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2015-03-05

by shaenon on March 5, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Ron Armstrong
    March 5, 2015, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Only one that’s missing is Ira,then the gang is all here!

    • Jay
      March 5, 2015, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Ooh, I wouldn’t want to be the one to fire Ira.
      (And fire Ira. And fire Ira. And explain why his keys don’t work anymore. And…)

    • Freddie Freelance
      March 5, 2015, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

      Ira’s there, he’s just outside at the guard station.

    • mittfh
      March 5, 2015, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      There is a certain Anasigma employee who might as well be seconded to SH given the amount of time she spends with the gang who isn’t currently present (AFAIK)…

    • OneUniverse
      December 18, 2020, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

      There are just so many spoilers appropriate to this thread…

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    March 5, 2015, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Even Bubbles gets a marshmallow to roast. (No, cute cobra, they’ll gum up your fangs.)

  3. Warren Terra
    March 5, 2015, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    OK, I’ve more or less read the Know Your Meme page, which is written in a language closely resembling English but doesn’t make a lick of sense, and I have no idea what sentiment the “Free Vivian James” shirt is meant to convey.

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      March 5, 2015, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Assuming—based on the data available to us and the general feminist geek tendencies of Shaenon—that our friend is not a raging GamerGater, I am going with the assumption that he is referring to freeing the iconography of Vivian James from its oppressive creators (4chan’s /v/ and the GG movement in general) and making it exactly the sort of feminist icon that its creators were pretending to support (while actually attacking).

      Basically, she started as a PR stunt advertising the opposite of its creators true intentions, so some people want to take the stunt and make it real. This would require giving her an agency beyond the intent of her evil creators.

      . . . Er. Did I just describe Skin Horse?

      • Clifton
        March 5, 2015, 3:23 am | # | Reply

        I think it could be simpler than that: in the Skin Horse world, Vivian James is a real woman who’s been imprisoned by some evil group based on their corresponding group to 4chan/GG, as well as her likeness being used.

        A truly horrific thought just struck me. Can you imagine how horrible Internet troll groups could be in a mad-science world?

        • matt w
          March 5, 2015, 6:38 am | # | Reply

          Clifton, that is the most awesome explanation and therefore true.

          IRL it looks like there was some discussion of #FreeVivianJames at We Hunted the Mammoth; here’s a cartoon about it, they mentioned starting a #FreeVivianJames hashtag a few posts up, and they go on to talk about it below.

      • stevemnd
        March 5, 2015, 9:51 am | # | Reply

        Man, I hope Skin Horse doesn’t start throwing real-world pseudo-political commentary around, and instead keeps the real world debates out of the comic world. I’ve already stopped reading one of my favorite webcomics because they got all preachy with their siding on these sorts of issues. I just want to read a good comic with a clever story and nice art; I come here to avoid the machinations of the rest of the internet. 😀

        • Warren Terra
          March 5, 2015, 11:18 am | # | Reply

          Yeah, it really would be a shame if a webcomic that’s entirely about themes of personhood, dignity, independence, and acceptance were to tackle serious social issues.

          • Mr. Eldritch
            March 5, 2015, 4:26 pm | #

            I’m having a hard time imagining in what universe Gamergate and 4chan falls under “serious social issues”

            I mean, it might in the Skin Horse universe, but that seems even more out-there than mad science.

  4. Manifesta
    March 5, 2015, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    tune: “I Eat Cannibals Part 1,” Toto Coelo, 1982 (for you young’uns, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqCTGoWMZcQ)

    We toast marshmallows
    With these fine fellows
    They feel like a family to me
    We toast marshmallows

    We toast marshmallows
    And now Shelby knows
    He brings all the other folk to see
    We toast marshmallows

    Hey! Cobras! Neat!
    The group’s complete
    Hot hot cook it up
    We’re never gonna stop
    Marcy and Chris
    Join us in this
    Yum yum gee it’s fun
    Building fire in M’s old drum

    We toast marshmallows
    M. won’t lie fallow
    He looks like a firepit to me
    We toast marshmallows

    We toast marshmallows
    Please free Vivian so’s
    She can join our rockin’ S’mores party
    We toast marshmallows

    Sweetheart’s not ’round
    She’s underground
    Driving Bubbles’ bod
    With Nick’s help. Yeah, that’s odd
    The mission’s rough
    But Sweetheart’s tough
    Will she find the Cure?
    We’re not losing sleep, that’s sure

    We toast marshmallows
    Have some chips with those
    Then we’ll have a book club meet. Yippee!
    We toast marshmallows

    • Kona
      March 5, 2015, 1:56 am | # | Reply

      OMG we used to quad skate to that at Northridge Skateland! Mad props Manifesta!

      • Manifesta
        March 5, 2015, 4:43 am | # | Reply

        Thanks. I’ve lived in LA for 25 years, but I had to look up Northridge Skateland. I loved roller rinks as a kid, but I had no idea they still existed.

        • Robert Nowall
          March 5, 2015, 6:31 am | # | Reply

          Well, at least someone’s stepping up. Alll I could come up with is what’s below.

    • Freddie Freelance
      March 5, 2015, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

      I just can’t seem to keep to the song pattern and keep dropping into “Nemesis” by Shriekback instead.

  5. Robert Nowall
    March 5, 2015, 6:32 am | # | Reply

    In edduard’s absence…from “Burning Down the House,” Talking Heads.

    Watch out, there’s gonna be a party.
    Old building, condemned but not condemny,
    We’re just civil servant guys,
    Burning down the Annex.

    Hold on, we came in for a free ride,
    Hold on, we have no lives outside.
    We just want to have some fun,
    Burning down the annex.

    • waynezombie
      March 5, 2015, 7:50 am | # | Reply

      Nice! I started a new job last November and in addition to a private office, my wife gave me a Blutooth speaker system, so I get to binge listen! Right now I’m binging David Byrne, within the last month I did my Talking Heads assortment.

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 5, 2015, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Well, I wasn’t happy with that last one, so I put together another. From “C’mon Everybody,” Eddie Cochran.

    Well, c’mon everybody and let’s get it going tonight.
    We’ve got some marshmallow sticks and a fire that is just so right.
    The party started out with just three or four.
    Now there’s Shelby and the others, and maybe more.
    Ooo, c’mon everybody!

    Nobody has a life, so we’ll hang together good and long.
    The building will be shaking top to bottom from the throng.
    Well we’re on a secret mission that’s not crystal clear,
    But this Annex place is empty and the prudes aren’t here.
    Ooo, c’mon everybody!

    Well, we’ll really have a party, but we’re here to find some help for the Cure.
    If the shadow bosses find us, well, they’ll really take us down for sure.
    There’ll be no more helping out the mutant crew,
    Just reality-stuck people who just don’t have a clue.
    So what?
    C’mon everybody!

  7. comicsgal
    March 5, 2015, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

    First attempt at this fine art, please be gentle.

    Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M )

    Captain, Captain
    Moustachio can’t be roasting
    Wilkins, Wilkins, Wilkins
    There’s far too many of you toasting
    I should report this right away
    For your incessant fire play, eheh

    Shelby, Shelby
    You don’t need to inform on us
    You see, snitching’s not the answer
    For reasons I will quickly suss
    You know I’ve got to find a way
    To bring some puppets here today, oh oh oh

    Skin Horse closed and Skin Horse blowzed
    Don’t punish me, there’s no crime you see
    You’ve been fired, no squeal required
    That’s what’s going on
    What’s going on
    Yeah, what’s going on
    Ah, what’s going on

    Doctor, Doctor, everybody come on in
    Even Bubbles has her own stick
    So grab one too and begin
    We’ll roast marshmallows as Tip does appraise,
    Debate if the book club goes or stays
    Oh oh oh

    Skin Horse grows and Skin Horse knows
    That stepped right out did Tigerlily
    Yet nobody
    Said “Did you see?”
    Oh, where did she go
    Yeah, where did she go
    Tell me where did she go
    I’ll tell you where did she go, ooh ooo ooo ooo

  8. Caelo
    March 5, 2015, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

    look at the tiny cobra it wants a marsh mellow omgzo cute wtf

    • oneuniverse2
      March 6, 2015, 2:19 pm | # | Reply

      You probably can see more of that snake if you read the first complete story arc of this comic.

  9. Mental Mouse
    March 6, 2015, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    Mr. Eldritch: Try this one. Of course the whole point of GamerGate is that the MCP contingent of gamerdom, and most of 4chan, don’t consider “treating women like human beings” to be a serious issue.

  10. Mental Mouse
    March 6, 2015, 7:14 am | # | Reply

    BTW, who’s the mechanical voice from the bottom right of panel 4?

    • David DeLaney
      September 5, 2015, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      That’s Nick; he’s checking in with them, remember?

      –Dave, can’t tell the playas without a

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