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2020-08-10

by shaenon on August 10, 2020 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Muddled Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox
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  1. Moe Lane
    August 10, 2020, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    “What’s your superpower?”
    “I’m rich.”

    • jdreyfuss
      August 10, 2020, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      “I was born on third base, but at least I know I didn’t hit a triple to get here.”

      • Frank
        August 10, 2020, 2:34 pm | # | Reply

        He kind of did http://skin-horse.com/comic/then-hed/

  2. palenoue
    August 10, 2020, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    I bought a lot of Apple stock in 1987. Can I ride the giant robot now?

    • Robert Nowall
      August 10, 2020, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

      You wait your turn. There are guys who bought IBM still waiting.

  3. Muhamad Adhi Setiadi
    August 10, 2020, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    “Well, maybe we can ask our resident not-so-mad scientist to suit you a power armor”

    • Candace
      August 10, 2020, 1:54 am | # | Reply

      Well, I’m sure Dr. Lee would enjoy taking on that project, but only if she can schlorp Renard’s brain.

    • OneUniverse
      August 10, 2020, 11:49 am | # | Reply

      Somehow I don’t think Reynard will look as hot as Dr. Lee will in the power suit.

      • Candace
        August 11, 2020, 12:36 am | # | Reply

        No one would look as hot as Dr. Lee does in the power suit. Not even Tip. (It’s just not really his style.)

  4. Robert Nowall
    August 10, 2020, 12:34 am | # | Reply

    Speak to Unity about feeding cats.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 10, 2020, 2:23 am | # | Reply

      Feeding cats to whom?

      • Robert Nowall
        August 10, 2020, 7:58 am | # | Reply

        Feeding whom to cats?

        • Shadowmehr
          August 10, 2020, 1:01 pm | # | Reply

          Surprisingly, it could go either way.

          • awgiedawgie
            August 10, 2020, 8:00 pm | #

            Depending on the people and the cats.

  5. Ray Ceeya
    August 10, 2020, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    LOL I know the exact game he’s talking about and I got hooked on it for weeks.

    • Alphaghoul
      August 10, 2020, 3:32 am | # | Reply

      What game is it?

      • Cait
        August 10, 2020, 7:08 am | # | Reply

        Most likely Neko Atsume.

  6. Candace
    August 10, 2020, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    Well, it appears the New Skin Horse agency has just found an angel investor.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 10, 2020, 10:35 am | # | Reply

      If “secretive corporate head” is part of the job requirements, I believe Skin Horse has an opening for a new security guard.

  7. Alphaghoul
    August 10, 2020, 3:31 am | # | Reply

    So he doesn’t actually do any work running the company? What happens if the reality blindness kicks in and the executives don’t know who’s getting all that money and just cut him off?

    • 5-tons-of-flax
      August 10, 2020, 4:41 am | # | Reply

      On the internet, nobody knows you’re a fox.

      • s854
        August 10, 2020, 4:57 am | # | Reply

        By the same token, no-one knows you aren’t Raul Castro. That could be a problem.

        • Barking Monkey
          August 10, 2020, 6:26 am | # | Reply

          Raul, is that you?

          • Frank
            August 10, 2020, 2:12 pm | #

            If it is, the world’s been wondering what did your brother die of. There seems to be a bit of confusion.

      • Sheik
        August 10, 2020, 1:37 pm | # | Reply

        Heck, when it comes to checks in the mail the only indication they have of when not to send them is someone notifies them of your death. And even then the heirs get it, again through the mail. And even the term “mail” is usually electronic these days. They only send paper for your records.
        Ownership of a business only terminates with the death of the business.

    • Daibhid C
      August 10, 2020, 7:27 am | # | Reply

      Reality blindness seeks the most normal explanation. In this case the executives are less likely to think “Why are we giving money to a fox?” and more likely to think “We can’t be giving money to a fox, therefore this money isn’t going to a fox.”

      Even if they met him, I think they’d be “Why are people claiming this ordinary fox is Renard, our boss?”, not “How has our boss has been an ordinary fox the whole time?”

      • Frank
        August 10, 2020, 2:24 pm | # | Reply

        ah, but he’s not ordinary! He was created to look like a mascot http://skin-horse.com/comic/then-hed/

        • awgiedawgie
          August 10, 2020, 9:29 pm | # | Reply

          He was created to be a mascot. That doesn’t mean that be was created to look like one, per se.

          • Candace
            August 11, 2020, 12:40 am | #

            Also, Renard is by definition not an ordinary fox, whether he looks like one or not.

    • jdreyfuss
      August 10, 2020, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      He probably owns it through a shell company. Get through enough layers and no one is around who cares enough to check your SSN.

      • awgiedawgie
        August 10, 2020, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

        He may be referring to the biotech company that created him, in which he now owns controlling stock.

        • jdreyfuss
          August 11, 2020, 8:12 am | # | Reply

          Right, and he probably doesn’t own the stock in his name. He probably filters it through three or four LLCs derived from each other.

  8. Robert Nowall
    August 10, 2020, 7:58 am | # | Reply

    What about #12? Can he stay? His skill is murdering them in their sleep…

    • Shadowmehr
      August 10, 2020, 1:04 pm | # | Reply

      Well, they do need someone a bit more subtle than U.N.I.T.Y., but with a similar skill set.

      • Cheshire777
        August 10, 2020, 10:23 pm | # | Reply

        I’m now picturing the Skin Horse team para-dropping #12 out of Nick onto an enemy fortress and then just driving by to pick him up a week later. Sort of an “ask me no questions and i’ll tell you no lies” situation.

    • awgiedawgie
      August 10, 2020, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

      His skill is murdering someone in their sleep. It’s not necessarily anyone around here.

  9. Robert Nowall
    August 10, 2020, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

    I heard the building comin’
    It’s loomin’ from on high.
    And I was trapped by H. T.
    And, I don’t know why.
    I’m stuck with Annex One now,
    And I might be a dope.
    But I must keep a-talkin’,
    ‘Cause they’re my only hope.

    When I was just created,
    The lab boys told me, “Fox,
    We’re just a bio-startup,
    We’ll never be Fort Knox.”
    But I cornered all their assets
    And outsourced all their jobs.
    When I see that building walkin’
    I hang my head and sob.

    I bet there’s people soakin’
    In a fancy hot-tub room.
    And probably Cuba Libres
    And discos, I assume.
    But I know I picked a loser,
    I know I screwed up bad.
    But that building keeps a-movin’
    And that’s what makes me sad.

    Well, if they let me join their outfit,
    If their sanctuary’s fine,
    I’d wow them with my holdings,
    With some dollar signs.
    Joining Annex One now,
    That’s where I want to stay.
    And I’d stop that crazy turtle
    Killing them away.

    —from “Folsom Prison Blues,” Johnny Cash.

    • nebulousrikulau
      August 10, 2020, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

      Is it weird that I heard that in The Man in Black’s voice from the first line?

      • Robert Nowall
        August 10, 2020, 10:04 pm | # | Reply

        Well, it’s supposed to be The Fox in Silver…

  10. DarknessShallFall
    August 10, 2020, 10:39 pm | # | Reply

    I own 0000000.01% of Walt Disney and have the certificate to prove it, can I join in on the giant robot?

  11. Leslie Piper
    August 11, 2020, 12:23 am | # | Reply

    And I have a roomfull of stock in a company we used to have, where we made the most advanced charging systems for elecrtric and hybrid vehicles. A certain huge auto company stole our patents. I can contribute tales of Silcone Valley. Watch your backAlso words to live by..Let me ride, , Sweetheart.

    • Robert Nowall
      August 11, 2020, 7:30 am | # | Reply

      True dat. If you want to get rich, never invent something to go on a car. Ask the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper.

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