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2013-10-22

by shaenon on October 22, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My Brother Sam Is Dead
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  1. Riven
    October 22, 2013, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Take out an “S” and that’s one hell of an anagram.
    An entirely accurate one, too.

    • Jeff Klein
      October 22, 2013, 11:50 am | # | Reply

      Yes, there IS a lot of subtext with that name, isn’t there?

      • commodorejohn
        October 22, 2013, 2:28 pm | # | Reply

        I see what you did there.

  2. David “Q the Platypus” Formosa
    October 22, 2013, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    “A Brain Tenor” but there isn’t an “s” in Artie Narbon.

    • soft
      October 22, 2013, 12:23 pm | # | Reply

      Perhaps, but I think we was talking about the “bus texts”

  3. Jay Eff
    October 22, 2013, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    Texting and Busing: It Can Wait.

    *Dodges Werewolves*

  4. Dave Van Domelen
    October 22, 2013, 12:33 am | # | Reply

    Yyyyeah, even the filter knew whatever Nick was gonna say there needed bleeping. Regardless of the language.

    • Rex Vivat
      October 22, 2013, 7:41 am | # | Reply

      I’m pretty sure it came out pretty close to the original… enough to be recognizable, at least. That, or it’s a very accurate coincidence.

  5. eddurd
    October 22, 2013, 12:35 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “Dirty Laundry”, Don Henley)

    We’re on a mission now with Doctor Lee!
    We can work together now har-mo-ni-ous-ly …
    Who we gonna go to see?
    Why, it’s Artie Narbon!

    What did you expect in Cal-i-forn-eye-ay?
    Things can be so dull if you’re all work and no play …
    Tip is now a wee bit gay,
    ‘Cause of Artie Narbon!

     Is the gerbil bi?
     Is the gerbil gay?
     We don’t wonder why
     How he got that way …

     Is the gerbil gay?
     Is the gerbil bi?
     Can we stay away?
     (Tip won’t even try!)

  6. Michael Farren
    October 22, 2013, 1:07 am | # | Reply

    Judging from the drawings of Artie in the nude we’ve seen so far (mostly in Narbonic), there is too an “s” in Artie Narbon. Pretty nice one, too.

  7. mnementh
    October 22, 2013, 2:42 am | # | Reply

    Wish they all could be California “whatever-the-blunk-they-ares”…

    mnem
    We are all shorter in real life.

  8. Alexander
    October 22, 2013, 4:43 am | # | Reply

    A lot of subtext in that bus text.

    • Seph
      October 22, 2013, 6:55 am | # | Reply

      For a chance to win men’s formalwear, place your tux bets now.

      • reynard61
        October 23, 2013, 12:19 am | # | Reply

        Don’t forget that there are also tub taxes that need to be paid…

        • reynard61
          October 23, 2013, 12:31 am | # | Reply

          GAH! One too many letters! Nevermind.

  9. Dave Harmon
    October 22, 2013, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Notice that even Tip realizes that working with Artie will be awkward…

  10. Freddie Freelance
    October 22, 2013, 9:20 am | # | Reply

    Sex Butt! That’s all I got.

    • mnementh
      October 22, 2013, 11:40 am | # | Reply

      Freddie – I don’t think I can facepalm loud enough for you to hear it all the way over in your corner of the internet… 😉

      Dave H. – I don’t think that’s it at all… I think Tip is suggesting that he’s getting another chance to ahem… with Artie. Not even a twinge of “awkward” from Tip; I mean… how many times does he have to prove that he’s utterly shameless before we just accept it and move on? :-/

      mnem
      And don’t forget to “Tip” your waitstaff… :p

      • Rex Vivat
        October 22, 2013, 11:47 am | # | Reply

        You mean… another chance to have [bus text] with Artie? 😉

  11. Ken
    October 22, 2013, 9:51 am | # | Reply

    So, the language filter also removes factual statements if they contain something that is sometimes used as a swear word? For instance, if Nick was angry with Sweetheart, it could come out “Beach!” even though Sweetheart is a female dog?

    • Rex Vivat
      October 22, 2013, 10:28 am | # | Reply

      As far as I understand it, the filter works contextually as much as semantically. That is, in the case you described the censor would kick in, but if he was saying the word in its originally intended use, it wouldn’t.

  12. davidbreslin101
    October 22, 2013, 10:04 am | # | Reply

    A new worry: Nick’s filter can learn, right? And Nick is finding new ways to bypass it, further stimulating its learning abilities. What if this leads to the Technological Sweargularity? The whole course of human history changed by an AI with godlike powers, whose only goal is to prevent swearing.

    • Frank Hightower
      October 22, 2013, 10:08 am | # | Reply

      that… doesn’t sound so bad

      • Rex Vivat
        October 22, 2013, 10:12 am | # | Reply

        Until you realize that censorship always leads to more censorship.

        • Ian Thompson
          October 22, 2013, 6:29 pm | # | Reply

          actually, that might lead to the end of all Censorship of curse words since no one would actually know any curse words, since they would be unable to communicate them. alternately the words it Chooses to Replace swears with most commonly would become the swear words themselves.

          • Rex Vivat
            October 22, 2013, 6:34 pm | #

            I meant that specific censorship leads to non-specific censorship.

    • Ogden Wernstrom
      October 22, 2013, 1:16 pm | # | Reply

      If you had total consciousness of cursing, you could prevent swearing really, really well. Anyway, swearing is only wrong if you don’t know what you’re doing, like everybody else in the world except you. Imagine what kind of demons you could manifest by combining epithets in 300 languages! And with your perfect knowledge, you could be the first to control the demons properly and use them as a force for good. Why not address the fundamental problems that cause people to curse in the first place? As we see here, sex is obscene too. I bet you could stop that. It’s logical.

      • Rex Vivat
        October 22, 2013, 1:20 pm | # | Reply

        Stop it for long enough and you’re guaranteed to stop humans from cursing for good.

  13. "Emmy"
    October 22, 2013, 10:51 am | # | Reply

    Leave the s, that implies there’s more than one.

  14. Corye
    October 22, 2013, 11:22 am | # | Reply

    the nail-file bit would be even funnier if tip and artie were female.

  15. freemage
    October 22, 2013, 1:14 pm | # | Reply

    Nick needs the capacity to play “Dun-dun-DUN” in his interior compartment if they’re going to keep doing this.

  16. Tetra Valent
    October 22, 2013, 1:44 pm | # | Reply

    Yes, but will Artie be as he was in Cleveland or as he is in Panel 2 of:
    http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=117736
    ?

  17. Jonathan SCE
    October 22, 2013, 2:17 pm | # | Reply

    At least Nick will finally meet his species transition counselor…

  18. Maricruz Villalobos Zamora
    October 22, 2013, 2:33 pm | # | Reply

    “bus texts”. I love it!

  19. Shadowmehr
    October 22, 2013, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

    Did anyone else hear a dramatic musical sting in the last panel?

    • Buggy
      July 9, 2014, 7:59 am | # | Reply

      I did!

  20. jdreyfuss
    January 23, 2020, 9:54 am | # | Reply

    Heh. Computer generated Spoonerism.

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