2014-09-11
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!
A backhoe? Please. If you have ties to the mad science community, there are far better ways to cheat.
Maybe it was ……….. a mad science backhoe!
Or maybe Mad Science failed
Bah! Mad science never fails! It merely destroys the world in a different way than intended!
Yesterday, I saw a miniature backhoe perched precariously on a small hill of rubble. I’m almost certain it was sentient, and playing “I’m the King of the Castle.”
I was hoping the “being run out of town” would have to do with Nera’s mother doing mad-science-y things. Perhaps she at least payed for the backhoe~?~
If you mean “by supplying the ‘borrowed’ credit card”, then she may well have.
And so she did. Congrats on calling it.
I can just see the Phineas and Ferb delivery guy going “aren’t you a little young to be using a backhoe?”
“Yep! Yep, I am!”
(TUNE: “Back Home Again In Indiana”, Ballard MacDonald & James F. Hanley)
Backhoe I’ll rent, when in Hawaii,
Just to lift the Naha Stone!
I’ll move that artifact,
While Nera tracked
Through the forest all alone!
As we escape from ghostly marchers,
Nera doesn’t want to know
How the three of us got run out of Hawaii,
Now they won’t let me rent that darn backhoe!
Seems this is one strip that says it all—can’t think of anything to top the punchline.
Using a backhoe, or any mechanical advantage, even a lever, seems like cheating when the prophecy calls for lifting the rock. Of course, no one called Alexander on it when he cheated with the Gordian Knot.
That’s because the wedge he used on the Knot was very sharp… and still ready to hand if he had to use it on anyone calling him a cheater. ^_^
Jinx!
As pointed out in The Last Hero by Terry Pratchett, when you’ve just made it quite clear you solve your problems with a sword, people go very quiet about whether you were meant to…
As the Arrogant Worms tell us, “Malcolm solves his problems with a chainsaw–and he never has the same problem twice!”
davidbreslin101, do you live in Poway? Because I saw the same thing this week, with a bigger backhoe down the rubble hillock, and a tiny Bobcat skiploader at the bottom.
I live several thousand miles away. Which implies this thing is spreading fast.
The speech bubbles seem easier to read, today.
And I am glad, because I love that exchange in the final panel!
(Raises hand) Actually, I want to hear about the story.
I have a feeling the details would be hilarious