the chief’s sidekick, or am I thinking of something else? Oh, Sa-a-a-rge! (Hat crumpled in hand, eyes full of tears and face full of concern.)

Oh, awesome! F Troop talk! “IT IS BALLOOOON!!!” Grew up on F Troop reruns.

Ooh, ooh! It was Chief Wild Eagle and Smokey Bear.

you know, the topsider in panel 2 looks pretty traumatized…

It was good that Ken Berry (Capt. Palmeter) had to keep his distance. It made him look as bumbling in romance as he was with most everything else and Sgt. O’Rourke had to have a not quite up to snuff officer to keep pulling the wool over the Captain’s eyes in regards to dealings with the tribe. It was a good simple comedy, for simpler times.

Meanwhile, back in the Great Waste…. That TS had better be careful. If these guys have a problem with nearsightedness, they won’t hesitate to designate him for mutt stuffing if he persists in seeing “flying boats”!

wait, wait, wait just a minute hear, this is exactly what they did in that movie doogal

Oh, I almost forgot…. Happy Valentine’s Day Endtown! Chocolate covered beans for everyone!

We thought Wally and his group had been deleted and lost. But they’ve been saved on the cloud.

I was taking a clos look at what the Topsiders were using. Neathery obviously thought hard about the technology before drawing it. I thought at first the main person had a gun – a different form of zero gun – and ahand console. But I think instead that’s some scanner. A detecting device for life signs, and it’s linked to the monitor in his other hand.In the background, there is definitely a vacuum cleaner. Either they want to take away samples of the disintegrated victims for confirmation and analysis… or Mr Neathery is having a chuckle at our expense, and the vacuuming up of the residue from the desert floor is just a piece of absurd theatre. Either way works for me.Ashes from ashes, dust from dust. It’s in keeping with what I most like about Endtown – the serious and the ridiculous, shoulder to shoulder. Remember in the very early strips, when Al came home from a foraging mission with nothing but unpopular tins of beans. As soon as people even smelled the scent of beans, they would lynch him. he opened the tin and a lynch mob started to form. He closed the tin and they dispersed. etc. And then he tried to find bizarre ways to make beans more popular. And so forth.Vacuuming the desert and making good an escape in a flying ship is a story that came from the same brain as the one that had us screaming and sobbing, a few weeks ago.Go, Endtown! Yay!

We have the original StarTrek : “beam me up Scotty”????This is getting funner and funner every day. Still wish I could have began at the beginning. Aaron you are genuine genius!!Blessed BE

….Who says I’m dumb"?!?I always loved that “IT is Balloon” episode. Heard Dennis Miller mention that in a Standup Routine and I laughed my a— off. Amazing that phrase has become part of history and apparently part of the American Lexicon.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~If the ‘Captain’ of that balloon ship is a Hippo, Hanna-Barbera is going to be on the phone so fast….I kid.

The Topsiders presumably think they killed and disintegrated all of the mutants themselves, and that the black goo that attacked them killed and ate the transporter with Captain Flask inside it. They have no reason to think that everyone has escaped. In fact, I suppose that’s why one of them thinks they won – they survived the slime attack that killed the Captain. Okay, so they won’t be able to bring her home and interrogate her, which is what the whole plan was about, but that’s probably a minor detail at the moment.What I don’t want is for them to learn the secret of the Dittos, at least not too soon, and not without a cost.

i think well see sparkplug soon

I’m looking at the artwork again, and I’m humbled. With supposedly expressionless masks, the Topside characters can look everything from menacing to rejoicing to terrified to disillusioned. And feast your eyes on that that brilliant line control, the steady hand, the perfect curves. The clean, uncluttered scenes – every stroke with a place, and not a redundant mark.

This is truly professional artwork. I’m glad I bought some.