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2016-04-13

by shaenon on April 13, 2016 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Can't Catch Me
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  1. GammarayCanon
    April 13, 2016, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if the safehouse also contains the Flatwoods monster.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 24, 2016, 6:48 am | # | Reply

      No mere safehouse could contain the Flatwoods monster

    • Sir William
      April 25, 2016, 2:56 am | # | Reply

      Am I the only one imagining the blue monster there speaking in a scooting accent?

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 25, 2016, 3:07 am | # | Reply

        There’s a decent chance that you’re the only one who knows what a “scooting accent” even is

  2. Alphaghoul
    April 13, 2016, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    I thought that was a Chinese dragon.

    • thedoctor55
      April 13, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

      Or Fin Fang Foom trying to go under cover.

  3. Jon
    April 13, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    I like that he actually goes by “Chesapeake Bay Monster.” He probably has a normal name, but why would he use it?

    • Hielario
      April 13, 2016, 7:24 am | # | Reply

      Maybe the robot is being sassy.

      • Smithnik
        April 13, 2016, 12:13 pm | # | Reply

        Well, it IS Chessie for short. The USGS even named a really big manatee for him.
        http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2011/10/fieldwork5.html

  4. John Campbell
    April 13, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    He is real and he is cavemen.

  5. Alexander
    April 13, 2016, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    The Jersey Devil must be real! It was in that episode of the X-files!

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      April 24, 2016, 6:52 am | # | Reply

      There was never an X-Files episode with the Jersey Devil in it. Next you’re gonna be claiming there was an episode about the Face on Mars, but I know for a fact that that never happened.

  6. Frank Hightower
    April 13, 2016, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    I’m wondering now if Shannon planned the Jersey Devil all along or just picked it up from the comments

    • Frank
      April 13, 2016, 12:54 am | # | Reply

      *Shaenon
      I need more sleep

      • Robert Nowall
        April 13, 2016, 9:27 am | # | Reply

        What’s wrong with the name Shannon?

        • Noëlle
          April 13, 2016, 9:50 am | # | Reply

          Nothing at all, aside from that it’s not the cartoonist’s name.

    • GDwarf
      April 13, 2016, 5:23 am | # | Reply

      Very, very few webcomics are scripted *that* close to publication (and doing so’s a real nightmare), so I’m going to say it was always going to be the Devil, and the fans just know their cryptids. Especially since the ID of this critter could have a pretty big impact on the plot.

      • Daibhid C
        April 13, 2016, 7:10 am | # | Reply

        Also, the Monster of the Week strip for the Jersey Devil episode is basically all about how bitterly disappointed she was that it wasn’t the proper Jersey Devil, so I would guess she’s been wanting to have Proper Jersey Devil in the Narbonverse for a while.

        • davidbreslin101
          April 13, 2016, 9:47 am | # | Reply

          That was actually the first I knew of the Jersey Devil NOT being a caveman. (The original myth hadn’t reached us in Yorkshire.)

      • Rex Vivat
        April 13, 2016, 11:36 am | # | Reply

        There was that thing with Bubble’s name, but I imagine it didn’t take too long to adopt it. (I’m kind of assuming they took the cue from the comments, because if they didn’t… well, coincidence is possible, but unlikely.)
        Still, I don’t think reader cues were needed for the Jersey Devil. I mean, we all read Monster of the Week, right?

      • waytoomanyUIDs
        April 14, 2016, 7:53 am | # | Reply

        Well, It might have been inspired by all the Jersey Devil comments the first time they visited the Pine Barrens

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        April 24, 2016, 7:06 am | # | Reply

        To be fair, even a lot of people who don’t know their cryptids know about the Jersey Devil. Now, if all y’all had deduced an upcoming joke about barnacle geese or the Nameless Thing of Berkley Square ahead of time, that I’d be impressed by, but identifying a scary unseen monster in the rainy pine forests of New Jersey as the Jersey Devil is like identifying a scary unseen monster in the ocean as a shark (correctly deducing that the scary unseen monster in the rainy pine forests of New Jersey was a shark would have been impressive, though).

        • Rex Vivat
          April 24, 2016, 10:07 am | # | Reply

          There’s some creature lurking in Loch Ness! I wonder, what could it be?

  7. BMunro
    April 13, 2016, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Now, when you say it destroys all it meets, are we talking the lethal sort of destroying, or one of the other kinds?

    • Clifton
      April 13, 2016, 1:49 am | # | Reply

      Well they say it’s destroying *and* destroying all it meets, so I think that would be both. First it destroys it and then it destroys it.

      • relsqui
        April 13, 2016, 3:21 am | # | Reply

        https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater/status/706928900367106048 😀

  8. theysabet
    April 13, 2016, 1:59 am | # | Reply

    Aww! Chesapeake Bay Monster is kind of an asshole but adorable at the same time! I want to HUG him! <3

  9. Miyaa
    April 13, 2016, 2:15 am | # | Reply

    The governor of New Jersey maybe many things, but a monster he technically isn’t.

    • Ken
      April 13, 2016, 9:27 am | # | Reply

      Are you sure? Maybe he’s a men-in-black style monster hiding in that fat body.

      • Miyaa
        April 13, 2016, 7:25 pm | # | Reply

        Hence the “technical” part.

  10. Brad
    April 13, 2016, 5:37 am | # | Reply

    Hooray for Chessie!

  11. LittleSallyDigby
    April 13, 2016, 6:09 am | # | Reply

    Chessie is in New Jersey!? What did we do to drive them away? D:

    • Barking Monkey
      April 13, 2016, 7:03 am | # | Reply

      I REALLY want Chessie to be drinking a Natty Bo in that 3rd panel. Hopefully with the dulcet strains of an old Mary Prankster song (perhaps ‘Blue Skies over Dundalk’, or ‘Tits & Whiskey’) playing in the background.

  12. d'Glenn
    April 13, 2016, 6:24 am | # | Reply

    And how long ago did Chessie leave? Was it because nobody saved the heels of loaves of bread for them after Captain Chesapeake went off the air? Come back, Chessie — we have a convention named for you now!

    [Thanksgiving weekend, replacing Darkover.]

    • Smithnik
      April 13, 2016, 12:20 pm | # | Reply

      Also, since when does the Chesapeake Bay Monster have big ears? Those seem like a bad idea for a mostly underwater creature, and all the drawings I’ve seen of him as a cryptid make him resemble Nessie, with a smoothish head.
      This version suggests that he’s a land creature who is capable of hiding underwater, but even for an amphibian, those ears!
      No, I think this is really a small dragon, pretending to be Chessie for his own nefarious purposes.

    • Andy4Hire
      April 13, 2016, 6:52 pm | # | Reply

      Captain Chesapeake! Many’s the afternoon he and Chessie graced my television in the ’80s. (Also, once, my elementary school.) Hooray to d’Glenn for thinking of that one!

  13. stevemnd
    April 13, 2016, 8:33 am | # | Reply

    yay Chessie!

  14. Zap Rowsdower
    April 13, 2016, 8:43 am | # | Reply

    Maybe Mrs. Leeds was a mad scientist?

  15. Dr. Steve
    April 13, 2016, 8:44 am | # | Reply

    When the voice of reason emerged
    From mythical creature submerged
    Its safe to recall
    And tell to you all
    That sanity’s totally purged

  16. Robert Nowall
    April 13, 2016, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    On first glance, thought that was a foot and a red sneaker on the Chesapeake Bay Monster in Panel Three…a closer look and it’s a hand and a beer can / soda can.

  17. Bergerjacques
    April 13, 2016, 10:48 am | # | Reply

    I was wondering where old Green Face took off, too. Haven’t seen him running around the hills in years. Apparently, he’s been recruited by Lovetron.

  18. Alabat Macord
    April 13, 2016, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

    “Uncle Shelby” was not actually with the group yet when they heard the loud screechy monster type noise. I’m thinking shape shifting and perhaps telepath. Or he could be just Uncle Shelby getting caught up in circumstances that make him look bad.

  19. Alabat Macord
    April 13, 2016, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

    Meanwhile Alfie hasn’t given up yet.

  20. Shadowmehr
    April 13, 2016, 7:46 pm | # | Reply

    When your voice of reason is a monster that most consider imaginary, you know that things are deep and dire indeed.

  21. KHNO
    April 14, 2016, 12:58 pm | # | Reply

    could someone provide a bit of context? I only know the jerseys of the red devils of the national football/soccer team of Belgium…

    • Rick
      April 14, 2016, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

      A legendary monster roaming the pine barrens in the southern portion of the state of New Jersey here in the US.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_Devil

  22. Roburrito
    September 26, 2018, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    I was picturing him being voiced by Chris Rock…

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