Hurray, I’m so glad you’re back and so glad to read this again! I’m still intensely curious about what’s going on with Baron… and also ready to stop feeling like an idiot for coming here a minimum of three times a day over your well-deserved hiatus.
I only wish we could do something in return for your birthday tomorrow. But happy (early) birthday anyway! (And by saying it a day early, I get to be one of the first to say it!)
I just had my 45th and you came back two days later! It’s like magic! (Extremely predictable magic since this is all just the calendar. Mad science, I suppose. The people who came up with our various calendrical systems certainly qualify. 🙂 )
I am so happy to see these characters again. I have grown incredibly fond of them over the arc of the story. I could about cry with happiness. Thank you.
Yay! I love your work and am so happy to see the comic return! I hope you had a good time off and remember to take another break in the future if you need it!
Yes, Please. The best and most successful writers, creative people in general, create for themselves – their own pleasure and satisfaction – not to meet the needs or standards of some imagined “audience”. And the incidental or accidental audience recognizes, appreciates, and enjoys that. Go for it!
I’ll fourth this one. We’re not here to read the comic you think we want to read; we’re here to read the comic you want to create. You amassed your legion of fans by being you so hard that we couldn’t not pay attention.
And welcome back! I hope your time off was restful!
Agreed with what others have said here. I have enjoyed your and Jeff’s work on Skin Horse, and I loved Skin Horse so much I went back and read Narbonic, and loved that, too. You need change nothing, unless it’s what’s you want to do. I feel confident that if you do things the way you want to, I, at least, will be entertained.
It’s good to see you back. I hope your break was restorative, and Jeff and Pancha took the opportunity for some time off too. As for entertaining, well, you’ve been doing it for twenty-odd years so I reckon you’ll manage.
Shaenon, you do you, and trust that we’ll be entertained regardless. I’ve enjoyed your work for longer than either of us wants to think about, and you’ve never failed to be awesome yet.
On a personal note, the new Skin Horse books arrived last week, and I am in awe of the character sketch. I asked for “Nick as grumpy whimsy princess” and you nailed it. Could not be happier.
It was a long month reminding myself it’s not May 3rd yet, and still coming once a while anyway in hope of news… But we’re here, it’s back, my morning webcomic routine is complete again! Yay!
Glad you took some time for yourself. The creative process is draining, and non constructive criticism is the worst. Love and happiness to you and yours.
I don’t often comment. But I’ve been reading your stuff since early in the ‘Narbonic’ era and I’ve been reading Channing’s stuff, I think, since the Transformation Stories Archive (if that one writer actually is the same person…) and I think you’re both awesome. Also, I think I never thanked you properly for turning me on to the Museum of Cartoon Art in San Francisco.
Anyway, I’d be really sad if you gave up on writing, and drawing. I’m glad you’re back. I’m glad you decided this particular project was one you wanted to continue, but mostly I’m glad you’re back.
So glad the comic’s back! Numerous times the last month I’ve come over here while idly going to websites and was like “oh yeah, may 3rd… it hasn’t been a full month yet? it’s felt like it!” I’ve missed the comic. Hope you’re feeling better, Shaenon.
Welcome back! I don’t comment reguarly and that probably won’t change, but I’m always here enjoying the strip. Keep up the great work, I’m looking forwards to it 🙂
Yay! It’s so nice to have the strip back. I hope you’ve had a refreshing break! Of course, I’m posting way, way down here, so I doubt many people will see this…
So happy to see you again. And yes, I am also guilty of checking the page daily the whole time you were gone. It’s okay, I’m okay. I just didn’t want to change my comic reading routine. 😉
So happy to have the comic back! I’m so excited to see what happens next!
Same here!!!
it’s great to see this back. I hope your friends are at least half as supportive as Aimee is of her friends. She remains an inspiration to us all.
Delighted the strip is back, and hope all involved are doing well.
I’m very glad to see you back in the skin saddle.
Welcome back!
Yay! It’s Whimsy(TM) Magic!
Yaaay! We missed you!
May I say it’s good to see you too, eddurd! 🙂
Welcome back!
Welcome back. I’ve been looking forward to the strip restartig.
Welcome back, guys! [huuuugs]
Welcome back and best wishes to all!
Great to see you back! I’ve been jonesing for a new strip for a couple weeks now.
And now I exhale. Thank you for coming back!
Yah-HOO! These last couple of weeks were rough (mental image: Ren Hoek in “Space Madness”) but I’m feeling Much Better Now…
It’s great to have you back! 😀
I don’t think you CAN fail to entertain most of us – just keep doing what you’re doing!
Hurray, I’m so glad you’re back and so glad to read this again! I’m still intensely curious about what’s going on with Baron… and also ready to stop feeling like an idiot for coming here a minimum of three times a day over your well-deserved hiatus.
I’m so glad the comic is back!
:exhales:
Thank you thank you thank you! I hope you’re feeling better after a break.
Welcome back! How was your break?
Shaenon, you always entertain.
I only wish we could do something in return for your birthday tomorrow. But happy (early) birthday anyway! (And by saying it a day early, I get to be one of the first to say it!)
“May the fourth be with you”? Really?! Who’d a thunk it?
Oh, yeah. And a really good Monday to all!
The return of Skin Horse has assured that for me!
Yay, you’re back and it’s my birthday! What an amazing gift!
It’s almost my birthday too!
I just had my 45th and you came back two days later! It’s like magic! (Extremely predictable magic since this is all just the calendar. Mad science, I suppose. The people who came up with our various calendrical systems certainly qualify. 🙂 )
*SQUEE* You’re back you’re back you’re back!
I mean *ahem* excellent timing. I’m actually finding this strip more entertaining this time around!
No seriously, I am and I can’t explain it!
So glad to have you back!
Huzzah!
Huzzah!
and Huzzah!
Welcome back! Much love!
Welcome Back 🙂
ahem… HOORAY!
Thank you Shaenon, Jeff, and Pancha. You all have entertained me for years, and I am grateful.
Aw, the Baron merch is adorable.
I am so happy to see these characters again. I have grown incredibly fond of them over the arc of the story. I could about cry with happiness. Thank you.
Welcome back! I’ve missed you all!
Thank you for coming back. You have ALWAYS been entertaining.
Yay!
Hope the downtime was rejuvinating! 😀
Yay! I love your work and am so happy to see the comic return! I hope you had a good time off and remember to take another break in the future if you need it!
Joy!
I’m so happy y’all are back! I kept forgetting you were taking that time off and checking. I hope the time off helped!
No.
Don’t do your best to entertain. Don’t do your best to appease us, or to do what you think we want.
Make the comic *you want to make.* With the art you want it to have, the jokes you want it to tell, and the characters you want it to bring to life.
That’s what you’ve been doing for 20 years, and it’s given us the wonderful worlds we’ve enjoyed exploring with you up to this point.
Yes, Please. The best and most successful writers, creative people in general, create for themselves – their own pleasure and satisfaction – not to meet the needs or standards of some imagined “audience”. And the incidental or accidental audience recognizes, appreciates, and enjoys that. Go for it!
This right here.
Also, welcome back! Hope you enjoyed your downtime, and are feeling better.
I’ll fourth this one. We’re not here to read the comic you think we want to read; we’re here to read the comic you want to create. You amassed your legion of fans by being you so hard that we couldn’t not pay attention.
And welcome back! I hope your time off was restful!
A friend of mine explained his relationship as SysAdmin to his users thusly:
“They bask in the light shining from my buttocks.”
Trust your instincts, Shaenon. You have mastered your craft, as Jeffrey’s weekly dossier so eloquently details.
So I too will indulge in a Whimsy and say “May the Fourth be with you.”
Oh, and “Live long and prosper.” for good measure!
Agreed with what others have said here. I have enjoyed your and Jeff’s work on Skin Horse, and I loved Skin Horse so much I went back and read Narbonic, and loved that, too. You need change nothing, unless it’s what’s you want to do. I feel confident that if you do things the way you want to, I, at least, will be entertained.
I’m so glad ya’ll are back! I love this comic <3
Is my only joy!
Yay!! Welcome back!!!!!!
welcome back
Well, I’m relieved.
Welcome back! I hope you had a good break.
Yay!!!
“O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
Nice to see you back, Shaenon. I trust you are feeling suitably refreshed.
It’s good to see you back. I hope your break was restorative, and Jeff and Pancha took the opportunity for some time off too. As for entertaining, well, you’ve been doing it for twenty-odd years so I reckon you’ll manage.
Glad to see skin horse back again! I hope that month off was good to you, Shaenon.
I’m glad you’re back. I always enjoy your work.
Welcome back!
I can’t speak for anyone else but I love you guys and I’m happy beyond words that you restores my daily routine.
Hurrah! The world recovers its balance!
The Avatar has returned!
Yay! Comic!
Shaenon, you do you, and trust that we’ll be entertained regardless. I’ve enjoyed your work for longer than either of us wants to think about, and you’ve never failed to be awesome yet.
On a personal note, the new Skin Horse books arrived last week, and I am in awe of the character sketch. I asked for “Nick as grumpy whimsy princess” and you nailed it. Could not be happier.
Oh, good, I’m glad you got it!
Great to have you back. Looking forward to the rest
Welcome back! Always great to see whatever you want to do!
Welcome back, Shaenon.
(Grin and friendly thumbs-up)
(Re-settles in the sofa to watch the story unfold and grabs the popcorn)
Also: (Giggles madly at that reveal panel)
Wonderful to have you back. Hope the time off helped.
Woohoo!
So happy you’re back! Also, really want a Mistycorn plushie now. <3
Woo! I’ve been *anticipating* the 3rd!
Yay! You’re finally back! So happy!
And you do a fantastic job, Shaenon. Glad to have you back.
Welcome back. <3 Y'all were seriously missed.
Welcome back! I hope you’re feeling better!
*hums the Welcome Back Kotter theme*
They’re back!
Hooray! Welcome back! I can’t wait to see what happens next!
Thank you for this amazing comic!
Hey, just do your best to have fun! Being entertained is *my* job!
Meow; I’m entertained.
Do your best to write a story you wanna write. I’m sure I’m not the only one who trusts you enough to enjoy the ride!
[HIGH-PITCHED SQUEALING]
YAAAAAY!
Skin Horse is a comic that I stay up until midnight to see what comes next. I was gutted.
Welcome back.
Yay!
Well, this is a great way to start a Monday! Glad to see you back!
Hooray!
Hooray; you’re back!
Welcome back. Happy natalday one day early. Whenever you need a break, take it. I’ll content myself with waiting.
Welcome back! Hope your month off was relaxing and restorative.
It was a long month reminding myself it’s not May 3rd yet, and still coming once a while anyway in hope of news… But we’re here, it’s back, my morning webcomic routine is complete again! Yay!
Glad you took some time for yourself. The creative process is draining, and non constructive criticism is the worst. Love and happiness to you and yours.
We’re back! And I forgot about the Baron kigurumis, so that was a pretty great moment.
Welcome back! I’m so glad you took time for yourself. I missed Skin Horse, and I’m happy to see it return.
I don’t often comment. But I’ve been reading your stuff since early in the ‘Narbonic’ era and I’ve been reading Channing’s stuff, I think, since the Transformation Stories Archive (if that one writer actually is the same person…) and I think you’re both awesome. Also, I think I never thanked you properly for turning me on to the Museum of Cartoon Art in San Francisco.
Anyway, I’d be really sad if you gave up on writing, and drawing. I’m glad you’re back. I’m glad you decided this particular project was one you wanted to continue, but mostly I’m glad you’re back.
Thank you.
All the best people are into the Cartoon Art Museum.
You are correct in remembering me from the old TSA mailing list; same person. Glad to see you here!
Yay!
That third panel expression is *amazing*. I love it and it cracks me up.
Huzzah! The heroes have returned! And so has the comic strip! Let us begin the dance of joy!
(Starts doing something between an European folk dance and a severe nervous disorder.)
Skin Horse is back!!! I’m so excited!
So glad the comic’s back! Numerous times the last month I’ve come over here while idly going to websites and was like “oh yeah, may 3rd… it hasn’t been a full month yet? it’s felt like it!” I’ve missed the comic. Hope you’re feeling better, Shaenon.
Welcome back Shannon! Hope the mental health month wwas helpful. It’s been a rough year for everyone.
I’m glad to see you back, my daily webcomic read has been sorely missing you.
Welcome back!
Glad to see it return. I’ve been jonesing for my daily dose of Skin Horse for a month now.
Welcome back. I hope you are doing better now.
The clouds part, the sun shines through! Welcome back! I hope you all enjoyed your well earned month of R&R
Welcome back! I don’t comment reguarly and that probably won’t change, but I’m always here enjoying the strip. Keep up the great work, I’m looking forwards to it 🙂
Welcome back. We missed you.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEE IT’S BACK IS THIS WHAT EUPHORIA FEELS LIKE HUZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
So glad to see new Skin Horse content after the short hiatus. Thanks again to Shaenon and the rest of the team!
@Bear yep, the Channing here is the same one as on the Transformation Stories Archive from olden days of yore.
yay
My favorite webcomic is back, my favorite because it’s: the greatest, the coolest and the most attractive!
Yay! It’s so nice to have the strip back. I hope you’ve had a refreshing break! Of course, I’m posting way, way down here, so I doubt many people will see this…
I saw it! 😀
(Also welcome back to Shaenon and Jeff!)
We’re all Mad here (or at the very least, slightly unhinged), so lots of us actually do read all the way to the bottom of the comments 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAy0mBST2tE I learned about here…
Haha!!
…I mean BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Ahhh! It’s good to be back 😀 And the gift shop is ALWAYS important.
Welcome back, Shaenon, Jeff, and Pancha!
… Also, am I the only one here who now wants a stuffed Baron Mistycorn that curses at you if you pull the string on its back?
Sounds good to me!
I want the one where you spin the pointing Baron around to a topic (Tip, Nick, etc.), pull the string, and get topical cursing!
Yay! Hope you had a good break and have a lovely birthday, Shaenon! <3
Thank you, Shaenon.
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday, Shaenon! 🙂
Someday soon we’ll have Replicator tech so your fans could literally send you a
Cake. (we’re so primitive even the emoji didn’t make it to you!)
Yaaaaaaaaayyyyy! *Frantic Kermit flails*
So happy to see you again. And yes, I am also guilty of checking the page daily the whole time you were gone. It’s okay, I’m okay. I just didn’t want to change my comic reading routine. 😉
Huzzah! Thanks so much for this and welcome back! <3 <3 <3
Welcome back! Thank you so much for your gift of webcomic 🙂
Oh hooray! Welcome back, and happy birthday!
Huzzah!!! So happy you are back!!!
<3 <3 <3 <3 <3 So glad you're back!
Ahhh! My RSS feed only showed SH’s return on Thursday, but I’m no less delighted. ^_^
I do get the feeling that if Baron plushies were to be made available, they might sell quite well..