Endtown could have been such a great comic.
>>151991967>make a major character based on your girlfriend>break up>ruin story Didnt help that it was banned from /co/ for 10 years for being considered furry.
>>151991967>horse words>cow tools
>>151992085Don't put your significant other into your art. Just don't. It's amazing what a consistent bit of good advice this is, and how often refusing to follow it has led to disaster. It ruined multiple characters in Venture Bros when it wasn't followed. It ruined Evangelion, too.
>>151992200Do you think the divine comedy would have been great if it wasn't for Beatrice?
>>151992200More than just Triana?The writing did recover it from it OK-ish. It forced a darker turn for Dean who was despondent and even bitter over it for a while which wasn't a bad direction (and seperated him from Hank, which was interesting). It forced turning Orpheus into a goofball which was inferior to his doting-dad thing, though.
>>151991967
>>151992653This was maybe one of the few exceptions, and that's because the work itself was pretty based outside of that already and back then breakups didn't really happen. Having a muse is fine, but allowing a muse to be in a situation that could turn volatile in relation to you is why some things crash and burn.
>>151993842Beatrice also was NOT Dante's "significant other." They met a total, of what, five times? She was his muse, they were never actually romantically involved.
>>151993874Even more based then, shoving a love interest into a book is fine.
>>151993575madam mim lookin ass
Imagine the smell
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I can't believe I read all of it to understand a panel about an insane raccoon or whatever that was posted as the latest update at the timeAre they even back in the town? Wasn't there something about a flying ship?
>>151994828POV is back in the town, Wally and some other randos are on a beach fighting against robots while lizard gf and bird boy along with a whole bunch of extras are rowing away to the sea, hoping to find a new place to inhabit.Also, the author put everything except 2 latest releases behind a paywall. Endtown is dead as far as I'm concerned.
>>151991967Many things could have. Many things don't. It happens.
>>151991967coulda woulda shoulda
>>151992200>Don't put your significant other into your art.This.
>>151992085>banned from /co/ for 10 years for being considered furryNot really, it's just that some asshole moderator had something against the comic and used that as an excuse to remove it from /co/.
>>151991967Any baddies?
Is there a way to catch up with this without having to subscribe to GoComics? I havent been able to keep up with it ever since the last arc with Wally and company ended and we returned to Endtown
>>151992085She was his wife not his girlfriend, they got divorced. You'd think the comic would've improved after he got married again but no it's still hasn't pulled up from the misogynistic nosedive the comic's been trapped in. Making Petey's PT girlfriend abusive and Gustine overlooking threats to Albert's wellbeing and life because of social justice just is following the same trends. Feels like years since there's been a competent and believably written female character and that one ended up being turned into toothbrushes and dropped into a pit of fire.
>>151992085>>151992200It also ruined that Laurell K Hamilton series when the author divorced the werewolf.
>>151991967>furry webcomic>reasonable initial premise>absolutely batshit insane execution that only gets worse and more retarded the longer it goes on>melodrama and extreme tragedy bullshit that only gets more ridiculous with each passing page>somehow runs for literal decades
>>151999450What really ruined it was when she turned a hardcore badass female character into a total slut by imposing all her own fetishes onto her. She had the Meridith Gentry series for fetishes and smut, readers LOVED Anita Blake for the plentiful action, and rare, tasteful sex scenes. I guess the Meredith Gentry series didn't sell as well, so it got canned, and because Anita Blake had a comparatively much larger fanbase...well, gotta get those demons out of her head and onto paper, so let's ruin the cash cow! The last good Anita Blake novel was either The Killing Dance, or debatably Blue Moon. By the time the other types of lycanthropes figure into the series in a more regular way everything pretty much turned to smut and all the lycanthropes were were all some sort of sex perverts, and Anita was well on her way to becoming a Mary Sue with insane power creep and basically Pokemon-ing all the lycanthrope species.
>>151999141There used to be a site that generated RSS feeds for GoComics comics, but it got C&D'd. I stopped following Endtown after that.>>151999049Flask
>>151991967Comic stopped being good after Marx was introduced. That was the jumping the shark moment for me.
>>151999141Just get your popup blocker to block the elements of the site that demand you subscribe and you can read it. I had to fiddle with mine to do it and it works.
>>151992653The Paradisio is the most boring part....
>>151999049The baddest
>>152001945The fact she was bait last arc to jerk the audience around and didn't even physically appear in the cartoon world was such a shit move.
>>152001978Right? I actually started reading again because I thought maybe Aaron had realized the error of his ways.
>>152001924Does that work on ublock origin?
>>152002532Yes, though I don't have the specific exclusion list since I did it months ago. I forget if I got it from /co/ or /trash/.
>>151995090Putting your comic behind a paywall is such a great way to make everyone forget it existsI keep forgetting achewood came back
>>151999995>somehow runs for literal decadesAutism is a Hell of a drug.
>>152003898Paywalling, especially retroactive paywalling, is pretty much always a tacit admission that you're a failure.
>>152002532>>152002654https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/76899612/#76909125https://ludditus.com/2025/04/19/bypassing-gocomics-paywall/
>>152006287Thanks man!
>>151997401Not Endtown in particular. There was some dipshit who was deleting any thread for webcomics with anthro characters (aside from Bittersweet Candy Bowl, I think). It was impossible to discuss Poppy O'Possum in its final days because of that, despite having threads for years
>>151995090>Endtown is dead as far as I'm concernedgoodNeathery is genuinely disturbed and he should have no other company than Marx
It's useful to know a number of characters in Endtown are borrowed directly from earlier failed webcomics Aaron made, essentially sticking them in hell as punishment for not succeeding. Gustine was just a black woman coupled with Al, the crazy inventor came from another strip etc. This was about Aaron Neathery's personal demons from the beginning.
>>151992200>Don't put your significant other into your art.Way ahead of this; I don't even have one. The only real people in my comic are my uncle and aunty and the mother/daughter team that run the coffee shop across the street from my house.
>>152006669Yeah, I feel bad for his current partner. I hope he either goes back to being sane or she cuts him off before it's too late.
>>152006700>for not succeedingBut they did. All of them were well-recieved in their respective publications. He killed them off or made them suffer just because he was throwing a tantrum at some thing or the other. So yeah, the writing was always on the wall.
>>152006591>Not Endtown in particular.I know but this is an Endtown thread, so I didn't feel the need to mention that. Also, it didn't stop at webcomics either; people were getting banned just for posting screenshots or GIFs of shows the mod didn't like, things that aired on TV (most infamously, somebody got a "stop posting furshit" ban for a screenshot with an ice cream).
>>152006591Hell, it's not just furry webcomics - we used to have really fun Dumbing of Age threads on /co/, but then mods threw a shitfit and deleted them on sight. Damn shame, as we had a pretty chill community - even the /pol/tards in those threads were fairly civil... for /pol/tards, I mean
>>151995090Was it him that stipulated it or GoComics itself? I thought it was the whole site that shifted to that model and Aaron just had to deal with it. I'm personally still wondering if that affected the patreon, there used to be an anon that'd report how it was doing.
>>152007144Yeah it was probably the site itself that decided on it, but since Aaron hasn't created his own site to host the archived chapters of his comic, we might as well consider him to be complicit with this shit.
>>152007214There could be come kind of exclusivity contract he has with GoComics that prevents that. Whatever the case the comic's growth potential is dead in the water. When it was free to access not many people would stick around past the Ship or Pig arcs if they weren't already immediately filtered by Marx. If I had to pay to read the archive I'd feel real cheated given there's nobody to really root for as a main character after a certain point. It feels pointless to get attached to anyone when they're either bent out of shape and made OOC later on or just flat out killed. Sometimes both.
>>152007278>It feels pointless to get attached to anyone when they're either bent out of shape and made OOC later on or just flat out killed. Sometimes both.Yeah, rip Wally.
>>152007458I miss Wally from before the divorce. He was dead long before he exploded.
>>152007488>before the divorceDon't tell me, Wally and that Mouse were based on the author and his former significant other?
>>152008428Wally and Holly were based on himself and his then-wife, yes. He even dedicated one of the earlier prints of Endtown to her.
>>152008428>>152008441No, Albert & Gustine were based on Aaron and his then-wife. It wasn't until Kirbee kissed Wally that he started projecting his issues onto them (though Jim & Sarah got hit by it first).
>>152008549He's admitted that Wally was his self insert and the dedication was 'To my Holly who makes everything new'. Though I would not be surprised if every pairing before Wally and Kirbee was demonstrative of his mentality and relationship with his now ex-wife at the time.It would also explain why Dottie, Holly, and now Gustine all became twisted out from what they used to be. Even Sarah kind of warped from the brief window of her at the start and middle of Unity to the end of it but that one could be explained away as her always being a sociopath.
How does she wipe?
>>151996393God, imagine being a fan of this comic, and this page drops, like... man, this is real awkward.
>>151992200Following this rule, that and family.
>>151995090>Also, the author put everything except 2 latest releases behind a paywall.Nah, you're bullshitting...>it's realThe fuck, you're not even letting people at least read the first 20 or so pages?
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>>152010022You can block those elements >>152006287
>>152010067I know that now (thanks anon), but it's just so dam odd to be ok with locking your comic away like that. It's no Garfield or C&H, it's a webcomic, and even the real shitty ones knew to at least lest people see the beginning. I could understand if paying for the wall got you the comic earlier than most, but locking the history is so fucking dumb.
>>152010028ough...
>>152006700>>152006768Might as well chip in with an incredibly relevant email from Aaron in 2016 about the old comics and creative process making Endtown.
>>152010140Fully agree with you.
>>151991967Has Linda appeared at all since Milk Trial? She was one of the more interesting POV characters for being a former Topsider regaining empathy.
>>151991967End of your own Town. Buster!
>>152006967The mods were actually upfront about why DoA got deleted, too many people discussing posts in the comment section rather than the comic or Willis.
>>152013613Oh, that's why they kept deleting threads after we made more of an effort to discuss the comic
>>152013892For awhile all it took was a single mention of Cerb to get a thread deleted. I think they became something of a zombie general after awhile because we hadn't caught on to Willis' five year cycle of insanity yet and tried to keep going once he had returned to boring relationship melodrama.
>>152009952It takes about 3 months of the author talking with the main character about the husband being removed to write him out.This is the only good part of it.
>>152014572>using the comic as therapy over the removalAaron did something kind of similar with Marx getting snippy at the end of the Ship arc. Going from equating the audience as children, addressing the plot hole of Chase finding out about Holly's horrible fate, and then him going even further with the Oracle hot tub scene after that was hilariously terrible.Like damn address it once and move on, stop justifying it in-comic, it makes the author look pathetic.
>>151996393Who's the artist? I know this art style. I've seen it in either Furrlough or Wilf Life before.
>>152012024Dude, she decided she couldn't handle life and left with that vessel to be put into a delusional coma while it fed on her. Maybe she showed up for a couple panels in a dream Wally had, but that's about it.
Did anybody ever scrape and collect Endtown?
>>152015730Anon said Linda, not Holly.Linda is the Koala in the OP image.
>>152010472Aaron needs to come to terms with the fact that what he really wants to write is a dystopian, pre-apocalyptic, cyberpunk story about the not-Doctor and just go with that. Just upfront about Marx being a very powerful manchild fucking with the proles.
>>152015743There was an almost complete archive that you could download from MEGA but the link no longer works. Maybe you could ask and have somebody re-upload it (not me, I don't have it).
>>152015792As much as he wants to write it with two failures to launch and Marx constantly being cited as one of the worst parts of Endtown I think there's a part of Aaron that knows he can't make Marx work but is way too stubborn to accept it.
