Endtown by Aaron Neathery for April 25, 2014

And it’s all downhill from here.

“So nothing’s going to happen to us?”“Nothing to speak of.”

A mix of types is evident hereAnd evidently meanTopsider-style’s still abundantly clearAnd prejudice easily seenThe speaker’s face is rounded and bluntBut his own tongue’s rather sharpHis shape had me again on the huntFor drawings of Cooper the carp=|====/ Level HeadVote for Endtown 2.0And for Doc Rat, tooThe Endtown ForumThe Endtown AuctionThe Endtown Books

He’s a turtle. Or to be more precise, a tortoise.

These lizards seem to have never seen any other kind of animal let alone any mutants. They aren’t mutants, they have not gotten out much, and sure don’t like strangers and may end up building a wall around there borders to prevent illegal immigrants. The are so closed minded and quick-draw tendencies. Of course since they had one of their own injured and believing it may have been on purpose, but that is giving them the benefit of the doubt rather heavily.

He Speaks With Forked Tongue.

In fact the lizards may not consider the others to be senteant beings.

Ah. Racism. Practically human.

They’ve stumbled into a bunch of hot-headed ectotherms!

Well, so far they seem perfectly reasonable to me.

And we thought the Topsiders were bad…

Welcome to the Thunderdome Judicial Building. Don’t forget to visit the Apocalyptic Gift Shop on your way out.

This may be a case where there was a colony of mutants, but the reptilian mutants thought themselves superior to all the others and eradicated them. So, to them, Wally, and the others are vermin that need to be exterminated.

God, not this old trope. Endtown had been a fairly original strip up to now. Disappointing if its going to take this turn to cliches.

Wow…Jacob gets around. Where’d his ears go?

Have to admit I kind of agree. Been there, done that with the milk trial. Let’s hope this one passes relatively quickly.

They’re still sore about that whole astreoid thing that knocked the dinosaurs off the top of the food chain and allowed those pesky, low life, egg stealing mammals to move up. ;-)

So Bigotry is alive and well.

Ah ha! So we DO have a racism thing going on here!

I do not like these guys… I do not like them Sam-I-Am…

Forget about pleading your case, Wally. The outcome is already decided.

These people and structures seem to have been around a lot longer than six years, from before the End and the mutations. It doesn’t take only six years for a society like this to develop. The forces unleashed in the End may have transported or merged portions of other realities into the current one, so the reptilians may not be from this world. Or the gang may no longer be in their own universe.

The inter-universe suggestion might be a thing. Or a community (with issues) may have mutated en mas to one form and carried their issues with them? Or Aliens? Or Aaron is just messing with us? It doesn’t seem likely that they existed pre-war, otherwise. the notion of anthropomorphic animals would not have been such a shock.

Since I shave with Occam’s razor, I tend to look for the simplest solutions. I’m guessing that this structure might have been built before by some group and was found by a group of anthro reptiles who wanted to start a colony away from other mutants. Another good possibility is a group of angry seperatists who built this place before the end of civilization as we know it and who stockpiled weapons and supplies who mutated into reptilian forms. Mind you, this is the Neatherverse, so anything could happen.

Maybe these anthro reptiles aren’t mutants…maybe they’re this colony’s equivalent of the Security Rats.#Speaking of the Security Rats reminds me of the last lizard we saw before Sarah. The one in Security uniform, who waited while Linda picked out an outfit and said her own colony was wiped out by Topsiders. Can’t be from this colony…

I’d love to see this colony get into some sort of bind that only Wally, Holly and Jim could fix. That would give them a lesson in humility.

I appreciate that two of you agree that these may be older than the war. They don’t seem the same. Although the bit about cooper is interesting. The only actual “racism” we have encountered. Before is Jacob Rabbit. And it wasn’t that of not accepting of other species and the didn’t think Anyone was a pet. I really think their civilization may be older or that even top sliders may not have been in this part of the world.I’m still wondering if they went back to the same dimension of Endtown.

Hmm. The speaker’s theatrics may be just that. In that theater, we see only the speaker and the complainant clearly, with the rest as silhouettes. They may only BE silhouettes, to make it seem there are more people than there really are. They’re props. The clothing of the reptilians we’ve seen look like stage costumes. The walls inside of the entrance to this underground had scaffolding, like a set design. They’re actors and showmen.The lizard is a humbug.

I’m thinking along the lines of David Icke’s(rhymes with Time’s!) Reptilian Overlords from the sixth dimension. They are allegedly here now, and currently rule the planet. Icke had witnesses, including one who saw William F Buckley Jr feast on young children, and his disguise was fading, and Buckley let his disguise down from time to time in view of this witness. There were some other big names, and I was fascinated, stunned and incredulous for 36 hours or so, and couldn’t leave the computer. Then I went to the television room, switched on Sunday pm shows, and the first show I found was Firing Line with Buckley lolling about in his chair, flicking his tongue at, I couldn’t tell, maybe bugs in the studio. Then Buckley kept licking his earlobe. This was years ago, when Buckley still hosted Firing Line . I was never able to look at WFB Jr with the same eyes again. Google David Icke and Reptilians. Then we can think of Laurence Gardner and Zechariah Sitchin.JusOneTheory

These guys might have been the original targets, or possibly test subjects for the mutation bomb.

I am thinking this was like Houston Astrodome, Zoo, Medical Center, and just a lot of concrete, steel and glass jungle that was knocked down, and the shattered city was bulldozed into a Labyrinth™ around the domed stadium. It would take a much larger dozer than a D-9 Cat, but then again, if there was all that steel, glass and vitrified concrete, there is a lot of sharp raw material to work with.

JusAnotherIdea(I had another one, maybe it will come back) Oh yeah, one more shot of Thelema and Muppets and Bowie (oh my) in memory of DOL1. I think she would have liked it. There is about 3:20 added fun before the full song begins. Is it just me, or at 5:40ish is the scene reminiscent of Hesse’s Steppenwolf dénouement?

JusNotQuiteRight

I think this sports dome survived is due to the basic strength of a Buckysphere. Yah, you have to suspend disbelief a little, because I am not sure it is actually a sphere, more like a hemisphere, and it may just be a leftover domed stadium. Or it could be the remains of the giant egg the reptilians fell to Earth. Luckily for the aliens, they speak a language everyone understands. Think outside the Bucky Ball. You don’t have to be right, just unbored. JusSayin

Aaron’s running behind schedule. Be patient.

Oh yeah, anyone ever figured out just what Sarah, Sleek and Tall, might be? I was looking, and she might be a real dragon lady. A Komodo Dragon, or some other poisonous monitor lizard. Uh, Komodo dragons started off in Australia, but moved because 1275 deadly animals weren’t a challenge anymore. In the wild the males might weigh 100 kilos, 220 pounds, and they hunt in packs. Yeah, water buffalo eating pack-lizards. I wouldn’t cross her. Jim’s kind of a wimp for a raccoons. Raccoons are quite dangerous even if they don’t have rabies. Still not convinced Jim and Sarah escaped. I think maybe banished or something. They both killed quickly, without second thoughts. Provided the other two really are dead, and not part of a sinistiere plot.

JusThinkin