2014-07-22
This week’s art courtesy of guest cartoonist Justin Hall. Check him out at justinhallcomics.com or on Twitter at @justincomics. Thanks so much, Justin!
(And anyone who points out the inconsistency in today’s scripting receives ten Skin Horse fan points, redeemable absolutely nowhere for absolutely nothing.)
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Jonah seems to have changed pants, but nothing else.
Unless those are boxers, in which case he’s lost his trousers and started ranting about crazy stuff. An excellent start.
I just read through about three months worth of Choose to try to find the inconsistency but I can’t, and I’ve been awake for 19 hours, and I’m just going to guess that it has something to do with Jonah saying that he’s known Nera since kindergarden, and now I’m going to bed.
Buy Skin Horse Volume Four—it’s much easier to flip through quickly.
I would love to, but all of my money is currently going towards my dorm room.
A nice shelf, filled with Narbonic Perfect COllection and Skin Horse 1-27 would make a *great* addition to any dorm room 😉
I’m guessing the wrench? Didn’t he have to give that up to repair the time machine?
No, he was pretty insistent on keeping Wrenchie. It’s in his back pocket even after they get out.
If they’ve known each other since kindergarten, they’d be the same age. But Nera was able to drive, and Jonah didn’t have his learner’s permit yet. So she’s older by a year or two.
8 months age difference could still put them in the same kindergarten class.
Or Nera could have gotten a hardship license at an early age.
Or Jason’s parents decided he couldn’t get a license until he could pay for his own insurance.
Or he could be a little younger than Nera and have failed his written test to get his permit initially and had to wait.
The most likely answer is probably that Nera has a fall or winter birthday and Jonah has a summer birthday. In Pennsylvania, you get your permit at 16 and your license at 16-1/2.
Also, your permit or license or whatever doesn’t magically appear when you hit the correct age. For various reasons, several of my classmates waited a few months or a year to get theirs, and some friends who grew up in urban areas with good public transportation didn’t learn to drive until well into adulthood.
Wrenchie’s lost his feet! (Or maybe his head – who knows with wrenches?)
I’m sure Wrenchie will get better soon – drawn tools have amazing regenerative powers.
Damn. I was hoping I’d be first. 🙁
On the flip side, Wrenchie only had legs during last week.
Wrenchie is adjustable. Adjustable wrenches only have an armature on one side, since they don’t need to save on space in a set. Last week’s artist made the error, not this week’s.
She’s sitting on a tree, according to yesterday’s strip.
She’s on the other side of the pool from the tree, just in front of the beverage bar.
That implies that the angle of the camera changed 180 degrees. But if that the case… why is the other tree still in the back, instead of in front?
In any case, I don’t have time to look it up right now but I seem to remember that Jonah had to move from another state in second grade because his father was transferred, so it may not make sense for them to know each other since kindergarten.
Different tree, that was off camera yesterday. The tree you are referring to is behind the camera today. Open area with fountain is off camera to the left in today’s first panel. Glass wall in today’s first panel was behind and to the left of the camera in yesterday’s final panel.
Jonah is seated at a table that was off camera to the right in yesterday’s first panel.
I am happy to announce that Rex gets the fan points in regards to the “second grade” thing. Spend them wisely, Rex.
Are they still offering that nothing up there in nowhere? I think I might go for some of that.
But the glass wall background was only on one side.
(TUNE: “Tonight” from West Side Story, Bernstein & Sondheim)
Nanites! Nanites!
Her suit must be nanites!
They hug her form, she’s looking so fine!
Nanites! Nanites!
This situation bites!
Look at her! Breaking hearts! (One is mine!)
Nanites!
A life-form symbiotic
Makes guys act idiotic …
They’ve got her in their sights!
This just … ain’t right!
I’ve got to save my girl from that blight …
Na-nites!
I do wish these two were included in the cast list…
Is Jonah naïve, blinded by his own obsession with the paranormal, or correct? Do we even want to know the answer?
Consider the setting. I put his odds at being correct at around 45%; adjusted for their tendency to stumble into madtech.
Mind control nanites? Heck, I’d be happy to have nanite fabric that could control wrinkles!
So this means he’s going to try to remove her swimsuit for her own good? This can’t end well.
I only hope he doesn’t do it right then and there.
Jonah was planning on sitting in the hot tub until he puked from fluid loss.
She was already planning to flirt at the pool before she touched any nanite invested swimsuit
The question is, which playthrough are we seeing?
If this is the seven hundredth time he’s been at poolside with her for this “first” time, then it makes me wonder what happened the first 699 times, to make “nanites” the only rational response.
The playthroughs aren’t happening anymore… I think. The peek into the far future Jonah got at the end of Choose marked the effect wearing off, so he no longer has a ‘save point’.
For all we know, he still has it, he just hasn’t died again yet.
Nera’s mind-altering nanite swimsuit is actually pink, not black.