oh boy here we go
>>83924801
>Greater good
>He's probably about to get pasted by the drones and disappear from the strip
I vote we name him Ambiguous-Marx
>>83924832
He's more of a Maybe-Fox-Marx-or-maybe-just-a-fox
>>83924801
>A REAL HUMAN BEAN
>>83924851
That's what I meant. It's probably gonna be left ambiguous as to whether he was a Marx or not.
>>83924801
Wait a second... did he just pull a lit cigar out of nowhere?
>>83924883
No, he pulled it from a universe where there was a lit cigar in that area
>>83924801
I would hate Marx SO much less if he always saved people in more mundane ways like this instead of making his bullshit powers super obvious.Although this does make me reconsider that theory that this fox is actually Clive before he has his brain harvested and wiped to be used in a transporter.I'd love to see an image of Clive-Fox's empty husk in the de-braining machine just after his cranial relief operation.
>>83924801
Just caught up on endtown after not reading it for the last several months.
Came here to say fuck Marx. Even when he's a fox. Worst character.
>>83925274
Don't believe that he's Marx, myself. Maybe he's Clive.
Also hot damn, I realized why he's lighting up that cigar. Thermal signature + fox musk = premium Topsider bait.
>>83925294
But we never saw him light it
he just pulled it out of his coat
>>83925083if this really is Marx, then he's a damn good Marx
>>83924801
Do you even have any more DOUBTS at this point? Greater Good talk? That's repeated ten times at the end of Flask Arc. And then we have exhibit A.
I rest my case.
BTW CARPGAnon can you tell me again what you want drawn + provide descriptions? Debbie, Velma and I forgot the last part.
>>83924801
It's not even ambiguous that it's Marx, what are you people smoking.
He clearly knows the future, his design is based on human Marx
I just started to like him, too. Only one with some semblance of sense.
>>83925533
I mean I don't really want to put it against Aaron for reusing him (Cause actually it makes sense - it's different dimensions with their own Wallies, Hollies, Kirbees, Flasks and Marxes). But really this is probably that one incarnation of Marx that people can feel sympathy towards as he's not some OP as fuck "Ha ha ha life is a game" person but actually behaving like a real human being.
>>83925457
Debbie is a Cocker Spaniel, y'know the ones with the floppy ears. She's about human sized, has short, curly hair that matches her fur, and wears scavenged SFPD armor
Franklin's the mousey dude, about Holly sized. Not sure what outfit he's going to wear, but it'll be different than last session, which was what was left of his Murk outfit
Velma is about three feet and still wears her hazmat suit, but with the sleeves rolled up enough to keep her from tripping over it. Her hair's up in a ponytail, and she still wears the olive green cloak that signifies her as a Captain.You know the "that's kinda hot" comic? That's what I based her look off of
>search endtown on tumblr to find more info
>literally nothing but porn
for such a niche comic I'm surprised
>>83925718
I know MattRat's works yes. Alright I'll see what I can do then.
>>83924801
FOXBRO WAS TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD
>>83925751
Check out the /co/ booru, there's 5x as much smut.
>>83926113
It's the perfect storm for fanart though - enough characters to porn, a laidback author, few good artists following.
>>83924801
Cigar AND greater good?
People actually doubt this was Marx?
>>83926113
Why has nobody updated the endtown booru in forever?
>>83927693
could just be motion blur
>>83924801
>The've got our scent
How a mutant smells? Also at this point is safe to say that he's Marx, I mean motherfucker just pull a cigar out of nowhere. What I wonder is If he's going to get killed.
>>83925083
But isn't what left of Clive head a bit too humanoid for that to work?
> Aaron Marx is one of the most hated characters in the comic
> Everyone wishes for his death
> Suddenly a version of Aaron Marx that is likeable appears
> He dies horribly to save Holly and Doc.
Monkey's paw anyone?
>>83924832
>>83924851
C'mon guys.
Faux Marx
>>83928244
It's definitely a cigar.
Well Marx-Fox, you will be missed, but let's be honest he'll turn into a functional god on Wednesday.
>>83925083Didn't Aaron already confirm brain harvesting and plasticizing was a post-war Topsider development? All they're concerned with at the moment is wiping them out.
>>83928666
No. He has confirmed in an e-mail that it was done by Apex subcontractors. Zero-guns were post-war. Ever wondered why Robbie was so similar to a Mutt?
>>83928535
More like Aaron went "Oh, you dislike my self insert so much? Well, here's an alternate universe version of him that's likeable,more handsomeand not a marty stu. Now watch him die horribly" while cackling madly at a blank canvas.
>>83928530
Yeah, Clive's brain alone was almost as big as Holly. This fox's head is no bigger than Holly's or the doc's.
>>83925274
>Came here to say fuck Marx. Even when he's a fox. Worst character.
Seriously? These four or so stripes have made me like this character a lot. Outside of a few weird lines he's nothing like Marx, personality wise.
The fact this fox is not carefree or waltzing around laughing at the rules of the universe on its face says a lot. Makes him look and feel like another miserable and likeable mutant like many others we've already meet. Especially since we're now even going to see him die, just like the rest.
>>83928530
I think Clive was a typhoid Mary like Petey was.
>>83928738
Robbie didn't have brain matter in him though. By the same email, prewar it was only experimental technology used in zero weapons, only later did topsiders use harvested brains for processors.
>>83925274
Enjoyed the crazy ride?
>Aaron got gay furries to jerk it to furry Marx
well played
>>83929415
>"This is what happens when you call my OC shit"
>>83929415
Sorry, anon, I don't jerk off to personalities or names. If it's hot, it's hot. Can't tell my dick what to react to.
>>83929481
Yes, but you touched yourself to this guy.
THIS guys.
>>83924801
>Aaron will not show any more of this fox after today's page
>He will leave the question of him being Marx or not unanswered and ambiguous
>This poor fox will forever be tainted by the possibility, even if small, that he may have been related to the most hated character in the comic
He deserves better, guys. He's the reason Holly is alive today. Innocent until proven guilty.
>>83924801
I wonder if Wally is looking at this fox and thinking
>This guy seems oddly familiar
>>83929524
>unrest, mister talking cat...That is the very substance of life...
It almost seems that Marx is telling Wally that he is about to be part of some really crazy ride...
>>83929415
Jokes on you, I saw through the ruse.
>>83929685
But you can clearly see that is Marx, between the clothes, the wording and the fact that pulled a cigar out of nowhere is more than the evidence necessary to make the veredic.
>>83928820
Requesting any drawfags to draw a human Marx and fox Marx version of this.
>>83924801
Ok I got this idea: what If Holly and Doc gets captured in the way to escape from hillside and get sent to Pep stadium. After all you know what happens Walt helps everyone to escape, and with the directions that fox Marx gave to Doc they find the way to Endtown.
>>83930799
Very possible. Plus Dubs of Truth make it more plausible.
>>83925083
>>83925294
Could you fuck off with your obsession on Clive being anyone they knew before? It won't happen because it would cheapen what happened with Petey.
Good thing you aren't writing a comic or else it would quickly turn into a cliche storm.
>>83925751
>tumblr
There's the problem. You. Get out.
all the husbandos are dead
>>83932129
But what about Wally, Walt, Mallard, Jacob, Chase, Angus and the commander of the rats?
I agree with the rest who've mentioned it: that cigar came out of nowhere, it makes him unambigously Marx. The dialogue has dropped too many hints already but that confirms it.
>>83932172
>Walt, Mallard, Jacob, Chase, Angus and the commander of the rats?
Seeing how Endtown is about to get into a full blown civil war, at least two of them are guaranteed to die in an upcoming arc.
So what that anon said is not too far from the truth.
>>83932208
No only that, the cigar was already lit when he pulled out of his coat, what kind of person has a lit cigar in his coat? Also, of all the characters we have seen so far, guess who is the only one that also smokes that type of cigar.
>>83932381
Actually, I think we've seen more of those. At least Jacob had one. Then again, he knew Marx by then.
>>83932349
Not yet really, acordign to Aaron things in Endtown are cool. but it can go into the shitter in any moment. My predictions are that Walt and Jacob are gonna diekilled by Chicif that scene in the Holly's baby room is something to go by
>>83932857
Jacob is going to die because Karma. Walt is going to die because pic related.
Now that we know that the fox is Marx, seems like there's nothing much to discuss again.
>>83934159
So do we think this was the "something interesting not necessarily related to Holly" that we were going to find out, or is that still to come?
>>83932914
>Jacob keeps pushing that "accept your animal self" bullshit
>Ends devoured by a mutant for being a natural prey
>>83934159
Yeah, this also is going to kill any possibility of more lewds of him, sorry Fox anon your dream is dead.
>>83934883
Nah, I still feel that this arc has another surprise for us. Hopefully this time it won't involve Marx
>>83934159
Fox Marx was a hero
Rip in peace best Marx
>>83935225
Technically, "normal" Marx is a hero because he's saved many lives. The problem is that he also seems to ruin some.
>>83934983
Could be Mallard as a human, involved in the Pep Park stuff, or a reveal that the Rats had already been in existence in Endtown as its caretakers long before people started mutating.
>>83928540
I think you did a good job anon
>>83935961
>"It was all collateral damage, for the greater good"
>>83935968
I said that it will be something about the virus, there's must be scientists in the stadium analyzing the mutants
>>83936132
Possibly confirmation that it appears to have no actual physical component.
>>83936211
That would put a new question in the table: how it transmits if it doesn't have any physical component? unless my assumptions were rightand everything is in the head of the infected
>>83936359
Well, we've had different possibilities thrown around:
>It's a side effect of low-level background Amesworth radiation, going with the idea that Amesworth works by degrading an entity's morphic field (the thing that tells it what shape it should be, connected to its sense of self). This would mean the "virus" could be exacerbated by mental uncertainty or whatever, and mutants are the result of human fields grabbing morphic scraps from lesser animals in an attempt at self repair. It's omnipresent in the modern era because of the bombs painting the entire environment with low-level radiation. This doesn't quite explain why mutation is near-instant now, though, or why mutants don't keep mutating (maybe a patchwork fields are more stable?).
>The "virus" is in fact some supernatural entity, possibly even particles of "Eye", that feeds off stress and anguish and by the modern era has fed sufficiently (gorging itself on the global horror in the final minutes of WWIII) to be omnipresent and strong enough to mutate people near-instantly. Ethereal, but not capable of passing through nonliving materials, so everyone that's been in a biosuit since before it was everywhere is still infection-free.
>>83936901
If that's the case, then wouldn't that mean that the reason Typhoids haven't mutated is because they're not stressed/doubtful?
Because if so, then Al must be a really fucking level-headed guy
>>83937070
>then Al must be a really fucking level-headed guy
And also the strongest character in the comic
>>83937070
I think it's "strong sense of self" for the Amesworth idea, "lower stress responses" for the supernatural idea.
Honestly the true cause will probably be something that comes totally out of left field. Like, Marx dropped a bunch of badly-programmed Lucranian nanobots or something.
>>83937205
It would be really funny that the mutations wasn't neither Marx or Eye fault and instead was just a thing that happen for the sake of happening.
>>83937414
Someone theorised that Eye was a damaged, insane Mother Nature before. It looks like it's actually something related to the end of Albert, but what if it's still something like that causing the mutations? There could be three super-powerful entities involved here. One that caused the war, one that took advantage of it afterwards, and one who just meddles for the sake of playing a giant game of The Sims.
>>83937165
Not really but he's incredibly strong for a guy his size.
>>83937758
I dunno, I kinda doubt that
>>83937758
>It looks like it's actually something related to the end of Albert
That seems to be the case, Marx mention the existence of a mascot (Ted) that can see through people soul and who also results to be an eyeball. Other thing that I wonder is what happen to his girlfriend, given that in Endtown we find Al and Gustine again one can assume that all the persons that died in the Albert universe resurrected in the Endtown one, but his girlfriend in nowhere to be find. It's weird that Marx didn't tried to enter in contac with her again since he really seemed to love her, it could a relation with the fact that she was right in front of the button that activated the plugs for the free energy that later was the cause of the destruction of the universe.
>>83941159
What if she resurrectedas Flask
>>83942254
Possible, but Flask's own rebirth seems to imply that people keep their appearances between lives.
(It must have been really confusing for her parents in that universe when they gave birth to a cat.)
>>83942904
>tfw you give birth to a cat-woman
>>83924801
God this fucker can't die soon enough.
>>83943397
>Hating foxMarx
absolutely disgusting
>>83943397
Hey, fox Marx isn't that bad. At least he's not a smug cunt as flying ship Marx, an edgelord as Endtown Marx or #2deep4u as kid Marx. Him besides female Marx are the only supportable Marxes and I'm being merciful including female Marx.
>>83943628
>Him besides female Marx are the only supportable Marxes and I'm being merciful including female Marx.
We know nothing about Female Marx beyond her being capable or riding a horse.
But you're right, this fox assuming is a Marx is probably the only likeable one.
>>83943628
>a smug cunt as flying ship Marx, an edgelord as Endtown Marx
So we're going with the idea that those were two separate Marxes? Because I was kind of thinking that Milk-trial Marx was a result of Opabinia Marx absorbing Flask's bad side and becoming even worse.
Is there an origin to Marx in any of Aaron's other comics or has he just always been a really bad version of Doctor Who?
>>83943745
You'd probably have to go right back to the Aaron Marx comic Aaron wrote in middle school, which is where Kid Marx comes from, I believe. Someone said "Albert" had him dreamed up by the little psychic kid, but I couldn't bear the comic or the website's interface long enough to find out.
>>83943674
The real question here iswould you with female Marx?
>>83943729
Given that his personality change drastically between the missil crisis and the milk trial, even if he's in fact the same Marx it still can be considered as a different Marx from the Opabinia one.
>>83943875
>Spoiler
fuck no. But Fox Marx...
>>83945100
Daily reminder that whatever option you choose your will still end fucking Marx
>>83943842
>>83945483
>>83945560
wow, what a grade A DICK
>>83945483
I smirked slightly at the punchline in this one, but holy cow:
>>83945560
What an absolute fucker.
Aaron Marx works if you're doing a gag-a-day kind of strip because it's a broad enough concept for you to have plenty of material, but it isn't serious enough for you to have to think too hard about your situations or jokes. Putting him in Endtown is such a serious moodswing that I'm not sure why Aaron ever though it'd be a good idea, much less a goo, recurring idea.
would you read a comic from Aaron in this style?
>>83945683
Is it just me or are the proportions between Marx and his GF completely fucking wrong?
>>83945718
>>83945683
Definitely, but I don't mind the strip gap format he uses currently
>>83945683
No.
That's the one he started over and over and finally gave up on, isn't it?
>>83945738
Nah, his head is still twice the size of hers and she comes off as a child or seriously stunted compared to him in the last panel.
>>83945747
>That's the one he started over and over and finally gave up on, isn't it?
Yes is this one, he keep changing the story over and over and redoing pages that everything accumulated and that's when he said: "Fuck this shit" and started the development of Endtown.
>>83945826
Ugh. Trying to combine plot and comedy just falls flat so much. Christ, it's painful.
>>83945780
Marx reminds me of Frankenstein's monster in that last panel.
>>83945916
>Oh god! The ray causes massive hand growth and/or head shrinkage!
>>83945683
>>83945738
>>83945779
>>83945826
>>83945859
Is it just me or does Marx's girlfriend seem to not have much characterisation beyond that? All she seems to do is point things out and ask questions.
Kind of like some of the classic companions of the Doctor, come to think of it.
Also there's another thing that looks like it's been "borrowed" from the Doctor - I'm pretty sure it's canon that the Fourth Doctor's coat had something multidimensional going on, too.
>my fucking HAND
>>83946029
I was getting the same vibe
>>83943745
Something about "interdimensional trickster who never has much happen to him personally, but the people around him get fucked"
>>83946102
How did Marx go from spindly, annoying Doctor Who ripoff to self-sacrificing foxy savior of good waifus?
>>83946064
Aaron page says that he is a animator right? In what kind of animations does he participated?
>>83946144
Because A. infinite number of them means at least one isn't a cunt and B. Aaron probably got enough backlash to tone it down
>>83946147
He's an animator? Shit, I'd like him to animate a page of Endtown.then I could beg anonymous shitposters to voice it.
>>83946102
>>83946135
>new cat
What was she from?
>>83946226
>>83946173
>>83946102
I want to strangle whoever thought this font was a good idea.
>>83946273
What is this, proto-Endtown?
>>83946273
So Mallard and Clive made it out pretty intact, it looks like he got the general idea for the Deadeyes out of his government guy, and then Flask got her early start here. I guess the 2nd duck got lost to the ages.
>>83946259
Please do not harm the Neathery. That font was chosen seventeen years ago.
>>83946301
Proto-proto Endtown. Proto-Endtown is the one with the living skeleton.
>>83946301
Everything Aaron has ever made has basically been proto-Endtown in that Endtown is the latest/final culmination of his ideas.
>>83946322
Aaron made a mistake for choosing it, but someone made it and deserves corporal punishment for that.
>>83946144
But he is still spindly, annoying Doctor Who ripoff, only that this time he's more bearable because it's a different version of him. And lets be honest here both him and kid Marx are attempts to make people like him, a little late for that don't you think?
>>83946201
His deviantart page says that he's a professional animator. That's why I want to know in what he worked.
>>83946350
>Aaron made a mistake for choosing it, but someone made it and deserves corporal punishment for that.
Looks like it's hand-lettered to me.
>>83943745
>>83946029
that reminds me, Doctor Who was almost a cartoon series in the 90s
>>83946423
Doctor Who as a series is only 12 years older than Aaron. He's 41. Let that sink in.
>>83946415
Looking at the Rs, it has to be. The early 2000s were a hell I'd like to forget, I guess.
>>83946351
But fox Marx is the only Marx I have feelings forthe good feelings, that give you a tingly sensation in your heart
>>83946312
>Clive
You mean Petey
>and then Flask got her early start here
Not really, Penelope Puma is actually the character of another comic that Aaron has called "The Daily Grind" in which as mere curiosity Jacob Jackrabbit stars.
>I guess the 2nd duck got lost to the ages
Are you sure? You never know...
>>83946453
huh he reminds me of the guy that does String Theory. he is like 45
was an artist become the comic but I guess it took him a long time to actually create the comic.
>>83946423
It looks like a cross between Doctor Snuggles and Robostory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYk29A6rNRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydH5U9vMYGQ
>>83946537
>It looks like a cross between Doctor Snuggles and Robostory.
holy shit you are right.
>>83924906
The universe were everything is based.
Maybe if enough people send in fanmail, Aaron will give Farx the Kirbee treatment. Obviously he'd have to appear to die off-screen, but he could always turn up alive later...
>>83947143
Here's a little problem, Farx is not exactly a character that everyone want to see again...
>>83947394
You could probably have said the same thing about Kirbee.
>>83932172
What ever DID happen to the deputy security chief? Last we saw he and those other rats got hypnotized
>>83947851
Maybe once that we return to Endtown we will know, I say that the effect was temporal but still the rats are fucked after all the shit that happen the last time that they appeared.
>>83946423
And with the NuWho era as well. A dr who cartoon is always being toyed with.
>>83948591
>Top left corner
Hey, look, it's Marx's dad.
>>83947879
Pretty much. The dynamic as it's been hinted at is that rats can't enter endtown and they are liable to shot the first moron to come up the elevator.
I imagine with this greater good bullshit they are probably going to cowtail to Jackrabbit as he will be the closest thing to a government entity in Endtown now.
bump (now with art)
>>83949564
That shade of blonde hair still looks wrong on her to me. I preferred the redder shade.
Does anyone have any clean Jim references?
>>83949783
> Implying I don't have them.
>>83949889
We need a pic of a meeting of the "Dead Character Support Group" on a fluffy cloud somewhere, complete with halos and wings.
>>83949889
Gracias, Suule.
>>83949908
I don't know, Jim did kill a bunch of people for selfish reasons. Then again, part of the reason he Schism'd is the guilt he felt over it, having done it only for Sarah.
>>83951041
The same could be said for a lot of Endtown characters
