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2019-08-19

by shaenon on August 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Robert Nowall
    August 19, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

  2. David B Huber
    August 19, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Panel 3 makes me think “Ira’s Angels”.

    • OneUniverse
      August 19, 2019, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Does the Alt-Tip keep his weapon in hammerspace, too?

      • Candace
        August 19, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

        Of course he does. Where else would one keep them?

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      August 19, 2019, 2:59 am | # | Reply

      Alt!Tip is adopting a mirror image of Tip’s pose from Big Bad Wolves: http://skin-horse.com/comic/he-hadnt-done/

  3. Towering Barbarian
    August 19, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    They seem to have done a good job with the fake Jenny. ^_^

    • Candace
      August 19, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      I’m sure they would argue that their Jenny is the real one.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 19, 2019, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

      And the way she has that gun pointed in panel three, one slip of her finger, and she’ll remove alt-Nick’s brains from his head… unfortunately for him, not all in one piece.

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 19, 2019, 12:43 am | # | Reply

    It’s a little bit clunky, revealing aside.
    You’re not some of those who can run and can hide
    We’re not just some flunkies who do as we’re bid.
    We’re here to inspect things, and not to forgive.

    We’re going to pulp you, but then again, no.
    We’ll draw and we’ll quarter, and unravel you, bros.
    We know it’s a lot, but it’s what we want to do.
    You just don’t belong,
    We’re coming for you.

    And we will tell everybody you don’t belong.
    It may run riot painful, but now it’s begun.
    Halt if you don’t mind
    Halt if you don’t mind
    We will put down you nerds.
    Redundant our life is when you’re in the world.

    Your leader’s a goof, a real albatross.
    Your patchwork girl’s noggin well, it’s good for lacrosse.
    And the science girl’s mind
    Has somehow gone wrong.
    (Though the small one is cute and he might turn me on.)

    So excuse us for getting
    To this phony review.
    You’re all misbegotten
    And you haven’t a clue.
    Anyway, the thing is, you’re not in some dream.
    You are the lamest excuse for a team.

    And we will tell everybody you don’t belong.
    It may run riot painful, but now it’s begun.
    Halt if you don’t mind
    Halt if you don’t mind
    We will put down you nerds.
    Redundant our life is when you’re in the world.
    Halt if you don’t mind
    Halt if you don’t mind
    We will put down you nerds.
    Redundant our life is when you’re in the world.

    —from “Your Song,” Bernie Taupin / Elton John.

    • Clifton
      August 19, 2019, 12:58 am | # | Reply

      Wow.

      • sweetuncleLESLIE
        August 19, 2019, 2:54 am | # | Reply

        Evidence appears of a massive skill set. It’s early here, but I doff my cap.
        What a NAME, Robert. School attendance must have been fraught with expectations. For your classes.

        • Robert Nowall
          August 19, 2019, 7:56 am | # | Reply

          Well, I didn’t get the knack of it till about twenty years ago, and that was, oh, almost twenty years out of school. It wasn’t till I started subbing for edduard that I started grinding them out. Practice is the key.

          • Robert Nowall
            August 19, 2019, 6:41 pm | #

            Also should mention: if Shaenon and / or Jeff are going to put a line like “Halt, if you don’t mind” in a strip, it’s gonna naturally suggest being fitted to “I hope you don’t mind” in the original.

          • Moe Lane
            August 19, 2019, 9:51 pm | #

            Don’t know that particular song; but, yeah, it’s usually one line that resonates into a hook for me. Not as often as for most of the other people that come up with these, of course.

    • Andy4Hire
      August 19, 2019, 6:37 pm | # | Reply

      Well done, Robert. My hat is off to you.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 19, 2019, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

        “I’d tip my hat to you, but I haven’t got a hat.”

      • awgiedawgie
        August 19, 2019, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

        Major Winchester: “Corporal, my hat is off to you.”

        Capt. Pierce: “Not to mention his hair.”

  5. Candace
    August 19, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Obviously what needs to happen next is that Tip must distract the alternate version of himself while Nick makes for the Osprey. What our heroes will actually do may vary from what is optimal.

    • greenknight32
      August 19, 2019, 4:01 am | # | Reply

      Nick just has to get “close enough” to the Osprey. We don’t know how close that is, or how far away from it they are. They may be close enough now.

  6. sweetuncleLESLIE
    August 19, 2019, 4:14 am | # | Reply

    OK, Captain, you scratch your ‘privates’ and come out with your little hammerless
    five-shot revolver, fire it effectively fifty times as usual….THEN you can do make-overs on their entire team. The zombies really need some attention.

  7. CrackerJack
    August 19, 2019, 8:06 am | # | Reply

    “If you don’t mind”? OK… Definitely A-Sig, Canadian division!

  8. Saberbeam
    August 19, 2019, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    The little one, she’s looking at Nick right? Tell me that Tip now has to coach Nick through a seduction? 😀

    • Shadowmehr
      August 19, 2019, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

      Nick would probably wish for the instruction to include Dr. Lee, rather than Alt!Lee, but the laws of comedy indicate you might just be right.

  9. Barbara K
    August 19, 2019, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    Hmmmm…If she’s that easily distracted by Nick, that competent-looking A-Sig team may have serious weaknesses, after all.
    …But it could be a clever ploy, like the way Trinity had her violence triggered by mentioning cake-eating. Now’s not the best time to distract Nick with a come-on from a Ginnie-like female.
    …Also wondering if their “Nick” is able to pilot the Osprey. Since the A-Sig team has a “Nick”, they must be aware that he’s in a new body. Are they aware of his potential?
    (Is he?)

    • Shadowmehr
      August 19, 2019, 8:57 pm | # | Reply

      Alt!Nick is the submarine captain for when they need to examine A-Sig’s coastal, off-shore, and underwater assets, and as such is probably not compatible with the Osprey’s software.

  10. BMunro
    August 19, 2019, 3:05 pm | # | Reply

    Calling it now: their Sweetheart is a fat bald guy, an A-Sig bureaucrat giving them occasional orders over the radio.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 19, 2019, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      Their Sweetheart is probably trying to pass for human—with, one would hope, a better disguise than Sweetheart’s “Stevie Hugeface” try.

    • Barbara K
      August 19, 2019, 5:45 pm | # | Reply

      What about a very large feline with a political agenda?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 19, 2019, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

        If you’re thinking H.T., think again. His political agenda is anti-human (or rather, legalize eating humans), which is completely contrary to A-Sig’s anti-non-human stance.

        • Robert Nowall
          August 19, 2019, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

          He could be trying to subvert from within again.

          • awgiedawgie
            August 19, 2019, 8:18 pm | #

            I think that’s quite a stretch – even for him. He’d be farther ahead to just start eating A-Sig agents. Since they’re shadow gov, he’d be pretty safe. Sure, they could shoot him on sight, but how many of them can actually see him? And he couldn’t be prosecuted for killing people who quite likely don’t officially exist.

  11. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    I bet her name is Georgia, or maybe Caroline.

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