Endtown by Aaron Neathery for August 31, 2012

Oh wow, so it looks like Flask was a decent person who was going to try and save a typhoid mary (I assume this is Petey being rescued) who in turn gave her a reason to live.

I know, right? I have mixed feelings about weekends for this very reason!

Wally, maybe..

I am a bit confused AN. They wear the outfits outside and inside. do they change or do they wash off,, or do they just trot around in the same outfit inside and outside. Wouldn’t the dust of outside be brought inside and be dangerous?Or is there two groups. One for outside only and one for inside only. Please go into the dress code for the TSers .Thank you. Blessed Be

Can’t help but notice that there is a lot of space. So the TSers can feel more elboe room? No matter how spacious I would feel cramped and crowded .Adds up to short tempers and irritation with your neighbors.Blessed Be

Dirty Old Lady, the Topsiders wear the same suit. But when they enter a home city, there is a decontamination procedure that zaps and sterilizes all impurities. The personnel transporters have the same thing for any matter that gets inside – see the Al and Gustine story, when PT the transporter zapped all the Dittos.

Oh I can’t wait to Monday to see what happens!!!

I wonder if any Topsiders, who couldn’t take it any more, ever did decide to choose mutation over suicide? Of course, to become a furry animal instead of a Godzilla, they would have to be asleep or stunned when the mutagen contacted them. Then they’d probably face a life of starving to death in the desert, because no colony would want to take them in. Having just read what I wrote, it all seems very depressing. The Topsiders obviously don’t have Saturday morning cartoons, otherwise some of them could see the appeal of becoming a squirrel wearing a hat or a lizard in a sport jacket. It could be quite neat. Better than insanity and death, I mean.

I thought I recognized the figure in that suit yesterday. Flask is becoming more and more a sympathetic character.

Flask is going to give the humanoid mutant a wet willy, then run squealing out of the room. Ten minutes later, she’ll come back and ask whyn he didn’t chase her. Maybe it’s her breath?

Sparkplug???

Sparkplug? Wally? Petey? Which one it is?

Was will I, Benton.

I’m thinking that’s Petey too. She probably meant to let him loose – or maybe warn him of what was to come. Maybe he decides he wants to stay with her – so she tests the waters to see if she is immune or not. And sadly, after a wonderful and special night together, the morning shows her in her newly mutated form, no longer “Flask”… Can’t wait until Monday! :)

“Overconfidence and arrogance. They’ve always been your defining traits, Flask” , said the TSer gloating over Flask’s failed mission. The Flask that was also a designer of the first TS satellite project. We haven’t seen that Flask yet.

I think I know what happened to the natural animals, but it requires that Amesworth Radiation predates the mutations, and is the indirect cause of them.Unconscious people turn into animals because animals are infecting them. Amesworth Radiation may not destroy living things entirely… If the DNA survives and becomes viral “jumping” DNA, like the “junk” DNA in corn (84%) and humans (45%) and other creatures, then it can infect humans and express itself. Unconsciousness would allow the jumping DNA to replicate and spread without interference, while consciousness would interfere and result in monsters.The initial mutations would have been from the DNA of animals used for testing Amesworth Radiation. The mutation rate was slow then because of the limited amount of DNA released. As testing continued and the jumping DNA pool grew, the mutation rate increased to the point where nations panicked and tried to use Amesworth Radiation to destroy the mutants they didn’t know it had created. Conflicts increased and countries fired Amesworth weapons at each other, reducing the whole unprotected world to viral DNA, and that’s why mutation is immediate now.The rapid expression can be due to some of the viral genes regulating cell death and growth. Cells would die and grow as if the host were a fetus out of the womb, with the animal DNA expressing as much as the skeleton and resistant human DNA will allow. Sometimes the expressions are complete, as with the crab guy and the worm guy, and sometimes they’re limited, as with Flask. Some people, like Cooper, may have multiple genomes competing, resulting in a chimera. “Immunes” may not actually be immune, and are infected with human genomes.

People may not be turning into plants because the genomes are too different, and not much testing, if any, was done on plants. When everything got irradiated at once, there probably wouldn’t be any other plants to be infected by Amesworthed plant DNA, with the exception of the magical fruit on Hillside over Hillside. And that magical fruit might have been a beanstalk.

The rats may be natural animals that are infected with human DNA. Rats would have survived underground with the humans taking shelter, and they would have tried to get above ground after the scourge. With so much viral human DNA in the air after the scourge, the ones sleeping near the surface would likely be infected. I wonder if there are little cockroach people in Endtown also. Infected rats would get into the shelters and infect the people there, as well as the domesticated animals brought down for food and service. Conscious animals would have died or be killed as monsters by the sheltered survivors, and sleeping animals would be humanized by the viral human DNA brought in by the rats. Endtown may have asylums for people who seem to be mentally damaged by the mutations, but are actually humanized animals and never had a human mind.

Um…has anybody noticed that Flask is being tailed? I suspect that Petey is actually the person tailing Flask.

I really stink at guessing Aaron’s plots, but my guess is that he helps Flask release the prisoner and that shared experience leads to them becoming lovers.

I wish I knew. D:

It can’t be Hank. Hank’s bare skull was left in a pile of his own dust—still wearing that headband flashlight thingie. Hank’s long dead.

Well…the person who is crafting this adventure has the answers (or might not have thought out things in this detail, too). But, as the man in the cheese shop said “I’m prone to guess”. It’s a lot more fun to guess…and wait and see. For me, anyway. :-)

Endtown2.0 and Doc Rat are #s 1 & 2 for at least the first hour and a half of September 2012. Anyone get a screengrab?

A good night for Endtown2.0 and Doc Rat at TopWebComics. When we quit at 5:45 AM Endtown2.0 was secure at #1, and Doc Rat was in 2d place. Third place was well behind the Doc, AND Endtown TOS was in the eighth position. Good night or good morning all. Over here my group is half crashed and the other half needs rest.Congratulations to everyone who voted and helped us attain this milestone for Aaron and Jenner.Thanks Again to Everyone,JusSayin

Just voted at about 6:15AM PDT. Endtown 2.0 and the good Doctor are still comfortably 1-2 while Endtown 1.0 is 8th. Keep voting for all daily, gang…that’s the key to sticking at or near the top.

Oh man, that’s one of the best cliffhangers in Endtown … :)))

Here is a screen grab of Endtown 2.0 and Doc Rat sitting comfortably in the first and second slots, with Endtown 1.0 in 8th place!

Has anybody noticed the topsider who is tailing Flask in frames 1 & 2? Any possibility that he might be “Petey”? I wonder if we’ll ever learn what Petey’s original name was.

I didn’t have any interest in signing up into gocomics until this story. Not only has the storyline been captivating, but many of the comments have been interesting as well. I would not have considered myself, a person most likely out of the norm to have joined such a group. Thank you all.

The man trapped looks familiar to me…