2014-07-24
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!
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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!
On-the-ball, off-the-wall … I confuse those too.
What is the other thing he’s holding in the last panel?
Never mind, figured out from previous strips that it’s a wrench. Still working my way back to try to determine why he’s carrying a wrench everywhere.
He picked up the wrench on the Ides of March, 2012 (http://skin-horse.com/comic/todays-comic-921/). He’s still carrying it because that’s what adventurers do, except in games with inventory-size limits.
I just noticed that that strip clearly references Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin. In that game you break into a secret facility with a bunch of cool spy tools including a “scan scrambler”, and early on you find a closet containing two crates and a wrench. I seem to recall that you leave the wrench in the closet, though. Nera’s “silver tube with no clear function” (March 31) must be the lockpick from S&W, too.
Don’t you know? If you have an inventory limit, then you just drop stuff in the hub type area or make trips to get it all in one place!
Unless you have the Thing Your Aunt Gave You But You Don’t Know What It Is. Then you put what you already have in it, drop it, and pick up everything else you could carry. It will usually be back in your inventory in a few turns. Just don’t drop it while you’re inside your brain.
I’ve never dropped Thing while inside my brain before. Does your head explode? (You really carried the pamphlet and the microchip everywhere?)
It’s Wrenchie from the respawn incident.
It occurs to me that this is sort of the opposite of being strangeness-blind: once you realize just how much weird crap is out there, you may lose any ability to be skeptical. In the Skin Horse universe, David Icke being right about the British Royals would be positively _mundane_, and the weirdness-aware would suspect his story as being mere disinformation covering up something stranger.
That sounds suspiciously similar to an explanation I heard for conspiracy theories.
Very neatly summarized. Kudos to you.
(TUNE: “On The Street Where You Live”, Lerner & Loewe)
I have often seen Nera’s bathing suit,
But I’ve never seen her looking so amazing cute!
So what got me warm?
Was it just her form,
Or this cute bathing suit that she wore?
By the hotel pool, she was looking hot …
She was flirting with the guys and showing what she’s got!
More than just spandex,
There is lust and sex
In this cute bathing suit that she wore!
Explain your secrets, I dare you!
All at once, it’s coming to me …
To ac-ti-vate, I must wear you!
(And now the cashier lady calls Security …)
What’s your plan for Man? I am guessing doom …
For the truth’s out there, and in here in the dressing room!
I will find it all!
Man, I’m on the ball!
With this cute bathing suit that she wore!
The only reason that woman is calling security on the teenage boy accusing women’s clothing of possessing mind control powers is because he’s doing it while wildly waving a decent sized wrench around.
Then try it on?
Jonah, I can tell you’re about to put the swimsuit on yourself “because I can’t let anyone else take that risk!”
It’s how Tip gets his powers.
The real issue is whether we can have two Tips prominently-featured in the story. It would be a fantastic blow to tokenism, though.