Endtown by Aaron Neathery for September 16, 2016

Wow. I gotta stop trying to understand these so early before my coffee, but at least this is starting to make sense. Thanks for breaking it down.

Multiple earths in multiple realities, a familiar concept to readers of science fiction. Easily grasped as long as you don’t try to understand it! What is that ladder-like thingy in panel 4?

Here, have a second cup @MrGromit and explain this reality to me! I’ll explain the coffee. ☺

Yeah. What a cheap bastard.

Now the comments don’t make sense either. What, is @MrGromit Is that apart of a web address? I would like to hear this explained too.I have been watching things about thee Mandala effect, changing? things to a different reality?I haven’t had morning coffee yet either.

The old show SLIDERS comes to mind too, @Diat60

Also, I could have sworn it was Berenstein bears, but the son of the book author swears it has always been Berenstain.

So All the people on this alternative heath, OR just the folks on this ship are alternative realilty?

Oddly enough, millions of other dead Earths in that one wavelength, for some reason 73% of them nuked Walla Walla, Washington first because “their name was funny”

Many parallels to Pratchett+Baxter’s Long Earth series.

if this version of earth is so unique maybe Marx is the reason there are survivors on this one

I agree “ladder thing” is ship crashing to earth after captain left. Usually, when conceptualized, alternate realities are only mimimally different from the reality they are next to. Thus in one reality, I chose to respond to this, in the next I didn’t. Etc.So having survivors in THIS reality where all the ones around it are DEAD, caused the captain big problems.

(Of course everything that they have been doing since we started reading has also changed their realities, so there should be a bundle of “survivor” realities around the endtown reality, shouldn’t there?

Well, NOW I know why I can’t ever find my *keys! ☺

And I was right about the TOLLS!!!! I have got to be careful, this being right could go straight to my head and make me positively insufferable! ;-)

Salvaged? Then the ship is the Edmund Fitzgerald…from one reality or another…

There appears to be another ripple of Earths where Marxes and Duchesses are building Endtowns that allow their Earths to survive. This Earth may be one where the ripples intersect.

Reading the ship’s dialogue at the end inspired a Joel Hodgeson “Someone’s a little bitter.” riff.

Did the computer simply show Wally only those earths with an apocalyptic wavelength spectrum? It would only be interested in those from its salvaging programming. I think there may be other earth wavelength spectra where this earth may also intersect from another direction where life has been maintained. Is there any exclusivity condition to prevent this? I’m curious as to which earth Marx got the tuna cinnamon gum from. Wouldn’t each earth be an expression of the intersection of many (infinitely?) other waveform spectra? Lack of parsimony is a major criticism of the multiple universe concept.

If you want to spend a lot of time, google `multiple universe quantum mechanics youtube’ and check out the videos

I smell a Marx?

So, what kind of material was the vessel’s escape pod made from?You know… The one the cheap bastard of a captain went in after abandoning JARVIS Junior.

I’ve been explaining the nature of electromagnetism and how we and everything this that IS Was or could possibly be are just a manifestation of said energy to my peers for for many decades. So few people can grasp the enormity of such a statement explaining the nature of what we call “reality” and how it is manifold exponentially to the infinite in any possible variation.I can see the comfort others may find in blocking out all but whats in front of them.I prefer to be way out of others comfort zones when it comes to thinking about things like this.

Wally: “So, all we gotta do is take the last of your dittos, go back to Endtown, return here with Mallard and strip your engines off for toaster parts. You got a deal, pencil neck.”

So I’m assuming we’ll get an explanation of how this live earth out of this particular wave length was the only one that survived. Interesting…..a blip if you will.

Cat’s in the Crater, by JennerTo the tune of Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.Fell in love with a mouse just the other day,She stuck her tongue out at me and said “C’mon, let’s play.”And all my lonely pain, she made it go away.We had our sweet, sweet love as side by side we lay. And while she heard my story and was making me whole,I still didn’t look at her soul, no,I never listened to her soul. And the cat’s in the crater of the dingy room.Ditto-ball toy and the man in the gloom.When you gonna learn if you don’t know how,That she needs to tell you now, man?Your Holly needs to tell you now. My mouse went to jail just the other day.She was blamed and shamed and then locked away.I couldn’t fight the Man, only sit and pray,Play a game of ball, I guess that’s okay.And when she came back home at the end of it all, I still hadn’t looked at her soul, no.I never listened to her soul.And the cat’s in the crater of the dingy room.Ditto-ball toy and the man in the gloom.When you gonna learn if you don’t know how,That she needs to tell you now, man?Your Holly needs to tell you now. We went for a roam just the other day,She picked up an orphan on a plastic tray,And she hugged him tight. Never let him stray.Through all the fire and death, no-one could take him ‘way.So why’d it break her heart when he’s thrown in a hole?I still hadn’t looked at her soul, no.I never listened to her soul.And the cat’s in the crater of the dingy room.Ditto-ball toy and the man in the gloom.When you gonna learn if you don’t know how,That she needs to tell you now, man?Your Holly needs to tell you now. My mouse had a dream just the other dayOf a deep, dark secret in the warlord’s pay.Of a baby lost and a lover slainAnd the world burned up and only lonely pain.And I realised, with the credits a-roll,I’d just had a look in her soul, oh.At last I’d listened to her soul.And the cat’s in the crater of the dingy room.Ditto-ball toy and the man in the gloom.When you gonna learn if you don’t know how,That she needs to tell you now, man?Your Holly needs to tell you now.

Explanation loosely based on M-Theory married to the “Many Worlds” hypothesis. The great Physicist Michio Kaku would be able to explain this quite easily! Might be worth while looking him on on Google!

See, easy peasy!

This means that in all those close brushes with death I’ve experienced in my life, I died in an alternate universe. These universes no longer exist because I’m not in them.It’s all clear now.

You guys are all supposed to be dead, like everyone else in all the other iterations of this reality, but…oopsie…here you are.

Pretty sure Marx has something to do with that…

Remember if you die in an alternate universe, there will still be mourners and funerals for you, so the even if you die those universes must go on. To be anything else there would never be a funeral for anyone.

Wait, what happens when the ship finishes “recharging”? If the one thing keeping it from going home are the survivors, and the captain was collecting relics… What if some of those relics happen to be zero bombs? Eek,

I was always intrigued by the ‘turn back time’ theme in Superman. Lois Lane is killed, Superman flies so fast he reverses the flow of time and comes back to rescue her before she dies. Effectively, what he has done is to sod off to a different universe with a parallel reality that’s more to his liking. And what happens in the one he left behind? In that one, Lois Lane is killed, Superman departs like a fink and Lex Luthor has a clear field to wreak whatever havoc he wants to wreak. You bastard, Superman.

Wally: So, since your captain is technically still alive, does that mean that I can’t become your captain just by entering your control room?

The whole idea that the Lucraneans have rules against salvaging from occupied Earths kind of goes against what Aaron Marx said about them.They are incredibly greedyThey cheat as readily as they breatheThey absolutely love a bargain.Why would a culture like that have rules against taking stuff from people who are helpless to stop it? Especially if they really don’t mind cheating? Was Marx being somewhat loose with the truth or was this captain unusually honest (if cheap) for a Lucranian?

Interesting… If what was said in the Unity arc was true, not only are there survivors on this Earth, but supposedly the “great waste” is only a small part of the planet and life goes on outside of it (assumedly) much as before. You would think the Lucranians might have noticed that before jumping into full scale salvage ops. ;-)

That’s the neat thing about statistics, toss a coin enough times and (eventually) it will land on its edge…. Given a large enough sample size all possible outcomes will occur.