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2016-03-28

by shaenon on March 28, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Can't Catch Me
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  1. Jay Eff
    March 28, 2016, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    New Jersey?
    And here I thought all Cobra deliveries went to Springfield…

    • Robert Nowall
      March 28, 2016, 7:22 am | # | Reply

      Cobras come from Ford Motors.

    • Kirt Dankmyer
      March 29, 2016, 10:33 am | # | Reply

      No, no, they COME from Springfield. Also: Yo, Joe!

  2. doubleW
    March 28, 2016, 12:51 am | # | Reply

    This is what sends Virginia into madness, isn’t it?

    • Freezer
      March 28, 2016, 2:41 am | # | Reply

      She’s already mad, she’s just far more functional than your standard mad scientist.

      • Daibhid C
        March 28, 2016, 4:18 am | # | Reply

        The whole point of Ginny as a character is that, by the Narbonicverse definition of mad scientist, she completely isn’t. She’s possibly in the situation Dave was in before he went mad, but more aware of it.

        • Robert Nowall
          March 28, 2016, 7:22 am | # | Reply

          She shows one of the symptoms. We can see her eyes through thick glasses.

          • Forz
            March 28, 2016, 10:55 am | #

            Well, Dave’s frosted-over glasses were meant to represent his blindness regarding himself, not necessarily the world. I mean, he saw the world exactly as it was (mad, terrible and full of EVIL), just didn’t realise that he himself was mad as well.

            Dr. Lee knows what she is, and she’s perfectly sane… well, by the standards of a Sane Genius versus a Mad one. Really, I think at this point, the only difference is less hallucinations and she can explain what she’s doing in English.

          • davidbreslin101
            March 28, 2016, 11:23 am | #

            Dr Lee does very occasionally have opaque Dave-style glasses, but this doesn’t follow consistent symbolism. I can recall one incident where it means “caught up in unethical scientific enthusiasm”, but another where it’s more “so unimpressed i cannot even”.

          • Adept Arcanist
            March 28, 2016, 12:53 pm | #

            I feel like Virginia is basically Dave if the madness plotline didn’t happen. I mean, not one-for-one of course, but a sane person who nevertheless has an affinity for mad science and tends to get caught up in doing things to the point where she forgets about the whole, y’know, evil stuff.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 28, 2016, 7:14 pm | #

            Somehow I’m comforted in not being the only one who noticed that particular detail in the artwork.

  3. Jabberwonky
    March 28, 2016, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know that I’d inflict New Jersey on those sweetie pies…

  4. BMunro
    March 28, 2016, 1:55 am | # | Reply

    Are the snakes meant to hang out with the Jersey Devil?

  5. Delta Echo
    March 28, 2016, 4:19 am | # | Reply

    She’s…she’s sending them to…

    HOBOKEN.

    • John Campbell
      March 28, 2016, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

      To handle the chicken emergency?

    • Frank
      March 28, 2016, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

      Hoboken?!
      Why not Hackensack?

    • Miyaa
      March 28, 2016, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

      Ooh, I’m dyin’!

    • John B
      March 29, 2016, 12:31 am | # | Reply

      Nooooo! Not Hoboken!

  6. GammarayCanon
    March 28, 2016, 6:07 am | # | Reply

    I’d send them to Ireland, to be honest.

  7. Fan of Most Everything
    March 28, 2016, 7:59 am | # | Reply

    Finally! Do you know how long it’s been since I put in that order?

  8. Robert Nowall
    March 28, 2016, 8:25 am | # | Reply

    I suppose taking these guys to the wilds of New Jersey would be like putting socks on a cobra…

  9. Robert Nowall
    March 28, 2016, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    Sending the cobras to New Jersey,
    We’ll need them for this scheme to turn out true.
    Sending the cobras to New Jersey,
    So Dr. Lee can get the hot towels, too…

    With extra socks and chains for tires ready,
    This still might make more sense on follow-through.
    Sending the cobras to New Jersey,
    Don’t question the Pain Goddess hereunto…

    The oldest of them has just turned thirteen,
    And wears a turtleneck to make the scene.
    We’re sending the cobras to New Jersey,
    Where else would Skin Horse want to send them to?

    —from “Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On,” Dean Martin.

  10. jbrecken
    March 28, 2016, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    And then the commander of the cobras appointed her their Baroness.

    • Shadowmehr
      March 28, 2016, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

      She’s got the glasses and the updo for it.

  11. Mental Mouse
    March 28, 2016, 9:22 am | # | Reply

    And goth!cobra starts a new fashion trend emanating out from New Jersey….

  12. chrisn
    March 28, 2016, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

    “The Pain Goddess.” Good for either a new band name or for a porn star name.

  13. Robert Nowall
    March 28, 2016, 5:10 pm | # | Reply

    “Ramshambler?” Didn’t Moustachio ever give Hitty his right name?

    • Pygar
      March 28, 2016, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

      Presumably a PET name- I think Hitty may be running on one…
      (obscure computer reference)

  14. Shadowmehr
    March 28, 2016, 7:21 pm | # | Reply

    Once again, Dr. Lee realizes why her motto on the job is “don’t ask why, just figure out how”. Trying to find a rational reason to put cobras in New Jersey would give a non-mad a headache, with her it might be the start of something a bit . . . , bigger. (More Dave-like) (Also probably bigger cobras)

  15. Alibat
    March 28, 2016, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

    Well if these guys are coming to visit us I guess we should put on some tea.

  16. theysabet
    March 29, 2016, 3:39 am | # | Reply

    Bubbles’ comment of “Service?” so clearly meant “WTF?” that I actually read it that way in my head.

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