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2016-08-12

by shaenon on August 12, 2016 at 12:01 am
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  1. darius404
    August 12, 2016, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That money is going toward valuable towels, thank-you-very-much.

  2. Jay Eff
    August 12, 2016, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Silly Chris!
    Everyone knows that Ace Hardware has all the plutonium…

    • Sir William
      August 12, 2016, 5:08 am | # | Reply

      Nah, you can get the housing there if you’re short on cash, but they discontinued the plutonium about a month back
      You can try amazon, but quality and price fluctuates quite a bit there

      • SVGeezer
        August 12, 2016, 8:13 am | # | Reply

        What! No eBay reference??

        The “from China” items are always interesting.

      • Kirala
        August 12, 2016, 10:57 am | # | Reply

        I thought plutonium was obtained from Libyans who think you’ll use it to build them a nuke…

      • Dewy
        August 12, 2016, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

        * (1 Star): Item arrived with cracked containment shielding. Wife now has an extra arm growing out of forehead. WOULD NOT BUY FROM AGAIN!

    • Rodford Smith
      August 12, 2016, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      Big Lots is ‘way cheaper and just as fresh, if you don’t mind off brands.

    • John Campbell
      August 13, 2016, 12:00 am | # | Reply

      Plutonium, like other holding-the-world-for-ransom supplies, comes from Home Despot.

    • Kitirena
      September 10, 2016, 7:14 am | # | Reply

      Russian Mob will sell you the stuff happily. For real–several hundred pounds of weapons-grade uranium and plutonium have gone missing from former Soviet Union stockpiles, and the Russian authorities found links to organized crime involved in the disappearances.

      Let’s hear it for the Cold War, huh?

  3. Darwin
    August 12, 2016, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    He jokes, but in this crazy, mixed up world of mad scientists and monsters, I’m inclined to think they have a small craft section with nuclear supplies perceptible only to those either ‘cracked’ or contaminated by proximity to the ‘cracked’.

    • BMunro
      August 12, 2016, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      There’s probably some sort of monster or robot running the section and it only sells to those who can see what it actually is.

      • Darwin
        August 12, 2016, 12:24 pm | # | Reply

        Obviously you are correct. Otherwise, the universe I live in doesn’t make sense. I’m hoping for some kind of small-scale Godzilla with tentacles on its back instead of armored plates. For reaching the plutonium in high places.

    • Shadowmehr
      August 12, 2016, 8:43 pm | # | Reply

      Hey, somebody’s got to run the supply house. Giant death rays and guard robots need parts, parts cost money, and one of the basic rules of existence is that there will always be someone glad to take your money. The madtech monsters just work in the warehouse (they’re shielded from the radiation/extradimensional energies/nanotech/all of the above and have enough muscle to move the stuff around) while someone eerily like Cut Me Own Throat Dibbler is working the front office selling old Soviet lab equipment with a smile.

      Not that I know anybody like that. I never even met Yuri, why do you ask?

  4. Daniel Barkalow
    August 12, 2016, 12:42 am | # | Reply

    Don’t be silly, Chris. You’re supposed to make your plutonium. What you pick up at Tru-Value is americium, obviously.

    • davidbreslin101
      August 12, 2016, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      That’s a real chore now that you can’t get enriched uranium from Radio Shack. You have to buy half a ton of depleted uranium ammo from your friendly local gun shop, then put it through a two-stage enrichment process (spoofing the radiation signal with strontium 90 to get those pesky DHS rad-vans off your back). Takes /weeks/, and my cat glowed afterwards.

    • DanD
      October 28, 2019, 10:18 pm | # | Reply

      Which you actually can buy at your average hardware store. It just takes a lot of smoke detectors.

  5. williamrwinters
    August 12, 2016, 12:47 am | # | Reply

    Plutonium; no longer held only by Libyan terrorists

    • BMunro
      August 12, 2016, 3:37 am | # | Reply

      Well, if you miss the old-fashioned excitement of them trying to kill you when you use the plutonium for science! rather than bombs, you could always try obtaining it by stealing from mad scientists.

  6. Candace
    August 12, 2016, 1:20 am | # | Reply

    Chris, Chris…Don’t you know you have to order that from Amazon now? Tru-Value stopped carrying plutonium years ago.

  7. Kirsten Donaldson Wheal
    August 12, 2016, 4:17 am | # | Reply

    Chris’s tie has little Starfleet symbols…
    Watch out, Chris. Your surname isn’t Hemsworth, is it? You do resemble him somewhat.

    • fkberthold
      August 12, 2016, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      I was trying to decide if those were Starfleet insignias or banana peels, which of course would go with the monkey suit.

  8. 5-tons-of-flax
    August 12, 2016, 7:08 am | # | Reply

    Chris could just go back in time and steal the Demon Core. But he’d have to cut his hair to pass as a 40’s physicist.

    http://nerdist.com/tickling-the-dragons-tail-the-story-of-the-demon-core/

  9. Drachefly
    August 12, 2016, 7:15 am | # | Reply

    The page I just read: http://nerdist.com/tickling-the-dragons-tail-the-story-of-the-demon-core/

    • OneUniverse
      August 12, 2016, 3:14 pm | # | Reply

      Umm, you’d think that even then they’d have known better.

      • Pygar
        August 13, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

        Evidently, they *did*. Never underestimate the “Hey, y’all, watch this!” factor.

  10. Robert Nowall
    August 12, 2016, 7:45 am | # | Reply

    You’ll find it in the pesticides section…

    • TheLivingNick
      August 12, 2016, 8:16 am | # | Reply

      That’s right, expose the insects to severe radiation, that always ends well.

      • Robert Nowall
        August 12, 2016, 11:32 am | # | Reply

        Also it’s present in trace amounts in feminine hygiene products…

  11. Sheik
    August 12, 2016, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

    Chris, right across the desk from you is a person who could requisition all the plutonium you want from the NRC.
    She does paperwork!

    • Candace
      August 13, 2016, 2:38 am | # | Reply

      True, she only said Chris had to supply his own equipment. I would think plutonium would fall under supplies, rather than equipment. Sweetheart could probably requisition some plutonium for him. She could just include it in an order for office supplies. Probably no one would even notice.

  12. Smithnik
    August 13, 2016, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

    I agree with Candace, but it means that Chris would have to supply everything else, ranging from damping rod wrenches to control room waldos.
    It could be worse. There’s no telling where plutonium would be found in a hardware store. The Home Depot near me files bookshelf components in the flooring department, so…

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