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2020-03-31

by shaenon on March 31, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Dreadful Future
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  1. Golnor
    March 31, 2020, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Well, who doesn’t want a really dramatic rock?

  2. awgiedawgie
    March 31, 2020, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Why do I get the feeling that isn’t really Remy?

    • Candace
      March 31, 2020, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      Well, as a *hougan* (“voodoo” priest), Remy does have special abilities when it comes to interacting with the dead. It’s possible that it really is him, but he isn’t really there. Or he really is there, but was communicating with them remotely previously.

      Although not all of those who were having nightmares were dead (or undead), and, of course, “I am coming for you,” was what Captain Olympia Waters’s creator said to her. So, I dunno.

      Maybe Remy’s dead. Apparently in Haitian Vodou, “Some Vodou families believe that a (dead) person’s spirit leaves the body, but is trapped in water, over mountains, in grottoes—or anywhere else a voice may call out and echo—for one year and one day.” Like maybe a rock near water?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_Vodou

    • Candace
      March 31, 2020, 1:33 am | # | Reply

      And, of course, there are several individuals present at the destination who are, presumably, not dead or undead.

      • Candace
        March 31, 2020, 1:35 am | # | Reply

        Maybe they’re all in VR, and Remy’s trying to communicate with them from outside.

    • MyaApplesauce
      March 31, 2020, 9:33 am | # | Reply

      Or maybe it’s just been literal years since Shaenon last drew him.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 31, 2020, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, no, it looks like him, sure enough. It’s just one of those random thoughts that pops in my head.

        I mean really, if someone can manage to make all the NHS’s dream that their creator is coming for them, how hard would it be to make an imitation of our favourite spirit wrangler appear on the beach?

  3. palenoue
    March 31, 2020, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Drama Rock: coming next month on Netflix.

  4. Ray Radlein
    March 31, 2020, 3:23 am | # | Reply

    Everybody wants a dramatic rock to wind their dramatic string around

    • Candace
      March 31, 2020, 11:39 am | # | Reply

      Applause!

  5. David B Huber
    March 31, 2020, 5:37 am | # | Reply

    At last! I hope Remy’s arrival portends the assembly of a new body for Unity!

    Dr. Lee has been too preoccupied to show proper maternal concern…

  6. Robert Nowall
    March 31, 2020, 7:16 am | # | Reply

    Hallucinations cause visitations?

    • jdreyfuss
      March 31, 2020, 7:54 am | # | Reply

      Wrong way round. The visitation is causing the hallucinations. Someone or something is pushing this on all the NHSs, either as an auditory hallucination or as a nightmare.

      Each of them is getting a message that their creator is coming for them, and even though the messages all seem to be coming from a single source, they are perceiving it as though it is coming from their particular creator, or in the case of the zombies and other natural NHSs, possibly from nowhere at all.

  7. jdreyfuss
    March 31, 2020, 7:47 am | # | Reply

    As a houngan, Remy has a strong grasp of the value of drama and theatrics when it comes to making important information memorable.

  8. D. Walker
    March 31, 2020, 7:52 am | # | Reply

    They’re rogue Shadow Government civil servants relocating a horde of zombies, and the dramatic rock is probably the least realistic thing about this situation.

    It’s not IMPOSSIBLE to find rocks at beaches in Florida – there are a small handful of locations with natural exposed sandstone jutting up out of the water – but 1) it’s overwhelmingly rare, and 2) it doesn’t look anything like that.

    You don’t get a nice flat beach of sand and then just a random rock on top of it somewhere – you typically get a long shelf of exposed monolithic sandstone that runs hundreds of feet along the water, with a ten to twenty foot or so “cliff” down to the water where erosion has broken off massive boulders from the shelf, and sand washes up in the hollows.

    If you do find a lone rock just sitting on a nice sandy Florida beach, it almost certainly wasn’t put there naturally, and you’re almost certainly on some rich person’s privately owned stretch of beach / resort.

    • David B Huber
      March 31, 2020, 8:19 am | # | Reply

      D. Walker, you are if course correct. But the boardwalk in panel one suggests this is a developed beachfront. Not at all unlikely to belong to Queen Elena 😉

    • Equisetophyta
      March 31, 2020, 2:20 pm | # | Reply

      Man, Florida is a whole other world. Private beaches, no rocks…sometimes it feels so weird to think of how disparate different bits of this one country can be.

      I’ve only briefly visited for a conference, but can I say that you guys have FANTASTIC lizards?

    • Michael Suttkus
      March 31, 2020, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

      I’m glad I’m not the only person to notice this. Florida: Home of the most boring geology in the United States.

      • D. Walker
        March 31, 2020, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

        I mean, we do have the hilariously named Iron Mountain, the highest point in the state at a “whopping” 295 feet above sea level. (It even has actual hematite!)

        Part of me wants to argue that Kansas is more boring geologically, particularly since it is -literally- (and rather substantially!) flatter than a pancake, but that in and of it itself might qualify as a geological curiosity.

        • Candace
          April 1, 2020, 12:24 am | # | Reply

          Well, Kansas actually has some hilly parts, although, oddly, there are no trees on those hills, nor any crops, or buildings, or anything else but grass, as far as I can tell. Miles and miles of mostly empty grassy hills. Populated, apparently, entirely by numerous insects that like to commit suicide on windshields after dark. (Or perhaps they’re ganging up on humans, trying to commit murder by completely destroying drivers’ forward visibility. I’m a Texan, and I thought we had bugs. Sheesh!)

  9. D. Walker
    March 31, 2020, 8:22 am | # | Reply

    Well, just because it’s the LEAST realistic thing, doesn’t mean it can’t be explained.

  10. Sleepy John
    March 31, 2020, 9:07 am | # | Reply

    We keep seeing more and more of these characters from past storylines showing up. I’m afraid the fourth wall is going to pop under the strain, and there’ll be homicidal plushies and silverfish all over my desk.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 31, 2020, 10:24 am | # | Reply

      More specifically, did Brian “Talk to the” Hand and the possessed alligator come with Remy?

    • Shadowmehr
      March 31, 2020, 12:37 pm | # | Reply

      Really, this would be a bad thing how?

      • jdreyfuss
        March 31, 2020, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

        Do you have any idea how hard it is to get homicidal plushies out of the walls once they establish a nest?

        • awgiedawgie
          March 31, 2020, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

          And it’s so hard to tell the homicidal plushies from the regular ones when they’re all just sitting there looking innocent.

          • davidbreslin101
            March 31, 2020, 3:22 pm | #

            Particularly if you’re a heavy “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” plush collector. I was heartbroken when we burned them all, but there was nothing else for it.

          • Robert Nowall
            March 31, 2020, 5:10 pm | #

            Re: both of you. Remember what happened to the toys in “The Velveteen Rabbit?” They were burned. Remember how upset Artie was about that?

          • David B Huber
            March 31, 2020, 7:20 pm | #

            A telling clue is the presence of a victim, such as “Donnie Didn’t Duck” 😉

  11. Daibhid C
    March 31, 2020, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

    He even got the wind in the hair thing Ford Prefect didn’t.

  12. Tiff Hudson
    March 31, 2020, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

    a) I would really like to have a dramatic rock behind my house.
    b) Are You Ready To Rock?????

  13. Clifton
    April 2, 2020, 2:21 pm | # | Reply

    Where was it mentioned earlier about them hearing their creators? I’m catching up again after being rather distracted by [gestures widely].

    • awgiedawgie
      April 2, 2020, 5:16 pm | # | Reply

      It all started back on the 17th with Leo. We actually got to see Bubbles’ dream on the 23rd.

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