Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2012-09-13

by shaenon on September 13, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. codebracker
    September 13, 2012, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Guess she knows what godot’s up to, or she’s ben highjacked by him

  2. Sandy C
    September 13, 2012, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    Competent!Tip, good to see you again. It’s been a while–you do seem to like popping up unexpectedly.

    • Frank
      September 13, 2012, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      Maybe he’s still competent because he has yet to be truly affected by GODOT?

    • Sparks
      September 13, 2012, 9:28 am | # | Reply

      Tip’s always *competent*. The problem is keeping him from being *distracted* by other things. Women. Clothes. Women in clothes.

      Women *not* in clothes.

      • The Other Mike
        February 16, 2017, 1:53 am | # | Reply

        Women in clothes – nicer than his.

  3. Anderson
    September 13, 2012, 1:34 am | # | Reply

    Wait! No! I’m stuck using cheap compact fluorescent bulbs. LET HER MAKE A NEW LIGHTBULB PLEASE!

    ….we had one of those things literally explode last summer. That was fun to explain to the rest of the family.

    • WJS
      July 7, 2019, 11:01 am | # | Reply

      Wow, I remember fluorescent bulbs.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 7, 2019, 1:07 pm | # | Reply

      I am so glad that LEDs have supplanted compact fluorescent bulbs.

      I, too, have had a CFL bulb explode. Whoever invented those things should have to spend eternity barefoot in a room with tiny shards of glass falling all over them.

  4. Eddurd
    September 13, 2012, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Michael, Row The Boat Ashore”, Tony Saletan)

    Find GODOT, right through that door!
    You must get through!
    By the day’s end, you’ll be sore,
    I will bet you!

    So, this powerful A.I.
    You’ll disturb now!
    I must science, so bye-bye!
    (It’s a verb now!)

    All these folks who work Black Ops
    Social Service
    See my perspiration drops …
    I’m not nervous!

    Skin Horse wants to talk to me …
    It’s not fun, gee!
    I’m detained by Unity,
    Bits are crunchy!

  5. Dewy
    September 13, 2012, 6:43 am | # | Reply

    Just tell Unity that she is full of vitamins and minerals….and marrowbone Jelly.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      September 13, 2012, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      The crunchy bits are just people sprinkles!

  6. Ben Jims
    September 13, 2012, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    What with the faceplate (mysteriously missing last time UNITY saw her) and the robot wings, she’s reminding me of that military cyborg lady from H is H. That and the train fulla mad scientists, this story seems to be drawing a lot from Narbonic. (never a bad thing)

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      September 13, 2012, 7:26 am | # | Reply

      She IS the cyborg lady from H is H. Her husband — the protoplasmic entity — has already been mentioned.

      • Ben Jims
        September 13, 2012, 8:05 am | # | Reply

        Oh dang, right! That slipped my mind, it did. Man I love it when continuity stuff happens.

  7. commodorejohn
    September 13, 2012, 9:32 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Unity! So do lobsters, and plenty of people find them delicious!

  8. Joyce
    September 13, 2012, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    A good illustration of the strengths of the various team members: Tip is socially observant and makes usually good inferences about motives from behavior. Sweetheart is decisive and command-oriented. And Unity is muscle and teeth, though crunchy bits sometimes give her trouble. 🙂

    • Diane Castle
      September 13, 2012, 11:10 am | # | Reply

      There’s a “Brains Beauty Brawn” trope at TV Tropes that pretty much summarizes your point. It also illustrates that it is a classic.

      • JET73L
        July 23, 2018, 9:05 am | # | Reply

        I just love that brawn is the little girl, beauty is the ex-military guy with the degree in psychology, and brains is the team dog.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 23, 2018, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

          Well, it might be a classic trope, but they wouldn’t want to be all “normal” about it.

  9. davidbreslin101
    September 13, 2012, 11:33 am | # | Reply

    Cyborgs are to regular* people as chocolate with cinder-toffee chunks is to regular chocolate.
    *is it better to say “physiotypical”? i don’t mean to offend

  10. Saberbeam
    September 13, 2012, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

    This one might have been done already, but I think it works well here.

    To the tune of “Yummy Yummy Yummy” by Ohio Express

    Crunchy, Crunchy, Crunchy
    Androids are real crunchy,
    I don’t feel like a-munchin on you.
    Though I love to eat things,
    You are not a all-meat thing,
    So I’ll settle for detain’n you.

    Ooh hate, processors,
    Ooh hate, transistors,
    Ooh hate, live wires so.
    Ooh hate, electronics,
    Thermal glue’s bitter,
    Ooh, may as well let you go.

    Crunchy, Crunchy, Crunchy
    Sweetheart has got a hunch, see,
    That you know more than you’ve told.
    Way that you’re escapin,
    Kinda raises suspicion,
    So I’ll put you in a choke hold.

    Talk about lasers,
    Talk about lightbulbs,
    Talk about things to do.
    Talk about funny,
    But, answers Ruby,
    Answers, we want from you.

    • commodorejohn
      September 13, 2012, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, bravo.

      • Saberbeam
        September 13, 2012, 3:54 pm | # | Reply

        Thanks 🙂

  11. WuseMajor
    September 13, 2012, 3:16 pm | # | Reply

    Look at her, still talking when there’s Science to do.

  12. BMunro
    September 13, 2012, 9:58 pm | # | Reply

    It strikes me that Unity may be a little unclear on the meaning of the word “detain.” (I mean, it probably isn’t a _deliberate_ misunderstanding if she doesn’t want to eat the cyborg).

    (She also may be temporarily spoiled by the good grub she had earlier. I mean, if you dined last night on filet mignon, you might not be enthused by ground pork with peanut shells the next morning)

  13. Joyce
    September 13, 2012, 10:00 pm | # | Reply

    It occurs to me that Unity may have misapprehended the word “detain”. It may mean “make a sandwich of” to her. 🙂

  14. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 12, 2014, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

    Beating it out of the presenter is very effeshint

  15. jdreyfuss
    January 22, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    In St. Charlie, GODOT waits for you!

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