Endtown by Aaron Neathery for August 07, 2012

Your tricks don’t work on the fowl, dear Marx!

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Won’t work on a duck who’s to smart to care about his hairstyle

You have been had AM. Get out of this one. Are there any more dittos in your pocket? Might make a copy of yourself while you slip away. Blessed Be

“Ooohhh! Science on a chain!”——————————Careful, it’s the devilbird…

Hah!

It seems the Professor is not so impressedThis makes me think Marx might be flunking a testHe’s quick to rely on his magic high techBut Xavier’s quite good at stacking the deckIt’s rather like taking a picture of nativesGrass skirts and hides, bone-in-nose, African iconAnd when you “steal souls” and are quite demonstrativeThey look at you, smiling: “Hey, very nice Nikon!”=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown BooksCharter member ofthe Consortium to get Aaron a Tablet

Ah, but Marx’s device still has hypnotic spendorCheck under his arm, at the partly-spelled Linda=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown BooksCharter member ofthe Consortium to get Aaron a Tablet

in episode two of the doctor who adventure “the ultimate foe” (aka episode 14 of “trial of a timelord”"), the master tried to hypnotise the caracter Sabalom Glitz, who sort of reacted the same way as the professor…

You can’t hypnotize someone who can’t stop thinking.

Ooooooh, Mallard seems to be smarter than he looks! (Well, he’d almost have to be!) I still don’t think h

OMG, I hate these touch-screen interfaces! Give me buttons any day…

ahem As I was saying, TSOJ, I think Mallard and Marx are definitely different people. But suddenly, new questions are raised: such as, do they know each other? Did they study together? Did they learn from the same teacher? Does this interaction mean absolutely nothing, except that A.N. gets perverse pleasure in stringing us along? (And yet, we keep coming back—what does that say about us? ;) )

Dimensionometer… I don’t think Star Trek

*?@$&?!!! What did I say about touch screens???

I don’t think Star Trek ever came up with such impressive technobabble.

Excuse me. I’m going to eat now, before I throw this temperamental phone across the room. ;p

See, I told you yesterday Mallard was familiar with sufficiently high technology.If Marx is from another dimension, and Mallard knows what a dimensionometer is, then maybe Mallard is this dimension’s (or another’s) Marx, mutated.Poor Linda. Her mind just keeps taking one shock after another.

Well, it would appear the Prof is immune to “jedi mind tricks”, but it sure looks like AM might have snagged Linda…;-)

Just 7 votes and we take #17.

Uh yup, knew it. Can’t get these two in a room and expect a “normal” conversation. Dimensionometer for a koala, hmmm, sounds like a fair trade to me. AM probably has more than one anyway.

HEY!!! Mallard gets a dimensionometer and I don’t?!NOT FAIR! NOT FAIR!!!

looks like the dimensionometer is something the duck really wants,Don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile! Looks like it caught Linda.

HAHA! Someone who’s immune to AM’s charms and tricks! Love it! :D

By the way, AM, you’d lose that dollars to donuts bet – he DID know what that was! ;)

Yes! thank you Neathery! I was actually a little apprehensive about reading today’s strip, because I didn’t want to see my favorite character getting yanked around and toyed with. SO glad Mallard is more than Marx was expecting!

I figured that Mallard would be harder for Marx to bamboozle than the others.

But I still want to know what happened to the ship!

Priceless! Marx with a WTF look on his face!

I think he’s surprised to see somebody actually understand what he’s got in his hands here and not just assume it’s magic.

What’s the quote. Advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic to other people.

Bet Marx doesn’t get that reaction a lot.

“How quaint and Victorian! Of course, it doesn’t hold a candle to my multiversatron, but it has its charms.”

Does anyone remember the satelitte they were supposed to stop? And the fact that they failed in doing this?

I suspect that the fates of Flask, the ship, and the satellite will come up shortly, providing AM and Mallard quickly come to an accord.

Do I even WANT to know what a “dimensionometer” is?

Sometimes I wonder if the dude writing this even knows where it is going. But I keep riding along on the bus.

Never bullsh*t a bullsh*tter!

When an irresistible force meets an immovable object…

Am I imagining it, or does Linda end up with a vacant stare?