2014-07-29
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Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Art for today brought to you by Dazhbug! You may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror!
Thank you for taking the game survey. We got a lot of good responses and the top-rated theme was “Steampunk.” Now we have a followup survey to decide the three stretch goals. If you’re interested in playtesting the game (alpha testing, no art) you can let us know here. http://tinyurl.com/oaw25lc
Maybe his ancestor was The Whale Who Wanted to Sing at the Met…
(snap!) That’s where I got the opera reference!
And that would explain the musical talent.
I am hereby contracting Mr. Eddurd to do the Frontalot filk.
I like the anchor on the gold chain.
They see me swimming, they hating.
By the by, he looks more like a sperm whale than a humpbacked whale. But what do I know?
Sperm whales are toothed whales with their mouths at the bottom of their giant, round heads. That’s a baleen whale with a hump and long pectoral fins, which is pretty good cartoon shorthand for a humpback.
Sorry, I had this half-written last night, and I’m late for work this morning so I don’t have time to rewrite … maybe tomorrow.
(TUNE: “Duke Of Earl”, Gene Chandler)
Fluke, fluke, fluke, fluke ’em all,
Fluke, fluke, fluke ’em all,
Fluke, fluke, fluke ’em all,
Fluke, fluke, fluke ’em all,
I’m Hugey P … just hear my call …
Forget the others, just fluke ’em all!
I’m the rizzk dizzk, I’m the best,
Check out my rhymes, and fluke the rest!
Oohhh, yeaaahh …
Mr. Big keepin’ us down!
Nera, come nearer to me
And be my flukin’ girl!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah …
[insert two minutes of whale song, fade out]
…now, as long-distance migratory critters, can intelligent humpbacks still qualify for American citizenship and therefore Skin Horse aid?
I guess it depends if he was calved in U.S. waters or not. They have that thing over there that if you’re born there you get automatic citizenship, don’t they?
I don’t want to sound bad or anything, but it’s getting to the point where I can barely read the comic…. Could you start making them about a third bigger? It would really really help me to read the text and see what’s going on!
Hence Eddurd’s read of “rizzk dizzk” for “rizzle dizzle”, I suspect.
Ah, ‘the 207’ = Maine (from the area code). Thank you, Google.
Would I know who Mr. Big is if I had any knowledge about rap? He seems to be going unaddressed, and I can’t tell whether it’s because he’s known or because people are more interested in other aspects.