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2012-10-18

by shaenon on October 18, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Anderson
    October 18, 2012, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    “I forgot to treat you like the rare flower you are”? Really?

  2. Manifesta
    October 18, 2012, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    The “verbal caresses of a true gentleman?” So it looks like whomever controls Violet remotely is indeed male. Perhaps Mr. Green? Not Tip, though. Verbal caresses are so not his style.
    On the other hand, I love the ironic juxtaposition of Nick’s “verbal caresses.” It looks like Ginny really is capable of appreciating true love.

    • Stig
      October 18, 2012, 4:51 pm | # | Reply

      Or a brain upload from a dying career soldier?

  3. mittfh
    October 18, 2012, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    “You deserve the verbal caresses of a true gentleman.”
    >clickety-click<
    No sooner said than done… 😀

    (To be honest, I was wondering if / when Nick would somehow get involved in this arc. Maybe he could have a poke around A-Sig's computer system and see what he can turn up about Ms. Bee…)

    • Stickmaker
      October 18, 2012, 10:06 am | # | Reply

      Heh. What if he hacked the Ms. Bee drone?

      “Whoah! Get a load of these _pontoons_!

  4. Eddurd
    October 18, 2012, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Running With The Devil”, Van Halen)

    I just got kissed by a … horny robot!
    She jumped at me, well I had no choice!
    What she is after, I … truly know not!
    I need the sound of a friendly voice!
    So I’m …
     Running for the bathroom!
     Running for the bathroom!

    She’s calling me such a … tender flower!
    What she is doing just isn’t right!
    I feel like I need a … cleansing shower!
    I’m calling Nick via satellite!
    And I’m …
     Running for the bathroom!
     Running for the bathroom!

  5. Doctor Entropy
    October 18, 2012, 2:56 am | # | Reply

    The romance between the agent of an evil organization, and a very angry helicopter is somehow heartwarming.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      October 18, 2012, 7:42 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, Bee is really pushing Ginny into Nick’s… arms? No, that’s not right. Blades? No, that’s worse. Help me out here.

      • mittfh
        October 18, 2012, 10:21 am | # | Reply

        Nick’s seats? After all, there are several seats within Nick (and not just the pilot seat, which isn’t really required)

      • John Campbell
        October 18, 2012, 10:31 am | # | Reply

        Cockpit.

        • Kirt Dankmyer
          October 19, 2012, 8:47 am | # | Reply

          Win.

    • Another Andrew
      October 19, 2012, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

      Has anybody prior to this point noted that “The Very Angry Helicopter” would make an AWESOME kid’s book? Some sort of Skin Horse spin-off for toddlers? And they’d learn so many new words!

  6. Andrew
    October 18, 2012, 4:11 am | # | Reply

    “I Think I Kissed a Girl, and I Definitely Don’t Like It.”

    • Eddddd the mad genius
      October 18, 2012, 11:28 pm | # | Reply

      “Part II
      (i cant figure out how to test that so if the italics didnt work there i apologize)

  7. Ira
    October 18, 2012, 5:32 am | # | Reply

    I keep coming back to the idea that Ms. Bee is a modified Madblood robot.

    • Eric Burns-White
      October 18, 2012, 7:00 am | # | Reply

      The heck with a Madblood Robot. I think she’s Madblood.

      • Dewy
        October 18, 2012, 7:39 am | # | Reply

        I thought you had a point for a second, with those cheesy lines from Bee, but Madblood would find it impossible to talk about someone else without talking about how great he is himself at least a dozen times.

      • Towering Barbarian
        October 18, 2012, 9:12 pm | # | Reply

        That would trouble me. As Sparks go Madblood was a relatively class act and there didn’t really seem that much wrong with him apart from being Dave’s rival ^_^;

    • Jason
      October 18, 2012, 2:37 pm | # | Reply

      Her name is Bee… she’s a drone… clearly she’s being controlled by Gavotte, or some(one)(thing)(?) analogous.

  8. Jacob Haller
    October 18, 2012, 6:28 am | # | Reply

    Yes! Nick is going to flip out!

  9. Dewy
    October 18, 2012, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    Also: D’aaaaaawwww!

  10. Kirt Dankmyer
    October 18, 2012, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Bee: “Uh, do over?!”

  11. davidbreslin101
    October 18, 2012, 7:43 am | # | Reply

    Those first three panels kind of make my skin crawl…. Thank God for friends. (Especially friends who happen to be military cyborgs.)

  12. Dave Van Domelen
    October 18, 2012, 8:05 am | # | Reply

    Poor Nick. He’s now officially the Good Friend that she goes to when she needs to vent about her unhappy love life.

    • Johnwwells
      October 18, 2012, 1:42 pm | # | Reply

      I dunno. I think there are worse things than being Good Friends with someone who makes zombie super-soldiers, does full brain transplants, and has a good WoW character.

      I mean, eventually there MIGHT be kind of a backlash over the way she trapped him in a shell that can’t have sex with anyone at all. He could probably do with a therapy puppet session to talk through the inexorable revolt of his libidinous shadow against the stoic persona he has formed to achieve individuation under the pressure of –

      (slaps himself)

      Okay, done now.

    • Jelli
      October 18, 2012, 3:29 pm | # | Reply

      Having your gender-ambiguous robotic superior hit on you and then kiss you when you tell them you’d rather they wouldn’t isn’t an unhappy love life. It is a spectacular sexual-harassment case that would finally give Lifetime a reason to invest in an FX budget, but it’s not an unhappy love life.

      • Shaenon
        October 18, 2012, 3:35 pm | # | Reply

        I am now accepting submissions for titles of this Lifetime movie.

        • Pourush
          October 18, 2012, 4:10 pm | # | Reply

          Stop the Robot
          Preventing Robot AIDS
          Ms. Bee Careful
          Virginia v. Love (Title is reference to actual case named Virginia v. Love – the case allowing interracial marriage even if flimsily justified state laws say otherwise)
          Bee the Virginia
          Virginia V. Bee

          • Altarboy
            October 18, 2012, 11:23 pm | #

            That’s Loving v. Virginia and it’s important for my very existence.

        • involunteer
          October 18, 2012, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

          Stranger Danger
          Will You Bee Mine?
          Roses Are Red, Violet’s R2
          Sleeping With Danger 2: Electric Bugaboo

        • pumpkincat
          October 18, 2012, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

          The Violet Hour-Lee

          Okay, that was truly terrible and there’s no way Lifetime would use that, but I had to. Hm, putting my mind to it more…

          A Clockwork Violet
          The Android Doctor
          Neurosurgery of the Heart
          Fears and Gears
          Synaptic Disconnection

        • Altarboy
          October 18, 2012, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

          Violet-ed

        • Johnwwells
          October 19, 2012, 1:00 am | # | Reply

          The Secret Life of Bee

        • reynard61
          October 19, 2012, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

          Who’s That Gynoid? (Who’s That Guy?)
          A History of Violet (A History of Violence)
          Sleepless in St. Charlie (Sleepless in…OH COME ON! DO I REALLY *HAVE* TO SPELL THIS ONE OUT FOR YOU?!?!?!)

        • Sparks
          October 22, 2012, 10:02 am | # | Reply

          Protection Fault

        • JET73L
          February 20, 2015, 9:27 am | # | Reply

          Men are Evil Rapists Even when They’re Robot Women: The Virginia Lee Story.

        • jdreyfuss
          January 22, 2020, 9:56 am | # | Reply

          Electrogonorrhea: The Noisy Killer

  13. Axel
    October 18, 2012, 10:14 am | # | Reply

    Go, Virginia! Glad to see she’s getting out of that bad situation. Bee’s just getting creepier and creepier.

  14. Bartimaeus
    October 18, 2012, 11:25 am | # | Reply

    Oh man, Nick’s going to go apenoodles.

  15. Johnwwells
    October 18, 2012, 1:48 pm | # | Reply

    “You deserve the verbal caresses of a true gentleman.”

    I’m imagining that Bee is desperately slipping into a Professor Layton voice here.

  16. Saberbeam
    October 18, 2012, 3:57 pm | # | Reply

    While this will definitely make Nick angry, he’s going to have a hard time coming to the rescue in a metro system. But, as a gamer he should know the classic strategy “The last thing they’ll expect is an aerial insertion from underground”.

  17. Robert M Mitchell Jr.
    October 18, 2012, 4:56 pm | # | Reply

    Never mind all that. He/She seems to be straight. So why the hard core attempt to seduce Tip (from the first time we saw “her”)?

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 18, 2012, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

      I think Ms. Bee got a new operator. She was going to make a change of some kind yesterday (comic time). Given the operator’s poor behavior here, I’m betting that another change is in the works.

      • Kirt Dankmyer
        October 19, 2012, 8:48 am | # | Reply

        Oh, that’s an interesting idea. Bee is a *committee*. 🙂

  18. Anomomomys Creeper
    October 18, 2012, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

    See, i was gonna post that i really kinda hoped this would go further, but no one else is saying that, and now i feel creepy to say it so im just gonna go anon for this:
    “i really kinda hoped this would go further”

    • Anonymous Creeper
      October 18, 2012, 11:33 pm | # | Reply

      also i seem to have misspelled anon as “anomomomys”

  19. The J is Silent
    March 13, 2019, 1:00 pm | # | Reply

    Now that the gender of the consciousness behind Violet is out of the bag, let me say that I can’t help seeing this as a classic trope:
    The man expects the woman to be bisexual; for his benefit, not hers.
    Usually this requires an, at least hypothetical, threesome; but not in this case.

  20. maarvarq
    December 1, 2020, 11:50 pm | # | Reply

    I won’t count this as Ginny Blushes 13 because the blush is merely continued from the previous strip.

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