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2019-12-05

by shaenon on December 5, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. David B Huber
    December 5, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Lt. Eris needs some coffee!

    • Shadowmehr
      December 5, 2019, 10:08 pm | # | Reply

      Um, given what we’ve seen so far, maaaaybe not.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    December 5, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Looks like Mr. Deathtrap might be the only NPC survivor. ^_^

    • s854
      December 5, 2019, 11:12 am | # | Reply

      Towering Barbarian: You can never rule out an alligator in the Anasigma base. Peirson may even be turn back on all the deathtraps before it finds him, so the survivors have to pick their way through the traps (and alligator) to get to whatever supplies they left there.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 5, 2019, 10:27 pm | # | Reply

      There was also that bit of plant life we saw seeping in around one of the doors.

      Not to mention that death traps have an unfortunate tendency to turn against their creator.

  3. David B Huber
    December 5, 2019, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, that bear looks pretty patchy! Rather like a Velveteen Bear that was loved so much by the offspring of Mads that it became Real…

    • Clifton
      December 5, 2019, 11:22 am | # | Reply

      Very like that, but I think that’s a patch of bare skull and an empty eyesocket. It had exposed ribs visible in an earlier panel, and I don’t mean emaciated, I mean the actual rib bones. Cypress zombies apparently last a bit longer than traditional zombies.

  4. Robert Nowall
    December 5, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    You can still kill him, Lieutenant. Aim a little lower and maybe you can kill both.

    • awgiedawgie
      December 5, 2019, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, but the bear is already dead, so he’ll be a little bit harder to kill.

  5. pdp15
    December 5, 2019, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    We’re learning who the redshirts are in this away team.

    • Palle
      December 5, 2019, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      The people with knitted sweaters!
      Does the Cypress just hate people wearing wool? Or alternatively, does she *love* the taste of wool?

  6. JSStryker
    December 5, 2019, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Reminds me of Samuel L Jackson’s death in that shark movie!

  7. The Ponytrician
    December 5, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    … is panel three a reference to the Samuel L. Jackson scene in “Deep Blue Sea”?

    • hugh_donnetono
      December 5, 2019, 5:17 pm | # | Reply

      Feels more like a reference to the geologist’s death in Annihilation, to me. Honestly this whole ARC feels like a reference to Annihilation, to me.

      • casimir
        December 5, 2019, 8:50 pm | # | Reply

        How does that work when the arc has been plotted years before the movie came out?

        • casimir
          December 5, 2019, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

          Well, possibly the book, yes.

  8. Muhamad Adhi Setiadi
    December 5, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    thats one hungry bear, chomping two adults in short time.

    • BMunro
      December 5, 2019, 2:49 am | # | Reply

      It may be a bear intelligently directed by the cypress entity, in which case it’s unimportant whether it is hungry or not – it’s functionally more a drone weapon than a wild animal.

  9. sweetuncleLESLIE
    December 5, 2019, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    Besides ravening hunger, there’re a few interesting points about THIS bear.Size is one. Unusual facial marking is another. And its absolute focused one-goal only- aim and purpose.

    Bear in mind that it may only be a highly-developed VEHICLE to pull the place-holders away from ‘blocking the audience’s view’. Or not.

  10. BMunro
    December 5, 2019, 2:47 am | # | Reply

    Mads seem to get very focused – on the wrong things, unfortunately.

    “Note to self – avoid standing with your back to bushes large enough to hide a killer bear. Especially if someone just got dragged off by a killer bear.”

    • nebulousrikulau
      December 5, 2019, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      Would you prefer to turn your back to your “allies” who are definitely Mad, usually unstable, and possibly evil veggiepod clones?

      • BMunro
        December 5, 2019, 3:27 am | # | Reply

        Well, if you’re closely _surrounded_ by bushes, you should be getting away from that area to begin with.

        • awgiedawgie
          December 5, 2019, 10:31 pm | # | Reply

          Especially if the bushes themselves may be very likely to try to kill you as well.

  11. Robert Nowall
    December 5, 2019, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    Point of vague logic—well, it kept me awake a little while when I turned in—that if the zombie bear and the fake team members are on the same side, then why would the zombie bear eat a fake team member? Ergo, if that’s the right word, the now eaten sweater guy and Mr. Ask must have been not fake.

    • David B Huber
      December 5, 2019, 11:41 am | # | Reply

      Agreed.

    • Daibhid C
      December 5, 2019, 1:26 pm | # | Reply

      Or zombie bear and fake team members aren’t on the same side. The fact neither appear to be on Tip’s side might well be one of those amusing miscommunications that make Skin Horse missions so much fun. (For us. Not for them.)

      • Daibhid C
        December 5, 2019, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

        Thinking this further, if the bear is taking out fake team members, there are three options.

        1. The fake team members are the threat, the bear is protecting the team, but for some reason can’t actually explain why their on the same side.
        2. The bear is the threat, the fake team members are being silenced before they can explain why.
        3. The fake team members are the threat, and the real team is already working with the bear. And has been since the timeskip.

        • Daibhid C
          December 5, 2019, 1:35 pm | # | Reply

          At least three options, I should have said. Those are just the ones I thought of.

        • sasha honeypalm
          December 5, 2019, 2:36 pm | # | Reply

          4. The bear is helping the fake team members (double)fake their deaths for some reason; plant zombies might not be particularly bothered by being chomped on by a bear.

  12. CrackerJack
    December 5, 2019, 8:26 am | # | Reply

    Gotta say, for a zombie bear animated by a plant based hive mind….

    He’s pretty darned cute!

  13. Blofeld's Cat
    December 5, 2019, 10:09 am | # | Reply

    A grizzly end …

    • Jim Baerg
      December 5, 2019, 11:47 am | # | Reply

      In the eastern parts of N. America like Pennsylvania, the bears all Black Bears.
      /pedant mode off

      • Jim Baerg
        December 5, 2019, 11:48 am | # | Reply

        “bears ARE all Black Bears”
        edit functions are nice to have

        • Robert Loughrey
          December 5, 2019, 12:22 pm | # | Reply

          Agreed, we need an edit option. As far as the bear goes it could be as much of a transplant as a zombie cypress swamp.

    • Rimwolf
      December 5, 2019, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

      “CHAWMP” sounds to me like a Boston accent — so is this a Boston bruin?

      • awgiedawgie
        December 5, 2019, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

        A rim shot for Rimwolf!

  14. waynezombie
    December 5, 2019, 11:51 am | # | Reply

    Is there a tally of Tip appearing in a day’s strip and _not_ speaking?!

    • Robert Nowall
      December 5, 2019, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

      Well, this strip is reminiscent of when Leo had Tip in a similar headlock. Somehow I don’t think they’ll get this zombie bear to spit Mr. Ask out before he bites down to the soft creamy center.

    • s854
      December 5, 2019, 9:14 pm | # | Reply

      You’d have to work out if thinking counts first. For instance, no-one speaks in the first strip of the comic (http://skin-horse.com/comic/tip-wore-white/), but it’s all about Tip anyway.

      • awgiedawgie
        December 5, 2019, 10:35 pm | # | Reply

        If you asked Tip, he’d probably say the entire 12-year run of the comic has been all about him.

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