May 2022 Skin Horse Wallpaper
Shaenon: Now that Sweetheart and Unity are in space, I thought I’d do some optimistic midcentury-style space race art. This is vaguely influenced by Ward Kimball’s animated space shorts for Disney television and by Soviet cosmonaut posters.
As usual, if you make a donation in any amount to the Skin Horse Tip Jar, or contribute any amount to our Patreon, we’ll give you a link to this wallpaper, designed for two computer desktop sizes and cell phones. Patreon contributors will continue to receive new wallpaper for the length of their contribution.
As a bonus, you’ll also receive this bonus May wallpaper from the archives, the first design I ever did:
Channing: I get the sense that this is what Unity thought space would be, and I’m sad we disappointed her.
d’awww!
Gorgeous. I am tempted to add “as usual”, but it would lessened the value of the comment, and the sunday *is* usually a temple of beauty?
It’s Skin-Horse out in Outer Space, something Unity had to embrace. Channing kind of suspected it’s what Unity expected, so that was most likely the case.
Skin-Horse in SPAAACCEE
Que “star-trek” like intro music…..or “lost in space” your choice
Pedantic Sound FX guy rant here… forgive me in advance.
Cue: an audible or visual signal to begin something, such as for an actor to shoot someone or say a line, or for someone to play music or sound effects. Also, in billiards, that long stick used to hit the ball or your opponent.
“Cue up”: to prepare the sound effects or music so that it is ready to play at the touch of a button. Sort of obsolete, now that such things are played from digital files instead of on tape or on vinyl records, but one still needs to have the correct file loaded in the player. Could also be used in billiards, depending on how you use the cue stick to hit your opponent.
Queue: that long line of people waiting for their turn to harass the clerk at Starbucks or at the DMV, or waiting to board the rollercoaster and throw up at the amusement park.
Que: Spanish for “what” or “that”, or, with a preceding apostrophe, ‘que is short for “barbecue” (mainly only in California).
So, is there any overlap between the Skin Horse readership here and the one over on Gocomics?
Well, I started there, but took a while to realize it was over here, too.
Skin Horse is at the top of my daily comics page on GoComics, but it’s just symbolic, since it updates here about an hour before it updates there, so by the time they update, I’ve already read it here. Every once in a great while, I will read the comments over there, but not as a rule.