Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
  • About Us
  • Cast
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2014-06-03
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(28) Next › Last ››

2014-06-03

by shaenon on June 3, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Comments RSS

Discussion (28) ¬

  1. Eddurd
    June 3, 2014, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Big Spender” from Sweet Charity, Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields)

    The moment we came in today,
    We began to fight against each other,
    But now, oh brother!
    Such terror! Such a fright!
    ‘Cause Bubbles wound Moustachio a little too tight!

    The staplers are coming this way!
    And they’re unionized! It seems we just might see …
    Stapled Bubbles!
    Sta-ple solidarity …

     Do you think we should
     Scan? Scan? Scan?
     Or make copies of
     (Scan) files, (scan) files, (scan) files,
     ’Bout the folks in the
     (Scan) (files) basement,
     Scan, files, basement,
     SCAN! FILES! BASEMENT!

    The moment we came in today,
    We were given tasks to raise our pay grade,
    But look what they made!
    Such chaos! Such a mess!
    Compounded by the gynoid in the bubble-print dress!

    You’d better get out of their way!
    Let ’em hurry by, or else there’s gonna be …
    Stapled Bubbles!
    Stapled Bubbles!
    STAPLED BUBBLES!

    Sta-ple solidarity …

    • Jim Baerg
      June 3, 2014, 11:03 am | # | Reply

      Get those un-ionized staplers charged up

    • Tom Flapwell
      June 3, 2014, 4:31 pm | # | Reply

      This is one of your least intuitive entries yet, Eddurd. It still works.

  2. GG Crono
    June 3, 2014, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    “Enraged Stapler Mob” is the name of my new band.

  3. Ron Armstrong
    June 3, 2014, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Those two might give Brita Bubbles an attitude.

  4. Rex Vivat
    June 3, 2014, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    So… it feels more honest when there’s violence involved?

    • codebracker
      June 3, 2014, 1:57 am | # | Reply

      No, it’s because now they have to fight to get back the files.

      • Rex Vivat
        June 3, 2014, 9:50 am | # | Reply

        Why? Bubbles isn’t carrying the files with her.

  5. oneuniverse2
    June 3, 2014, 6:26 am | # | Reply

    Why isn’t the food vending machine after Bubbles, also?

    • jdreyfuss
      June 3, 2014, 6:51 am | # | Reply

      It’s with her. Service is also its only joy.

  6. Robert Nowall
    June 3, 2014, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    “There once was a union maid, she never was afraid / Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid. / She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called, / And when the Legion boys come ’round / She always stood her ground.”

  7. Frank Hightower
    June 3, 2014, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    He’s never read “The Art of War” has he?

  8. Smithnik
    June 3, 2014, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, you can’t catch me, I’m running from the staplers
    I’m running from the staplers, I’m running from the staplers
    Oh, you can’t catch me, I’m running from the staplers
    Who don’t know service is my only joy.

    A water cooler’s ways may lead to a verbal haze
    With only five words she can say
    But how she says them is the way
    To try to get away, and achieve a better pay
    She’ll show her heels to the copier’s wheels
    And her five words will say

    Oh, you can’t catch me, I’m running from the staplers
    I’m running from the staplers, I’m running from the staplers
    Oh, you can’t catch me, I’m running from the staplers
    Who don’t know service is my only joy.

    [Why just quote Woody Guthrie’s “Union Maid” when you can filk it? :-)]

    • Robert Nowall
      June 3, 2014, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

      ’cause it’s easier than coming up with a parody on short notice.

  9. Ron Armstrong
    June 3, 2014, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    Is running from staplers safer than running with scissors?

    • Exasperation
      June 3, 2014, 2:40 pm | # | Reply

      Well, it’s at least safer than not running from staplers.

  10. freddiefreelance
    June 3, 2014, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

    Safer than running with scissors, more dangerous than running with the bulls.

  11. Karl Greenley
    June 3, 2014, 3:13 pm | # | Reply

    I don’t want this story line to end. Not on the basis of it being highly amusing, but because Sweetheart’s “I’ve been a bad dog” face when the big picture finally sinks in is going to be so, so painfully heartwrenching.

    • Rex Vivat
      June 3, 2014, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

      If it makes you happier, she totally deserves it. And she will probably not learn anything from it and keep being as self centered as she always is.

  12. Shadow
    June 3, 2014, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    RUN BUBBLES RUN!!!

  13. mickeyf
    June 3, 2014, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

    I’m to see glad that Sweetheart has the decency to feel a little guilty.

  14. Shadowmehr
    June 3, 2014, 7:47 pm | # | Reply

    Now, if they really want to help her, they’d move her main body (the actual water cooler) where the rest of the AI’s won’t find it. Smashing the drone doesn’t kill the mind/soul controlling it.

    • Rex Vivat
      June 3, 2014, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

      Dr. Lee installed Bubbles into the drone. That’s her main body now.

  15. Guesticus
    June 3, 2014, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

    At least Sweetie was feeling a little remorse, she’s still in the un-insulated open-plan dog-box though 😛

  16. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    June 4, 2014, 9:32 pm | # | Reply

    “Enraged Stapler Mob” is totally going on my list of good names for bands and/or covert government ops.

  17. JET73L
    March 14, 2015, 9:55 am | # | Reply

    That’s adorable. I want to see Nick’s swear filter explode in a stream of [serviceismyonlyjoy].

  18. Werwolfe
    February 3, 2017, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

    They need a staple remover to take her throat in is jaws.

  19. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 9:59 am | # | Reply

    Oh, so this was on purpose.

    And it disables all the office supplies.

    …which means the files are free for Tip to write his report.

    …well played, Wilkin.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More by Jeff

  • The Scrivnarium

More by Shaenon

  • Horror Every Day
  • Li'l Mell
  • Monster of the Week
  • Narbonic
  • Shaenon.com
Creative Commons License
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.skin-horse.com.

©2007-2022 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑