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2019-09-23
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2019-09-23

by shaenon on September 23, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Urlance Woolsbane
    September 23, 2019, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    I wonder… Did Ginny relay the details of extirpation to Tip or is he simply guessing?

    • Cait
      September 23, 2019, 7:07 am | # | Reply

      Well, he is aware of Nick’s original situation, at minimum.

      • Robert Nowall
        September 23, 2019, 7:53 am | # | Reply

        And Sweetheart’s sojourn at the Mad Scientist’s Resort, too.

  2. WuseMajor
    September 23, 2019, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    Tip, don’t go down that road. Doubting reality can’t take you anywhere pleasant.

    Plus, we’ve seen A-Sig’s computer simulations. They’re not that cunning.

    • warpzone32
      September 23, 2019, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Not just infinitely picking wallnuts but *infinite instances of the same wallnut.* You could probably crash the system by taking a nibble out of each one you harvested and throwing the rest away until the memory used to render your arbitrary bite-marks exceeded the available capacity.

      • Candace
        September 24, 2019, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        Hmmm, that could work. At the very least, you’d probably get Mr. Green’s attention, which could make things more interesting than endlessly picking walnuts.

  3. Altarboy
    September 23, 2019, 2:21 am | # | Reply

    Walnuts Tip, are there walnuts?

  4. Robert Nowall
    September 23, 2019, 7:55 am | # | Reply

    Is Unity’s new job Sweetheart’s new paperweight?

    • Dr. Steve
      September 23, 2019, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      beat me to it

  5. Barbara K
    September 23, 2019, 10:06 am | # | Reply

    A new chapter has begun! “A Life in the Woods”! So many questions…
    Wonder if that means a Louisiana swamp-visit to get Unity some spare parts…or does this mean walnuts for Tip?
    Is that little antenna-bearing creature on the left side of Panel 1 a tiny wind-up Hitty, or is it Hitty, herself, seen in perspective at a distance? It looks hemispherical, not Hitty-spherical. (It would be great if Tigerlily figured out a way for Hitty and Moustachio to reproduce…especially if the spring-powered offspring could learn Excel!)

    • Robert Nowall
      September 23, 2019, 11:51 am | # | Reply

      Probably taken from the subtitle for “Bambi.” (The Felix Salten book, not the dreadful Disney movie.)

    • awgiedawgie
      September 23, 2019, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

      The little antenna-bearing creature is one of the basement robots.

  6. Christian Rose
    September 23, 2019, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

    Prediction: Tip is going to be extrapaited and Tigerlilly will eventually have to save him.
    And his main concern will still be his hair.

    • warpzone32
      September 23, 2019, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

      “Everything looks weird. Why is everything so… measured? Rythmic?”

      “Well, that’s the thing… Tigerlilly Jones saved your life. You’re talking to us from inside a clock.”

      “……….”

      “I realize that this must be–”

      “Can you put a wig on the clock?”

      “There it is.”

      “Called it.”

      “Tip, your body was destroyed! Tigerlilly created a–”

      “JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!”

      “The movement is completely exposed! Hair would hang down into the gears and jam up your autonomic processes!”

      “I’ll take anything!”

      *writes the word “HAIR” above the clock face in sharpie*

      “Can way I can get a makeover!”

      *writes DO immediately after the word HAIR*

      “…thank you.”

      • warpzone32
        September 23, 2019, 5:27 pm | # | Reply

        *any way

        • Christian Rose
          September 23, 2019, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

          Pretty much what I was thinking tbh.

      • shaenon
        September 23, 2019, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

        This is an accurate scenario.

        • Frank
          September 24, 2019, 10:51 am | # | Reply

          The creator has spoken!

      • awgiedawgie
        September 23, 2019, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

        I love this.

        • awgiedawgie
          September 23, 2019, 6:40 pm | # | Reply

          Dang… that was meant in response to warpzone’s dialogue.

  7. JET73L
    September 23, 2019, 4:15 pm | # | Reply

    But are there separate forms for disembodied brain vs. disembodied head?

    • D. Walker
      September 24, 2019, 4:09 am | # | Reply

      That’s a good question. It’s really unlikely that UNITY’s head still has a brain inside it, unless we’re counting the entire nanobot swarm as a distributed brain.

      …which raises a good question. Why is UNITY’s head the part that retained her consciousness?

      The bulk of the swarm would have been contained in the body, so why is the small swarm fragment that was left in the head the part that remained a cohesive entity?

      I could understand if her body being torn to pieces meant the bulk in her head was the largest single mass remaining, but there have been instances where her head was separated while her body remained intact, and still she maintained swarm identity cohesion in the head, not the body with the greater mass of nanobots.

      UNITY physics are weird and potentially inconsistent.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 24, 2019, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

        Unity has a brain. It was cloned from Mell’s DNA, which Helen had sold to the government years ago. It’s how Unity is able to actually think. Of course, it should not be possible that the nanobots could keep the brain alive, but then again, Nick’s brain should not have been able to remain alive for years in a tank of saline solution. The simple fact that Virginia was able to achieve this should be confirmation enough that she is indeed Mad.

  8. Robert Nowall
    September 23, 2019, 5:38 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, my name is Dennis Wilkin, I’m in Anasigma jail.
    Although I’m dressed in orange, I am still the finest male.
    I hand out psychobabble and I never charge a fee.
    And when I’m giving makeup tips I’m using my degree.

    Oh, the building shakes and the robots quake as the bees begin to swarm.
    Zerhakker banging Dr. Lee as Sweetheart files the forms.
    And Unity pruned a wee brutal acute and causes us no pain,
    But I might find I’m nothing but a disembodied brain.

    Right now I sit and wonder if I’m really sitting here.
    It could be simulation and I wouldn’t see it clear.
    I wonder if it’s all a lie and that causes me some strain.
    I wonder if a headache strikes a disembodied brain?

    Oh, the building shakes and the robots quake as the bees begin to swarm.
    Zerhakker banging Dr. Lee as Sweetheart files the forms.
    And Unity pruned a wee brutal acute and causes us no pain,
    But I might find I’m nothing but a disembodied brain.

    —from “MacNamara’s Band,” the Bing Crosby version.

  9. Shadowmehr
    September 23, 2019, 9:27 pm | # | Reply

    Please notice that Tip is now wearing a standard prison jumpsuit. The only way he would wear said jumpsuit would involve large violent men wedging him into it with crowbars. During such an extreme exercise, the only way he could retain his com earpiece is if the large violent men had strict orders not to let it fall out. Conclusion: Anasigma knows about the comms and are monitoring the channel between them. Secondary conclusion: Sweetheart must keep their connection brief (so as not to be tracked) and say nothing about their plans or whereabouts, even if they can move the building to random areas for each check in.

    Tertiary conclusion: for the sake of comedy, none of that will occur.

  10. Frank
    September 24, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

    That’s more an “Employees only” way out

    • awgiedawgie
      September 24, 2019, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      Since Mr. Green was the one who started Skin Horse up again, it could be said that Skin Horse actually was a part of A-Sig, so technically, Tip sort of is an employee (I’m just assuming here that none of the gang formally resigned when they went rogue).

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