Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2013-02-16

by shaenon on February 16, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Robert The Addled
    February 16, 2013, 4:52 am | # | Reply

    And things get more surreal.

    I’m betting somehow they will figure out a proper acronym for U.N.I.T.Y and all will be well.

    • Saberbeam
      February 16, 2013, 12:02 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, a proper acronym. Possibly one involving a hat.

      • Robert The Addled
        February 16, 2013, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

        and maybe “sammiches” – other than mustard – do we know of any preference on Unity’s part?

        • DoubleW
          February 16, 2013, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

          Head cheese?

    • Warren
      February 17, 2013, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      Very doable, so long as you don’t insist on it being a good acronym. Undead Neurophagic Integrated Terror … Yowza!

  2. Eddurd
    February 16, 2013, 5:17 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face”, Lerner & Loewe)

    I recognize you with the hat!
    You’ve come to battle with GODOT!
    You stroll in boldly, without fear,
    A pencil in each ear!
    You may … be nuts,
    But you’ve … got guts!

    So now, you take your turn at bat;
    Your only weapon, your chapeau!
    I will admit you wear it well, with such panache and such elan,
    Although, if you should lose it, it speaks poorly of your plan!
    The time is overdue for that
    Apocalyptic chat,
    So hold on … to your … hat!

  3. Metody
    February 16, 2013, 5:22 am | # | Reply

    So, weird problem. When I read Skin Horse on my phone, it’s fine. When I try to read it on my computer, I get this error:

    Site temporarily unavailable
    We apologize for the inconvienence
    Please contact the webmaster/ tech support immediately to have them rectify this
    error id: “bad_httpd_conf”

    Except my phone is crappy and won’t load the whole site, so I can’t find the right email and….help!

    • Rex Vivat
      February 16, 2013, 10:01 am | # | Reply

      Same happens to me. Just hit F5 until it works.

  4. Shadowmehr
    February 16, 2013, 7:17 am | # | Reply

    The order of language and logic against U.N.I.T.Y.’s chaos. At least she has a few brains in her to make it a semi-fair fight.

    • Robert The Addled
      February 16, 2013, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      She’s got empathy and emotion on her side too – altho that admittedly could be a subset of chaos as far as an AI is concerned.

  5. nemryn
    February 16, 2013, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    I’m diggin’ the color/spatial inversion between panels 1&2.

  6. Tetra Valent
    February 16, 2013, 10:22 am | # | Reply

    And Skin Horse is in the door first – they win!

    • WJS
      September 25, 2017, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      Except they found out ages ago that the “contest” was just a B.S. excuse to avoid admitting that they’d lost control of the situation.

  7. Saberbeam
    February 16, 2013, 1:51 pm | # | Reply

    It probably doesn’t match the song perfectly, but I think it works allright.

    To the tune of “Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chapin:

    Our hero’s arrived just the other day,
    Start investigating in the usual way.
    But then they all learned, to their dismay,
    About a crazy plan to cause doomsday.
    And Sweetheart ordered decisively,
    “Go and get ’em Unity! Just the usual, Unity!”

    And the hat’s on the zombie in the darkened room,
    Unity’s out to prevent nuclear doom.
    GODOT sees through the hat that she’s stylin.
    Says “Is it alright if we begin? Do you mind if we begin?”

    Anasigma team arrived the other day,
    Violet kissed Lee, though she’s totes not gay.
    And so Lee and Violet, and Sergio,
    All try to find a way to get to GODOT.
    But they have to stop a zombie apocalypse,
    So Lee makes her machine go “plip”
    Yeah, she makes a bunch of brains go “plip”

    (Repeat chorus)

    • reynard61
      February 16, 2013, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

      Welcome to the Dark Side of The For…*ahem!* The Filk. Cookies are on the table.

  8. Ryushikaze
    February 18, 2013, 9:04 am | # | Reply

    Apart from the comic, I’m amused that the two filks for this one both used GODOT as a rhyme, and used both commonly accepted pronunciations for it, too.

  9. Buggy
    June 12, 2014, 7:57 am | # | Reply

    Wait, when did she get a hat?

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