Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
  • About Us
  • Cast
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Sponsors
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2012-10-02
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(29) Next › Last ››

2012-10-02

by shaenon on October 2, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
Comments RSS

Discussion (29) ¬

  1. Klyfix
    October 2, 2012, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Hmm, looks like the robot cat is being let out of the bag.

  2. James Moar
    October 2, 2012, 12:17 am | # | Reply

    “looks like the robot cat is being let out of the bag”
    Why bring Doraemon into this?

  3. eddddd the mad genius
    October 2, 2012, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    So it can draw, too. its a very talanted acronym-creating super computer.

  4. Daibhid Ceannaideach
    October 2, 2012, 2:25 am | # | Reply

    Don’t worry, Violet, you can always push her off the tree later…

  5. Peregrin
    October 2, 2012, 4:15 am | # | Reply

    Psychic wallpaper.

  6. Kroykali
    October 2, 2012, 4:25 am | # | Reply

    “I think it rewards a deep reading”.

    What?

  7. davidbreslin101
    October 2, 2012, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    Oh, nice. Looking back, it was Sergio who read the writing on the moon, not Violet- she was just expecting something like that to happen.

  8. Glenn
    October 2, 2012, 7:19 am | # | Reply

    I think Dr. Lee should be reading “How to Appreciate Vogon Poetry, vol 3” by A. Dent, in order to take advantage of this opportunity…

    • Dewy
      October 2, 2012, 7:35 am | # | Reply

      How to Appreciate Vogon Poetry has been banned in 37 galaxies. In fact, the only known place in the universe where it is currently not punishable by death to read it out load is a small Coffee shop in Leesburg, VA, Earth on open mic night. This is mitigated by the fact that the coffee is horrible and nobody actually is in attendance.

    • Shadowmehr
      October 2, 2012, 4:02 pm | # | Reply

      I loved my copy of that . . . , at least until the M.I.B. confiscated it. Something about it causing insanity and death in sentients. Like that’s a bad thing?

      • Rex Vivat
        October 3, 2012, 12:46 pm | # | Reply

        They just don’t like the competition.

    • JET73L
      February 20, 2015, 8:36 am | # | Reply

      How to Appreciate Vogon Poetry, vol. 1: Pierce your eardrums deeply enough to damage the tiny bones in each ear. Think fondly of terrible, plastic-wrapped sandwiches.

      Volume 2: Make up review-sounding words and phrases. Do NOT imply that the Vogon author is anything but a sadistic slimeball through-and-through.

      Volume 3: If the other instructions are impossible to enact, attempt to either bite through your tongue so they think you’ve drowned in your own blood or, if that doesn’t work, look at the Langford fractal printed on the folded-shut next page.

  9. KeeCoyote
    October 2, 2012, 7:33 am | # | Reply

    I expecialy like chapter 3 of that book. The 4,000 things easily found, that can plug up a aural chamber.

  10. Kirt Dankmyer
    October 2, 2012, 7:48 am | # | Reply

    Interesting. I am amused by being wrong yesterday. 🙂

  11. maarvarq
    October 2, 2012, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    I love how GODOT feels obliged to add an arrow pointing at Violet in the third panel, somewhat pointedly implying that it regards dear Ginny as a bit slow.

  12. Manifesta
    October 2, 2012, 9:36 am | # | Reply

    Unfun Facts to Know and Tell: The axolotl (“ajolote”) is in decline (http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72656281/). Though, given their history, Ginny and Sergio might be glad to hear it.

    • eddddd the mad genius
      October 2, 2012, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

      🙁
      you made the comments sad

  13. Daniel Barkalow
    October 2, 2012, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    I like how we’re seeing drawings that only make sense from our perspective, not from Dr. Lee’s. I’d guess that Dr. Lee sees something a bit different, because she’s not confused.

    • Frank
      October 2, 2012, 11:23 am | # | Reply

      Remember what UNITY said: it affects how we interpret what’s already on the wall. The drawings, themselves, do not exist

      …sort of like a mischievous babelfish

    • PDP15
      October 2, 2012, 10:01 pm | # | Reply

      That’s a little scary, actually. It means that our brains are being manipulated, too. Perhaps Shaenon is onto something here…

  14. Rob, Arbiter of Reality
    October 2, 2012, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

    Great. This means that the only being that can be relied upon to be able to safely navigate a way off the St. Charlie is the Anasigma team leader.

    <Ed Grimley voice>”Oh, they’re doomed as doomed can be, I must say.”</>

  15. Masashi
    October 2, 2012, 3:26 pm | # | Reply

    Question: Since Violet cannot see GODOT’s writings, and should not have expected to see them, why did she write “widget” on the wall, risking exposure of her secret?

    • Robert The Addled
      October 2, 2012, 3:30 pm | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure during the unity lurch sequence unity determines that it is targeted at individuals – rather than being broadcast to a room.

      • Robert The Addled
        October 2, 2012, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

        And furthermore it works (according to unity’s conjecture) by manipulating portions of the brain – portions that VB does not contain……being non-organic.

        • Masashi
          October 2, 2012, 5:01 pm | # | Reply

          Hence, what did Violet expect to learn by writing “widget” on the wall?

          As opposed to, say, telling Virginia: “I’m leaving to check on Sergio. Write some words on the wall, and see if anything happens.”

          • Sandy C
            October 2, 2012, 6:17 pm | #

            It was probably less suspicious than handing over the chalk to the subordinate; Violet was probably hoping to play along. A gamble, of course, but better than getting Virginia suspicious early on.

            (Of course, now that GODOT’s blown the secret open anyway…)

  16. Treesong
    October 2, 2012, 5:56 pm | # | Reply

    Violet expected to see what Virginia saw, or something like it, not knowing how Godot in fact communicates. Which, by the way, I would not call pareidolia, since it seems to work by imposition of images rather than reinterpretation of what’s being seen.

    • PDP15
      October 2, 2012, 9:59 pm | # | Reply

      More likely, Violet remembered the moon writing (which she didn’t see but presumably the others described, even though that was not explicit in the strip) and anticipated the same here, that Dr. Lee would read the writing aloud or otherwise reveal it.

  17. Bartimaeus
    October 2, 2012, 6:44 pm | # | Reply

    Damn, GODOT’s pretty clever.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More by Jeff

  • The Scrivnarium

More by Shaenon

  • Horror Every Day
  • Li'l Mell
  • Monster of the Week
  • Narbonic
  • Shaenon.com
Creative Commons License
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.skin-horse.com.

©2007-2022 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑