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2018-05-14

by Jeffrey C. Wells on May 14, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Angry with the Sky
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  1. Robert Nowall
    May 14, 2018, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    According to Tolkien, that’s “nasturtians.”

  2. Bruce A Munro
    May 14, 2018, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Well, if they can’t see into his cockpit, presumably they will assume he’s just some asshole who insists on communicating by loudspeaker rather than landing his ‘copter to talk.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 14, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      I assume he’ll communicate via radio, since firefighters are wired up so they can communicate with each other and with air support.

    • Steven
      May 14, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      Or he can say he’s a fancy new remote-flown helicopter with speakers set up on the inside. That’s probably plausible enough for most people.

      • awgiedawgie
        May 14, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

        As long as they don’t happen to notice the brain in a jar sitting in the corner. 😛

        • Steven
          May 14, 2018, 2:34 am | # | Reply

          Given that they’re reality blind, they might just not see it at all!

          • Efogoto
            May 14, 2018, 12:10 pm | #

            He did say that they’re “brain-glazed”. I wonder how attractive K.T. and U.N.I.T.Y. find that?

          • awgiedawgie
            May 14, 2018, 12:17 pm | #

            Considering how Unity reacted to brains with butter, I imagine that glazed brains would be positively mouth-watering.

    • Landis963
      May 14, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      They’re reality-blind, probably. All he needs to do is tell the truth and they’ll translate it into something that “makes sense.”

      • awgiedawgie
        May 14, 2018, 12:33 am | # | Reply

        Not necessarily. Some people’s reality blindness is more extreme, so if he were to tell the truth about who he is, some of them might filter him out completely, and neither see nor hear him at all. That would be remarkably counter-productive. He’s better off fabricating the story himself and telling it in a believable way.

  3. casimir
    May 14, 2018, 3:04 am | # | Reply

    Bitey!

  4. K. Iceclaw
    May 14, 2018, 9:12 am | # | Reply

    Oh, how generous of you Nick.

  5. OneUniverse
    May 14, 2018, 10:21 am | # | Reply

    So Nick is powered by imaginary pizza and Mountain Dew? There may be atomic reactor to keep him going, but does Shelby do the other maintenance? How icky is that from Nick’s point of view?

    • awgiedawgie
      May 14, 2018, 7:00 pm | # | Reply

      I don’t see why that would be icky. After all, human males have male doctors who do “maintenance and repairs” (i.e. medical checkups and surgery). Nick doesn’t even have those private parts that make some men uncomfortable in the presence of doctors and nurses (a fact he has been quite vocal about).

  6. Guesticus
    May 14, 2018, 11:33 am | # | Reply

    Return of The Hat 😀

    • Pygar
      May 14, 2018, 12:38 pm | # | Reply

      Didn’t Virginia see the hat in the basement swamp?

      • awgiedawgie
        May 14, 2018, 7:22 pm | # | Reply

        Very briefly, and not very clearly (todays-comic-727). But the first time she got a good look at it was in the Colma sewers. Then Unity left it there with K.T. after their mission was over.

    • jdreyfuss
      February 3, 2020, 9:09 am | # | Reply

      And now that song is stuck in my head.

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 14, 2018, 6:17 pm | # | Reply

    Postponing my song parody to Tuesday or Wednesday, assuming anybody’s interested.

    • Pygar
      May 14, 2018, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      Always!

    • David B Huber
      May 15, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Your improvisations are one of the main reasons I read the comments.

  8. Shadowmehr
    May 14, 2018, 7:18 pm | # | Reply

    “Enjoy your cushy sewer duty” is a sentence that has probably only been uttered a half-dozen times throughout recorded human history. And with the zombies and a panicked gestalt consciousness in the mix, I’m not sure if it’s accurate here.

    • awgiedawgie
      May 14, 2018, 7:28 pm | # | Reply

      Somehow I’m inclined to think the only times it has ever been uttered were in connection with this comic. And “cushy” is relative. Sewer duty is certainly not “cushy” compared to sitting behind a desk, but when Nick considers what his own task might end up being like, he would rather be on sewer duty.

    • Pygar
      May 14, 2018, 10:20 pm | # | Reply

      Art Carney’s “Song of the Sewer” would be a good anthem for the swamp…

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