Renard Sketches
Shaenon: I love drawing Renard. So small and round. So relaxing.
Channing: We are blessed to have such frequent intersections between “fun to write” and “fun to draw” in our Kickstarter backer community, and Renard is no exception.
Skin Horse
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
He’s a cute little corporate raider, that Renard…
I love the little look of exasperation when he’s trying to cook with a stack of turtles on his head.
All the main characters do now is sit around and sip and talk philosophical concepts, maybe crossing legs once over a week of strips. Maybe a screwed-up
part human FOX can actually boot this thing in the shins and make it MOVE again.
Otherwise it’s gabbity-gab gab, NO ADO ABOUT ANYTHING….. great art work,
of course. Somebody maybe ought to go back thirty years and practice illustrating flip cards……Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Why must you insist on being so negative all the time?
Of all the complaints someone could have about this strip, “it’s nothing but people crossing their legs” is honestly not one I expected.
Hm, well, zombie leg-assemblages stealing limbs… could be considered to be ‘crossing legs’ in a sense. They’re not so good at the whole philosophy thing, though. This is of course a design error: the leg-Unity has no mouth, thus *no way to eat brains*.
sweetuncle maybe comes from an alternate universe where the leg-Unity was instead an even-more-horrifying mouth-Unity made of dozens of mouths snapping at everything that came by and possibly the odd leg too so it could chase people down, and all the zombies had their brains stolen so that mouth-Unity could fill dozens of strips with philosophy from every mouth at once. (The rest of the plot could proceed almost unchanged, if it could fit around the important philosophical musing parts. With any other organism having your brain stolen would make it hard to complain about it afterwards — but I’m not sure this is true of Skin Horse zombies. If anything it would probably make them able to complain *more*.)
You can always go and read something else, if it troubles you that much.
If things appear to drag (Shaenon doesn’t draw human legs that often in this, so I assume that’s what you mean), leave the comic alone for a while and then read a pile in one sitting. The plot should be a bit clearer if you’re not seeing it a little bit at a time. Only three months ago the SH team were … on the same beach … but Unity has eaten some of her legs since then.
So long as Tip wears underwear when he crosses his legs on camera, I’ll be happy.
Or, more importantly, when he uncrosses his legs.
Well then, poor little troll, why don’t you go read something with less plot? Shoo, shoo, go have fun elsewhere. Because I seriously doubt your blethering’s going to make the authors change what the rest of us are so obviously enjoying and which they’re happy writing and illustrating. Bye! ^_^
Aren’t the ‘turtleheads’ supposed to be on the floor and invisible? (Yes, he did bad things but the humor was still funny…)
So what’s with the little bird at the top of the second sheet?
She’s probably complaining that Unity stole her (l)eggs.
I thought maybe Robin had something to do with that.
It’s turtles all the way down, until you get to the fox.
Empires crumble when Tip crosses his legs.
Depends on whether he’s Sharon Stone or Willie the Scotsman.
Since Unity described him as having “floppity man parts”, I’m betting he’s not at all like Sharon Stone, no matter how good he looks in a white skirt.
oops! @ Robert!
Foolish as creating a sentient corporate mascot may have been, they still deserve kudos for a great design pick.
Renard is exceptional good character design and I love to see him