Endtown by Aaron Neathery for August 07, 2019

Safe for the time being. Lucky for them that Wally has a cool head in times of danger.

Mr. Neathery doesn’t believe in using “White-Out”™. He’s got a Black Tornado…

Script Notes: Ravenscroft, exit stage ceiling, Wally & Duffy, sitting on their duffs…

Where oh where has our Ravens-croft gone? Oh where oh where could he be???

Could be worse. Could be raining. Ravencroft bits.

TO SEE RAVENCROFT GO. Eversensince he pranked Wally, He isn

l am halting trouble with my old iPad. It has a magnfy glass on the sc reenact and I don’t know how to make it go away. It blockade

It’s blocking part ohe pad. I want it to go un It to go away. Then also not sad to go away since he was untrustworthy.

That seemed oddly specific. It wanted Ravenscroft alone.

How cute, they’re finishing each other’s sentences now!

Who set the central vacuum on “high”?

That was just an EF0…….forecast puts EF5 as inevitable.

It looks like it is harvest time and Ravenscroft was the first fruit to be plucked from the greenhouse.

Now it’s up to Wally and Duffy to figure out what’s going on (if Ravenscroft wasn’t telling the truth) OR figure out what to do to protect the colony and their reality if Ravenscroft was telling the truth.

Next in the story, the goggles that Duffy managed to save before Ravenscroft died (or was transferred to another reality in that vortex). Any speculation as to how Wally will react when he sees himself and Holly on the cover of that comic?

Is the briefcase with the comic still in the room? Was Ravenscroft one of the characters in it? Is he still in it? He may not be dead, but pulled through the reality wall—although he looked pretty wrung out before disappearing.

He died like he lived…. not giving anyone any answers. What a jerk.

So It can abduct and move between realms.

He’s gone to a better place. Or a worse one.

That takes Twister to the next level.

Soooo, free room?

The title of the strip, Endtown, does give a hint about the general longevity of characters in the storyline, however they do expire in rather interesting ways. But the Goggles remain behind and the story continues.

So, gone? Or just…somewhere else?

Oh, where did Ravencroft gone? Long time passing.Oh where did Ravencroft go? Long time ago.Went to some other reality, maybe more than one,So when will they ever learn? When will they ever learn.

With apologies to Peter, Paul and Mary.

Now, what if what created that storm was not really after Ravenscroft, but the goggles? That puts a whole new spin on the story.

And no, I’m not sorry for the pun.

I had a dream once about a land tornado made of black water.

Weaving in his basket chairTwist you round a lock of hairMade of straw — the wicker manMade of straw — I’ll blow your house down

Bishops falling from the windowsThe lightening makes your hair stand on endThis dervish frenzy — will make you run aroundThis dervish frenzy — will turn your head aroundBlow the house down

Stretching a rubber bandMiracles trip our feet where we standShift the ground — caterpillar manCrumbling castles in the sandBlow the house downFeebly we put our heads out of our foxy lairsWe feel the chill from the night scareStanding in the storm — waiting for the flash to crashCounting seconds before we turn to ashIt’s getting nearer…Blow the house down

This dervish frenzy — will turn your head aroundStanding on the stairs that want to fall downIt’s getting nearer don’t turn your head aroundMade of strawA lighted matchBurn the house down

Weaving in his basket chairTwist you round a lock of hairMade of straw — the wicker manMade of straw — I’ll blow your house downTurn your head around

Pillars of salt watch as it all burns downDown to the ground…Blow the house down

~ Blow The House Down, Siouxsie and the Banshees

I sure hope it killed him outright. Because knowing malevolent, eldritch beings he could easily be spirited off to some torture dimension. A place where Jim spends countless eons making every day ‘special’ to punish his meddling.

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

Quote the Raven. Nevermore.

It looks like Ravencroft was pulled through the event horizon of their bubble universe starting to collapse.

“Twisting, twisting, twisting the life away.”

So, did Ravencroft’s wall of notes retain his scribbles? That, the comic book, Duffy and Chic may all help.