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2019-11-12

by shaenon on November 12, 2019 at 12:01 am
Chapter: A Life in the Woods
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  1. Jerry Aethers
    November 12, 2019, 12:25 am | # | Reply

    Skin Horse: When Ugly Sweaters Attack!

    • David B Huber
      November 12, 2019, 1:10 am | # | Reply

      I dunno – I’ve seen worse on the rack at JCP! Perhaps it will – ah – grow on him?

      • Exasperation
        November 12, 2019, 2:43 am | # | Reply

        Which may very well be how he wound up wearing it in the first place!

      • Robert Nowall
        November 12, 2019, 1:19 pm | # | Reply

        Nah, it’s home-knit. The pattern suggests it, but it’s also a poor fit.

  2. thejoemoose
    November 12, 2019, 12:29 am | # | Reply

    Looks like a classic drop shoulder pullover with loose collar, fair isle hearts, and perhaps a textured band. Shouldn’t be too hard to improvise, Mr. Ask.

    • David B Huber
      November 12, 2019, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      I’m impressed by your expert analysis. And mildly frightened! 😉

    • Palle
      November 12, 2019, 7:39 am | # | Reply

      So, I kind of want to knit this now. I mean, it’s purple, and orange, and it has little pink hearts, and all of those are *good* things!
      Just add some more cables and stuff, and it’s all good!
      I still have some socks I need to do for now, but I might seriously make a project out of one of my alter ego’s creations in this story arc, just for the fun of having one of them in real life 😀

      • jwghaller
        November 12, 2019, 9:21 am | # | Reply

        I think that this is the ultimate level of recognition a piece of popular art can get: a pattern published on Ravelry!

        The textured band of ‘X’s at the bottom reminds me a bit of Faye Dunaway’s short-sleeved sweater from Bonnie & Clyde, though the rest of the sweater is completely different.

      • Pygar
        November 12, 2019, 11:49 am | # | Reply

        Little pink hearts? Little pink hearts! LITTLE PINK HEARTS!?!?!!! We only THOUGHT they were in trouble!
        GAAAAAAHHH! Little pink hearts!!!!!

        • tajudad
          November 12, 2019, 3:12 pm | # | Reply

          The little pink hearts are definitely Cathy-seque.

          • Pygar
            November 12, 2019, 3:28 pm | #

            Never mind Cathy-esque; these look Narbonesque! GAAAHHH!!!

      • LadyE
        November 12, 2019, 12:18 pm | # | Reply

        I’d pay money for one.

    • Barbara K
      November 12, 2019, 9:37 am | # | Reply

      The loose cuffs on the sleeves make me suspect there may actually be some garter stitch in the pattern. The drape suggests it’s knitted in worsted-weight yarn. Given its dubious origins, I’d expect it’s an inexpensive acrylic like Red Heart Super-Saver, the fiber that would easily withstand your average apocalypse.

      • thejoemoose
        November 12, 2019, 8:46 pm | # | Reply

        Oh wow, yes! Now I’m wanting to try matching colors to it!

  3. GammarayCanon
    November 12, 2019, 12:49 am | # | Reply

    We’ve seen the text on that T-shirt before.

    • GammarayCanon
      November 12, 2019, 12:51 am | # | Reply

      Nevermind, I could have sworn there was a point in Railway Children where the AI there manifested those words, but it seems I was misremembering.

      • sheer_falacy
        November 12, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

        Not an exact match, but http://skin-horse.com/comic/for-a-moment/ is close enough that this is probably Goldbug somehow.

        • David B Huber
          November 12, 2019, 1:07 am | # | Reply

          A fascinating surmise! Could Mr. Green’s true concern be finding a way to discern humans from duplicates?

        • Stroth
          November 12, 2019, 2:57 am | # | Reply

          Ah damnit this is a VR sim. They blocked Goldbug from accessing the screens so she got clever and stated using knitting on the avatars.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 12, 2019, 1:21 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, last Friday. And also the guy who was shouting “I am not me” in the one communication Ira picked up.

  4. David B Huber
    November 12, 2019, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    I wonder what the Eyeball Razor Chimps would think of Peirson’s new duds?

    • Shadowmehr
      November 12, 2019, 8:38 pm | # | Reply

      “Ook, ook, eek, ah, ah, ook.” (*throws stuff*)

  5. warpzone32
    November 12, 2019, 1:04 am | # | Reply

    I’m calling it now. He’s not actually that fast. He’s just a master of disguise.

    He didn’t stealthily put a sweater on one of our heroes. He snuck in wearing the sweater and changed his face and voice.

    • Foradain
      November 12, 2019, 5:26 am | # | Reply

      So, how did the color of the sweater change from green to purple?

      • awgiedawgie
        November 12, 2019, 5:46 am | # | Reply

        What part of “master of disguise” do you not understand?

        • Foradain
          November 12, 2019, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

          So, you’re thinking it’s not the same sweater, or perhaps a reversible sweater?

          • awgiedawgie
            November 12, 2019, 1:08 pm | #

            Or a programmable sweater. He could be another Mad scientist from St. Charlie.

  6. BMunro
    November 12, 2019, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    Now is Sweater Guy working with/for the biomass, or is he an third (and absurd) player in this game?

    • BMunro
      November 12, 2019, 1:59 am | # | Reply

      (A fourth, I suppose, if you count Tip’s continued contact with the Skin Horse team.)

      • awgiedawgie
        November 12, 2019, 5:54 am | # | Reply

        OK, I know I posted a reply here, but it’s not here… so here goes… again.

        Option A is that the Knitting Ninja is a member of a previous team, and resisted the insanity. The sweaters are actually created by the Cypress herself, lovingly knitted by her own hands, from her own fibers.

        Option B: This is indeed VR hell, and all the participants are just brains in jars (sorry, Tip). They’re included Tip’s comm link in his VR simulation, and they’re monitoring the communications between him and Sweetheart. Don’t forget, Ira is still obsessed with finding and re-capturing Virginia, and he doesn’t much care who he has to use (or what he has to do to them) to get what he wants.

        • Storm Saxon's Gall Bladder
          November 12, 2019, 9:43 am | # | Reply

          Going with Option A. The man showed up at the door and BING.
          Several hours passed: conversations happened, things were done, clothes were exchanged and no one remembers any of it. (Especially mind-wiped are the synthetic copies of team members wearing URNU sweaters and this plot line is going to be wrapped up on 16 December to celebrate Phillip K Dick’s birthday and i am so distrustful of everything where is that explosive collar BING i will go with option A here.)

          • BMunro
            November 12, 2019, 8:24 pm | #

            (Looks to side of desk. Sees bowl of walnuts. Screams.)

        • Joyce Melton
          November 12, 2019, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

          Brain in a Jar

          Reality sucks
          It’s eternally true
          What happened to me
          Could happen to you

          One evening you’re fine,
          You know who you are,
          But the dawning light shows
          You’re a brain in a jar.

          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar,
          Reality sucks, you know it’s so true
          And the worst of it is, there’s nothing to do
          Cause you’re just a brain in a jar.

          Your job really sucks
          And it sucks to be you
          And you’ll finally find out
          That it’s certainly true

          When they pour you out
          It’s not original sin
          They just really need
          The container you’re in.

          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar,
          Your job sucks, you know it’s so true
          And the worst of it is, there’s nothing to do
          Cause you’re just a brain in a jar.

          Your lover sucks,
          But not in a good way
          Romance is a crock
          Even if you’re gay

          Your intentions were good
          Your motives were pure
          But the best of the wurst
          Is still sausage for sure.

          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar
          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar…

          If this sad truth gets under your skin
          You don’t understand the pickle you’re in
          Cause you’re just a brain in a jar….

          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar
          Brain in a jar, brain in a jar…

  7. DeadlyCipher
    November 12, 2019, 2:41 pm | # | Reply

    Me too, Tip. Especially after learning last week that with enough force a knitting needle can go at least 3.35 inches through skin. (Mundane knitting accident where I sat down, wasn’t careful, and got one stuck in my left buttcheek.)

    • awgiedawgie
      November 12, 2019, 11:36 pm | # | Reply

      I’ve had a hip replaced, and even I don’t want to know what that feels like!

      • DeadlyCipher
        November 13, 2019, 5:42 pm | # | Reply

        I was mostly full of adrenaline at the time so mostly it was confusing because I didn’t know that was possible. Also funny in an unfortun-knit way. Friends were crack jokes about it the whole time.

  8. DarknessShallFall
    November 12, 2019, 3:25 pm | # | Reply

    Dont tell me, mind control sweaters?

  9. fluffy
    November 12, 2019, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    “U R NOT U” seems like a Red Dwarf reference. Wasn’t that the escape trigger in “Better Than Life?”

    • Lunar
      November 12, 2019, 4:50 pm | # | Reply

      In the novel, Kryten was burning “U=BTL” and “dying” into Lister’s arms.

      • fluffy
        November 13, 2019, 6:21 pm | # | Reply

        Oh, that’s right.

        I could have sworn “U R NOT U” is in something I’ve seen before though. Maybe my failure to remember is proof that this is a VR sim.

  10. Mx. Eldritch
    November 12, 2019, 7:24 pm | # | Reply

    I wonder when the rest of the crew are going to notice Tip’s collar? That’ll be an interesting scene…

  11. Shadowmehr
    November 12, 2019, 8:41 pm | # | Reply

    The Cypress is peeking in through the windows, watching the hideous sweater madness spread among the humans, and musing to herself that she really doesn’t need to do anything to remove the human presence in Colma, we’re going to do it to ourselves soon enough.

    • casimir
      November 12, 2019, 10:15 pm | # | Reply

      Wait. I thought they were in Carbondale.

      • Shadowmehr
        November 13, 2019, 9:09 pm | # | Reply

        Really? (*sigh*) This webcomic needs a map.

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