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2012-12-17

by shaenon on December 17, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Andrew
    December 17, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    There’s crazy, mad scientists crazy and then there’s Lindsey Lohan/Tom Cruise crazy.

    • Dementron
      December 18, 2016, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      Jonathon Coulton Tom Cruise Crazy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4PNpFjKVfY

  2. Rob, Arbiter of Reality
    December 17, 2012, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    And knowing how “The Law of Funny” works, the wholly illegal and only partially secret bootleg distillery of large hadron cider is located on the fourth floor of Annex One.

    • Norman
      December 17, 2012, 5:47 am | # | Reply

      Making use of the waste heat, of course ^_^

    • Emptybee
      December 17, 2012, 9:43 am | # | Reply

      Large hadron cider is honestly the best cider.

      • wizard4169
        January 25, 2021, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

        And now I’m thirsty.

    • Andrew
      December 17, 2012, 1:32 pm | # | Reply

      Second Floor: A Curling Rink.
      First Floor: A Tiki Bar.

    • Shadowmehr
      December 17, 2012, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

      So that’s where they make 307 ale! I thought it was only a Swiss-made drink.

  3. codebracker
    December 17, 2012, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    But do we get to call you mad?

  4. Robert The Addled
    December 17, 2012, 2:08 am | # | Reply

    The correct answer should be “Just in case we need it”

    Of course, a NORMAL Social Services agency would never have such a need.

    I’m thinking there will be a need for the SH pie in the future – beyond having M run amok.

  5. wpngjstr
    December 17, 2012, 2:48 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm….she’s asking “why?” I could almost think Ruby doesn’t quite grasp the finer points of Mad Science.

    • Grantwhy
      December 17, 2012, 3:54 am | # | Reply

      Oh, Ruby understands Mad Science(tm) well enough, She lives it by choice and is also a produce of it.

      Mad Bureaucracy(tm) and/or Mad Government Agencies(tm) are a completely foreign concepts.

      A Mad Scientist keeping a portable reactor/nuke in a wall safe that is ‘safe’ enough that the receptionist can get access is par for the course ….. a Social Services Government Agency doing the same is something that Ruby never expected.

      hehe ….. I wonder how Ruby would go if she was recruited into Skin Horse?

    • Darkstarr
      April 23, 2016, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      In philosophy, the answer to “why?” is “why not?”. In Mad Science!, the answer to “why?” is always, “because we can!”

  6. Eddurd
    December 17, 2012, 3:35 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Ring Of Fire”, Johnny Cash)

    We’ve got … this nuke device!
    A type … that we’ve found twice!
    When Ru-by asks us, “Why?”
    Blank stare … is our reply.

     [CHORUS:]
      Well, at least we don’t have a lake of fire
      Like the third floor has (’cause they couldn’t get it higher)!
      But it’s real-ly cool,
      That lake of fire,
      That lake of fire!

    Why keep … a nuke? Don’t know!
    Far as … ideas go,
    It’s not … the best we’ve had!
    We can’t … call Ruby mad!
     [repeat CHORUS]

  7. Midwestmutt
    December 17, 2012, 3:43 am | # | Reply

    We need another tour of that building.

  8. Saberbeam
    December 17, 2012, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    “Welcome to the third floor of Skinhorse: Finances, Human Resources, Cafeteria, and Lake of Raging Flames”

    Obviously the portable fusion reactor is in the wall safe for the same reason they keep the staplers there. Everyone kept ‘borrowing’ the reactor without filling out the proper company resource usage forms, so the safe was the only logical place to put it.

  9. VonZorch
    December 17, 2012, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

    It’s obvious, you keep a nuclear reactor in your safe so it’s immediately available when the regular power goes out. After all bureaucratic buffoonery doesn’t get done in the dark.

  10. Prodigal
    December 17, 2012, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    I got my books today, along with my comics and the sketch you did for me. It’s awesome! Thank you so much.

    • Shaenon
      December 17, 2012, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

      Our pleasure!

  11. Brian-M
    December 17, 2012, 11:09 pm | # | Reply

    Why would you keep a portable nuclear device in a wallsafe?

    Because it’d be irresponsible to just leave it lying around the office.

    • Darkstarr
      April 23, 2016, 2:43 am | # | Reply

      Very true. If you just left it out, any old mad scientist would be tempted to walk off with it and use it for Insidious Purposes. Such as asking Shaenon to draw one in a webcomic, for example. -_^

  12. Seph
    July 29, 2021, 9:13 am | # | Reply

    I know why.

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