Reader Mailbag
Shaenon: Personally, I think of “Cherry Lips” as just Tip’s theme. My pick for overall Skin Horse theme song is Bowie’s “Oh! You Pretty Things.” Anyway, thanks for the great question!
Channing: Subsequent to the drawing of this strip, I realized the Garbage song in question was “When I Grow Up,” not “Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go).” Anyway, yes! Thank you for the question. For the ability to make us dance to your question whims in comic form, as this fine person did, please check out our Patreon. Thanks so much for reading!
It was a relatively obvious joke, but I still lol-ed at Shaenon’s “Aw man, I don’t want to be played by Seth Rogen.” Jeff seems to be OK with being played by Felicia Day. though.
Who wouldn’t be? Felicia Day is awesome.
I think it’s a question of inevitability. Sooner or later, we all will be portrayed by Felicia Day.
Even Seth Rogan?
Naw, not me. I’m holding out for Anne Hathaway, since she did such a good job as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. I figure if she can do one cat, nyao… -_^
Of course, with my luck, they’ll just use CGI to animate me and get Michelle Ruff to do my voice…
Either that, or you’ll be played by Seth Rogen.
In Halle Berry’s “Catwoman” ‘costume’ (not a copy, the _actual_ costume she wore in the movie)
Yeah, no one wants to be played by The Rogan, not even The Rogan
Someone else ask some questions, please.
“Some questions”
Please put that in the form of a question
And now Shannon singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious” is stuck in my brain.
Even though Angela Lansbury was in “Bedknobs and Broomsticks”, not “Mary Poppins.”
My brain is a strange place…
Oh, then she should be singing “Substitutionary Locomotion”, shouldn’t she… which is really kinda more fitting for mad science. I can really picture Helen animating a bunch of medieval suits of armour.
Wasn’t she also Mrs. Potts?
And song overwritten…
She was indeed. But I preferred her in Bedknobs. She was a lot closer to a mad scientist in that than she was as an animated tea pot. I mean, she wasn’t exactly a scientist, but she did employ the unnatural in her experiments.
Garbage has a lot of good Skin Horse songs.
Damn, Some Fantastic really is the Narbonic theme song. Like, that’s a near perfect fit.
I realize that Jeff’s T-shirt probably says “LAWFUL GOOD,” but I amuse myself thinking that it really says “LAWFUL GOOF.”
Or “LAWFUL GOON”?
Third panel seems to be AWFUL OOD.
Well, yeah. But it’s still fun to imagine what it might say when you only see part of it.
Too bad we never got AWFUL GOO. That would have something to do with UNITY.
She is the epitome of Chaotic Goo.
But the Ood weren’t really awful, now the humans who thought enslaving them was a good idea…
Let us know what you pick for a theme song. I’ll see if I can write a parody of it. (I’m not sure I know any of the suggestions except Robin’s.)
How about us avid readers? I’d pick “If I Had a Heart” by Fever Ray, but don’t feel any pressure.
Hmmm…I always thought “Shadow Government” by They Might Be Giants was a great Skinhorse Themesong.
“Oh You Pretty Things” is perfect. Such a great song, and right on mark for the SH mission.
the macaroni song is a fitting choice for kid with italian ancestors.
My brain really is having trouble reading it as “Making pillow forts” instead of “Making pillow farts.”
I am only now realizing that “Making pillow farts” is not, in fact, what it says. Dunno which version I preferred.