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2016-03-29

by shaenon on March 29, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Can't Catch Me
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  1. Alphaghoul
    March 29, 2016, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    Which robot is Alfie? And What happened to Mustaschio’s body again?

    • Ron
      March 29, 2016, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Alfie is one of the cobras. he’s going thru a teen-age goth-type phase.

      • Robert Nowall
        March 29, 2016, 8:08 am | # | Reply

        The one that said “It’s true!”

    • DanD
      March 29, 2016, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      Alfie’s the nihilistic teenage cobra.

      • Guesticus
        March 29, 2016, 9:30 am | # | Reply

        Thought he was the Emo Teenage Cobra

        • Shadowmehr
          March 29, 2016, 7:23 pm | # | Reply

          Emo Nihilistic Teenage Cobras! Heroes that are huggable! Cobra power!

          Nah, not catchy enough. It’ll never make a Saturday Morning Cartoon.

    • Pygar
      March 29, 2016, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      His own body is, as ever, bolted down behind the receptionist desk. Hitty subs for it.

    • bergerjacques
      March 29, 2016, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Moustachio joined his head with Hitty’s … well, I was going to say body, but actually, it’s Hitty’s head, isn’t it. But together they made a formidable team in Ana-Sigma’s(?) robot gladiatorial arena. Since returning to Skin Horse, if Moustachio is on field assignment, he and Hitty make for their own very effective wrecking crew. Actually, Moustachio on his own is rather formidable in his perseverance … Hitty tends to speed the wanton destruction up a few notches.

  2. ngmatt
    March 29, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    tip knows where the REAL problem lies, he did after all road trip with unity.

  3. Efogoto
    March 29, 2016, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    But this whole trip is a Rocky Road!

    • oneuniverse2
      March 29, 2016, 5:20 am | # | Reply

      I would bet she’d eat Cherry Garcia if they played enough Grateful Dead tunes.

  4. D. Walker
    March 29, 2016, 2:09 am | # | Reply

    Alfie is only correct for certain definitions of “flesh”.

    Although by that logic, I suppose the same could be said about certain definitions of “perish”. Perish, Periss, Perir, Perire… ultimately a combination of Per (through, completely) and Ire (go), and meaning to pass away entirely.

    It could be argued that nothing ever truly passes away entirely – our constituent matter may be rearranged but it does still remain, and even if “destroyed” said matter actually merely transitions into energy.

    • Nyerguds
      March 29, 2016, 6:15 am | # | Reply

      Sure, but by that time it can no longer be called “flesh”, so the “flesh” certainly does perish.

      Moral of the story: always check the due date.

      • Guesticus
        March 29, 2016, 9:31 am | # | Reply

        Don’t forget the “Best Before” date, sometimes that comes long before the “Due” date

    • Robert Nowall
      March 29, 2016, 8:15 am | # | Reply

      “If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath; All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.” Job 34:14-15. (King James version)

    • Ken
      March 29, 2016, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      It’s too bad Alfie didn’t say that earlier. If he had, Dr. Lee might have whipped up an immortality serum to put in the coffee.

  5. Delta Echo
    March 29, 2016, 2:53 am | # | Reply

    So the question now becomes…

    Is it only because of distance-and-angle that Dr. Lee does NOT have clear glasses in the last panel?

    (dun Dun DUN!)

    • Rex Vivat
      March 29, 2016, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      From Narbonic’s Director’s Cut: “And no, no other characters’ glasses follow this rule. [Spoiler] is the only one with meaningful glasses.”

  6. Isikyus
    March 29, 2016, 7:06 am | # | Reply

    I like how Bubbles is ignoring them all and just enjoying the wind on her face.
    She knows how to appreciate a road trip!

  7. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2016, 8:09 am | # | Reply

    Now the question is: where’s the Robo-Bathroom at the Skin Horse offices? Remember the argument with H. T. over their lack of diversity bathrooms?

    • Robert Nowall
      March 29, 2016, 8:40 am | # | Reply

      I wonder if Bubbles makes use of the Robo-Bathroom? Since she’s the water cooler in her other incarnation, I often shudder, er, wonder about how and in what manner she provides water to the staff while she’s in the drone…

      • Guesticus
        March 29, 2016, 9:37 am | # | Reply

        When in her drone form, she uses the tap, like everyone else 😛

        • Robert Nowall
          March 29, 2016, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

          Ew. Gross.

          • Guesticus
            March 30, 2016, 6:25 pm | #

            Not her tap, sicko 😛

  8. SVGeezer
    March 29, 2016, 8:10 am | # | Reply

    Sooooooo,

    When “Skin Horse” runs it’s course, will it be replaced with “Support Staff””

    Inquiring minds want to know! (Now THERE’s an oldie..)

  9. Robert Nowall
    March 29, 2016, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles must’ve taken a demotion to come back to Skin Horse—after all, she was in charge of her last government office.

    • Guesticus
      March 29, 2016, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      Doubt she would call it a ‘demotion’ if it meant being able to see Unity again 😀

    • Candace
      March 30, 2016, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      I gather Bubbles didn’t much like being in charge. She seemed relieved to be able to let it go.

  10. Kether
    March 29, 2016, 11:09 am | # | Reply

    So… we have “Civil Service is Decadent and Depraved” now?

    • Robert Nowall
      March 29, 2016, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

      That implies it never was before.

  11. Sheik
    March 29, 2016, 1:17 pm | # | Reply

    Are we there yet?!

  12. Saberbeam
    March 29, 2016, 3:36 pm | # | Reply

    On one hand, the cops aren’t after her this time. At least, not yet… On the other hand, how is she going to get so many cobras across state lines. Unless New Jersey doesn’t check for invasive (and cuddly) species?

    • MisterTeatime
      March 30, 2016, 10:23 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure stopping vehicles for inspection is a routine possibility at international borders, but I’ve never been stopped at an interstate border for literally anything (and I’ve been to New Jersey at least once). So no, they don’t check for invasive species, invasive armies, illegal fireworks, illegal clockworks, illegal waxworks…

      • Robert Nowall
        March 31, 2016, 12:45 pm | # | Reply

        They do stop to check for Pennsylvanians carrying [legal] firearms; there’s been multiple media reports of them ruining people’s lives by giving them criminal records.

        I’ve seen the agriculture station people chase down cars and trucks at the Florida border; the truck weigh stations come and go, but the agricultural inspectors mean business.

  13. BMunro
    March 29, 2016, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    And as a government worker, Hitty has to follow EPA rules which prevent her from going in the bushes.

  14. Shadowmehr
    March 29, 2016, 7:27 pm | # | Reply

    Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t any sort of black-ops agency supposed to be covert? A dump truck full of giant robots and talking cobras aren’t exactly unnoticeable.

    Okay, maybe in New York, but not anywhere else.

    • Rober The Addled
      March 29, 2016, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

      you are forgetting the reality blindness.

      NOBODY sees the anomalous truck of robots and snakes.

      Except the slightly mad.

      • Alibat
        March 29, 2016, 9:07 pm | # | Reply

        Which means pretty much everybody in New Jersey is going to see them.

        • oneuniverse2
          March 29, 2016, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

          Is that a good reason to haul the snakes to New Jersey? Aren’t safe-houses supposed to be discrete?

          • Mental Mouse
            March 31, 2016, 8:40 am | #

            Well, they might or might not be separate from their surroundings (“discrete”), but they’re certainly supposed to be inconspicious and avoid attracting notice (“discreet”). This has been your vocabulary lesson for the day.

            Also: Robo-bathroom? Ignoring the obvious question, where are they going to find one outside of black ops installations?

            And returning to the question: What do they do there? I’m reminded of a bit I saw in Funny Times: “My toddler came to me and said ‘I used the bathroom!’ I asked ‘what number did you do?’, and he said ‘7’. Now I’m terrified of going into that bathroom.”

      • WJS
        July 29, 2019, 10:16 pm | # | Reply

        OK, so the reality-blind won’t see them. What about the other 80% of the population?

  15. MisterTeatime
    March 30, 2016, 10:24 am | # | Reply

    Has anyone else stopped to wonder what even goes on in a robo-bathroom? My best guess so far is “oil changes”…

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