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2019-01-16

by shaenon on January 16, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. Moe Lane
    January 16, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    So, who else was refreshing at 12:00:02 PM?

    • Nick
      January 16, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      Yep

    • Robert Nowall
      January 16, 2019, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      Couldn’t make it back till now.

  2. thejoemoose
    January 16, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Awwwwwwww, so cute!

  3. Mishalak
    January 16, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I am sure I speak for everyone when I say, “Dawww.”

    • David B Huber
      January 16, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      +1

  4. K. Iceclaw
    January 16, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    The young one learns.

  5. Dave
    January 16, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    So, hypothetically, could she have removed them at an earlier stage? Why is she able to do so now but not before?

    • Seth Buehler
      January 16, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      If I had to guess, I’d say she would’ve needed to dismantle the aircraft.

    • Owlmirror
      January 16, 2019, 1:08 am | # | Reply

      She said that it would require brain surgery (towards the end of “My House Is Me”, when they are on a sort-of date together). I guess she never felt that there was a safe facility where she could operate on his brain.

      It might also have been that the urgency was not considered high. As far as Nick and Virginia knew at the time, no one who knew the codes wanted to use them on Nick. Anasigma certainly seemed to have no interest in him.

      And it was kinda out of the blue when Ira did use them — apparently prompted by Sweetheart’s comment that Nick had backups of the Skin Horse files.

  6. Rimwolf
    January 16, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    This is what true love looks like.

    • warpzone32
      January 16, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      Yelling at someone until they fall asleep mid-rant and snore loudly at you through their own drool?

      • Moe Lane
        January 16, 2019, 1:02 am | # | Reply

        …Yes?

      • Leslie Piper
        January 16, 2019, 1:59 am | # | Reply

        Often.

      • Altarboy
        January 16, 2019, 2:27 am | # | Reply

        Yes, if not at first, then eventually.

      • David B Huber
        January 16, 2019, 4:27 am | # | Reply

        When it’s real.

      • warpzone32
        January 16, 2019, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

        Wow. The hilarious part is, when I typed that? I expected one “Yes.”

        Instead I got four.

        Keep livin’ the dream, you lovebirds.

      • Clifton
        January 18, 2019, 12:31 am | # | Reply

        If you’re lucky, yes. Married life is wonderful that way.

    • Manifesta
      January 16, 2019, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      YES!

  7. Loin
    January 16, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    I’m re reading through Narbonic and I just have to mention how cute he looks in that turtleneck

  8. everlastingwonder
    January 16, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    Dr. Lee looks kind of like Mel in that last panel

  9. Leslie Piper
    January 16, 2019, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Love’s control, o young man, takes many unexpected forms. May you always have good luck and good times, and most of all good company.

    I won’t ask for ‘good sense’ for you, because, after all, this is LOVE we’re talking about here.

  10. Gyrre
    January 16, 2019, 2:29 am | # | Reply

    Oh. Oh geeze, that’s a I’ve-been-awake-36-plus-hours-crash. Those suck.
    (I’ve only done it twice.)

    • awgiedawgie
      January 16, 2019, 2:48 am | # | Reply

      36 is nothing. I don’t crash like that until I’ve passed 96 hours. I’ve only needed to do that a few times.

      • Sheik
        January 16, 2019, 4:39 pm | # | Reply

        A great many of us cannot resist the sleep monster for anywhere near that time even under the most trying circumstances.
        I once fell asleep standing up in a tank commander’s hatch on an active tank gun range. The only thing that saved me was it wasn’t my turn on the firing line.

      • Candace
        January 17, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

        Man, you must be a god, awgiedawgie! I don’t think I’ve ever made it much past 24 hours. And that was when I was a lot younger.

        • awgiedawgie
          January 17, 2019, 2:26 am | # | Reply

          Not a god, but thanks. I just kept the Mountain Dew people in business.

      • Marisa Mockery
        January 19, 2019, 4:59 am | # | Reply

        Aren’t you considered legally insane after 36 hours? We used to joke about it in college…

      • Mike (not from Canmore)
        December 13, 2020, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

        Only did it once, and it was just 75 hours. (Fabrication of an undergraduate thesis from whole cloth — assembler-code listings, inked technical drawings of the hardware, the works.) That was followed by a controlled shutdown (and 16 hours of sleep) rather than a crash, but I don’t think I could have gone for another 20+ hours… Of course, that was a long time ago; today, the thought makes me cringe, and the necessary coffee intake would make my brain explode!

  11. The Lord of Salt
    January 16, 2019, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    Well, there it is. The most diabetes-inducing line of the whole comic.

  12. Q
    January 16, 2019, 3:02 am | # | Reply

    He learns fast.

    • The J is Silent
      January 16, 2019, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      It’s been 10 years, so I’m not sure if ‘fast’ is the right word.

  13. SemiSaneAuthor
    January 16, 2019, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    I think by accident I’ve just realised Nick’s current theme tune while not being in his Helicopter body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o0WYiK52Dg

    • awgiedawgie
      January 16, 2019, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

      Hmmm… no. Not with the line that says “take my brain, or what remains, and throw it all away.”

      Although what with his remark the other day, “why couldn’t I be dead like a normal bastard”, I could be wrong.

  14. maarvarq
    January 16, 2019, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    “Because you’re alive to yell at me.”
    “… like I’ll never not be under your control.”
    Awww!
    Cheer up Nick, at least Ginny didn’t headbutt you in the junk on the way down-
    https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=185

    • awgiedawgie
      January 16, 2019, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

      That was my first thought, too.

      • Andy4Hire
        January 16, 2019, 8:34 pm | # | Reply

        And mine.

  15. Dr. Steve
    January 16, 2019, 8:41 am | # | Reply

    lub, twoo lub.

  16. Sleepy John
    January 16, 2019, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    Ya know, the rescued virgin is supposed to st least TRY to be grateful to the hero.

    • D. Walker
      January 16, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

      Unless, of course, the hero directly and substantially contributed to the thing they needed to be rescued from happening in the first place…

  17. Robert Nowall
    January 16, 2019, 9:06 am | # | Reply

    And that’s what love is all about.

  18. theysabet
    January 16, 2019, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    Maybe it’s just me, but while this is funny as hell it’s also so freaking touching it made me blink back tears.

    • Rimwolf
      January 16, 2019, 10:16 am | # | Reply

      You’re not the only one.

    • David B Huber
      January 16, 2019, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

      +2

  19. Frank
    January 16, 2019, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

    Holy mukluk, I can cuss now!

  20. violetrook
    January 16, 2019, 12:06 pm | # | Reply

    Not quite a confession, but at least he’s being honest with himself. Seems like a good first step. 🙂

  21. a lurker
    January 16, 2019, 1:38 pm | # | Reply

    Wait. What’s this in my eye?

    • Guesticus
      January 16, 2019, 2:13 pm | # | Reply

      A finger? o_O

    • awgiedawgie
      January 16, 2019, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      An eye lash… has to be an eye lash.

  22. Robert Nowall
    January 16, 2019, 4:12 pm | # | Reply

    There was a boy.
    A very odd imprisoned boy.
    They say he traveled in the air, in the air,
    As a helicopter, he.
    A little young, and foul of tongue,
    And very dense, you see.

    There was a girl.
    A beautiful and brilliant girl.
    An evil genius sweet and kind, sweet and kind,
    Created his ennui.
    With vision bold, and not so old,
    And just as dense, was she.

    And then, one day,
    The girl and boy, they found a way.
    To be together with a few cusswords,
    Brains and nerds,
    And thus it has to be.
    “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn
    Is just to love and be loved in return.”

    —from “Nature Boy,” eden ahbez.

    • Candace
      January 17, 2019, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Thumbs up!

  23. Shadowmehr
    January 16, 2019, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

    Nick and Virginia’s Cloned Romance, coming this fall to Hallmark Channel.

  24. Jane Dough
    January 17, 2019, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    “Awww!” is right, but it seems something important has been overlooked! I am sure Tip would notice right away due to his extensive knowledge in the field, but as he is not here to menion it, it seems up to me to bring this to everyone’s attention: That burnt-ish orange really is a good color on Nick!

    Hmm, come to think of it, maybe Tip picked it out as part of some devious plan for a double-secret probationary, long-term makeover, seeing as Nick would refuse any styling help from Tip. If for no other reason, then not to hear him squeal, “Makeover!”

    • Shaenon
      January 17, 2019, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

      I had the idea that people have to borrow clothes from Tigerlily right now because she’s the only one with a wardrobe on board. Nick is lucky and gets some chill 70s earth tones. Also, he’s wearing bell bottoms but has them rolled up because of his tiny little legs.

      • awgiedawgie
        January 17, 2019, 5:29 pm | # | Reply

        And here I thought he got the shirt from Jonah and the pants from Nera (because Nick’s way skinnier than Jonah, and Nera’s taller, which would explain why Nick had to roll the pant legs up). I figured with Jonah’s paranoia (justifiable, but paranoia nonetheless), he and Nera have at least a couple changes of clothes with them at all times, and Jonah’s worn that colour before.

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