Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2019-08-08

by shaenon on August 8, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. ShenHibiki
    August 8, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    … ok. What. No.
    THERE’S TWO OF THEM.

    • Aevylmar
      August 8, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Remember, Virginia makes mad science sane. There’s no limit to the number of Unities they can build, other than their own common s –

      …

      There’s no limit to the number of Unities they can build.

      • ShenHibiki
        August 8, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

        I was gonna say “self preservation instincts”, but clearly the result is the same.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 8, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

        I don’t recall Unity ever being Mad science to begin with.

  2. awgiedawgie
    August 8, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Let me guess… her name is C.H.A.O.S.?

    • ShenHibiki
      August 8, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Worse. She’s also called UNITY.
      Crazyness ensues.

      • Jay
        August 8, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

        If these are their evil opposites – AMY, because AMY’s Mean, Yeah?

        • awgiedawgie
          August 8, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

          Or Anne, because Anne’s Not Nice Either.

          • warpzone32
            August 8, 2019, 8:11 am | #

            “Nah, UNITY sounds lame. ”

            “Call me EPIC.”

  3. Robert Nowall
    August 8, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Oh, Lord, Dr. Lee made two.

    • Efogoto
      August 8, 2019, 2:54 am | # | Reply

      Heck, she just made black nanobot gunk. If it can replicate itself in whole or in part, there’s no end to how many they can make of themselves.

      • John Campbell
        August 8, 2019, 4:56 am | # | Reply

        There’s more to U.N.I.T.Y. than that. Per Dr. Lee in “Once and Future”, she has some modifications that keep her body from rejecting the gunk like the animals did. I think she’s got some kind of nanite hive that keeps the gunk fresh and active, too. (I seem to recall her mentioning a “chest engine” at one point, though I don’t recall where in the decade-plus archive that might have been.)

        • Andy4Hire
          August 8, 2019, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

          It’s this strip here. But I just took “chest engine” to be an idiosyncratic alternate name for “heart”, the approximate logic behind which would be, “Well, it’s a thing in my chest that does something an engine would do, ergo, ‘chest engine’.”

          Anyway, I’ve been using “chest engine” that way myself ever since reading that strip.

          • John Campbell
            August 9, 2019, 12:21 am | #

            I generally find that it’s safest to assume that Unity means things literally.

    • jrwences
      August 9, 2019, 3:23 am | # | Reply

      Can’t assume that Dr. Lee made this one, since she is in the company of . . . let us call her Dr. Yee.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 9, 2019, 12:05 pm | # | Reply

        Also, Dr. Lee said that she was only one of a team that made Unity, so the rest of the team may have made any number of others without Dr. Lee’s help or knowledge.

  4. Moe Lane
    August 8, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I see that the old tradition of “Well, those people beat us, so let’s get our own, only we don’t really know how they beat us so we’re going to actually get caricatures of them” has successfully made the leap to the private sector.

    • warpzone32
      August 8, 2019, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Have you looked around at the internet lately? Pretty sure that tradition originated in the private sector.

    • BRGR
      August 9, 2019, 10:39 am | # | Reply

      That tradition is called “follow the leader” and was an album by Korn.
      The games industry has been doing it for decades.

  5. alphaghoul
    August 8, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Well I’ll be darned, another Unity, I wonder what her backstory is, I’m guessing that the entire team is from an alternate universe where SkinHorse is loyal to Anasigma. Also one has to wonder how The evil organization can stay secret when they’re constantly offing everyone, but it’s a comedy, this series doesn’t have to take itself too seriously.

    • BRGR
      August 9, 2019, 10:40 am | # | Reply

      It doesn’t count if there are no witnesses!

  6. Robert Nowall
    August 8, 2019, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    This guy brags about an asset. Tip wants to assess their work. This assignment is getting to be a pain in the ass.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 8, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      You’re just assuming…

      • warpzone32
        August 8, 2019, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        My assessment is, this is a classic impasse. Their assassin’s ability to assimilate the assembled, the fastidiousness of the lass in glasses, the sassy crassness of the badass, and the pompass assiduousness of the guy with the mustache are all counterbalanced by the trespassers who passed as associates

        This assignment is an embarrassment that can only end with mass assassinations.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 8, 2019, 11:04 am | # | Reply

          Oh, well done, indeed!

        • Shadowmehr
          August 8, 2019, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

          (Slow clap) Oh, bravo sir, bravo.

        • Darchangel
          August 8, 2019, 9:53 pm | # | Reply

          Daaaaaaang. Nice.

  7. thedoctor55
    August 8, 2019, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    I suppose their “Sweetheart” is a cat named Grumpy?

    • ShenHibiki
      August 8, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

      Or just Catbert…

      • BMunro
        August 8, 2019, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        A-Sig doesn’t like nonhumans, only tolerates those it can control. “Cats” and “control” don’t mix well.

        • ShenHibiki
          August 8, 2019, 2:04 am | # | Reply

          You did see the asset up there, right?

          • BMunro
            August 8, 2019, 4:01 am | #

            Blueberry waffles, and no doubt various other commands.

          • Robert Nowall
            August 8, 2019, 9:47 am | #

            Nah. First is a frontal shot, and then it’s out of the frame.

    • Barking Monkey
      August 8, 2019, 6:45 am | # | Reply

      In my imagination goatee-Gavotte is a Russian termite colony.

      • Darchangel
        August 8, 2019, 9:53 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, I like this. Head-canon, now.

  8. woodensarsen
    August 8, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    Blueberry Waffles! Blueberry Waffles!

  9. Virgil
    August 8, 2019, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    In 20XX, a crack commando unit was sent into general obscurity by a for a crime they weren’t central enough to the plot to commit. These people were promptly recruited by A-Sig as a foil for the writers to do a shameless sight-gag. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as Ira’s lackeys. If anasigma has a problem related to plot-relevant characters, if silliness might help, and if there aren’t any better gags written this week, maybe they can deploy… The B-Team.

    • Ronnie Simonds
      August 8, 2019, 5:47 am | # | Reply

      So well played. Bravo.

    • Pygar
      August 8, 2019, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      I’m hearing the theme song… on kazoos. Y.T.I.N.U. is playing one… loudly!

  10. bryceanderston
    August 8, 2019, 2:02 am | # | Reply

    So when’s evil Sweetheart going to show up?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 8, 2019, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      Wouldn’t that be H. T.?

      • awgiedawgie
        August 8, 2019, 11:09 am | # | Reply

        While H.T. is indeed evil in his own right, his evil doesn’t mesh at all with A-Sig’s purposes.

  11. BMunro
    August 8, 2019, 4:05 am | # | Reply

    Shaenon, I have to say working-for-the-other-side (since “evil” would be redundant) Unity made my day.

  12. Robert Nowall
    August 8, 2019, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    No sign of their Nick, either.

    • Barbara K
      August 8, 2019, 9:58 am | # | Reply

      Wasn’t their Nick the guy who said, “Save the makeup tips…”?

      • Robert Nowall
        August 8, 2019, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        Oh, yeah, missed the overtones of that.

        • Daibhid C
          August 8, 2019, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

          It’s the slouch that’s the real giveaway.

  13. Dr. Steve
    August 8, 2019, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    could A-sig have recruited evil universe twins for their own (typically) nefarious purposes?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 8, 2019, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      Well, DisUnity seemed to get along with the Skin Horse gang by the end, but President Sweetheart didn’t much care for her counterpart.

  14. Dewy
    August 8, 2019, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. What if this isn’t the real inspection team but another group that is trying to infiltrate?

    • Shadowmehr
      August 8, 2019, 2:00 pm | # | Reply

      Too much of a coincidence, even for this comic

      • awgiedawgie
        August 8, 2019, 5:50 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, come on… there’s no such thing as “too much of a coincidence” for this comic.

    • Dr. Steve
      August 8, 2019, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

      Unless…. the new team is simply playing it up to confuse the readers; who, even from their demi-god’s eye view, are still subject to more manipulation than they would be able to accomplish in trying to confuse or manipulate the author.

      Not sure what wall (or mirror, or curtain) that might involve!

  15. Daibhid C
    August 8, 2019, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    I’m wondering about that trenchcoat. The rest of the team all have matching uniforms, and it’s not a Unity thing either. It makes me think of the proverbial “group of [small creatures] in a trenchcoat”, which I expect is probably easier than nanogoo.

  16. Sheik
    August 8, 2019, 2:51 pm | # | Reply

    Considering the confusion that is about to ensue “Let’s call in an air strike.” Might just work in favor of our heroes.
    Of course an air strike will do little to either “Unity” so I propose a mutual eating contest.
    Naturally “our” Unity will win simply because she has not recently consumed a pickup and is still hungry.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 8, 2019, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

      How heavy will the forty cakes lie on her stomach?

      • Barbara K
        August 8, 2019, 11:18 pm | # | Reply

        As long as they’re not blueberry muffins, she should be OK.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 8, 2019, 5:52 pm | # | Reply

      The ultimate boss battle… zombie vs zombie.

      • Dr. Steve
        August 8, 2019, 7:15 pm | # | Reply

        There’s a joke in there somewhere about all their “parts” but its too late for me.

  17. Robert Nowall
    August 8, 2019, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

    Any significance to “New Unity” wearing a trenchcoat?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 8, 2019, 6:49 pm | # | Reply

      I’m just out of it today. I’m not even properly reading the comments today.

  18. Sam D
    August 8, 2019, 6:06 pm | # | Reply

    The Unities will fight, the Tips will seduce each other, the Doctors Lee will share a truly relaxing complaint over coffee, and Nick will be able to get something done.

    • warpzone32
      August 8, 2019, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      *the Nicks.

      Black dude, previous strip, far right. Complains about Anti-Tip.

  19. mickeyjf
    August 8, 2019, 6:46 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t picture the Unities fighting each other. Au contraire, in fact.

  20. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    Would that make her Duality?

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