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2019-08-27

by shaenon on August 27, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Myles Adams
    August 27, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    BRB, putting Immigrant song on the speakers.,

    • Moe Lane
      August 27, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Nah, when the Levee Breaks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv5J2tJat3M That’s a reaction video, by the way, and anyone who hasn’t seen this yet is in for a treat.

      • Historian
        August 27, 2019, 1:15 am | # | Reply

        Nonsense. The proper music for a fight like this is Drowning Pool- “Let The Bodies Hit The Floor”

        • Shadowmehr
          August 27, 2019, 8:48 pm | # | Reply

          No, that’s for the zombie apocalypse. Flight of the Valkyries is more traditional when going against another army, but modernists claim that Led Zeppelin has its appeal.

          • M. Alan Thomas II
            August 27, 2019, 9:50 pm | #

            If you’re going for Wagner, I’d suggest Wotan’s wrath, which uses the familiar Valkyrie theme but in the context of a mad father-of-Valkyries / war-god figure, making the relationship more interesting for this scene.

          • warpzone32
            August 28, 2019, 9:26 am | #

            Just playing devil’s advocate, here, but what if he *tried* to queue up one of those songs? But thanks to auto-shuffle, what came out the speakers was world 1-1 from Super Mario Land. And we only realize his mistake once the gatling guns start shredding bad guys.

    • John Campbell
      August 27, 2019, 5:27 am | # | Reply

      Oh, mama, well I think it’s time I’m leavin’
      Nothin’ here to make me stay
      Whoa, mama, well it must be time I’m goin’
      They’re knockin’ down them doors
      They’re tryin’ to take me away

      Please, Mr. Brakeman, won’t you ring your bell?
      And ring it loud and clear, oonh
      Please, Mr. Fireman, won’t you ring your bell?
      Tell the people they got to fly away from here

    • Sora Hjort (@SoraHjort)
      August 27, 2019, 5:46 am | # | Reply

      I got your Led Zeppelin fix right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzdYqBf8Mc

    • Ysabet
      August 27, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

      IMMIGRANT SONG FTW! (It is, however, a fact of life that *everybody* has their own personal Led Zeppelin song. I mean, seriously; it’s their only, their one and only, and it’s a way to start.)

      • St. Clair
        August 27, 2019, 10:53 am | # | Reply

        … yes, and most people’s is Immigrant Song.

        • Candace
          August 28, 2019, 1:17 am | # | Reply

          Personally, my favorite from way back has been “Living Loving Maid”. I love Page’s guitar riff on that one. I also really like “Ramble On”, “Whole Lotta Love”, and “Thank You.” Well, let’s be honest here, most of my favorite Zep songs are on II. That being said, they had a lot of really great songs, so it’s kind of hard to choose.

          “When the Levee Breaks” does seem kind of fitting for this particular moment in the comic, though.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 27, 2019, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      Possibly more fitting for Nick would be “The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair”.

      Yeah, I know Virginia’s hair has recently been chopped, but it’s still kind of long-ish.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2020, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      “Immigrant Song” is pretty much exactly right for that situation. And it’s not even my favorite Led Zeppelin song either. “The Ocean” is.

  2. ngmatt
    August 27, 2019, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    clearly they are the bargain brand version if this is all it takes to trigger their wierdness o meter

    • dornbeast
      August 27, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

      I think that isn’t their weirdness meter triggering.

      I think that’s their armament meter jumping from “tactical advantage” to “totally outgunned.”

  3. Alphaghoul
    August 27, 2019, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    Yeah that scientist with the purple highlight is pretty much dead by this point, come to think of it, maybe she was smart enough to get Trinity to help her, probably wouldn’t work though. I wonder if they’ll confirm it.

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 27, 2019, 3:42 am | # | Reply

      Mind you, I’m hoping against hope that she somehow survives if only because she was cute. ^_~

      • David B Huber
        August 27, 2019, 5:16 am | # | Reply

        Not a chance. Too much blood spray in the panel where Unity landed on her head.

        • evilmidnightlurker
          August 28, 2019, 4:03 am | # | Reply

          I think that was a dramatic effect, not blood at all. There’s no bleeding in the next panel.

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      August 27, 2019, 12:08 pm | # | Reply

      I’m thinking Unity’s head has grafted herself onto Violet Lee’s shoulder, Two-Headed Transplant style.

      • Shadowmehr
        August 27, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

        Why would she keep Alt!Lee’s head for anything other than snacks?

  4. palenoue
    August 27, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    With his luck it will turn out to be the My Little Ponies theme song.

    • Justin T. Williams
      August 27, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

      I actually think I’d be more terrified to hear that than Lead Zeppelin. Just the incongruity of it coming from an attack helicopter would set my nerves on edge.

      • Kaymyth
        August 27, 2019, 1:34 am | # | Reply

        Improved destruction through the magic of friendship!

        • BRGR
          August 27, 2019, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

          Nightmare Moon did nothing wrong!

      • DukeW
        November 13, 2019, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

        There are, in the pony fandom, things far more awe-inspiring than the original theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sW8KrZF5s : – )

    • OneUniverse
      August 27, 2019, 12:59 am | # | Reply

      But I love the smell of napalm in the morning…

      • jrwences
        August 27, 2019, 1:33 am | # | Reply

        When you want everyone to understand that the shit just got real, it is hard to beat The Ride of the Valkyries.

      • Kaymyth
        August 27, 2019, 1:35 am | # | Reply

        The Invader Zim theme might work well here, too. Get the blood pumping and the quasi-mad scientist cackling.

        • Altarboy
          August 27, 2019, 1:49 am | # | Reply

          Forget about the main theme, I’m gonna sing the doom song!

          • Guerilla Grue
            August 27, 2019, 3:04 am | #

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2HokZaeg5k

            You’re welcome.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 27, 2019, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Could be the Whimsy World theme song. It’s probably still on a hard drive in there somewhere.

    • Myles Adams
      August 27, 2019, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      I prefer Gummi Bears.

      http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_155.php

    • Manifesta
      August 27, 2019, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      Here ya go, palenoue

      My helicopter
      I used to wonder, could I make it fly
      My helicopter
      ‘Til love and fear made me give it a try
      I was one and now I’m two
      An awesome chopper—a body, too
      To the rescue I will come
      And then I’m gonna get me some
      Because my helicopter
      Ginny knows it is my very best friend

  5. BMunro
    August 27, 2019, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    “Don’t come quietly, we’ll try to keep you alive so you can die in some elaborately contrived manner later.”

    • Towering Barbarian
      August 27, 2019, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Heh. Yeah, I was wondering what the incentive was here. ^_~!

      • awgiedawgie
        August 27, 2019, 1:05 am | # | Reply

        Pretty sure it’s just what they’re trained to say. Most A-Sig employees weren’t hired for their thinking ability. They’re hired to protect the ones who were hired for their thinking ability… usually as an expendable buffer.

        The general idea is that their average enemy won’t catch the subtle “and” instead of “or”. But these aren’t their average enemies.

      • BRGR
        August 27, 2019, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

        It involves walnuts.

  6. Candace
    August 27, 2019, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Yup, this is what I figured. It appears to be the fear of impending death that motivates Nick’s wifi to activate. (Last time, it was specifically the fear of Virginia’s impending death.)

  7. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    August 27, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

    Playing ‘Tiny Tim’

  8. thedoctor55
    August 27, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    Welp! That got his rooters churning!

  9. wykstrad
    August 27, 2019, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    Come on, Virginia, everyone knows you have to put on Ride of the Valkyries when you have helicopters incoming.

    • David B Huber
      August 27, 2019, 5:20 am | # | Reply

      You’re right, but Nick should do whatever pleases her. I love the expression of thrilled delight on Virginia’s face in the last panel!

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        August 27, 2019, 7:26 am | # | Reply

        The driver chooses the music. This rule exists for sound safety reasons and also to compensate for the expense of wear to the vehicle. Imagine you’re on a road trip and your SO expects to control the radio. “Overall that sounds nice…” no, it doesn’t, your negotiating skills are terrible. You need to maintain focus on the key issue of that nightmare scenario, which is who controls the radio. As I was saying, everybody knows the driver chooses the music occasionally and when necessary to concentrate.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 27, 2019, 9:18 am | # | Reply

          No, you’re right. The driver absolutely chooses the music. Of course, if he’s smart, he’ll choose the music she asks for. That way everybody’s happy… She gets what she wants, and he still gets to feel like he’s in control.

    • Midwestmutt
      August 27, 2019, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

      Or The End by the Doors.

  10. David B Huber
    August 27, 2019, 3:49 am | # | Reply

    The proper response here is of course to shoot Nick.

    But all I can say is “Yes!” 🙂

  11. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 27, 2019, 5:37 am | # | Reply

    Aha, the fatal flaw of all you megalomaniacs — the grandiosity and self absorption that drives your nefarious schemes also leaves you incapable of foregoing a speech at the least opportune moment. Where you’re going, miscreants, you won’t even be able to hear yourself monologuing, because everyone else in the prison will be doing it at the same time. I hope that gives you time to reflect on the error of your…
    Crap, where did everybody go?

  12. Dave
    August 27, 2019, 9:44 am | # | Reply

    I’m a bit stodgily traditional, I prefer Flight of the Valkyries for my epic aircraft swoops.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 27, 2019, 11:29 am | # | Reply

      That oughta go over like a lead zeppelin.

  13. Ken
    August 27, 2019, 9:48 am | # | Reply

    Nick is an Osprey, not a Zeppelin, and I think he should just be himself. 😛

  14. Xerxes Aragon
    August 27, 2019, 10:56 am | # | Reply

    The Teddy Bear’s Picnic

  15. Gwen Delaine Smith
    August 27, 2019, 11:24 am | # | Reply

    Panel 3 should be made into a poster. <3

    • Rimwolf
      August 27, 2019, 4:57 pm | # | Reply

      I like the way the drawing of the speech bubble(s) suggests that his consciousness is suddenly in two places at once.

      • David B Huber
        August 28, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

        Very perceptive! I didn’t notice that until you pointed it out…

  16. Robert Nowall
    August 27, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

    He’s in. And he’s flying the helicopter, too.

  17. Thomas
    August 27, 2019, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

    I would think, black sabbath´s “paranoid”, is more fitting

  18. Pharmakeus Ubik
    August 27, 2019, 2:18 pm | # | Reply

    Virginia’s admonition is vague enough to allow him to play Moby Dick by Dread Zeppelin. “I saw the opening maw of Hell, with endless pains and sorrows there…”

  19. greenknight32
    August 27, 2019, 2:38 pm | # | Reply

    She should have been more specific. Stairway to Heaven would be a bit too mellow. They don’t want The Battle of Evermore, they want to defeat AnaSigma quickly. Rock and Roll, maybe? But what I think she really wants is Whole Lotta Love.

  20. Barbara K
    August 27, 2019, 3:28 pm | # | Reply

    There’s a lady who’s bought
    Me the body I sought
    Yes, she bought me a stairway to heaven.
    When we want to, we’ll go
    Though the gates are all closed,
    We can fly, cause she got what she came for.
    Oh oh oh oh, she bought be a stairway…with walnuts.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 27, 2019, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

      Is it a stairway with walnuts, or did she buy it with walnuts?

      • Barbara K
        August 27, 2019, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

        Possibly both. Depends whether they dismantled the snack bar.

        • awgiedawgie
          August 27, 2019, 6:14 pm | # | Reply

          They took out the snack bar. Don’t know what they did with it.

          I should clarify: Did she pay for it using walnuts? And were they real or virtual?

          • Barbara K
            August 27, 2019, 6:39 pm | #

            Virtual walnuts…earned by time in the Loyalty Pits and gathered during extirpation…(some people might consider it a form of Karmic Balance, with the virtual virtue working towards undoing Ginny’s misdeeds towards Nick.)
            I suspect that virtual walnuts are the basis of Anasigma’s economy, and they fund themselves by manipulating its market value.
            You know, “Nut Coin”…

          • awgiedawgie
            August 27, 2019, 7:19 pm | #

            Well, y’know… nuts for the nuts.

          • Barbara K
            August 27, 2019, 7:51 pm | #

            …Also, I’m not 100% sure they really removed the Osprey’s snack bar. Wouldn’t be the first time employees told an audit/inspection team from headquarters that they had done more work than was actually completed. Trying to bribe the team with all that cake (and goinking) looks suspicious to me. Maybe they just removed the napkins, coffee filters and fossilized mustard packages…

  21. cbob
    August 27, 2019, 6:30 pm | # | Reply

    Something like? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88b0OYxdtyM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqae3P7Dg

  22. Forrest M Davis
    April 25, 2020, 4:38 pm | # | Reply

    I always thought the Nazareth song with the “Now you’re messing with a son of a bitch” chorus was a kick-ass battle song. Titled “Hair of the dog”, I think?

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