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2018-02-07

by shaenon on February 7, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Hundred Dresses
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  1. gyrre
    February 7, 2018, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    Why would you only keep *one*?

    BTW, are we sure Dr. Lee isn’t another late-bloomer mad?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2018, 12:22 am | # | Reply

      What? Did you miss all of yesterday’s comments about Virginia’s madness? The general consensus seems to be that if she’s not already mad, she’s dangerously close to it.

      • gyrre
        February 7, 2018, 5:24 am | # | Reply

        I haven’t had a chance to go through yesterday’s comments yet, so that’s a ‘yes’.

        Though, I will say that I’ve long suspected her to be a mad.

      • Daibhid C
        February 7, 2018, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

        I think I missed a fair chunk of yesterday’s comments, but I will stubbornly insist that Virginia is a sane student of mad science, because she’s more interesting that way. Nothing in today’s strip convinces me otherwise.

        (Have you seen some of the thing sane scientists have done?)

        • Daibhid C
          February 7, 2018, 1:52 pm | # | Reply

          I feel I’ve overstated my case here. I think Ginny doesn’t suffer from Walton’s Disorder; any other psychological issues are another matter.

      • felbloodreaper
        February 7, 2018, 4:52 pm | # | Reply

        Personally, I’m certain that Anasigma used her to reproduce the Narbon/Davenport research.

        So long as she never finds out she’s Mad, she’s fairly controllable.

        • alanoodle
          February 7, 2018, 6:34 pm | # | Reply

          Y’know. this is the scientist who created Unity. If’n that ain’t mad . . .

          • awgiedawgie
            February 7, 2018, 8:06 pm | #

            Not to mention her favourite pastime is schlorping out brains.

    • Jerry Aethers
      February 7, 2018, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      Na. Once you have one, you will feel the need to collect them all. This is typical geeky nerd behavior. What she really needs to do is slab and seal them in a protective plastic cover suitable for display purposes and then pose them on a wall shelf by alphanumerical order.

      • Jerry Aethers
        February 7, 2018, 12:31 am | # | Reply

        Extra bonus points if she has one that’s still Mint In The Box and has Never Been Opened.

        • Kitirena
          February 7, 2018, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

          Don’t you mean NFFP Mint? (Never Removed From Package, Near-Mint Condition)

          What? No geekiness here, I assure you! -_^

    • Jon
      February 7, 2018, 1:57 am | # | Reply

      I’m beginning to wonder if the distinction isn’t mostly academic anyway.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      February 7, 2018, 5:00 am | # | Reply

      Absolutely. We’re 100% sure that Dr. Lee is not a late-bloomer.

      • gyrre
        February 7, 2018, 5:27 am | # | Reply

        Just too much time spent around mads and their tech, then? She seemed rather excited about the prospect of extracting Sweetheart’s brain.

        • mahlernut
          February 7, 2018, 9:01 am | # | Reply

          Perfectly normal behavior! Plus, she doesn’t necessarily want to extract the brain for science…I seem to remember that she just really likes the sound. So maybe the question is more along the lines of “is she mad, or just insane”?

    • Barking Monkey
      February 7, 2018, 6:54 am | # | Reply

      Anyone from the DC area will immediately grasp the perfect internal logic (right down to Sweetheart’s reaction) in this – no madness required. Dr Lee didn’t make all the drones (dammit Jim, she’s a neuroscientist – not a mechanical engineer!) she just ‘borrowed’ them from Anasigma to defeat all the HOV lane cameras on our infamously congested local roads (my money’s on I-66 or 95 south). Storing them in the parking garage locker makes sense since it would look fishy leaving them in the car all day, and she may only need them intermittently depending on schedule so that’s why there’re so many stacked up. (She may put in a lot of long days and get out after the HOV lanes are ‘off’ for the day.)

      Sweetheart clearly thinks it’s “terrible” due to the transgression against local traffic rules.

      • casimir
        February 7, 2018, 10:10 am | # | Reply

        This explanation makes the most logical sense, so it clearly cannot be the right one.

      • Suzanne Barnes
        February 7, 2018, 11:13 am | # | Reply

        You have a dangerous talent for seeing through the obscure, Mister Barking Monkey. **steeples fingers Doctor Evil style** I would cultivate that if I were you.

      • Kitirena
        February 7, 2018, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

        @Barking Monkey: Your comment also applies quite well for the Everett-Seattle-Tacoma portion of the I-5 corridor. I’ve seen more than a few people IRL who have tried to use the HOV lanes with a RealDoll or the equivalent as a second “person” in their vehicle and get ticketed for it.

      • s854
        February 7, 2018, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

        Barking Monkey: That sounds entirely plausible, Virginia is evil, after all.

        • mickeyjf
          February 7, 2018, 6:45 pm | # | Reply

          That would be Northern Virgina, the infamous mixing bowl where 95 meets the beltway… Inspiration for the famous I-95 Asshole Song

    • Kitirena
      February 7, 2018, 12:25 pm | # | Reply

      We all know Virginia’s mad as a hatter, but her SAN is still high enough to function in the real world (bit like one of my roommates).

  2. awgiedawgie
    February 7, 2018, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Oh, come on, Sweetheart. What’s so terrible about it? You didn’t make some regulation against it, did you?

    It might be a little weird… disturbing… outré. But it’s not terrible.

    • Suzanne Barnes
      February 7, 2018, 11:14 am | # | Reply

      Hey, every girl’s gotta have a hobby!

    • OneUniverse
      February 7, 2018, 1:58 pm | # | Reply

      Could this explain your question about having “fun” with the drones from yesterday?

      • awgiedawgie
        February 7, 2018, 8:12 pm | # | Reply

        As Helen once said, “A mad scientist prepares for anything. It’s the ‘weird’, the outré, which must be most eagerly embraced.”

    • vincentmuyo
      February 7, 2018, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

      But it’s a mess in there!

  3. Frank
    February 7, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    And that’s clearly not in the parking area! See? Nothing to complain about!

  4. Leandro Toniut
    February 7, 2018, 12:24 am | # | Reply

    Fitting for a scientist that’s also a complete dork to feel it necessary to dress her models all different and even give them socks.

    • Kitirena
      February 7, 2018, 12:29 pm | # | Reply

      That’s not so weird. Dressing them up in different cosplay outfits, now THAT would be weird. -_^

      • OneUniverse
        February 7, 2018, 2:01 pm | # | Reply

        Socks are important! They keep the fluids from leaking out of the shoes.

        BTW, have you seen any of the Madblood robots around the PNW
        ?

  5. Towering Barbarian
    February 7, 2018, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Why would it be terrible as long as these drones are just machines? Now if they were flesh and blood bodies that were absent the brains of their previous owners then I could see reason for Sweetheart to become a tad concerned. ^_^

    • Chameon
      February 7, 2018, 12:48 am | # | Reply

      I mean, that MIGHT have been the collection that came out if Doc Lee had been ALLOWED to extract Sweethearts’ brain.

    • BRGR
      February 7, 2018, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Dr Lee expressly says those are experimental drones.
      The bodies of people whose brains she extracted are not experimental drones per se.

      The terrible thing is that the storage in the parking garage is used to store undeclared things. There needs to be a collection of forms that properly declare what all is stored there, for insurance purposes if nothing else.

      Which reminds me of the papers that the silverfish have eaten. Could that be the reason for the reality blindness epidemic?

      • gyrre
        February 7, 2018, 5:31 am | # | Reply

        Nick’s body became an MRE, what’s not to say casual canabalism isn’t Anasigma’s go-to method of body disposal?

    • Shadowmehr
      February 7, 2018, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

      Those are in the next storage space down. Dr. Lee keeps the brains in jars in a third space, hooked up to the machinery needed to keep them fresh and functioning. Just for research purposes, of course.

  6. joycemelton
    February 7, 2018, 12:56 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, the socks are hilarious. 🙂

  7. frithrikr
    February 7, 2018, 1:35 am | # | Reply

    Sweetheart should see if there’s a Mr. T robot, then ask for an Asian woman’s head to be stuck on it. That would tell if she were still dealing with reality blindness.

  8. Candace
    February 7, 2018, 1:56 am | # | Reply

    I’m very glad I didn’t happen to be enjoying a beverage while reading this strip. The results would likely have been unfortunate. Especially when I got to frame 3.

  9. Riniko
    February 7, 2018, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    I just hope she has shoes for them, I would not want Sweetheart’s new socks to get dirty as she walks her new drone out.

  10. Midwestmutt
    February 7, 2018, 7:13 am | # | Reply

    Ginny is starting her own version of a terra-cotta army.

  11. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2018, 9:15 am | # | Reply

    This has got to be the lamest orgy ever organized.

  12. Dr. Steve
    February 7, 2018, 10:34 am | # | Reply

    A drone army would be used for what purpose… by whom…?

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2018, 8:16 pm | # | Reply

      For world conquest, of course… and by whoever can muster such an army.

    • OneUniverse
      February 8, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      Standing in line for Black Friday sales?

  13. Pygar
    February 7, 2018, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

    How often does Nick get to drive one, and what do the two of them… never mind!

    • OneUniverse
      February 8, 2018, 12:05 am | # | Reply

      That’s tomorrow’s gag!

  14. davidbreslin101
    February 7, 2018, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

    I note the opaque glasses have made an appearance, as they sometimes do when Dr Lee veers sharply towards the Mad Scientist Event Horizon. Mind you, on at least one occasion it just meant “SO unimpressed I’m embarrassed for you.”

  15. Robert Nowall
    February 7, 2018, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

    I just remembered how anatomically inadequate Dr. Lee’s drones are—or else why isn’t Nick walking around in one?

    • John Doe
      February 7, 2018, 6:09 pm | # | Reply

      Because Nick is a helicopter, not a human.

      • Robert Nowall
        February 7, 2018, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

        Nick is just as human as the other humans in the Skin Horse regular cast.

        • John Doe
          February 8, 2018, 8:27 am | # | Reply

          Nick is a helicopter – he likes having props more than having hands.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 7, 2018, 8:20 pm | # | Reply

      Virginia didn’t make the Violet drone. It was an A-Sig creation. They merely used her system in it, so she was able to shut it down using the same override she had installed in Nick.

  16. Eva
    February 7, 2018, 3:39 pm | # | Reply

    Oh dear… Dr. Lee, have you been making drones in your spare time in a repressed expectation that Nick might someday want to not be a helicopter? Or have you just plummeted in sanity levels far faster than any of us expected?… O.O

  17. dave from indy
    February 7, 2018, 7:14 pm | # | Reply

    Of course they’re not wearing shoes – remember Anasigma’s rather detailed shoe care requirements? She probably has one properly shined set (male and female) safely stored for whatever drone gets used….

  18. darkstarlin
    February 7, 2018, 11:29 pm | # | Reply

    I mean, the whole point behind Dr Lee’s gig is that the stuff she makes is reproducible…

  19. WJS
    August 4, 2019, 5:42 am | # | Reply

    OK, somehow this is even stranger than her brain-schlorping shtick.

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