Endtown 2017-03-08

Fucking retcons, man. How do they work?

I have no idea what this is retconning

Why is there a viking drive a pre-Model T car in the first panel?

Because Aaron is a nerd.

This is getting a little too hamfisted

>Dottie and I just have different relationship needs
That's not really a retcon. That's just Aaron saying that Walt and Dottie had a thing, then went their separate ways outside of the audience's perspective.
Plus, it kinda makes sense: Dottie is way too headstrong, while Walt is way too laid-back for their relationship to work.
Although I'm not satisfied with the way this information was delivered. I mean, the joke is overdone, and the whole dialogue sounds forced. And yet I can't really think of another way to rewrite this scene (at least, not in 4 panels), so I guess it's fine as it is.

Shut the fuck up Carlos!

Y'all realize that he would absolutely destroy that pig if they fucked, right?

It's the part about him having a crush on Portia for years, guys. Probably did it because of all the "that was sudden" comments.

We already had a talk about how their species are surprisingly compatible AND WE SHOULD LEAVE IT LIKE THAT.

different relationship needs

kek

Yep, I'm done here. I didn't ship anyone with anyone else but Aaron's never-ending need to sublimate his personal romantic issues inside his work has broken whatever interest i had remaining in this not-a-virus The Unfunnies crap.

No more relationshit, Aaron. Use your Patreon dosh to pay for therapy and quit pretending this enhances your storytelling because it doesn't. You won't miss me and I won't miss you.

Okay, but actually leave this time

kbye

He wont, he will keep complaining and attacking Aaron like he's been doing since holly got outed.

Since I don't enjoy the porn either here or in /aco/ and the lore is no longer interesting, it won't be difficult. If it gets better someone will tell me.

>for years

Fucking real it in Walt

>and attacking Aaron like he's been doing since holly got outed

I wasn't upset about that at all since as I said earlier I don't invest much in Aaron's relationshit arcs. Holly was tolerable at best and Kirbee is, well, Kirbee.

Sorry mate, I got 9 or so problems with this strip but a bitch ain't one.

>I don't invest much in Aaron's relationshit arcs.

Yet, here you are.. constantly bitching and complaining about Aaron.

>in /aco/
THEY have Endtown threads???

nope, i'm sure he meant /trash/... that's where he spends most of his time bitching about Aaron's fat fetish, and how his divorce was the "cause" for Holly's departure.

Eh, I've seen worse. At least the storylines are still at least somewhat interesting and cohesive, which is more than I can say for Willis's therapy comic.

>not-a-virus
You deserve to feel bad if you believe it makes sense as a virus.

>pay for therapy and quit pretending this enhances your storytelling
Asshole has a point there, Aaron should really do something about his personal issues instead of simply saying "it could be worse". It hasn't stopped him from being able to make the comic but someday it will.. meanwhile it's making it less and less like the Endtown we all enjoyed.

>Aaron's struggling to keep up with his schedule, with his leg infection and constant computer failures that take hours of his work.


>Morbi's too busy playing Zelda to update his comic.

Oh we're gonna see some pork roll I'm telling you.

Well from what I hear this new Zelda is A+++

It hasn't been just a leg infection for a long time, people.

then what is it?.. KC.

You don't need to be KC to know that, we've gotten much stuff gradually explaining how it's progressed and that it could have ended a long time ago if his medical care wasn't so inefficient.

I do kinda wish that if you *really* need, or want Walt and Portia to be an item-- it's Aaron's comic and the shipping isn't incoherent or overtly self-pandering-- still have a little more damn discipline about it.

It's been a couple months in and the comic is barely scratching the surface of what the fuckleberries is actually going on in Endtown, and now the story's taking a pause to infodump why these two are together.

Have them have a cute moment while Portia's in valid, or do a better job of showing that Walt knew her from before the assault she was dealing with. Save *this* scene for later after giving the reader actual content of the situation instead of dangling tidbits over us for weeks.

>do a better job of showing that Walt knew her from before the assault she was dealing with
He didn't, that's why OP is calling it a retcon. It obviously is. Pretty unecessary too since nobody complained about things being so sudden, they just pointed it out to express surprise. Ironically, I think Aaron is actually upsetting his fans by trying to not upset them.

Wait, isn't that what KC claimed happened with Holly's "ending"? Could Aaron really be doing these things out of being socially inept?

Not if she sits on top

So nobody in Endtown know each other until the moment they're on panel together? None of them have any past, any history together, but what's on panel?

Do you get why that's a silly position to hold?

By your logic, because we haven't seen Walt's heroic moment in Pep Stadium, just heard other people talk about it, it's a retcon that's unnecessary and clumsy.

>actually holding morbi to any standard of quality
Only thing lower than he is Prequel-tier, and the gap ain't that far now.

Also, you know, words mean things. Retcon doesn't mean what you think it means. It means directly changing an established concrete thing in a story by pure fiat. IE: Character X is from Venus -> Character X was never from Venus, he was from Mars. (not even 'he was lying about being from Venus', just 'no, no Venus, that never happened').

Walt and Dottie were never established as a romantic couple, it was just hinted at, somewhat. Walt has never been established to have feelings for Dottie and no one else. It's not a retcon.

Honestly, I didn't even *know* he divorced until like three weeks ago. I feel a little bad criticizing though given the givens.

Aaron has health problems, a divorce and...hell, didn't two of his pets die? I've seen dozens of webcomics end and the authors evaporate into the ether for alot fucking less, and he hasn't yet turned into a Dave Simms/Cerebus shithead turning the comic into a mouthpiece of horrible; he's still trying to tell the story, just taking time to ship two characters in what I imagine is comfort food for him...Or maybe this is going to lead to some horrible fridging, I don't know.

Just that in lieu of how badly the comic could be crashing right now, spending an entire strip explaining why these two are bumping uglies isn't so bad comparatively.

Walt has always loved this character we never once met before a month ago

>a simple crush = love

And the moral is:

Just because you had sex does not mean you automatically stop being socially awkward.

>wolf image

Don't let the do_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

>Walt and Dottie were never established as a romantic couple, it was just hinted at, somewhat. Walt has never been established to have feelings for Dottie and no one else. It's not a retcon.
Idiot, the retcon refers to . Nobody here is talking about Walt and Dottie's relationship except Walt himself. There is no and has never been an argument about this. This isn't like the Holly and Kirbee bullshit, get it through your thick skull.

>So nobody in Endtown know each other until the moment they're on panel together?
It's not that they shouldn't have history together, just that it is unnecessary in this case. Their relationship was just as fine and believable without it.

>no one can ever have feelings for someone we haven't met yet unless they declare it out loud immediately upon their introduction to the audience

I don't remember this scenario happen anywhere before in the comic. If this was a pattern, maybe complaining could be justified.

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We've known Walt for a while now so it should have come up at least once. This like when Holly was revealed to be a man-eater. Both things are plausible but they're less believable than how the things were before them so it just needlessly complicates things, for no good reason.

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What do you mean?

What does that have to do with "forced romance"?

>you have to eat all the beans
>now this

This man is full-on pasta&egg salad.

Are you serious, or joking?

If you're serious, what I mean is that both Al and Flask had people they had feelings for which they didn't announce immediately, indeed, for a fair few strips in Al's case, and a whole bunch in Flask's.

You know, like a great number of other characters in all manner of fiction THROUGHOUT HUMAN FUCKING HISTORY.

Are you dense, or is this an act?

Dense. Check.

>people are seriously complaining about a character simply mentioning a crush they had

There's giving legitimate criticism and then there's just being petty.

You seem retarded. I guess I'll leave you alone now.

Eres un pendejo. We're not made to accept those feelings after having the characters interact for a while like it wasn't the case, like with Portia and Walt. It isn't just about feelings or shipping, it's about needlessly convulted fluff. And before you say something stupid like "Flask and Petey's relationship was convulted and nobody complained", that's because theirs actually helped the story move along and, again, it was simply not hard to accept given the context, unlike Walt and Portia.

Also, neither of those comics particularly illustrate your point. Finally, the other post isn't me.

It wasn't a serious complaint, if anything this is complaining about the complaining of the complaining.

I'm mostly complaining about the idiots that use stupid terms like "forced romance" and misuse terms like 'retcon' when what they actually mean is 'I don't like this.'.

Everybody has an opinion, they're like assholes, etc etc etc. But this seems like an exceedingly petty thing to be slinging around accusatory bullshit like 'this is Aaron's fetish' and 'Aaron's just changing his story on the fly due to pressure' and other such conspiracy theories along with the dumb critiquery and so forth. Christ.

Except nobody here claimed this is a forced romance, nobody here said a retcon is inherently bad (or that this one is particularly bad) and I'm neither of those guys who attack Aaron (this claim is seriously uncalled for).

Again, eres un pendejo (you're an idiot).

>Make a new character
>"By the by, I've loved you for years and the character I seemed to love several chapters ago... Yeah, we don't love each other and haven't far before the scope of the comic. Yep, this makes everything work."

This is getting pathetic.