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2013-01-05

by shaenon on January 5, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Ebony Sable
    January 5, 2013, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Ah-ha! I’m sure I remember someone commenting that she was probably a drone! Well caught to whoever that was!

    • Axel
      January 5, 2013, 5:50 am | # | Reply

      I definitely commented that during her non-interaction with GODOT! Only to realize at least half a dozen people did before me. It’s been a popular theory, presumably because, well, that’s where the evidence pointed.

    • Rex Vivat
      January 5, 2013, 12:26 pm | # | Reply

      Also, It’s probably not true, like everything VB says about herself.

  2. Norman
    January 5, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I think VB has just volunteered to be bait. Unless (s)he has some more glial essence to to make something less sapient than (s)he is the bait instead, assuming something less sapient can be found aboard St. Charlie, other than some experiments that would have to be rebooted after the big KACHUNK shut them all off…
    Perhaps if they gave Sergio a box of random parts and told him it was an RC mini-mecha-saur kit?

    • drbrain
      January 5, 2013, 8:46 am | # | Reply

      she did say she was about done with presenting as violet bee.

    • Frank
      January 5, 2013, 10:53 am | # | Reply

      “less” sapient? I’m pretty sure Sapience is one of those things that you either have or you don’t

      • Sheik
        January 5, 2013, 1:49 pm | # | Reply

        That’s debatable, considering the number of people I know who seem to be in a competition to prove just how sub-human a member of the genus Homo can go.

        • ysabet
          January 6, 2013, 9:00 am | # | Reply

          TOTAL AGREEMENT HERE. I think some people deliberately lose their sapience membership cards.

  3. Anderson
    January 5, 2013, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    Hmm. If you had a bottle of said glial extract, you could lure the zombies wherever you wanted them. Which as Left 4 Dead 2 has shown me, is really great when combined with explosives. Or lasers. Both of which I’m sure St.Charlies has in copious amounts.

    • Robert The Addled
      January 5, 2013, 5:51 am | # | Reply

      I was looking at Unity’s expression – either everything is now food to her, or enemy zombies doused w/ glial perfume will devour each other.

      • Shadowmehr
        January 5, 2013, 7:11 am | # | Reply

        Wow.

        Both possiblities are so potentially awesome that I have no idea which one to hope for.

        • Robert The Addled
          January 5, 2013, 8:28 am | # | Reply

          Paradigms aren’t just shifting in her brain – it looks like the gearbox has exploded.

          On a related note, The ‘perfume’ plot note has been used before a couple of times now between Narbonic and Skin-Horse – when Artie was first transmogrified into his present humanoid form – Helen dabbed something on him to simulate homan B.O., and the ‘essence of daveness’ during the gender-swap to dave-con storyline.

      • Classic Steve
        January 5, 2013, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

        UNITY already considers everything food, except things she might want to keep around later, like co-workers.

  4. ericscoles
    January 5, 2013, 3:18 am | # | Reply

    But I thought GODOT’s tricks _did_ work on her….

    • Eddurd
      January 5, 2013, 5:25 am | # | Reply

      Not according to this strip:
      http://skin-horse.com/2012/that-followed/

    • Daibhid C
      January 5, 2013, 5:28 am | # | Reply

      Nope, the point’s always been that GODOT can’t change what Violet sees. GODOT’s been smart enough to use that to its advantage (talking with Dr Lee behind Violet’s back right in front of her), but if everyone’s taking cues from what Violet says things read, GODOT’s sunk.

      Of course, this is an excellent opportunity for Violet to start claiming things say whatever she wants, to advance her own agenda…

      • DonRCamp
        January 5, 2013, 8:40 am | # | Reply

        Behind Violet’s back right in front of her? Is Violet a hypercube?

        • Max
          January 6, 2013, 6:58 am | # | Reply

          Not necessarily. According to some, space might simply wrap around itself at infinity like the surface of a globe – so if one could see far enough one might see his own back in the distance. Ergo…

      • Saberbeam
        January 5, 2013, 5:41 pm | # | Reply

        Unless GODOT has planned for Violet being there by, say, tricking people into creating and/or altering the text that our heroes need Violet to read. A good villian has contingency plans for their contingency plans.

  5. Eddurd
    January 5, 2013, 5:21 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Rhythm Of The Rain”, The Cascades)

    Sniff and smell the scent of artificial brains!
    Put a little dab behind each ear!
    You take away the tissue, just the smell remains,
    Which draws the zombies all to here!

    The extract of the glia is a subtle scent,
    Doesn’t overpower all the room …
    It doesn’t leave your sinuses all burnt and bent
    (The opposite of Tip’s perfume!)

     Zombies attracted to the brainy smell!
     They hunger, and so their appetites compel!
     And once they are gathered, they’ll be blown to hell
     And away!

    (Oh, sniff and smell the scent of brains …
    (Sniffle snuffle sniffle snuffle, ooh-ooh-ooh …)

  6. RedFeather
    January 5, 2013, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    So wait. If Violet’s a drone, then not all appearances of “her” even have to be the same person controlling the drone, right?

  7. Frank
    January 5, 2013, 11:00 am | # | Reply

    I’m surprised Sweetheart didn’t have a go at Violet like when she gave them *ahem* Braaaaaains in Buuuuuutter

  8. Tetra Valent
    January 5, 2013, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

    A little dab’ll do ya. And if you’re female, so will Tip.

    • Grantwhy
      January 6, 2013, 12:20 am | # | Reply

      I was going to snark a remark about these days with Tip all you need is a pulse, but then I remembered that Tip attempted to romance Unity not long after they first started working, so even a pulse may be optional?

  9. mrtt
    January 17, 2013, 3:07 pm | # | Reply

    B1 sauce! Make that slab of steak taste like brains, mmm mmm yum.
    Sold now in all stores for only 9.99 a bottle, look for the Happy Zombie (TM) logo.

  10. JET73L
    February 21, 2015, 6:53 am | # | Reply

    Mmm… brain-flavoured, steel-bodied automobiles…

  11. TheLivingNick
    July 16, 2015, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    UNITY: This … changes … EVERYTHING!

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