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2019-03-15

by shaenon on March 15, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Green Noah
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  1. Michael
    March 15, 2019, 12:02 am | # | Reply

    A modern wooden stake

    • awgiedawgie
      March 15, 2019, 12:26 am | # | Reply

      Or silver bullet.

      • thedoctor55
        March 15, 2019, 1:06 am | # | Reply

        Split the difference,a silver(ish) paperclip!

        • Robert Nowall
          March 15, 2019, 9:23 am | # | Reply

          In French, paper clips are called “trombones,” a fact of no relevance whatsoever but has always amused me.

    • Barbara K
      March 15, 2019, 12:04 pm | # | Reply

      A vorpal blade.

      • Sheik
        March 15, 2019, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

        That goes snicker snack!

    • Shadowmehr
      March 15, 2019, 8:44 pm | # | Reply

      As an old Ravenloft player, I can tell you that different vampires require stakes of different materials to dispatch (elvish vampires need greenwood with sap still in it, dwarvish ones need a stalagmite). So a steel paperclip is perfectly in keeping with a Tamagotchi electrical vamp.

  2. Gyrre
    March 15, 2019, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    And thus the cycle restarts (if Nick fails).

  3. Robert Nowall
    March 15, 2019, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    Wow. Sweetheart actually released a paperclip into Nick’s custody. She’s really loosening up these days.

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 15, 2019, 1:12 am | # | Reply

      If she released it. A hacker type such as Nick will automatically accumulate necessary supplies without too much concern for “ownership.”

      • Robert Nowall
        March 15, 2019, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        He’s only been up and walking around in this body a short time—not enough to accumulate a supply stash. And if he had one inside his helicopter body, it’s no longer available to him.

        (At my post office job, I was the only one who would regularly raid the supply cabinet for essentials. Wonder what they did after I retired?)

    • Rimwolf
      March 15, 2019, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

      His pit crew might well have supplied him with a paperclip as well as the popcorn: they would be quite familiar with that bit of lore.

  4. Warren Terra
    March 15, 2019, 12:55 am | # | Reply

    Don’t you need a *wooden* bent paperclip, for vampires?

    • Bruce A Munro
      March 15, 2019, 1:13 am | # | Reply

      For _mechanical_ vampires?

    • Brushtail
      March 15, 2019, 1:14 am | # | Reply

      For organic vampires yes, but for technological ones use metal.

      • Bruce A Munro
        March 15, 2019, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        Vegetable vampires are particularly difficult, since it’s not easy to drive a steak into them.

        • thedoctor55
          March 15, 2019, 1:56 am | # | Reply

          The “T” from a t-bone steak.

        • jdreyfuss
          February 4, 2020, 3:09 pm | # | Reply

          Freeze it first.

    • Justin Williams
      March 15, 2019, 2:37 am | # | Reply

      You can use anything as a stake if you freeze it hard enough. So go ahead and stake with your steak stake!

    • Shadowmehr
      March 15, 2019, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

      See my comment above.

  5. WuseMajor
    March 15, 2019, 1:21 am | # | Reply

    Who is Nick quoting in the last panel?

    • Anders
      March 15, 2019, 1:31 am | # | Reply

      Bram Stoker, of course! https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Dracula.djvu/254

  6. Owlmirror
    March 15, 2019, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    Nick needs carbs, and, dammit, a suit of flying armor.

    I note that Dr. Lee is conspicuously absent from Nick’s fan club. Could she be working on an “unfair advantage”?

    Oh! Maybe she and Tigerlily are the unfair advantage, able to gin up all sorts of deadly science toys at the drop of a hardened helm with heads-up display.

    • soft
      March 15, 2019, 8:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking his “unfair advantage” is his friends.

  7. Urlance Woolsbane
    March 15, 2019, 1:48 am | # | Reply

    Off-the-cuff prediction that will probably be completely wrong: Aimee will steal Nick’s body, leaving him trapped in cyberspace and his friends none the wiser.

    • Trivena
      March 15, 2019, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      Equally off-the-wall theory: Aimee and Baron Mistycorn have or will swap bodies, letting her into the real world and leaving him in VR.

  8. Frank
    March 15, 2019, 1:58 am | # | Reply

    Brutal. There were about 20 years worth of personality files erased with that

    • awgiedawgie
      March 15, 2019, 3:28 am | # | Reply

      Not nearly as brutal as killing a traditional vampire. There can be hundreds of years of memories obliterated.

    • casimir
      March 15, 2019, 9:00 pm | # | Reply

      I wonder if the reset unstuck its feed button and freed it from the need to feed? A win-win situation, yes?

  9. Leslie
    March 15, 2019, 7:44 am | # | Reply

    Awgie….being somewhat humanoid and embodied, I DON’T LIKE vampires. A stick, a stake, silver, flash exposure to a genius portrayal of Christ on the STAKE….many
    tricks have been developed, and like humans frantic to ‘get rid’ of overweening
    political arrogance, the bloodsucking bullies will be destroyed. ASAP.

    “Hundreds of years of memories….” of humans gibbering and begging uselessly in fear? I don’t NEED that, or its horrible and cowardly sneaking parasitic predacious
    carriers, nor can I accept allowing such to live.

    Some beaten-down folks have spoken politely and sometimes even enthusiastically
    in favor of such enemies of humanity. Domestic farm animals may also have nice things to say about friendly farmers, even as the ‘kill-crew’ wipe blood from their hands from another butchering.

    Everybody is entitled to fantasies, especially those which prepare them for removal from the herd.

    • Robert Nowall
      March 15, 2019, 8:00 am | # | Reply

      So what you’re saying is…vampires suck.

      • warpzone32
        March 16, 2019, 4:09 am | # | Reply

        Jokes like that are a real pain in the neck.

    • casimir
      March 15, 2019, 10:07 am | # | Reply

      A spear, a spike,
      A point, a nail,

      A drip, a drop,
      The end of the tale.

    • chanpy
      March 15, 2019, 10:12 am | # | Reply

      What’s with all this fuss against the undead, is it just because they can feed off of humans? Big deal, so can humanoids and a whole bunch of animals. This whole thing reeks of creature-typism.
      Just because some vampires are jerk doesn’t mean we can categorize them all as “bloodsucking bullies”

    • awgiedawgie
      March 15, 2019, 1:54 pm | # | Reply

      I was merely comparing the “brutality” of wiping out 20 years of memories with wiping out hundreds of years. I never implied that such brutality is unjustified, or that I think that such creatures have a right to live, simply because they are only following their nature.

  10. Joseph Bonnar
    March 15, 2019, 8:32 am | # | Reply

    You heard him!
    GET THE MAN CARBS!

    • Robert Nowall
      March 15, 2019, 9:20 am | # | Reply

      Would some of that thirty-some-year-old popcorn qualify?

      • Robert Loughrey
        March 15, 2019, 9:22 am | # | Reply

        That stuff barely qualifies as food when its brand new.

  11. warpzone32
    March 15, 2019, 10:38 am | # | Reply

    Wait.

    Factory reset!?

    Did he just delete its BRAIN!? Like, did he just do the robot equivalent of taking a grown-ass adult human and revert them to a drooling newborn baby? Just take the battery out or something. That, at least, can be undone!

    Also if he’s allowed to win with a paperclip, I see no reason Hitty and Mustachio can’t use Annex One, no matter how they are or aren’t integrated into its superstructure.

  12. Barbara K
    March 15, 2019, 10:43 am | # | Reply

    …Love Nick’s heroic pose in Frame #2.

  13. mickeyjf
    March 15, 2019, 12:01 pm | # | Reply

    “I need carbs.” Boy, I can relate to that.

  14. Classic Steve
    March 15, 2019, 3:10 pm | # | Reply

    “Kernels.”

    • awgiedawgie
      March 15, 2019, 3:17 pm | # | Reply

      Wow. How did I miss that?!

    • Barbara K
      March 15, 2019, 4:19 pm | # | Reply

      If she’s thwarted by KERNALS, Cammy’s got an old Commodore 8-bit ROM-resident OS core.

      • awgiedawgie
        March 15, 2019, 6:38 pm | # | Reply

        Oddly enough, the original Commodore computer to have that system was in fact called the “PET”.

  15. Bernerlb
    March 15, 2019, 3:41 pm | # | Reply

    No one mentioned a kernel panic?

    • Barbara K
      March 15, 2019, 4:25 pm | # | Reply

      …maybe the Eunuchs will…

      • Owlmirror
        March 15, 2019, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

        Camazotz does seem to be dumping core . . . or something . . . in that third panel.

  16. Shadowmehr
    March 15, 2019, 8:47 pm | # | Reply

    Is it just me, or does Nick seem a little . . . nonplussed at having to reset Cammie to win the contest?

    • awgiedawgie
      March 15, 2019, 9:41 pm | # | Reply

      I think getting his own life force sucked out of him twice helped to steel his resolve, even though it weakened every other part of him.

  17. PhilTheCat
    March 16, 2019, 2:16 pm | # | Reply

    Actually, it isn’t just vampires that are compelled to count things.
    Witches, ghosts, gnomes, and leprechauns must count little things like holes in screens or grains of salt spilled in the floor (that second one was used in “Supernatural”).

  18. Zero
    October 27, 2020, 6:14 am | # | Reply

    Why didn’t he just kick her out of the ring? He went from pacifist to intentionally-lethal attack really quickly against a foe he could have easily defeated otherwise.

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