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2018-10-11

by shaenon on October 11, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Towering Barbarian
    October 11, 2018, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, some of the tourist towns I’ve been to seemed like that to me as well! ^o^

    • cbob
      October 11, 2018, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      Actually, that’s most of NJ. Not just Wildwood.

  2. Owlmirror
    October 11, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

    If my fragments-of-Unity’s-mind idea is correct, the past and future are DOOM because Unity was built to DESTROY.

    I wonder what would happen if Virginia asked any of BMAD for blueberry waffles?

    • Urlance Woolsbane
      October 11, 2018, 12:41 am | # | Reply

      The only thing that doesn’t fit here is Mrs. Ape. A fanatical devotion to order doesn’t seem very in-character for Unity;, nor Mel, for that matter.

      • Owlmirror
        October 11, 2018, 1:25 am | # | Reply

        The best explanation I can come up with for Mrs. Ape in this scenario is the part of Unity’s mind that keeps the rest on task. So, realistically, she should be the weakest of those we’ve seen.

        On the other hand, she may be the one who becomes the most obedient when told “blueberry waffles”.

      • This Guy I Know
        October 12, 2018, 9:24 am | # | Reply

        It’s easy to forget, but Unity is a notary public in addition to being an undead super-soldier nanogoop. That’s got to count for something.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      October 11, 2018, 2:02 am | # | Reply

      Now, when you say DESTROY, do you mean DESTROY or do you mean DESTROY?

      • Owlmirror
        October 11, 2018, 3:24 am | # | Reply

        Unity is here to break shit and chew burnt melted tire rubber, and she’s all out of burnt melted tire rubber.

        • awgiedawgie
          October 11, 2018, 3:44 am | # | Reply

          Well, to be fair, she likes to break stuff even if she’s not out of burnt rubber. She can multi-task.

  3. Robert Nowall
    October 11, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    I’ve heard that, to establish yourself in prison, it’s a good idea to take a chair and beat someone with it. Don’t know if that’s true, but these people would make it awful attractive…

  4. Circeus
    October 11, 2018, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Wait, isn’t that the overdramatic monster hunter that Tip encountered a while ago?!

    • JET73L
      October 11, 2018, 7:48 am | # | Reply

      Circeus:

      Seanan? No, I’m pretty sure she’s much younger than Seanan, at least slightly taller (but maybe not), and not as heavyset/busty-ish. From almost any other writing team I’d say that the hardest evidence against was that Ms. McGuire was a reader cameo, but Shaenon and Jeff can and will tie in even the most tenuously canonical details.

      • John Campbell
        October 11, 2018, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

        As proven by Helen’s rivalry with reader Dave Barker, which originated in Sunday strips of dubious canonicity, becoming a significant plot point in Narbonic.

  5. Alphaghoul
    October 11, 2018, 2:38 am | # | Reply

    Did she even bother exploring the town hall mayor’s office?

    • Daibhid C
      October 11, 2018, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

      The door was locked, and nobody answered when she knocked. If you’re Lawful Neutral like Virginia, that’s basically you out of options.

      • s854
        October 12, 2018, 1:35 am | # | Reply

        This is virtual reality, though. I wouldn’t really walk into a restaurant and immediately start berating the staff, but sometimes it’s what you have to do to get ahead.

  6. awgiedawgie
    October 11, 2018, 3:14 am | # | Reply

    Time to tell Melanie “…and if you ever want to see a time again with me not being here, you’ll help me escape.”

    • Towering Barbarian
      October 11, 2018, 7:37 am | # | Reply

      “…otherwise I will make inappropriate and distracting comments at the most critical moments of your skeeball games so that you lose all hope of ever winning anything from them ever again. ^_^”

      But I wonder what one would do for leverage with Madam Delphi or Mrs. Ape? o_O

      • awgiedawgie
        October 11, 2018, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

        I was just thinking that Melanie seems to be the most on the ball (no pun intended), but she’s also the least willing to do anything.

  7. Ray Radlein
    October 11, 2018, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what would happen if wossname came back right now to try to get Virginia to go out on that sate with him and didn’t find her anywhere in Walnut World

    • Shadowmehr
      October 11, 2018, 9:23 pm | # | Reply

      He’d search for her of course, starting calmly and with greater franticness. The question is, could Mr. Green, the Wizard, find Dr. Lee in her beach-side side-trip?

      • Owlmirror
        October 11, 2018, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

        I had two notions about this:

        1) The beach trips take infinitesimal real time, like that one Panoptica-Zerhakker meeting we saw.

        2) If the Crown is involved, then whoever is using it (Aimee/Lovelace/????) might make the mental change to Mr. Green to not think of wanting to find Virginia. Creepy, but mind control always is.

  8. Robert Nowall
    October 11, 2018, 10:30 am | # | Reply

    If she does find someone positive, let’s hope the positive and the negative never meet—it’d be the end of everything, ’cause they’d cancel each other out.

  9. Towering Barbarian
    October 11, 2018, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

    Random thought: Perhaps Ginny should ask Madam Delphi the name of her favorite video game. ^_~

  10. David B Huber
    October 11, 2018, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

    And so we learn that extirpation WITHOUT walnuts is even worse!

  11. Knuckles
    February 8, 2022, 12:27 pm | # | Reply

    Truly, Dr. Lee was in her zone there.

    Scooping out little things that looked like brains.

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