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2019-08-09

by shaenon on August 9, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Robert Nowall
    August 9, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Trinity Lopez?

    • Alphaghoul
      August 9, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

      I don’t get it.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 9, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

        You must be too young.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 9, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

        The singer of “If I Had a Hammer.”

    • Gyrre
      August 9, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      And here I was thinking in theological terms and early Christian schisms (one being, three beings, or both).

      • Robert Nowall
        August 9, 2019, 10:00 am | # | Reply

        Could be named after the first nuclear test.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2020, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      Was it his character that died in the initial infiltration in The Dirty Dozen?

      • awgiedawgie
        February 5, 2020, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, the filming schedule went on too long, and Trini Lopez had a prior musical commitment, so they had to write him out of the final battle scene.

  2. Alphaghoul
    August 9, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    A Unity Doppleganger and loyal Anasigma agent that wants to aviod bloodshed? Well this just keeps getting weirder.

  3. awgiedawgie
    August 9, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Trinity… of course, because she’s three colours. They’re not exactly overflowing with originality.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 9, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      She could be made out of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

    • greenknight32
      August 9, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

      I thought maybe it means they made 3 of them.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        August 9, 2019, 6:31 am | # | Reply

        It means they made 3 of them that we know of

        • BRGR
          August 9, 2019, 10:54 am | # | Reply

          I don’t know about you, but I know nothing of Duality.

    • Moe Lane
      August 9, 2019, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      I am legitimately wondering whether Trinity might be a dude. Or an It’s Complicated.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 9, 2019, 2:08 am | # | Reply

        Well, we already know that Unity might be a dude… at least occasionally.

        • Moe Lane
          August 9, 2019, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

          :One entire storyline’s worth of archive-diving later: …Yeah, good point.

    • jrwences
      August 9, 2019, 3:16 am | # | Reply

      Strange that their nose can change colors.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      August 9, 2019, 6:40 am | # | Reply

      No of course not. O.R.I.G.I.N.A.L.I.T.Y. had to be put down.

  4. wykstrad
    August 9, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    This just makes me wonder if the third leg of this particular stool is named “Binity” or “Duity.”

    • greenknight32
      August 9, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

      That would be “Duality”, or maybe “Dichotomy”.

      “Duplexity”?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 9, 2019, 2:11 am | # | Reply

        Duplicity? That would be with one face on the front of their head, and another face on the back.

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          August 9, 2019, 6:33 am | # | Reply

          As far as I’m concerned, that is now canon

        • FanOfMostEverything
          August 9, 2019, 8:49 am | # | Reply

          No, that’s January.

          • Guesticus
            August 9, 2019, 9:13 am | #

            Janus, actually
            Ms Jones has bigger… flotation devices

    • Seph
      August 9, 2019, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      ‘Binity’ is the equivalent term. In the early history of Christianity, some people were binitarians.

  5. wykstrad
    August 9, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Also, I can’t tell if this is Trinity being a true evil opposite of Unity and preferring violence to be a last resort, or mustache guy being a true evil opposite of Tip and successfully influencing the rest of the group to adopt his values.

    • BRGR
      August 9, 2019, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      What values would that be?

      • wykstrad
        August 14, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

        Nonviolent, psychology-centric confrontation techniques.

    • Barbara K
      August 9, 2019, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      It may be that the effects of Trinity’s last brain-meal are wearing off.
      Tip’s values include the importance of looking fabulous and goinking people as an effective social ice-breaker.
      Also, favoring Therapy Puppets as a last-ditch conflict resolution strategy .

  6. Frank
    August 9, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I shudder to think how she’d handle playing D&D
    “Did you just zap your teammate?”
    “I’m a healer, he was healing, healing is my thing!”

    • Dr. Steve
      August 9, 2019, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      There once was a cleric named Bing
      And healing was surely his thing

      At friend and at foe with mace he would go
      For more pain meant more healing, he’d sing

  7. Pygar
    August 9, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    The Unholy Trinity…

    I just had an odd thought. A specialty, actually… As a kid, I watched a cartoon called “Super Bwoing”. The hero hung around an employment agency for superheroes- in the background, you’d see them making phone calls, etc. Can you imagine what the Shaenon Skin Horse Employment Agency would look like? Off camera, no one evil, H.T. playing chess with the Dane, etc. while they all wait for the call that may never come…

    Just an odd thought… a specialty, as I said…

    • Eddurd
      August 9, 2019, 5:20 am | # | Reply

      That was “Super 6”. Super Bwoing was an apprentice hero always begging his boss (The Super Chief) to send him out on real assignments, which he always fouled up.

    • Guesticus
      August 9, 2019, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      Sounds like the agency Commander Badass runs
      Or maybe “Evil, Inc.”

  8. Schismatism
    August 9, 2019, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    ‘Hosers’? Oh dear. This version of Unity is Canadian.

    • Moe Lane
      August 9, 2019, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      Ayup.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 9, 2019, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      Oh, no. If she and Sweetheart combine their powers…

    • Rob Clark (@theelusivefish)
      August 9, 2019, 11:30 am | # | Reply

      Or at least parts of this version of Unity are Canadian.

      • Shadowmehr
        August 9, 2019, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

        Hopefully parts of this version of U.N.I.T.Y. aren’t the A-Sig version of Sweetheart. (Talk about a close couple.)

  9. Darkstarling
    August 9, 2019, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Darn it. Trinity is SMART Unity…

    I’d also like to note that, religious connotations aside? She’s ALSO named for the test site of the first nuclear bomb.

  10. Owlmirror
    August 9, 2019, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    While “hosers” is a very thin reed to build speculation on, I wonder if Trinity might be an amalgamation of n humans & Canadian genetically engineered war dog. Which would also answer the question of where their version of Sweetheart is.

    If so, I suspect the epic Unity+Trinity fight will end with Unity skritching Trinity behind the ears.

    • Owlmirror
      August 9, 2019, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      Another possible resolution: Unity barfs up some fraction of 40 cakes.

      Unity: “Hey, you want cake? I’m kinda done with those.”
      Trinity: “Half my instincts say ‘No!’, but the other half say ‘Oh, Yes!'”

      • Ronnie Simonds
        August 9, 2019, 5:32 am | # | Reply

        Another third of my instincts say ‘rutabaga.’

    • Candace
      August 9, 2019, 2:24 am | # | Reply

      Hmmm, you might have something there. After all, A-sig doesn’t care for non-humans, so it’s hard to imagine them having a Sweetheart analog on the payroll. Unity and Trinity, on the other hand, could be considered as machines, and I would be very surprised if Trinity doesn’t have an off-switch.

    • DonRCamp
      August 9, 2019, 1:10 pm | # | Reply

      Look more closely. Doesn’t Trinity look strangely canine? We know Shaennon’s art is too good for that to be accidental!

    • davidbreslin101
      August 9, 2019, 3:52 pm | # | Reply

      I’m beginning to suspect the whole team will have multiple mixed-up Skin Horse traits. I mean, here both Trinity and Purple-Fringe-Lady seem to be interested in psychology….

  11. SVGeezer
    August 9, 2019, 11:15 am | # | Reply

    Hosers?

    Canadian, eh?

    • awgiedawgie
      August 9, 2019, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

      Ayeh, somebody already pointed that out.

  12. Tuiteyfruity
    August 9, 2019, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

    AHHHHH I thought there was some sort of court order against building more soldiers like Unity!!!

    • awgiedawgie
      August 9, 2019, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      Great… now I’m gonna have to go binge to find that.

      But, seriously, you expect A-Sig to care about a little trifle like a court order?

  13. warpzone32
    August 9, 2019, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

    “Duity?”

    That *would* be a stool…

  14. Manifesta
    August 9, 2019, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

    Trinity looks quite canine. Could she be both Unity and Sweetheart in this group?

  15. Daibhid C
    August 9, 2019, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

    T.R.I.N.I.T.Y…

    Transplanted Reconfigurable Integrated Necrotic Indep…

    Nah.

    Trinity Really Is Nice I Tell You.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 9, 2019, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

      Where’s GODOT when we need him?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 9, 2019, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

        Unity ate him. Probably lucky for him, really.

  16. Big Susan
    August 9, 2019, 4:22 pm | # | Reply

    I recall this strip saying about Unity being almost one of a kind…

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-10/

    Just a thought.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 9, 2019, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

      Practically everybody in Skin-Horse is an only child. (Nick did acquire a brother and sister but that’s another freaky circumstance.)

  17. Shadowmehr
    August 9, 2019, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

    I’m beginning to think that these two teams are not as opposite as we would like to think.

  18. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    So there’s at least one other out there then.

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