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Aaron Neathery of Austin, Texas, has created a wry and brilliant webcomic, Endtown, about what happens after the apocalypse. This is not your standard Mad Max scenario: the ‘good guys’ live in an underground suburb called Endtown, where they live on whatever canned food (mostly beans) they can scrounge from the shattered cities on the surface. Mutagens in the atmosphere have turned the majority of them into animals, making Endtown a fun mashup of Looney Tunes and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Neathery riffs on such cartoonists as Chuck Jones and Walt …
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Pride and Prejudice and comic books seem to belong to two separate universes: one’s high tea with scones and clotted cream, the other’s hot buttered popcorn; one’s a hike through the Cotswolds, while the other’s a snowboard ride down a slope with plenty of moguls. But now, the two worlds have collided: There’s a P&P comic book, and geek girls everywhere can rejoice.
