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
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2018-06-06
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(34) Next › Last ››

2018-06-06

by shaenon on June 6, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
Comments RSS

Discussion (34) ¬

  1. Moe Lane
    June 6, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Well. Guess we know what Nick’s doing this weekend.

  2. dexitroboper
    June 6, 2018, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    At least it’s not extirpation.

    • awgiedawgie
      June 6, 2018, 12:11 am | # | Reply

      Are you sure? We never did find out exactly what that involves.

      • theysabet
        June 6, 2018, 12:53 am | # | Reply

        Walnuts (or so rumor has it.)

        • awgiedawgie
          June 6, 2018, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

          We know it involves walnuts and shae butter, but we don’t know what ELSE it involves.

    • Candace
      June 6, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

      What *is* that stuff they’re hanging over? Molten lava? Boiling blood?

      • K. Iceclaw
        June 6, 2018, 12:34 am | # | Reply

        Pit of rusty spikes I think.

        • D. Walker
          June 6, 2018, 3:00 am | # | Reply

          This.

        • Bruce A Munro
          June 6, 2018, 3:12 am | # | Reply

          If the punctures don’t get you, the gangrene will.

      • Steven
        June 6, 2018, 10:52 pm | # | Reply

        Could be a sea of walnut shells. Those things are murder to step on accidentally.

        • awgiedawgie
          June 7, 2018, 11:09 am | # | Reply

          Walnut shells have nothing on Legos. But of course, walnut shells would go along with the “extirpation” theory. We know that it involves walnuts, but no one has ever said what part of the walnuts it involves.

  3. eddurd
    June 6, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Meh. I’ve had worse workspaces. Seriously, I have.

    • joycemelton
      June 6, 2018, 1:45 am | # | Reply

      LOL.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      June 6, 2018, 3:03 am | # | Reply

      I know, right? My boss never lets me order delivery.

      • Chameon
        June 6, 2018, 7:01 am | # | Reply

        Never delivery, no calls from outside the office, that labtop they’ve got hooked up looks more advanced then anything I’ve ever seen a company -willingly- purchase (I mean, fair’s fair, it just had to be more advanced then, from the 90s).

        I mean, outside of the pit of rusty spikes, overall an upgrade. You might even be able to sell me on the spikes, as multiple instances of the jobs I’ve worked at before are at places with high infection risks ANYWAY.

    • Shadowmehr
      June 6, 2018, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

      I was going to say, there really doesn’t seem to be much difference between this and other businesses. Well, maybe the food delivery is a bonus, and they don’t have to listen to other people’s conversations, but other than that . . .

  4. Jerry Aethers
    June 6, 2018, 1:54 am | # | Reply

    Ah… One of those new/old open office floor plans I see.

  5. Bruce A Munro
    June 6, 2018, 3:10 am | # | Reply

    Given that they’ve been known to extirpate people for poor shoe tying (IIRC), this may be just the equivalent of being forced to attend a sensitivity training class.

    • Efogoto
      June 6, 2018, 10:45 am | # | Reply

      Or spit polishing with actual spit, or warming the polish, or wearing flip-flops instead. And that’s just the shoe portion of the dress code.

  6. mrinku
    June 6, 2018, 4:51 am | # | Reply

    At least they don’t appear to be forced to hot desk.

  7. Robert Nowall
    June 6, 2018, 10:16 am | # | Reply

    It was all that weekend volunteer work at Skin Horse. Or maybe it was all that android smuggling. Or maybe helping Sergio escape. Or maybe Mr. Green just got too jealous of her outside relationships.

  8. Guesticus
    June 6, 2018, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

    Some how, believe was asking “How come?” as in “What did you do?” rather than “How can you tell?”

  9. WuseMajor
    June 6, 2018, 2:11 pm | # | Reply

    I thought she was volunteering at Skin horse now? Or did her company finally call her back in?

  10. Ouzelwoman
    June 6, 2018, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

    So, two questions about ordering in comes to mind. One, how does to poor delivery guy get passed the spikes? Two, how does he get the food up to the higher hanging “offices”?

    • Towering Barbarian
      June 6, 2018, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

      I hope they remember to tip him well! ^_~

    • Shadowmehr
      June 6, 2018, 7:59 pm | # | Reply

      Delivery hands off to Security, Security calls Maintenance, Maintenance breaks out the ladders they used to hang the cages in the first place, employees in the hotseat get their food. Simple, for A-Sig’s definition of “simple”.

      • awgiedawgie
        June 7, 2018, 11:11 am | # | Reply

        Yeah. Pretty sure the delivery guy doesn’t even get inside the building.

    • Bruce A Munro
      June 6, 2018, 8:35 pm | # | Reply

      They have a giant genetically engineered owl to fly the delivery person over to the cages (delivery person losses now down to 30%!)

    • tyersome
      June 6, 2018, 10:37 pm | # | Reply

      Um … this is Ansigma we are discussing, right?

      Clearly they just keep sending out new requests until the delivery peoples’ corpses form a walkway to their cages.

      They probably even have an App that calculates and sends out the correct number of orders and automatically applies for refunds on the “undelivered” orders …

      • BRGR
        June 8, 2018, 12:19 pm | # | Reply

        It’s what I would do.

  11. Robert Nowall
    June 6, 2018, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

    Also I suppose Dr. Lee doesn’t want to hear about Nick’s thrilling side quests, either…

    • D. Walker
      June 6, 2018, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

      I actually think she would. She genuinely seems to like listening to Nick talk about his day and his interests.

  12. Knuckles
    February 7, 2022, 3:01 pm | # | Reply

    Rereading this and, gosh that pit looks even more dire than it did the first time.

    • Knuckles
      April 3, 2025, 9:08 am | # | Reply

      Reminds me a little bit of the new Super Mario movie.

Leave a ReplyCancel 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.

©2007-2025 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑