Georgia
Shaenon: I’m not great at customer service.
Channing: I didn’t even feed Shaenon any lines this time, and she still has my character down. Perhaps I’m becoming too predictable. I need to throw a few curve balls.
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Well, Georgia was on our minds.
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Well, Unity was on Georgia’s mind..
So that’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia? o_O
I never thought I’d regret not knowing any songs about Georgia
Learning to play that song….over and over and over and….is how I learned that cute little standard chord change at the beginning.
Local three-chord oafs are just beginning to learn it, but in one key only. Fools.
Now we need Caliban and Georgia to hook up as a couple, so we can all joke about how The Devil Went Down On Georgia…
Never happen. If Georgia even thought about it, Mell would be Sherman, and Georgia would be… well, Georgia.
If only she’d been NAMED Carolina
Err, did not mean to shout named there. Autocorrect does the darndest things.
I admit, I was curious what happened to her. I was kind of ambivalent on whether she was actually alive, but not knowing her fate felt like a hole in the story.
Wow, you actually listened to me again! I feel like royalty! Okay let’s see:
1. I regret not looking at this when it updated.
2. Georgie’s new ‘do still works because it looks punk, atleast in the last panel, the eight one looks like she has male pattern baldness but try telling that to altTip but them again he is seeing it from the front.
3. You haven’t given us the names of altTip and altNick yet.
4. What about director English from way back? We all saw him get eaten whole, so why didn’t he just crawl out a hole in the stomach or something? and I was expecting him to come back as a zombie and his employee whatsername say they can be the zombie twins or something much to his chagrin, but I guess that the fact that he didn’t comeback in the story arc with Jonah and love interest otherwhatsername, means that he just stayed dead.
5. I almost used the last of my minutes posting this comment.
Alt-Tip’s name is James. We learned that the day we met them.
I’m probably not the first, but I wonder if that’s meant to be an allusion to a certain Roald Dahl book…
Personally, I suspect it’s a reference to James Tiptree, Jnr, AKA Alice Sheldon.
That does seem plausible; good catch!
I appreciate your remembering me even if I was only briefly featured, except the name is Director EnglAND, not ISH. (We must be accurate.) As for coming back, well, I was hopeful, too, but. alas, I guess I was just digested and that was that. I did appear briefly in the alternate universe but got chomped by the anti-Unity. Some days it just doesn’t pay to get up.
This comic wins all the internets today! And it’s only 1 AM.
OK. Georgia, James and… ? Buddy? Or Jack?
Rob?
Personally, I don’t see why people getting free ice cream think that they get to complain about either the serving sizes, or how often the ice cream shows up.
Well spoken.
Word.
I believe the term you’re looking for is fan service.
Beat me to it.
I really must object to the lack of realism in zombie-head/helicopter boning webcomics. In the panel, Unity’s head is clearly shown chomping on Georgia’s back of her hair, but the new hairdo Georgia is missing the *front* half of her hairdo. Given that Unity has no hands with which to reposition herself (and, come on, even if she did manage that, she’s definitely going down for the skull, not more hair). Now, I don’t think anyone should be fired per se for this egregious misstep, but clearly the entire strip will have to be redrawn at the very least
WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM US
HEADS FOR THE HEAD THRONE.
I realize this is tounge-in-cheek, Waytfm, but easily explained by Unity sinking her teeth into Georgia’s scalp behind the crown so when Georgia tripped and fell forward, flinging Unity off, a large strip of her scalp ripped away as well.
Painful and profusely bloody but non-fatal if treated promptly.
Jeffrey & Shaenon, well done! Provoking such vociferous reactions from the peanut gallery is a sure sign of excellent fan involvement.
It seems natural to assume that Georgia was moving in a manner calculated to shake Unity loose. Presumably at one point she succeeded with Unity having to sink her teeth into whatever was available. The portion of hair selected was unable to support the additional weight, and became detached as Unity’s head fell to the ground. QED
Yaaay! (I’ve been calling “Mohawk” on this outcome for a while, now.)
Unity’s bite got repositioned as she was bounced around by Georgia’s running. Stripping the color from the front section of Georgia’s dark hair to dye it light purple had left it much more brittle, so it broke off at the roots when Unity nom-nommed her way up to it. So Georgia escaped…by a hair.
Don’tcha bet that Tip has been giving her a tutorial on the importance of gentle organic dyes and frequent use of good conditioners…and a Makeover!
I know how Jeff feels. I once did a collaboration with a fellow Doctor Who ficcer featuring our author avatars, and by the end I felt he was writing Daibhid better than I was.
Shaenon, as someone who’s shopped at the Monroeville Mall a few dozen times since moving to Pittsburgh, who’s visited the zombie museum to which one store (now defunct) had dedicated half its space, and on whose phone is a photo of the bust of George Romero that’s now displayed by the escalators at one end, I’m digging your “Monroeville Zombies” t-shirt in this strip.
(A quick internet search reveals that the Monroeville Zombies are some kind of fictional sports team from some other pop-culture property with which I’m not acquainted. I’ve never even seen Dawn of the Dead, for that matter. I just know of the connection from having been to the mall.)
I grew up going to the Monroeville Mall! It was very freaky watching “Dawn of the Dead” for the first time and recognizing the place where I went for photos with Santa and saw the movie “Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend.”
The Monroeville Zombies shirt is real. I got it from Steel City Cotton Works (https://shopsteelcity.com/), though I don’t know if they stock it anymore.
OK, I wasn’t expecting to come across a reference to Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend today (or possibly ever again), so well played, Shaenon.
I remember liking that movie a lot when it first came out, and then appreciating it from a different angle several years later after I had entered my cryptozoology phase. I think I only saw it those two times, though; no idea what I’d think of it now.
One needs but google – the shirts are still available from The Living Dead Museum & Gift Shop (it’s still there, and also online). Also on Amazon, along with a lot of other Monroeville Zombies apparel.
Neglected to mention – Hilarious!
You call this taking a break for Sunday? It’s like 2 1/2 daily strips.
I get all the references!
I feel fulfilled.
Counterpoint: There is no greater customer service you could have done for your fans than finally getting Nick and Ginny to boning.
Seconded!
Thirded. Honestly, the comic with Virginia’s inner monologue was so beautiful that I wanted to share it, but boinking the man who is a clone of the one whose brain she put in charge of a helicopter but now the clone and the helicopter brain are united (I think that’s what happened?) takes a lot of context in order to understand, even for a fellow Shaenon fan. Anyway, this whole week has been excellent!
Actually, Virginia rescued Nick’s original brain and implanted it in a clone body which has WiFi connecting him to his Osprey body. So his clone takes the place of the life support tank and he can shift attention between bodies.
Shaenon being the unreasonable one? Gasp!
The usual time for a new strip has passed, but this one is so good it could be left up another day. Take a real break guys. You deserve it!
You know GoComics put up a year-old strip for Sunday?
And oddly enough, it is now Tuesday, and they still don’t have Monday’s strip up. I honestly wonder if anyone there knows what the fongu they’re doing.
Of course, cautiously, Awgie, I second your expression-of-emotion and report.
And Shannon, I’s NOT upset. I finally got into the notes and of course I’m charmed.
Holy crap I was right about her name!
And I believe you are the only one (so far) who got it right.