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2013-07-17

by shaenon on July 17, 2013 at 12:00 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. jdreyfuss
    July 17, 2013, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    This little piggy went *shudder* all the way home.

    • Efogoto
      July 17, 2013, 1:09 am | # | Reply

      HAHAHAHAHA!

      Ah, thank you.

  2. Dave Van Domelen
    July 17, 2013, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Tip will always be a princess to us.

    • bigbearseviltwin
      July 17, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

      or even higher on the royalty ladder

      • TheSexyMenhir
        July 17, 2013, 1:32 am | # | Reply

        Now that you mention it: He probably would make a good evil queen.

        • Dark_Razor
          July 17, 2013, 5:52 am | # | Reply

          I wouldn’t say evil queen.
          Maybe evil.
          He’d be the sort whose perfectly agreeable as long as he is supplied with an endless supply of gowns, sundresses, and any other feminine wear.
          It’s when one of the suppliers forgets that he becomes Evil.
          That and when, in the one out of a million chance, he is shot down by someone

    • Dorcus
      July 17, 2013, 8:23 pm | # | Reply

      Tip gets the consolation prize:

      Nick makeover.

      “Totally worth it.”

  3. jdreyfuss
    July 17, 2013, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    It also reminds me of this.

    • Konrad
      July 17, 2013, 9:03 am | # | Reply

      I thought you were going to link to this.

  4. Anderson
    July 17, 2013, 12:40 am | # | Reply

    Built in the 60’s? Yeah. Figures.

    Admittedly, I tend to get like this when people get into too much detail about their “recreational activities”, and I was “built” in 1992.

    • drbrain
      July 17, 2013, 6:47 pm | # | Reply

      presumably you know better than to ask!

      • Dorcus
        July 17, 2013, 8:21 pm | # | Reply

        Meanwhile, I’m scheduled to go to a bachelorette party where there is a non-zero probability of a donkey show before all’s said and done.

        I get to be the designated driver.

        Clearly I make poor life decisions.

  5. CrazyDreamer
    July 17, 2013, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    “Without going blind”? Tip doesn’t . . . ? I guess when you can just go out to a bar and end up in bed by the last panel, you don’t need to.

  6. Manifesta
    July 17, 2013, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    In panel 4, that definitely looks like a helmet reflecting light at the top. Perhaps Tip was only miming his embibing yesterday? That, or the helmet has an invisible one-way tea valve, which wouldn’t even be the silliest thing in this story. At the very least, a helmet would act as a chastity belt for tongue kisses, thus preserving princess purity.
    “Pig and pals preserve princess purity with protective pinnacle perimeters.” Say that three times fast!

  7. Andrew
    July 17, 2013, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    Tip’s dirrrty.

  8. History_PhD
    July 17, 2013, 4:21 am | # | Reply

    Tip would make a great Czarina…
    Very much in the Catherine the Great model.

  9. TFC
    July 17, 2013, 6:11 am | # | Reply

    And of course the rabbit is the one who says it…

  10. mittfh
    July 17, 2013, 7:54 am | # | Reply

    So we’ve had the candidate who aced all the physical / practical tasks, but failed miserably on the purity test.

    So will attention now turn to the reluctant candidate who would ace the purity test but would probably need intensive training by the losing candidate before attempting Whimsy’s own training regime?

    • davidbreslin101
      July 17, 2013, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      Thanks to “Tales of Monkey Island,” my first thought was to use the Combine Inventory function to merge Tip and Nick into a being called… Tick? Nip?

    • Claire Connelly
      July 17, 2013, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      Ah, but Nick has closely studied the entire Whimsy oeuvre, so princessing might come surprisingly naturally to him.

      • =Tamar
        July 17, 2013, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

        Nick also won’t have any trouble with the physical elements, if they bother with that – the android body doesn’t get tired.

  11. Daibhid C
    July 17, 2013, 8:11 am | # | Reply

    And this is where being a shut-in turned helicopter finally pays off!

  12. FlyingFish
    July 17, 2013, 9:08 am | # | Reply

    “Hey, you asked!”

    • Shadowmehr
      July 17, 2013, 7:11 pm | # | Reply

      “Yes, we asked questions. We did not ask for the charts and graphs, the glossary page, and the step by step instructions for the olive oil. I will NEVER be able to look at a feather duster again, and I fully expect to have nightmares about the guacamole tonight. Sweet Mickey I need a freaking milkshake.”
      “Me, too.”
      “Same here.”
      “SKREEEEEE!”
      “I’m buying.”
      (*sounds of robots shuffling off into the background*)

  13. SamD
    July 17, 2013, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    Like most people, they don’t understand that Tip has a superpower. It’s not a choice on his part; it just is what it is. And all beings with superpowers must use them. It’s fate; no sense in fighting it….

  14. Wolfmanjim
    July 17, 2013, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

    Silly rabbit. Sexual intercourse began in 1963… Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP

    • Smithnik
      July 17, 2013, 4:03 pm | # | Reply

      Yes, but it hadn’t caught on yet, so the Whimsy characters hadn’t really noticed.

  15. Saberbeam
    July 17, 2013, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

    So did the Whimsy robots questionnaire cover everything, or did Tip have to spend hours on a “List other activities not becoming of a princess” section? I’m guessing the latter.

  16. woozy
    July 17, 2013, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

    “We need a princess. We’ve got a fantastic candidate, really the first one in *years*. But he failed the purity taste so he’s out.”

    Reminds me of the don’t ask don’t tell days.

  17. WW
    July 17, 2013, 9:48 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm. There is no “purity test” that gets to tongues on Q1. Most of them start much milder. It also reminds me of Pratchett’s Nanny Ogg…

  18. TSOJ
    July 17, 2013, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just the angle, or is Unity missing her animal ears in panel 1?

  19. bigbearseviltwin
    July 17, 2013, 10:55 pm | # | Reply

    No one seems to have noticed or at lest commented on the pig sweating.
    Or was that phrase just a north east expression?

  20. JET73L
    March 3, 2015, 6:13 pm | # | Reply

    Wilkin: Whorier Princess. He’s not a classic-era Whimsy Princess, but he could be a VERY successful Princess/Psychologist/Bureaucrat on USA, The WB/CW, or (depending on what ends up on-screen) HBO.

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