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2014-05-03

by shaenon on May 3, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Jay Eff
    May 3, 2014, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    *looks atop Moustachio’s noggin*

    Funny, that hat doesn’t LOOK like a fedora….

    • christineincanada
      May 3, 2014, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      No kidding. Moustachio, I am so disappointed in you. I thought you were a true gentleman, but you’re just another chauvinist relic.

      • Zap Rowsdower
        May 3, 2014, 1:03 am | # | Reply

        Protip: When the only reason it’s not in a historical museum is that it’s technically sapient, it’s surprising when it DOESN’T have some antiquated social mores.

        • Anderson
          May 3, 2014, 1:32 am | # | Reply

          I think “Has destroyed the Great Exhibition” and “Nearly nuked D.C” also count as reasons not to put him in a museum.

          …children might climb on him, and they’d hate to see him get dented.

    • Hg
      May 3, 2014, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I don’t get it. What’s the relationship between fedoras and misogyny?

      • Amstrad
        May 3, 2014, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        Fedoras have quickly become a sign of the ‘internet goodguy’ who is quick to share his misogynistic opinions on why women won’t date him. Other signs include neckbeards and saying “m’lady”.

        • jdreyfuss
          May 3, 2014, 6:54 am | # | Reply

          I’ve never heard that one before. I assumed Jay was comparing M to Don Draper or something.

          I wear one, because it’s sunny here in San Antonio and I feel uncomfortable being a Yankee wearing a cowboy hat.

          • Kirala
            May 3, 2014, 6:55 pm | #

            Then I hope you’ll help restore the fedora to its rightful status as reminiscent of Indiana Jones and Rick Blaine, Awesome Cynical Mavericks. I’m quite peeved about the stigma attached to one of my fave fashion items. (Even more peeved about the fact that it is, at the least, not wholly undeserved.) (And the fact that neither Awesome Cynical Maverick is close to a shining jewel of feminism, but I choose not to notice that.)

        • sbrodbeck
          May 3, 2014, 10:08 am | # | Reply

          Also, fedoras are associated with pick up artists because they often wear them while “peacocking” to appear more attractive/confident/alpha.

          • SYABM
            May 3, 2014, 4:59 pm | #

            They’re also (incorrectly) associated with Men’s Rights Activists, because why not attach another negative male stereotype to them?

            Also, fedoras are associated with hipsters.

            http://dysfunctionalparrot.com/rants/fedoras-hipsters/

            If a PUA wore it, it would make them seem, well, like a hipster. They wouldn’t wear them because, um, they’re too mainstream . I watched a few episodes of the Pickup Artist on VH1, and I don’t recall any fedoras. I’m going to disbelieve it just like I disbelieve that it’s the hat of misogynist neckbeards or MRAs.

        • merleblue
          May 7, 2014, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

          I cannot stand that association and will never, ever support it.

          Fedoras are stylish, damn it…when you wear them right, anyway…

    • mechageist
      May 4, 2014, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

      Fedora… Or trilby? (i kid, i kid.)

  2. =Tamar
    May 3, 2014, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Tip is plenty virile. Just ask around.

  3. Anderson
    May 3, 2014, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Please let M’ say “yes”.

  4. John Campbell
    May 3, 2014, 3:28 am | # | Reply

    Tip is out of nail polish? This is possible?

    • dornbeast
      May 3, 2014, 4:16 am | # | Reply

      You really don’t want to know what condition his nylons were in after the whole sewer thing.

    • makomk
      May 3, 2014, 4:16 am | # | Reply

      He’s probably just run out of nail polish that goes with his current outfit. You know what Tip’s like.

      • maarvarq
        May 3, 2014, 6:57 am | # | Reply

        He’s probably just run out of nail polish that goes with his current outfit.
        … and he thinks that Chris or Mustachio are likely sources for the right shade? That’s optimism at work.

        • Paul
          May 3, 2014, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

          He did sort of make Chris his apprentice, if only long enough for the guy to get the bare basics down and hook up with Marcie.

  5. robertnowall
    May 3, 2014, 5:44 am | # | Reply

    But what did happen to the files? Miss Bubbles carried them off…and this is still the same day, isn’t it? Her coffee date / grab for a little happiness with Unity isn’t till later, is it?

    • Dave
      May 3, 2014, 6:49 am | # | Reply

      I suppose Sweetheart implicitly re-acquired them off camera.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 3, 2014, 10:22 am | # | Reply

      Unless, of course, Gavotte gave Bubbles instructions to take the files to a third area, to be picked up by a fourth person.

      Y’know, this might shape up to be a way to get to those files to someone in particular while letting Annex One keep copies. It’s only a problem with timing that’s screwing everything up for everyone else.

      • mechageist
        May 4, 2014, 8:09 pm | # | Reply

        Well Gavotte did shag herself silly, so it’s not entirely surprising that a problem with the timing is taking it off the rails.

  6. jdreyfuss
    May 3, 2014, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    I was gonna say something to the effect of, “Tip is either extremely careful or the least virile man imaginable,” but then I looked it up and found out that virility only refers to sexual prowess, not fertility.

  7. Hielario
    May 3, 2014, 9:16 am | # | Reply

    Um, could someone explain to me how do you repair nylons (i’ll assume it means nylon panties) with nail polish?

    • Little Sis
      May 3, 2014, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      It’s not exactly “repair”. It’s more like stopping further damage. One run and their done.

    • Absotively
      May 3, 2014, 10:27 am | # | Reply

      Nylons means pantyhose. Or stockings, but not a lot of folks wear stockings these days.

  8. Dr. Steve
    May 3, 2014, 9:28 am | # | Reply

    wha? Where is eddurd’s daily verse? Would “serivice is my only jot” fit into Beethoven’s “ode to joy?

    • Flah
      May 3, 2014, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe. But it would have to be translated into German to make it feel genuine.

      • reynard61
        May 3, 2014, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

        Not at all! Observe:

        (To the music of Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125, 4th movement, Allegro assai; From Friedrich Schiller’s Ode “To Joy”.)

        You want water? I’ve got water! Service is my only joy!
        You want files! I’ve got files! Service is my only joy!
        Don’t be nervous, I’ll give you service! Whirl like a dervish! Peachy keen! I’ll make time to serve you because Service is my only joy!

        Crowd: Service! Service! She’ll give you Service! Service is her only joy! She’ll make time to serve you because service is her only joy! (&ct…)

        • Kirala
          May 3, 2014, 7:09 pm | # | Reply

          No no no, gotta stick to Bubbles’ vocabulary:

          Service, service, service, service: Service is my only joy!
          Service, service, o-, my only,
          Service is my only joy!
          Only joy, joy, joy, is service,
          Service only, service, my!
          Only service, only service: service is my only joy!

          Dienst ist mein’ einzige Freude
          Meine Dienst mein’ Freude ist
          Einzige Dienst ist einzige
          Freude, meine Freude, meine Dienst
          Meine Dienst ist meine Freude
          Meine Freude, meine Dienst
          Freude, Freude, meine Freude,
          Meine Dienst ist meine Freud’.

          (Any native/near-native fluent German speakers who can tell me whether that works remotely, and whether the, er, Freudian implications work naturally?)

          • irdburns
            May 5, 2014, 6:45 pm | #

            I don’t know about the german, but I approve of translating a character’s song into their native language 🙂

  9. Guesticus
    May 3, 2014, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    Does this mean, that Bubbles is going to ‘service’ Unity? o_O

    If Sweetie didn’t want to puncture her water-tank before, that most certainly would do it

  10. Invictus
    May 3, 2014, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

    I think I’ve spotted an error – Christopher’s speech bubble in the last panel has a grey, Moustachio-esque background.

  11. JET73L
    March 14, 2015, 5:10 am | # | Reply

    “For example, there’s Tip.” Fixed that for you, Chris.

    Tip should just keep a box of transparent nail polish in his office, cycle it out by taking them from the front and adding them to the back. Tip is picky, but it doesn’t seem that he’d be picky enough to choose between blue-tinted, green-tinted, True Clear, extra-thick, matte, and minimal-refraction depending on purpose and base colour, so separate columns within the box shouldn’t be necessary.

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