Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
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2014-10-27

by shaenon on October 27, 2014 at 4:29 am
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  1. Max
    October 27, 2014, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    Nonono. A truly swell escape tunnel includes a fully lit four-lane motorway. You could learn a lot from Dr. Flammond…

    • Shadowmehr
      October 27, 2014, 7:31 pm | # | Reply

      You joke, but this is Tigerlily we’re talking about. She’s going to need a wide tunnel to drive the caddy she’s building out of tin cans and scraps from the machine shop. Rocket red and so fine . . . possibly sentient, definitely armed.

  2. Robert the addled
    October 27, 2014, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    Makes me think today’s filk will be of a Beatles song. “Get back to where I once belonged”

    • Robert Nowall
      October 27, 2014, 7:34 am | # | Reply

      I suppose a song about dope-smoking transvestites *is* appropriate here.

  3. jdreyfuss
    October 27, 2014, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    Bronson she ain’t.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 28, 2014, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Maybe Tim Robbins?

  4. Mental Mouse
    October 27, 2014, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    Mad science takes on the Spoon Theory!

  5. maarvarq
    October 27, 2014, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    Putting The Band Back Together!

    • Rex Vivat
      October 27, 2014, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

      Not quite there yet, but approaching.

  6. Eddurd
    October 27, 2014, 8:42 am | # | Reply

    Robert, you called it …

    (TUNE: “Get Back”, The Beatles)

    Skin Horse was a team of government employees,
    Working there in Annex One …
    Now they have new jobs, it really does annoy these
    People, and it isn’t fun!

     Get back! Get back!
     Get back to where we’re meant to be!
     Get back! Get back!
     Get back to Annex Two (or Three)!

    Tip is now a chicken-crossing-road inspector!
    Nick is helping refugees!
    Bubbles runs a bureau, Deputy Director!
    Unity is making cheese!

     Get back! Get back!
     Get back to where we’re meant to be!
     Get back! Get back,
     To working inefficiently!
      (Work it, Sweetheart!)

    Prison has the Cure for science-mad-reversal!
    Tigerlily wants no part!
    Now she’s gonna try to tunnel out of her cell …
    (Needs a bigger spoon, to start).

     Get back! Get back!
     Get back to where she’s meant to be!
     Get back! Get back!
     Will Tigerlily soon be free?

  7. davidbreslin101
    October 27, 2014, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    Panels 2-3 look like they’re trying to turn into The Musical Episode. Tip’s totally singing to that chicken.

  8. Brian R Whitacre
    October 27, 2014, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    This is beautiful. One of those strips where one realizes that they have a legitimate emotional attachment to the characters.

    • oneuniverse2
      October 28, 2014, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      *Sob* It makes me so happy 🙂

  9. sneakernh
    October 27, 2014, 9:38 am | # | Reply

    This song that came to mind when I read this strip was “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” from Frozen.

    • kag
      October 27, 2014, 6:35 pm | # | Reply

      Do you want to dig a tunnel?
      Do you have a bigger spoon?

      (Starting filks is easy. Finishing the band things is what I can never manage…)

  10. Dr. Steve
    October 27, 2014, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Mission control… we are approaching synchronicity!

  11. Barbara
    October 27, 2014, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    Given the obviousness of today’s filk selection, is it possible that, in a sub-rosa fashion, Jeff is writing dialog to see if he can, in fact, prompt Ed to work with specific songs?

    • Daibhid C
      October 27, 2014, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      If I was writing a webcomic, and Ed was commenting on it, I’d do that all the time.

  12. Frith Ra
    October 27, 2014, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

    I’m personally surprised that Tigerlily ended up in a cell with a dirt floor. Somebody wasn’t thinking.
    & do I see that blonde with her as potentially taking Bubble’s place in the firm?

    • Anson
      October 28, 2014, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      It wasn’t dirt until she used the earthquake device she made out of forks on it.

  13. Guesticus
    October 27, 2014, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

    Poor Bubbles isn’t feeling the Joy right now 🙁

  14. Pygar
    October 27, 2014, 4:04 pm | # | Reply

    The blonde is, IIRC, a mad scientist, and may not work well in such environments… BTW aside from Artie, have any of the Narbonics made any cameos?

    • Landis963
      October 28, 2014, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      I think Helen made a voice-only cameo, when talking to the bird who thought he was a human. The bird was interviewing for an insane animal sidekick role, at the end of “If I Ran The Zoo,” IIRC.

      • Landis963
        October 28, 2014, 12:07 am | # | Reply

        Just checked, Bruce of Human/Cyborg relations mentioned “the boss” and “the boss’ wife.” Neither Dave nor Helen made any appearance.

  15. irdburns
    October 27, 2014, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

    It’s more impressive when you realize that she’s been using spoons to take scoops out of concrete. “I did it with leverage and terrifying groove.”

    • Sheik
      October 27, 2014, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

      What’s even more impressive is that she still has a spoon after digging that much concrete.
      We need Dr. Lee to reverse engineer this ASAP.
      The savings in diamond cutting tools alone would be ginormous.

    • Frith Ra
      October 28, 2014, 11:38 am | # | Reply

      The Tick would be so proud.

  16. Pygar
    October 27, 2014, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    She should trade spoons with the guy from “Rejected”… “My spoon is too big!”

  17. Towering Barbarian
    October 28, 2014, 12:00 am | # | Reply

    Girls, admit it! You clearly are going to have to go back and assist your friend with her Conestoga Wagon of Power. =^_^=

  18. Delta Echo
    October 28, 2014, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    @Pygar: The blonde Mad is, in fact, Imogene Frog.

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