Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
  • About Us
  • Cast
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Sponsors
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2020-01-06
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(31) Next › Last ››

2020-01-06

by shaenon on January 6, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
Comments RSS

Discussion (31) ¬

  1. Robert Nowall
    January 6, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    Collective or not, just one paw?

    • awgiedawgie
      January 6, 2020, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      Oh, come now… you know he’s just paraphrasing the term “forced our hand”.

      • Daibhid C
        January 6, 2020, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

        First thought: But that expression doesn’t refer to your actual hands, but a metaphorical hand of cards. (Presumably the same cards you either hold close to your chest or lay on the table. And definitely the ones you have to play because they’re the ones you were dealt.)

        Second thought: But a hand of cards is so-called because you hold them in your hand. HT would hold them in his paw, so the metaphor checks out.

        I pedant my own pedantry.

        • jdreyfuss
          February 5, 2020, 5:19 pm | # | Reply

          No it doesn’t. It means that one was forced to act, as in to use one’s hand.

  2. Alphaghoul
    January 6, 2020, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Wait, Skinhorse interfered in Vermot elections? I’m assuming he’s blamming them for the reality blindness for when he was in human politics.

    • BMunro
      January 6, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      Didn’t Tip give a speech in the Perfect Suit to sway the government vote over to the pro- nonhuman rights side?

  3. sweetuncleLESLIE
    January 6, 2020, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    He’s blind to the reality….I have a friend who supports Orange Maggotry.
    I FEAR for him if/when our side actually wins, tries his ideal, and finds him guilty.

    That will BREAK that friend.Other than fearing for my old Bud, hang ALL of the rest of them.

    • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
      January 6, 2020, 6:21 am | # | Reply

      That’s nice. Have a bagel and some tea. Tea helps.

    • Candace
      January 7, 2020, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Many people who support the Orange Maggotry have friends and family who do not. I think most of these folks’ friends and family would not support hanging those they care about, even when they do not agree.

      • Cheeto Lover
        January 10, 2020, 11:57 pm | # | Reply

        I am always appalled that 1) people assume that everyone in any part of the internet is on the same side politically, and 2) that people casually contemplate genocide against their political opponents. To be a bit cliche, this is how we got the orange man.

        • Pygar
          January 11, 2020, 12:07 am | # | Reply

          We had a choice… Boss Hogg or Cruella DeVille. We chose wisely, and unless someone better shows up, we’re keeping Boss.

          • shaenon
            January 11, 2020, 12:55 am | #

            We didn’t, I hope we’re not, and I’m sure everyone can find better places for this conversation than a webcomic comments section.

          • Jon
            April 6, 2020, 6:10 am | #

            For the record, “Cruella” wouldn’t have been dumb enough to fire the pandemics team.

          • Pygar
            April 6, 2020, 2:05 pm | #

            You mean the re-org?

  4. Pygar
    January 6, 2020, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Bagels can get even staler?

    • casimir
      January 6, 2020, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Oh man you do not know from stale til you’ve had a stale bagel!

    • Historian
      January 6, 2020, 3:29 am | # | Reply

      Those of us who have know the joy of a fresh baked bagel, know your pain…

      But you too could show up at 5 am at Western Bagel’s factory store in Van Nuys and buy they straight off the cooling racks like a civilized human being.

      • DonRCamp
        January 6, 2020, 11:42 am | # | Reply

        Oh HELL yes! I **love** a fresh Western Bagel cheese bagel!

    • D. Walker
      January 6, 2020, 8:10 am | # | Reply

      It sounds like you’ve never had a proper bagel, it you think of bagels as already being somewhat stale ordinarily.

      • Pygar
        January 11, 2020, 12:10 am | # | Reply

        Without exception, they’ve all been like failed doughnuts, stuffed with heavy, unpleasant dough like you might expect in a really bad soft pretzel.

  5. David B Huber
    January 6, 2020, 1:31 am | # | Reply

    Though doubtless unintentional, I can see where H.T., at a homeless nadir, would shed a tear for the kindness. Then feel abused, betrayed and insulted by the shattering reality of barren bagels!

    I mean, imagine how Unity would react to an empty sandwich…

  6. ducksandwaddle
    January 6, 2020, 9:10 am | # | Reply

    I am going to ship HT and Tip for the rest of this comic.

    Come on now, HT. Tell him he’s a very good boy. ;D

  7. Guesticus
    January 6, 2020, 10:28 am | # | Reply

    “They weren’t stale when we brought them to you!”

  8. Christian Rose
    January 6, 2020, 11:47 am | # | Reply

    I’m disappointed. I liked H.T. as a villian, and now we begin his end… as inglorious fertilizer.

  9. matt w
    January 6, 2020, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

    Getting some “Green Thoughts” by John Collier vibes here.

  10. Robert Nowall
    January 6, 2020, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    From that time with Leo’s comics,
    Through Alaska snow we thought about
    You, Skin-Horse.
    Right now, straight away,
    ‘Cause we know some way, you’ll stop us.
    You, Skin-Horse.
    And who makes us feel like
    When our evil plans fall through?

    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you.
    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you.

    They say victory’s sweet,
    But we just can’t defeat
    You, Skin-Horse.
    You stop everything we want
    And we’re down on our knees, what
    You do, Skin-Horse.
    And who perceives all my wildest dreams?
    And my craziest schemes won’t come true.

    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you.
    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you.

    A little swamp of cypress
    Subsuming all our souls.
    And with a touch of ego,
    We’re now the greatest thing you’ll ever know.

    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you.
    You, Skin-Horse, no one but you, Skin-Horse, nobody but you…

    —from “You Baby,” composer uncertain (Wikipedia says one thing, AZ Lyrics says another), but sung by the Turtles.

  11. Shadowmehr
    January 6, 2020, 9:02 pm | # | Reply

    Oddly, it seems that H.T. and Mr. Green have more in common than they think – they both want to blame their problems on someone else. Sadly, Tip finds himself in the crossfire.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 6, 2020, 9:17 pm | # | Reply

      They’re also both extremists. H.T. would be all too happy to eliminate all humans (preferably as hors d’oeuvres), and Mr. Green wants to eliminate all non-humans.

      • Robert Nowall
        January 6, 2020, 11:31 pm | # | Reply

        If H. T. eliminated all humans, what would he have for dinner?

        • casimir
          January 6, 2020, 11:39 pm | # | Reply

          …very stale bagels.

          • Candace
            January 7, 2020, 1:09 am | #

            Applause!^

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More by Jeff

  • The Scrivnarium

More by Shaenon

  • Horror Every Day
  • Li'l Mell
  • Monster of the Week
  • Narbonic
  • Shaenon.com
Creative Commons License
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.skin-horse.com.

©2007-2022 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑