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2015-04-29

by shaenon on April 29, 2015 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Mixed-Up Files
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  1. Dave
    April 29, 2015, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Hello, Tigerlily

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      April 29, 2015, 1:15 am | # | Reply

      TL’s not the ONLY character to have the power of Funk in this strip, and although we know that she was held in this facility, they could very well simply be friends and allies.

      • Zyzzyva
        April 29, 2015, 11:12 am | # | Reply

        If it’s *not* Tigerlily, that will be fine; but, for the moment, my money is on her.

        • David Breslin
          April 29, 2015, 2:05 pm | # | Reply

          …though “y’all” is more Unity and “buck up” is more Moustachio. Gavotte may have taught her daughter to speak English using recordings of Skin Horse employees….

    • oneuniverse2
      April 29, 2015, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

      Are you sure she isn’t channeling James Brown or Aretha Franklin?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 12, 2015, 4:59 am | # | Reply

        Niether. She’s channeling athlete Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins.

        Quoth Wikipedia: “Also, [Darryl] claimed to be an alien from the planet Lovetron where he spent the off-season practicing “interplanetary funkmanship” and where his girlfriend Juicy Lucy lived.”

        Shaenon seems to have a curious habit of making offhand references to the ravings of famous eccentrics (and that’s not even counting the fact that an undead Emperor Norton was a major supporting character for an arc).

  2. Pygar
    April 29, 2015, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    For some strange reason, I’m thinking her drone-tapping gear probably has a helical antenna… No normal antennas for the Queen of Springs!

  3. B
    April 29, 2015, 1:47 am | # | Reply

    Now I’m wondering if Lovetron is a real place or if Pavoline only knows of it from when Tigerlily went thru this program?……..now, I’m wondering what each of the characters would see in this program.

    • GammarayCanon
      April 29, 2015, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if it actually is real. But I do wonder about the phrase “the funk is superb”. Seriously, are there any forensic linguists here who could help?

      • strawberrycocoa
        April 29, 2015, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

        Funk, mojo, groove, vibe, flow, chi.

        It’s all one, baby.

      • Kirala
        April 29, 2015, 5:00 pm | # | Reply

        Unless they’re in-universe, they’re going to be of limited use: it’s not as if Jeff and Shaenon actually become dozens of different people with different idiolects when they write the strip.

        • M. Alan Thomas II
          April 29, 2015, 9:57 pm | # | Reply

          The comment was presumably referring to the in-universe forensic linguist, yes.

          • Kirala
            April 30, 2015, 9:07 am | #

            That would be freaking awesome. Artie would agree, too.

    • David Breslin
      April 29, 2015, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

      “Bee Woman from Lovetron.” A stone-cold 70s classic flim.

    • oneuniverse2
      April 29, 2015, 3:56 pm | # | Reply

      It’s where basketball player Darryl Dawkins spends the off-season.

  4. Robert Nowall
    April 29, 2015, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    Now Sweetheart will be in a funk for a while…

    • David DeLaney
      September 8, 2015, 2:13 am | # | Reply

      >> Now Sweetheart will bee in a funk for a while…

      fixed that for you

      –dave, sugar … aw honey honey

  5. tuiteyfruity
    April 29, 2015, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

    you thought i was crazy! it’s Tigerlily. I was right! (i let myself get convinced it wasn’t but my first instinct was it was Tigerlily!)

  6. Moor
    April 29, 2015, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    “Bee on the wall? I like to get to know all the kinds of folks, show them a trustworty face.”

    … that is like flashing neon sign levels of “no way this isn’t Goldbug”.

    • Robert Nowall
      April 29, 2015, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

      Well, “Goldbug”…”Gold Bug”…”Bee?”

      • Moor
        April 29, 2015, 4:30 pm | # | Reply

        The question is whether Pavane is Goldbug because “gold bug”, or whether Goldbug is choosing to talk through Pavane because “gold bug”.

        I’m tending towards the former, because the latter is really confusing even by Skin Horse standards, but I’m keeping the latter as an option.

        • M. Alan Thomas II
          April 29, 2015, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

          A phone conversation with a character generally presumed to be Goldbug had Gavotte talking to them as if Goldbug would be unaware of the difficulties of a swarm of bees lifting a telephone handset. Presumably Gavotte would know (or be able to hear over the phone) if Goldbug was a fellow swarm, so we must assume that Goldbug is not.

  7. chrisn
    April 29, 2015, 6:11 pm | # | Reply

    Daaaamn. Gold Bug.

  8. serpentrose
    November 7, 2018, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

    Heh Heh Heh

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