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2019-09-19

by shaenon on September 19, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Swiftly I Glide
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  1. Moe Lane
    September 19, 2019, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    :murmuring: They ARE surprisingly compatible, aren’t they? Then again, I guess it could just mean that there’s a little bit of Nick in Virginia after all.

    • Robert Nowall
      September 19, 2019, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Maybe in nine months we’ll know if there was.

    • sasha honeypalm
      September 19, 2019, 10:44 am | # | Reply

      “A *little* bit? It was a decently-sized bit, even after the bris.”

  2. Towering Barbarian
    September 19, 2019, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    I’m so glad Ginny handled this delicately. Who knows what things would have been like if she had chosen to be brazen instead? ^_~

    • Shadowmehr
      September 19, 2019, 9:47 pm | # | Reply

      Well, there would have been the written statement sent out on the newsfeed, the twitter announcement, and the press conference. Since they are trying to keep as low a profile as possible while walking around in an office building, it’s best that Dr. Lee gets her bragging done this way.

  3. Robert Nowall
    September 19, 2019, 12:13 am | # | Reply

    Good thing they’ve all gone rogue. All that fraternization paperwork to fill out…

    • Candace
      September 19, 2019, 12:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m Sweetheart is already working on developing new paperwork to fit their new circumstances.

      • Candace
        September 19, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

        That is to say, “I’m sure Sweetheart is…”

        • Robert Nowall
          September 19, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

          Yeah. I keep dropping words all the time. I don’t like to incoherent.

          • Sheik
            September 19, 2019, 3:17 pm | #

            Same here when I’m writing my fiction.
            I reread and say to myself “What the hell?”

  4. David B Huber
    September 19, 2019, 12:48 am | # | Reply

    Kudos to Salty for calling it!

    • Salty
      September 19, 2019, 4:44 am | # | Reply

      I can’t take all the credit. It was always going to be the kind of thing ONE of them said about having goinked in a flying helicopter.

  5. Otakubouzu
    September 19, 2019, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    I glad for Ginny and Nick, really.
    Last time i joining a Mile High Club there were shooting and shouting and explosion and I have to jump out the plane.

    • Rimwolf
      September 19, 2019, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe you’re doing it wrong…

  6. awgiedawgie
    September 19, 2019, 2:13 am | # | Reply

    If that was handling it delicately, what would bold and brash look like?

    • RoyD
      September 19, 2019, 5:49 am | # | Reply

      Going into detail about what they did, probably.

    • Jim McGrath
      September 19, 2019, 6:38 am | # | Reply

      She said she *wanted* to handle it delicately. This takes no account of her ability to *actually* handle it delicately 😉

    • DaveX
      September 19, 2019, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      Maybe next time he makes her fly will be more bold and brash than the delicate handling two strips back.

    • Frank
      September 19, 2019, 11:36 am | # | Reply

      I’m guessing at least a megaphone and a brass band

    • Moe Lane
      September 19, 2019, 2:03 pm | # | Reply

      Now that I’ve had a chance to think about it, this method actually at least avoids the possibility of humorous misunderstandings later. “Yes, we’re now shtupping — is that the right word, Nick?”

      “…Yes.”

    • Ysabet
      September 19, 2019, 11:11 pm | # | Reply

      Depends on whether or not you can trail a 500-foot-long banner from a copter, one that says “LET’S SEE THEM CALL ME MAD *NOW,* HUH?”

      • awgiedawgie
        September 20, 2019, 12:03 am | # | Reply

        Oh, like any of this is an argument against being called Mad? Remember, Helen and Dave are both Mad. Helen not only schlorped Dave’s brains, but she also brought him back from the dead in a cloned body. And Dave was even a cyborg for a while. Any of this sound familiar?

  7. g
    September 19, 2019, 8:17 am | # | Reply

    ALL of Nick’s sex has been mile-high-club worthy.

    • awgiedawgie
      September 20, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

      That sounds really impressive… until you remember that this was his first time.

    • Bathymetheus
      September 20, 2019, 12:52 pm | # | Reply

      Spot on!

  8. Robert Nowall
    September 19, 2019, 8:30 am | # | Reply

    I’m guessing, from Dr. Lee’s reaction, that she thought being goinked by Nick was pretty good.

    • Darkstarling
      September 19, 2019, 9:30 am | # | Reply

      Anticipation!

      • Sheik
        September 19, 2019, 3:23 pm | # | Reply

        Let’s not forget that real romantic love lends a certain special something to the experience, not to mention the fog tends to hide what would otherwise be detrimental.

  9. Seph
    September 19, 2019, 9:44 am | # | Reply

    Whether or not she is one of them herself, Ginny has that turning-on-a-dime unpredictability that is so characteristic of the Mad.

  10. Duane Bouchard
    September 19, 2019, 11:02 am | # | Reply

    would Nick and Ginny’s baby would wear a propeller beanie ?

    • Robert Nowall
      September 19, 2019, 11:21 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think they’ve discussed their child’s religion yet.

      • mickeyjf
        September 19, 2019, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

        Not so simple. She has to officially convert, or baby is officially goy.

      • Ysabet
        September 19, 2019, 11:13 pm | # | Reply

        And here I was expecting their kid to be a Flying Spaghetti Monster adherent.

    • Frank
      September 19, 2019, 11:35 am | # | Reply

      Ah, the inevitable “what will the children be like” question

  11. Frank
    September 19, 2019, 11:34 am | # | Reply

    “Sorry, you wanted us to meet in 15 minutes?”
    “…months, now I want us to meet in 15 months”

  12. Rimwolf
    September 19, 2019, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

    It looks like Nick supersized his hand to do a sufficiently dramatic facepalm

    • awgiedawgie
      September 19, 2019, 6:12 pm | # | Reply

      Oh, I don’t know. My hand covers that much of my face.

      • Ysabet
        September 19, 2019, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

        Same, and I have small hands. Huh… I wonder how many readers just facepalmed to check? 😀

  13. Realname McPerson
    September 19, 2019, 3:04 pm | # | Reply

    Take a victory lap, Virginia, come back in 5.

  14. Ogden Wernstrom
    September 19, 2019, 5:24 pm | # | Reply

    Late to the party, but it’s interesting someone mentioned Fenchurch and Arthur when I was thinking Night Owl and Laurie in the owl copter.

    • Andy4Hire
      September 19, 2019, 6:39 pm | # | Reply

      Someone mentioned that, too, in the comments to the September 16th strip. But that was a ways down the page from the Fenchurch and Arthur comment, so it’s possible you saw the thread before that had been added.

  15. Robert Nowall
    September 19, 2019, 5:36 pm | # | Reply

    Sometimes we’re up, sometimes we’re down.
    And sometimes we move a little out of bounds.
    Oh, just when we show we had made it.
    After aftershocks, Skin-Horse will talk
    We wanna live it in the sweet spot.
    We don’t just want, we just wanna taste it.

    Talkin’ bout a sweet reason that we find.
    Sure seems a real affair.
    We know we can do it anywhere,
    Just like a copter flyin’ in the air.

    Sometimes we’re up, sometimes we’re down.
    And sometimes our groove machine is due.
    Oh, thundering, thundering when we have made it.
    But we’ve joined the club, for a one-night stand.
    And we’ll find some reasons for plumbing away.
    And we’ve willed us our life in the open, a life put so bluntly.

    I’m talkin’ bout a sweet reason that we find.
    Sure seems a real affair.
    We know we can do it anywhere,
    Just like a copter flyin’ in the air.

    Talkin’ ‘bout sweet reasons.
    Talkin’ ‘bout sweet, sweet, sweet reasons.
    Talkin’ ‘bout sweet reasons.
    Talkin’ ‘bout sweet reasons…

    —from “Sweet Seasons,” Carole King.

  16. Robert Loughrey
    September 19, 2019, 8:49 pm | # | Reply

    Tip would be so proud.

  17. Shadowmehr
    September 19, 2019, 9:49 pm | # | Reply

    Sweetheart: “Yes, I know. We all know. You were repeatedly hitting the transmit button with I don’t want to guess what, and snatches of your activities were coming straight through comms. I have enough headaches with Tip giving play-by-play, please don’t add to it and come to the strategy meeting.”

    • Barbara K
      September 19, 2019, 10:54 pm | # | Reply

      And the basement creatures have already written the libretto, and have started casting and rehearsals for their new comic opera, Die Fledergroink. Stage sets are a problem, since they don’t want to be accused of copying Miss Saigon. A fan, eggbeater and electric mixer are being considered. Since the fan and mixer are sentient, they are fighting with the tenor for the lead billing. The tenor, looking for the “sweet spot” on stage where his singing won’t be drowned out by the sound of the rotors, has several good reasons to lobby for the diffident eggbeater to play his alter ego. Ginny is sung by an off-coloratura. Mr. Green is the resident basso who usually sings the Doge or other villain-de-jour. A wooly caterpillar is singing Sweetheart. Unity is played by a tumbling stinkbug. They are waiting to see in what condition Tip might be returned, and have a countertenor lined up, just in case…

      • David B Huber
        September 19, 2019, 11:09 pm | # | Reply

        Magnificent! Worthy of a side story of it’s own!

  18. Adept Arcanist
    June 28, 2020, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

    I can’t believe the “LOL he wishes” jokes from Choose are finally obsolete–

  19. maarvarq
    August 19, 2021, 6:57 am | # | Reply

    Ginny Blushes #34, and a particularly cute example it is too.

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