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2022-06-18

by shaenon on June 18, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Cipher
    June 18, 2022, 12:06 am | # | Reply

    Huh…Annex Two.
    (Also damn it Arii/Ira. I thought you would have devoted your time to something more constructive. Like Knitti-uh golf?

    • Owlmirror
      June 18, 2022, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

      The sign pretty clearly says “FX TWO”. This is the second site of a Factor X producer.
      (Jeez, everyone else is doing it…)

  2. Towering Barbarian
    June 18, 2022, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    Go, Ira! Go! If anyone can be be some X Factor it’s you. 🙂

  3. David B Huber
    June 18, 2022, 12:15 am | # | Reply

    The presence of razor wire around Annex Two bodes well for a friendly neighbor policy…

    • SVGeezer
      June 18, 2022, 7:04 am | # | Reply

      Is it to keep people out?

      Or to keep someone in?

      • Killdozer
        June 18, 2022, 8:44 am | # | Reply

        A little from column A, a little from column B.

      • Shadowmehr
        June 18, 2022, 9:57 am | # | Reply

        Still Anasigma, it’s probably to keep the employees in as much as any inmates.

        • Duane B.
          June 18, 2022, 5:28 pm | # | Reply

          Maybe…Ira isn’t working there.
          Maybe…He was sentenced there.

  4. thejoemoose
    June 18, 2022, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Hmmmmm….

    • Al the K
      June 18, 2022, 7:58 am | # | Reply

      Heck yeah! And the sign says something about North Carolina Trestles. It’s sooooo obvious! Isn’t it? Maybe? In the broadest possible sense?

      • Robert Nowall
        June 18, 2022, 9:07 am | # | Reply

        “No Trespassing.”

        • butting
          June 18, 2022, 4:01 pm | # | Reply

          Nonsense! “NC’s Tresses”. They’ll do absolute wonders for Tip’s hair.

      • casimir
        June 18, 2022, 10:33 am | # | Reply

        Hmmm…
        I could’ve sworn it said “Notre Dame Tres Leches Cakes”.

      • Aname
        June 18, 2022, 10:28 pm | # | Reply

        Well yes, it is pretty obvious.
        Ira has turned a new leaf and now works for a North Carolina company making roof trestles for a charity program called “Homes for the Homeless”. His job is in final assembly in a building called Spandex 2. (That last bit might not be absolutely correct)

    • Duane B.
      June 18, 2022, 5:22 pm | # | Reply

      Tres could be spanish for three.

      No reason anex two has to be in the U.S.

  5. D. Walker
    June 18, 2022, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Wow, that’s a gigantic moodkiller right there. The genocidal murderer is still at large? Yikes. That doesn’t sit will with me at all.

    I mean, it’d be nice if received some nice ironic karmic retribution, but I’d settle for just knowing he was rotting in a jail cell or something.

    Although, now that I’ve got ironic karmic retribution on the brain, well…

    Personally, I’d want Dr. Lee and Nick to have caught up with him during the time skip, schlorped his brain out of his skull and put it into a jar, and then hooked it up to the extirpation VR simulation. Heck, maybe this is that! Maybe they modified the simulation, and Ira only THINKS he’s biding his time at an Annex 2 that doesn’t actually exist, making plans and waiting for “the right moment” for eternity.

    • Peter
      June 18, 2022, 3:51 am | # | Reply

      The barbed wire, concrete wall, and No Trespassing feels more like details that an extirpated Ira’s brain would add into his simulation, rather than things that Chris’s new regime would put into a new Annex 2.

      • D. Walker
        June 18, 2022, 4:01 am | # | Reply

        …who says Annex 2 is new?

      • David B Huber
        June 18, 2022, 7:54 am | # | Reply

        The extirpated Elites can feel superior, pitying poor Ira and Engelbright over in the Annex Two VR.

      • Daibhid C
        June 18, 2022, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        What if…

        What if everyone’s in a VR simulation and it’s not even really five years later at all?

        • awgiedawgie
          June 18, 2022, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

          There is no spoon.

          • Duane B.
            June 18, 2022, 10:57 pm | #

            There..are..four..lights.

  6. Prodigal
    June 18, 2022, 1:30 am | # | Reply

    It’s all going according to plan!

  7. Duth Olec
    June 18, 2022, 1:41 am | # | Reply

    Annex two… hmm… whatever happened to that Anasigma field team who bore a striking resemblance to the Skin Horse team, and Trinity, who were all deemed important enough to be included in the cast page…? Surely a new core field team for Skin Horse hasn’t been formed…

  8. Duane B.
    June 18, 2022, 1:45 am | # | Reply

    From what Ira just said, he is not at the top yet.
    I wonder how high up in the chain of command he really is?

    • codebracker
      June 18, 2022, 6:42 am | # | Reply

      Well he got fired for loosing them money, so he’s at the bottom now

    • Robert Nowall
      June 18, 2022, 1:41 pm | # | Reply

      Had to take the job. He’d lose his government pension otherwise.

  9. Kandiru
    June 18, 2022, 3:01 am | # | Reply

    It looks to me like he’s working security on Annex Two front desk!

    • Jim Janney
      June 18, 2022, 9:50 am | # | Reply

      As long as there is a security desk anywhere in the world, Ira will find a reason to sit behind it. Just look at the guy, he’s in his happy place.

  10. Robert Nowall
    June 18, 2022, 6:19 am | # | Reply

    Well, if Tip could pretend to be Chris and work his way to the top, maybe Ira can pretend to be Konstantin and work his way to the top.

    • Towering Barbarian
      June 19, 2022, 12:56 am | # | Reply

      It certainly gives us an excuse for a sequel if Shannon and Jeff ever feel like getting things going again. 🙂

  11. Fan of Most Everything
    June 18, 2022, 7:40 am | # | Reply

    With any luck, by the time Ira’s in a position to do anything impactful, the status quo will have shifted and he’ll have been proven wrong. Or he’ll be legitimately senile or worse. I don’t wish that fate on anyone, but he’s not exactly a spring chicken.

  12. Robert Nowall
    June 18, 2022, 9:41 am | # | Reply

    Once I built up Skin-Horse, got it done,
    Made it chase after crime.
    Once I built up Skin-Horse, now they’ve gone,
    Brother, just a waste of time.

    Once I shadow-governed, it was fun,
    Chaos and slaughter sublime.
    Once I shadow-governed, now it’s gone,
    Brother, just a waste of time.

    Once in bright green suits, gee, you could tell,
    Boy were these stormtroopers dumb.
    Hundred thousand boots were creating fresh Hell,
    And still I could not overcome.

    Say, don’t you remember? I was the guard.
    I helped them rise up and climb.
    I was a member—hey, don’t dismember!
    Brother, just a waste of time.

    —from “Brother Can You Spare a Dime,” words by E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, music by Jay Gorney, from the revue “Americana,” then sung by Rudy Vallee and by Bing Crosby, and by lots of others.

  13. Rat
    June 18, 2022, 12:12 pm | # | Reply

    Back in the beforetimes, I seem to remember that the National Archives facility in College Park, MD was Annex 2 of the National Archives. Among other things stored there are the surviving records from many WWII ships.

    Ira! Get away from my deck logs!!

  14. Robert Nowall
    June 18, 2022, 8:10 pm | # | Reply

    J. Yu only sees probabilities. But there’s always X-Factor possibilities. With Ira next door, it’s hard to see more, but the problem is stuffed with volatilities.

  15. OneUniverse
    June 19, 2022, 8:52 am | # | Reply

    This strip answers yesterday’s observation.

  16. Clifton
    June 20, 2022, 10:59 pm | # | Reply

    I’m glad the series did not end on this line, though it would have been one hell of a final line.

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