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2019-10-12

by shaenon on October 12, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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Discussion (22) ¬

  1. David B Huber
    October 12, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    “Most normal” being relative, of course…

    • dornbeast
      October 12, 2019, 12:36 pm | # | Reply

      He didn’t say “most normal,” he said “sane.” There are men who wear three-piece bespoke suits and are only borderline sane. There are men who are as sane as they come and look great in a taffeta dress.

  2. OneUniverse
    October 12, 2019, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    So the Drone Tech is nuts, too? Is Tip there so the team can ignore him, or to do the opposite? Speculation encouraged.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 12, 2019, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      I think Tip’s only purpose is that the Cypress might actually listen to him. Other than that, I’m pretty sure they consider him expendable. And before long, they may consider him very expendable.

      • Towering Barbarian
        October 12, 2019, 1:06 am | # | Reply

        I agree with the latter, but I suspect that at the moment they mean Tip well. They seem like the sort of good alignment peeps Anasig scrounges up when the *whole team* is expendable. <_<

        Mind you, how much this matters when you're the lone Mundane in a team of Sparks is a separate matter. @_@

        • shikomekidomi
          October 12, 2019, 1:41 am | # | Reply

          Well… Kind of good alignment. The sweater knitting one did invade Malta.

        • Vincent
          October 12, 2019, 3:30 am | # | Reply

          There is very little mundane about Tip.

          … Aside from that prisoner outfit, which is so last century.

          • awgiedawgie
            October 12, 2019, 3:37 am | #

            Orange is the new black.

          • casimir
            October 12, 2019, 8:24 pm | #

            With apologies to Kermit… and everyone else.

            It’s not easy wearing orange
            Spending each day looking like a poor grunge
            When I could be wearing retro plaid, or jade,
            Or something much more colorful like that

            Not that easy wearing orange
            My crazy team mates think I’m just un peu étrange*
            Because my fashion-forward sensibility
            And my ego-centered personality
            Don’t really fit in.

            Green is the color for me
            Green can be cool and swamp-friendly-like
            And green can be an ice-breaker,
            For Mama Swamp a nice-maker
            Plus it highlights my eyes.

            But if orange is all I have to wear
            Then I have to ponder, really ponder
            The possibility
            Of my mortality
            Being eaten by a bear.

            *Pardon my French.

  3. memnarch
    October 12, 2019, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Of course we’re nuts. We’re working with mad science here! 🙂

  4. Robert Nowall
    October 12, 2019, 7:50 am | # | Reply

    Wardrobe is Ira’s department.

  5. Hannibal's Lectern
    October 12, 2019, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    Being Sane, Tip has a Good Sane Reason for what he requests; i.e., the Cypress has a well-developed sense of fashion.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 12, 2019, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      Depends on your definition of “well-developed”.

      I seem to recall that her sense of fashion was rather old-fashioned, so one could say that it was poorly-developed, since it hadn’t developed in ages.

    • Barbara K
      October 12, 2019, 10:46 am | # | Reply

      “Sturdy boots” seems a sensible request for a Swamp-scramble; Scots tartans are a good outdoor fabric choice and jade accents could promote a sense of empathy and better communication by showing that an effort was made to coordinate with the Cypress’s color scheme. But I fear there may be more than a few snags in the Leggings of Reason before this foray concludes.

  6. Shadowmehr
    October 12, 2019, 10:31 am | # | Reply

    Proof, if any was necessary, that sanity is a relative term.

    • awgiedawgie
      October 12, 2019, 9:38 pm | # | Reply

      Just because one is not Mad doesn’t mean that one is sane. In the Narboniverse, there is a world of difference between Mad and crazy.

  7. Pygar
    October 12, 2019, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    Theme song: Emma Wallace’s “We’re All Mad Here”…

  8. Saberbeam
    October 12, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps this has already been pointed out, but c’mon Tip! Even if you’re not being presumptive about your own relative sanity, isn’t this still pretty much you’re general role with Skinhorse?

    • dornbeast
      October 12, 2019, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      He’s the voice of sanity in the field. Gavotte used to be the voice of sanity in the office, but Sweetheart’s been handling that lately.

      Unity is the voice of sanity when the only rational thing to do is break somebody’s skull.

      • awgiedawgie
        October 12, 2019, 9:40 pm | # | Reply

        Unity’s also the voice of sanity when she’s hopped up on way too many brains, and she gets excessively blunt. It might not be nice, but she’s so smart at that point that you know she’s right.

  9. K. Iceclaw
    October 12, 2019, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

    …Are we sure Tip isn’t some sort of weird low-key mad psychologist/fashion expert?

    • Candace
      October 13, 2019, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      No. No, we are not.

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