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2017-10-28

by shaenon on October 28, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Otakubouzu
    October 28, 2017, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Dare i hope its a hugging sea serpent? Like the Cobras, just a wee bit bigger?

    • Daibhid C
      October 28, 2017, 5:21 am | # | Reply

      “It’s okay – it has enough constricting strength to destroy Nick and kill us all, but it would only do that accidentally!”

  2. D. Walker
    October 28, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    I fear the only way you’re likely to get your wish if for Nick to say something like, “CRICKETS! It’s a HUGGING sea serpent!”

  3. Towering Barbarian
    October 28, 2017, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    I can see why he wouldn’t want to annoy his 5:00 by keeping it waiting. ^_^

    Under the circumstances I’d say Sweetheart’s best bet is to set up another interview session in the hopes that Shelby continue to be cooperative now that the cards are on the table. It’s better then being eaten by the 5:00. ^_~

    • casimir
      October 28, 2017, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

      One mustn’t keep someone with a giant thagomizer waiting.

  4. Jerry Aethers
    October 28, 2017, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Mr. Green maybe?

    • Efogoto
      October 28, 2017, 1:51 am | # | Reply

      Well, it is *very* green.

    • Dr. Steve
      October 28, 2017, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      that would be a monstrous revelation

  5. Candace
    October 28, 2017, 12:46 am | # | Reply

    If this is Shelby’s 5:00, I would say he’s underplaying his superpowers just a bit. Although he *was* deliberately vague with the “enhanced abilities” bit. It looks like maybe this “plumber” really did need a rocket car. This thing looks like it could really mess up someone’s pipes. ;-D

    • awgiedawgie
      October 28, 2017, 4:46 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, I too was thinking maybe Shelby was being a bit modest about what he did.

      • Dewy
        October 28, 2017, 10:09 am | # | Reply

        Well, he DID shrug off UNITY’s headlock like it was nothing.

  6. Riniko
    October 28, 2017, 1:38 am | # | Reply

    You are all wrong, what he is saying is that “He has to go, like is there a restroom on that plane?”

    • Chrisn
      October 28, 2017, 2:46 am | # | Reply

      I’d have gone already

      • Robert Nowall
        October 28, 2017, 9:09 am | # | Reply

        Fudgsickles?

  7. Alphaghoul
    October 28, 2017, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    I assumed they alread knew about A-Sig and it was the shadow government. I meant to say this yesterday.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 28, 2017, 4:43 am | # | Reply

      Yeah they do know A-Sig is the shadow gov.

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-89/

      But that doesn’t mean they know whether A-Sig has anyone spying on them. Of course, by this point, Sweetheart, at the very least, should assume they do. Since she knows that it was Mr. Green who got Skin Horse reinstated. And if he can get them reinstated, that means that Mr. Green, either personally or as head of A-Sig, has always had some influence over Skin Horse.

  8. Daibhid C
    October 28, 2017, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so I think my suggestion that the title is a reference to Cyril the Unsinkable Sea Serpent has just been confirmed.

  9. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    October 28, 2017, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    in real life i say “fudgsicle” a lot.
    issa really good caught-myself-mid-sylable substitute.

    • mickeyjf
      October 28, 2017, 10:25 am | # | Reply

      “Forklift” a favourite here. As in “What the forklift?”

      • David Breslin
        October 28, 2017, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

        “What the focaccia bread?”

    • awgiedawgie
      October 28, 2017, 4:27 pm | # | Reply

      I use “fongu” a lot, but I suspect Nick’s swear filter would catch that, since it’s been a pretty well-recognised euphemism for a while.

      Another favourite is the Italian word for fire: “fuoco”.

      • reynard61
        October 28, 2017, 9:42 pm | # | Reply

        “Buttafuoco! Buttafuoco! Buttafuoco!” – David Letterman, practically every night during the mid-to-late 1990s

        • awgiedawgie
          October 28, 2017, 9:55 pm | # | Reply

          Except everyone — including Letterman — pronounced his name But-uh-FOO-koh. (OK, to be fair, some people also pronounced it in such a way that Nick’s swear filter would definitely catch it.)

          Whereas fuoco is pronounced foo-OH-koh (or FWOH-koh if you say it fast). Sounds totally different, and I, for one, have never thought of one when hearing the other.

  10. Robert Nowall
    October 28, 2017, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart’s not even asking how the cobras are.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 28, 2017, 4:32 pm | # | Reply

      Tip and Nick are really the only ones there who had much contact with the Cobras.

      Besides, Sweetheart is more focused on the fact that she didn’t get to find out who Mr. Green is after all.

  11. casimir
    October 28, 2017, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    Ooh ooh, would LOVE to see panel 2 in Ukiyo-e style!

    • Miyaa
      October 28, 2017, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

      With Nick’s comments replaced with the appropriate kanji. Which according to Google, is probably best displayed as:

      ファッジのアイスキャンデー.

      https://translate.google.com/#en/ja/fudge%20popsicle

  12. David Breslin
    October 28, 2017, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

    Slightly off topic- I saw my first ever V22 Osprey yesterday. Uncanny-looking machine, especially as it was flying just after sunset and the sunlight was reflecting off the rotor tips. I said hello but I don’t think it heard me.

  13. Miyaa
    October 28, 2017, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    Honestly, Fruit Popsicles (especially grape or orange) is better than Fudgsicles.

    • Sheik
      October 28, 2017, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

      So you favor fruitsicles?

    • awgiedawgie
      October 28, 2017, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

      My Dad would agree with you. He would have a popsicle just about every day when he got home from work. I, on the other hand, prefer Fudgsicles.

    • Robert Nowall
      October 28, 2017, 5:32 pm | # | Reply

      I believe the current circulating trademarked version ’round here lacks sugar. I get generic fudge pops that do.

  14. awgiedawgie
    October 28, 2017, 7:12 pm | # | Reply

    It just clicked. “Mr. Green” is really Pavane — Gavotte’s estranged “daughter”.

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 28, 2017, 7:48 pm | # | Reply

      The erstwhile Funkmeister, probable supercomputer, and giant robot-to-be? How so?

      • awgiedawgie
        October 28, 2017, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

        Supercomputer? I don’t think so. Super computer genius? Definitely. There have been clues.

        I started to suspect her when she showed up in Sweetheart’s “VR Hell” and gave away the fact that it was VR. She wanted Sweetheart to know it wasn’t real, but that she was being evaluated on how she behaved. Then the “Mr. Green” that Sweetheart met a few moments later played it off like it was a glitch in the VR. But Sweetheart was still in VR, so “Mr. Green” could appear any way he wanted to.

        But go back to the phone call Gavotte made the day that Nick arrived at Annex One. “I’m quite familiar with the sort of gifts you give, you great humbug.” Gavotte clearly knew whoever was on the other end of the line personally — more personally than you’d know your average business connection. The whole thing snapped into focus as I was reading that strip again today.

        And the first codename we see (besides “Mr. Green”)? Goldbug. Perfect name for a swarm of bees. (Incidentally, that further makes me believe that the “golden ones” that the opossums were waiting for to take them to planet Lovetron were also Pavane.)

        And how better to know what’s going on in 42 different places at once than to actually be in 42 places at once?

        • Urlance Woolsbane
          October 28, 2017, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

          Exceedingly good points, particularly re: The Golden Ones. I’d forgotten about Gavotte’s familiarity with Mr. Green. That said, and I may well be reading too much into this, Gavotte talks as if the difficulty of hanging up the phone is peculiar to her, although I suppose that doesn’t mean much if Pavane drives a drone.

          • awgiedawgie
            October 28, 2017, 10:23 pm | #

            Well, if my suspicion is correct, then Pavane is also the smarter of the two, so she would use a speakerphone, rather than mucking about trying to lift a handset.

            Oh, and I almost forgot about Mr. Green’s comment to Echo Bravo regarding Gavotte — “When she took over Project Skin Horse, I thought she’d be in line with our goals.” If Mr. Green truly is Pavane, it makes sense that she would have assumed — at least at one time — that she and Gavotte shared similar thinking.

          • awgiedawgie
            October 28, 2017, 11:36 pm | #

            And upon further reading, it’s become increasingly clear that Shelby could not possibly be Mr. Green, since he was at Annex One with the gang watching Moustachio’s film about the Old War while Sweetheart was meeting Mr. Green in VR.

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