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2018-07-21

by shaenon on July 21, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. awgiedawgie
    July 21, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    It’s OK, Unity… I’m sure your legs will find their way back to you eventually.

    • OneUniverse
      July 21, 2018, 10:47 pm | # | Reply

      Remember what Abraham Lincoln said when asked how long legs should be: “long enough to reach the ground.” Unity can use some cat’s legs as replacements.

  2. casimir
    July 21, 2018, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Can’t talk: Cat’s got your tongue.
    Can’t walk: …

    • Hannibal's Lectern
      July 21, 2018, 10:05 am | # | Reply

      “And if I ever lose my legs,
      I won’t moan, and I won’t beg.
      Yes, if I ever lose my legs,
      Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh, I won’t have to walk no more.”

      “Moonshadow,” sung by… (wait for it)… CAT Stevens.

      Coincidence? I think not…

      • Robert Nowall
        July 21, 2018, 10:40 am | # | Reply

        “I’ve got two legs from the head to the ground,
        And when I walk ’em they move around,
        And when I lift them they climb the stairs,
        And when I shave them they ain’t got hairs.”

        —Terry Gilliam, Pythoner.

      • casimir
        July 21, 2018, 8:22 pm | # | Reply

        That is such a weird song. I can almost hear UNITY humming along.

        • casimir
          July 21, 2018, 8:24 pm | # | Reply

          (Comment meant for Hannibal, but what the hey, they’re both weird).

  3. Towering Barbarian
    July 21, 2018, 12:21 am | # | Reply

    Her Majesty seems to have a soft spot for Tip. ^_^

    • Shen Hibiki
      July 21, 2018, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      …when he’s nearby, he’s an accesory.
      She can’t be seen with low-quality accesories.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 21, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

      She seems to be almost… maternal.

    • Robert Nowall
      July 21, 2018, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      As a decaying corpse she’s probably got a lot of soft spots.

  4. Bruce A Munro
    July 21, 2018, 1:26 am | # | Reply

    Must have been some pretty big cats. Or a rather large number of improbably cooperative normal-sized ones.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 21, 2018, 1:28 am | # | Reply

      Or her legs were just attached rather poorly.

      • Bruce A Munro
        July 21, 2018, 1:42 am | # | Reply

        I am referring to the weight of the legs (roughly 1/6 of your entire body weight a piece) rather than their attachment to her torso.

        • awgiedawgie
          July 21, 2018, 2:09 am | # | Reply

          Assuming she’s average weight for her size, that’s less than 20 pounds apiece. I’ve watched a single house cat kill and carry off raccoons that weigh more than that.

          • Pccj
            July 21, 2018, 3:21 am | #

            I am assuming the legs were attached to the cat

          • Bruce A Munro
            July 21, 2018, 6:48 am | #

            Raccoons usually kill cats, not the other way around: are you pulling (or perhaps dragging) my leg? šŸ˜€

          • s854
            July 21, 2018, 7:05 am | #

            Are you thinking of something a bit like those hamsters running off with the robots? http://narbonic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/061007.jpg

          • Mental Mouse
            July 21, 2018, 7:55 am | #

            Bruce: Usually… but some cats are bigger and badder. Think Maine Coon, and similar.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 21, 2018, 10:26 am | #

            I live in the out in the country, and barn cats are a lot tougher than your average city house cat. And I imagine that these — what with living with zombies and all — have to be pretty tough, too.

          • greenknight32
            July 22, 2018, 2:50 am | #

            Yes, we had one named Scheherazade that didn’t bother hunting anything smaller than rabbits. She wasn’t unusually large, some of those Cottontails were as large as she was.

    • Barkingmonkey
      July 21, 2018, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      it was yakuza-cat! The most badass, body-part stealingest, implausible racoon fightingest, feline in all Japan. Under her fur she has full body ink of dragons and catnip and flaming yarnballs of death and s&!t. She’s one stabby tabby.

      • Kitirena
        July 25, 2018, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

        You know I just HAVE to post these:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny-Lko5lO-0

    • Kitirena
      July 25, 2018, 9:30 pm | # | Reply

      A (now late) friend of mine was once owned by a Manx cat who liked to chase pit bulls around for fun. 30 lbs. of solid muscle and dense fur, armed with 20 razor blades and a bite like a bear trap, trumps any mutt however badass it thinks it is any day. ^_^

      Yes, our neighborhood didn’t have a Godfather, we had The Catfather. “I’m gonna meow you an offer you can’t refuse!”

      • Knuckles
        February 8, 2022, 8:59 am | # | Reply

        Big cats are *so* good. We had a big fluffy grey furred Maine Coon who was found outside a Home Depot. He’s a bit skittish but he has a very sweet personality once you get to know him.

        Sadly he also had a tendency to scratch when spooked, so we had to give him to my aunt when our little one arrived. He’s living happily on a farm now, lording over the other cats, dogs, and even the rooster.

  5. Shadowmehr
    July 21, 2018, 10:27 am | # | Reply

    Okay, the Cypress is expanding from a horde of Biteys, and now cats are nibbling on U.N.I.T.Y.s legs, which means that they will be infected with her nanogoo and become part of the collective. A-Sig’s attempts to remove madtech may result in a grey goo scenario across the continent.

    • Frank
      July 21, 2018, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      who said they were trying to remove mad tech?

    • mickeyjf
      July 21, 2018, 11:24 am | # | Reply

      Ending scene of Fearless Vampire Killers?

  6. Robert Nowall
    July 21, 2018, 10:42 am | # | Reply

    Looks like they ran off with everything below the waist, too. I suppose that includes most of Unity’s naughty bits, but, with Unity, you never know.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 21, 2018, 10:48 am | # | Reply

      She probably has spares.

      • Frank
        July 21, 2018, 11:21 am | # | Reply

        In her defense, she didn’t know what the bathroom sitch would be!

        • Chrisn
          July 22, 2018, 8:19 pm | # | Reply

          And if she HAD no spares I’m sure she can find some for the taking, no problem.

  7. Frank
    July 21, 2018, 11:21 am | # | Reply

    Tip’s just a walking excuse for makeovers, isn’t he?

  8. D. Walker
    July 21, 2018, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

    To be fair to UNITY, she’s arguably not actually incomplete – she’s a nanobot swarm, and any of her goo that gets carried away with her legs deactivates and gets replaced by the remainder replicating.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 21, 2018, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

      Which is why the usual rules don’t apply to her. Minor caveat: her detached goo doesn’t deactivate immediately. In fact, it’s not clear if or when it does. In idahI, the remnants in the various animals was still active long after she had been “purged” from them.

    • Trisscar
      July 21, 2018, 10:38 pm | # | Reply

      And honestly, the goo would have to have some way to tell which group is the “main” one to know which part should deactivate.
      ….I’m now suspicious that Unity will create her own nation of semi-hive-mind nano mind clones at some point. Or at least a temporary army.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 21, 2018, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

        It seems that her brain — the actual meat-brain in her head — indicates to the nanites which body is “hers”, and also provides her with the necessary grey matter to engage in more than the most rudimentary thoughts (such as “lightsabers are cool”). So any infested organisms (or body parts) probably have to be within a certain distance for her brain to control them. Otherwise, as long as the orphaned nanites are active, they would only act on those rudimentary thoughts. That would also be the case if she is not actively controlling them — such as when her spare arm would move on its own and try to steal Sweetheart’s dinner.

        Then again, if they do have another brain to infiltrate (like the animals in Idaho), they might remain active indefinitely, and produce Unity-like behaviour, and even her strength, in the animal. Which brings up the interesting question of whether any of her nanites remained behind in Virginia… not that there is really a huge difference between their basic drives. Unity and Virginia both love brains… it’s just that one wants to eat them, and the other just wants to play with them.

        • D. Walker
          July 22, 2018, 2:23 pm | # | Reply

          You’re both forgetting that living creatures ultimately reject the nanites. UNITY got barfed out of every creature she stayed in for too long.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 22, 2018, 2:41 pm | #

            True. But there were, for a time, remnants left behind, allowing the animals to aid Unity in her Boss Fight with Tigerlily Jones. Perhaps whatever wasn’t barfed out was eventually purged from their systems by other means, much as a toxin would be.

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