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2013-04-08

by shaenon on April 8, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Grantwhy
    April 8, 2013, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Call me crazy, but I suspect Virginia’s ulterior motives might be different to Nick’s ulterior motives.

    >>tin-foil-hat time<<

    assuming that is the *real* Dr Lee, and not a VioletBeeDrone_2.0 that Nick can't detect as a drone with his sensors?

    O.o

    • Anderson
      April 8, 2013, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      Is that a guest appearance by the offspring of Mell’s hair?

    • Dave Van Domelen
      April 8, 2013, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Nah, it’s just that she’s clueful enough to be sarcastic about Nick’s dating technique, while he honestly thinks he’s being smooth.

      • ericscoles
        April 8, 2013, 7:01 am | # | Reply

        hmmm…i don’t think dr. lee is quite that aware of other people’s motives.

      • Shadowmehr
        April 8, 2013, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

        Isn’t there a Trope for that?

        One dialogue, two conversations?

      • WJS
        July 8, 2019, 11:41 am | # | Reply

        Is she being sarcastic, or is she honestly thinking he was pretty smooth there?

        • awgiedawgie
          July 8, 2019, 11:56 am | # | Reply

          I always interpreted it as each of them thinking their own technique was smooth. The thought bubbles emanate from both of them.

    • Darkstarr
      May 3, 2016, 6:45 am | # | Reply

      Well, if you insist on being called crazy, I’ll do it, but wouldn’t you rather be called by your name instead? -_^

  2. Dave
    April 8, 2013, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Lesbian Dinner Date take 2?

    • Chappy123
      April 8, 2013, 4:05 am | # | Reply

      This time, with 50% more willingness!

    • Moor
      April 8, 2013, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      I still hold it’s not lesbian. People don’t just identify as female just because you’re in a female body, do they? Unless explicitly stated, I’m not gonna believe Nick just suddenly switched gender identity.

      • Dave
        April 8, 2013, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

        I concur. Was just throwing Nick’s terminology back at him. ^^

      • SotiCoto
        August 21, 2014, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        Gender identity is a bizarre concept.
        What the heck does an identity need a gender of its own for anyway? That stuff only exists in the chassis for procreative / caste purposes… and the caste side of things is already on the way out. It isn’t like the identity can have its own special imaginary identity-genitals in there for whatever purpose, is it?

        Crazies.

        • Darkstarr
          May 3, 2016, 6:44 am | # | Reply

          Actually, there is scientific evidence for the fact that there is a degree of inborn gender identity in every person, whether that identity be masculine, feminine, androgynous, neuter, or even flexible. Yes, it’s an odd concept, but gender is more than just a social construct.

          As for why identities need gender in the first place, I would consider it part of the evolution of sexual intercourse and the gender binary… except that as with many things in life, there is no clear-cut binary polarity, more of a “bathtub curve”. (Before anyone asks, a “bathtub curve” is my term for an inverted bell curve, based on the fact that when you invert a bell curve, it looks like the cross-section of an old cast-iron bathtub.)

        • Zero
          October 19, 2020, 10:42 pm | # | Reply

          Ah yes. Biological gender castes. A totally real concept.

      • JET73L
        March 1, 2015, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

        I thought it was part of Dave’s joke that this one is pretty much as non-lesbian as the last one. That’s how I’d have meant it.

        (I SO ♡ NickLee.)

        And since I happen to be speaking of you: Dave: Selkie avatar, right? The eye?

  3. OddManOut
    April 8, 2013, 2:22 am | # | Reply

    Poor Tip is going to have so many conflicting impulses on this.

    • mittfh
      April 8, 2013, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

      I wonder how long it will be before Nick!Bee and Tip do the obvious… 🙂

      • JET73L
        March 1, 2015, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

        With how effectively Nick and Dr. Lee are wooing each other, Nick seems pretty close to doing the oblivious (assuming that’s on the tentative charter for their dating sequence), and Tip already has.

  4. Paula
    April 8, 2013, 3:51 am | # | Reply

    Tips’s not the only one, calm down my fevered mind

  5. HotelKilo
    April 8, 2013, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    Hot damn, I’ll be there too! Come on out to Bridgeport, WV you crazy kids.

  6. Eddurd
    April 8, 2013, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Walking After Midnight”, Patsy Cline)

    I’ll go see Star Trek,
    Shown at midnight
    On a weeknight,
    “Best of Both Worlds” One and Two!
    I’ll go see Star Trek,
    Shown at midnight,
    See it with you!

    We’ll see the movie
    After dinner …
    What a winner
    Of an evening I have planned!
    We’ll see the movie
    After dinner …
    You’ll be on hand!

     You must assess my situation,
     Check my operation,
     You’ve got to be on call …
     And I won’t swear or act uncouth-ly!
     I’ll just seduce you smoothly!
     You won’t suspect at all!

    The show of Star Trek,
    Shown at midnight
    On a weeknight,
    A romantic rendezvous!
    The show of Star Trek,
    Shown at midnight,
    Keeps me with you!

  7. jdreyfuss
    April 8, 2013, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    Is it still a date when both parties involved want it to be a date, but neither party informs the other of its intentions or realizes that the other wants it to be a date, too?

    • casimir
      April 8, 2013, 10:15 am | # | Reply

      Sounds like every date I’VE ever been on.

    • Some Guy
      April 8, 2013, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      Sounds a lot like my first date with my wife. It was even a Star Trek movie with the Borg (First Contact).

      • Dewy
        April 9, 2013, 10:49 am | # | Reply

        Crikey! You were assimilated!

  8. Jacob Haller
    April 8, 2013, 9:18 am | # | Reply

    jdreyfuss: It’s sort of like a date, but without the expectations or pressure of an actual date. For a certain type of person, it’s (*coff*) the best of both worlds.

    • reynard61
      April 8, 2013, 9:28 pm | # | Reply

      My optical sensors have detected what you did at that particular time and location.

      • Jacob Haller
        April 9, 2013, 9:12 am | # | Reply

        I can ask no more.

  9. Tuiteyfruity
    April 8, 2013, 10:05 am | # | Reply

    I still am loving that Nick doesn’t have the braid! but the hair still has personality!

  10. Saberbeam
    April 8, 2013, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    Of course not Nick! Everyone knows that escort missions are the worst.

  11. Classic Steve
    April 8, 2013, 2:35 pm | # | Reply

    I’m surprised Nick doesn’t refer to ST episodes by title.

    • Sheik
      April 8, 2013, 2:42 pm | # | Reply

      He probably does, but also knows that almost anyone else does not.

    • Some Guy
      April 8, 2013, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      Or by production code.

  12. mittfh
    April 8, 2013, 3:22 pm | # | Reply

    Given at least three projects Virginia’s been involved with have ended up at Annex One after ceasing to be useful to the military (who it appears are A-Sig’s main clients), and she’s just secured an excuse to visit far more often, I wonder if she’ll ever be given some lab space within the building or cause such a headache for A-Sig that they allow her to be transferred to whichever branch of government runs the place…

    • David McKenney-Barschall
      April 8, 2013, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      Definitely part of her plan to escape Anasigma

  13. pumpkincat
    April 8, 2013, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    What’s really interesting to me is I think this is the first time I’ve seen Nick make lengthy statements without HELICOPTERING FORKNUTS. 🙂

    • Smithnik
      April 8, 2013, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      That’s because he’s being “smooth,” and he’s not upset or excited. It’s bad form to ask someone out on a not-date and have word substitutions occur. The other person might misinterpret which words you couldn’t say.

    • Mental Mouse
      April 8, 2013, 5:25 pm | # | Reply

      pumpkincat: I think you just renamed the wrongswears…

      • pumpkincat
        April 8, 2013, 11:06 pm | # | Reply

        It was what came to mind. I blame the fact that I am slowly turning into a mad agricultural scientist. (Sanity is highly overrated when dealing with ruminants.) Besides, it has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?

        • Froggy
          April 9, 2013, 11:38 pm | # | Reply

          Sanity is highly overrated. No need to involve ruminants or other livestock.

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