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Most recent strips.

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Crit Anon's Topsider comic (not complete).

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bumping for PA underrated character pinups

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Reposting since they appeared at the end of the last thread.

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And the new strip just went up. Looks like Eve really is on Jacob's payroll.

>>10830353
Thought it had to be her. She was acting like she was scared of being caught, or like she was feeling guilty. Plus there was the camera on her desk...

Totally forged documents. Either it's someone with access to everything and an excellent skill for forgery... or Jacob is doing this himself for his own ends and putting on a show for his underlings. Or... [theatrical sigh] I wonder if he could be doing it under a certain person's hypnotic control? Desirability of Marx involvement aside, that would be ironic - he's paranoid about someone in his administration being a double-crosser, while it's ultimately he, himself, who's doing the double crossing and he doesn't even realise it.

Barring that, though, I wonder who it could be? Velda is an obvious option, as well as this woodchuck looking fellow we keep seeing. The rats appear to be "in reserve", narratively, so that suggests a big reveal about them, and they may still be working for Jacob and have the run of the place.

I wonder if Cooper knows they're fake?

A pity this (apparently) rules out the "The stocks actually *are* low, Jacob is just being fooled" option - it arguably made more sense considering the math around the food supplies. Now the existence of a nonsensically abundant food supply seems to have been confirmed. At this point it would still make more sense if it was soft-retconned to have been mostly stockpiled before the war, though, and the foraging still had a different purpose to its stated (and wasteful, according to Allie) intent.

>>10830353
>>10830579
Who ever said Philo was going to get killed before the end of the chapter is looking like they'll win that bet.

>I wonder who it could be?
I hate to say it but this smells strongly of Marx. He can pull objects out of other dimensions. He probably pulled these documents out of a universe where there was a food shortage. On the other hand Mallard knows what a dimensionometer is so maybe he's built his own by now and wants Jacob out.

>>10832893
Bets on other casualties? I still feel like Portia's such an empty character that she's only around to be threatened, kidnapped, or even killed to motivate Walt to get properly involved.

>I hate to say it but this smells strongly of Marx. He can pull objects out of other dimensions. He probably pulled these documents out of a universe where there was a food shortage.
Kind of takes all the fun out of things when "A Wizard Did It" is an option that's always on the table in a story, doesn't it?

>On the other hand Mallard knows what a dimensionometer is so maybe he's built his own by now and wants Jacob out.
Mallard doesn't seem particularly political, but seeing him build his own Dimensionometer just by briefly examining Marx's would be interesting, especially if it upsets Marx's plans.

Marx's dimension hopping abilities are instrinsic, though; the Dimensionometer apparently just measures dimensional overlap and interactions (at least). Mind you, if the Lucranians can hop between dimensions technologically I wouldn't put it past Mallard to extrapolate a dimension drive of some sort from the Dimensionometer and his own knowledge.

>>10833400
>Kind of takes all the fun out of things when "A Wizard Did It" is an option that's always on the table in a story, doesn't it?

Yeah, usually I see that as a joke but it's looking like that might be the case.

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Tried blowing up the page in Waifu2X in case there was anything interesting in the files, but I can't make any sense of the text. Anyone else want to try making heads or tails of it?

>>10833400
>>10833486
There's also a chance that it's Velda helping making the forgeries. She has access to Jacob's stationary and has enough signatures from him to give to a competent forger or even do it herself. She could be stabbing him in the back just like she did with Allgood.

>>10835435
What's Jacob's last name again?
I thought it was originally Fish and then he changed it to Jackrabbit after the mutation. That signature doesn't look like either of those names.

>>10835665
>There's also a chance that it's Velda helping making the forgeries. She has access to Jacob's stationary and has enough signatures from him to give to a competent forger or even do it herself. She could be stabbing him in the back just like she did with Allgood.
Yeah, she's a popular pick regarding this, though with the prior backstabbing and being a freaking *weasel* I'm wondering if she isn't perhaps a massive red herring. Just a little *too* obvious, you know?

>What's Jacob's last name again?
>I thought it was originally Fish and then he changed it to Jackrabbit after the mutation. That signature doesn't look like either of those names.
Yeah, it looks like... "Ford J. Jaunttot", or something. Maybe it's something Aaron found online?

Think Aaron will kill off another "fan favourite"? Al, maybe? There's not many left in between previous killings and... other things, at least for me.

>>10836806
At this point it's better for them to suddenly die than suddenly turn bad. Walt was genuinely one of my favorites before this chapter and the one I identified with the most..

Well, I still do. He is still kind of the same character, I guess the real problem is how he is being used now. The way Aaron wasted his backstory is unforgivable.

>>10835665
>What's Jacob's last name again?
Jackrabbit

>>10836806
With his suit of armor and paranoid nature, I can at least assume Maurice will be safe.

>>10843099
PA makes good Roxie pics. KC did too but.. you know.

>>10840270
>Walt was genuinely one of my favorites before this chapter and the one I identified with the most.
It is astounding how perfectly Aaron executed the "As soon as you get a girlfriend you become a boring lump" cliche without meaning to.

>>10844934
Is that' DK's stuff? Tell me there's more of this.

>>10843099

How wonderful PA!, Thank you!... If I could only get a peek under that skirt....

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>>10844934
That could have been so cool.

>>10845236
I have a few things saved when they we're posted here. There might be more on his DA.

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>>10845236

>>10845908
>>10846033
>Robo-skeleton man
>Rogue-mutt-squad complete with walking PT and a tiny zero gun with tentacle limbs.
Interest piqued.

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>>10846128

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>>10846196

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>>10846241

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>>10846254

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>>10846268

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>>10846283
That's about all I could find on DK's DA.

>>10846304
Thank you. Like the astronaut stuff and the idea for that little settlement, I wish DK had taken it further. It all had a lot of potential.

>>10847315
>Gator gams
Nice work once more, PA!

>>10847315

Oh, jesus christ... Legs! MORE LEGS!

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>>10847504
Well they don't come more leggy than Kazen's psycho spider gal. (Unless you count Clairese Centipede and Mildred Millipede, but they don't exist so I lucked out).

>>10849227
Oh hey! Thanks, PA!

>>10849227
That's almost too much leg to handle...!

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I wonder where Petey is in all of this.

>>10852320
Maybe Aaron forgot about him. At best he will enter this arc together with Mallard, at worst he will be swept under the rug and never mentioned again.

>>10830579
>Now the existence of a nonsensically abundant food supply seems to have been confirmed.
Well, Marx has a dimensionometer and is definitely still around, he could very well be taking food from other dimensions for the colony

>>10853636
Why even bother with writing if it always ends with Marx dun et.

>>10853636
But the whole "input rate doesn't come anywhere near replacement rates due to carrying and speed limits" thing will have always applied to the food supply since day one, and nobody in Endtown had met Marx before he turned up in the rocket arc - even if he was dropping food into the supply chain before anyone knew about him, someone surely would have noticed the discrepancy between food stocks and the input from people bringing in two cans per mission.

And that's putting aside the dubiousness of there being sufficient quantities of beans within reasonable (and ever increasing) distance in a dusted wasteland in the first place.

If he's somehow overfilled their supplies now, post rocket arc, one would also think people would notice. Jacob was specifically told he wouldn't get any more help from Marx to boot. Marx would have to be giving supplies straight to the foraging teams or leaving them for them to find, and then you'd expect people to get suspicious that the previously barren food supply had mysteriously developed new bounty within already explored areas.

And that *still* runs into the issues where small teams of mutants are incapable of bringing the food in at replacement rates unless a ridiculous proportion of the population is doing it, which itself would be problematic and dangerous with the satellite and all, even with the dittos (and I find it doubtful that they have enough to cover that many parties).

>>10853783
This is going to be Endtown's "The Ringworld is Unstable", isn't it?

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I want to cuddle this raccoon so badly...

>>10859157
I want to hold his hands.

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>You will never sleep with Jim
>You will never lay next to him and watch him sleep
>You will never listen to his high pitched snoring
>You will never caress his soft belly and play with his fluffy tail
>you will never calm him down with a hug when he's having nightmares
>You will never spoon him and peck his head before finally falling asleep

...

If someone made a thread for the webcomics that are unofficially banned from /co/, such as Endtown, would you move the discussion to that thread?

>>10863471
Sure, especially such comics that're still in development.

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posting more cute Jims

>>10863471
I don't know. That seems like it would just lead to a lot of people from different fandoms talking over each other.

Add to that the fact that other "banned" comics like Poppy and Out of Placers can fill threads here on their own, and I think you'd just be cramming people and conversation into too tight a space.

You'd also have to convince the fandoms for those comics to move to the new thread.

>>10866160
>comics like Poppy and Out of Placers can fill threads here on their own
With bumps. OOPs is in a similar state to this one and the Poppy one is even worse. The only one that thrives is Twokinds.

>>10869900
What's wrong with that, though? I like the pace of these threads.

I'm fine with having Jasper Gold and Kazen's work in here, but I feel like the others are too differently-themed to be worth mixing together, anyway.

Not to mention sticking Poppy and Endtown together is just asking for the fandom rivalry to spark up again...

>>10869986
I don't think there was ever a rivalry, just a pair of nasty furries being a thorn on everyone's side.

>>10870257
Perhaps, but what if you're wrong? And even if you aren't, what if they're still there?

And even besides that, we've actually had people in here saying they don't enjoy the Poppy threads at all. If you combine them, you'll be making those people unhappy.

I just don't think it's a good idea. Maybe a thread specifically for furry comics that are just getting off the ground could be a good thing, however.

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>tfw no Jane seducing Jim pinup

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Jim deserved all the pussy he could ever wanted.

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>>10875676

>>10875676
>>10876122
Did the bunny girl ever get a name?

>>10876348
Lana, yeah.

>>10876527
Ah, that suits her. Is there much more of her?

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>>10869986
>Kazen's work

With that, prepping for Shining Sky storytime/QA! I also am streaming on https://picarto.tv/Kazen if so inclined.

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>>10877029
A rough update to the world map, of the currently developed nations I have figured out.

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>>10877355
Also ironed out a good candidate for the third 'alien' race native to Netra.

>>10877568
Neat. I like this design.

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>>10877568
A large scene WIP of a 'Rec Dome' owned and lived in by Protectorate nobility. Note the surveillance official.

>>10878007
>nobility
If they only knew what rats during our time...

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>>10878007
One of the Protectorate's many APC's, the AC-4a 'Trapjaw' in this case. Many variants exist, such as the howitzer modification to the right.

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>>10877355
This is really neat stuff.

>Reaver Clans
Are they the one's with the Mad Max-esque cars in this pic that you posted earlier?

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>>10881633
Yup, and this guy here, who's basically a fetch-boy.

>>10877355
>>10882278
Nice.
If it doesn't give too much away, what are the dead zones? Are they like the anomalies in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., or just a place of high radiation, or are they places one could go with out being instantly killed but everything it super mutated and trying to kill you?

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>>10882763
Similar to Stalker anomalies, with dramatic distortions of space and time that intensify nearer to the center.

Although not exclusively found there, often a native life form is found around them called Red Weed (naturally in reference to War of the Worlds). Although they're more like a fleshy, root-like carnivorous worm.

>>10883420
Damn, that looks like a rough way to go.

>>10877355
The continent on the right seems mostly unoccupied. Is this where the Netrans mostly occupy or is it almost uninhabitable or just not fleshed out as much?

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>>10883958
A bit of all three, especially the third, really. I plan on there being other Rodani nations, but I haven't thought of them, with the western Prot/Reaver/Union dynamic being the current focus. There's a Netran nation out there, the only non-Reaver one in the world, which is so far just the pinkish blotch on it's east coast. It's characterized by another Netran variant, that've been influenced by the large moon Maenon's tidal forces. They are entirely hairless, and have an iron-age culture isolated from most technologies.

>>10884194
So we know the Rodani are rat derived, but where or what did the Reavers come from?

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>>10884551
Reavers refer more to a loose collection of tribalistic cultures, and not a race. Reavers include both races, although different clans have a different racial dynamic. (As an aside, the alien race posted earlier have no presence on the surface at all. They were forced underground when humans colonized the planet. In fact most people don't know they're real. They're a bit like Giant Squid in that regard.)

As before, while most are Rodani dominated, the most powerful one is driven by a Netran racial identity. To where they were the ones who began to coin the name over the Rodani-given 'Fringer'.

Does anyone remember Thief and the Cobbler? This Reaver clan derives some inspiration from the One Eye, especially this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8crsKbeaeU Although instead of a big cyclops you have pic related, and I wouldn't put it past her to have a throne of Rodani slaves. Matter of fact I should draw that.

>>10884994
So it's Rodani, "Netran"/"Fringer", and native aliens?

Okay, then, re-phrase: what are the Netrans derived from? They look kind of like sheep.

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>>10885156
Yup, while not entirely directly. They are actually human derived, and were the product of a form of genetic transhumanism to better adapt to Netra's environment. To where they're built to accommodate genetic pressure from natural selection very easily, hence the variation.

The facial structure housing a more sophisticated system of air filtration and an expanded array of teeth. A Netran can actually have canines nearing the size of a baboon's. Not typically however.

>>10885407
Interesting. How many different breeds of them are there?

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>>10885751
4~5, the fifth I'm debating on the canonicity of, which're inspired by Time Machine's Morlocks. (I like Wells, can you tell?) Although unlike them they are not cannibals, and are again exclusive to a specific location; a massive old colonial subterranean HQ /server complex half a mile below the surface.

The idea was they were the only ones who understood the old Human language and knew the true story about their heritage, but stayed below for fear of the surface.

>>10886008
Well I like the idea, so I hope you leave them in. Keen to see some more updates on this, very interesting stuff.

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>>10887141
Lastly for now (starting the Ingrim's throne idea i mentioned earlier) is a color piece I did awhile back, of Shalara's assigned living accommodations, which're essentially garbage bin sized bunks.

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I e-mailed Aaron about the color schemes of Allie, Heather and Portia, as well the signature on the second panel of the last page.

I hope you'll indulge me in a few questions regarding Endtown. Is there an official color scheme for Allie,

-Greenish brown or brownish green skin, pale yellow underbelly, black hair
Heather,

-chestnut brown fur, (very) pale brown muzzle, brown hair, pink uniform (blue is for waitresses)

and/or Portia?

-Very dark brown hair, pink skin.

I'd love to see the canon color schemes, or if you could tell me what pics I've sent to you is close or not, I'd like to know.

-You're pretty much spot on with both. Blasters come in a variety of colors. Neitherland/Endtown is a very mid-century kind of place so anything from the 1936-1969 portion of the official Fiestaware color chart would be accurate. The aerocars and appliances would also be painted in these colors (the Hollister family car is forest green).

Also the signature in the second panel of today's comic doesn't look like Jacob Jackrabbit or Jacob Fish or any name I know Jacob from. Is this the signature of the food management guy, or was this some scribbled name because it's background in a comic or did you find a signature that was cool and you just put it in?

-I actually wrote that signature out with a mouse and ran it through the median filter in photoshop which reduced it to an illegible blob (along with the rest of the text). Believe it or not, it really did spell out 'Jacob J. Jackrabbit'.

This is the official Fiestaware color chart he was talking about.
http://alwaysfestive.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Fiesta-Brochure_2014_Inside.jpg

This was the pic that I sent him as well as the pic with Allie with a the red blaster.

>>10877029
>>10885407
This is super cool.
Do the Netran's and Rodani's have similar lifespans and are they similar to humans lifespans?

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>>10887506
Netrans live roughly as long as humans do, but Rodani actually live 20-30 years shorter, on account of their higher birthrate.

Pic related being what a level of the bunks in >>10887375 look like on the outside.

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>>10887506
Here's the second pic I sent him that I already posted here.

>>10887796
Thank you, I love the stuff you've been posting.

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>>10888201
Thanks! Also an update to a piece from last week.

I want to fuck that Beaver

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Exposition time.

Sounds like someone's made Philo promise not to reveal anything "until the time is right", or something like that.

Meanwhile, Jacob's half way to the probable conclusion of this - someone's manipulating Cooper, Philo and whoever else to take jabs at Jackrabbit, letting them think they're undermining him but really intending to gain from the concept of a food shortage. Said person, I suspect, is probably being guided themselves towards other ends by you know who, because that stuff seems pretty inevitable now - and I don't think we have sufficient info to guess the number of steps in that chain.

Of course, Jackrabbit could be barking up entirely the wrong tree here. Wouldn't be the first time a character had confidently speculated on something in the manner of a plot revelation only to be proven wrong later (whether that's down to the plot being re-written or just said character being a doofus is another matter).

That aside, who *would* gain from the concept of a food shortage? Mallard? He and the hydroponics team seem to be on the side of keeping things running, and Mallard doesn't seem to seek power or wealth, mainly privacy, knowledge, and a bit of ego-polishing sometimes. Someone from outside who wants to cause the populace to argue for opening Endtown up for bargaining, or cause people to start leaving to find their own food? Someone who benefits from the societal unrest?

(And oh, there's the first rat of the arc. How curious they should appear *right now*... significant, or bait for a red herring?)

>>10888567
Neat.

>>10890464
All we've learned from this is that everyone is being decieved one way or another. The consipiracy would end if people just stopped and talked to each other with honesty but I guess we're supposed to learn something about society from that.

>>10890464
With that rat showing up it seems like they're going to go talk with Freeman.

I wonder how all of this is going to tie into the pig disappearances, and Heather's trial.

>>10894580

I wonder if either side actually knows about the disappearances or how bad things are getting out there. That could be how it ties in, (well, collides) Heather goes to trial, the pig disappearances are raised at trial for why she feels unsafe, meanwhile Jacob is totally focused on the food shortage conspiracy is still going on until someone mentions: "Oh, Jacob, BTW, they're delivering the verdict today and Endtown is probably going to have a civil war immediately afterwards."

>>10894580
>>10894875
The one we suspect is behind it all probably knows how it all works out (if he's done it over and over again with successive iterations of Endtown, then everything, even Heather's random victimisation, is all Just As Planned because he thinks he knows all the event triggers and has likely refined his way of setting them off over however many subjective years he's been doing it) and the usual way of things all ties into the smug and self-satisfied desired end result of giving the people of Endtown a kick in the moral butt or a situational awakening or impetus to do something or whatever.

I seriously hope something is going to break that cycle (perhaps Doc's involvement and behaviour, implied to be off-script) and it'll all blow up in you-know-who's face, mostly because I don't really care about Endtown-the-entity as it's been presented and also because if we can't see the character quietly removed from the strip, then I'd like to see him come to grief and this event act as the catalyst for the few remaining likeable characters taking their destinies into their own hands and regaining the self-determination they sorely lack to make their stories interesting again.

Anyway, in the short term it seems the wolf uprising is part of the desired effects of the food shortage rumour (not on Cooper and Philo's part, but on the part of someone above them, probably the guy at the top), and Jacob has already made the mistake of dismissing it as white noise in favour of the personal threat against him. He's wondering about the goal while it's already happening right in front of him.

It remains to be seen if the pig disappearances are someone else's reaction to the rumour or another top-down intentionally-triggered part of the meta-plan *like* the rumour, possibly set in motion by the same actor manipulating Cooper's group but separate from their involvement and unbeknownst to them, but it all ties into the plans of the one at the top, most likely.

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The place is a mess and there's empty bottles all over the floor. Ah, home sweet home.

>>10897480
Goddamn, Maude is the cutest.

I bet the birds have been using it as a drinking den or something. That or a couple of them are currently in there trying to scrounge up any remaining loot.

>>10895013

It's why I like the idea that the people plotting against Jacob don't actually know what's going on with the pigs. That that's something else that people have missed because they're all looking at the wrong places.

Also, I hope he's either willing to have Marx be MIA through all of this, or have some other power be blinding Marx's sight to certain events.

Because It's a twist I absolutely love. When any kind of scheming or chessmaster character winds up in a situation where they miss something, or someone, and that tiny missing piece leads to catastrophic consequences for their plan.

>>10899840
>Because It's a twist I absolutely love. When any kind of scheming or chessmaster character winds up in a situation where they miss something, or someone, and that tiny missing piece leads to catastrophic consequences for their plan.
I hope it goes that way to, where all the plotting and scheming completely unravels for a person who was once all powerful, but now is left with nothing but a mess they have no control over.

>>10899840
>or have some other power be blinding Marx's sight to certain events.
It'd be neat if one sign of events in this iteration having an unexpected, uncontrollable twist to them that would lay Marx low and cut the strings of the puppets was that this time around Mallard had figured out how to make some kind of dimensionometer jammer, if not an entire dimensionometer itself, and was using it to block Marx's perception of events. Maybe even something to unlock his memories of his previous incarnations if he's figured that out - he is into parascience, after all.

>>10901482
Yeah, but that probably won't happen because it'd make Marx look like a normal person for once (and bring him down to a level where he would have to treat the other characters as something other than dim school children at best and expendable at worst).

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>>10904253
>Mallard had figured out how to make some kind of dimensionometer jammer, if not an entire dimensionometer itself, and was using it to block Marx's perception of events.
Mallard is probably the only one who would be able to challenge Marx in any way. Al too, but Gustine would have to be in danger.

>>10906062
Crit Anon has been missing for a while, I hope they're okay.

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>>10910700

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>>10906300
I hope so too.

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>>10910700

"lets see what you are hiding under that skirt..."

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>>10916642

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>>10911644
Jenny is a good bat.

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I think I'm the only person who hasn't drawn DK's bat character, Jenny yet.

>>10918448
>somebody saved that drawing
I honestly thought nobody liked it. It's such an awkward angle, I don't know what I was thinking.

>>10921421
Going by 'toon logic, she could probably open it using her fangs. Cute.

>>10921878
I think it's a pretty good angle.

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>>10921897
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQXgn-cubQ

>>10921421
>>10922626
I love it. Why are bats so cute?

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>>10923822
I don't know. Maybe it's the ears or the nose, or something else, but they're cute, that's for sure.

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The return of Dottie. Return of the script's respect for Dottie... not visible yet.

So apparently Philo's not a fox, but a wolf? I could have sworn we were specifically told he was a fox, before. Isn't his last name Foxworthy? Masquerading as a fox to avoid a prejudice/reputation that didn't even seem to exist prior to this chapter?

And he's also apparently been heavily editing Dottie's articles to remove pro-wolf editorialising... an action that wasn't at all apparent - witness the article on the riot and, IIRC, the way he was complaining about the effect her writing was having on the reader complaint count, something you wouldn't think would happen if he'd been "cleaning" her articles.

I guess the former could be down to him only editing out pro-wolf stuff *unless* it's also anti-Jacob stuff... in which case he's a bit of a hypocrite, operating under his own biases, and Dottie is, in fact, somewhat in the right, here... which makes his earlier framed-as-being-in-the-right "An Important Message From The Author" lecture of her rather curious. For the latter... I guess we can put it down to Endtown's tendency towards poor illustration of the flow of time? It doesn't really feel like more than a couple of days at most have gone by since his lecture, not nearly long enough for him to have started editing her and gotten tired of it.

If he's also involved in the conspiracy on the level of manipulating the other wolves then he's completely untrustworthy motive-wise, but I suspect his involvement doesn't go that far up - indeed, he may not even perceive that other wolves' hatred of pigs even has anything to do with his reporting on the food shortage.

Or perhaps he recognises it as a side-effect to some degree, and that's another bias at work here - maybe he wants sympathy for the pack wolves reduced so that people will call them out and then he won't have to feel as guilty about giving them an incentive (however questionable) to act out against the pigs?

>>10929321
Oh... one positive thought occurs: At least this might get Dottie wound up enough to go behind Philo's back and start sleuthing things out, finally putting this arc onto the track we were initially told it was going to take.

>>10929345
I don't even know what this arc is about anymore.

>>10929449
Too many things at once. It almost feels like he's folded two or more arcs into one arc so he can get to the big implied part-way climax thing sooner.

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>>10929321
Damn, Philo needs to join the shot up team.

>I could have sworn we were specifically told he was a fox, before.
I think Philo is a fox. Dottie's statement seems to be a case of "All you people look alike". I mean look at his eyes.

>And he's also apparently been heavily editing Dottie's articles to remove pro-wolf editorializing
Her writing has become more pathos driven, with her considering the wolves underdogs. Maybe he's removing what isn't able to be backed up with facts.

>>10929925
>shot up team.
I meant shot put team. This is not a good omen of things to come, is it.

>>10929925
>I think Philo is a fox. Dottie's statement seems to be a case of "All you people look alike". I mean look at his eyes.
Possibly. It does remind me, though, that the arc originally looked to be set up to deal with a scare over predators in general, back when Dottie was being positioned as the voice of reason - maybe this is a swerve back in that direction, and she was about to call him a "self-hating predator"? If the story is going to do that, though, it really needed to be established with more than a throw-away line six months ago before laser-focusing on wolves.

>Her writing has become more pathos driven, with her considering the wolves underdogs. Maybe he's removing what isn't able to be backed up with facts.
If that were true then the fact that doing that still resulted in pro-wolf articles at all suggests that Dottie actually does have a leg to stand on in that department. And to be fair, she does have a point about vilification, or she would have if the wolves didn't seem to be the one anthro species that seems to be almost universally Chaotic Stupid. And again, this whole thing would be a lot more believable if we'd had a sample of the relevant writing by now, instead of just Philo's say-so. Show, don't tell, right?

It also reminds me that we ourselves have mostly only seen the one aspect of the wolves, with most of them being presented as a one-dimensional rabble, and that in itself appears to be an act of "gaming" the plot for a specific reaction ("wolves are mostly bad and Dottie is deluded"), because IIRC Aaron's specifically said (re: the lizards) that he doesn't want the message to be that anthros are intrinsically ruled by their instincts.

I suspect the irony of the whole accusing Dottie of propaganda thing while falling into the trap of being a propaganda pawn himself is intentional, though.

(Looking at these strips, I can't shake the feeling that on top of everything else, Dottie doesn't even talk like she used to.)

>>10929930
Oh, and no, it isn't. Especially with the very deliberate mention by Walt that there are zip guns in Endtown.

But it does make me want ask Pen Anon if he'd like to draw the Endtown Munchkin Tossing Team. PA?

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>>10929321
>>10929345
C'mon, Dottie, shake it all off and get your deerstalker on...

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>>10931454
Dottie's got a lot of investigating to do to clean up this mess.

>>10929925
>Her writing has become more pathos driven, with her considering the wolves underdogs. Maybe he's removing what isn't able to be backed up with facts.
Wouldn't that just expose her to feedback and show her where the faults in her arguments were, though?

Aaron's writing her as though she's working in a vacuum, or an ivory tower. He's treating her like some high-rise, isolated-from-reality, big-city journo, writing about a subculture they think highly of but have never experienced, viewed through a lens of untested conceits and a skewed, naive, distanced world-view, when in fact she's practically an embedded reporter, writing about stuff that's all going down in a tiny town right outside her office, with years of experience. She would have been seeing this shit first-hand every day, especially since she's obviously (and necessarily) a field reporter.

And that's saying nothing about the sudden sociopathy or her boss having to explain her multi-year job to her.

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>>10929321
>Penelope Puma
Fuck, I was wondering why that name sounded familiar.

>>10932160
Wow, he finally found a use for her. I wonder how much he changed her design, if we'll see her, and if there are other characters from that era about to pop up?

>>10932086
She went against popular opinion at the time with the Milk trial and against a sociopath cat with Al and Gustine's case and came out if the right both times. She's probably gotten cocky and is now thinking she can do no wrong. Hell, maybe she knows something we don't about the wolves.

>>10932248
Neither of those really seem to be indicated in the actual writing to me, though.

It feels more like Aaron just has an axe to grind about a certain type of removed-from-reality high-minded mass-media journalist, and in absence of any of them in Endtown, made the most prominent local reporter into one so she can Learn A Valuable Lesson.

There's probably a "How could I have been so blind?" moment coming up.

>>10932160
GET HYPE.

>>10932221
I thought the exact same things. You think we'll ever see that skeleton mutant?

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>>10932691
Dropped this image.

>>10932691
I think the idea with the skeleton mutant was that in proto-Endtown people who didn't turn into ravening freak-beasts turned into anthropomorphic-but-not-necessarily-animal things - including clowns, if I remember correctly. So... probably not, unless he's not actually a mutant and he's something even weirder instead?

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>>10932691
>>10932770

Dead?

>>10934735
We've been dead for a quite some time now. We're getting about 20 posts and twice as much bumps per update.

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>>10932221
The photographer at the riot looked a little like Ben E. Drake.

>>10932312
>It feels more like Aaron just has an axe to grind about a certain type of removed-from-reality high-minded mass-media journalist, and in absence of any of them in Endtown, made the most prominent local reporter into one so she can Learn A Valuable Lesson.

I can see that happening, but I'm hoping we'll get to see Dottie investigating a little bit and hopefully it will tie together some of plot.

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>>10936504
Kek

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>>10936020
>The photographer at the riot looked a little like Ben E. Drake.
It was, according to that one standfirst in the middle.

>>10937002
Nice catch

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>>10930105

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>>10930105
>>10937681
Added a background because the first one looked really boring.

>>10937681
>>10938274
Brilliant!

>>10937681
>>10938274
Neat.

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>>10932691
>>10932770
Someone said in an old thread that that Wally and co. were going to encounter some fantasy creatures in the future. I hope when we return to Wally the setting starts to get weird. All of Wally's experience, ditto-mancy and "engineering" get thrown away and he, Kirbee, Chick and Irving have to live by their wits in a Krazy Kat/ Nemo -esque world with weirder and weirder mutations popping up, some friendly some not.

>>10939805
I think that's mostly based on reading too much into the "here be dragons" throwaway gag and the description of the Great Green as "possibly mythical". Not sure how well the comic would take such a transition, either, though I agree about getting rid of the dittos. Still, you never know... the flapjack city and the spiky glass zone point to some of the weapon effects, or combinations of weapon effects, having esoteric and possibly reality-breaking results (seriously, the city should have collapsed onto itself immediately). I think there were supposed to have been more and weirder things than just zero-bombs used, though the ship arc flashback didn't seem to show any of the alternatives.

I do think I'll personally be giving the comic a long break at the very least when we return to Wally's group, though. They just don't interest me any more.

Speaking of other comics, are you thinking of doing anything else with Terri?

>>10940023
From what we've seen, Aaron doesn't like to let go of ideas so don't be so sure about him abandoning those concepts as out of place as they seem now. Though I agree about not wanting to see Wally's group. If they're just like in the ship arc then they better have a Hell of an adventure to compensate for their personalities not working together. I'll probably skip it too if there are any signs of Chic still taking a backseat to the show-stealing duo.

>>10940289
>From what we've seen, Aaron doesn't like to let go of ideas so don't be so sure about him abandoning those concepts as out of place as they seem now.
True, especially after that remark about Endtown-in-Space. I guess there's always alternate realities, though too many of them could see the strip's scope and storyline creep in a way a lot of people might not like.

>I'll probably skip it too if there are any signs of Chic still taking a backseat to the show-stealing duo.
I've been wondering if the apparent acceleration of the plotline means Aaron's going to turf what he had been going to do with Wally's group and do a time-skip, ending up with a grown Chic taking the spotlight in any upcoming return to that party.

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>>10940023
>I think that's mostly based on reading too much into the "here be dragons" throwaway gag and the description of the Great Green as "possibly mythical".
I remember it was in the time that KC kept dropping spoilers and I like the idea of something that takes Wally out of his comfort zone to make it more interesting.
I understand if you take a break. I think Wally is a very boring character, more so that he has dittos and his "engineering" powers. It's not a popular opinion but I've been enjoying the current arc just because the characters feel like their struggling with things far beyond their control (besides the Walt and Portia stuff, and Dottie's abandoning her journalistic integrity). The plot line is fractured but I (naively) feel like it can be pulled together.

>Speaking of other comics, are you thinking of doing anything else with Terri?
Work has been busy as fuck. I've got an idea for another Terri comic but I'm going to wait a while to tackle it. Hopefully it will be less slapped together than the last one.

>>10941081
>Couch: Ouch.

>>10941081
>I remember it was in the time that KC kept dropping spoilers and I like the idea of something that takes Wally out of his comfort zone to make it more interesting.
I typed this out all weird, what I meant to say was
I remember this was posted when KC was dropping spoilers so I like the idea of anything that takes Wally out of his comfort zone instead of being an engineering Gary Stu.

>>10941081
>>10941279
>I think Wally is a very boring character, more so that he has dittos and his "engineering" powers.
Personally I think both that half of the plot and Wally really needed Holly to be interesting. As we saw in the ship arc and during their separation in Unity, without her he's basically just a fairly undefined and lackadaisical male Alice in Wonderland who wanders around letting the plot lead him by the nose while occasionally bullshitting, expositing or acting as the voice of the Author to the other characters, and in the modern day achieving everything via ditto.

What Wally wanted and what he thought and felt also always came across as way less critical to the narrative impetus, interest factor and plot than Holly's thoughts, motivations and feelings. And without good characters like that, Endtown really just starts to feel like recycled 50's retro-sci-fi and social tropes with a smattering of Aaron's favourite fantasy inspirations and some regurgitated Deepak Chopra layered over the top. I wonder if part of the disconnect between Aaron and his audience is that Aaron regarded Holly as Wally's sidekick and later as his macguffin, while a good part of the audience saw her as The Heroine, and were perhaps following her more than they were Wally?

>I've been enjoying the current arc [...] I (naively) feel like it can be pulled together.
That's fair. That's also a lot of faith in Aaron, and I hope he does his level best not to disappoint you. I think the main issue of this arc (among others) is that upsetting the foundations of the character pairing everyone was ready to rally behind has left the audience looking for a solid thing to hold onto.

>Work has been busy as fuck. I've got an idea for another Terri comic but I'm going to wait a while to tackle it. Hopefully it will be less slapped together than the last one.
Well if it's better than the last one, which I enjoyed, I'll be looking forward to it. Nice to see the previously mentioned couch...

>>10941681
I would have faith in old Aaron but since the ship he feels like a different person. He used to be so humble and focused.. now it seems like Marx took over him.

Wake up

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>>10944353
It's Thursday, it ain't easy.

>>10946069
That's cute.

>>10946351
Reminder that Aaron made it so even if Allie hadn't been killed, she would've never been happy.

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>>10946381
What a relatable gator.

Anyone here got an anthro species we haven't seen yet that you're hoping will make an appearance?

>>10947654
A-A-R-D-V-A-R-K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOcyzddfvvM

>>10946519
Shit, I meant to reply to >>10946069
That came out really dark.

>>10947654
Have we seen a badger or an armadillo yet?

>>10948347
Apparently Doc is supposed to be a badger, according to the old Endtown FAQ.

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>>10948397
He does kind of look like a badger.

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Fresh from an online hunting session, just for you folks, Aaron's first Endtown interview, from just before the strip went up on Modern Tales.

Highlights:

>Big list of influences.
>There was no big plot arc at this point - even Aaron didn't know what was going to happen and he was building the world as he went.
>His goal at that point was "a decade or more".
>Reader response is very important.

Just bringe read the whole series, and a couple of thoughts.
Holy crap was Sarah a bitch, why did she become so cold?
They way Holly story ended kinda sucked.
The current plot feels vary inspired by zootopia.

>>10951330
Nice, I hope you liked it.

>Holy crap was Sarah a bitch, why did she become so cold?
Aaron said something about her loosing a part of herself when she mutated into a lizard. She became a cold-blooded bitch surrounded by a bunch of assholes she could fit in with.

>They way Holly story ended kinda sucked.
It's a shame too. It was an action pack chapter that ended on a wet fart. It wouldn't have pissed me off so much if Holly had apologized to Kirbee and Chic in the letter, or better yet, said goodbye in person instead of a Dear John letter.

>The current plot feels very inspired by Zootopia.
I hope they just stick with being prejudice against wolves instead of all predators.

>>10952323
>It wouldn't have pissed me off so much if Holly had apologized to Kirbee and Chic in the letter, or better yet, said goodbye in person instead of a Dear John letter.
I'm not sure why he didn't do the former, but I'm pretty sure he didn't do the latter as part of the narrative railroading in the resolution.

If Holly had appeared in person, then Wally would have had a chance to talk her out of it. Heck, I'm pretty sure Aaron claimed that this exact scenario was in the version where she supposedly would have cliff-jumped, so implicitly even Aaron thinks that Wally would have been *able* to talk her out of staying if they'd come into contact. Of course, that just means that in the ending as written Holly ends up doing something that seems out of character for her, all in aid of getting the resolution Aaron wanted.

She was also at one point going to talk with Wally via ditto-made cartoon speech bubbles emitted from the decoy, but he scrapped that too, so I'd say Aaron couldn't think of any scenario in which they were able to talk and Wally wouldn't have managed to convince Holly to come with them. So he kept them from talking.

>>10952323
I do hope he keeps building off the fact they are all humans in foreign bodies, in the current arc. I like the fact that the people in pig bodies becoming depressed, and those and more powerful ones are almost becoming drunk with the heighten scenes and extra strength. Maybe more of "milk trail" where no one is really the good guy.

>>10953432
I'd love to see it turn out that way. It would play into the themes of the conflict of letting go of the past or holding on to what humanity you have left of the previous chapters.

>>10953925
>letting go of the past or holding on to what humanity you have left
I'm not sure those were necessarily in conflict, though, were they? Seems like a false dichotomy to me.

The whole letting go thing with Wally and Holly, for instance, seemed to be a case of accepting one's own changes and looking to the future, of realising you're the same human being, just altered (as an extreme metaphor for the changes people go through as they grow - nobody's the same person they were yesterday). Wally came to understand he was Wally-Plus, instead of not-Wally.

I can see the people of Endtown being trapped in a state of binary either-or thinking about it, though. And there's definitely a rhetorical conflict between the "embrace the animal" people and the "you're a human, bury your head in the sand about the animal bits" people (again, binary thinking...)

>>10954131
Huh, thought: Maybe the whole goal with the meta-conspiracy and Marx-meddling around Jacob here is to force the binary thinkers onto a third path by publicly making both sides seem unpalatable and untenable.

>>10954131
Fair enough, but I do see it popping up in the antagonistic elements and characters. Cliff tried to eat Holly giving into his cartoon cat instincts and Jacob ran his entire campaign on giving into animal element and the destruction of humanity. Allgood tried to have several women executed for eating (maybe) unfertilized eggs and milk trying to preserve humanity, while Cooper in this chapter desperately tries to combat tribalism and fracturing of species by planting rumors of food shortages, and using forged documents, while well intentioned, his plan seems like it will only cause further panic and possibly mass cannibalism.

>>10954477
Right, like I said, a lot of them are definitely trapped in a position of thinking about it in a binary fashion.

Cliff had allowed his instincts to subsume him (exacerbated by the bean diet and having no meat to eat - what's the bet this comes up again with respect to the pigs?).

I suspect a lot of Jacob's people are the ones that secretly resent anyone with more perceived "humanity" than them, especially the Typhoid Maries, and react by trying to expunge those people so they aren't reminded of what they lost any more, bringing everyone down to their level to make themselves feel better. There's also probably a contingent who privately suspect that they're not sufficiently human and regret the loss, and react by trying to create a world in which they don't have to feel bad about it. Either way they wholeheartedly embrace their animal sides and reject or deny their humanity.

Allgood's people have the same problem, they just react oppositely by clinging desperately to their humanity and rejecting their animal sides instead. Again the difference between the groups is a matter of one-thing-or-the-other binary thinking.

Cooper, like Wally and Holly, doesn't seem to be on either side of the false dichotomy, as (being what he is) he's all too ready to think in terms of "not one thing or the other". I think you're right in your estimation of the situation - he's trying to tilt things out of Jacob's philosophy's favour... probably at least partially because there's no room for him in there, but I wonder, is there room for him on the humanity-clinging side? He's arguably even less human-looking than the animal mutants. I suspect he wishes for the middle road of the old days, though perhaps not for something philosophically-structured like Wally and Holly had, but in the end he's just making things worse (which seems to be a theme so common in Aaron's work that it sometimes feels like a crutch or even a limitation).

>>10954477
>>10954878
As a coda, I kind of suspect the original planned plotline around this point would have had Holly's philosophy of "you are both, don't cling to the past but you don't have to be ruled by your instincts, either" spreading, but then she ended up being removed from Endtown after the Milk Trial so now we have to get it by a more round-about route.

>>10954897
>As a coda
A Child of Deaf Adults?

>>10955064
No, sorry, this meaning:

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coda
>2: something that serves to round out, conclude, or summarize and usually has its own interest

>>10955127
Oh sorry, never hear the term before.

>>10952323
I wonder if he was partially inspired by Fringe about Sarah
https://youtu.be/f_AjhqyHa_Q
Maybe part of her mind became more like a lizard.

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>>10931454
If Aaron's adding his old characters Penelope Puma, I hope Dottie and Mr. D-451 team up to try to uncover what's been going on in Endtown.

Happy slightly belated Sarah's nothing wrong anniversary.

It's now been one whole year+ of nothing done wrong.

>>10958996
A curious name - always wondered if that guy was supposed to be something like the Deadeyes. Android? Cyborg?

I guess it could just be a codename like 007.

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>>10959006
Who could could have typed this, I wonder?

>/co/ actually has an Endtown thread
Oh!

> Actually /co/ just has another anti-Endtown honeypot thread
Oooh...

>>10959815
Did you get a ban or something for posting?

>>10959815
>> Actually /co/ just has another anti-Endtown honeypot thread

So, a /trash/ thread.

>>10953220
>I'd say Aaron couldn't think of any scenario in which they were able to talk and Wally wouldn't have managed to convince Holly to come with them. So he kept them from talking.
That's a pretty good observation.

>>10960152
No it was far more devious than that, it had actual discussion of the comic, people saying their likes/dislikes of the narrative.
A truly devilish Siren of a thread.

>>10960709
Some people just can't take criticism of things they like, that's how they ended up called fanatics. I personally don't think they actually care about what they're fans of -if they did they would want to know when something is not right about it.

And the thread is gone...

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>all those Kirbeefags trying to revision history, making it so Holly and anyone who liked her were a problem
Holy shit, what's wrong with these people?

> It's been almost a year since the day the mouse died

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>>10947654
Moose?

Do we know if endtown has any form of Library where scavengers come back from the surface they bring down old books and other media to Archive?
I wonder if the wolf protesters are going to start demanding that the old fictional stories that talk about wolves as bad guys be removed or revise because they're racist.
I also wonder if they're going to be further divided on whether or not to teach children about their human Origins or keep them in the dark.

>>10962701
I don't know about any library, but one would assume such things were valuable. I remember a brief conversation in the comic that suggests the cinemas own and use retrieved movies, so there's that.

As for the children, at the very least Aaron's remark that it's important that the children have been told there's no virus suggests that the plot will deal with them at some point soon, after mostly having kids beside Chic as background characters. Perhaps that'll be this arc?

>>10962860
To me that's going to be very difficult to hide, especially with old movies and books, unless they treat it something like Santa Claus or where babies come from, where they let them know when they're older, and if the kids smart enough to figure it on its own and they have the conversation early. That would definitely be an interesting plot piece, to the point where we might see reverse identity crisis where the children identify as animal they mutated into and not as a human causing further divisions.

>>10962959
I think an interesting implication is that the adults' conceptions of what they are are split between human/animal, while apart from any encounters with Typhoid Maries the children are going to have very little experience of either and may just end up identifying as "anthro" with no preconceptions as to what instincts and behaviours that should imply. Certainly none of the children appear to have been victims of schism syndrome, at least not that we've seen.

Since Aaron suggests, I believe, that the instincts an anthro is saddled with are part of their cultural concept of their species (ie: a Russian bear would have different behaviour influences to an American bear), children with no cultural concept of their species or a concept derived entirely from stuff like, for example, Disney films, may behave very differently to their parents.

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Today: What had been parallels and metaphor takes a turn towards explicit commentary. I sure hope Aaron isn't getting in over his head, here...

(Surely "Speciesism" would make more sense here anyway?)

>>10963117
Wow.

Calling it now, any /co/ threads for this one are going to get invaded by /pol/ in short order.

>>10963084
To me that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because instincts are, for back of better word, instinctual and aren't learn through observation or culture. A cat's tail gets big when it's scared as a matter of instinct, Wally was never taught how to do that, and him knowing that cats do that before the change didn't have any effect on that.
The main difference I can see happening in terms of culture is whether or not there are going to suppress their "Natural" Instincts or not, whether it's predator types need to chase and hunt, or preys fear of sharp teeth and claws, or maybe even more specific cats being terrified of snake shaped objects like cucumbers https://youtu.be/C5c9-DfdQB4
That's why I was saying if the children don't know they were human and given to these instincts there's going to be further divisions.

>>10963194
>To me that doesn't make a whole lot of sense because instincts are, for back of better word, instinctual and aren't learn through observation or culture. A cat's tail gets big when it's scared as a matter of instinct, Wally was never taught how to do that, and him knowing that cats do that before the change didn't have any effect on that.
I'm pretty sure, though, that Aaron has remarked that their instincts tend to be animal stereotypes - Holly was nuts about cheese, for instance, when most mice will more likely prefer grain and fruits if given the choice.

I don't know if that's because animals in the Endtown universe operated on those stereotypes, or if it's because people adopted those instincts subconsciously because that's how they believed animals behaved - there's a suggestion towards the latter from what I can tell, since Aaron has said behaviour and/or species-selection would vary based on cultural tropes.

This may all play into the fact that the "virus" is implied to be something supernatural, possibly even some kind of super-mass-hysteria or sentient psionic entity that messes with how people understand themselves on a sufficiently deep level that they actually shape-shift. Remember that this comic is no stranger to supernatural stuff by now, and Eye, for instance, was able to physically alter Jim.

>The main difference I can see happening in terms of culture is whether or not there are going to suppress their "Natural" Instincts or not, whether it's predator types need to chase and hunt, or preys fear of sharp teeth and claws, or maybe even more specific cats being terrified of snake shaped objects like cucumbers [YouTube] Cats Vs Cucumbers! (embed)
>That's why I was saying if the children don't know they were human and given to these instincts there's going to be further divisions.
I guess we'll know if and when we see the children displaying animal behaviours. A big clue might be the fact that Chic the chicken hasn't eaten Irving the bug.

>>10963117
>>10963192
We'll never know if we don't make one. Let's see if we can have a proper /co/ thread this week.

>>>/co/94574718

>>10963290
>[YouTube] Cats Vs Cucumbers! (embed)
Where do you think we are?

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>>10963307
Sorry, just copy-pasted wholesale, should have caught that.

>>10963290
Chic I think it's a special case because he was horribly abused, and the need for some form of companion and friendship was probably pretty high. Whatever Aaron decides to do chic could probably be a contradiction that makes sense story wise because the situation he was in.

>>10963393
Possible. Again, we may see shortly, or we may be waiting a while. Personally I think there's a few murky details surrounding the whole instinct thing that need to be cleared up in-comic sooner rather than later.

>>10963117
Thought: We've already seen speculation that she has a wolfish significant other (which would make this behaviour at least somewhat understandable). I'd propose alternatives: simply a close wolfish friend, or possibly even a wolfish adoptee.

I'll note that Walt and Dottie were originally roomies, and that seems to no longer be the case as we've seen that Walt now lives in his own bachelor pad.

Perhaps he moved out to give Dottie more space for a partner/child, or he simply moved out for whatever reason and Dottie's new roomie is of the lupine persuasion?

>>10963117
Good luck with that zine Dottie

>>10963445
I kind of want to see mixed matched families and how they fit in down the line, because we know the babies will be random species. Maybe a wolf giving birth to a pig or a pig giving birth to a wolf.

>>10963487
That would be a pretty cool and on-point plot element, right there.

I mean, now you've said that it'll feel weird if that doesn't come up. It's just too damn relevant to the plot.

>>10963571
It might be what unites everyone again. Because what were the birth rate of having a child at the same species as you 1 in 200. So it would be very rare to have families of all one species.

>>10963635
>Dottie has a wolfish boyfriend
>Due to being a capybara her pregnancy is accelerated
>She has a piglet
>Instant perspective

>>10963651
No there needs to be more horrible death for EndTown arc. Maybe the wolf boyfriend gets drunk and ends up eating the baby or selling it to whomever is kidnapping pigs.

>>10963679
Steady, don't go and give Aaron any ideas now...

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>>10963679
Then we can add baby eating to the list

>>10963706
That's already on the list - Unity lizards weren't just eating unfertilised eggs.

>>10963679
Yes but they were ultrasounding the eggs before they hatched, essentially eating unborn fetuses. This is eating a child after birth. Not much of a difference as they both seem equally horrible, but there seems to be one. Don't know if there's a word for eating your own child outside of straight-up cannibalism.

>>10963765
Candling, they were candling them. But I guess that counts as a difference, then.

>Don't know if there's a word for eating your own child outside of straight-up cannibalism.
Infantivore? Autoinfantivore?

>>10963117
Anyone else feel like Aaron's deliberately courting controversy, here?

>>10963476
I'm guessing more along the lines of street protest, public speaking and maybe some flyers. Seems like paper would be rare enough that a one-person zine would be a difficult prospect. I imagine the Examiner must be printed on umpteenth-generation recycled stuff.

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>>10965276
She is loud enough to get her point across.

>>10963292
Why was this post deleted?

>>10967020
Doubt it's Cannon, but nuclear winter is a thing.

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>>10967970
was it your post or are you asking what it was?

>>10968099
My post.

>>10967982
I'd actually love to know the effect the massive influx of organic and inorganic microparticles had on the weather. Perhaps there was a winter... I doubt it made it inside the actual Endtown cavern, though... wouldn't want to let in snow that was half dust anyway, I imagine.

Then again, the dust produced by zero weaponry seems quite heavy, so perhaps it wouldn't have gone atmospheric? Have we ever seen a dust storm? I can't recall...

>>10968156
When a Dittos were first introduced I thought they were mutated microorganisms. Also come to thing if it did the other animal life also mutate or was it strictly humans.

>>10968611
It disappeared shortly before the apocalypse.

>>10968989
Is there a reason given why humans just mutated but animals died off?

>>10969059
Not yet.

>>10969095
It'd be kind of interesting of some animals mutated into humans and just have memory loss, or just don't understand traditional.
Then again now that I think about it, that wouldn't make too much sense since it's all physical appearance and not a lot of mental there wouldn't be a huge increase in mental capacity so they were just basically be feral humans.

>>10948528
>TFW you wake up one day and you are a anthropomorphic mouse.

>>10970139
Don't forget
>Gave birth to a dead fish
>Watch your husband turn into a monster from the Thing

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>>10963117

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>>10963117

>>10971104
It is amazing how you can spot something sall like that and use it to make me laugh, PA. Nicely caught.

The /co/ thread is now archived but at least it didn't get deleted this time!

>>10972777
I did find it funny that someone was mad that there's Endtown porn while /trash/ complains there's not been enough lately.

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>>10972777
>>10972999
I was debating posting this and now I'm kicking myself.

>>10972777
next time the person might need to use a bit of click-bate to bring back the people who where turned off by the waifu worship. Something like Endtown is redpilled or something.

>>10973046
No, clickbait just brings in idiots who fall for clickbait.

>>10973094
Not really clickbait if it's basically true. I mean just look at the last few pages.

OP here. Good thread once again.

Do you think there's enough discussion left to warrant a weekend thread, or should I say farewell until it's time to lay out a thread for Monday's strip?

>>10973731
We should wait for Monday.

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>>10972435
Thanks. I can't remember seeing anyone with a distinct hair color the same color as their ears so I have to at least make a joke about it.

>>10973731
I'm not sure. My weekend's up in the air but more likely than not I'll be busy so I probably won't be able to contribute anything. Thanks for making the threads, you guys keep me motivated to keep drawing and keep practicing.

Since we're at bump limit, the perspective on this is complete dog shit, but at least I got to try out Heather's canon colors. I guess Linda got a laundress uniform because they were out of waitress uniforms.

>>10974117
>I guess Linda got a laundress uniform because they were out of waitress uniforms
?

I'm this guy >>10951330 so I'm in this kind of reading all the theories and taking it all in and putting a few out there
Any halfway decent fan stories that I should read or is it all devolved into smut. I'm mostly enjoying it for the world building in the character interaction.

>>10974117
>filename
I know it's been said before but I'd be totally up, down, left and right with you starting your own comic.

>>10974229
Seconded. PA, you have potential and I would really like to see you doing your own stuff too some day. Terri was a good start, for instance.

This goes for Crit Anon as well, wherever they are right now.

>>10974209
The only fan fic I've seen is indeed a smutfic, so take that as you will.

>>10974209
There is a few fan comics but nothing too ambitious except for CA's >>10828563 and DK's >>10846033 efforts, the later being pretty much dead and and the former unconfirmed.

>>10974302
Wasn't there a serious fic with a chameleon mutant as the protagonist?

>>10974368
That sounds vaguely familiar but I don't recall where and when I saw it.

>>10974412
A long time ago ITT but it seems the author never continued.

>>10974302
>>10974323
>>10974368
Well thanks anyway I might search around but Ill probably just end up rereading it this weekend maybe paying a bit more attention to the details and not rushing through it.

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>>10974193
Aaron e-mailed me about the color schemes of Heather, Portia and Allie that can be seen in this post >>10887506.
He said that blue uniforms were used by waitresses and that Heather had a pink uniform.

>>10974229
>>10974302
Thanks. The time and effort that goes into making a web comic is preventing me from trying to make one (This is the same thing for everyone, I know). I'd just hate to start something with some potential and only go 5 pages then leave the comic to die like the vast majority of web comics I read in the 2000's.

>>10974323
DK's comic's and OC were awesome, and I hope CA's OK. From what they posted it sounded like it was a computer access problem, but still I hope they're still out there making stuff. They sure knew how to keep us on the edge of our seats each comic.

>>10974680
>Thanks. The time and effort that goes into making a web comic is preventing me from trying to make one (This is the same thing for everyone, I know). I'd just hate to start something with some potential and only go 5 pages then leave the comic to die like the vast majority of web comics I read in the 2000's.
Hey, don't be afraid to prototype things and never show them to anyone until you find something you think works and is sustainable over the long term. You never know when you might find something that just "clicks" with you.

But apart from saying that I'm not going to pressure you. I know we've all been enjoying your Endtown stuff well enough anyway, if you're just happy doing that for now.

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>>10974824
I'm glad you like my stuff. Don't worry about me, like everyone on the internet I've got a lot of ideas floating around for a web comic. The sticking to it part is also very difficult. I've never been able to find a nice definitive goal anyone has been chasing and if I have, what does it do?
I drew the background duck waiting for coffee in the mean time.

>>10976377
Keep an open mind and an open eye and you'll find that one great idea eventually, one that comes with its own motivation, one where not sticking to it becomes more unpleasant an idea than just keeping going.

Your constant sketching is a good step on that road already.

Background Duck is cute. Are you going to ask Aaron if Dottie's co-workers besides Foxworthy, Eve, Drake and Penelope have names?