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2019-01-01

by shaenon on January 1, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Iron Man
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  1. troggy
    January 1, 2019, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I dunno, looks like a party bus to me

    • jayosako
      January 1, 2019, 1:01 am | # | Reply

      Better a Party Bus than a Party Van…

    • Bruceski
      January 1, 2019, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

      The Vengabot.

  2. Alphaghoul
    January 1, 2019, 12:18 am | # | Reply

    Is she covered in shit and blood while eating?

    • David B Huber
      January 1, 2019, 12:27 am | # | Reply

      It’s OK – it’s a Happy Meal…

      • David B Huber
        January 1, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

        And Gavotte only looks like a swarm of flies from a distance! 😉

    • David B Huber
      January 1, 2019, 2:51 am | # | Reply

      I stand corrected! radlein observed Ginny’s hands were clean until she started eating. His deduction that “the McRib is back” is both logical and sanitary!

      • ebonysable
        January 1, 2019, 6:51 am | # | Reply

        The McRib is sanitary?

        (not specifically casting aspersions on the preparation of the food itself, but surely getting that much sauce on your hands can’t be particularly sanitary…)

        • awgiedawgie
          January 1, 2019, 10:49 am | # | Reply

          Well, no… but it’s less unsanitary than eating with your hands covered in biowaste.

    • Ysabet
      January 1, 2019, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

      This is McDonald’s– how’s anybody going to notice? It sure won’t make the ‘food’ taste any different.

    • Knuckles
      February 8, 2022, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

      Clearly you’ve never had one of those nights.

  3. Pygar
    January 1, 2019, 12:19 am | # | Reply

    Happy New Year to all!

    Boy, the architect was just begging for this to happen! Soon as I get my 3d printer setup done, I’m gonna start watching Thingiverse for the Annex 1 ‘bot. And Unity. And Moustachio. And Hitty, and the Destroybots and Cuddle Cobras…
    Somebody out there’ll model them, I *know* it!

    • Shadowmehr
      January 1, 2019, 11:28 am | # | Reply

      I’m not sure what it says about humanity that I am positive that you are right.

      • Pygar
        January 1, 2019, 11:58 am | # | Reply

        “Sometimes, digital modelers are *classy*!”, I hope!

  4. Owlmirror
    January 1, 2019, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I have to admit, when I suggested that Gavotte would get Dr. Lee pointed in the right direction to meet up with the walking Annex One, I didn’t have quite this level of accuracy in mind. But hey, given that Annex One is using a cyborg tracker, why not?

    • Sasha Honeypalm
      January 1, 2019, 9:17 am | # | Reply

      How *is* the cyborg tracker tracking brain!Nick, anyway? Does a temporary life support rigged out of a McDonald’s box count as being part-machine?

      • awgiedawgie
        January 1, 2019, 10:45 am | # | Reply

        See Rimwolf’s response below.

    • warpzone32
      January 1, 2019, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

      Are you insinuating authorial fiat? Why is it so hard to believe that the picnic table in the middle of an empty parking lot she picked to eat her McDonalds at just HAPPENS to also be centered perfectly between the Annex’s legs, which is also almost exactly aligned with the sun when it happens?

  5. thejoemoose
    January 1, 2019, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Well, there’s a new year’s surprise!

  6. Robert Nowall
    January 1, 2019, 12:30 am | # | Reply

    Four fries aren’t gonna be enough for everybody. Happy New Year, guys.

    • Dornbeast
      January 1, 2019, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      “Ma’am? Our drive-through line has a height limit.”

      • awgiedawgie
        January 1, 2019, 12:59 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, as if you would actually dare to refuse them service?

  7. David B Huber
    January 1, 2019, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    I guess Sweetheart will defer to Gavotte. But ultimately it’s Dr. Jones party!

  8. Bruce A Munro
    January 1, 2019, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    I am beginning to suspect that Jonah isn’t the only one in this setting with the ability to foresee the future(s).

    (What was the name of Gavotte’s component with the crystal ball? She may have been quite functional).

    • awgiedawgie
      January 1, 2019, 1:46 am | # | Reply

      Madame Delphi? She must have been the part of Gavotte that was collecting nuclear reactors to power a giant robot.

      Of course, in this particular case, she could undoubtedly sense the vibrations in the ground long before Annex One was within either sight or hearing distance.

      • Guesticus
        January 1, 2019, 7:52 am | # | Reply

        Or, she simply looked behind them 😛
        Keep telling people to always look behind them, they never listen 🙁

  9. EvilMidnightLurker
    January 1, 2019, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    I’m envisioning a Shackotron situation, with all the departments and basement denizens operating different subsections and weapon systems…

    • Robert Nowall
      January 1, 2019, 10:02 am | # | Reply

      So long as the silverfish stay away from the thump-thumping.

  10. Jose Hernandez
    January 1, 2019, 9:24 am | # | Reply

    the story is ending is in it. T-T

  11. Rimwolf
    January 1, 2019, 9:43 am | # | Reply

    In the 2018-12-21 strip, Virginia says his brain is “threaded with cybernetics and encased in DARPA-grade preservative”.

    • Ysabet
      January 1, 2019, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      **nods** And there is NO WAY they neglected to include a basic tracker chip in there somewhere.

  12. Blayzeing
    January 1, 2019, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Well now that’s a sight. Happy new year everybody!

  13. MadTinkerer
    January 1, 2019, 11:23 am | # | Reply

    And there’s Nick’s new body!

  14. Shadowmehr
    January 1, 2019, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    As a general rule of thumb, if a giant robot is thumping toward you, you should get on for the ride.

  15. Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa)
    January 1, 2019, 11:57 am | # | Reply

    Just save Nick. That’s all I want.

    • Dornbeast
      January 1, 2019, 12:31 pm | # | Reply

      “Well, that support system’ll do for the next five minutes, but we can do better.”
      “What are you going to do with Nick?”
      “What do you think, square mama? We’re gonna let him DRIVE.”

  16. cbob
    January 1, 2019, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

    Guesstimate of 30 ft for that streetlight leaves the Mobile Annex 1 at a *minimum* 200 – 250 feet. Much Joy

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      January 1, 2019, 8:17 pm | # | Reply

      Joy!

  17. awgiedawgie
    January 1, 2019, 7:51 pm | # | Reply

    The average street light is only about 25 feet tall. However, it looks like Annex One is father away than the light, so that’s not really a fair gauge. We know that the building was at least 19 stories, and counting the windows seems to more or less agree with that, so 200 feet is a pretty good guess.

    • awgiedawgie
      January 1, 2019, 10:34 pm | # | Reply

      And yeah, that was supposed to be a reply to cbob. Stupid wordpress comments.

  18. Robert Nowall
    January 1, 2019, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

    Annex One does have a pretty nice smile.

  19. jdreyfuss
    February 3, 2020, 5:37 pm | # | Reply

    Maybe she should wash her hands before eating? Just saying . . .

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