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
  • Sponsors
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2018-07-25
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(36) Next › Last ››

2018-07-25

by shaenon on July 25, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
Comments RSS

Discussion (36) ¬

  1. Owlrageous
    July 25, 2018, 12:52 am | # | Reply

    Scientifically absurd is correct. This is the work of MAD SCIENCE.

    • codebracker
      July 25, 2018, 8:55 am | # | Reply

      Did Dave build a weather controll machine out of the mail sorter again?

      • waynezombie
        July 25, 2018, 11:10 am | # | Reply

        “So I took one a them ah…”
        “Scale models of the Eiffel Tower?”
        “Yeah! And I jammed it in my ear. Just to see what would happen.”
        “I hate it when that happens!”

        • Pygar
          July 25, 2018, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

          I know what you mean…

  2. Bevan Bennett
    July 25, 2018, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    ASSIST ME MANDALAY! I’VE COME AFLAME AGAIN!

    • Dewy
      July 25, 2018, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

      Apparently this is the reward I get for years of screwing with super-science. In short, I pissed in God’s eye, and he blinked.

  3. Max
    July 25, 2018, 3:29 am | # | Reply

    Nonsense! Even _I_ can manipulate weather, and I don’t even claim to have any superpowers! Well, mostly by messing with butterflies, but still… huh…? Oh come on, you never did say “in a controlled manner”…!

    • Dr. Steve
      July 25, 2018, 9:18 am | # | Reply

      And to think… some people make a big flap about it.

    • Daibhid C
      July 25, 2018, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

      If uncontrolled weather manipulation counts, then collectively, humanity is depressingly effective at it…

      • Sheik
        July 25, 2018, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

        This may explain why the weather is so unpredictable. We actually have too many weather manipulators at work.

        • Cbob
          July 25, 2018, 6:36 pm | # | Reply

          Rejoice! For all our efforts (co2/ch4) are contributing to the sheer randomness of the whole system. The joys of adding energy to a chaotic system = more chaos

  4. Bruce A Munro
    July 25, 2018, 5:23 am | # | Reply

    Tip seems curiously uninformed of just what mad scientists are capable of. Being teleported cross-country with clothes hangers wasn’t a clue?

    • BRGR
      July 25, 2018, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

      Tip is the one arguing that weather control is possible.

      • VillageWizard
        July 25, 2018, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, but he’s assuming only a superhuman can do it, not a mad scientist.

        • Daibhid C
          July 25, 2018, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

          The way I read it, Tip isn’t assuming a superhuman, he’s just using it as an example to get Shelby to admit weather control is at least possible, since Shelby knows about superhumans.

          Unfortunately, Shelby knows more about superhumans than Tip, and what he knows is that they’re mostly useless.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 25, 2018, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

          Mad scientists are, in point of fact, superhuman. They are cabable of feats of science that normal humans cannot even begin to imagine. However, not all superhumans are Mad scientists. Hence Shelby’s disbelief that such a thing is possible.

          Helen and Dave famously said that Mad scientists are not limited by “the possible”. But actually, they are. The difference is that Mad scientists simply ignore it when anyone says something is impossible, and proceed to prove that whatever it was is, in fact, possible.

          • This Guy I Know
            July 26, 2018, 12:56 pm | #

            Well that’s an interesting thought. Do Good mad scientists qualify to join AG-I, or are they excluded due to Walton’s being a recognized DSM-5 disorder? In short, if your superpower is classified as a disease, do you still count as a super?

          • awgiedawgie
            July 26, 2018, 7:32 pm | #

            I don’t see why not. After all, if they’ll accept mutants who are barely human at all any more, why not accept any superhumans? The Institute utilised Mad scientists – evil ones – so why not AG-I?

  5. Nebulous
    July 25, 2018, 8:12 am | # | Reply

    The easy way to manipulate the weather is to wash and wax your car.
    Or put the laundry out on the line to dry. One or the other.

    • ebonysable
      July 25, 2018, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      I believe having a picnic is another method!

    • Pygar
      July 25, 2018, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      Car washing controls birds more than weather. Mowing and hanging laundry is nearly infallible in attracting rain, unless it is needed. Weather is the feline of phenomena…

    • awgiedawgie
      July 25, 2018, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Leaving your umbrella and jacket at home is also a good way to ensure rain. Conversely, carrying your umbrella – the bigger the better – is a good way to ensure sunshine.

      • Claire
        July 25, 2018, 1:08 pm | # | Reply

        That’s why I call ‘em “sunsticks”.

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 25, 2018, 10:32 am | # | Reply

    I wonder whose idea it was to keep Goose Girl aboard.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 25, 2018, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      Well, she may be incompetent, but she can follow instructions, provided they are simple and concise. Plus she is strong and can fly. So she’s probably more useful on the ship than she would be on some other mission.

      • Shadowmehr
        July 25, 2018, 7:53 pm | # | Reply

        Keep your friends close, and utterly random characters closer?

  7. s854
    July 25, 2018, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

    Robert Nowall: They’ve tried sailing away, but she has a phenomenal homing ability.

    For what it’s worth, people have been trying to manipulate the weather in this world for decades. As they aren’t mad scientists, it’s not all that effective.

  8. Carl Fishman
    July 25, 2018, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

    Yay! Goose Girl is back!

    • Robert Nowall
      July 25, 2018, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      And with extra Shuffleboard Puck.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 25, 2018, 10:03 pm | # | Reply

        Well, we hope she brought an extra one, because we’re not gonna want to use that one any more.

        • Robert Nowall
          July 26, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

          It, too, shall pass.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 26, 2018, 7:33 pm | #

            That’s what I’m afraid of…

  9. Towering Barbarian
    July 25, 2018, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

    *innocently*

    Maybe they should ask Panoptica if she could do a mind scan to locate a superhuman of that sort. ^_~

  10. Towering Barbarian
    July 25, 2018, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

    More seriously, this does seem to be a curious point from Shelby to draw the line at. Might this count as a hint that “reality blindness” is starting to hit all the exotics as well? And if so what form will it take with each of them? Will H.T. eventually start thinking there’s no such things as humans? Will the undead see only fellow undead? o_O

  11. awgiedawgie
    July 25, 2018, 10:09 pm | # | Reply

    Interesting that Tip — after their last excursion aboard the Habakkuk — could still think of AG-I as “the cream of humanity”.

    Unless, of course, it’s like a pail of freshly squeezed milk, where the cream needs to be scraped off to make the rest of it tolerable. Yes, the cream has its uses, but most of them involve a considerable amount of work.

  12. jdreyfuss
    February 3, 2020, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

    Good thing for him he didn’t say it was impossible. We’d never be rid of Walske then.

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 ↑