There is a video of an elephant seal trying to teach a scuba diver how to hunt penguins, and the scuba diver just Does. Not. Get. It. If the seal was the Babe Ruth of penguin hunting, the scuba diver was a batter hitting themselves in the nose with a wiffle bat.
Sometimes I feel like that elephant seal trying to teach Shaenon and Jeff how to write a horror comic. So many endings gone astray, from chapters such as “I have no mouth but I must kill” (AKA “I can fly”), “One birth, infinite deaths” (“Choose”), “With strange aeons, even death may die” (“Looking glass land”), “If you die in your dreams” (at least two chapters could have used this title), et cetera. By the way, horrific endings are tragic, but not all tragic endings are horrific.
There’s a difference between not getting something and actively not wanting to do it. Skin Horse is not a horror comic and never has been. I’m sure that’s entirely intentional.
The authors need my advice as surely as runty scuba divers need to devour decapitated penguins until they gain a few tons of body weight, and I will not let them down.
The point of the seal analogy is that it’s trying to get someone to do something they’re not interested in doing. Obviously the strip is not intended to be horror. I just thought it funny to imagine it as such. The joke didn’t go over.
Hugs! Delivered with the entire digestive system.
That’s kind of a rude thing to say in front of the big ugly snake.
well… ya know… the truth can sometimes be hard to swallow.
I think that drone is gonna be kinda hard on the snake’s digestive system.
But maybe Alfa/Bravo will get a chance to rescue Valiant.
Valiant’s sword will probably be hard on the snake’s digestive system, too.
I hate to say this, but Valiant could lose his hat.
It’s been obvious from the beginning that this was a bad plan. Are you really surprised?
This strip here? Peak Skin Horse, that’s what this is.
It’s all downhill from here
I wouldn’t worry. Robots make snakes all urpy.
Ooh… good recall!
No fangs. It’s probably a python. Valiant has plenty of time to cut his way back out.
Rapiers are mainly for stabbing, cutlasses are better for slashing. He might have something else hidden in a Hammer-space pocket.
Every good swashbuckler has a backup knife somewhere in their possession, it would just be a matter of deploying it properly.
There is a video of an elephant seal trying to teach a scuba diver how to hunt penguins, and the scuba diver just Does. Not. Get. It. If the seal was the Babe Ruth of penguin hunting, the scuba diver was a batter hitting themselves in the nose with a wiffle bat.
Sometimes I feel like that elephant seal trying to teach Shaenon and Jeff how to write a horror comic. So many endings gone astray, from chapters such as “I have no mouth but I must kill” (AKA “I can fly”), “One birth, infinite deaths” (“Choose”), “With strange aeons, even death may die” (“Looking glass land”), “If you die in your dreams” (at least two chapters could have used this title), et cetera. By the way, horrific endings are tragic, but not all tragic endings are horrific.
There’s a difference between not getting something and actively not wanting to do it. Skin Horse is not a horror comic and never has been. I’m sure that’s entirely intentional.
The authors need my advice as surely as runty scuba divers need to devour decapitated penguins until they gain a few tons of body weight, and I will not let them down.
If you’re going to insist on criticizing Shaenon and Jeff’s work, do it elsewhere. It’s incredibly rude, and has no place here.
The point of the seal analogy is that it’s trying to get someone to do something they’re not interested in doing. Obviously the strip is not intended to be horror. I just thought it funny to imagine it as such. The joke didn’t go over.
Nooo, valiant! We’ll miss you!
I had to check that Snakes weren’t one of Artie’s free ideas
http://skin-horse.com/comic/false-peace/
And I had to check this wasn’t the snake Artie met before. http://skin-horse.com/comic/eating-people/
If the snake is actually an Anasigma drone, it’s clearly not one the rat crew know about.