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2015-11-11

by shaenon on November 11, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Looking Glass Land
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  1. Eddurd
    November 11, 2015, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    OK, how many saw this coming? 🙂

    • Chris
      November 11, 2015, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      I was expecting a goatee.

      • CptNerd
        November 11, 2015, 12:35 am | # | Reply

        Eyepatches are the next best thing.

      • Moe Lane
        November 11, 2015, 12:47 am | # | Reply

        …How do you put a goatee on a dog?

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          November 11, 2015, 5:53 am | # | Reply

          Wait ’til she’s asleep

        • abb3w
          November 11, 2015, 8:05 am | # | Reply

          Dunno, but the first Google Image search result for “dog goatee” has a great evil vibe.

      • oneuniverse2
        November 11, 2015, 12:54 pm | # | Reply

        Dog beard is a better band name.

      • jdreyfuss
        January 27, 2020, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

        That would only work if Sweetheart was a schnauzer.

    • Djiril
      November 11, 2015, 2:09 am | # | Reply

      I would have if I’d remembered a certain earlier plot point.

    • vincentmuyo
      November 11, 2015, 3:57 am | # | Reply

      Sweetheart doesn’t truck with parking violators, after all.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 11, 2015, 6:44 am | # | Reply

      And Reynard’s working for her, too.

      • BMunro
        November 11, 2015, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        Reynard’s the sort to always come out on top, or at least employed by those on top.

    • Nix
      November 11, 2015, 6:49 am | # | Reply

      Predicted it in the comments on the 7th 🙂 I’m all smug here now. Fear my prophetic powers! (I can predict that there will be a future. Will that do?)

    • Blayzeing
      November 11, 2015, 7:06 am | # | Reply

      Haha yeah, I did. Back when they said it was a “burecratic hell-hole” or something similar. ‘S very good.

    • DocRask
      November 11, 2015, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      Mirror, mirror…

      • Robert Nowall
        November 11, 2015, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

        Maybe they’re reversed right to left, like Mirror Unity at the beginning of all this. (I was looking at the ears of the Sweethearts in this one, but a look back persuades me it’s just momentary shadow.)

    • Seth
      November 12, 2015, 3:17 am | # | Reply

      I failed to call it. Truly, this is a world much removed from own if Canadians can become president.

  2. Mildweasel
    November 11, 2015, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    me

  3. The Ponytrician
    November 11, 2015, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Please tell me that the eyepatch is a Snake Plissken reference…

    • Pygar
      November 11, 2015, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      Not evil enough… think Emilio Largo.

  4. Thelonereader
    November 11, 2015, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Saw this form a mile away, right when I learned of the president’s parking meter policy.

  5. Dave Van Domelen
    November 11, 2015, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    So, alt.Unity is the Biomass, alt.Tip is responsible for countless deaths (well, not responsible per se, but her body did the killing), alt.Sweetheart is Evil President…alt.Mustachio’s probably going to be even milder than the regular one.

  6. Pygar
    November 11, 2015, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Wonder if Sweetheart has ever seen “The Great Dictator”… I am hoping for no pretentious “Look Up, Hanna” speech…

  7. Nahuel Méndez Diodati
    November 11, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    not me

  8. Miyaa
    November 11, 2015, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Honestly? I was expecting an alternative Garrote.

    • matt w
      November 11, 2015, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      Regular old garrotes are constricting enough.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 11, 2015, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

      Gavotte, the sentient swarm, has gotten fed up with trying to steer humanity from the inside, and she and her daughters and her daughter’s daughters have spread over the countryside, eating pollen and waiting for the mad and the sane to finally give up the ghost leaving them to build up a more stable and philosophical society.

      They will miss the tea and mai tais however.

  9. John Campbell
    November 11, 2015, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    I’m kind of disappointed that President Fancy isn’t chomping on a cigar.

  10. CptNerd
    November 11, 2015, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    “Fancy Plisskin? Heard you were dead”

  11. caelo
    November 11, 2015, 4:09 am | # | Reply

    is that a tie because i don’t think sweetheart writes with her paws.

  12. Jack
    November 11, 2015, 5:13 am | # | Reply

    Oh, the spilt coffee! The loitered-in bus stops! Truly the worst of all dystopian realities!

  13. Robert Nowall
    November 11, 2015, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    Oh, dear God!

  14. Robert Nowall
    November 11, 2015, 6:45 am | # | Reply

    Looks like “our” Sweetheart is wrong on two counts.

    • Kirala
      November 11, 2015, 8:44 am | # | Reply

      Three, if we count “man” twice on the two separate meanings “male” and “human”. (I’m enough of a word nerd that I insist that “man” is universal to humanity, and human-male-exclusive is “wer”. I’m not enough of a word nerd to acknowledge that “wer” as a standalone word has been dead for a thousand years and I can’t resurrect it on my own.)

      • Robert Nowall
        November 11, 2015, 9:23 am | # | Reply

        Actually, I can’t say this one’s female…after all, we have two Tips, one of each of the two official sexes.

        • alurker
          November 11, 2015, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

          But the little fox calls this one “ma’am.”

          • Robert Nowall
            November 11, 2015, 4:54 pm | #

            Well, Marcie called Peppermint Patty “Sir,” but we all knew better.

  15. Darwin
    November 11, 2015, 7:21 am | # | Reply

    If the Sweethearts are anything alike (and given that Tip and !Tip are so similar, I’m willing to bet on it), Sweetheart might be able to drown !Sweetheart in paperwork, thus nullifying !Sweetheart’s homefield advantage. There’s also the chance Unity might be able to talk sense into !Sweetheart, but Unity’s not snacked on enow brains lately to have that option occur to her.

    • s854
      November 11, 2015, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

      They’re similar, but only one of them is cowering behind the other one right at the moment.

  16. Dr. Steve
    November 11, 2015, 8:23 am | # | Reply

    Panel 2 – sorry UNITY… trick question.

  17. casimir
    November 11, 2015, 9:17 am | # | Reply

    One rarely hears the term “smite” in political discourse anymore.

    • Flah
      November 11, 2015, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      Let the GOP stew for a few more years, I’m sure it will return to the politicians’ lexicon.

  18. Bergerjacques
    November 11, 2015, 9:27 am | # | Reply

    I had no idea…

  19. Bergerjacques
    November 11, 2015, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    But what does that imply about alt-Gavotte. Sweetheart coup?

    • Smithnik
      November 11, 2015, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

      Well, if the gender alteration thing was consistent, then alt-Gavotte would be mostly queen bees, and they would fly in different directions to start hives. Unfortunately, since they’d be dividing a single drone among them to do all the work, the whole system would collapse.

      I was thinking more evil Nick Fury than Emilio Largo, but that works. Snake Plisskin fits, thematically, but even in an alt-form, I can’t see him being into paperwork.

  20. erichamion
    November 11, 2015, 10:11 am | # | Reply

    This should pose no problem at all. I’m sure Unity has been preparing a plan for just this situation. “Look! A form WX-3275 that’s been filled out in triplicate, but the 11th page of the second copy is missing the stamp of the assistant adjunct to the regional superintendent’s office!” Then, BAM! Leg sweep!

    • darkstarling
      November 11, 2015, 11:31 am | # | Reply

      Truly is Unity the Batman of the team. But does a let sweep work on four legs? WE SHALL SEE!

    • GammarayCanon
      November 12, 2015, 12:46 am | # | Reply

      Or simply “Look! Octopus squeaky toy! BAM! Leg sweep!”

  21. colomon
    November 11, 2015, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    I bet alt.Captain is very proud of alt.Sweetheart.

  22. oneuniverse2
    November 11, 2015, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

    Cripes, no filk for this one (yet).

    • Robert Nowall
      November 11, 2015, 6:27 pm | # | Reply

      Tempted but I usually stick to Mondays, and still owe one to another strip. Besides, I gotta leave for work in less than half an hour.

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