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2019-07-05

by shaenon on July 5, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. David B Huber
    July 5, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Now *that’s* a happy, well-adjusted couple!

  2. awgiedawgie
    July 5, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Oh, do let us hope our dear Hitty is not losing her cabbage.

    • thejoemoose
      July 5, 2019, 12:09 am | # | Reply

      MY CABBAGES!

  3. Alphaghoul
    July 5, 2019, 12:11 am | # | Reply

    Hitty’s swirly eye switches in the first and second panel, and changes to both non swirly in the fourth.

    • Bruce A Munro
      July 5, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

      The internet will do that to you.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 5, 2020, 9:01 am | # | Reply

      That’s because cholera is serious business.

  4. joycemelton
    July 5, 2019, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Hitty has stumbled on the internet educational game version of Oregon Trail, I think. 🙂

  5. thedoctor55
    July 5, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    As long as they don’t start “Dissing Terry”, they should be fine.

  6. Towering Barbarian
    July 5, 2019, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Hitty needs to recruit Prudence Fairweather as a guide. ^_~

  7. Pygar
    July 5, 2019, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Wonder if she’s in contact with Tigerlilly’s “friend” who was into Conestoga wagons…

    • Shadowmehr
      July 5, 2019, 8:13 am | # | Reply

      I can’t tell if that is a brilliant idea of a disaster in the making. She’d help them cross the country, but would it be worth the “improvements” made along the way.

  8. Pygar
    July 5, 2019, 12:44 am | # | Reply

    http://skin-horse.com/comic/can-we/

    Hadn’t realized how long it was since we’d seen Debbie… sigh…

    • Pygar
      July 5, 2019, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      By which I meant Imogene… Insomnia punctuated by fireworks, sorry. I hear her as either Judy Jetson or Penny Robinson. Who was always talking to a Bloop named… never mind.

  9. wykstrad
    July 5, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

    The real question you need to ask of anyone to determine what sort of person they are: are you a “ford the river” type, or a “caulk the wagon” type?

    • Candace
      July 5, 2019, 4:08 am | # | Reply

      You missed one. The “make dinner while someone else caulks the wagon” type. (Not necessarily advocating for traditional roles here, I just happen to like cooking and seeing to getting people fed – I’m not really an engineering type.)

      As for fording the river, I want to see someone else make it across successfully first.

      • awgiedawgie
        July 5, 2019, 4:55 am | # | Reply

        And then you have people like me, who like to do all of the above.

        Not at the same time, of course.

        • Robert Loughrey
          July 5, 2019, 4:11 pm | # | Reply

          never did understand why you couldn’t just calk the wagon and then try to ford the river. If it doesn’t work out you float…..

  10. evilmidnightlurker
    July 5, 2019, 1:33 am | # | Reply

    (sees new chapter title)

    …is that anything like “Slowly I turn!”

    • Daibhid C
      July 5, 2019, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

      In keeping with all Skin Horse titles being quotes from children’s literature, it’s from Mr Fox’s song in Fantastic Mr Fox by the great Roald Dahl.

      Home again swiftly I glide,
      Back to my beautiful bride.
      She’ll not feel so rotten
      As soon as she’s gotten
      Some cider inside her inside.

      • matteo
        July 8, 2019, 10:24 am | # | Reply

        And the other, even naughtier-sounding verse:

        Home again swiftly I glide,
        Back to my beautiful bride.
        She’ll not feel so hollow,
        If only she’ll swallow,
        Some cider inside her inside.

  11. greenknight32
    July 5, 2019, 3:16 am | # | Reply

    Hitty has hit on something, though (pun intended) – the Columbia River bridges (or any bridges) aren’t designed to take the weight of something the size of Annex One, she’ll have to wade across. The channel is dredged 43ft deep up to Portland, is that going to be a problem? Might want to cross farther upstream.

    • Candace
      July 5, 2019, 4:10 am | # | Reply

      Hmmm, you do have a point. Perhaps Hitty is starting to try to use metaphor conversationally, but just don’t quite have the knack down yet.

    • awgiedawgie
      July 5, 2019, 4:57 am | # | Reply

      43 feet wouldn’t even be waist-deep for Annex One.

      • greenknight32
        July 5, 2019, 7:35 am | # | Reply

        But are the lower floors water tight? Parts of Annex One could get flooded… though that might not be all bad, they might trap some salmon in there.

        • Mental Mouse
          July 5, 2019, 7:54 am | # | Reply

          They’ve been flooded before….

        • davidbreslin101
          July 5, 2019, 8:52 am | # | Reply

          If they mutate fast enough, the salmon could then help the fishborgs launch a coup against the crystal entities.

        • Sheik
          July 5, 2019, 4:21 pm | # | Reply

          I think we may be arguing in a vacuum here. All kinds of factors apply, like are the exit doors and windows on the feet strong enough to withstand 40 ft. of water pressure etc. If so, and if the fording is quick enough, then minor leaks are no problem. The water taken on will drain once out of the river. OTOH if not then the foot buildings will be so full of water just getting out of the river may be a problem due to the weight of water in those buildings.
          It is vexing.

          • awgiedawgie
            July 5, 2019, 4:58 pm | #

            Then again, if the building can (relatively) easily lift its legs to walk under normal conditions, lifting them when they’re full of water should be no problem.

    • cheshirecatco
      July 5, 2019, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

      If they’re following the Oregon Trail, they should cross around the Wallula Gap, south of the Tri-Citites, on the way to Walla Walla. The main channel is still a few dozen feet deep there, but it’s not wide and Annex One could probably step over that. The rest is shallow, as far as I know.

  12. Robert Nowall
    July 5, 2019, 10:08 am | # | Reply

    I hope Annex One has a pair of big rubber boots for when they ford the river.

    • Shadowmehr
      July 5, 2019, 10:21 am | # | Reply

      Check Tigerlily’s closet.

  13. BRGR
    July 5, 2019, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

    I assume that brutalist concrete buildings can swim.

    How does Mustachio know about Organ Trail?

    • awgiedawgie
      July 5, 2019, 1:11 pm | # | Reply

      Why wouldn’t he (assuming you meant to say Oregon Trail)?

      The Oregon Trail was established in the early 1800s. He was built in 1850. Not to mention he has had access to the internet for the past 30 years or so.

      • Robert Loughrey
        July 5, 2019, 4:13 pm | # | Reply

        When youre bolted to the floor, flash games are your friend. In his world, probably literally.

  14. Owlmirror
    July 6, 2019, 1:19 am | # | Reply

    Hitty, dearest . . . I fear I must once again remind you that you are non-biological. And, furthermore, given that your lovely fusion pi- device, that is, is currently running at full capacity with all the excess heat generation that implies, I truly believe that if, in the highly unlikely condition that some cholera bacteria, by some bizarre mischance, made it into your insides, the cholera would die of you.

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