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2013-09-16

by shaenon on September 16, 2013 at 12:01 am
Chapter: My House Is Me
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  1. Dave Van Domelen
    September 16, 2013, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Hi, Mell!

    • tpmanw
      September 16, 2013, 1:18 am | # | Reply

      Fun cameo or foreshadowing for some political intrigue/ stabby times?

      • John Campbell
        September 16, 2013, 1:24 am | # | Reply

        She’s probably just waiting for Caliban to get off work.

        • Kwaj
          September 17, 2013, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

          Izzat Cal, beyond her?

      • King
        September 16, 2013, 1:46 am | # | Reply

        If it were an isolated incident it would probably be a coincidence. Dave was in the background at Whimsy world just a short while ago, however: http://skin-horse.com/comic/there-was-plenty/

        • Altarboy
          September 16, 2013, 2:15 am | # | Reply

          I’m not too certain of that person’s Daveness.

          • keiyakins
            September 16, 2013, 1:20 pm | #

            We need to get another Dave to smell him.

      • Kristan Overstreet (@RedneckGaijin)
        September 16, 2013, 10:02 am | # | Reply

        In short, is that just a Mell, or is it a Chekhov’s Mell?

        • Malicron
          April 5, 2016, 4:24 pm | # | Reply

          Could be foreshadowing, but we know Mel went into politics, and they ARE in the shadow government district of D.C.; she might just work near by and be getting a coffee.

      • Darkstarr
        May 4, 2016, 10:49 pm | # | Reply

        It could be both…

        Or maybe it’s just Schroedinger’s Narbonic–it could be there, or it could not be…

    • OneUniverse
      September 16, 2013, 3:06 am | # | Reply

      I just asked Shaenon and Jeff to give Mell a cameo a few strips ago. Such service!

  2. =Tamar
    September 16, 2013, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    If that is Mell, she won’t be much use. She’s a lawyer, not a computer expert. I doubt that a wax cylinder that size will play on an Edison phonograph, either. I really don’t see why they can’t contact SH.

    • Manifesta
      September 16, 2013, 12:55 am | # | Reply

      You and me both. I feel like I’m missing something major. Is this just based on what Collodi said about Skin Horse? ‘Cuz he crazy!

      • John Campbell
        September 16, 2013, 1:34 am | # | Reply

        I don’t think it’s what Collodi said in and of itself, but that what Collodi said is yet another indication that there’s a lot more going on than is readily apparent, and the Skin Horse team is in the middle of it, and they don’t know what they’re actually doing or whose interests they’re serving. And that it might be a good idea to figure that out before they go distributing information willy-nilly.

    • Kristan Overstreet (@RedneckGaijin)
      September 16, 2013, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      The question isn’t what use Mell could be… the question is how much MORE trouble Mell could get the field team into.

    • Storel
      November 22, 2017, 7:08 am | # | Reply

      Memory drums are a real technology created in the ’50s, but they’re not wax cylinders. They stored data magnetically, just like tape drives and hard discs. Nick was simply exaggerating the age of memory drums by comparing them to a much older technology.

      • WJS
        July 9, 2019, 8:14 pm | # | Reply

        Except that Moustachio is from the 1850s, not the 1950s. His memory drums are not going to be those.

  3. Shaenon
    September 16, 2013, 12:57 am | # | Reply

    Okay, I need to hire someone to fix this website’s problems. If you’re VERY proficient in ComicPress and want to save me from myself, please email me.

    • Gary
      September 16, 2013, 9:22 am | # | Reply

      Try Phil Hofer; he’s generous with knowledge and time, and he wrote CP in the first place. @frumph on Twitter.

    • Bill
      September 16, 2013, 11:59 am | # | Reply

      Seconded. Phil’s very good for support and will answer just about any tech question put to his forum http://forum.frumph.net/ and I’m pretty sure he takes commissions too.

  4. evilmidnightlurker
    September 16, 2013, 1:13 am | # | Reply

    I see a need for Tigerlily Jones.

    • OneUniverse
      September 16, 2013, 3:08 am | # | Reply

      I could see Tigerlily having the proper equipment to read the drum. And things may go back to black and white, at least for Tip, when she disappears again.

  5. Daniel
    September 16, 2013, 1:22 am | # | Reply

    Oh, HELP yeah!

  6. Barking Monkey
    September 16, 2013, 6:46 am | # | Reply

    Seeing them all still out of the office and talking about Moustachio made me wonder about something – who winds M when Tip’s out of the office for multiple days? Do they get someone from one of the other Annex one departments to do it? Does the cleaning crew? Does M just wind down and they ‘restart’ him when they get back?

    It’s too bad Tigerlily didn’t make him self-winding instead of giving him impractically short arms.

  7. eddurd
    September 16, 2013, 7:03 am | # | Reply

    (TUNE: “I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That), Meat Loaf)

    See, I can play anything high-tech,
    I’m giving you the straight-up facts …
    I can play anything high-tech,
    I’ll play your fav’rite music tracks …
    And I’ll never eat another danish again,
    Oh no, help no …
    And I can play anything high-tech,
    Check any file you want to check,
    Yes, I can play anything high-tech,
    But I can’t play wax!
    Oh, no … I can’t play wax!

    I will play anything high-tech,
    Check anything you want to check,
    But I just can’t … play … wax!

    See, I can play stuff in Quicktime,
    And I can play MP3’s,
    And I play older stuff like 8-track tapes and old LP’s!
    And I can play cable TV,
    Bandwidth I’ve got, to spare,
    And I can play anything that … hey, that’s Mell at that table there!

    But I’m just saying, there are some things this drone lacks …
    Things I’m not playing, like a tin can full of wax!
    The details, I’m sure, would bore yinz,
    But seems that those damp Victorians
    Had skills that are lost to historians!
    You gotta believe me,

    That I can play anything high-tech,
    Yeah, I can even send a fax …
    I can play anything high-tech,
    I know all these decoding hacks …
    But it turns out this drone don’t have no parts to bone
    Or no digestive tracts …
    And I can play anything high-tech,
    Kinda like “Data” on Star Trek,
    Yes, I can play anything high-tech,
    But I can’t play wax!

    • Andrew Kunz
      September 16, 2013, 11:42 am | # | Reply

      Damn you Ed! Now I have that song in my head! *SOB*

  8. Dave Harmon
    September 16, 2013, 10:05 am | # | Reply

    Barking Monkey: Given what happened when he got overwound, I don’t think they want him to be self-winding…

  9. Frank
    September 16, 2013, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Could it be? Could this mean the return of. … Tigerliliy Jones?

  10. Saberbeam
    September 16, 2013, 2:59 pm | # | Reply

    Hurrah for cameos! I’m amazed that the sheer awesomeness of Unity and Mell being in the same room hasn’t caused it to explode yet. And that Mell and Unity haven’t caused it to explode yet.

    If there isn’t a cellphone app for decoding wax cylinders available somewhere on the internet, I will be at least mildly surprised.

  11. commodorejohn
    September 16, 2013, 3:46 pm | # | Reply

    I doubt any phone camera is fine enough, but it’s plenty possible to read grooved recordings visually with enough resolution. (There are actually “laser turntables” that do exactly this to recover sound from poorly-kept vinyl records.) But there’s a big difference between recording raw data and interpreting the information encoded within – you could open up your web browser in a hex editor and see the same kind of thing, but without references as to what the numbers mean (CPU opcode lists, an ASCII text encoding chart, etc.) you wouldn’t have the faintest idea what it was. And given that Moustachio is a product of Mad Science, it’s doubtful that any sane hacker could quite penetrate this barrier. Hence, as people have said, the dire need for the return of Tigerlily Jones.

    (C’mon prison break story…c’mon prison break story…)

  12. Daniel
    September 16, 2013, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

    I like that “Mell” has now officially become synonymous with “gun”.

    • reynard61
      September 17, 2013, 10:44 pm | # | Reply

      “This is my Mell. There are many like it, but this one is mine…”

      (Hmmm… That doesn’t have quite the same “ring” as the original.)

      • reynard61
        September 17, 2013, 10:48 pm | # | Reply

        Or…

        “This is my rifle, this is my Mell! This is for fightin’, this raises Hell…”

  13. mnementh
    September 16, 2013, 5:06 pm | # | Reply

    But… what if it’s a Mell AND TLJ story arc?!?!?

    Are we ready for that much concentrated mayhem?

    Is the WORLD?!?!?

    mnem
    When I was young I wanted to play bass in a band called Electric Mayhem… but well, you know. Now I want to even more…

    • Kwaj
      September 17, 2013, 1:56 pm | # | Reply

      Isn’t that the name of the Muppet band? “Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem”?

      • Kwaj
        September 17, 2013, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

        Ah, should’ve scrolled down.

  14. Shadowmehr
    September 16, 2013, 6:59 pm | # | Reply

    Why would Nick even bother eating a Danish in the new rig? He knows that he’s piloting a robot drone. Did he think it came with a Mr. Fusion to process any random banana peel and beer can he came across?

  15. Brian Bogue
    September 16, 2013, 7:06 pm | # | Reply

    @mnementh, Electric Mayhem was the house band for the Muppet Show

    • mnementh
      September 17, 2013, 1:58 am | # | Reply

      Ummm… yeah. That was the joke. :-/ At times in my life, I have identified with every member of the band, even ANIMAL & occasionally Janice.

      mnem
      Of course… who HASN’T identified with ANIMAL at one time or another?

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