Endtown pic/discussion thread, Whee-Whee-Whee All The Way Ho

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Most recent comic.

I wish we had someone as dedicated in drawing males like Kazen is in drawing females.

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Jim is best lover.

>>7085350
Yeah. The males don't get enough love.

>>7087206

Did you get it coloured? Cause that looks nice

And yeah. Except Suule and Akunim no one gave much fuck about them. Both are gone though - Suule who the hell knows where and Aku to WoW threads.

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From the /co/ thread

>>7087249
>WoW

People still play that retarded shit?

>>7087358

Nah just draw porn of Pandaren and Worgen. I think everyone gave up on it and plays Heartstone.

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>>7085350
Yeah...I do have a male OC that I haven't done much other than this of.

>>7087827

And you drew Jim nudes on an occasion or two, which we're really happy with!

The problem right now though is that I think we have a drawfag deficit in the male drawing section. Well at least the drawfags that were geared towards drawing males. I don't think we should be pushing you into getting some freebies if you prefer to draw something else.

Maybe throwing some cash at Suule will help?

>>7087986
In an odd way I've only felt even worse for Jim after what was apparently supposed to be his destined role. He always felt more like a sort of anti-villain that I would have liked to see explored more of. Like somebody for Wally to have conflicts with that see them working together begrudgingly. Especially
since he was yet more insight into Topsider society that I didn't think got tapped.

Suule would be tough to convince to draw anything specifically Endtown related at the moment. I wouldn't say he's entirely washed his hands of it, but I don't see him spending time on fanart any time soon.

>>7088189

Yeah. Then again Aaron in his letters said that Topsiders are insanely dedicated... only we saw Flask and Jim being polar opposites. I don't know what to believe no more.

Sad about Suule though, I think cancellation of RPG hit him harder than he was trying to come off here. He did come one day and posted all of his secret Endtown porn though, so who knows.

>>7088189
>Suule would be tough to convince to draw anything specifically Endtown related at the moment.

actually, he said he was ok with drawing endtown stuff, since he doesn't care about the comic anymore.

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>>7087341
Another from /co/
It has an anthro in a 2 piece so if you don't see me for a few days you know why...

>>7088749
Ooh, okay. I'd gotten the other impression for some reason.

>>7088816
We'll salute your sacrifice, Pen Anon.

>>7087398
>Pandaren and Worgen

Aren't those just generic pandas and wolves? What the fuck is the point?

>>7089437

something something wow

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>>7088869
Kek, I really haven't gotten into too much trouble with the mods so far, I've only gotten a warning about the Allie panty pic and nothing else that I've drawn, but you never know about the /co/ mods.

>>7090221
PA, you really like Cute Memetic Gun Piggy, don't you?

Nice stuff.

>>7090557
Gotta lot of meme guns left

I just need practice drawing guns and the Porky Plinker is a decent enough excuse to draw some guns.

>>7090221

>Guns become the new Maid outfit
>Pen anon gives guns to each female according to her size
>Flask gets a s&w 500
>Sarah gets p08
>Kirbee gets FNP .45
>Allie gets a Glock
>Gustine gets a Deagle .50
>Maude gets a Raging Bull
>Roxie gets PPK
>Meg gets a hi-point
>Velda gets a Ruger .22
>Linda gets Makarov
>Dottie gets compact usp
>Holly gets a Kolibri

>>7083629
>>7084984
she seems like a real bitch

>>7095765
i really like penny, i bet she sucks dick like a vacuum

>>7083629

will she give us a peek under her skirt?

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>>7095765

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>>7096082
Yes, also streaming at: https://www.tigerdile.com/stream/kazenstream/

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>>7109404
I still like the costume in this one.

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>>7112193

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i need more porn of these lizard bitches

>>7118239
Who cares about stupid lizard bitches, post more of that sexy raccoon stud.

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>>7126065

they are cute and deserve lewds

>>7126065

> Suule won't draw more """"secret"""" Jim lewds

Hurts. Anyone saved the stash he posted?

>>7126326
>Either retarded homewrecker whores
>or lying cheating cunts who'll stab the most loving husband possible in the back

Reptile bitches are all shit, especially the cunts in Unity

>>7126506

they are in the archive, most likely.

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>>7130372

>>7131540
Is there a part 2 to this, with Penny getting her favour repaid, perhaps?

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All the way home, indeed.

Looks like she's sticking around.

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>>7131663
I can make one, ha.

>>7133078
I like the way Eunice's tones inverted when she mutated.

>>7133017
Just realised... that's her and another pig in the photo.

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>>7133112

>>7133147
Oh my. Story behind this one?

>>7133376
Eunice is freaking out after the Buddibomb her father gave her turned on her in their apartment, then blew their window and half their living room to bits. A scene that would have involved her running from and wrestling with the thing and trying to chuck it out the window.

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>>7133468
This' also their first time seeing each other post mutation.

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>>7133641

>>7137967
This is neat.

Makes me wonder, are there any pics of Penny doing the stereotypical opossum-hang, with her tail?

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>>7139463
Not especially clearly, this was some of the first art of them.

>>7139598
That's adorable!

I think that's the shortest Endtown thread I've ever seen on /co/. And the new strip came with critical characterisation and background details for a character who people like so far and who looks like she'll be a feature for a while, to boot.

On another topic: I'm wondering if we're going to get a Christmas in Endtown sequence at all, now. Endtown doesn't currently look at all festive, though I guess that could be put down to the atmosphere of depression and the fact that tinsel is likely in short supply, post-WWIII...

>>7140871
>I'm wondering if we're going to get a Christmas in Endtown sequence at all, now.

"Christmas in endtown" wasn't referring to an actual celebration in the shelter, but in coming back to endtown, during Christmas eve.

>>7141112
I remember KC alluded to an appearance by either Santa or someone dressing up as Santa before he scarpered, though. I was kind of hoping we'd see Walt in the red and white suit...

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>>7140871
I was bummed to see the thread die before I even got off work. Has anyone asked Aaron about the pig girls name yet?
>>7141112
>>7141153
I remember someone saying a while back that the next arc was going to be about Walt and Dottie finding out about Endtown's water source.

>>7141413
>I was bummed to see the thread die before I even got off work. Has anyone asked Aaron about the pig girls name yet?
I don't think anyone's bothered. People usually ask about bit part characters in retrospect, it seems, and she hasn't gone out of focus yet. We're probably about to learn her name from the phonecall.

>I remember someone saying a while back that the next arc was going to be about Walt and Dottie finding out about Endtown's water source.
I remember Aaron saying that was coming up, I don't remember whether it was in association with Dotty and Walt, though. I think he also alluded to finding out where the rats came from and made a remark about "narrative red pills", which I'm kind of interpreting now as translating to "I took something I already had and decided to make it darker than originally intended, again".

>>7133017
>Pig girl answers the phone.
>All she hears is huffing and puffing on the other end.

>>7141413

Get used to threads dying a lot. I think we're at the point where the userbase tanked.

>>7141153
>I remember KC alluded to an appearance by either Santa or someone dressing up as Santa before he scarpered, though.

that was just KC making asspulls, he thinks everyone takes what he says seriously because of his connection to Aaron.

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>>7142718
It almost feels to me like the posting of the new Endtown banner might have had something to do with it, this time.

And is it just me, or did Aaron re-use old Kirbee art and slap a new Wally and Chic over the top?

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>>7143612
>And is it just me, or did Aaron re-use old Kirbee art and slap a new Wally and Chic over the top?


>he didn't even bothered drawing a new kirbee

Kirbeefags BTFO

>>7143612

> All references to Holly deleted

You know, Endtown feels weird. Like not Special Edition Star Wars weird, where Lucas just adds stuff, but this weird thing where the author goes back and tries hide to remove ties to characters that used to excite him.

BTW: In a way I feel like he's a man that's been through a marriage. His females around Milk Trial have that uncanny bile to their presentation - manipulative, bitchy and otherwise rather unpleasant.

>>7143612

banner should have been a shirtless Jim with a gigantic chest tuft.

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>>7144289
Are there any pictures of Jim with sexy chest fluff?

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>>7143855
It's even just cut-and-pasted with the original colours, including the incorrect hair colour.

How oddly lazy for Aaron.

>Kirbeefags BTFO

I... yeah, I'd say it's more Aaron doing a slap-dash job. He's definitely still currently positioning Kirbee and Wally as the new main-characters-that-the-strip-totally-doesn't-have.

For better or worse.

>>7144219
>but this weird thing where the author goes back and tries hide to remove ties to characters that used to excite him.
Well, there's still ads for the merch that give me a pic of a mug with that pic of Holly with the flowers slapped on it. I'd love to see the relative sales figures on that stuff, if they're even selling at all.

Makes me think, too... it sometimes feels, weirdly, like Aaron only thinks in terms of the *now* and the future of the comic, like only what he's writing now has any relevance to the reader base and the advertising (witness the convention standee thing)... it sometimes feels like he doesn't focus on the previous parts at all when writing, despite the natural fact of the archives being the majority of the comic.

>BTW: In a way I feel like he's a man that's been through a marriage. His females around Milk Trial have that uncanny bile to their presentation - manipulative, bitchy and otherwise rather unpleasant.
Sure feels like it. Might have even happened right when he was writing that sequence, for all we know...

>>7144378
>if they're even selling at all.

maybe he's not making a fortune out of it, but i'm sure there's some income to be had, otherwise he wouldn't even bother with it. Every penny counts...

>>7144219
>>7144378

You wanna hear a crazy idea? What if Holly was his wife's character? That would explain why he first drew her as caring and supportive, then turned her into a total crazy person. Pressumeably due to divorce?

It's not uncommon for writers to insert their loved ones into fiction. Plus didn't we figure out Selina appeared around the time Kirbee did?

>>7144780
No, I'm pretty certain Aaron and Selina joined up around the time of the Milk trial (relevantly to this line of thought: around the time Holly went off the rails as a character) but I'm increasingly certain that when he rebuilt Kirbee as a main character after the Unity rewrite, he based her heavily on Selina, who seems very much like her - optimistic, kind and caring.

>>7144825

He's gonna make kirbee fat, isn't he?

>>7144878

It's in the process. Kirbee in comic gained weight during flashback.

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>>7144780
>>7144825
Well fuck me.

http://www.genlookups.com/texas_divorces/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/541

>>7144963
Oh wow, now I sort of feel bad giving Beth the name I did.

>>7083629
Reminder that Endtown is dead.

>>7143612
You don't really see banners anymore. They used to be all over the place in forums and shit.

>>7145311

K

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>>7145311
Allie is dead but we still love her.

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>>7144963
Huh. If you figure his old pre-Unity ~50-strip buffer into it, then the time of the divorce proceedings lines up pretty square with Holly suddenly going nuts at the end of the Milk Trial.

>I want OUT, Wally

And... GoComics' new Web 2.0 design makes getting comic images a bit of a pain.

Does Endtown have a hairdresser?

I think a Poodle would be adequately ironic.

>>7146342
Or a sheep.

Hey, Kazen, what does Eunice do?

>>7144963
>Aaron took out the pain of his divorce on Holly

No wonder we ended up with that piece of shit retarded lizard instead of best mouse waifu.

>>7146726
>No wonder we ended up with that piece of shit retarded lizard instead of best mouse waifu.

And there, the true reason why ya'll so mad.

>>7146739
Kirbee is objectively shit. The only way she could possibly be considered better than Holly is if she never uses her tongue again for anything other than eating out Wally's ass. No one wants to hear any of the stupid shit that comes out of that bitch's mouth.

>>7146957

Thanks for proving my point.

>>7146387
The original idea had her as an heiress of a Krupp car dealer's fortune, and she was to have an overall interest/affiliation with cars. In fact her pose in >>7130372
was going to be a larger homage to The Cars' Heartbeat City, one of my favorite albums. It just turns out I'm a lazy bastard when it comes to drawing vehicles, which I need to work more on.

>>7148594
Her and Penny's dynamic was going to be the naive and spoiled, but well meaning and loyal Eunice versus Penny's somewhat rough, grounded pragmatism.

>>7145484

> Instead of a thought out setting, it's just a journal of imaginary adventures in real relationships.

It suddenly makes sense why RPG failed, it suddenly makes sense why Aaron's responses 80% of the time were "Trust me", it makes sense why there were so many retcons to fit his real-life situation.

To be honest I think the worst thing possible here is how much shit Holly went through during the Milk Trial to the point of being beaten up (Maude and Linda weren't! Especially Maude who Aaron claims is best waifu.).

Not to mention the flashback does point to some really nasty shit which I am wondering if aligned with RL stuff (fighting, alcoholism, miscarriage). Mind you also flashback Holly is fat as hell, pregnancy or not...

Re-Reading Endtown now makes it seem less and less enjoyable.

>>7149208
>To be honest I think the worst thing possible here is how much shit Holly went through during the Milk Trial to the point of being beaten up
You know, when I first read that, and then the "lost the baby" bit, I immediately thought "Oh, she was carrying Wally's child and miscarried from the beatings" (and it looks like a lot of people must have originally thought the same, to go by GoComics comments). I find myself wondering if that was the original intent, and Aaron changed it up shortly after when he decided he had a better idea...

>Maude and Linda weren't! Especially Maude who Aaron claims is best waifu.
That was certainly odd. Holly seemed to have developed a state of having been severely beaten off-screen between her appearance in the trial and their release a day or so later, right at the last minute.

>Not to mention the flashback does point to some really nasty shit which I am wondering if aligned with RL stuff (fighting, alcoholism, miscarriage).
Don't forget the bit in the wastes where, before the rewrite (assuming for a moment that he's telling the whole truth about that), it probably would have been Aaron's stand-in who slapped Beth's, not Selina's. An attempt at catharsis, either way?

>>7149208
>> Instead of a thought out setting, it's just a journal of imaginary adventures in real relationships.
>It suddenly makes sense why RPG failed

Yeah, I mean, I always got the feeling the RPG squad and their games were fleshing out the Great Waste much more than Aaron ever had, or possibly was comfortable with.

I mean it's been, what, seven years and all we've seen of settlements in the waste besides Endtown itself is a sewer full of dust, plus Unity? Despite a whole bunch of them being named?

>>7150607

> I mean it's been, what, seven years and all we've seen of settlements in the waste besides Endtown itself is a sewer full of dust, plus Unity? Despite a whole bunch of them being named?

From what I remember Albion West was the thing we saw that was killed by Topsiders at the start of the Unity arc. And that's it.

We don't know what Deep City was, Mallard just got a call from it and that.

The rest? They were a mystery, or rather just names. Endtown on a whole just seems like this weird place where it's just Endtown and next to it is whatever they need at the moment. Sort of like Springfield or Early South Park.

Reviving

When are the topsiders just going to put the mutants out of their misery?

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>>7157128
>Soon

I've been wondering how many colonies have been wiped out ever since the topsiders have launched their satellite, and how the colonies that survive are coping.

>>7158134

>All that destructive power
>They have to eat reclaimed waste

Pure pottery

GoComics just added system whereby you have to actually click on the comic to see more than half of it, now. That's really stupid...

>>7159864

i just saw that, complete ass... what are they thinking?

>>7160172
What with the initial lack of button graphics, the half-finished look of the new design and the fact that they're very obviously still adding features, I'd say what they've tossed out to the public is half way between an alpha and a beta.

They also seem to have lost everything but the first 25 or so comments on every strip, so that's fucked.

>>7160224
>They also seem to have lost everything but the first 25 or so comments on every strip, so that's fucked.

i noticed this too, they totally fucked up.

>>7160224
>>7160275
Actually, scratch that, it looks like... the comments are still there, but the comment totals are screwed because old comment threads that got imported didn't get replies figured into the totals?

Bugs, bugs everywhere.

The calendar-based strip-finder is messed up, too - no matter what I do or what strip I'm on, it always reverts to the current date when I click on it, which is annoying if you're trying to jump through the archives X strips at a time.

>>7160477

it's a complete fucking mess, it's like they didn't test the fucking thing.

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Rollin'

>>7162502

why not...

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>>7162502
>Canine
Not bad, and I can case piggies then get beaten up by Walt

>>7162502
roll

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>>7162502
I want da corkscrew

>>7162631
>waterfowl

Meh. Could have been worse.

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We need more Jim/Wally

>>7162502
I might as well.

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>>7162502
>>7163438
>Rabbit

Not bad.

>>7162502

I'm bored, might as well

>>7166496
The Endtown security rats are cute. They need more love. Are there any lewds of them?

So... I can't help wondering again, lately... does anything that gets said here get back to Aaron without getting skewed or edited?

I'm assuming it does, in fact, get back to him in some fashion - I feel like a man who told his own friends to act as his "informants" in the /co/ threads would want them to keep an eye on these threads too, especially after the stuff that's been coming out lately...

>>7168037

I'm pretty sure his informants have told him that /trash/ figured him out and found some stuff about his real life. Not that a whole of people here care. There's nothing but regret on /trash/.

Compare that to the fake praise each page gets on /co/ and you'll see how much of a facade these "informants" are trying to make 4chan's feelings towards Endtown.

>>7168311

sometimes i wonder why do we bother with this comic at all, holly leaving and kirbee turning protag, pretty much killed this comic.

>>7169124

Lost investment. You invested into it this much and that's the only reason why you keep yourself checking it.

>>7169370

might as well move on.

>>7169124

I don't think it was just the end of the Ship Arc that did it but also that firestorm afterwards where Aaron used Marx to talk down at his naysayers and critics. You can see there was a flare of indignation and the following strips are just dead in the water with reception.

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This was the worst offender, He's not trying to hide anymore how much he's shoving this shit character down our throats, he could have made a group pic, but nooo.

Also the new banner is terrible.

>>7169530
I really think he intentionally forced in Kirbee as a result of his divorce. Holly and Wally made sense, Kirbee feels forced because it clearly is. There's no reason the two would be a couple.

Kirbee is also a shit character regardless.

>>7169589

>Kirbee is also a shit character regardless.

This is what bothers me the most, It's the i know better attitude. Kirbee is a terrible character, Holly was soo much fucking better and she had no reason to be outed, not one. It's pretty obvious that the divorce had everything to do with it.

We're passing on the way to post your art thread

>>7166496
>>7166549

Like this?

>>7169673
>>7169589

I don't hate Kirbee too much but I feel she's from a different comic. I had a lot of suspicions about Aaron and I'm kind of sad they all were true. I was talking with RPGAnon the other day and we kind of agreed that development of the RPG might've reached the point where Aaron was unable to give us solid answers.

In the sessions we had gone to New Persia or Deep City, but no information about them was ever given by Aaron, Everett was the guy who designed them for our sessions. A lot of crucial info and explanations like Amesworth radiation we had to invent on the spot cause there wasn't really much data from Aaron.

Now the whole divorce thing? I always suspected Aaron didn't like women that much when I started reading. There was such bitterness towards them in form of Sarah, Velda and Linda. Which is weird given that Holly & Wally were a nice couple... and things weren't so bitter with Flask arc even. Kirbee stuck out like a sore thumb. Again.. the weirdest thing was that Lyn came in all of a sudden in form of flashback. If anything I always felt that should've come REALLY early.

The comic right now when the curtain is torn off is nothing but a mess and I'm kind of sad because of it. If anything - Aaron's work ethic is the only thing that I got out of it, the rest looking back was nothing but being mesmerized with an illusion of an interesting comic.

Shame.

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>>7169933

Forgot to post, whoops

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>>7169939

>>7169933

hey Suule.

>>7169966

Sup. Nice dubs

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>>7169949

I really want to stroke that uncut dick.

>>7169939
>>7169949
>Like this?

Yes, Very much.

>>7169933
>I don't hate Kirbee too much but I feel she's from a different comic... Kirbee stuck out like a sore thumb.

That's the reason she gets so much hate. She doesn't belong in the comic, none of the other characterization is anything like hers, she doesn't fit in, and she was clearly forced in in a way that's incongruous with the rest of the comic.

>>7170301

to think she's gonna get an arc all to herself after this one... might as well stop reading this shit now.

>>7170301

> Yes, Very much.

No prob, if you folks want to grab a sketch or something from me, I'm always open.

> That's the reason she gets so much hate. She doesn't belong in the comic, none of the other characterization is anything like hers, she doesn't fit in, and she was clearly forced in in a way that's incongruous with the rest of the comic.

Yeah I understand. Again, overall the design and personality is NICE enough for me to see her good side just she feels like someone from a crossover that should've ended long ago. I don't hate her, but her whole admission in the comic is questionable. Now if as it was suggested before it is Selina and Holly was Beth. New GF slapping old wife, let that sink in for a bit. Also Holly sendoff being so mild compared to original idea? Now if you think about it - maybe he wants his old wife to be happy with another man now after the initial rage is over?

>>7170608

I don't think she has enough of personality yet to constitute her own arc, also let's see how long this admiration lasts. Relationships are a fickle thing.

>>7170301

What's strange with Kirbee's displacement from the comic is how bleak Aaron crafted his environment. Kirbee came from a settlement where the racial subset of 'lizards' performed mass genocide against other people of different species. They survive by stealing from passersbyes and eating unborn fetuses that don't conform to their breeding standard. Women are encouraged to lay as many eggs as possible to enhance the colony and 'provide' food. There's also implications that mutants who are captured may be killed and eaten for sustenance (but that isn't solidly proven).

It should be impossible for someone like Kirbee to come from that situation. You can argue her attitude was due to her being simple, but she worked taking care of the dungeons and either participated or saw the Unity uprising (or like Sarah was relayed the story if she isn't native herself). At SOME level she should be fucked up but she doesn't seem to be. It's to the point you can argue she's even crazier than Holly and lives in full blown delusion.

>>7170722
>I don't think she has enough of personality yet to constitute her own arc,

i bet Aaron's struggling to come up with something. bet that was the reason he postponed her flashback as well.

>>7167692

That little hat is cute, though

>>7171085

The fan picture of human Kirbee with her dad at her first rodeo I think fits enough. Rich and rural might be what she's like, especially with that whole 'not having anything for want' line she gave during the ship arc.

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>>7167692
>>7171176
Jerboas are cute! CUTE!

>>7171085
>>7171411
According to a certain someone, though, Kirbee's backstory is so tragic it'll bowl everyone over. And at least at some point her backstory was going to involve her old life being so awful that she much preferred her life post-WWIII.

I bet you she was fat as a human and she's bulking up now preparatory to a direct fat-acceptance reference in the comic.

>>7172862

> Fat Acceptance

Fetishes are fetishes but stop shoving them into your work, for god's sake.

>>7172862

>more TRAGEDY lobbed onto another character
>"gee guys I didn't mean to have my comic this dark"

Aaron really has no sense of tone, especially with his established characters anymore. It's remarkable that the guy who wrote the Sparkplug arc is the same who thinks this is a good idea.

I should have been tipped off by Flask's redemption, looking back. I serial read that and found it strange to focus this tragic backstory on a person who was wholly unlikable in every aspect. Terrible people live and get happy endings while good or loyal people die in a ditch and get no recognition. The world is shit and everything is garbage in it and nothing seems to acknowledge that.

>>7173274

Aaron loves repeating himself. His commentary on Narbonic actually says a lot on how he rites

http://narbonic.com/comic/aaron-neathery-s-guest-week-and-a-half/

> Guest commentary by Aaron Neathery:

> Sorry, Dave. The rules have changed, buddy! In the original Albert outline, the idea that the public would warm to the lethal side-effect of the cola was unforeseen by everyone, even the corporation that was selling it. After a brief attempt at pulling the drink off the market for fear of lawsuits, the Pep Cola Corporation quickly resumed production when they saw their competitors fill the market gap with openly-lethal imitations. Instead, Helen reads the public’s desires and goes straight for the jugular.

> I don’t believe for a second that any such “peaceful agrarian society” would truly result from the loss of four billion (billion!) people and the collapse of our infrastructure even if the only survivors were peace-loving hippies…but it does here just to spite Helen. My personal favorite of this sequence. I love the image of Helen wandering alone across North America, unarmed, trying in vain to convince the random people she meets that she should be allowed to rule them. Her plan worked too well; she’s made herself irrelevant. HA!

> General rule of thumb for just about everything I’ve ever written: the results of any character’s grand scheme is the complete opposite of what they’d intended. Naturally, a character setting out to brutally conquer the planet would inadvertently create a peaceful paradise they’d be incapable of ruling. The soundtrack for this strip would have to be the Talking Heads’ (Nothing but) Flowers.

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>>7173040
Too late. Turns out Aaron's fattening up Selina just like he is Kirbee. So yeah, he's still in the FA movement and it's coming out in his work.

>>7146726
>>7146957
Can't tell if serious...

>>7175018

He's serious, alright...

>>7162502
Let's see.

>>7175018
Kirbee is shit. What's good about her?

And regardless of her undeniable shittiness, as a character she just doesn't fit into the comic and forcing her in as Holly's replacement was really poorly done.

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>>7170894
>At SOME level she should be fucked up but she doesn't seem to be. It's to the point you can argue she's even crazier than Holly and lives in full blown delusion
I suspected that was the case, that the delusion cracked a bit in this panel and she was eventually going to have a mental breakdown. It's kind of cliche but I would've prefered that to "she is just Kirbee".

>>7174191

Disgusting. I hate seeing people kill themselves

>>7176231
Could still happen, if it turns out this is just a rebound hookup with an adoring, doting, hero-worshipping fangirl (that actually sounds a lot like Kirbee and Wally, really), and this relationship, too, turns sour eventually.

>>7176427

Fetish lifestylers are really really really bad & creepy people for the most part.

Trust me.

>>7176861

specially furfags

>>7174191
I knew he had a fat fetish (why else would anyone draw Gustine, she's more hideous that the mutants) but being into weight gain shit is just fucking terrible ethically. People literally killing themselves and/or just to get their rocks off.

Honestly, the healthcare system should just refuse to treat fatties at all. Then the US could have government provided healthcare without raising taxes.

I wonder if his wife left him because she didn't want to become a land whale to help him get his rocks off.

>>7176898

I wonder if his leg infections have to do with his lifestyle. Poor circulations + sitting lifestyle...

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>>7176427
That's not the whole of it. I've been sitting here trying to parse this one... I originally thought the two ancient posts meant that he'd been fattening Beth to a horrific degree... but with the way rounding algorithms work, those posts would have to have been made early 2009, or late 2008 even, before he was married to her (which happened at the end of 2009), and records show only one marriage under his name...

So yeah, shortly before Beth, and as BeakerFA, he lied about having a 480-pound wife for Internet Cool Points on an FA forum.

Meaning that, yes, he has in the past told lies to make himself look better to people.

>>7176898
>I wonder if his wife left him because she didn't want to become a land whale to help him get his rocks off.
I wouldn't be surprised. Frankly, the whole "Forget who you were, this is who you are now, move on" stuff from Holly to Wally makes me wonder if Beth tried to get him out of the FA lifestyle and perhaps encouraged him to put being BeakerFA behind him, and it worked for a while (notice how Holly as a mouse was always thin?), but then their relationship began to go bad for some reason... which might explain why Holly suddenly became a hypocrite on the subjects of leaving the past behind (explicitly) and accepting one's own physical nature (implicitly).

>>7177280
Fat fetishists are the worst. I'm glad I don't know what those acronyms are supposed to mean.

People give gay guys shit because a few bugchasers exist (and are universally despised) but fat fetishism and especially gainer shit are just as horrible and life ruining but far more common.

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>>7169933
>Again.. the weirdest thing was that Lyn came in all of a sudden in form of flashback. If anything I always felt that should've come REALLY early.
Yeah. Right up to the midpoint of the Milk Trial Wally and Holly were still pining for each other in an almost telepathically-connected fashion (back when Holly was merely being made miserable by the experience and was coherent enough the next day to talk in court, and before she'd suddenly been beaten and it had just as suddenly traumatised her). I really feel like Lyn didn't exist in any real form except "Holly's baby must have had a father" until the ship arc, and then only after the swerve at the end of the Trial/divorce.

You know, I've been thinking, and this whole divorce thing might explain why Aaron seems to view Holly's fans so harshly nowadays, when once he could be counted amongst their number... it probably feels to him like they're effectively siding with Beth rather than him.

I also want to say... I feel like the whole "Not the Wally and Holly Show" thing is a recent, post-divorce change. I suspect he really did intend them to be the centerpiece adventurers of his comic, at least once upon a time, back when Holly could debate Flask, counterpoint Wally and shoot mutts with a raygun. Heck, he's still putting Wally and *Kirbee* front and center, even though they're out of focus right now...

... I guess at this point I don't consider Holly to be a victim of fate, or circumstance, or mental illness, or even her own karma. I suppose I just consider her to be a victim of Aaron Neathery. And I suppose the meta-ness of that is strangely fitting for this comic.

>>7178953
>Aaron seems to view Holly's fans so harshly nowadays

How? i am genuinely curious why you think this is the case.

>>7179460
Mostly a growing feeling... some of it from the bit at the end of the most recent arc where all people making relevant arguments were framed as waifufags, coupled with comments he's made in the past re: wanting to "challenge" Holly's fans and re: finding people who see Holly as being in any way empowering (despite her early-to-pre-milk-trial messaging) to be "disturbing"... things like that, that have been thrown into a new light by the recent revelations. There's also the sense, now, that he probably feels as though they were rooting for the "wrong" character...

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>>7179460
>Why are you doing this, you fiend?
That's how he started explaining his motives for "killing" Holly.

Also, the complainer in this strip is made to be an unreasonable idiot and he is clearly a Holly fan too.

>>7179771
It's one of those strawman-has-a-point moments, a double-whammy, in fact.

>>7179602

i see... Personally i think that the "Challenge" part was misinterpreted, i don't think he was trying to make her unlikeable on purpose, challenging people to try and love her regardless, for me, it was more like the reveal could change in some readers the perception they had on Holly, given that it was a dramatic shift in personality, i am also pretty sure that those comments were made during he breakdown as well, post flashback.

>>7179771

To be honest, that's a pretty accurate representation on how the waifuwars used to go down, both sides are completely obnoxious.

He's clearly mocking both sides, i don't see why some anons take this too personally...

>>7179830

Mockery or not, he was still taking potshots at his then-wife even in the flashback. Waifufaggotry aside. Also in the flashback we saw Holly's WORST side - self-absorption, alcoholism, cowardice...

...something we didn't see in the first arcs. You can't mask these traits, they can shine through.

The problem with our picture of Holly "Trying to mask" these traits is that Aaron himself painted two completely opposite pictures and tried to make us believe the latter one is true.

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>>7179830
>i see... Personally i think that the "Challenge" part was misinterpreted, i don't think he was trying to make her unlikeable on purpose, challenging people to try and love her regardless, for me, it was more like the reveal could change in some readers the perception they had on Holly, given that it was a dramatic shift in personality, i am also pretty sure that those comments were made during he breakdown as well, post flashback.
There's definitely stuff out there, from the earliest days of Aaron's friends trying to control the community narrative, that suggests Aaron was at least telling his pals that he was deliberately trying to mess with Holly's fans. Pic related.
>He wants to test the concept

>To be honest, that's a pretty accurate representation on how the waifuwars used to go down, both sides are completely obnoxious.
>He's clearly mocking both sides, i don't see why some anons take this too personally...
Except Kirbee's defender uses at least one of Aaron's own arguments, "Holly dropped him".

>>7180018
Man... we really do have too much free time. Or is it just obsession?

>>7180018
>>He wants to test the concept

It's true though, Holly has been cracking over time... maybe he was a little bit harsher that he initially intended, but it was still on paper. I don't see how this is an issue.

>Except Kirbee's defender uses at least one of Aaron's own arguments, "Holly dropped him".
>Aaron's own arguments

Kirbeefags have been claiming this since the letter dropped, i don't see how it's Aaron's own argument. Also the hollyfag calling Kirbee and idiot is not exactly inaccurate...

>>7180103

Free time really, plus Aaron is an interesting mental case.

>>7180103

people have taken the time to dig into Aaron's personal life and past... what do you think?

>>7180137
>It's true though, Holly has been cracking over time... maybe he was a little bit harsher that he initially intended, but it was still on paper. I don't see how this is an issue.
Except a lot of us don't believe it was always on paper... really, looked at with the recent stuff and the way KC was always trying to control how people saw things, it really does look kinda like Aaron just re-purposed one or two cartoonish peccadilloes and some characterisation from the lighter days of the early strip as "red flags"...

>>7180137
>Also the hollyfag calling Kirbee and idiot is not exactly inaccurate...
People were calling her an idiot since before the relashionshit drama started. In fact, it was done since she was given that "special" task by those two guys. It wasn't a Hollyfag thing until suddenly you could only speak negatively of Kirbee if you wanted Holly to "win the Wally Cup".

>>7180144

Only the BeakerFA thing came out long time ago. People now decided to do one more google search. It's REALLY not that hard, Anon.

>>7180204
>Except a lot of us don't believe it was always on paper...

Well, that is your problem then... the evidence is there, Holly's sudden attachment to Wally, sneaking in her backpack, those were all flags of her fragile mental state. Some just choose to ignore these.

>>7180234

But it did became a Hollyfag argument against Kirbee, eventually.

> you could only speak negatively of Kirbee if you wanted Holly to "win the Wally Cup".

Just the same way speaking negatively of Holly turned people magically into a Kirbeefag... it's really goes both ways.

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>>7180316
>Holly's sudden attachment to Wally
Of which Aaron evidently approved.

>sneaking in her backpack
Related to what I suspect was the original idea that she'd lost someone to a surface mission - she wasn't going to leave Wally to fate, she was going to watch over him. Reckless? Yes. But not exactly a sign of insanity, or at least I don't think Aaron saw it as one then.

>>7180316
>But it did became a Hollyfag argument against Kirbee
It's just a fact that Kirbee fans take too personally every time it's stated.

>speaking negatively of Holly turned people magically into a Kirbeefag
No.. not I don't think so. Far more frequently you see people being accused of being a Hollyfag for little/no reason. And usually Kirbee fans make themselves obvious so there is no need for false accusations.

>>7180316
>>7180359
In this dumb argument, I guess I could be considered a Hollyfag. Yet I always thought she was a little crazy even before the milk trial. Just like how Kirbee sticks out for being unrealistically cheerful, Holly always kinda stood out for being "quirky", specially because other characters would comment on it.

>>7180478
Quirky is fine, quirky is interesting. Heck, that's probably the reason she has the biggest entry on the TVTropes character page.

Really kinda feels like Aaron squandered one of his most interesting characters...

>>7180359

>Of which Aaron evidently approved.

why wouldn't he?

>she wasn't going to leave Wally to fate, she was going to watch over him. Reckless? Yes. But not exactly a sign of insanity, or at least I don't think Aaron saw it as one then.

she was literally "not letting go"

>>7180384

>It's just a fact that Kirbee fans take too personally every time it's stated.

It's true, doesn't change the fact that it became the Hollyfag's easy way to push Kirbeefags buttons and trigger them. Making the comic fairly accurate.

>No.. not I don't think so. Far more frequently you see people being accused of being a Hollyfag for little/no reason.

It did happen, though.. and a lot.

>>7180561
>why wouldn't he?
Oh, come on, you know the context here - he clearly thought their relationship was tip-top and absolutely peachy at the time, no red flags implied in his reaction - an enviable relationship, indeed...

>she was literally "not letting go"
Or, looked at another way, she was vowing that she wouldn't let another person be lost to the evils of the Great Waste, not on her watch.

Oh, and whaddaya know, she ended up saving his life on that mission...

>>7180561
>it became the Hollyfag's easy way to push Kirbeefags buttons and trigger them
Nobody does that. Seriously. It's always Kirbeefans taking it the wrong way. It's pretty much "trigger warning" bullshit.

>It did happen, though.. and a lot.
You know, something that also happened a lot is that most people accused of being Kirbee fans wouldn't deny it. Either those who denied being Holly fans were hypocritical or Kirbee fans were so obvious that people were just stating the obvious.

>>7180645
>he clearly thought their relationship was tip-top and absolutely peachy at the time, no red flags implied in his reaction

because it was? they were a great couple regardless of what drove them together in the first place.

>Oh, and whaddaya know, she ended up saving his life on that mission...

That's great and all, but doesn't change what actually drove her to make the decision to tag along. i am not suggesting in any way that it was a bad call at the end.

>>7180740
>because it was? they were a great couple regardless of what drove them together in the first place.
Well, I can agree with you there, they were one of the more appealingly written couples I'd encountered for a long time, when I found the comic... kind of makes sense, if they were drawn from a positive IRL relationship at the time...

>That's great and all, but doesn't change what actually drove her to make the decision to tag along. i am not suggesting in any way that it was a bad call at the end.
Well good, 'cos I don't think it was either - it was Holly being noble, sympathetic and self-sacrificing, as she was originally written. I actually think the pre-Opabinia Rocket Arc was some of the better writing in the comic... especially the bit with the child-monster in the sand.

What are the Kirbeefags arguments for why they like Kirbee? Is it just because they want to fuck her more?

There is literally nothing good about Kirbee as a character.

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>>7180825
>it was Holly being noble, sympathetic and self-sacrificing, as she was originally written.

That's what i don't buy, not the "noble" and "self sacrificing" part, but the "way she was originally written"... Holly originally had obvious issues, as she never really healed from the loss of her child, to me it makes perfect sense that she would eventually break the way she did.

>I actually think the pre-Opabinia Rocket Arc was some of the better writing in the comic... especially the bit with the child-monster in the sand.

The suicide mission arc was absolutely awesome, only tainted by marx at the end.

>>7181009
>That's what i don't buy, not the "noble" and "self sacrificing" part, but the "way she was originally written"... Holly originally had obvious issues, as she never really healed from the loss of her child, to me it makes perfect sense that she would eventually break the way she did.
Sorry, but it always seemed to me that Holly's issue, as originally intended, was that she'd lost someone to surface duty once before and had initially sworn off getting involved with anyone like Wally (which would make Doc's warnings to Wally about disentangling himself as soon as possible make sense - Doc had already seen her lose one person to the Waste, and Wally was a drifter, likely, as Doc saw it, to leave). Doc saw it happening again, and tried to head it off... but in the end it worked out, or at least it did until fifty weekdays after mid-June 2013.

The child thing seems to me to be more a re-purposing of the initial indicators for that (and not a great one) coming in at the end of the Milk Trial, and followed up by the very tacked-on feeling Lyn issue during the flashback arc.

>>7181169

I guess that does make sense, i'm curious though, you believe Holly was never supposed to be outed from the comic?.

>>7181233
Let's say that I don't believe Aaron when he says he'd always intended to, especially with the recent stuff figured in.

I wouldn't even have been too unhappy with her leaving (though I'd have preferred her and Wally left as an ensemble), or fading into the background (after all, Al and Gustine seem to have done okay with that, and there's nothing like a surprise cameo of a beloved character...). I guess I just feel that almost the entire last half of her character arc was increasingly a disservice to the first half, the reasons having been amply discussed here before.

I hope Aaron doesn't disappoint the fans that are hoping for a satisfyingly-written, if not necessarily happy, conclusion to Walt and Dottie's character arc (but then, I think those people might be surprised anyway because a lot of them treat it like a romance when it doesn't quite seem that way to me).

>>7181427
Not the other guy but I suspected Holly was going to die sooner because of JimGod's comment and Aaron mentioning that her reduced life-span would come into play at some point.

It's shame that neither of those actually had anything to do with what really happened.

>>7181427

Fair enough, i agree with you that, it may not have been his initial plan to out her, I figured that maybe Wally would have helped her cope with her issues eventually. However i find it kinda hard to believe it had anything to do with his marriage or that he suddenly started to hate the character and just wanted her gone, he would have just killed her as he initially intended if that was the case, and not bothered giving her that "happy lala land" ending he went with(which i absolutely hated), at least in my opinion. I still think the initial idea of her diapering or jumping into the ocean would have been better, at least she wouldn't have been outed as a hypocrite. At least that would have given Kirbee some purpose to be around.


>I hope Aaron doesn't disappoint the fans that are hoping for a satisfyingly-written, if not necessarily happy, conclusion to Walt and Dottie's character arc (but then, I think those people might be surprised anyway because a lot of them treat it like a romance when it doesn't quite seem that way to me).

Well, i still have faith in him, the arc is barely shaping up, we don't even know what role are Dottie or Walt going to actually play in this arc.

>>7181660

>disappearing*

(1/2)

>>7181580
Yeah, that was just... odd. Really does look like another change-of-plans from Aaron. For the record, I do think he was planning to do something like that with her *after* the Unity rewrite, but as speculated, perhaps the real reason he changed his mind (quite possibly almost at the last minute, hence the messiness of the ending) is that anger at his ex slowly softened into regret over the next year or so...

>>7181660
>Fair enough, i agree with you that, it may not have been his initial plan to out her, I figured that maybe Wally would have helped her cope with her issues eventually.
Oh heck, yes, I figure that was where the original idea for the ditto ship came from. It was supposed to be a way for Wally to help Holly by talking with her about (and giving her closure on) her traumas and past... which is the actual, real life way problems like Holly's are treated (albeit without dittos). Effectively, he'd be helping her once more to assimilate the lesson she taught him, or something along those lines. I think it would have been a great bit of writing, but I also think Aaron just couldn't bring himself to do it for various reasons.

I don't think Aaron decided Holly would be leaving/dying until about the time of the Unity rewrite, when he got a replacement he liked for... multiple reasons. That's about when he stopped doing all the art of her, after all...

(2/2)

>However i find it kinda hard to believe it had anything to do with his marriage or that he suddenly started to hate the character and just wanted her gone, he would have just killed her as he initially intended if that was the case, and not bothered giving her that "happy lala land" ending he went with(which i absolutely hated), at least in my opinion.
I think Aaron probably has too much respect for himself as a writer to do anything abrupt like that, and indeed, I suspect that the initial reaction to the divorce was to distance himself from the character somewhat, with the resentment only setting in later (perhaps around the "frothing loony" period), and then, as mentioned, giving way to bittersweet regret, which he tried to write into the plotline.

>I still think the initial idea of her diapering or jumping into the ocean would have been better, at least she wouldn't have been outed as a hypocrite. At least that would have given Kirbee some purpose to be around.
If he had to do it, then perhaps that would have been better. I personally think Holly dying in a self-sacrifice moment (perhaps to save Chic again, or Wally) would have fitted her character better, but that's just me.

>>7181677
>diapering
>disappearing
Well, as finally written, she wanted to do the first and ended up doing the second, so I guess that's actually fairly appropriate...

>>7182040
>I personally think Holly dying in a self-sacrifice moment (perhaps to save Chic again, or Wally) would have fitted her character better, but that's just me.
I disagree, I feel like a lot of her self-sacrifice was due to her impulsiveness and obsessivenes. On the other hand, it would have been great if she had realized this after seeing Kirbee being truly selfless THEN would've done something like that, finally becoming her the person she wanted to be. Bonus points for Kirbee also learning to stop being delusional from Holly at the same time.

On another note, it's a shame that we never see Holly being accepting of Kirbee before she left, that would've been a good character moment for both and would've helped end the waifu wars. The way things happened it almost looks like Aaron intentionally meant to keep the fights going.

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>>7182454
>I disagree, I feel like a lot of her self-sacrifice was due to her impulsiveness and obsessivenes. On the other hand, it would have been great if she had realized this after seeing Kirbee being truly selfless THEN would've done something like that, finally becoming her the person she wanted to be.
Though I'm not of the opinion that Holly was always intended to be that way, she was certainly written like that towards the end, so that could have worked, yes.

>Bonus points for Kirbee also learning to stop being delusional from Holly at the same time.
Hey, that would have been at least *one* point of proper character development for Kirbee...

>On another note, it's a shame that we never see Holly being accepting of Kirbee before she left, that would've been a good character moment for both and would've helped end the waifu wars.
Seriously, you'd at least think she would have made *some* kind of reference to Kirbee in the letter. Heck, I remember even Jamil seemed to want to see them get along...

>The way things happened it almost looks like Aaron intentionally meant to keep the fights going.
Honestly, I've long wondered if he had something to do with the pro-Kirbee trollpics KC drew and posted. I think, if he did, then it'd almost feel to me like he wanted to "wean people off" Holly and onto Kirbee, and then repulse the ones that resisted so that they were no longer part of the fandom and he didn't have to deal with them.

>>7182001
>the Unity rewrite

What was rewritten? Is being rewritten why it was the point the comic went to shit?

>>7182930
I don't understand what he means, the Unity rewrite concerns Jim and Sarah and Kirbee wasn't planned on either version, she just happened.

>>7182930
The point where things turned bad is a hotly debated topic around here, but the fact of the matter is that when Aaron got ill in the middle of the Unity arc, he used the extra time afforded to him to re-plot that part of the comic. Among other things he bumped Kirbee up to a main character (later claiming that she "fixed plot issues") and had Jim become demonically possessed instead of having him die by being eaten alive by Sarah in a cannibalistic death-orgy the Unity lizards would have held.

>>7182991
>Kirbee up to a main character

Kirbee just happened like >>7182968 claims, she was not in the original script and nor planned before hand. she was not part of the "re-write".

>>7183024
So she literally is a crudely forced in character who doesn't fit in with the rest of the comic.

When did he get together with his new girlfriend, whoever she is?

>>7183058
Selina? According to the posts above it was sometime during 2013, though I think saw her mentioned before they reached Unity.

>>7183058
She was his colourist throughout the latter half of 2013, I'm not sure when they began to grow close.

>>7183161
From her Twitter it looks like she'd moved in with Aaron by March 2014, though she was still just his colourist in September of the previous year (she refers to it as "her second job"). Seems like she was with him for the big hiatus.

>>7183024
I could have sworn there was something about it in an email - the rewrite gave her a bigger role than she had been going to have (one-off joke to full character), and then he says after she made her appearance he decided to keep her because she appealed and could be used to solve "several looming plot issues"?

>>7183766
Nope, he just made her to show that not all lizards were bad and she grew from there on her own. The rewrite was about the fate of Jim, Sarah, Unity and deciding to use "Eye".

>>7183874
Are you certain? Because I'm pretty sure about the "Solves looming plot issues" thing myself... I wish there were somewhere that had all the damn emails uploaded...

Is there, like, one of those Patreon emails for this every month at the same time, or what?

>>7183938

You're not alone, I remember that too. I figured the issue was that if Holly was dead on slated to leave Wally that Wally would have no reason to move on. He and Chic are both broken hardware and Wally especially was attached to Holly.

Kirbee conveniently gives Wally a cushion to fall on and was Team Mom for Chic since post-Unity.

>>7145453
You can't kill what was never [spoiler]meant to be happy[/spoiler].

What really strikes me as odd recently is how /co/ Endtown threads have a lot of unique IPs as if someone was phoneposting just to keep the thread up. Combine that with posts of dubious quality (Seriously some of the jokes are just bad and I don't even know why the authors were getting 5-6 replies). They all seem to vanish at the same time too.

I wonder if threads on /co/ are on life support to make Aaron feel like there's still an audience there.

>>7190480

I thought it was weird that I couldn't find an Endtown thread on update days anymore. For a couple of days I thought the mods were deleting them.

Then I remembered there was a thread in /trash/ to get the skinny on what's up. It makes sense that the readership that previously followed Endtown just evaporated and the threads can't sustain themselves anymore.

>>7191218
I'd like to see the recent history of the viewer count on GoComics, personally.

Do you think Aaron intentionally drew Holly uglier, or that it was unconscious?

>>7198690
Actually really hard to say, I think. He could have been doing it on purpose to try and influence or shift fans, or it could have just been his style wandering (as it's been remarked to do - witness the transition from "Shrek ears" to more realistic animal ears), or it could have been subconscious and related to his personal feelings on the character.

>>7151229
So thinking on this and how far the whole Aaron "writing by the seat of his pants" thing extends... could it be that maybe he hasn't even got a clear idea of what the "virus" actually is yet? I mean it's been seven years, the info on it is mostly inference and has always pointed away from it being a virus and towards it being supernatural, yet the only direct info we've gotten so far has been "nope, not a virus", and that only recently...

>>7203610
He doesn't improvise everything. He has already planned ahead most of the general storyline. The first time we asked, he said there was about 9 years worth of story left. The problem is that he is very prone to do last minute changes while he is actually drawing the strip. If his gut tells him that something should be different, he tends to change it. This wasn't so bad before when he had a buffer, he had the chance to discard those changes at the last moment and go back to the original plan (or do something different again) if he realized that it wasn't going to work after all. But as he got sick and kept losing his buffer, he ended up doing the strip page by page, which means that he has less opportunity to evaluate about how those last minute changes affect the storyline.

It's like shopping at the supermarket. You have a general idea of what you want to buy when you get in but as you browse you find stuff that looks good too so you take it, then before going through the cashier you realize you're buying more than needed or that you really don't want certain things you picked up, so you leave those and more or less end up buying what you originally wanted. Aaron is now doing the equivalent of rushing through the store picking up anything that looks good because he is too compulsive to just stick with the plan and ends up telling the cashier at the very last moment that he isn't taking certain things, likely realizing later that he bought stuff he doesn't need and left some that he did. But the damage is done, he can't go back because already used up the time and money. He can just hope to do it better next time.

About the plague.. "Eye" seems to have something to do with it, from what we've seen. Speaking of last minute changes, "Eye" wasn't going to appear in Unity but Aaron thought that it was better to introduce the "big bad" sooner than later, even if it was just a glimpse.

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>>>/co/89108175
New strip, new thread.

>>7204132
>bought stuff he doesn't need
>left some that he did
Yeah, I think we can all point to some of that stuff...

>But the damage is done, he can't go back because already used up the time and money. He can just hope to do it better next time.
That sounds like it's just going to become an eternal cycle of "Whoops, I did it again" without his buffer, though.
Man just needs to take a damn sabbatical already. It's not like it's without precedent in comics - hell, even ol' Bill Watterson found it necessary to do so twice, and I'm sure Aaron's patrons wouldn't mind if he explained it properly.

>About the plague.. "Eye" seems to have something to do with it, from what we've seen.
Well, some people think so, but even that's ultra-vague, though - the whole "wayward children" thing or whatever it was could just refer to humanity as a whole, or societies turned bad like Unity.

>>7208592
>That sounds like it's just going to become an eternal cycle of "Whoops, I did it again" without his buffer, though.
Pretty much.

>>7208646
I wonder if he's actually aware if it himself, though, or if he's in denial about what it means for his comic.

>>7208792

He is in denial about a lot of things. His last e-mail was full of anger that his fans don't share his worldview.

>>7206519

I'll just c/p my post from /co/.

seeing the last page and this one, I'm guessing this is what's happening...

>Jacob's new "self-acceptance" society is secretly encouraging predators to give in to their urges and hunt the "prey" species (which explains all those missing bodies and most of the missing people being pigs and similar prey animals)
>most of the targets seem to be those who do not join Jacob's society, so the whole ordeal is their way to coerce the unwilling mutants to either join them (by faking concern, as it seems whoever called that pig lady in last page was trying to talk her into something) or get eaten.

Pig lady's reaction from last page may also imply it wasn't the first time they called her. So they're constantly pestering people like a protection racket. "It'd be much better if you were to join us, ma'am, you'd be muuuuch safer....but you don't have to, no one's forcing you. But who's going to protect you when predators come knocking at your door then?"

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>>7208950
From the /co/ thread.
Jacob is very good at stirring up fear to gain political favor. It doesn't seem like too much of a step to turn it into a racket to gain even more power.
Happy Friday the 13th

>>7212885
Not bad, Pen Anon.

>>7210217
>even the ugliest TMs are attractive in Endtown
It's the perfect setting for human+anthro wet dreams. Funny how it comes from a serious story.

Question:

Endtown comic image files that come from the GoComics site have the format "end[YY][MM][DD].gif" for large files and, until recently, "endtown.gif" (IIRC) for the small previews the site used to have.

Endtown comic image files from the mostly-unused endtown.com site have the format "[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD]-endtown-[MM]-[DD]-[YYYY]1.gif"

What is the origin of the image files that people occasionally post (examples: >>>/co/89119644 and >>>/co/89121574) that have the format "endtown-[MM]-[DD]-[YYYY]1.gif"?

>>7219045
Damnit, that last one should be "endtown-[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD].gif", sorry.

>>7212885

I'm betting on it too, as he has already demonstrated how abhorrent he is in his plan to gain political power. I just hope the whole thing backfires on him big time and he meets the karmic end he so deserves (eaten by a predator mutant if it turns out he employed them to instill fear in citizens of Endtown and coerce them to join his group)

>>7190480
Happening with the current one. Last few posts have been random shit posted hours apart, always just when the thread is about to die.

>>7219045
Both GoComics image sizes would give you "end[YY][MM][DD].gif" and "end.end[YY][MM][DD].gif" for older images.

Those images you mention from /co/ are one from the unused site and one preview from GoComics, they just have custom filenames because, you know, that's something you can do.

endtown-[YYYY]-[MM]-[DD] is just better.

>>7219745
There's nothing wrong with bumping a thread during quiet hours. Like I did in this moment.

>>7219191

That's implying anything good happens in Endtown. Jacob would probably be forced to exile just in time for a new entrant to Endtown to show their face: Sarah Battle.

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>>>/co/89116707
Finished inking from the /co/ thread

>>7229921
What's the male equivalent to french maid outfits?

>>7230267
That's rather good, actually. Kudos!

>>7230395
Uh... a nice butler's uniform?

>>7230267

This is just too fucking good! Thanks PA!

>>7229921
Can't tell if Allie is simply uncomfortable or also jealous of Gustine rocking her uniform.

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Does anyone have the rest of this stuff?

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>>7243208
I don't have too much but I'll dump what I got

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>>7243769

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>>7243844
>>7243769
Welp, I think that's all I had.

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>>7243208
>>7243769
>>7243844
>>7243989
Found a pic of the hyena chick.

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>just noticed Holly isnt even in the banner anymore