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2020-01-27

by shaenon on January 27, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Moe Lane
    January 27, 2020, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    He’s very Victorian, in his way.

    • sweetuncleLESLIE
      January 27, 2020, 1:23 am | # | Reply

      Yeah, guys like him were ‘In Injia’s sunny clime, where I used to spend my time, a-servin’ of her Majesty the queen…’ they MADE that Empire possible. Dress for dinner.
      Absurd.

      • kiralamouse
        January 27, 2020, 7:12 am | # | Reply

        “Dress for dinner” makes a lot of sense when you’re trying to avoid laundering too much, and so you wear your clothes only for a few hours at a time so the top layers don’t need it much. Obviously only the rich had the luxury of time to keep changing clothes, but there was a little practicality in there.

        • Robert Nowall
          January 27, 2020, 10:26 am | # | Reply

          I bought a suit about three and a half years ago. I wore it once.

          • awgiedawgie
            January 27, 2020, 6:12 pm | #

            I have a suit that I wear maybe once a year. I would actually enjoy dressing for dinner if I were in an environment where it was expected.

  2. Robert Nowall
    January 27, 2020, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    How much would you pay for that treatment at the spa?

  3. sweetuncleLESLIE
    January 27, 2020, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    Take my check? Post-dated a year or two?

  4. erinhalfelven
    January 27, 2020, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Tip’s sang froid is cooler than cat’s.

  5. ducksandwaddler
    January 27, 2020, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    From Marcie’s Very Secret Diary:

    “Good Morning, Doctor,” HT said. He tried, desperately, to hide the husky purr from his voice. Maybe Tip would think he just woke up.

    No one could know. He’d lose all credibility. The stakes were too high!

    “You again,” Tip said. Rattled by the sexy purrs (writing this doesn’t make a furry! – Marcie), and trying to hide his manful, true feelings, he blurted breathily: “You know full well I slept in the mud, in a ruin, surrounded by howling plant beasts!” …and you weren’t there! he cried, inside his head.

    Afraid his desperation showed, Tip added, hurriedly: “Not that I got any sleep–” because I was thinking of you! “–agonizing over this crisis.”

    As one, he and HT looked away from eachother. Took a breath. Surely he hadn’t spoken aloud?

    “And yet, you managed to change into yet another outfit,” growled HT. How had he missed THAT? His lids lowered as he looked deeply into Tip’s eyes…

    Tip tried to play it cool: “SOMEONE has to remain decent!”

    Would HT notice the fuzziness of his scarf? He touched it, self-consciously.

    Dun-dun-duuuunnnnn!

    Not as fun as the other one, but I hope this was similarly terri-bad enough to bring smiles to folks’ day. šŸ˜€

    I’d desperately wanted to include a line with Tip ‘dressing HT with his eyes–perhaps Chanel??’ but could not make it fit.

    *noms popcorn* šŸ˜€

    • ducksandwaddler
      January 27, 2020, 9:44 am | # | Reply

      [the rest of the notebook page is filled with tiny hearts and a hastily scribbled over image of Tip and HT doing smoochies; Chris has a new beard]

    • Jeff K!
      January 28, 2020, 2:04 am | # | Reply

      Good Lord! That’s… certainly one way to write a fanfic!
      Brava, good captain, bra-va!

  6. Barbara K
    January 27, 2020, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    Tip’s such a Wimsey Princess. (Except for that ā€œPurity Testā€.)

  7. Seph
    January 27, 2020, 11:01 am | # | Reply

    An outfit off which he somehow managed to keep the aforementioned mud.

    • Sheik
      January 27, 2020, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

      He has a wardrobe from the same company as Handsome Stranger’s.

  8. Robert Nowall
    January 27, 2020, 11:07 am | # | Reply

    I’m so tired, my worries will not cease.
    I’m so tired, there’s all those howling beasts.
    I may have changed my outfit, but that gave me no peace.
    No, no, no.

    I’m so tired, I spent the night in mud.
    I’m so tired, between us there’s bad blood.
    I wonder what you’re up to, ā€˜cause I know what you can do.

    You say what you do is right.
    But as Swamp-guy, you’ve started a blight.
    You know I can’t sleep, because of your reign.
    You know I will speak, you make me insane
    I know you’ll covet everything I’ve got,
    For a little piece of mine.

    I’m so tired, I’ll do what I can do.
    Although I’m so tired, I’ll do it for the rest of you.
    And praise the Mother Cypress,
    Though we’ve bidden her adieu.

    You say what you do is right.
    But as Swamp-guy, you’ve started a blight.
    You know I can’t sleep, because of your reign.
    You know I will speak, you make me insane
    I know you’ll covet everything I’ve got,
    For a little piece of mine.

    I know you’ll covet everything I’ve got,
    For a little piece of mine.

    I know you’ll covet everything I’ve got,
    For a little piece of mine.

    (H. T., H. T., H. T., how about another one?)

    —from “I’m So Tired,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

    • Manifesta
      January 27, 2020, 1:13 pm | # | Reply

      Bravo!

  9. David Vignola
    January 27, 2020, 3:37 pm | # | Reply

    I envy Tip’s fashion sense and powers.

  10. Robert Nowall
    January 27, 2020, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

    By the waymeet…how can Tip mention mud and not expect us to have a flashback to when he and Konstantin toplessly-wrestled in mud?

    • Clifton
      January 31, 2020, 12:42 pm | # | Reply

      … and of course, just a few comics later, we see…

      • awgiedawgie
        January 31, 2020, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

        Y’know, Clifton, even if you’re just giving away something that happens only a few strips later, it’s still a spoiler.

  11. David B Huber
    January 27, 2020, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

    I have a feeling that Tip can wield that scarf as a bolo, a garrote, a whip and numerous other weapons…

    Or is it concealing the absence of his explosive collar, hidden in an inner pocket to ricochet into action like Captain America’s shield?

  12. Shadowmehr
    January 27, 2020, 8:54 pm | # | Reply

    Well, as long as Tip can change outfits at a whim, we can be sure that he is not a plant. That kind of skill cannot be replicated, only learned over many long years.

    • Shadowmehr
      January 27, 2020, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

      I also want to note his hair now looks like Sweetheart’s when she was piloting the drone body.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 31, 2020, 6:55 pm | # | Reply

      Unless a plant can produce a new outfit from its own organic material.

  13. Frank
    January 28, 2020, 9:33 am | # | Reply

    dangit, you made me go back and look at his previous previous outfit… and it’s the same one! http://skin-horse.com/comic/at-the-next/

    • Trismegistus Shandy
      January 28, 2020, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      It’s similar, but not the same. The coat is the same style but a different color, he didn’t have a scarf before and he doesn’t have a hat now.

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