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2013-01-09

by shaenon on January 9, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Eddurd
    January 9, 2013, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Kentucky Rain”, Elvis Presley)

    I’ll watch Violet Bee,
    You can leave it all to me …
    Got my big ol’ zappy rifle and my shades!
    I need breathers, here and there,
    So my anguish I can share!
    If you don’t know … I’ll tell you now, in spades!

    Listen as I tell
    Of my three days spent in hell,
    Of the sinking of the Indianapolis!
    As eleven hundred men
    Went into the sea, and then …
    Pay attention! It gets good after this!

     My secret pain I now will share!
     My dirty laundry I will air
     In ways I
     Can’t control!
     Feel the wounds in my soul …
     So shut your hole!
     As I share my secret pai-ai-ai-ai-ain!
     As I share my secret pain!

  2. Tiff Hudson
    January 9, 2013, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    We’re gonna need a bigger train.

  3. Noc
    January 9, 2013, 7:07 am | # | Reply

    .1100 men, huh? So somebody lost a hand to four significant digits?

    (Hooray, kerning!)

    • nmartin
      January 9, 2013, 7:19 am | # | Reply

      This was Quint’s (fishing boat captain) quote from Jaws.

    • hikari
      January 10, 2013, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      Well technically its complement was 1,196 and ~900 of the survived the initial torpedo attack.

  4. jdreyfuss
    January 9, 2013, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    So now I’m just gonna hear a Cornish accent the rest of the time she’s in the comic. I will be very impressed with the Robert Shaw-ness if she tries to garrotte someone with her watch crown, seeing as how they’re on a train and all.

  5. Miserichord
    January 9, 2013, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    She looks pretty good for someone near 90 years old.
    Then again, with mad science, we must allow for time travel, reincarnation, brain transplants, near immortality,……..
    Or she may just be delusional.

    • Smithnik
      January 9, 2013, 10:52 am | # | Reply

      It’s very simple. Her secret pain is that she’s really Robert Shaw reincarnated, and now she’s got to channel Quint, the Sheriff of Nottingham, and an assassin from a James Bond movie, all on a moving train full of zombies.
      Oh, wait. If it’s a secret, maybe I wasn’t supposed to tell that part…

    • Shadowmehr
      January 9, 2013, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      Or she may just be trying to torture Bee via complete annoyance.

    • BMunro
      January 9, 2013, 6:58 pm | # | Reply

      Given that she refers to non-Zombies as “breathers” and she’s wearing sunglasses indoors (and apparently made her way to the engine room while the lights were still off), I’m tentatively going with “vampire.” (Vampires really don’t like zombies, you know: they lower the whole tone of the “undead” thing).

      • Tetra Valent
        January 9, 2013, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

        I wonder if Tip would still prefer it be her gnawing on his shoulder blade.

      • Randy from Pittsburgh
        January 10, 2013, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

        I’m wondering if she’s another army vet converted into piloted drone, like Violet. Notice Violet Bee’s reaction to her war story…

      • Darkstarr
        April 23, 2016, 4:02 am | # | Reply

        Not to mention that zombies replaced vampires as the latest undead fad. Although a certain movie and novel series involving emo sparkle-wannabe-vampires may well have had a little something to do with that…

        (Well, maybe that and Anne Rice going back to Catholicism and sending Lestat to Hell, but let’s not quibble here, shall we?)

  6. Zarathustra's Id
    January 9, 2013, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

    I predict that Shaenon K. Garrity will be the new Phillip K. Dick, with movie studios fighting over the right to reproduce her works (long after death). Plus they both got the “K” thing going for them.

    • shaenon
      January 9, 2013, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

      If my work can inspire one movie with a Schwarzenegger quip and/or triple-breasted whore, my soul will rest content.

      • Anderson
        January 9, 2013, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

        I’d pray for a well-played Mell Kelly. No idea where you’d get an actor who could pull off the look and feel, and I suspect the UN might have issues with anyone who could…but it’d be awesome.

        • Darkstarr
          April 23, 2016, 4:04 am | # | Reply

          Claudia Black, maybe?

          Come to think of it, Narbonic and Skin Horse would make great YouTube video series, if a good group of fans were to get together and make it…

  7. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 12, 2014, 8:39 pm | # | Reply

    Lots of men go into the water every day, usaly more, musta been slow at the beaches

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