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
2013-08-22
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(33) Next › Last ››

2013-08-22

by shaenon on August 22, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
Comments RSS

Discussion (33) ¬

  1. TomT
    August 22, 2013, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    They know the POWER OF THE EYES!

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    August 22, 2013, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    It’s over 9000 Kotobukis!

    • Andrew
      August 22, 2013, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Ko-what?

      • Saberbeam
        August 22, 2013, 2:45 pm | # | Reply

        Type “kotobuki” into Google Images (I’d provide a link, but Google Image url’s are huge). I’m assuming that the reference is to Tsumugi Kotobuki from the anime “K-On”, the blond chick in most of the images results. I don’t remember a particular instance of her using puppy dog eyes, but she could probably kill someone at ten paces with them.

        • Evil Midnight Lurker
          August 22, 2013, 10:07 pm | # | Reply

          No, man, it’s older school than that. Look for C-Ko Kotobuki from Project A-Ko.

          • Dave Van Domelen
            August 22, 2013, 11:32 pm | #

            Yep. The Kotobuki is a measure of cuteness, where one Kotobuki is as kawaii as C-ko.

  3. Marcus
    August 22, 2013, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Vitreous humour pumps to maximum!

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      August 22, 2013, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

      They’ve had 60 years to learn to shine the moment a sucker or camera comes into view. They even know when they’re in-frame for a shot taken from a different universe.

  4. Ogden Wernstrom
    August 22, 2013, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    They’re adorable — like little defanged cobras, but with limbs, fur, and protruding ears.

    Also, Sweetheart, the dead middle-aged white guy from the 1960s may not actually be the wisest of them all, because this is make-believe.

    • WJS
      July 9, 2019, 2:22 pm | # | Reply

      I really don’t get why she’s apparently taking what he said seriously. What, exactly, are his credentials for being a good judge of character? Being a mad scientist from decades ago who used to brainwash children? And appears to be on the side of the non-humans not in a “they’re people and they should have rights” way, but in a “it would be great if they destroyed humanity and took over the world” way.
      I’m down with non-humans having rights, but not with them committing genocide. Is that going to be considered “speciest” now?

  5. Moe Lane
    August 22, 2013, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Go for the eyes, Boo! Go for the eyes!

    …Wait, wrong universe. And genre. And medium.

    Still, that alone was worth the fifteen bucks I put down on ME3: Citadel.

  6. Jabberwonky
    August 22, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    But…but, shouldn’t Sweetheart be immune to puppy-dog eyes?

    • Midwestmutt
      August 22, 2013, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      Who do you think puppy-dog eyes were originally developed for if not a dog?

    • Andy4Hire
      August 22, 2013, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

      I wondered the same thing. And then I wondered if she’d consider the term “puppy-dog eyes” offensive–maybe like one of those stereotypes that’s actually kind of flattering but that people (or dogs or whoever) object to anyway because it’s still a stereotype.

  7. Eddurd
    August 22, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “You Can’t Hide Your Lyin’ Eyes”, The Eagles)

    In the Little House, out in the heartland,
    A film that warned against our friends was found …
    So Sweetheart gives the order to depart, and
    Let this whole place get bulldozed to the ground!

    She frowns and says, “The Whimsy Park’s a shambles,
    We can’t help here,” but Tip does not concur …
    With psy-cho-log-ic leverage, he gambles
    To find the heart that’s under all that fur!

     [CHORUS:]
      Can’t deny … those cryin’ eyes!
      They will fo-o-o-orce you to sympathize!
      Can’t resist, though Sweetheart tries
      To despise the guys, pint-size, with cryin’ eyes!

    • Daniel
      August 22, 2013, 1:40 am | # | Reply

      You, sir, have outdone yourself.

      • Terry Smith
        August 22, 2013, 7:20 am | # | Reply

        Yes – half the reason I read this strip is for these filks.

  8. pcj
    August 22, 2013, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart, you do not know the power of the cuteside! Give in to your puppy dog eyes, The Kawaii is swelling in you now….

    • soft
      August 22, 2013, 8:56 am | # | Reply

      *snicker*

  9. alurker
    August 22, 2013, 3:27 am | # | Reply

    We are the Cutebots. Prepare to be squeeed. Resistance is futile.

    • Glenn
      August 22, 2013, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      What WHimsyCorp needs is a fresh infusion of Cute. Get the cobras here STAT!

  10. Daibhid C
    August 22, 2013, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    Well, so much for the “Sweetheart wants to abandon the Little House to its fate because she can’t handle that Skin Horse might not be the good guys” theory. Turns out it’s more “Sweetheart doesn’t want Skin Horse to interfere with the Little House situation any further because they might not be the good guys”.

  11. TSOJ
    August 22, 2013, 7:35 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart could pull the rug out from everyone by having another heart attack. Make them all feel guilty for killing her. That’d show them.

  12. Mental Mouse
    August 22, 2013, 8:51 am | # | Reply

    That giraffe really has a big mouth, doesn’t he? Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised that animatronic characters are typecast. 🙂

  13. soft
    August 22, 2013, 8:57 am | # | Reply

    You tell her, Tip!

  14. jdreyfuss
    August 22, 2013, 9:47 am | # | Reply

    All those automata with puppy dog eyes and nary a puppy dog among them.

    • Smithnik
      August 22, 2013, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      I thought the blue guy in the last panel WAS a puppy dog. He even has a nose like Sweetheart’s, but pink.

      • jdreyfuss
        August 22, 2013, 3:45 pm | # | Reply

        So he is. I stand corrected.

  15. Harodotus
    August 22, 2013, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

    What’s that line from The Exorcist? oh yeah (kinda), “The power of cute compels you…the power of cute compels you…the power of cute compels you!”

  16. Axel
    August 22, 2013, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

    I’m glad Tip figured it out (and presumably Unity) – maybe Skin Horse can’t help, but A Group of Individuals That Coincidentally Are Skin Horse Employees on Vacation Together still can!

    After all, Dr. Lee works for Anasigma but she hangs around with Skin Horse and helps them sometimes. Maybe they can ask her for tips on quietly undermining their secret, possibly evil organization.

  17. Tetra Valent
    August 22, 2013, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

    Shaenon didn’t draw, and Pancha didn’t color, Unity’s eyeballs in today’s strip. That eliminates the extreme contrast on the dark side of Unity’s face, but changes her a bit. Somehow she seems less wild a character than even before the coloring started (though she doesn’t have any lines today). It’ll be interesting to see what other changes occur as the team works out the new look.

    • Tetra Valent
      August 23, 2013, 3:14 am | # | Reply

      Ehh, never mind. I see from the archives that Unity has appeared that way a number of times.

  18. Shadowmehr
    August 22, 2013, 8:28 pm | # | Reply

    Bureaucracy meets morality.

    The epic battle begins . . .

    Ladies and gentlemen, place your bets.

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 ↑