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2014-05-09

by shaenon on May 9, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. Mildweasel
    May 9, 2014, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Roh roh. Somebody is cranky……..

  2. Rex Vivat
    May 9, 2014, 12:08 am | # | Reply

    This is looking more and more like a rampage…

    • Paul
      May 9, 2014, 9:25 pm | # | Reply

      Or Tip’s orders. While he’s feeling a bit snarky he’s never had problems mixing pleasure with business

  3. Althalus
    May 9, 2014, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    People always seem to forget what Tip used to do before joining Project Skin Horse. They may come to regret that…

    • Jarin
      May 9, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Include me in the “forgetting” category. What was Tip’s previous profession?

      • Martin Hooper
        May 9, 2014, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        US Soldier I think – Not sure which branch though…

        • katrika
          May 9, 2014, 12:54 am | # | Reply

          I believe he was a Marine, but don’t quote me on that. I know he pulled three fellow soldiers out of a burning humvee!

      • Daniel Ross
        May 9, 2014, 1:20 am | # | Reply

        US Army, and he was a Captain. (That’s the third officer rank up.)

        • quin
          May 9, 2014, 12:10 pm | # | Reply

          Used military weapon and Grade A violence.

    • robertnowall
      May 9, 2014, 7:38 pm | # | Reply

      Thought he was a psychologist at some point.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 9, 2014, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

        Yes, that’s what it is now

  4. mechageist
    May 9, 2014, 12:37 am | # | Reply

    Yup, rampage.

  5. Batteryhorse
    May 9, 2014, 12:38 am | # | Reply

    OhmanohmanohmanohmanRAMPAGE HERE WE COME

  6. chicgeek
    May 9, 2014, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    EEE! An adorable cobra!

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      May 9, 2014, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      I wonder why we don’t ever see any of the other Basement Dwellers.

      I mean, yeah, everybody loves the cobras, but its not as though anybody hates the other groups

      • irdburns
        May 9, 2014, 8:40 am | # | Reply

        We see the silverfish and centipedes all the time. They’re like ninjas: every panel contains at least one.

        • rasufelle
          May 9, 2014, 10:52 am | # | Reply

          We do? PLEASE don’t make me go back and read all the way from the basement dwellers’ storyline just to find these, I’ve got other things to do! 🙁

          • irdburns
            May 9, 2014, 11:57 am | #

            Well I think they were only VISIBLE once. Sneaky things, silverfish.

  7. Manifesta
    May 9, 2014, 1:09 am | # | Reply

    Here’s a nice coincidence: Disney is about to release a film of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Burn Gorman stars, Lisa Cholodenko wrote it and Miguel Arteta directs, so it has multiple indicia of excellence.

    • woozy
      May 9, 2014, 1:32 am | # | Reply

      Disney. Movie. Those two trump and cancel any possible such indicia.

      • magecat
        May 9, 2014, 1:46 am | # | Reply

        You might want to give some modern Disney a try. The House the Mouse Built has been turning out interesting things of late. If you’re not outright opposed to musicals, at least watch Frozen. If you are opposed to musicals, try Wreck-It Ralph.

        • woozy
          May 9, 2014, 12:09 pm | # | Reply

          I was being snarky and facetious. The book is a funny account of a sulky five year old absolutely determined to have a bad day no matter what. It’s psychologically funny in its simplicity. The idea of giving it the Disney post-modern irony dripping pop-culture trope-shedding like dog shaking off water treatment just seems irritating. Another drop in the meme chum-bucket. Even if Disney surprises me and avoids loud nod and wink irony blender that is de rigueur for kids movie these days, a movie by its very nature and length can not really reflect a story that is basically a five year old looking for isolated things to bitch about.

          • woozy
            May 9, 2014, 11:48 pm | #

            And it *was* the modern Disney I was thinking of when I made my snark comment.

        • daibhidc
          May 9, 2014, 12:41 pm | # | Reply

          Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker’s Guide movie being a Disney production.

          “What people forget is that Disney made Reservoir Dogs. So Hitchhiker’s will be a cross between Bambi and Reservoir Dogs.”

          (At least, I’m pretty sure he said that, but I can’t find a source. I definitely read it somewhere, but it’s not in The Greatest Sci-Fi Movies Never Made, or Don’t Panic [but then, I appear to only have the second edition, which surprises me, so I might have read it in the third] and if it’s in The Salmon of Doubt I can’t find it.)

          (And yes, the eventual H2G2 film wasn’t great, but that doesn’t invalidate the principle.)

          • woozy
            May 9, 2014, 11:44 pm | #

            The terrible, horrible, etc. day would be terrible as resevoir dogs. It’d be terrible as any film.

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      May 9, 2014, 4:16 am | # | Reply

      Personally, I just don’t feel that book is filmable

      Or very good, for that matter, but let’s not get into that right now

  8. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    May 9, 2014, 3:24 am | # | Reply

    In discussions of the impending rampage, its been pointed out that Tip is not a creation of Mad Science. And it occurs to me that, when you get right down to it neither was Dave

    • Alison L. (@AlisonL41)
      May 9, 2014, 4:45 am | # | Reply

      But he kind of was, wasn’t he? He might have been happy and totally sane being a web designer in San Jose.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 9, 2014, 5:04 am | # | Reply

        Before I answer that… how far are you into Narbonic?

    • irdburns
      May 9, 2014, 8:43 am | # | Reply

      Tip is as much a product of mad science as Dave. It’s his entire life now, after all: friends, job, and even vacations now are all steeped in mad science. It shapes his entire perception and has for years. No wonder he’s getting a bit mad hattery.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 9, 2014, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

        No, you misunderstand me. I’m not saying he’s a product of Mad Science at all. I’m saying that he, much like Dave, is going Mad.

    • mickeyf
      May 9, 2014, 12:14 pm | # | Reply

      Um… don’t know how to break this to you… If only from reading all of Shaenon’s creations, we are *all* a product of mad science.

      • Mental Mouse
        May 9, 2014, 7:43 pm | # | Reply

        OK, we need that on a T-shirt.

    • Batteryhorse
      May 9, 2014, 11:22 pm | # | Reply

      Oh man, if Tip goes Davenport then say goodbye to anyone with a libido within a three-block radius. 😀

  9. Dave
    May 9, 2014, 4:02 am | # | Reply

    What do you know, it turns out that Tip doesn’t like being degraded and/or dismissed for just being “girly” any more than girls do.

  10. Anderson
    May 9, 2014, 4:53 am | # | Reply

    This begs the question: What other grades of laser trip-mines are there?

    Is it like groceries where you can get Grade C ones that look kinda icky and a bit mushy but are still healthy and nutritious?

    • Barking Monkey
      May 9, 2014, 6:22 am | # | Reply

      There’s also ‘retrograde’ (they only work in reverse.)

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        May 9, 2014, 7:06 am | # | Reply

        If the mines only work in reverse, that just means you’ve got ’em the wrong way ’round

        • irdburns
          May 9, 2014, 8:44 am | # | Reply

          “This side towards enemy”
          Good advice.

          • Stickmaker
            May 9, 2014, 1:46 pm | #

            It’s not just advice! It’s _regulations_! 🙂

  11. Eddurd
    May 9, 2014, 6:31 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Puff The Magic Dragon”, Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow)

    Happy Captain Wilkin,
    Skipping down the hall!
    His team, perhaps, will find his traps
    And get spread across the wall!
    Super Shelby Silvers,
    Though he seems quite gruff,
    Gave Tip some flares, and laser snares,
    And other girly stuff!

     [CHORUS:]
      Oh,
      Tip, the top transvestite
      Has so much fun!
      He skips and smiles,
      And hides the files
      In the depths of Annex One!
        (repeat)

    Is Tip going mad now?
    Does he show the signs?
    Scattered all across the hall
    Are a hundred-twenty mines!
    Is he just facetious,
    Or will he rampage?
    Eagerly, the readers we,
    Await the next damn page!
     [repeat CHORUS]

    • irdburns
      May 9, 2014, 8:48 am | # | Reply

      Once more, you have won the internet. This means I can blame YOU for improper maintenance when there are connection issues :p

      • mickeyf
        May 9, 2014, 12:16 pm | # | Reply

        See? Exhibit A. Definitely a product of Mad Science.

  12. jdreyfuss
    May 9, 2014, 6:54 am | # | Reply

    Huh. Shelby is black. I guess that kills the theory that the scary, Anton-LaVey-looking, but ultimately nice head of maintenance for Annex One is really Shel Silverstein.

    Also, did Chris always censor himself with sci-fi swears or has he been hanging around Nick too long?

    • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
      May 9, 2014, 7:05 am | # | Reply

      I don’t think Nick’s censor allows for sci-fi swears.

      • irdburns
        May 9, 2014, 8:46 am | # | Reply

        It was programmed by Dr Lee. It definitely doesn’t.
        And jdreyfuss, I think he’s just one of those people who swear in nerd because why not. I bet he finds all the talk these days of hydraulic fraking hilarious. Not that I know anyone like that >.>

        • Kirala
          May 9, 2014, 11:46 pm | # | Reply

          Was Dr. Lee a scifi fan prior to bonding with Nick (aka prior to Nick escaping her [deliberate, planned] meddling with his brain)? I got the impression that she was too dreadfully practical to have that interest before Nick’s carefully planned course of study, but I admit I don’t have the patience to reread enough of the archives to check my memory.

    • maarvarq
      May 9, 2014, 9:57 am | # | Reply

      If you’re the right kind of media-SF geek, SF pseudo-swears are practically obligatory.

      • daibhidc
        May 9, 2014, 12:44 pm | # | Reply

        Too smegging right.

      • Norman
        May 9, 2014, 2:57 pm | # | Reply

        Frackkin’ tanj.

  13. Dr. Steve
    May 9, 2014, 8:56 am | # | Reply

    Huh… someone said it looks like it is building into Mustachio rampage.. now someone says Sweetheart rampage… possibly even a Tip rampage… sweet mother of mayhem… a triple rampage??? Is such a thing allowed? When in the tropes of mad science has such a thing ever occurred before?

    • irdburns
      May 9, 2014, 10:00 am | # | Reply

      Godzilla movies.

  14. Guesticus
    May 9, 2014, 11:59 am | # | Reply

    Okay, Bubbles is standing behind Sweetie (does Sweetie know her rival is right there?), so where has Unity gone? To find a new, fresh, body part for her ‘date’ with Bubbles?

    • daibhidc
      May 9, 2014, 12:47 pm | # | Reply

      In yesterday’s strip, Sweetheart was arguing with Bubbles (so yes, she knows she’s there) and saying she couldn’t find the files. Since the purpose of the coffee date was to give her a chance to look for them, I would guess that she has returned from the date and Unity, for reasons unknown, hasn’t.

  15. Dr. Steve
    May 9, 2014, 2:54 pm | # | Reply

    Could UNITY be on a secret mission to take the files elsewhere? Who would be interested in a monster-mash of mutants?

  16. Shadowmehr
    May 9, 2014, 6:51 pm | # | Reply

    It has been noted that high heels and high explosives are a killer combo.

    Here’s hoping Tip doesn’t make that a literal statement.

  17. Eddurd
    May 9, 2014, 10:56 pm | # | Reply

    You have discovered the source of my power. Now you must die … in 50 or 60 years, give or take.

  18. Eddurd
    May 9, 2014, 10:57 pm | # | Reply

    Gorram, that was a reply to mickeyf above.

  19. ngmatt8652
    May 9, 2014, 11:25 pm | # | Reply

    This ain’t a rampage, IT’S A JAIL BRAKE. HE BUSTIN TIGERLILLY OUT!

  20. Knuckles
    January 26, 2022, 8:49 am | # | Reply

    Gee it sure would be handy if there were a digital copy of all those files right now.

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