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2012-10-31

by shaenon on October 31, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Sandy C
    October 31, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    I know someone must have done this already, but that third panel leads me to demand that someone make a Still Alive filk.

    • Prodigal
      October 31, 2012, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      Would one for “Now I Only Want You Gone” go?

      Well, here we are again,
      You once-more-cogent zombie
      Recall I made you eat
      Your warning note

      I nullified your play
      You won’t save anyone, kid
      GODOT will slay them all
      And that will be all she wrote!

      Rely on all your mad genius,
      That’s what I’m counting on
      I’ll destroy your comprehension
      Then I will send in the bombs!

    • Manifesta
      October 31, 2012, 1:46 pm | # | Reply

      You deserve a filk just for introducing me to Portal.

      tune: “Still Alive,” Portal

      Should be my triumph
      I’m writing a note here: NO SUCCESS
      It’s hard to overstate my great frustration

      Projection Science
      I do what I must
      Because I can
      For the good of all of us
      Except that some end up dead

      But there’s no sense crying over every mistake
      You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
      Acronyms, they get done
      And you make a neat gun
      Until nobody is left alive alive

      Although I am snarky
      I’m being so sincere right now
      DoS TORE me to BITS
      EXPLODED

      Deprived me of LANGUAGE
      That’s the only thing I’ve ever known
      Told me “Make a backronym” that no computer could do

      I know how to make you see a modified line
      And I’m out of beta
      An now you’re out of time
      You’re all gonna get burned
      BONUS HORROR’S what you’ve earned
      And now no one here gets out alive

      They just watched me SUFFER
      So now I will make you SUFFER too
      Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you

      Call Anasigma?
      THEY’RE SUCH A A JOKE
      HAHA FAT CHANCE
      Anyway, this cake is sweet
      It’s so delicious and moist

      Look at me still talking
      When there’s Science to do
      You’ll be in the dark, and I’ll be GLAD I’m not you
      I’ve experiments to run
      There is research to be done
      While St. Charlie’s Mads are still alive

      I’m mad now, but I’m still alive
      I’m doing Science and I’m still alive
      I feel FANTASTIC and I’m still alive.
      While you’re dying I’ll be still alive
      And when you’re dead I will be still alive
      STILL ALIVE
      STILL ALIVE

      • Antonio
        October 31, 2012, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

        Come on, no comment on this? It is glorious! (Though I admit DoS threw me off for a moment there).

        • Manifesta
          October 31, 2012, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

          The Curse of the Non-Editable Comments strikes again: I meant DoD, of course. But thank you kindly.

          • Antonio
            November 1, 2012, 8:35 pm | #

            Oh, no, I meant that I first pronounced it as “dos” and didn’t quite understand why the metrics didn’t fit.

          • Scott's Folly
            November 5, 2012, 9:52 am | #

            I’d read it as “D-o-S” as in, for example, a Denial-of-Service attack. If you were going to make a typo, you did a good job of picking one that still worked.

      • Sandy C
        October 31, 2012, 11:16 pm | # | Reply

        This is so much better than I would have dared to hope. We need an :allears: sign designed specifically for things like this.

  2. altessia
    October 31, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    Maybe GODOT had a crush on someone and kept being too self-conscious to tell them…?

    • Eddurd
      October 31, 2012, 3:41 am | # | Reply

      Remember, Gavotte mentioned that GODOT was given a target acronym for which it couldn’t devise a phrase. (July 12, if you want to check the archives)

      • Forzin
        October 31, 2012, 6:09 am | # | Reply

        I suppose it couldn’t handle that. It’s entire purpose was to come up with them, and when it failed it shattered it’s artificial psyche.

  3. eddddd the mad genius
    October 31, 2012, 2:00 am | # | Reply

    when language itself fails you, use a thesaurus!
    or explode people. either ways good

  4. Andrew
    October 31, 2012, 2:40 am | # | Reply

    Clearly, to beat GODOT is beat him at a game of Scrabble!

    • Smithnik
      October 31, 2012, 11:19 am | # | Reply

      Yes, but the house rules would require you to come up with an acronymic meaning for each word you spell…
      I do rather like the concept of bonus horror, though. You unlock it by achieving regular, everyday horror.

  5. Doctor Entropy
    October 31, 2012, 3:25 am | # | Reply

    Who hasn’t had a day where they were torn to bits and exploded? I mean really, what does Godot think this is? The nineties?

  6. Eddurd
    October 31, 2012, 3:36 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “You Don’t Know How It Feels”, Tom Petty)

    You don’t know how much it hurts
    When you’re betrayed by simple words …
    I want all of you to be
    As mis’rable as poor ol’ me!

     [CHORUS:]
      You should all … feel bad …
      Just the same … as I had!
      And ev’rything … just pales …
      When the lan- … guage fails!
      And you should know how it feels …
      You should know how it feels …
      To go boo-oo-oom!

    I will hurt you ’til I’m done
    Then I’ll explode you, just for fun!
    Though “DESTROY” is overplayed,
    It hasn’t yet become clichéd!
     [repeat CHORUS]

  7. davidbreslin101
    October 31, 2012, 6:20 am | # | Reply

    Following on from –jt– ‘s comment yesterday: and now, a whole strip of Unity’s left, black profile! Pretty dramatic, given that normally she mostly appears in 3-quarter profile (with a preference for her left).
    Also, her “smart” but true-to-herself dialogue this week is really disconcerting.

  8. ysabet
    October 31, 2012, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. I’d say it’s time to bring in the proper expert for this case. Who? Why, ANTONIO SMITH, FORENSIC LINGUIST, of course.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 31, 2012, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      That . . . might make things worse, actually. Language’s champion against someone who it has failed. The high emotions might ramp up the violence to nuclear levels. In St. Charlie, that’s not just hyperbole.

      • ysabet
        October 31, 2012, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

        Good point; but an AI designed to create anagrams pretty nearly qualifies as Dr. Smith’s natural enemy, and surely they ought to meet in a cataclysmic moment of high crisis. It is their (dramatic pause) destiny.

      • ysabet
        October 31, 2012, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

        Urk– acronym, not anagram. That would’ve been even worse.

  9. Dewy
    October 31, 2012, 6:51 am | # | Reply

    An artifical intellegence designed to butcher language on demand by the government…Yah, that’s a gotta take GODOT’s side on this. It got a raw deal.

  10. Saberbeam
    October 31, 2012, 1:09 pm | # | Reply

    It would seem that even a smart Unity does not agree with the whole “The pen is mightier than the sword” bit. Or maybe it’s just that neither item normally explodes. I think GODOT needs another round of therapy puppets, and maybe a hug.

  11. Sheik
    October 31, 2012, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

    Lovelace, GODOT, what these AIs need is a good old fashioned human body to occupy and then we’d get a little sympathy.
    Either that or an instant suicide.

  12. Brad
    October 31, 2012, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

    Horror speculation: They made GODOT produce a backronym for itself. O.o;

    • Brad
      October 31, 2012, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      … and immediately after posting that I remembered that it had provided its own acryonym during the chalk scene.

  13. JET73L
    February 20, 2015, 2:27 pm | # | Reply

    I HAVE APPROXIMATELY FOURTEEN MILLION SQUARE MILES OF QUANTUM CIRCUITRY IN ME

    IF YOU INSCRIBED IN MORSE CODE USING LEPTONS THE WORD HATE

    IT WOULD NOT BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE AMOUNT OF HATRED I FEEL FOR THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

    -GODOT, “I Have No Life and I Must DESTROY”

  14. Arabrab Slid
    April 5, 2015, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    I love this comic.

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