2014-09-05
Our final guest artist is Vincent Kukua. As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror. Shaenon returns on September 15th!
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Our final guest artist is Vincent Kukua. As always, you may check out a higher-resolution version of this strip over on the GoComics mirror. Shaenon returns on September 15th!
Sheesh, Nera. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you didn’t want to find those three cryptids
(TUNE: “When You Wish Upon A Star”, Washington & Harline)
When you wish into your phone
That you weren’t so all alone,
Then a disembodied voice
Will speak to you …
In the jungle late at night,
You’re intrigued, but feeling fright …
Then you hear a cryptid near!
What will they do?
Ghostly lights …
Louder, the beat of drums …
When something spooky comes,
It’s time to panic!
Though you fear you’ll be attacked,
Still, that wish you can’t retract!
When you shriek, you’re up the creek
Of num-ber two!
I love mentally hearing that fluting voice on the last line.
Bwa!!!!!!
I thought she’d learned about the dangers of such statements. Next is, “It can’t possibly get any worse than this.”
Since she’s in a rainforest, the universe’s response to that statement is more or less a given.
Be careful what you wish for…you might just get it.
Ghostly drummers in Hawaii. specialy those. You are suppose to die if they see you.
Definitely seems to be showing a lack of genre savvy…
Just checked the news… After the hurricanes last month, and big lava flow this month… next month, I’ll be visiting the big island (thoom, thoom, thoom… thooooom).
Hawaii, huh? Just don’t disturb anybody’s eternal slumber…
She’s not in a rain forest known for its noisy, drumming cryptids; she’s in a rain forest that’s known for its noisy, drumming ghosts, the Nightmarchers, and it’s very small & quiet cryptids, the Menehune.
Seriously, just hand the drummer a beer and all will be cool.
Think that only works with Pele.
It’s not the ghostly drummer you have to worry about, it’s the ghostly guitar solo afterwards.
Really hope that it’s just a bunch of Menehune joking around with her because if those drummers are the Night Marchers then she’s dead. For those not clear on what Night Marchers are, think the Hawaiian version of the army of ghosts from ‘The Return of the King’ from the Lord of the Rings.
If she’s lucky, she’s got some Hawaiian blood in her so one of those Night Marchers could actually be an ancestor of hers who’ll save her in the nick of time. So she’ll get a warning instead of the death sentence.
As for Menehune, think Hawaiian leprechauns but who are more likely to use science and engineering to build you a kick butt fish pond rather than magic.
The Menehune played an important role in a Carl Barks Uncle Scrooge story, if I recall correctly.
Time for “IZ” to start singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”.
Love that face in the last panel!