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2019-11-14

by shaenon on November 14, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Robert Nowall
    November 14, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps he wanted them to itch more than the others.

  2. palenoue
    November 14, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    The plot thickens into a paste that’s used to mount drywall inside aluminum houses.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      If it gets much thicker around here, we can use it to repair concrete.

  3. harryvoyager
    November 14, 2019, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    It is striking that all three of them have “You are not you” written on their sweaters.

    • dexitroboper
      November 14, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      u r not u – u r a free man

      • s854
        November 14, 2019, 12:48 pm | # | Reply

        Or maybe “U R NOT U” means “You are non-U.” The distinctive sweaters are just “Sweater Guy”‘s way of saying “cease your bogue dialect choices”.

        • awgiedawgie
          November 14, 2019, 1:28 pm | # | Reply

          Or it’s an anagram of the word “outrun”.

          • Andy4Hire
            November 14, 2019, 8:13 pm | #

            Or a little-known university?

          • awgiedawgie
            November 14, 2019, 8:30 pm | #

            Upton-Rolleston Nottingham University?

          • Shadowmehr
            November 14, 2019, 9:47 pm | #

            I understand they have a great arts program. He could have learned knitting there.

          • David B Huber
            November 15, 2019, 1:03 am | #

            ^ this!

  4. K. Iceclaw
    November 14, 2019, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    Perhaps they are compromised and the knitting ninja senses this?

  5. CCC
    November 14, 2019, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    I’ve found the necessary point in common!

    Every victim of the Knitting Ninja combines *hair* with *beards*. Everyone else has either hair or a beard, not both.

    • Jim Phillips
      November 14, 2019, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      Small number statistics – we need a LOT more victims before we can say anything about his profile (admittedly, that’s an unfortunate turn of phrase, but Science has no mercy).

  6. Palle
    November 14, 2019, 2:49 am | # | Reply

    Maybe fashion sense is like coffee and alcohol? People tell me they just take some getting used to, but to this day, I am still repulsed!

  7. sweetuncleLESLIE
    November 14, 2019, 5:30 am | # | Reply

    The ‘pros’ have mentioned a certain slowness and stickiness. Could it be that this section comes from the fertile hand and eye of the visual artist, while the ‘movement thinker’ is off on hiatus…? Is somebody mad at somebody? Is this going anywhere?

  8. pasttense
    November 14, 2019, 7:20 am | # | Reply

    Isn’t that Dr. Phillips in the second panel?

    • Robert Nowall
      November 14, 2019, 8:29 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, but Lt. Eris seems to be talking to Peirson in Panel One.

  9. Christian Rose
    November 14, 2019, 7:23 am | # | Reply

    Beards!
    (Actually, I think that might be it…)

  10. Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
    November 14, 2019, 7:42 am | # | Reply

    Not that i am encouraging debauchery, but Tip needs to show us what is worn under that pink robe.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2019, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      No… no, he doesn’t. The possibilities make the mind reel. And not in a particularly good way.

    • Mike (not from Canmore)
      December 18, 2020, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      From what I can infer about Tip, I’m quite confident that all of the concealed parts are in tip-top (so to speak) condition, and not worn, abraded, or otherwise impaired in the slightest…

  11. Jim Phillips
    November 14, 2019, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    It took me years to develop this look, thankyouverymuch.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2019, 8:33 am | # | Reply

      Hey, you just keep trying things, and eventually something will just click.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 14, 2019, 9:16 am | # | Reply

      Most people pick the look they like in high school, and stick with it.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 14, 2019, 9:52 am | # | Reply

        Whereas others realize that the look they had in high school was atrocious, and hastily discard it.

      • Nomi
        November 14, 2019, 4:59 pm | # | Reply

        Oh that is SO not true. Most people I know have cycled through many, many stages and many looks, on into their 60s.

  12. Sam
    November 14, 2019, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    Frighteningly personal here. I got chided for not participating in “casual Friday” so one day showed up in my kilt with a Hawaiian shirt. Are we implying that I was fashion challenged? Harsh.

  13. OneUniverse
    November 14, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

    Would it be a challenge to knit for Gavotte?

    • awgiedawgie
      November 14, 2019, 12:40 pm | # | Reply

      Could be… you’d have to use thread instead of yarn, and basting needles instead of knitting needles. But I suspect the biggest challenge would be dexterity.

    • Barbara K
      November 14, 2019, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

      I think that a nice bell-shaped bee skep to house the whole swarm could be knit of flax, hemp, or some other plant-based (bast) fiber.. To give it enough body to be free-standing, first circular-knit a very long coil with a 10-stitch circumference, then join it in a circle to make a basket-like structure. Slogans on the side are optional, as are matching tea cozies for tea-with-honey parties.

  14. D. Walker
    November 14, 2019, 5:40 pm | # | Reply

    So do we think the sweaters are telling the people WEARING them that they are fake, or telling the people READING them that are fake?

    I want to assume that anyone wearing a sweater is genuine, because the message isn’t visible to the wearer, and presumably is meant for other people.

    But it could also be that the sweater ninja, in his crazed mindstate, isn’t trying to warn people, but rather is merely chasizing them by sending them the message that they are fake, despite the message not really being visible to the sweater’s wearer.

  15. Shadowmehr
    November 14, 2019, 9:50 pm | # | Reply

    This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Or the reason for a double homicide, it could go either way.

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