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2019-11-27

by shaenon on November 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. dvandom
    November 27, 2019, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, take Tip in a fight. Continuing to show great judgement there, dude.

    • BMunro
      November 27, 2019, 12:49 am | # | Reply

      Perhaps he’s a cyborg or something. Some Mads do experiment on themselves.

    • D. Walker
      November 27, 2019, 12:51 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair, I don’t think we’ve seen Tip do much hand-to-hand fighting. He mostly relies on his gun, which I believe he does not have at this moment.

      • Paul Burks
        November 27, 2019, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

        Don’t forget that he out-wrestled the former black ops Russian security guard. And tossed a zombie around reflexively.

        Tip rarely has to be physically formidable because of Unity but is an option against normal opposition (the rarest kind in Narbonverse).

        • D. Walker
          November 28, 2019, 3:46 am | # | Reply

          I do forget that he technically still has werewolf powers…

          Gads, now that I think about it, Tip is -SUCH- a Mary Sue.

          Assuming he’s actually got a doctorate (which has never been confirmed, curiously enough), that makes him a medical doctor; who is also an elite military commando (he’s way more effective than your standard grunt); who was also trained by the CIA; who is also an expert on fashion and fashion history; who also is an expert seamster; who also has inexplicable seduction powers that stray into the territory of physics defying and magic; who also is part werewolf; who also is an agent of the Shadow Government; who also went rogue to save the world from an evil villain; and who also is basically the boyfriend of a genetically engineered super genius with the body of a male model, created by one of the most famous mad scientists in the world.

          And what balances out all that wildly unlikely perfection? Oh yes, his single flaw – comedic levels of narcissism, for which he rarely suffers any negative consequences beyond being called a momzer by Nick.

          • Candace
            November 28, 2019, 9:49 am | #

            Tip has a Ph.D. in psychology. He is not a medical doctor.

          • Candace
            November 28, 2019, 9:54 am | #

            Also, I think it’s stretching things quite a bit to describe Tip as Artie’s boyfriend. Unless I’m misremembering, I think Artie was a one-hot-tub stand, like most of Tip’s other conquests. (Although in Tip and Artie’s case, I would say the conquest was mutual.)

          • BRGR
            November 30, 2019, 2:58 am | #

            Tip is not a self-insertion character who seduces everyone by being better at their specialty without any development whatsoever.

          • Zero
            October 29, 2020, 1:01 am | #

            Yeah, he can keep up okay with the other characters.

          • Hypercomplex
            May 10, 2021, 9:06 pm | #

            Just ignore op, he has this weird vendetta about Tip.

  2. woozy
    November 27, 2019, 12:10 am | # | Reply

    H.T. singing praises to himself?

    • casimir
      November 27, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      Yes! My thought also.

      • Foradain
        November 27, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

        Likewise. Unfortunately, Tip’s classed that in with “human evidence”, so he’ll likely be surprised.

  3. awgiedawgie
    November 27, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Apparently, Mr. Ask doesn’t know about Tip’s military background. Unless he cheats (which is admittedly likely), there’s no way he could take him in a fight. He’d have a better chance against Dr. Tainter.

    • David B Huber
      November 27, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I dunno. Mr. Ask *did* invade Malta…

      • awgiedawgie
        November 27, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

        He invaded Malta using a steam-powered death scow. That just proves that he’s insane. And he never exposited the outcome of the invasion, aside from knitting a sweater during the invasion.

        But he also knows about Tip’s heroic exploits while at Skin Horse. That’s why I figured he’d be likely to cheat if he wanted to take Tip down.

        • Blofeld's Cat
          November 27, 2019, 1:51 pm | # | Reply

          Well, I turned up at Valletta, told the Harbour Master that I was invading and waited for someone in authority to take notice.
          Nobody did, so I had another cup of tea, finished my sweater, sank a couple of fishing boats and invaded Corsica instead.
          There’s absolutely no point in being pig-headed about these things.

          • JET73L
            November 27, 2019, 10:51 pm | #

            You performed an uncontested takeover of Malta and didn’t notice? Impressive.

          • s854
            November 28, 2019, 1:09 am | #

            JET73L: It’s probably just as well that they didn’t notice, given the sort of thing people in authority in Malta are alleged to have done to people they did notice.

      • David B Huber
        November 27, 2019, 12:42 am | # | Reply

        Or – most likely – Mr. Ask was entrusted with the detonator for Tip’s Collar!

  4. tuiteyfruity
    November 27, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    LOL TAKE TIP IN A FIGHT?? This dude really is mad. He deserves to have his ass handed to him by a psychologist

  5. Jay
    November 27, 2019, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Oh crap, his eyes turned blue for an instant. Next he’ll get a creepy smile and his face will deflate like a balloon…

    • Christian Rose
      November 27, 2019, 7:13 am | # | Reply

      Good Eye! (pun not intended) I had to go back and soon in to see it. Wow…
      Soooo… Anyone remember what the blue eyes meant? Awgiedawgi I’m looking at you.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 27, 2019, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, sure… put me on the spot. Now I can’t think of it.

    • Nomi
      November 27, 2019, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      I saw that, but just assumed it was a way of indicating he was freaked out by the Blake-reciting voice. Hmmmm.

  6. sweetuncleLESLIE
    November 27, 2019, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Is that HT reciting Blake? self-puffed, overweening pusillanimous piece of arrogant thickheadedness, a disgrace to the gloriousness that is TIGER….and Hobbes can take him quick, anywhere, anytime, easy. I’m opening a can of tuna right now, it’s like the Bat-signal.

    • OneUniverse
      December 2, 2019, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

      Yep. Now reading “Tyger”: Blake certainly had a different point of view.

  7. Liso
    November 27, 2019, 4:59 am | # | Reply

    Anyone reciting Blake couldn’t possibly be too evil.
    Except for a tyger, possibly

  8. Ms. Neutrino
    November 27, 2019, 6:59 am | # | Reply

    Creepy indeed. Is the owner of the voice simply trying to unnerve them by evoking tygers in forests? Or to insinuate, with those _particular_ lines, that they mightn’t be who they think? Or could it indeed be H.T., philosophically pondering his own origin with an apposite quotation by way of greeting? Maybe all of the above? Or none? So many questions. So many possibilities.

    • Paul Burks
      November 27, 2019, 5:08 pm | # | Reply

      By default I assume someone reciting poetry in weird places means Sergio turned up.

  9. Shadowmehr
    November 27, 2019, 7:25 am | # | Reply

    Well, you can’t fault Mr. Ask’s grasp of tactics, even if his ability with the specifics of this situation needs work.

    • Towering Barbarian
      November 27, 2019, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

      To be fair, I don’t think Mr. Ask’s odds against any of the others would be any better. Between Eris and Tip I might take my chances with Tip as well and that’s not out of disrespect to Tip. >_>

  10. Robert Nowall
    November 27, 2019, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Oh, no, Sergio!

  11. Vincent
    November 27, 2019, 11:58 am | # | Reply

    By the stream & o’er the mead;
    Gave thee clothing of delight,

    (for some symmetry)

    • Vincent
      November 27, 2019, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      … I might’ve picked the wrong section there. Oh well.

  12. BMunro
    November 27, 2019, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

    Go get ’em, tiger.

  13. Daibhid C
    November 27, 2019, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

    I’m not convinced it’s H.T., simply because I don’t see him having much truck with the theological considerations of the poem. As a product of Mad Science, he knows his creator did not possess immortal hand or eye, and if he hasn’t already proved this by eating them, he almost certainly intends to.

    • Ms. Neutrino
      November 27, 2019, 3:47 pm | # | Reply

      Good point. I *could* see him quoting it ironically, though, and savoring that delicious irony along with the delicious humanity as he disproves the immortality thing.

  14. Christian Rose
    November 27, 2019, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

    Shannon: “I’m going to bring back a character in a way no one would ever imagine it was them!”
    Audience: “IT’S HT!”
    *Mad scrambling from behind the easel*
    Shannon: “Look, it’s actually Artie!”
    I title this piece: How Plot Twists Occur in Nature.

  15. Obviously it’s a sheep.
    November 27, 2019, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

    Obviously it’s a sheep reciting poetry.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      November 27, 2019, 8:32 pm | # | Reply

      Not so obvious, since it’s well known that the distress call of the emu sounds a lot like Blake as well. I think it’s an onomatopoeia.

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        November 27, 2019, 8:40 pm | # | Reply

        If anyone doubts this, I would point to the proof provided in firsthand accounts from the Emu War. Nobody mentions emus reciting Blake, because it’s a distress call and the emus were winning.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 27, 2019, 11:34 pm | # | Reply

      Well, they had to get the wool for the sweaters somewhere…

  16. jdreyfuss
    February 5, 2020, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Now who would possibly be talking about a tiger while an NHS takes out troublesome humans?

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