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2014-06-17

by shaenon on June 17, 2014 at 12:01 am
Chapter: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
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  1. grantwhy
    June 17, 2014, 2:05 am | # | Reply

    looking a Bubbles face there in the last panel I wonder …

    … how long before she ‘borrows’ Gentle Persuasion and goes on a rampage?

    • EveryZig
      June 17, 2014, 2:10 am | # | Reply

      So a move from dispensing water to dispensing fire?

      • xiombrag
        June 17, 2014, 11:14 am | # | Reply

        Cooling is just a matter of moving heat from one place to another…

    • xiombrag
      June 17, 2014, 11:13 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty pleased at how she’s learned to use sarcasm to enhance her limited vocabulary.

  2. Kirala
    June 17, 2014, 2:16 am | # | Reply

    For once, Bubbles’ language uses exactly the same phoneme combination that I would choose to use in this situation.

    And yeah, it’s quite a bit cleaner than what most people would say, but would you expect a water purifier to use dirty language?

    • Tetra Valent
      June 17, 2014, 11:27 am | # | Reply

      Well, yes, but this is not the time for her to mention her “joy service”.

  3. Beachfox
    June 17, 2014, 2:57 am | # | Reply

    I look forward to Bubble’s inevitable and nearing Rampage.
    “SERVICE IS MY ONLY JOY!” *flamethrower noises* “JOOOOOOY!”

    Bubbles has become my favorite Skin Horse character in this arc, and she’s had steep compitition!

  4. erichamion
    June 17, 2014, 3:54 am | # | Reply

    TTTO: No Regrets (performed by Gary Allan, written by Randall, Jon / Hanna, Jamie / Allan, Gary)

    Termites in the cryo room
    We need a big bomb filled with CO2
    I’ve got a plan to get past this place

    Irradiation made them large
    And hungry, of course, but now I’m taking charge
    I can lead them on a merry chase

    Now I regret this plan I made
    Termite beasts have me so afraid
    I’ll be glad when this is done
    Run away!

    Well, I’ve a plan, you bet
    For this termite threat
    Already, I regret

    Now, why’d I have to be so bold?
    Well when I’m running so fast at least I don’t feel cold
    But dead ‘n warm is really dead anyway

    Well I know I can’t look back
    Or I’ll fall prey to a bug attack
    I’ll just run now – run and pray

    Now I regret this plan I made
    Termite beasts have me so afraid
    I’ll be glad when this is done
    Run away!

    Well, I’ve a plan, you bet
    For this termite threat
    Already, I regret

  5. BMunro
    June 17, 2014, 4:46 am | # | Reply

    If you run with a large spherical metallic object screaming “bomb” people usually get out of your way. I don’t know if machines react the same way.

    • D. Walker
      June 17, 2014, 4:59 am | # | Reply

      Machines may know a bad thing when they see it, but they typically don’t know fear.

      …or is that kender?

      • BMunro
        June 17, 2014, 11:04 am | # | Reply

        “That was the equation! Existence! Survival must cancel out programming!”

        – Ruk the ugly-ass android.

    • kag
      June 17, 2014, 9:54 am | # | Reply

      “Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”

      • Wayne Zombie
        June 17, 2014, 11:07 am | # | Reply

        Yay, original Batman movie reference!

        • davidbreslin101
          June 17, 2014, 11:29 am | # | Reply

          …though, according to Wallace and Gromit, you always have the option of chucking it over the border into Yorkshire.

    • Rex Vivat
      June 17, 2014, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Even if that would normally work, that bomb has a big “CO2” painted on its side. Kind of like having “replica” written down the side of your gun.

      • Jay
        June 17, 2014, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

        It’s a big container full of heavily compressed gas. If it cracks, there will be an explosion. Maybe not so much *fire* as a movie explosion, but one with plenty of shrapnel and deafness for too-close bystanders anyway…

        • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
          June 18, 2014, 12:47 am | # | Reply

          I just saw Edge of Tomorrow, and you’ve probably already been told this, but they totally stole the premise from you.

          • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
            June 18, 2014, 12:51 am | #

            Whoops. Didn’t mean for that to be a reply to anyone.

          • Windy Wanderings
            June 20, 2014, 12:46 am | #

            And here I was hoping to be the first one to mention the new movie that appears to be Choose but with Tom Cruise.

          • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
            June 20, 2014, 1:57 am | #

            I’m not even kidding. He even uses the same exact method of figuring out what to do.

        • Rex Vivat
          June 18, 2014, 10:36 am | # | Reply

          I know what you mean, but intimidation relies on perception.

  6. Eddurd
    June 17, 2014, 6:49 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I Won’t Back Down”, Tom Petty)

    Managed one floor down!
    We got one floor down!
    Gotta make it through
    With the bomb of CO2!
    We made one floor down!

    To the room of flame
    That the bomb can tame!
    The machines say no!
    But we really need to go
    Deeper underground …
    We’re just one floor down!

      (We’re one floor down, yeah!!)
      We can’t go back or around!
      (We’re one floor down, yeah!!)
      Making Bubbles frown!
      Only one … floor … down!

  7. jdreyfuss
    June 17, 2014, 6:56 am | # | Reply

    “I don’t regret this, but I both rue and lament it.”

    I can’t decide which part of this strip I like best, the giant cartoony bomb or Bubbles learning sarcasm.

  8. Robert Nowall
    June 17, 2014, 7:26 am | # | Reply

    Shouldn’t all this office equipment be out on the picket lines?

    • Danny Sichel
      June 17, 2014, 7:49 am | # | Reply

      they could picket, or they could beat up Bubbles the damn dirty scab.

      • Robert Nowall
        June 17, 2014, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

        “Ya gotta strike while the union is hot / Ya gotta get all the money they got / If a scab tells ya to stick it / ya just stand right up and picket / Ya gotta strike while the union is hot!”

  9. commodorejohn
    June 17, 2014, 8:13 am | # | Reply

    ‘Tis a thing of beauty when an innocent young creature first discovers sarcasm.

  10. Jude
    June 17, 2014, 10:15 am | # | Reply

    I’m beginning to adore Bubbles.

  11. Tetra Valent
    June 17, 2014, 11:30 am | # | Reply

    With the shredder aligned against them, there is no hope for those files.

  12. bergerjacques
    June 17, 2014, 12:55 pm | # | Reply

    Bubbles (although I prefer Brita (TM), too) is beginning to rival Zerhakker in the pre-programmed repressed cursing department.

  13. Robert Nowall
    June 17, 2014, 1:23 pm | # | Reply

    By the way, I love the nice retro look of the CO-Two bomb.

  14. Shadowmehr
    June 17, 2014, 7:07 pm | # | Reply

    Again, Tip may go for the simple solution here.

    “Hey, any of you guys want to melt in the fire downstairs? No? Good, then let us get this extinguisher through!”

    Self-preservation tends to trump idealism nine times out of ten. (It’s that tenth you have to watch out for.)

  15. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    June 17, 2014, 8:55 pm | # | Reply

    Wait… is that a garbage bin? That’s not even a machine! It’s a solid piece of molded plastic

    • Candace
      June 18, 2014, 12:25 am | # | Reply

      I think what you’re seeing may be the shredder.

      • BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
        June 18, 2014, 12:48 am | # | Reply

        There does not appear to be a shredder attached to the garbage bin, no.

        • Robert Nowall
          June 18, 2014, 4:00 am | # | Reply

          Maybe the shredder part crossed the picket line.

  16. griffin8aka8evonix
    November 13, 2014, 10:25 am | # | Reply

    Light it then roll it down the stairs

  17. jdreyfuss
    January 24, 2020, 8:24 am | # | Reply

    Huh, so they did make the drone capable of eye-twitching.

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