Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2019-09-27

by shaenon on September 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Robert Nowall
    September 27, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    You would think Ira would remember that—at least, unless that forgetfulness act went a little too far.

    • ~J`
      September 27, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      Not forgetfulness, wilful ignorance, blindness, and cognitive dissonance.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 27, 2019, 8:53 pm | # | Reply

      There are some things that you want to forget. A silverfish climbing your nose to use your sinuses as an echo chamber to test their newest arias counts as one of them.

  2. sweetuncleLESLIE
    September 27, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    The ‘freaks’ really don’t cause much problem. The Citizens are ALWAYS causing problems, unfortunately the ‘freaks’ take the brunt. Present company excepted, of course.

  3. Casimir
    September 27, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

    …couldn’t decide if Ira’s last response was to Tip’s in panel 3 or panel 4.

    • Sir William
      September 27, 2019, 5:13 am | # | Reply

      I think 3

    • Robert Nowall
      September 27, 2019, 9:36 am | # | Reply

      Change a couple of words, and Panel Three is the current divide in American politics.

      • Carl Fishman
        September 27, 2019, 10:55 am | # | Reply

        Tip’s comment in panel 3 is why I sometimes have trouble sympathizing with our heroes. (And ended up dropping the Marvel mutant books.) Because I identify as a citizen, not as a nonhuman threat. (Which also, as you point out, explains why I vote differently than I suspect most folks here do.)

        • awgiedawgie
          September 27, 2019, 3:18 pm | # | Reply

          The trouble is that Tip worded it wrong. They protected non-humans (not threats) from citizen threats.

          And in fairness to Ira here, Skin Horse did in fact save humans in Alaska from the non-human threat of the werewolves.

          • Robert Nowall
            September 27, 2019, 3:55 pm | #

            What is human?

          • Robert Nowall
            September 27, 2019, 4:22 pm | #

            Or, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?” Psalm 8:4.

        • DanD
          September 27, 2019, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

          The entire point of X-Men was that non-humans (or the other, in whatever form) is not, inherently, a threat.

          Defend against the actual threats, citizen or other, not the other just because they are.

          • awgiedawgie
            September 27, 2019, 10:11 pm | #

            Which pretty much sums up why I despise Ira so much. He means to eliminate all non-humans simply because they exist. He doesn’t care whether they have demonstrated any kind of threat.

  4. Thenardyr
    September 27, 2019, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    If the story of how a silverfish from the basement got into Ira’s nostril isn’t one of the Skin Horse short stories, it needs to be.

    • Candace
      September 27, 2019, 2:19 am | # | Reply

      This.^

    • ShenHibiki
      September 27, 2019, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      I personally like it better as a noodle incident XD

  5. Candace
    September 27, 2019, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    It still amazes me how Ari Green can be so intelligent (an evil genius, no less), and yet so dumb at the same time.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 27, 2019, 2:30 am | # | Reply

      Is he an evil genius? Sure, he’s managed to orchestrate a rather elaborate plan, but for the execution, he had to recruit geniuses to make it work. Virginia probably did more to further his plot than anyone else. If it hadn’t been for her, he would just be an old man wishing for world domination, instead of actually attempting to make it happen.

      • Towering Barbarian
        September 27, 2019, 3:01 am | # | Reply

        The ability to recruit geniuses to do your will does count as genius. Competent management is always harder than it looks. ^_^

        • awgiedawgie
          September 27, 2019, 3:10 am | # | Reply

          I agree with your second statement, but not the first. The ability to recruit geniuses counts as competent, but that doesn’t make him a genius.

          • Gyrre
            September 27, 2019, 9:13 am | #

            In technical terms, he does count as a mastermind.

      • Frank
        September 27, 2019, 8:16 am | # | Reply

        He’s the worst kind of evil genius: a sane one

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 27, 2019, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      Having blind spots and quirks is part of being human. That said, it deserves to be kept in mind that Intelligence and Wisdom are two different stats. Just because someone is a genius doesn’t mean that they have enough common sense to come in out of the rain. ^_~

      • ShenHibiki
        September 27, 2019, 7:10 am | # | Reply

        THIS. This guy is quite smart. But he’s not really wise.
        He knows what he wants, and how to work towards it… but he still has problem grasping the interpersonal relationships outside of a plan or logical thinking.

        Is why Skin Horse was such a puzzle to him. There’s zero logical thinking there.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 27, 2019, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

          Oh, there was plenty of logical thinking there. It just didn’t fit his plan, so he couldn’t reconcile it as logical. He’s too narrow-minded to comprehend anything outside his own design.

  6. Robert Nowall
    September 27, 2019, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    By the way, are those two guys behind Tip security or part of Ira’s golf foursome?

    • Towering Barbarian
      September 27, 2019, 8:06 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t surprise me if they were both. ^_^

  7. Xerxes Aragon
    September 27, 2019, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    I think you should modify Tip’s comment in panel 3 to, “No! We protected nonhumans from citizen threats!”

    • Robert Loughrey
      September 27, 2019, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

      Naw Unity, the Dog pack, the Werewolves, the Swamp Zombies, the Regular Zombies, the Mad Scientists, Hitty, Whimsy, the Crytsal Entities, were all pretty threatening.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 27, 2019, 3:31 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, but they did protect humans from the non-human threats. Case in point: saving Alaska from the werewolves. But they also protected non-humans from citizen threats.

        • warpzone32
          September 27, 2019, 9:26 pm | # | Reply

          Haven’t they also protected non-human threats from non-citizen threats?

    • Frank
      September 27, 2019, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

      but that woudn’t be as funny!

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