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2019-11-22
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2019-11-22

by shaenon on November 22, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Robert Nowall
    November 22, 2019, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Just don’t light a match when it’s active.

  2. David B Huber
    November 22, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Dr. Phillips was flagged with a “U R Not U” sweater – but Peirson was first! I’m so confused!

    That said, poor Phillips seems to meet a bad end in any incarnation…

    • awgiedawgie
      November 22, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

      Technically, the Knitting Ninja was first.

      Phillips deserved it for drinking all their booze.

  3. Jim Janney
    November 22, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Maybe that was a different Peirson.

    • Frank
      November 22, 2019, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      How many Piersons are there? (Pieople?)

      • awgiedawgie
        November 22, 2019, 5:30 pm | # | Reply

        “e” before “i”… it would be “Peiple”.

  4. s854
    November 22, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Peirson hasn’t changed his top. Maybe he thinks it suits him.

    Just hope he knows how to turn the fire back off again, whoever he is.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 22, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

      Maybe it’s cold inside.

  5. Shaenon
    November 22, 2019, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Jeff wanted this strip to be a tribute to the Sega CD game “Night Trap,” and I complied to the best of my modest ability.

    • puzzleguydallas
      November 22, 2019, 10:51 am | # | Reply

      That’s pure genius, especially since “Night Trap” is actually my favorite bad game ever made, for obvious reasons. Punishing people for trying to take a second and enjoy the story is the heart of every bad Escape Room.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      November 22, 2019, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      Which reader triggered the trap? Because I didn’t.

  6. sweetuncleLESLIE
    November 22, 2019, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    So he’s telling himself that maybe he can get to his GUN….funny they’d let him keep it handy. Although he always kept Alice SOMEWHERE.

    I suppose, with all his quick’n’slick seduction ability, he can hide ANYTHING.

  7. Seph
    November 22, 2019, 5:09 am | # | Reply

    Tip’s explosive collar does _not_ match his outfit.

  8. Barking Monkey
    November 22, 2019, 6:13 am | # | Reply

    Dang, now we’ll NEVER get to have a kilt party.

    • Barking Monkey
      November 22, 2019, 6:22 am | # | Reply

      And just to tackily build on my own comment – it feels like one of the Sunday strips should be a full-on Dr. Phillips style tartan-and-tiki ensemble-cast boozy kilt party.

      • DonRCamp
        November 22, 2019, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

        That sounds like an EXCELENT desktop wallpaper!

    • CrackerJack
      November 22, 2019, 8:04 am | # | Reply

      Well, that’s one. How many of them have to be kilt for it to be a party? Seems there’s a law of diminishing returns at play there…

      • Dr. Steve
        November 22, 2019, 9:05 am | # | Reply

        and diminishing returns on word-play

    • Seph
      November 23, 2019, 6:06 am | # | Reply

      It’s a little known fact that the kilt is named after what happened to the last person to call it a skirt.

  9. Towering Barbarian
    November 22, 2019, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    Why wouldn’t one normally thank people for that? It seems polite to me! ^_^

    • awgiedawgie
      November 22, 2019, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      One would hope you’d never need to employ an incinerator death trap in the bathroom. And you certainly wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of it.

      Of course it’s polite to, but I think it’s just that the occasion to thank someone for it normally wouldn’t come up.

    • Frank
      November 22, 2019, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      Technically, it’s God he’s thanking

      • s854
        November 22, 2019, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

        Frank: Or maybe he’s telling Peirson to thank his (i.e. Tip’s) God for the fact that Peirson built that trap there. I’m not sure how the concept of free will fits into all of this.

  10. Theris
    November 22, 2019, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

    “Usually”? It seems to imply that not only he has already encountered an incinerator death trap in a bathroom, he already had to thank the one responsible.
    And since it’s “usually don’t”, then the amount of time he had to deal with the fire trap is much higher than two.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 22, 2019, 8:56 pm | # | Reply

      Consider Tip’s career path up to this point. Fiery death traps might be among the least weird thing he’s dealt with in the past.

  11. Sean-Paul Bobadilla
    November 22, 2019, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

    The message on the sweater isn’t “i m not me” it’s “u r not u”. Remember the 16 hour gap? They’re all pod people. The real ones are imprisoned in the basement or something.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 22, 2019, 8:58 pm | # | Reply

      At best, they’re in a lost basement. Let’s not consider the worst case scenario at this point.

  12. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    November 22, 2019, 5:59 pm | # | Reply

    ahhh… so seldom i laugh aloud these days. Thanks, Shannon and Jeff.

  13. DarknessShallFall
    November 22, 2019, 7:01 pm | # | Reply

    Aah I love the smell of burnt plants in the morning. Except Australia. I send all my water and hope to you all! Save the poor Kangaroos and Koala’s and all other animals, whether cute or fluffy, scary or scaly.

    • warpzone32
      November 22, 2019, 10:13 pm | # | Reply

      Dude you realize arsonists have been setting coordinated batches of forest fires in, like, three continents this year, right? Read the news.

  14. Robert Nowall
    November 22, 2019, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

    I got to wondering…why did the Thing, or whatever it is, take on the appearance of Phillips of St. Charlie in the first place?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 23, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

      Probably because he would be seen as non-threatening, but wouldn’t raise a red flag like a survivor of a past mission who inexplicably stayed in Carbondale instead of escaping back to HQ.

  15. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, so either the pod people activate once their cover is blown, or there’s a time limit.

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