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2016-12-27

by shaenon on December 27, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Purple Waves
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  1. Alabat Macord
    December 27, 2016, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Me too. I want a dragon too. Of course I guess everybody does.

    • OneUniverse
      December 27, 2016, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

      I keep thinking of the feeding (and dragon-litter) costs.

    • Darael Draconis
      December 27, 2016, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

      Some of us would rather stop being dragons.

      I mean, the shape-change would be good, but since it doesn’t seem to be forthcoming, a fully-human consciousness to match the body would be a decent second prize, as it were.

      • BRGR
        December 28, 2016, 3:53 am | # | Reply

        Are you saying you want to have body dysmorphism?

  2. mrmonkeyhead2013
    December 27, 2016, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    If you are a flying dragon, who needs a car?

    • BRGR
      December 27, 2016, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      If you are a car rental company, and one of your customers turns into a dragons and totals her ride, who cares?

    • GammarayCanon
      December 27, 2016, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Well, quite frankly, I imagine that she doesn’t have the energy to run/fly hundreds of kilometers constantly. And she’d still have to deal with bugs flying into her face.

      • Candace
        December 28, 2016, 2:07 am | # | Reply

        Clearly she needs goggles!

  3. Kyle
    December 27, 2016, 1:51 am | # | Reply

    Is she really a dragon? I think she’s more of a dragon-shaped human. That degree of reality blindness is more of a defining trait than the mere morphology.

    • Daibhid C
      December 27, 2016, 6:10 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think she’s reality-blind. If she were, she’d never have known a dragon landed on her car in the first place. She does perhaps have unusual priorities, but as Marcie points out, this is comparable to the madgirl, and they’re definitely not reality blind.

      • chrisn
        December 27, 2016, 11:28 am | # | Reply

        I dunno. In their world it seems most people are aware of zombies living them, but dragons? She wasn’t at all freaked out by a dragon smashing her car. I think a talking Siberian Husky could belt out Gilbert and Sullivan songs in front of her and she’d just call it an loud, barking dog.

        • Darael Draconis
          December 27, 2016, 7:58 pm | # | Reply

          We’ve specifically seen that the significantly reality-blind think zombies are… not zombies. Exactly what the rationalisation is seems to depend on what they’re doing; UNITY in polite company is probably perceived as teenage human, whereas UNITY on a rampage is probably seen as a teenage human.

          A proper lurch would probably be rationalised as a flashmob by those with a small crack in their blinders, and otherwise as mundane demonstrators.

          Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera: the point is we’ve seen the reality-blind react to UNITY without comment, whereas the merely formerly-oblivious tend to experience a certain degree of alarm. From this we can conclude that reality-blindness does in fact cover piecemeal revenants animated by nanite swarms, and extrapolate that to the more common zombie types.

          • chrisn
            December 27, 2016, 8:18 pm | #

            Thanks. That’s all clear now . . .

        • woozy
          December 27, 2016, 11:19 pm | # | Reply

          ” I think a talking Siberian Husky could belt out Gilbert and Sullivan songs in front of her and she’d just call it an loud, barking dog.”

          Only if she is Gilbert and Sullivan deaf.

          http://skin-horse.com/comic/copies-to-the/

    • woozy
      December 27, 2016, 11:17 pm | # | Reply

      Kay has been proven time and time again to not be in the least bit reality blind. If anything she is reality jaded.http://skin-horse.com/comic/right-while/

      ” I think a talking Siberian Husky could belt out Gilbert and Sullivan songs in front of her and she’d just call it an loud, barking dog.”

      Only if she is Gilbert and Sullivan deaf.

      http://skin-horse.com/comic/copies-to-the/

  4. Manifesta
    December 27, 2016, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    I lile to think I have my priorities straight. If I don’t move the car, the Man is going to load it up with parking tickets, and then the System will oppress me.

    • s854
      December 27, 2016, 8:24 am | # | Reply

      At this moment in time, the best thing to do would be to let Marcie help you get your car moved. I know people manage, but it is a lot easier to sign the recovery company’s paperwork if you’ve got thumbs.

    • casimir
      December 27, 2016, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      As upsetting as it is, I think you should forget the car. You’re looking at someone who can build you the finest ride a dragon could want.

      • BRGR
        December 27, 2016, 10:23 am | # | Reply

        True that, but there is still the insurance to deal with, and the rental company as well. The latter will want reimbursement that the former won’t provide.

    • Towering Barbarian
      December 27, 2016, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

      *nods in agreement*

      A wise dragon always looks after her hoard no matter what the circumstances might be and the same is true for a wise human as well. ^_^

    • jdreyfuss
      January 28, 2020, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

      You have 20 minutes to move your car. You have 10 minutes to move your car. You have 5 minutes to move your car. Your car has been towed. Your car has been crushed into a cube. You have 20 minutes to move your cube.

    • Knuckles
      February 2, 2022, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      Plus you still have to get the insurance coverage straightened out. And how are you supposed to build up a horde of treasure when you’re under car repair debt?

  5. Robert Nowall
    December 27, 2016, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    If their both divorced from reality I guess Chris and Marcie will have to be their therapists…

    • Smithnik
      December 27, 2016, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      In Manifesta’s case, it may be more of a trial separation. The effects of the Irradiator have been so inconsistent, there’s no reason to believe that she’s going to remain a dragon forever, unless she was really a dragon cleverly disguised as a human being.

  6. Shadowmehr
    December 27, 2016, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    It makes sense Manifesta would be concerned about the car. She has to start building her hoard, and paying for the rental wouldn’t be a good start.

    Although, if she does go to work for Tigerlily, most of her hoard would be masterwork clockwork items anyway . . .

  7. Dr. Steve
    December 27, 2016, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    I too am divorced from reality. We dated reality for a while; then, in a wild Las Vegas weekend, we ended up married. As you might guess, it didn’t last long. I guess we just didn’t have much respect for each others’ views. Neither of us really believed the other actually existed.

    • OneUniverse
      December 27, 2016, 2:48 pm | # | Reply

      As a great comic once said, “Reality: What a concept!”

      • Kitirena
        December 30, 2016, 10:32 pm | # | Reply

        It’s also an audience participation line in the Rocky Horror Picture Show!

  8. midwestmutt
    December 27, 2016, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

    Yes, where is the office of temporal anomalies anyway? And how did the insurance co. know to send her there?

    • BRGR
      December 28, 2016, 3:56 am | # | Reply

      The office of temporal anomalies is in the Annex One building. The office staff is sometime in the future.

      As to how the insurer knew to send her there, that would be due to the diligent work of the insurance detectives. How they knew that is a trade secret, but my guess is that they assumed dragons to be extinct, and Manifesta was correct about them sending her to the wrong department.

  9. chrisn
    December 27, 2016, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

    It was probably the demi-official shadow government insurance company, operating ostensibly out of Annex 6. Those guys know everything.

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