2014-09-09
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!
Tell Seaman Hodge to report. He’s been there and back, so he oughtta know—that is, if he is Seaman Hodge and it’s not some sort of trap…
I think the trap part was pretty clear from step one. He may or may not still be Seaman Hodge
I’d still bet on “trap,” whether it’s really Seaman Hodge or not.
The poses in panel 1 started an endless loop of “Don’t Fear the Reaper” in my head. For those more Disney inclined, also “A Whole New World.”
Needs more cowbell.
(TUNE: “Doctor, My Eyes”, Jackson Browne)
Nera, you want to see the truth …
You’re a cryptozooic sleuth …
But to join these guys is not the thing to do!
Because knowing won’t be fun
If you can’t tell anyone …
You will see the truth, but no one’s seeing you!
[CHORUS:]
Nera, your eyes!
Keep them tightly shut!
It’s no surprise,
You’re just a big attention slut!
Nera, we’ve got to spread the facts!
Because what we write attracts
All our readers to our blog and Facebook page!
So we’d best get out of Dodge,
Before ghostly Seaman Hodge
And his cronies vent their ectoplasmic rage!
[repeat CHORUS]
wait, are Jonah’s eyes open? Or is he using some sort of loophole?
What are the odds that Jonah has been to the stone and acquired a touch of supernatural protection?
I suppose just believing in Hawaiian mythology makes one a Hawaiian after a fashion.
I just want to say that I REALLY love this artist’s style!
Thanks! I had a lot of fun doing them.
If the night drummers are the spirits of warriors from across time, and Nera ( a non warrior as far as I understand ) is being asked to join, I think that it might be good to ask the question, ‘in what capacity?’ Seriously, if she lacks a basic qualification, perhaps Seaman Hodges is less acting as a recruiter, than just gathering supplies. Or, um, supplying the commissary.
He said other people get grabbed too though. Maybe there’s interfaction rivalry between the warriors from different time periods and cultures (Pre-Colonial Hawaii vs the United States Navy vs 22 Century New Atlantean Council vs the 33rd Century Dominion of Mars vs…) and he’s looking for recruits.
It’s not like he said “We’d like to have you over for dinner…”
Logistics and supply, naturally. Can’t field troops without materiel and consumables (ammunition, meals, spare parts, etc.), obviously, and someone has to keep track of that sort of thing, make sure it gets to the troops, and so forth. Napoleon may have said that an army marches on its stomach, but the reality is that it marches on paperwork. Lots and lots of paperwork… just ask anyone in the military!
Or even someone like me, who plays WAAAYYYY too much StarCraft. “You must construct additional pylons!”
Hang on a mo. We, reading this, can see part of one of the drummers. Does that mean we’re in danger o
Don’t worry. It’s not like they’re Candle Jack. Now
I have nothing to fear from the Nightmarchers, I already have all their albums.
Anyone else notice that the “boom boom” behind them is getting bigger, and therefore louder, and therefore Nera and Jonah are about to be in bigger trouble than they can handle.
Out-talking one ghost is one thing. Outrunning the Hawaiian Wild Hunt is really another. Unless Dr. Steve has guessed correctly.