Suggested wine pairing: Apocalypse IPA.
Note: According to Georgetown University, about 178,000 people die each day, amounting to 65 million per year. If we figure 7.8 billion people were killed in the Technorabbit Apocalypse (because a ton of people live underground?), it would take the Great One 120 years to reap all those souls at his normal rate.
EXCEPT, because the Great One delegates a great deal of his work to his helpers—most of whom died in the Apocalypse—the actual time is probably centuries longer. The sock wasn’t very right.
The Hurly-Burly HAS had an “the ending of Mountain Time” feel to it. Hard to put my finger on exactly why, though. (Maybe it’s every recurring character and the world in general meeting their ends?)
I’m greatly enjoying the event and the comics, but I’ve also found myself ‘on the edge of my seat’ about whether or not there will be Mountain Time after the Hurly-Burly, at least as much as about where the HB itself will go next. So it’s nice of today’s strip to combine those two trains of thought!
Stephen M: the Mountain Time 500 Happening and the 2016 series signing off on “The beginning of THE END?” and “The end of the middle of THE END” respectively strongly hint in the same direction…
They should really put a warning label on postapocalyptic air. If I know anything about postapocalyptic courts of law, you don’t want to get sued there.
Oh god Isto, don’t scare me like that!
…I am now having to confront the possibility of Mountain Time ending soon. Man, that’s not something I want to happen.
Maybe this is the last strip. Having a “post-credits scene” which is just a single panel that seems to be setting up more stuff but actually doesn’t would be the most Mountain Time ending ever.
Stephen: Yeah, the whole “death of the world and everyone in it” is supposed to evoke that feeling. I could tell you whether or not it has legs, but then your enjoyment of the story would go the way of almost every major character so far.
NAR: From my experience during the wildfires of ’20, even if they did put a label on it, you wouldn’t be able to read it from more than about 10 feet.
Circle: That WOULD be a pretty great troll ending. Or maybe it just IS a great troll ending. Tune in Monday to find out.
the only possibly ending for MT is one where it turns out the final comic was made 8 years ago, but sent back in time so it wouldn’t be so sudden.
I never realized before how much hard work Death has to do. That’ll learn him to be so mean to Chakan the Forever Man.
I was going to post a really bonkers final episode thing (Mountain Time actually ended with “Back in the Lab;” details will not follow), but it turned out to be kind of decent in the “fan theory” sense.
This marks the first time it’s not fun to be on my side of this, because I love silly speculation, but if I do it to my own stuff it’s like a paradox or something.
Yeah it works that way with porn too.
lol