Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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Dare i hope its a hugging sea serpent? Like the Cobras, just a wee bit bigger?
“It’s okay – it has enough constricting strength to destroy Nick and kill us all, but it would only do that accidentally!”
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!”
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. ^_~
One mustn’t keep someone with a giant thagomizer waiting.
Mr. Green maybe?
Well, it is *very* green.
that would be a monstrous revelation
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
Yeah, I too was thinking maybe Shelby was being a bit modest about what he did.
Well, he DID shrug off UNITY’s headlock like it was nothing.
You are all wrong, what he is saying is that “He has to go, like is there a restroom on that plane?”
I’d have gone already
Fudgsickles?
I assumed they alread knew about A-Sig and it was the shadow government. I meant to say this yesterday.
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.
Okay, so I think my suggestion that the title is a reference to Cyril the Unsinkable Sea Serpent has just been confirmed.
in real life i say “fudgsicle” a lot.
issa really good caught-myself-mid-sylable substitute.
“Forklift” a favourite here. As in “What the forklift?”
“What the focaccia bread?”
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”.
“Buttafuoco! Buttafuoco! Buttafuoco!” – David Letterman, practically every night during the mid-to-late 1990s
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.
Sweetheart’s not even asking how the cobras are.
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.
Ooh ooh, would LOVE to see panel 2 in Ukiyo-e style!
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
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.
Honestly, Fruit Popsicles (especially grape or orange) is better than Fudgsicles.
So you favor fruitsicles?
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.
I believe the current circulating trademarked version ’round here lacks sugar. I get generic fudge pops that do.
It just clicked. “Mr. Green” is really Pavane — Gavotte’s estranged “daughter”.
The erstwhile Funkmeister, probable supercomputer, and giant robot-to-be? How so?
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?
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.
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.
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.