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2013-09-28

by shaenon on September 28, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    September 28, 2013, 12:09 am | # | Reply

    At least as operator of the drone, which has a mouth, the water cooler could give lip service.

    • Andrew Kunz
      September 28, 2013, 2:40 am | # | Reply

      Dave, I’m going to have to put you in the box for five minutes personal foul for unusually bad pun. It’s for your own good.

      • Dewy
        September 28, 2013, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        Yes. Let’s let cooler heads prevail.

        • Randolph
          September 30, 2013, 11:00 am | # | Reply

          That pun (and the follow-up retort) was beyond brilliant. I don’t see how it could land him in hot water.

    • Kitirena
      May 9, 2016, 8:17 am | # | Reply

      That comment was all wet, nyao…

  2. Speedball
    September 28, 2013, 1:27 am | # | Reply

    Awww, c’mon, Violet!Nick was great! (And not just because I find guys turned into girls inherently amusing). Is he seriously going to give up HANDS?

    • merleblue
      September 28, 2013, 6:50 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah, I mean…he might not like being treated as a girl, but it’s got to be handy to be able to go into buildings. Walk around quietly. Use a console controller…

  3. Sora Hjort
    September 28, 2013, 1:32 am | # | Reply

    What if when the water cooler said “Service is my only joy” it was really saying things like “Help me”

    • Scott Robert Lawrence
      September 28, 2013, 2:45 am | # | Reply

      That would explain the sudden caps.

    • Blayzeing
      September 28, 2013, 3:06 pm | # | Reply

      AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

  4. M. Alan Thomas II
    September 28, 2013, 1:40 am | # | Reply

    We had, at one point, theorized that the water cooler was goldbug. Could this be a backdoor attempt to get his drone back?

  5. Daniel
    September 28, 2013, 1:42 am | # | Reply

    What will Sweet Daddy Jupiter Velvet say about this?

    • Shadowmehr
      September 28, 2013, 9:42 am | # | Reply

      Why do you think the water cooler wants the drone?

      She’s tracking him down and just needs the legs to do it with.

      • Moe Lane
        September 28, 2013, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

        I’m just worried that she’s going to requisition a jumpsuit and a katana from Supplies.

        …OK, so maybe ‘worried’ is the wrong word.

        • JET73L
          March 6, 2015, 4:17 am | # | Reply

          “My name is [Marty] and I like to [party].”
          “Service is my only joy.”
          “Awright!” *is bisected*
          “Service… is my only joy.”

          • JET73L
            March 6, 2015, 4:19 am | #

            Aw, curses. It seems I screwed up the HTML.

  6. John Campbell
    September 28, 2013, 1:57 am | # | Reply

    C’mon, Tip. There are way worse ideas. Basically anything involving Unity in any manner whatsoever, for starters.

  7. mittfh
    September 28, 2013, 2:46 am | # | Reply

    Just because Nick’s currently jacked out of the drone, it doesn’t mean he’s done so permanently. When the time’s right, he may like to have another adventure in a more compact form than his ‘normal’ body. He’s probably weirded out by the whole Whimsy Princess adventure – most assignments aren’t going to require such OTT girlification. Compound that with his awkward conversation with Virginia, and it’s not hard to see why he’d prefer to spend some time back in his ‘normal’ body, which is far more ‘macho’ than the drone.

    • James Moar
      September 28, 2013, 4:56 am | # | Reply

      “most assignments aren’t going to require such OTT girlification”
      Well, that would be true if Nick didn’t exist in a universe that runs on Shaenon and Jeffrey’s senses of humour.

    • s854
      September 28, 2013, 10:56 am | # | Reply

      Nick wanted the drone to help more, and to see Virginia more. I’m not sure how attractive the first of these is on its own, especially when he spent a lot of the mission playing computer games with a unicorn anyway.

      I’m sure Unity would be happy to have the drone back, though.

  8. MutantSentry
    September 28, 2013, 2:52 am | # | Reply

    So what if in the drone body the Water Cooler still only says “Service is my only joy!” I’m not sure if that would be hilarious, annoying, or deeply creepy…

    • maarvarq
      September 28, 2013, 5:03 am | # | Reply

      That would probably depend on the facial expression or lack thereof that went with it.

    • Dave
      September 28, 2013, 6:04 am | # | Reply

      Here’s my take on that idea.

      Not sure if the image link will work so here is the url just in case: http://www.selkiecomic.com/images/water-cooler-violet.jpg

      • reynard61
        September 28, 2013, 4:49 pm | # | Reply

        Oh…wow…

        That is *Eldritch* levels of creepy…

    • davidbreslin101
      September 29, 2013, 12:07 pm | # | Reply

      It would become an anime character with an international cult following, I suspect.

  9. CM
    September 28, 2013, 2:55 am | # | Reply

    Yeah, seeing as the drone looks like a smallish young blond woman, this is all kinds of a bad idea. But it might give the poor water cooler some expanded horizons.

  10. Dave
    September 28, 2013, 5:35 am | # | Reply

    Wait, so Nick is giving up the drone for good? Identity crisis not withstanding, he can’t just use it as a means to an end (doing missions with the team on the ground, or hanging out with people)? Or is he afraid people will start to associate the drone with himself and forget who and what he really is?

  11. Anderson
    September 28, 2013, 6:03 am | # | Reply

    You know, I’m slightly worried that I’m the only one wanting to say “Give it to Moustachio!”

    …although that’d be second-best to giving him dinky little legs to walk around on.

    And the water cooler is pretty awesome.

    • Corye
      September 28, 2013, 12:03 pm | # | Reply

      if he wanted it, i’d be all over giving the droid to moustachio.

      • =Tamar
        September 28, 2013, 5:02 pm | # | Reply

        Considering what Moustachio did the last time he had functional legs and arms, that is a bad idea.

  12. Wasabi Jane
    September 28, 2013, 10:54 am | # | Reply

    In the alternate universe in my head where you actually do the Seth/Caliban spinoff, Water-Cooler-As-Violet is a crossover character as Seth’s love interest for at least one storyline.

  13. commodorejohn
    September 28, 2013, 10:57 am | # | Reply

    You know, it would be pretty funny for the evil infiltration drone to end up as a glorified office lady.

  14. Brian Bogue
    September 28, 2013, 11:44 am | # | Reply

    consider the possibility of the drone/watercooler becoming Moustachio’s love interest.

  15. Pygar2
    September 28, 2013, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

    ARGHHH!!! That was *terrible”, Dewy!!

    And thanks!

  16. Saberbeam
    September 28, 2013, 3:53 pm | # | Reply

    If the water cooler gets the drone, someone will need to say “In Soviet Russia, Culligan hangs out around you.” Probably Konstantin.

  17. Dogstar
    September 28, 2013, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

    Will Violet now thank her users for using her, or sigh with the satisfaction of a job well done? Share and enjoy.

  18. roberttheaddled
    September 28, 2013, 6:18 pm | # | Reply

    What I’m curious about – is what about the coffeepot Narbonic Labs. Machine Union also (was boiling Artie as part of a discussion right after the moonbase arc), then later decided to blast off to one of the outer planets (during the prepare to drive Dave away arc).

    WHAT drove it to such extremes? Dealing w/ the lab crew? Chock Full o’Nuts? (I can’t stand that stuff) That bizarre Civet poop coffee? (Kopi Luwak) (Artie would be most likely to go to that extreme of the group – wider horizons and all that)

    And what extremes would our plucky watercooler in a NON MAD WORKING ENVIRONMENT be driven to? What civil (or uncivil) service horrors has it had to endure? (And for U.S. readers – how are government Machine Union employees affected by government shutdowns like the one pending??)

    • Saberbeam
      September 28, 2013, 9:58 pm | # | Reply

      I imagine that there are two major possibilities for how a government shutdown would affect unionized machines. One is that they would all be layed off and left out on the curb to rust, being unable to even pound the pavement in a world not prepared for sentient machines (also in some cases, simply for lack of limbs with which to pound).

      Or they would all retire to a life of luxury and starring at technology expos using their insanely generous government severage packages.

      Given the spending habits of the government, I’m guessing the latter.

      • Riven
        September 28, 2013, 11:30 pm | # | Reply

        Ah yes, the old “You’re going to stop working for us but we’re going to pay you a buttload anyways” trick. I believe it was first used by Dastardly Corporations?

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