Endtown by Aaron Neathery
Has anyone else been following this great little webcomic? I started reading it shortly after CR included it in the top spot of his Top 11 Comic Strips.
The plot surrounds a community of post-apocalyptic survivors who reside in a massive underground community called Endtown. The above world has been completely decimated and turned to desert through the use of disintegration ray technology during the last war. To make matters worse the combined use of all weapons of mass destruction has spawned an aerial mutagen that instantly affects any human that becomes exposed to it. The result of the mutation depends on if the subject was conscious at the time of exposure. Being awake causes the mutagen to have a completely monstrous effect on the human, turning them into something out of a H.P. Lovecraft nightmare and giving them an equally monstrous mentality. Being asleep or unconscious during exposure turns the victim into a random anthropomorphic animal with the mind and memories intact. Most of the inhabitants of Endtown are these human/animal hybrids. There are a few humans amongst them who are unexplainably immune to the mutagen.
There is another group of humans who reside topside (nicknamed Topsiders by the residents of Endtown) who have protected themselves from the mutagen through the use of environment suits that they can never take off. Topsiders have an intense hatred for anything mutant and seek to kill or capture anyone they see as a potential carrier of the mutation. This also goes for humans who are immune to the mutation, as they see that in itself as an impure genetic. Most prefer to be instantly vaporized by the Topsiders in scuffles, as...
"Endtown" tries to maintain a sense of humor throughout the storylines, but I am always so much more invested and interested when things get dark and sometimes downright horrific. Take the current arc...
I highly recommend this one to anyone who appreciates a good narrative, art, and imagination.
Has anyone else been following this great little webcomic? I started reading it shortly after CR included it in the top spot of his Top 11 Comic Strips.
The plot surrounds a community of post-apocalyptic survivors who reside in a massive underground community called Endtown. The above world has been completely decimated and turned to desert through the use of disintegration ray technology during the last war. To make matters worse the combined use of all weapons of mass destruction has spawned an aerial mutagen that instantly affects any human that becomes exposed to it. The result of the mutation depends on if the subject was conscious at the time of exposure. Being awake causes the mutagen to have a completely monstrous effect on the human, turning them into something out of a H.P. Lovecraft nightmare and giving them an equally monstrous mentality. Being asleep or unconscious during exposure turns the victim into a random anthropomorphic animal with the mind and memories intact. Most of the inhabitants of Endtown are these human/animal hybrids. There are a few humans amongst them who are unexplainably immune to the mutagen.
There is another group of humans who reside topside (nicknamed Topsiders by the residents of Endtown) who have protected themselves from the mutagen through the use of environment suits that they can never take off. Topsiders have an intense hatred for anything mutant and seek to kill or capture anyone they see as a potential carrier of the mutation. This also goes for humans who are immune to the mutation, as they see that in itself as an impure genetic. Most prefer to be instantly vaporized by the Topsiders in scuffles, as...
...capture usually gets you a one way ticket to becoming a lab experiment, or your brain integrated into their robotic/cyborg technology.
"Endtown" tries to maintain a sense of humor throughout the storylines, but I am always so much more invested and interested when things get dark and sometimes downright horrific. Take the current arc...
...where three women have been arrested for using their animal byproducts (One of them is a cow, so she's been providing milk to the others). While this is not technically outlawed, the local government is attempting to use it as a rally cry against giving in to animal natures and maintaining that everyone is still technically "Human" and therefore should not have their bodies violated in such a manner. This has lead to riot in the streets as the locals have started to rebel against the trigger-happy police force that made the violent and public arrests in the first place.
I highly recommend this one to anyone who appreciates a good narrative, art, and imagination.
