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2012-07-14

by shaenon on July 14, 2012 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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Discussion (24) ¬

  1. PlasticInsect
    July 13, 2012, 5:33 pm | # | Reply

    When a town has a military helicopter controlled by a disembodied brain buzzing the lobster boats, it’s non-creepy status has already gone out the window.

  2. Sean K.
    July 13, 2012, 5:35 pm | # | Reply

    If he flies over Cambridge, he might not be the only disembodied brain in a mechanized shell in town.

    Unity’s game looks like it’s all sweary – is she Mature enough to be playing it?

    • woozy
      July 13, 2012, 9:16 pm | # | Reply

      If you worried about Unity’s maturity, she wouldn’t be allowed to play *any* game.

  3. Shadowmehr
    July 13, 2012, 5:53 pm | # | Reply

    I’m more worried about the “St. Charles finds you” line.

    This is a town made by and for mad scientists, that might be a literal statement.

    Is it possible for a genus loci to be made of silicon parts?

    • Darkstarr
      April 20, 2016, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      Yes, if it’s a Turing-Positive AI.

  4. ysabet
    July 13, 2012, 8:07 pm | # | Reply

    I have to wonder if St. Charlie’s residents have any relatives in Eureka. Bet they do.

  5. Amonduul
    July 13, 2012, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

    In Soviet Socialist Republic of Massachusetts (aka Cambridge), St. Charlie finds you!

    …I’m sorry, it seemed to good to pass up.

  6. Sandy C
    July 13, 2012, 8:18 pm | # | Reply

    Five words: close air support on call. Three more: aerial extraction /now/.

    It’ll be relatively difficult to find a role for Nick to play in St. Charlie (though in the words of Sergeant Schlock, “how can anybody ever NOT need a gunship?”), but I figure it’s a 50/50 chance that he’ll be regretting those words.

    • mnementh
      July 13, 2012, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

      “Close Air Support covereth a multitude of sins.” Isn’t that what they made Nick for in the first place? 😉

      mnem
      “If you’re leaving scorch marks, you need a bigger gun.”

      • Carl Fishman
        July 14, 2012, 2:06 pm | # | Reply

        Of course, Nick refuses to have any gun at all; just tree-trimming blades. So I doubt Schlock would approve.

    • ysabet
      July 14, 2012, 1:04 am | # | Reply

      **grins** For all Nick knows, St. Charlie is where cyborgs go for their vacations. The skies may be crowded with brain-inna-bucket aircraft, all of ’em blaring out the theme from Airwolf from their external speakers.

      (Hey; I just figured out what kind of souvenir Our Heroes could pick up for Nick: a bumper-sticker. I mean, it’s not like a “My Friends Went To St. Charlie And All They Brought Me Was A Disembodied Head” t-shirt will fit him now.)

  7. ninian
    July 13, 2012, 11:03 pm | # | Reply

    zeta and foot please let there be zeta and foot

  8. ninian
    July 13, 2012, 11:04 pm | # | Reply

    also would nick and lovelace be good together the ideas been rolling around in my head

  9. Klyfix
    July 13, 2012, 11:08 pm | # | Reply

    Hmm, strikes me that in some settings Massachusetts doesn’t necessarily have “normal non-creepy” towns for Nick to go to. As opposed to the non-creepy real Massachusetts, well, other than maybe the zombies on the Boston subway that one time. Which was educational; who knew zombies could be riven off by vomit?

  10. Rex Vivat
    July 14, 2012, 1:37 am | # | Reply

    If it hadn’t crashed at the end of Narbonic, I would think that maybe St. Charlie is the hamster’s floating island; it would be a natural habitat for Mad Scientists, after all. Maybe someone restored it? Maybe… someone we know?

    • Beachfox
      July 15, 2012, 11:14 pm | # | Reply

      My thoughts exactly…

  11. Loki
    July 14, 2012, 4:12 am | # | Reply

    “But Nick, you said you were going to find a non-creepy town to buzz. We thought you knew that Innsmouth was creepy!”

    • Diane Castle
      July 14, 2012, 9:45 am | # | Reply

      Dang! I was going to go for the Innsmouth joke too! Drat your timezone difference!

    • Darkstarr
      April 20, 2016, 1:06 am | # | Reply

      Would that be Old Innsmouth (up to the 1920s) or New Innsmouth (rebuilt by the US Navy and Army Corps of Engineers in the 1930s)?

      Oh, wait, never mind. They’re both creepy.

      And so is Arkham, for that matter.

  12. Eddurd
    July 14, 2012, 5:00 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Chicago (That Toddlin’ Town)”, Fred Fisher)

    St. Charlie! St. Charlie! Mysterious town!
    St. Charlie, we hardly know where to touch down …
    (They’ll find us!)
    If the crazy geniuses keep out out of St. Charlie, St. Charlie,
    Near Boston, we’re lost and won’t be found!

    Our Fed team, our head team keeps cool and keeps calm!
    (Gavotte didn’t tell us ’bout the bomb!)
    We are the Feds, the G-Men, the fuzz!
    We got a plane, some boats he will buzz
    In St. Charlie! St. Charlie, secret town!

  13. TeleriB
    July 14, 2012, 5:05 am | # | Reply

    Ah, just get on the MTA and you’ll get to St. Charlie. It’s getting *back* that’s the problem.

    ‘Cause they never return (no they never return) and their fate is still unlearned…

    • Kona
      July 19, 2012, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      So YOU’RE the other Kingston Trio fan. I knew there had to be another one somewhere.

  14. mnementh
    July 15, 2012, 12:01 am | # | Reply

    Oh no. I looked at Skin-Horse.com too hard and I broke it.

    *wibble*

    mnem
    *Whacks me on the snout with a rolled-up newspaper*

    • Darkstarr
      April 20, 2016, 1:07 am | # | Reply

      Say, not to be nosy, but didn’t I see you at Benden Weyr some while back?

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