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2019-01-19

by shaenon on January 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
    January 19, 2019, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    … How am I relating to Nick’s dilemma in those two panels so much?

    • Leslie Piper
      January 19, 2019, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      What a long, strange trip it’s been….(wait, there’s MORE? hooray, and onward)

      • Robert Nowall
        January 19, 2019, 10:54 am | # | Reply

        He eats that, and there will be more to come.

        • David B Huber
          January 19, 2019, 8:39 pm | # | Reply

          Could be worse!

  2. David B Huber
    January 19, 2019, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    The expressions of Sweetheart and Unity in the last panel are priceless!

    • Robert Loughrey
      January 19, 2019, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

      I love that Unities pigtails drop just like sweethearts ears!

      • Nomi
        January 20, 2019, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

        Those are ponytails, not pigtails.

  3. thedoctor55
    January 19, 2019, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Even Unity’s hair is stuned! HA!

  4. Doghouse
    January 19, 2019, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    I love Unity’s hair mirroring Sweetheart’s ears.

    • Moe Lane
      January 19, 2019, 10:09 am | # | Reply

      Yeah!

    • Shadowmehr
      January 19, 2019, 10:11 am | # | Reply

      They say couples do start to look alike . . .

      • tornadominds
        January 19, 2019, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        Especially if one of them is Unity… she could start swapping out limbs with dog parts.

        • Frank
          January 19, 2019, 11:45 am | # | Reply

          Or just transfer all her “classified non-blood substance” into a dog corpse

  5. awgiedawgie
    January 19, 2019, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    I love how they could tell it was Nick just by the number of swears in one sentence.

    • M. Alan Thomas II
      January 19, 2019, 3:19 am | # | Reply

      Well, the Mountain Dew was also a bit of a giveaway. . . .

    • Mental Mouse
      January 19, 2019, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      Remember the three possible “factors” for authentication: Something you have, something you know… or, something you are!

      An important mantra in a world where body-hopping and similar transformations are an occasional but significant thing.

  6. warpzone32
    January 19, 2019, 2:20 am | # | Reply

    The irony is, I’m pretty sure Unity’s unique anatomy makes it plausible that’s an actual expression she’s making, not artistic license.

    • Owlmirror
      January 19, 2019, 2:29 am | # | Reply

      Unity has always had hair that makes animal-ear-like movements.

  7. Owlmirror
    January 19, 2019, 2:32 am | # | Reply

    I think Nick has forgotten that the drone ate. Although maybe that didn’t count? And it could still be years since then; it’s hard to keep track of time in this universe.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 19, 2019, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think he counted it, since it wasn’t really him. The drone may not even have sensors for experiencing eating and drinking.

      • Trivena
        January 19, 2019, 6:31 am | # | Reply

        He definitely didn’t get any nutrition from it.

    • John Campbell
      January 19, 2019, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      It was possible to put food into the drone. That’s not the same thing as eating.

      • CameoAppearance
        January 19, 2019, 4:12 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think the drone had taste sensors, but I can’t cite any specific strip so I might have confabulated that.

        • Marisa Mockery
          January 19, 2019, 4:53 am | # | Reply

          Sweetheart almost broke it by trying to eat too much at an all you can eat buffet and didn’t taste anything so nah, it doesn’t taste or digest.

    • Shadowmehr
      January 19, 2019, 10:15 am | # | Reply

      A nutrient drip into the fluids surrounding his brain do not count as “eating”.

  8. Marisa Mockery
    January 19, 2019, 4:55 am | # | Reply

    Just a Big Gulp? Dude, go big or go home. Double Gulp that Dew down.

    • Frank
      January 19, 2019, 11:44 am | # | Reply

      I was going to say the same thing about the burrito

  9. Leslie Piper
    January 19, 2019, 7:23 am | # | Reply

    ah, GRAsshopper,you have been to the Mountain and now you are returned to Life.
    Normalcy provides further adventures.( the MAN needs a plane)

  10. Sensei Ken
    January 19, 2019, 7:34 am | # | Reply

    I miss the profanity filter. It was always fun, trying to figure out what he meant to say.

    • David B Huber
      January 19, 2019, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

      We can filter it for him! How about
      “Bright, I want a burnt burrito and a Mountain Dew Big Gulp, funnels!”

  11. uncletiff
    January 19, 2019, 8:14 am | # | Reply

    Shaenon, the drooping hair matching the drooping ears in the last panel is sheer genius!

  12. Midwestmutt
    January 19, 2019, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    Hope you like soul food Nick, because that’s all you’ll find in a building that Tigerlily has been ruling.

  13. arqyx
    January 19, 2019, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    Kosher burritos – who knew?

    • Steve
      January 19, 2019, 9:00 am | # | Reply

      No cheese.

      • Mental Mouse
        January 19, 2019, 10:30 am | # | Reply

        Or no meat!

    • Robert Nowall
      January 19, 2019, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      It depends on how they kill it.

  14. Eddurd
    January 19, 2019, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    If the put his brain into a car, would he be an Oreo Speedwagon?

    • Shadowmehr
      January 19, 2019, 10:13 am | # | Reply

      Don’t give Tigerlily any ideas.

    • OneUniverse
      January 19, 2019, 1:15 pm | # | Reply

      I’m not sure Nick will go renegade, since he can’t fight this feeling anymore. He’ll sing Lady to Ginny, but otherwise he’ll have too much time on his hands.

      • OneUniverse
        January 19, 2019, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

        Would someone please rework this topic so it makes more sense? My post *could* have been humorous.:(

        • awgiedawgie
          January 21, 2019, 1:45 pm | # | Reply

          Anyone who understood Eddurd’s comment should get yours. But if they don’t get his, no amount of rewording is going to make yours make any more sense.

  15. Robert Nowall
    January 19, 2019, 10:53 am | # | Reply

    You guys know you weren’t up on GoComics this morning. I guess saying “Holy crud!” was too much for them.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 19, 2019, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

      I wonder if there was a server issue. Post-time on this page says 12:01, but it wasn’t actually up until 2:00.

    • shaenon
      January 19, 2019, 2:02 pm | # | Reply

      Sorry! We should be showing up on GoComics. I’ll re-upload.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 19, 2019, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

        I only noticed ’cause it didn’t show up in my GoComics e-mail.

  16. OneUniverse
    January 19, 2019, 11:05 am | # | Reply

    Are they gonna stop at a drive-thru or stomp a convenience shop to get Nick’s blood chemistry where it usually was? He consumes like Dave did in Narbonic, so does Nick have similar powers?

    • thevinylreviewer
      January 19, 2019, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      Powers? No, he’s not a mad scientist.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 20, 2019, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      Kinda hard to say that Nick consumes like Dave did, since the only time we ever saw Nick consume anything was in VR, so technically he wasn’t actually consuming anything. And even there, he wasn’t drinking from 2-litres or 64oz 7/11 cups.

      And since he’s been a brain in a jar for several years, the term “blood chemistry” hasn’t really applied to him for quite some time.

  17. davefromindy
    January 19, 2019, 12:57 pm | # | Reply

    Eddurd, “I understand that comment”. Would its radio be playing “Ridin’ the Storm Out”?

  18. Robert Nowall
    January 19, 2019, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

    I was going to say something about the aftereffects of a burrito seriously damaging Nick’s relationship with Dr. Lee…but I remembered how, as Tip put it, Dr. Lee was “way too okay with smelling like this” after crawling around the Colma sewers.

    Let’s see what passes.

  19. Bruce A Munro
    January 19, 2019, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

    Pace yourself, Nick, Remember what happened to Bender.

  20. David B Huber
    January 19, 2019, 10:12 pm | # | Reply

    I’m pretty sure Nick had at least olfactory senses rigged in his Osprey body (probably intended for cargo-sniffing)! After all, there were empty pizza boxes scattered around all the time, and even before Skin Horse, certain anomalies…

  21. Owlmirror
    January 20, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    I’m going to go out on a limb and say that given that Nick has had the opportunity to make a complaint about the condition of his penis, but has not done so, that Lee & Jones did have the fortunate foresight to 86 the foreskin beforehand, and that Nick is currently well satisfied with the condition of everything between his legs.

    Of course, he may well be withholding any complaints until after Dr. Lee reawakens, since I suspect that he doesn’t want anyone else to be laying hands on his member to make modifications.

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