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2017-11-03

by shaenon on November 3, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. thejoemoose
    November 3, 2017, 12:05 am | # | Reply

    Y’know, I forgot they were here. I was distracted by the wonderful dialogue.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 3, 2017, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      And this is more educational than college woulda been anyway.

  2. Robert Nowall
    November 3, 2017, 12:14 am | # | Reply

    I’m glad somebody finally used Bubbles’s right name.

    • Candace
      November 3, 2017, 1:36 am | # | Reply

      It is a lovely name, and well-fitted to its owner.

  3. joycemelton
    November 3, 2017, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    It looks like she has a muppet problem. 🙂

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      November 3, 2017, 4:19 am | # | Reply

      True, but what’s the presidency got to do with any of this?

  4. Chrisn
    November 3, 2017, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    Olympia Beer’s slogan was: It’s the water, and a lot more. Very appropriate name!

    • Robert Nowall
      November 3, 2017, 9:38 am | # | Reply

      “From the land of sky-blue waters…”

      • greenknight32
        November 4, 2017, 2:02 am | # | Reply

        The “sky-blue waters” was Hamm’s Beer…a brand Olympia eventually bought out…before they were, in turn, bought out by Pabst. Olympia, for many years, was brewed with water from artesian wells, which is what their slogan referred to.

    • Forrest M Davis
      April 11, 2020, 2:23 am | # | Reply

      Olympia did have some fairly good ads riffing on the “it’s the artesians” theme, but they didn’t even come close to the inspired lunacy of some of the Rainier beer ads. Even their non-weird spots were great – “Get it yourself, Bob!” is still one of my all time favorite closing lines.

      Yes, I’m a Puget Sound kid, and glad to have been there for a big chunk of my life…

  5. awgiedawgie
    November 3, 2017, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    Alfie… Just as feisty as ever.

  6. Chrisn
    November 3, 2017, 1:25 am | # | Reply

    BTW, when the Captain here was a lowly but ambitious water cooler, she started using the drone, just like Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart did. But when they used it, their bodies, their “real” selves, stayed behind and were returned to eventually. Cap’n Waters here has been using the drone for quite a while now. Is the water cooler, her original body, back in Annex One, in the Captain’s cabin, or where? Or do you spose she abandoned it for good? Kind of a wierd idea, to me.

    • Candace
      November 3, 2017, 1:35 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure she has adopted this drone as her body at this point. She was not thrilled when she had to lend the drone out and go back in the water cooler for a while. But she reluctantly agreed to do it anyway, because “service.”

    • awgiedawgie
      November 3, 2017, 2:11 am | # | Reply

      I surmise the water cooler itself is back in Skin Horse’s current offices, and has to be operated manually. Bubbles herself was the AI who was inhabiting and operating the water cooler, so with her now inhabiting the drone, the water cooler just sits around like the lifeless piece of office equipment that it has become.

      Kind of like when Dr. Lee extracted “Unity” from the zombie host and injected her into random forest creatures. Unity’s body just laid there on the slab until she was returned to it.

      Funny, now that I put it out there… Unity and Bubbles are both non-corporeal entities (more or less) who need a host body to be able to get around. No wonder they hit it off so well.

      • Max
        November 3, 2017, 4:38 am | # | Reply

        But that would be like… like… using a modern-day smart fridge without the smart bit! Of what use would it even be at all…?!?

        • awgiedawgie
          November 3, 2017, 5:12 am | # | Reply

          Still keeps the beer cold. What more do you need from a fridge?

          • Max
            November 3, 2017, 7:03 am | #

            Serves me right, I should really have learned by now that including the /s is not optional…

          • matt w
            November 3, 2017, 9:05 am | #

            And modern-day smart fridges can be weaponized to break important parts of modern society, which seems like a very Skin Horse plotline.

          • Danny in Canada
            November 3, 2017, 9:48 am | #

            best way to weaponize a smart fridge is teleport it 60 miles straight up, and let go.

          • awgiedawgie
            November 3, 2017, 4:29 pm | #

            Smart fridges can also negotiate on behalf of the machine union.

    • Rex Vivat
      November 3, 2017, 8:51 am | # | Reply

      In Mr. Green, Nick, and Sweetheart’s case, it was used as a drone. In Bubbles’s case, however, she was completely transferred into it (I’d give you a link, but I’m typing from my phone and can’t be bothered).

      • Chrisn
        November 3, 2017, 11:19 am | # | Reply

        One just hopes she’s taking good care of it, unlike Mr. Green did. Also, look out for that dang shutoff. Bubbles will always be vulnerable around Dr. Lee.

      • efogoto
        November 3, 2017, 1:36 pm | # | Reply

        This one from the story line “My Brother Sam Is Dead”. I have the original hanging on my wall.

        • Rex Vivat
          November 3, 2017, 1:47 pm | # | Reply

          Yes, that one. I had just woken up so I couldn’t be bothered to look it up on my phone.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 3, 2017, 7:56 pm | # | Reply

      Given that if anything happened to the drone body, she would be back in the water cooler, Capt. Waters might treat it with the same care and reverence that a lich would its phylactery – and guard it with the same level of secrecy and precautions as well. After all, she couldn’t have spent all her winnings on the Habbakuk, could she?

      • Candace
        November 5, 2017, 1:13 am | # | Reply

        Biological beings don’t have an extra body, why would she? For her, going back into the water cooler would probably be something like going back to the womb for a human. Why would she want to do that? Bubbles is not the water cooler – she was merely born there.

  7. Anson
    November 3, 2017, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    I have to wonder what this scene would look like to the reality blind. Especially Bubbles and the teen-snake.

    • David Wührer
      November 3, 2017, 1:47 am | # | Reply

      You know how some mariners are hard to understand for landlubbers? Some captains also tend to be quite eccentric.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        November 3, 2017, 4:20 am | # | Reply

        Cobras are the new parrots.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 3, 2017, 2:14 am | # | Reply

      Well, Bubbles looks human enough. They’d probably just think she was speaking a foreign language. And they’d probably just see Alfie as a scarf.

      • Danny in Canada
        November 3, 2017, 9:49 am | # | Reply

        He’s her pet snake. She talks to him.

        Simple.

        • awgiedawgie
          November 3, 2017, 4:37 pm | # | Reply

          Depends on the level of blindness, and with the latest developments, I’d say that level is pretty high right now. Artie looks like a normal gerbil, but he talks. The news anchor interviewing Dave on TV could see Artie, but couldn’t hear him. But Dave’s brother Bill, and then the Dave clone, couldn’t see Artie at all when he was in gerbil form. Their brains blocked him out completely. So since Alfie talks, the blindness might block people from seeing him at all, too.

    • jdreyfuss
      January 30, 2020, 5:13 pm | # | Reply

      Just like Nick said, it would register as an iceberg.

  8. elyandarin
    November 3, 2017, 6:10 am | # | Reply

    The Truth is out there. The Truth is VERY out there.

  9. Robert Nowall
    November 3, 2017, 9:39 am | # | Reply

    Somebody tell Alfie that the red-and-white stripes make him look like a barber pole.

    • Dr. Steve
      November 3, 2017, 9:55 am | # | Reply

      YOU tell him. I don’t want to get in striking distance.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 3, 2017, 5:18 pm | # | Reply

        He’ll just put his allergy meds in your bloodstream…

    • FanOfMostEverything
      November 3, 2017, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      I was going to say Waldo of Lineland, myself.

    • bergerjacques
      November 3, 2017, 10:19 am | # | Reply

      Ah, I think its rather festive. Alfie’s like a little green, perpetually suspicious, loveable-in-his-hostility, Christmas elf with the cutest little bad attitude.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 3, 2017, 4:40 pm | # | Reply

        He’s the Grinch.

    • Terry Hunt
      November 3, 2017, 2:44 pm | # | Reply

      Around my way he’d look like just another Saints scarf, but 20 miles east and they’d be in Pompey, and therefore in mortal danger even if it is naval headquarters.

    • Bruce A Munro
      November 3, 2017, 5:55 pm | # | Reply

      aren’t striped shirts (red and white or blue and white) traditional sailing outfits?

      • awgiedawgie
        November 3, 2017, 6:04 pm | # | Reply

        Yeah, but he still looks like a barber pole.

  10. Chrisn
    November 3, 2017, 11:20 am | # | Reply

    A snotty, love-besotten teenager. Less that lovable here.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 3, 2017, 5:21 pm | # | Reply

      Maybe he and Jonah Yu can commune about their adolescent lives…

  11. Axe
    November 3, 2017, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

    It truly amazes me how much character development they have gotten out of a water cooler that says “Service is my only joy”

  12. Forrest Davis
    November 3, 2017, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

    I like the water drop emblem on the captain’s cap. Nice attention to detail in personalizing her style!

  13. rbuckalew
    November 4, 2017, 2:34 am | # | Reply

    Nobody’s talking about the reality blindness epidemic right now, but I was reading backlogs and I just had to post this:
    http://skin-horse.com/comic/mushrooms-but/

    • awgiedawgie
      November 4, 2017, 4:21 am | # | Reply

      We still haven’t been told if the sudden unreality blindness was caused by The Cure, or by Whimsy’s mind control software, or by something else entirely.

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