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2012-12-15

by shaenon on December 15, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. ThinkinABit
    December 15, 2012, 12:58 am | # | Reply

    Well that joke took forever to show up again. 😛

  2. Andrew
    December 15, 2012, 1:05 am | # | Reply

    Have we done the I Love Cherry Pie filk yet?

    • mnementh
      December 16, 2012, 5:10 am | # | Reply

      Am I the only one here who thinks “Fusion Pie” sounds vaguely… sexual?

      mnem
      As long as it’s not American Fusion Pie. Ouch. Just Ouch.

  3. Rob, Arbiter of Reality
    December 15, 2012, 2:31 am | # | Reply

    Since the Beni box is still in the possession of Project: Skin Horse, is this the Lugui box or the Victor box?

    • Eddurd
      December 15, 2012, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      It’s Victor. GODOT dropped a very broad hint back on Dec. 3rd.
      http://skin-horse.com/2012/in-the-district/

      • Rob, Arbiter of Reality
        December 15, 2012, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, thank you. I’ve been a tad preoccupied of late.

  4. Theogrin
    December 15, 2012, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    Well, that’s two small, man-portable fusion pies in the hands (ish) of psychopathic AIs. I wonder if Gold Bug has the third one?

  5. Eddurd
    December 15, 2012, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    Just because you asked, Andrew …

    (TUNE: “Cherry Pie”, Warrant)

    Tiny, single, hand-held, pow’rful …

      Where’s my fusion pie?
      Ain’t never got it, and I don’t know why!
      Like the concept for some good Mad Sci …
      Try fusion pie!

    Fire in the engine, fire in the train!
    Like Mad Science? You got fire in your brain!
    Fire in the pipes, and fire in the vents,
    Fire’s where we try our ex-per-i-ments!

    Fire’s not the secret, fire’s not the stuff,
    Doesn’t run the train, not strong enough!
    What will GODOT do? Unknown factor,
    A.I. tricked our Victor reactor!

     Fusing, using,
     Atomic power!
     We’re gonna die in
     About an hour!

      Where’s my fusion pie?
      Ain’t never got it, and I don’t know why!
      Like the concept for some good Mad Sci …
      Try fusion pie!
      Where’s my fusion pie?
      Want a taste of it before we die!
      Zombie says, “I’m gonna pout ’til I
      Try fusion pie!”

  6. Shadowmehr
    December 15, 2012, 7:12 am | # | Reply

    Well, they are in a room full of fire. Something as spicy as a fusion pie will fit right in. It’s not like anyone would notice an explosion in there anyway.

  7. Treesong
    December 15, 2012, 11:38 am | # | Reply

    ‘A.I. tricked our Victor reactor’ is a particularly good line.

  8. Robert The Addled
    December 15, 2012, 11:40 am | # | Reply

    I still think shielding requirements would make them forklift portable at best.

    Large water tank around the ‘pie’ could do double duty as shielding as well as a secondary heat transfer medium. 24″ of water reduces gamma by 90%, and neutron by 99%.

    I imagine the primary energy capture would be thermoelectric capture – bimetallic junctions to generate voltage differentials based on the temp the junction is at.

    • codebracker
      December 15, 2012, 2:25 pm | # | Reply

      Actually it’s a shoebox sized portable reactor.
      They replaced the water tank with something more compact, but it still isn’t very stable.
      Not that it matters to mad scientists.

    • nentuaby
      December 15, 2012, 4:46 pm | # | Reply

      Robert, your implicit assumption that the Pies obey physics familiar to Einstein and Heisenberg is, frankly, unsupportable.

  9. Saberbeam
    December 15, 2012, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    I’m not sure what type of experiments require a giant room full of roaring flames, but I really want to find out now (maybe forging a Ring of power).

    Fusion pie sounds like a food item you woul find in a Fallout game. On that note, Unity would make a wonderfully zany ghoul.

    • Robert The Addled
      December 15, 2012, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

      Testing fireproofing is an easy one. Maybe testing re-entry heat shields. Baking cookies. Firing home-made pottery. Testing volcano crawling robots to infiltrate the lair of your archnemisis/enemy. Exfoliating demons ( http://wapsisquare.com/comic/good-enough/ ). Making smores.

      And many other exotic and practical uses.

      • Norman
        December 15, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

        I think that should be arcnemesis (the person for whom you are the nemesis, similar derivation as arcsine, etc), or perhaps archenemy. Depending on who started infiltrating whose lair ^_^

  10. JohnWWells
    December 15, 2012, 10:10 pm | # | Reply

    I think this is the most Girl Genius-esque strip ever to appear in Narbonic OR Skin Horse, and that counts the Foglio guest strips.

  11. Norman
    December 15, 2012, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

    For Fusion Pie, I recommend sending U.N.I.T.Y. to this last restaurant here .

    • Norman
      December 15, 2012, 10:29 pm | # | Reply

      hmm, link didn’t show up…
      http://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/694

  12. Malicron
    April 5, 2016, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    DO NOT OPEN THE MAN PORTABLE FUSION PIE!

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