So are we in for another horrifying act in Endtown's narrative?

So are we in for another horrifying act in Endtown's narrative?

LOCK AND LOAD

>security is going to forcibly try to pacify the community
>last encounter with said community was getting run out of town by them
I'm convinced there's something in Endtown's water supply that makes people stupid if Jacob or any of the security guys thinks this will end well.

I read about 2 weeks in one batch now. Thanks for reminding!

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That's a lol

is there a meaning to this?

Last time there was only a handful of rats

This time the rat brought more rats. A guns a whole lot of guns.

This is gonna end with a lot of dead wolves

I don't fucking know.

Probably something like "Rabbit fucked up something that was still growning, now everyone's gonna die"

still makes me angry.

haven't seen an Endtown thread on Sup Forums in ages

what's happened since last year?

The Great Waifu War angered the mods.

That's all, really.

I'm kind of psyched to see the rats smoke a few packs, but I feel like that's going to lead to a huge push back against Jacob. It sucks that we don't see more of how Jacob runs things because he seems like he was doing a competent job at least compared to the previous governments.

you shouldn't let it bother you Lee

what

It's gonna go down like the end of Inglorious Basterds

How much are we betting that that these fire suppressant systems use plasticized brains like the Topsider tech?

I could imagine Doc Duck could invent something that advanced without brains

He definitely could, but he wasn't the designer or the builder of Endtown. Marx seems to be involved with the creation of Endtown so there could be all sorts of fucked up things in the details. Besides if it were designed by Mallard, he'd let you know.

Fuck man, how long has it been since we saw Millard?

Too damn long.

But the one that put Jacob in power was the magic man, why would he allow something like this??

For the greater good

It'll all end in some moralizing type thing about the innate horridness of humankind and the general hopelessness of the setting

What was up with the trial? I imagined it would take up at least 20 pages, but it was over in 4.

god if that happens I'll take a break from reading.

Yea, I mean the way he went into power was pure dickery, but so far he's solved the food problem, installed a fire system, and wanted to try to keep his promises. I guess we'll see what happens, but I don't see him going full bunny Hilter mode.

I heard Aaron wanted the arc to be over by January so the trial could not last that long if that were the case.

The whole thing was a sham. Was there really any point to dragging it beyond those few pages?

I think his plan amounts to "break a few eggs and make the ommelette"

seems like he's setting up all major risk factors in endtown to self destruct and leave endtown stable for a couple more years.

After the whole thing implodes and everyone remembers where they are, few people will be willing to pretend they can have a democracy or embrace their inner savage.

I just kinda thought it would be a whole mini-arc on it's own. I'm just a sucker for Law & Order and courtroom drama.

Did Endtown ever pick up? It just got so boring, I dropped it soon after the aftermath of the lizard colony and the return to Endtown's story.

It's picking back up right now. It's wild

Are you fucking serious Jack

I'll try it again, even though I wasn't a fan of how present and quick the bear+pig romance was. Hopefully the hiatus helped the author get his bearings.

This better not be false hype like Jimgod

I went back and read that segment again since it'd been so long; that was a situation where the rats went into an unexpectedly hostile situation with just three of them against a bar full of pissed off citizens.

The rats were planning to crack down on the town then but the "High Council" blocked them from doing anything.

This time they'll have access to tear gas and a lot more firepower.

Of course they'll screw it up somehow because they're trigger-happy morons but it'll probably go well for them at first. At least until wolves get some of their guns.

I feel like this current arc has had some problems
> wasting weeks of time devoting to Walt and Portia are totally a couple and always were, I swear guys!

>Dottie goes from a fan favorite to a bull headed and apparently easily manipulated patsy who was used as credentials for the wolves to get their manifesto out. It feels like something's missing with her side of events.

>The wolves. Fucking seriously, I cannot grasp sometimes how stupid and contradictory they've behaved. The ones Dottie worked with used her. Some of them are...probably innocent but the story has yet to give us any indications that they aren't a bunch of assholes, the wolf-lawyer twist... Some of them are openly harassing people, we know what really happened with the horse lady so some of this shit they brought on themselves, and while everything in the story revolves around them and if they're being the suicide cannibal mystery, we've gotten to damn near a year of story and still have NO clues to unraveling this mystery.

>Groat sucks as chief of police. He really, really does.

FUCK, those were my exact fears when I dropped it.

i think the whole point is that people are pretending the war never happened so hard they are delving into stuff that is simply not feasible in endtown's situation

Realistically, in a post post-apoplectic community, rioters would be exiled or in this case executed. Survival is not guaranteed and you can't have dissenters - of any kind - creating unnecessary risk.

>Realistically, in a post post-apoplectic community, rioters would be exiled or in this case executed.

Pretty dumb sentence. Realistically, in this scenario, the rioters were in the vast majority and the ruling class would have been supplanted.

Iirc the wolves are a patsy for the greater picture: when they took the bones from the river there were teeth marks that were explicitly NOT wolves' mixed in with all the pigs. With all the "accept your race" tension, it's easy to take advantage of them and simultaneously escape the public eye.
Walt and Portia are setup to have either him move along, or introduce someone we need to care about in a growing cannibal society. Dottie getting manipulated was obvious from the start since she was too desperate and blatant with what she was doing and was easy to control. The lawyer turning a blind eye to Hoss was good though, since the trial was another sham.

I bet the talking water is behind this wolf riot

You'd be pissed enough to start a riot too if you had Marx's sweaty balls inside you.

so that one endtowner just sits and watches?

Has Aaron revealed what the Oracles assistant is?

I stopped reading after Rabbit decided to stay on the ship and a bit of everyone in the town attacking each other.
What's happened so far?

>Realistically, in this scenario, the rioters were in the vast majority and the ruling class would have been supplanted.

Endtown had both scenarios happen. The trial arc ended up with the whole city flipping out but both sides backing out because they knew destroying command upstairs is instant suicide, this arc just had a small, easily overpowered group doing the shitflinging.

The first ended up in pretty much your statement. The wolves, however, are powerless, but still a major risk factor - imagine you have to fend off a plague, topsider invasion, etc etc and a group of the chucklefucks decides to pull a powerplay. Normally, if the whole existence of the community is jeopardized by it, the people in charge (and pretty much the community as a whole) will try and get rid of them through the fastest means possible, which generally means killing them.

That's one of the major plots in endtown: things have gotten so stable for them they have forgotten they are one movement detection from being nuked to oblivion.

Holly's a mouse, not a rabbit.
Although with her teeth inflation over time that is understandable.

Like I said, it's been a while

Wonder where the drawfags went.

Mods kicked everyone off to THE OTHER BOARD.

Those are good points, really, but I feel like it's not done well *enough* in the comic?

I actually care about Walt and Portia, but the comic took weeks of strips to try to legitimize why Walt suddenly has a thing for the pig lady.

As for the wolves... I'll give you the lawyer bit because it was such a sudden slap in the face that his role was effective over all, but the problem is the bigger picture: There simply isn't much sympathy for wolves even if it's as you said and they're collectively demonstrating a massive problem with adopting Jackrabbit's philosophy.

We're introduced to the wolves with two shitheads who run down and harass an innocent lady over her stature and porcine race. They act entitled and like victims despite the deplorable act they've committed which furthers your idea and also describes most of the wolves over the course of the arc but other than the autopsy reveals at no point are we the audience really given any reason to feel sorry for the one collective 'race'. We saw what *really* happened with Heather; she overreacted out of a fear of cannibal-murder which lead to her entire mess but the wolves not only formed a mob against her, one of the same assholes who harassed Portia tried to fucking murder her before she schism'd. The trial was indeed a sham but Heather technically acted in self-defense and was driven into madness form it. And this isn't even going into Dottie's manipulation or that the wolves have associations with other people in Endtown who are depicted as being crappy people (the other pig lady.)

I kinda really wanna ask, unless the suppression measures in upcoming strips get super violent, where the 'innocent' wolves are, because the strip is painting the wolves in a similar fashion to the Lizards of Unity/Utopia/whatever their place was called, only society is kinda forcing them into the mold...unless that's sort of Aaron's point.

oh look, all the wolves are rioting but the calls are continuing. It's almost as if they're being set up as some sort of scapegoat

>he's solved the food problem
There never was a food shortage. Endtown's only "food problem" was a lack of variety. Beans beans beans. The long term solution to make sure they didn't run out was already under way.

>installed a fire system
Probably in there since the beginning and just never had to be used.

So I haven't paid any attention to this comic in forever. What was the resolution of the pigs disappearing?

As the denizens of /trash/ foist for a good wolf: 'sanitation wolf' or the guy who noticed Heather stumbling out of the alley after she got jumped who approached her and asked if she was okay. I don't have the image of the strip on hand but he had a unique manner of speaking, in a 'like, what's up with that maaan' sort of demeanor.

Come to find out from an email that this only good wolf in Endtown has no name and therefore likely no further purpose or role to play down the line. I kind of wonder if we're expected to forget he exists.

It's still ongoing; the cops--again, Groat is a fucking terrible police chief-- finally thought to dredge the waterways and found pig remains that have according to the fish people been dumped their frequently. Autopsy revealed that multiple animal bit marks--not just wolves'-- were on the remains so whatever cult/clandestine group is pulling this shit, they're NOT all wolves.

...I'm not sure what the /trash/ line meant but I figured there had to be someone I was forgetting, thanks.

>I'm not sure what the /trash/ line meant
The active Endtown thread there brings up that wolf fairly often when talking about the good to bad ratio and implications of the blanket assessments of full species anthros in Endtown's universe. There could be an active 'token' outlier for a species that doesn't follow traditional representation and stereotype, like Kirbee compared to the sociopathic lizards in Unity, but in general it's expected an individual to match the generalizations of the animal they took after.

In general there's a certain distaste about it that I agree with personally since it simplifies complex individuals into boxes of good or bad dependent entirely on their species' known stereotypes. Endtown didn't used to be that black and white when it came to people or characters, where examples we had for 'bad people' were a cat man trying to eat a mouse lady, villainous rabbit pulling the strings of an ill-intentioned panda, and an insane cougar fanatically looking towards the destruction of a genocidal human colony. Now it's been more the same of 'this whole species is bad so they must die' done twiceover now with the nuance of a brick through a skull.

given how every single Sup Forums thread would always have one of the first posts pointing at /trash/ for muh porn long before mods started doing anything I don't think it really qualifies as "kicking people off"

FINALLY SOME JACKRABBIT DEVELOPMENT

>scapegoat
I KNEW IT! IT WAS THOSE SQUARE-PUPILED FAGGOTS ALL ALONG!