2014-09-08
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!
And the knowledge of what F-Stop is continues hidden for another day…
The dialogue in the last two panels makes no sense.
Things she wants him to answer, and the answers, except for the last one, because it’s like It’s A Secret.
I kinda had the same reaction for a while. I had to read it like 3 more times before I remembered about the Wow! signal and it finally made sense.
(It doesn’t help that when “Wow!” is used as a noun, grammar gets wonky and the sentence doesn’t make sense if you don’t pay attention and/or don’t know about it beforehand. Whoever decided that the exclamation sign should be part of the name deserves insulting words.)
According to Wikipedia, the Taos Hum is a phenomenon in Taos, New Mexico where… um… there’s a constant, low frequency hum and nobody knows what’s causing it or where it’s coming from. That’s pretty much it. Must be irritating as hell.
They’ve hot similar Hums in a few other cities, mostly in the United States and United Kingdom, although there’s a few in Canada, a couple in New Zealand and one in South Africa.
Before I remembered what the Wow! Signal was I thought it might be a palindrome. “Muh soat. Langis Wow! Pots-F fo Sevlav esimerp eht.”
That’s definitely a Navy uniform, and not Army or Marines (which would be gunnery sergeant anyway). He should have introduced himself as a chief petty officer, not as a sergeant, first class.
Seaman 1st class (E-3), wearing a pre WW II Summer/Tropical (white) liberty blouse. Blue stripes on sleeves were eliminated early in WW II, largely due to problems with the dye running and staining the blouse.
He originally introduced himself as a sergeant, first class (E7). Forgiving the insignia mistake, he still used the wrong designation for his pay grade.
Go back and read it again.
“WHO… WHO ARE YOU?”
“seaman first class, john hodge, u.s.s. arizona.”
Have they made corrections before when they recognized factual errors or did I just really badly misread that yesterday morning at 5:30?
I haven’t made any updates or re-uploads. Maybe the latter then?
“Seeing” wouldn’t be too bad…it’s the “join us” that’s always a sticking point…
You can check in but you can’t check out.
You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.
Welcome to the Hotel Dead Hawaii?
I don’t see her as Tiffany-twisted or having the Mercedes-bends…
As a photographer, F-Stop hits me as an aperture setting… Am I missing something?
Yes. You’re missing “Valve’s”. As in “Valve’s F-Stop“
It’s also a pun, since it’s supposed to have something to do with Aperture Sciences from Portal.
Coincidence? I think not!
Interesting. Is it just me, or is this particular ghost-related mini-story starting to feel like vintage Scary-Go-Round?
(Jeff and Vincent: I mean that as a compliment. Thanks especially to his dialogue-writing skills, John Allison is one of my cartooning heroes.)
This is the second webcomic I follow that has recently had the young female main character testing a ghost who claims to have all the answers (the other one is Ashley Cope’s Unsounded).
http://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch09/ch09_73.html