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2014-06-25

by shaenon on June 25, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. ngmatt8652
    June 25, 2014, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    um, well, that was….. well.

  2. Harold
    June 25, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    On a Wednesday?!

  3. Norman
    June 25, 2014, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Alas, it’s not a paid vacation 🙁

  4. happyharbingers
    June 25, 2014, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Looks like the plot just leveled up again!

  5. Martin Hooper
    June 25, 2014, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Well is that the end of the strip? 😉

  6. Ron Armstrong
    June 25, 2014, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Say what?

  7. mittfh
    June 25, 2014, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    Erm, I thought Project Skin Horse /was/ Black Ops Social Services…

    • Joshua Metz
      June 25, 2014, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      BOSS. BOSS is Social Services for Social Services.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      June 25, 2014, 11:20 am | # | Reply

      It’s hardly been made explicit, but there are other shadow-government divisions under B.O.S.S. whose ins and outs we just plain do not see. The highly-trained ninja infiltrators of Covert Foodshare, for instance.

      • ackthp
        June 25, 2014, 4:35 pm | # | Reply

        I take it that Covert Foodshare is tasked with raiding communal office refrigerators.

      • jdreyfuss
        June 25, 2014, 7:13 pm | # | Reply

        I can’t believe it took me all day to realize that their supervising subdepartment of HHS is B.O.S.S.

  8. Bruceski
    June 25, 2014, 2:03 am | # | Reply

    Comic over. It’s been a great run, folks. Tune in next week for the new comic: Fast Food Transvestite.

    • tpmanw
      June 25, 2014, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

      Heck no! If we’re going to get a spinoff it’s got to be abut Sweetheart.

      • Frank Hightower
        June 25, 2014, 4:54 pm | # | Reply

        “Dog-walking dog, eh?”

      • Bruceski
        June 25, 2014, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

        Sweetheart is the store manager. Every chapter is a convoluted adventure where they need to keep the speciest regional manager from finding out she’s a dog. Guest-starring Alice Pearce as the nosy owner of the boutique next door.

        • Shaenon
          June 25, 2014, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

          I…would watch that.

        • Vigoda
          June 25, 2014, 9:19 pm | # | Reply

          -Fast Food Executive Transvestite.

  9. Robert Nowall
    June 25, 2014, 2:27 am | # | Reply

    Sequester strikes again!

  10. bergerjacques
    June 25, 2014, 5:51 am | # | Reply

    The chapter theme continues…..

  11. maarvarq
    June 25, 2014, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    How about a sudden ending? (Watch from 4:20)

  12. jdreyfuss
    June 25, 2014, 6:51 am | # | Reply

    I think this is gonna be like on the X-Files, where they kept closing the department, but Mulder and Scully were still FBI agents and still got into weird stuff every week. Either that or, because nonhuman sapients have become more visible and mainstream, they’re being closed down as a black ops team and reorganized under a more public arm of HHS.

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      June 25, 2014, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      Ha! Implying that we would actually steal plot points from “The X-Files.” I mean, *really*. Who do you think we are? Old-school fans of “The X-Files” one of whom is serializing the entire run of the series in comic form or something?

      • bergerjacques
        June 25, 2014, 10:51 am | # | Reply

        Nice subtlety, Jeff.

  13. Eddurd
    June 25, 2014, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Light My Fire”, The Doors)

    At teamwork, seems we never win,
    Disorganized and uninspired!
    Oh, hey, a memo just came in …
    We’re being forcibly retired!

     [CHORUS:]
     Project Skin Horse, you’ve been fired!
     Your employment has expired!
     Services are not required …
     Project Skin Horse, you’ve been fired!

    Now out of Annex One we’re locked,
    Well, after what has just transpired,
    We shouldn’t be completely shocked!
    (Our former foes, have they conspired?)
     [repeat CHORUS]

  14. robertnowall
    June 25, 2014, 7:02 am | # | Reply

    In this day and age, when even the National Park Service has a SWAT team…who needs Black Ops or Skin Horse?

  15. oneuniverse2
    June 25, 2014, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    So now my Fan Fiction effort was a total waste? 🙁 I’m sure when the Leader Bee Swarm regains coherence she’ll pull some bureaucratic procedural jujitsu and have funding restored, with a raise for herself as a bonus. 🙂

  16. Dr. Steve
    June 25, 2014, 7:49 am | # | Reply

    Actually, this is a great test of a team. under the stress of department closure, will they all pull together, or will they pull apart. Stay tuned!

  17. freddiefreelance
    June 25, 2014, 9:07 am | # | Reply

    Aww man, did they copy this plot twist from the Phineas & Ferb Summer Special?

  18. Robert Nowall
    June 25, 2014, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    Sorry to interrupt the flow of comment, but I’ve just gotta say…my posts keep popping up under “Robert Nowall” and “robertnowall.” They’re both me. I change it, preferring “Robert Nowall” at all times (It is my name), but it keeps going back.

  19. Wdot
    June 25, 2014, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    Well, they’re government workers, their division might have been closed, but they’ll be reassigned. I wonder where? I also wonder how long before those in charge realize they’ve made a terrible, horrible mistake?

    • Frank Hightower
      June 25, 2014, 4:55 pm | # | Reply

      I guess that’s the “raise”

  20. Guesticus
    June 25, 2014, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    Wdot: probably when Sweetie goes on one of her Rampages (or Unity eats one of them)

  21. Windy Wanderings
    June 25, 2014, 11:29 am | # | Reply

    Well that was unexpected and undramatic.

  22. Rex Vivat
    June 25, 2014, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    The plot thickens.

  23. markhh
    June 25, 2014, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Now they can join _Blacker_ Ops

    • BRGR
      June 26, 2014, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      slightly darker black ops

  24. =Tamar
    June 25, 2014, 1:43 pm | # | Reply

    Or maybe they’ll be hired by the opposition. Or go visit friends.

  25. Sheik
    June 25, 2014, 5:26 pm | # | Reply

    The revolving door to Anasigma awaits!

  26. Shadowmehr
    June 25, 2014, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

    Okay, looks like Anasigma finally had a competent idea and applied pressure to Skin Horse’s superiors to get rid of the thorn in their (Anasigma’s) side. When Gavotte comes to, she’s going to have to do one heck of a red-tape dance to get them out of this.

    No, I’m not considering that the others would help. Why do you ask?

  27. Diana Schiefelbein
    June 25, 2014, 10:33 pm | # | Reply

    Scully, they’re closing down the X-Files…

  28. The Magus
    May 14, 2015, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

    DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN!

  29. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    You know, maybe things would have been different if they’d shared their discovery from The Little House with Gavotte.

    Maybe she could have seen the attempt to subvert her department to re-organize it back to its nefarious purposes and come up with a way to prevent it from happening.

    Instead of, y’know, clocking out for a snog.

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