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2018-09-04

by shaenon on September 4, 2018 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Figgs and Phantoms
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  1. Alphaghoul
    September 4, 2018, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    Well, you should still criticize for taking so long to give you a straight answer.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 4, 2018, 12:32 am | # | Reply

      It’s a kid. For her, those are straight answers.

    • codebracker
      September 4, 2018, 11:41 am | # | Reply

      You should have asked better questions

  2. Pygar
    September 4, 2018, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    Oh, *she’s* Beatrix!

    • thejoemoose
      September 4, 2018, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      References, please?

      • rylen
        September 4, 2018, 8:32 am | # | Reply

        There is a Beatrice who guides the poet Dante through Paradise.

        • Efogoto
          September 4, 2018, 6:57 pm | # | Reply

          nitpick: Beatrice was a woman he loved, the poet Virgil guided him through Hell.

          • s854
            September 4, 2018, 7:37 pm | #

            Efogoto: Paradise isn’t Hell. Or, at least, it wasn’t meant to be. Both Virgilio and Beatrice act as guides in the Divine Comedy.

      • Jim Phillips
        September 4, 2018, 8:33 am | # | Reply

        I remember a series of commercials from the 80’s for Beatrice Foods that ended with the tagline, “We’re Beatrice”.

        • Pygar
          September 4, 2018, 11:52 am | # | Reply

          Yes, it was those insanely annoying commercials- I figured this crowd would spot me the exact spelling…

    • Efogoto
      September 4, 2018, 3:34 am | # | Reply

      Beatrix Potter?

    • OneUniverse
      September 4, 2018, 1:39 pm | # | Reply

      Is she Tigerlily or her love child? Is Beatrix’s last name Jones?

      • awgiedawgie
        September 4, 2018, 9:08 pm | # | Reply

        Well, Tigerlily’s first name is Berenice.

  3. Shay Guy
    September 4, 2018, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    Missing period?

    • Moe Lane
      September 4, 2018, 12:50 am | # | Reply

      …Interestingly, if one reads your question the *other* way it might actually be an workable method for determining whether this is a Whimsey VR setup.

    • casimir
      September 4, 2018, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Thank you. You have saved me from trying to parse that sentence for the next five minutes.

    • BarGamer
      September 4, 2018, 1:05 am | # | Reply

      Well, Lee IS missing punctuation in Panel 1…

      • Frank
        September 4, 2018, 2:19 am | # | Reply

        She’s just that lost and confused

    • Steven
      September 4, 2018, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      But really, aren’t we ALL where are we?

      • woozy
        September 4, 2018, 1:33 am | # | Reply

        “But really, aren’t we ALL where are we?”

        Guy comes home finds his wife in bed in the middle of the day. Goes to the closet and finds his best friend naked.

        “Earl,” he asks “Why are you in my closet?”

        “Well, everything has to be somewhere” Earl answers.

      • awgiedawgie
        September 4, 2018, 2:20 am | # | Reply

        In the words of the great Buckaroo Banzai, “remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”

    • Robert Nowall
      September 4, 2018, 8:32 am | # | Reply

      Are congratulations in order?

      • Ogden Wernstrom
        September 4, 2018, 10:43 pm | # | Reply

        She does have her hand on her stomach. Hallmark doesn’t sell that card, Wizards of the Coast does (0 0/2F, Gyrocopter).

  4. Jesper Währner
    September 4, 2018, 2:17 am | # | Reply

    It could be the Whimsy VR, but Anasigma has really been able to do VR on their own since day one so I don’t see why they should use Whimsy’s.

    It could be that Anasigma has used Virginias own tech against her and ironically put her brain in a large luxury cruiser and this is the VR they use to have her brain adapt to the situation.

    Later we’ll se both of them escape and start a new life together as cruiser and helicopter.

    • OneUniverse
      September 4, 2018, 1:33 pm | # | Reply

      I’d say it is Anasigma’s VR if there are walnuts involved at some point.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 4, 2018, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

      Whimsy’s VR was given to Baron Mistycorn as a “retirement” gift. So it couldn’t be that.

    • Manifesta
      September 4, 2018, 7:32 pm | # | Reply

      it just struck me that you might be right—not about the cruiser although that’s not impossible—but about Ginny being in a VR because they schlorpped out her brains and stuck her in something. It’s a horrifying thought, but then it was horrifying when she did it to Nick, too.

  5. maarvarq
    September 4, 2018, 4:04 am | # | Reply

    I suppose that this isn’t all that relevant, but the dear Doctor is looking particularly cute with her hair down.

    • Manifesta
      September 4, 2018, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      that panel reminded me that I originally started reading Skin Horse because I saw its icon on GoComics was Ginny, and I was intrigued by the drawing.

  6. Sensei Ken
    September 4, 2018, 5:56 am | # | Reply

    Where am I?
    – In The Village.
    What do you want?
    – Information.
    Whose side are you on?
    – That would be telling.

    • jamesawolf
      September 4, 2018, 9:29 am | # | Reply

      WHY DID YOU RESIGN?
      WHY DID YOU RESIGN?
      WHY DID YOU RESIGN?
      WHY DID YOU RESIGN?

    • OneUniverse
      September 4, 2018, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

      I *really* don’t want a big, white beach ball chasing me down.

      • Sleepy John
        September 4, 2018, 9:24 pm | # | Reply

        The big white unicorn pool floatie is more terrifying..

    • Andy4Hire
      September 4, 2018, 6:53 pm | # | Reply

      Questions are a burden to others; answers, a prison for yourself.

  7. Ben Gillette
    September 4, 2018, 6:55 am | # | Reply

    Could be worse. At one point when I was out West, I told someone I was from Delaware and they asked me what state that was in.

    • Gyrre
      September 5, 2018, 12:16 am | # | Reply

      I know I might regret asking, but what state were you asked that in?

  8. you
    September 4, 2018, 7:09 am | # | Reply

    No one’s guessed it’s Lovetron yet? For shame.

    • codebracker
      September 4, 2018, 11:43 am | # | Reply

      I guess that’s how Lovetron became so awesome, Anasigma put all their radest rebels there

  9. ebonysable
    September 4, 2018, 7:51 am | # | Reply

    I don’t know if anyone’s pointed it out yet, but she’s wearing different clothes, or at the very least a different top, to what she was wearing when she was captured. This could mean something… whether it’s “this is a VR” or “someone changed her clothes while she was unconcious” is up for debate.

  10. Robert Nowall
    September 4, 2018, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    What did Delaware? Her brand New Jersey.

    • anifesta
      September 4, 2018, 7:35 pm | # | Reply

      Ba-dump bump!

    • reynard61
      September 4, 2018, 11:00 pm | # | Reply

      Alternate version:

      If Mississippi gave Missouri her New Jersey; what, oh what will Delaware?

      I don’t know. Alaska…

      (I’ve remembered that since reading it in a “Children’s Digest” in the late 1960s…)

      • Robert Nowall
        September 5, 2018, 10:29 am | # | Reply

        “Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
        What did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
        She wore a brand New Jersey,
        She wore a brand New Jersey,
        She wore a brand New Jersey,
        That’s what she did wear
        One, two, three, four
        Oh, why did Cali-fon-ia
        Why did Cali-fon
        Why did Cali-fon-ia
        Was she all alone
        She called to say Ha-wa-ya
        She called to say Ha-wa-ya
        She called to say Ha-wa-ya
        That’s why she did call
        Uno, due, tre, quattro
        Oh what did Missi sip boy
        What did Missi sip
        What did Missi sip boy
        Through her pretty lips
        She sipped a Minne sota
        She sipped a Minne sota
        She sipped a Minne sota
        That’s what she did sip
        Un deux trois quatre
        Where has Oregon, boy
        Where has Oregon
        If you wan Al-ask-a
        Al-ask-a where she’s gone
        She went to pay her Texas
        She went to pay her Texas
        She went to pay her Texas
        That’s where she has gone
        Eins zwei drei vier
        Oh how did Wis-con-sin boy
        She stole a New-brass-key
        Too bad that Arkan saw, boy
        And so did Tenne-see
        It made poor Flori-di, boy
        It made poor Flori-di, you see
        She died in Miss-our-I, boy
        She died in Miss-our-I
        Oh what did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware
        What did Del-a-ware boy, what did Delaware”

        —song by Irving Gordon, sung by Perry Como. Make of it what you will.

  11. jwghaller
    September 4, 2018, 9:09 am | # | Reply

    Have you discovered that Delaware is a fiction invented by the Trilateral Commission for its own nefarious purposes?

    • Jeffrey C. Wells
      September 4, 2018, 9:23 am | # | Reply

      Did you know that students who exchange digital watches with multiple partners increase their chances of contracting bubonic plague by 300%?

  12. jamesawolf
    September 4, 2018, 9:29 am | # | Reply

    Well, is Whimsy incorporated in Delaware?

    Sorry, corporate law is the best that I can do Anyhow, the Blue Hens lost against the University of Rhode Island (which is disappointingly the Rams and not the Reds).

  13. Rob Nobody
    September 4, 2018, 2:29 pm | # | Reply

    If they are in a state of sweetness, than it definitely isn’t Delaware.

  14. adam
    September 4, 2018, 3:34 pm | # | Reply

    This is going to be one of those special hells that should be a paradise but fail so spectacularly at it that demons and pitchforks actually start to sound good.

    • Shadowmehr
      September 4, 2018, 7:41 pm | # | Reply

      Or even worse, you find the little imps riding the stationary cycles and pulling the levers that make it all move in sync. If you thought your performance reviews were bad, theirs is a whooole ‘nother level when they get caught.

  15. Daylilly
    September 4, 2018, 8:05 pm | # | Reply

    Once upon a time, a young girl (me) was born amidst the vast sprawl of the Rockies. One day, she and her family went on a trip to the East coast, and the girl (still me) fell asleep in the car for a few paltry minutes before her siblings’ tickle fight woke her up. In that time, the car had passed through Delaware. In one side and out another.
    “Impossible! That’s far too small to be a whole state!” She cried.
    She pondered on the unbelieveable fact until she came to the conclusion that it was Not A Fact At All! Something so strange cannot truly exist! The girl (once again: me) had uncovered a plot hidden for decades, even centuries! A fictional state where secret agents could “live” while they traveled the world and took part in Bond-esque escapades. It made perfect sense! Content with her logic, she fell asleep again and missed passing through Delaware on her way back, playing in to her confirmation bias.
    The End 😉 😉 😉

    • awgiedawgie
      September 4, 2018, 9:10 pm | # | Reply

      Fascinating. I find your logic unassailable.

    • s854
      September 4, 2018, 9:11 pm | # | Reply

      It makes sense. It can’t be a state if it can’t even manage one decent traffic jam.

      It is a shame that you weren’t going to the east coast of Delaware, though. Then we’d know if the version of it shown here is plausible.

      • Rob Nobody
        September 4, 2018, 9:31 pm | # | Reply

        Oh believe you me, Delaware can manage a traffic jam. It’s not so bad now with the new tollbooths they put in a few years ago, but when the previous tollbooths funneled I-95 down to far too few lanes, it was ALWAYS jammed. I once drove from Jersey down to Maryland and it took us 3 HOURS to make it through the 12 miles of 95 called the Delaware Turnpike that takes you through the state.

        • jdreyfuss
          February 3, 2020, 3:11 pm | # | Reply

          Anyone who’s been stuck in Milford on Memorial Day weekend is well aware that Delaware has traffic jams.

      • Mossy
        September 5, 2018, 12:04 am | # | Reply

        Maryland resident, can confirm the existence of beaches in Delaware. There’s even a ferry to Cape May, NJ, nearby.

  16. S.D.
    October 1, 2018, 8:19 am | # | Reply

    Lets be real here for a moment… nobody knows that much about Delaware.

  17. jdreyfuss
    February 3, 2020, 3:08 pm | # | Reply

    Candy colored beach houses are not Rehoboth or Dewey. Could be Bethany Beach though.

  18. MyaApplesauce
    February 15, 2020, 11:20 am | # | Reply

    I’m pretty sure Delaware is not on the coast.

    • Rob Nobody
      February 15, 2020, 11:55 am | # | Reply

      I’m. . . actually pretty sure it is.

    • awgiedawgie
      February 15, 2020, 2:30 pm | # | Reply

      Um… yeah. Delaware is on the coast alright. East and north of Maryland, and south of Jersey.

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