Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
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2019-09-28
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2019-09-28

by shaenon on September 28, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Jennifer Park
    September 28, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Wait, is something ironic happening?

  2. awgiedawgie
    September 28, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, Ira, the plant thing was living comfortably and peacefully in New Orleans until you captured it, drugged it, and pissed it off. Don’t even try to blame that on Skin Horse.

    • darkstarling
      September 28, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      Oh he will. To do otherwise would be admitting fault.

      • Randomfan
        September 29, 2019, 1:47 am | # | Reply

        Also it is Skin Horse’s fault it’s alive and free to rampage in the first place. If it weren’t, it’d probably be its family rampaging on its behalf instead, but at least it would be conveniently dead. (but it’s easier to negotiate when corpses aren’t involved, and otherwise Skin Horse’s choice is probably still better for humanity in the medium run.)

  3. memnarch
    September 28, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    A decent improvement to the town; think of how much it stands out now when comparing it to other places!

    • greenknight32
      September 28, 2019, 2:24 am | # | Reply

      Good point – it’s a coal mining town, pretty much dying anyway. The Cypress Swamp has given it a new lease on life, in a way.

  4. Alphaghoul
    September 28, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Whew, finally have access to wifi again. We all know where this is going, it’s just a way to convince Tip that nonhuman sentients are dangerous and need to be wiped out, of course, Skin Horses job is to develop peace between humans and nonhumans so that this stuff doesn’t happen, that’ll obviously lead to playing the “you’re terrible at your job” card. Hopefully Tip will point out the plant rampage being Ira’s fault first. And then there’s the fact that Ira who’s (presumedly) human and his behavior and organization is a direct threat to humanity and nonhumanity alike.

  5. sweetuncleLESLIE
    September 28, 2019, 2:10 am | # | Reply

    I’m actually not sure IRA is human. I never really gave it much thought, expecting
    revelations to unfold….whew. What was it that Gavotte, The Sentient Swarm called him? A hum-BUG? Prepare for an interesting reveal.

    • khn0
      September 28, 2019, 4:31 am | # | Reply

      Well if you speak of the formerly socialist irish thing, they are human beings.
      More seriously, Ira being a non human would have a strange aftertaste in the lights of mirroring civic rights activism

    • Robert Nowall
      September 28, 2019, 10:37 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps he’s a Wogglebug…

    • Frank
      September 28, 2019, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Goldbug, actually

      • awgiedawgie
        September 28, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        He called himself Goldbug. Gavotte called him a humbug.

  6. greenknight32
    September 28, 2019, 2:33 am | # | Reply

    So it turns out A-Sig’s approach of waging war against non-human sapients, instead of finding ways to coexist with them, is a losing strategy. What a surprise! To them, anyway – they’re going to need Skin Horse to bail them out.

    Save us, Sweetheart, you’re our only hope!

  7. nebulousrikulau
    September 28, 2019, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    Did the reality-blind residents of Carbondale even notice?

    • Fan of Most Everything
      September 28, 2019, 6:28 am | # | Reply

      “Wow, the weeds are terrible this year.”

      • Darkstarling
        September 29, 2019, 8:31 pm | # | Reply

        Oh hey, didn’t know you also read this

    • Shadowmehr
      September 28, 2019, 10:17 am | # | Reply

      “This whole green movement thing is getting out of hand.”

  8. crookedwolf
    September 28, 2019, 6:42 am | # | Reply

    The Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian period..

    • Sheik
      September 28, 2019, 4:07 pm | # | Reply

      It would be interesting indeed if this turned out to put coal back into the mines. 🙂

  9. CCC
    September 28, 2019, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    So, Tip’s still wearing his earpiece, right?

    And loudly broadcasting his location to Sweetheart?

    • Myles Adams
      September 28, 2019, 7:50 am | # | Reply

      100% yes.

    • Robert Loughrey
      September 28, 2019, 8:12 am | # | Reply

      Thats what I was thinking too.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 28, 2019, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

      Let us hope Ira doesn’t know about the earpiece and isn’t feeding Sweetheart (a) misinformation, or (b) bait for a trap.

    • Christian Rose
      September 28, 2019, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

      Considering the mission was in Carbondale, Sweetheart would have to be pretty out of it in order to determine that this wasn’t Carbondale Pennsylvania. It doesn’t make sense for his definition in this case to be anything other than just coincidence. Otherwise you would have just simply said Carbondale, rather than Pennsylvania ,it’s much more specific.

      • Robert Nowall
        September 28, 2019, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

        There are eleven places called Carbondale in the United States (and one in Canada). For all they know, Anasigma could have offices in all of them.

  10. Robert Nowall
    September 28, 2019, 8:01 am | # | Reply

    What does he mean, “has gone” wild? She already was.

  11. Barbara K
    September 28, 2019, 8:54 am | # | Reply

    So, Ira wants to hire Tip as his greenskeeper, so the foursome can play through the rough. Has Tip ever done a makeover on vegetation before? His therapy puppets will have to role-play a “green” versus “Green” situation.

  12. Dr. Steve
    September 28, 2019, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    How/when did they get out of the cell? There seems to be a transition scene missing. Unless Ira’s evil irony mojo transported them… and apparently to some rather nasty-par golf links.

    • Rimwolf
      September 28, 2019, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

      I read the previous strip as him being escorted from his cell under guard of the burlies-in-black behind him.

  13. Shadowmehr
    September 28, 2019, 10:19 am | # | Reply

    If the residents of Carbondale are not actively threatening the swamp, it may decide to be a pleasant neighbor, growing its own blend of tea to share with the rest of the community. The whole “catastrophe” thing Ira is trying to sell may only exist in a bureaucrat’s mind.

  14. Jim Baerg
    September 28, 2019, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    I had to to some googling to check that Carbondale wasn’t a place with a coal seam fire making it uninhabitable.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

  15. fwknight
    September 28, 2019, 3:48 pm | # | Reply

    The good thing about Tip being the one here with the ear piece, statements like that seem perfectly natural. Of course Ira will probably pick up on Tip giving information about his location.

    • Hypercomplex
      May 10, 2021, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

      Honestly, I feel like that statement would sound perfectly natural coming from almost anyone on the team.

  16. Christian Rose
    September 28, 2019, 5:39 pm | # | Reply

    He’s in vr hell. Calling it now.

    • warpzone32
      September 28, 2019, 11:45 pm | # | Reply

      Now, now. Let’s wait and see how the golf game goes first.

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