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by shaenon on February 24, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Robert Nowall
    February 24, 2020, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    All the disco ballrooms and offices in Annex One, and that’s the best they could come up with?

    • thejoemoose
      February 24, 2020, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      Hey, it’s a bucket list item!

    • Moe Lane
      February 24, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

      The closet had a squeegee.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        March 20, 2020, 5:15 am | # | Reply

        Perhaps Tip should find a different squeegee.

    • Owls
      February 24, 2020, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      I’m mostly impressed Nick and hold Virginia up, although I suppose they might’ve added some ‘boosts’ when they cloned his body.

      You know. For SCIENCE! reasons. Not just because Virginia wanted him to be able to carry her in his arms.

      • jdreyfuss
        February 24, 2020, 8:22 am | # | Reply

        There is precedent for that in the Narboniverse.

    • David B Huber
      February 24, 2020, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      They’re working their way from Tip’s desk to the trampoline 😉

      • Robert Nowall
        February 24, 2020, 1:10 am | # | Reply

        Hey, I’m just pointing out that a great love like theirs requires a great setting. You know, like a bed.

        • Efogoto
          February 24, 2020, 2:06 am | # | Reply

          They may have started there. Now they’ve got the munchies and are working their way toward the kitchen.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 24, 2020, 7:46 am | #

            Couples usually don’t get into thrillseeking like this until much later.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 24, 2020, 10:19 am | #

            Couples who meet at their workplace often start out in a supply closet. But it’s generally out of expediency.

            This seems more like a fantasy bucket list kind of thing. They already did the office desk. The break room is probably next.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 24, 2020, 10:51 am | #

            They could try the basement, and the silverfish could sing romantic arias while they make out…

          • jdreyfuss
            February 24, 2020, 11:43 am | #

            When you start out in the Mile High Club, it kind of sets a tone for the relationship.

          • Gyrre
            February 26, 2020, 7:07 am | #

            It was specifically Tip’s office desk.

    • Ysabet
      February 24, 2020, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

      Office supply closets have a certain charm. Trust me.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 24, 2020, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

        So does the stockroom at McDonald’s.

        Actually, I wouldn’t call it “charm” so much as the thrill of potentially getting caught (by the wrong person).

  2. David B Huber
    February 24, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Nick and Virginia *are* fighters! They’re just fighters who have their priorities straight…

    • Daibhid C
      February 24, 2020, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      I was going to object that Nick is a pacifist, but as he recently demonstrated, he’s fine with shooting the baddies as long as he doesn’t actually kill them. I assume he’d therefore be okay with using his human body to punch them, if they’re the sort of baddies where that’s likely to work.

  3. Robert Nowall
    February 24, 2020, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    What does Tip need a squeegee for?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 24, 2020, 1:29 am | # | Reply

      Maybe for the Smuckers splotches on the window?

      • jdreyfuss
        February 24, 2020, 8:25 am | # | Reply

        That was at Jonah and Nera’s place in Philly, not Annex One.

        • awgiedawgie
          February 24, 2020, 10:07 am | # | Reply

          Jonah and Nera are on Annex One.

          • Robert Nowall
            February 24, 2020, 10:58 am | #

            Then it should be them cleaning the jelly off the windows, not Tip.

          • jdreyfuss
            February 24, 2020, 11:44 am | #

            I thought they went home.

          • awgiedawgie
            February 24, 2020, 1:17 pm | #

            No, they’re still here. Why do you think Jonah is still wearing a Black Ops Softball t-shirt, and Nera is wearing what appears to be Unity’s hoodie? And Jonah is eating expired Spaghetti-Os? Okay, don’t answer that ‐ it’s not that abnormal for Jonah to eat expired food, and even I would wear a Black Ops Softball t-shirt if I had one. But they really are still on board.

            And maybe Tip is getting the squeegee for them, since he knew right where to find it. Besides, there had to be some setup for Tip to accidentally see Nick and Virginia making out. Maybe he went to the supply closet for something else entirely, and simply asked for the squeegee because it was right there in front.

  4. dexitroboper
    February 24, 2020, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    The other joke is “Sorry, we need it”

  5. David B Huber
    February 24, 2020, 5:14 am | # | Reply

    From the expression on Tip’s face in the last panel, he may need a self-help session with the therapy puppets.

    • Shadowmehr
      February 24, 2020, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      Oh please, like Tip hasn’t been on the other side of that situation before. He’s just surprised at the participants involved.

      • David B Huber
        February 24, 2020, 10:53 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, I agree. I think Tip would’ve been less surprised to find himself in the closet with Virginia!

  6. jdreyfuss
    February 24, 2020, 8:27 am | # | Reply

    Life moves pretty fast, Tip. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

    • Frank
      February 24, 2020, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

      Wha..? Oh snap it just went by!

    • Foradain
      February 24, 2020, 8:45 pm | # | Reply

      Thank you, Mister Bueller. ^_^

  7. Robert Nowall
    February 24, 2020, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    Could’a been Hitty and Moustachio in there…

    • awgiedawgie
      February 24, 2020, 1:18 pm | # | Reply

      Nah, they’d never fit into a little supply closet.

    • fractalwolf
      February 24, 2020, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

      I could be mis-remembering, but isn’t Hitty currently the entire building?

      • Robert Nowall
        February 24, 2020, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

        She’s gotta be plugged into it somewhere.

      • awgiedawgie
        February 24, 2020, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

        Hitty is connected to, and partly powering, the entire building, but she is still capable of disconnecting herself (with some help) and functioning on her own. The building just can’t function without her.

  8. enigma42
    February 24, 2020, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart you want to turn people into fighters you need to find a drill sargent or somebody Tip was trained to follow orders not give them out.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 24, 2020, 3:21 pm | # | Reply

      He was a captain. That’s the highest company grade officer in the Army, so he had to be able to make independent decisions in the field and order his subordinates.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 24, 2020, 4:53 pm | # | Reply

      Tip was trained as a fighter. So he’s reasonably qualified to train other fighters.

      • Foradain
        February 24, 2020, 9:01 pm | # | Reply

        I’d accept that as a consequence of his commission, if he were a Marine*. But as an Army Officer, especially one in a non-combat field, training outside his specialty is not required.

        *”All Marines Are Riflemen First”. They may have a new, PC term to use instead of “Riflemen”; I’ll check with the next mermaid I see. But the point is that when the excrement hits the portable air-circulation device, hand *any* (barring retirement for disability) thirteen Marines a rifle and they’ll do as well most one and a half Army infantry squads*.

        *Not our fault the Army thinks two fire teams are enough for a squad. Drop it down to nine marines if you want to compare them to a single Army squad.

        • jdreyfuss
          February 25, 2020, 7:48 am | # | Reply

          He was in combat. He wasn’t an Army shrink.

          • Foradain
            February 25, 2020, 12:27 pm | #

            Do you have a reference? The Cast page is ambiguous…

          • awgiedawgie
            February 25, 2020, 1:10 pm | #

            He dragged three members of his unit out of a burning Humvee. An Army shrink generally isn’t part of a unit, and wouldn’t be likely to be traveling around in a Humvee with them.

  9. Robert Nowall
    February 24, 2020, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    We’re back in the closet again.
    Just a girlfriend with a friend.
    Where we do a dirty deed
    To fulfill our lusty need.
    Back in the closet again.

    Ridin’ ourselves once more.
    Hopin’ no one opens the door.
    It’s a comedown from airflight,
    With our options kind of slight.
    Back in the closet again.

    Whoopi-ty-aye-oh!
    Let us have a go!
    Back in the closet again.
    Whoopi-ty-aye-yay!
    Goin’ all the way.
    Back in the closet again.

    We’re back in the closet again.
    Ready to ascend and transcend.
    With our make-out to equip
    Dealt a blow from nosy Tip.
    Back in the closet again.

    Havin’ a quick explore.
    Workin’ the parts we adore.
    But before we’re in bare skin,
    Someone could just walk right in.
    Back in the closet again.

    Whoopi-ty-aye-ouch!
    Couldn’t find a couch!
    Back in the closet again.
    Whoopi-ty-aye-yeek!
    Comin’ to the peak!
    Back in the closet again.

    —from “Back in the Saddle Again,” Gene Autry / Ray Whitley. (I’m sure I parodied it before, but what the hell.)

    • casimir
      February 24, 2020, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      Really. Really. Really good!
      … but I was hoping that you’d work “squeegee” in.
      Such a great word.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 24, 2020, 11:35 pm | # | Reply

        I tried, but it never quite fit.

  10. Trivena
    February 26, 2020, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

    A few days late, but Jonah saw this coming and found it hilarious.

    • Mister Steel
      August 3, 2020, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      I was trawling the comment to see if someone would mention the squeegee.

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