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2012-12-04

by shaenon on December 4, 2012 at 12:00 am
Chapter: Railway Children
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  1. Altarboy
    December 4, 2012, 12:45 am | # | Reply

    I think “Tip Wilkin and the Professional Misgivings” would be a great name for a band.

  2. Towering Barbarian
    December 4, 2012, 2:18 am | # | Reply

    St. Charlie being St. Charlie they will now go about their business as if nothing had happened because they’ve heard this all before and are convinced that as long as no one laughs they should be OK. ^^

  3. Danny in Canada
    December 4, 2012, 4:40 am | # | Reply

    If only Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California could have been resolved so easily.

  4. PlasticInsect
    December 4, 2012, 9:46 am | # | Reply

    The Teddy Ruxpin is optional, but it improves the flavor.

    • Smithnik
      December 4, 2012, 9:52 am | # | Reply

      I thought it was an opening bid…”Tom, I can wipe out this train with two train schedules and a Teddy Ruxpin.”
      Yes, it’s time to play Name That Doom! A Ralph Edwards Production…

      • Storel
        November 10, 2017, 12:03 am | # | Reply

        I can wipe out this train with one train schedule and a Speak-N-Spell!

  5. davidbreslin101
    December 4, 2012, 11:13 am | # | Reply

    Panel 2- Tip is actually pretty cool and professional at times. I’ve heard this kind of dilemma comes up a LOT in social work.

    • Axel
      December 4, 2012, 4:00 pm | # | Reply

      I agree. Threat of annihilation doesn’t mean that his professional ethics doesn’t go flying out the window, nor the trust of his client.

    • Glenn
      December 5, 2012, 7:29 am | # | Reply

      Yes. It does. It’s a rather uncomfortable line to have to tap dance (Tip dance?) all around. At the risk of sounding depressing and gloomy, it’s one reason I will NEVER transfer over to Children’s Services.

  6. Manifesta
    December 4, 2012, 11:32 am | # | Reply

    Apropos of yesterday, thanks, Jay, for alluding to “The Box of Robbers,” the L. Frank Baum story that gave the nukes their names. I wasn’t familiar with it: http://www.personal.psu.edu/apc5099/art203/lesson3_exercise2.html.

    • Stig
      December 4, 2012, 2:08 pm | # | Reply

      What a delightful story! Thanks for the link!

  7. Robert The Addled
    December 4, 2012, 2:50 pm | # | Reply

    One hour – is of course WAY too much time to give Mad Genius free reign to respond.

    • Scott's Folly
      December 4, 2012, 3:02 pm | # | Reply

      It’s way too much time to give one Mad Genius free rein to respond, yes. But Mads have a hard enough time working together when there’s no time pressure; distract them from the very deliberate socialisation that lets them do so, and they’ll do an excellent job of disrupting each other such that nothing gets done.

  8. Saberbeam
    December 4, 2012, 4:33 pm | # | Reply

    To the tune of “Warning” by Greenday

    This is a confidential anouncement, no this is not a test
    Professional misgivings put to rest
    May require a breach in confidentiality
    Caused by explosive threats to St. Charlie
    Know I can’t tell a lie, cause I am such a stand up guy
    Approximately an hour, you’re all gonna die.

    Dying. You will be dying.
    Said dying. You will be dying.
    You all. Will die.

    Couple of schedules and a teddy bear
    Gonna blow this science train out of the air
    Beware, my threats are rather unorthodox
    The doc thinks I’m credibly dangerous
    Extermination, extirpation, go and kill everything
    Or talk to Tip, cause he is listening.

  9. mnementh
    December 4, 2012, 6:26 pm | # | Reply

    Law of irony says they will all be saved in 59:58 minutes by a giant, sentient intergalactic pillow which was drawn here by the radio emissions from G.O.D.O.T.’s sensory neuralyzer thingie.

    mnem
    If the giant interdimensional trampoline doesn’t get there first…

    • jdreyfuss
      December 4, 2012, 8:26 pm | # | Reply

      Well, naturally.

  10. Max
    December 5, 2012, 1:23 am | # | Reply

    So, am I to believe that a trans-dimensional train like St. Charlie has NO emergency stop-thingies everywhere like all normal trains do…? Those things tend to be non-overridable and would have the last word even against a homicidal AI in control of the engine (unless they all read “pull to flush toilet” or something now, that is)…

    • Rex Vivat
      December 5, 2012, 7:05 am | # | Reply

      Mad Geniuses.

    • Brad
      December 5, 2012, 8:53 am | # | Reply

      It’s not a mad genius problem.

      It’s a “Just press the button _labeled_ Emergency Stop” problem, given what the AI has demonstrated it does.

      • WJS
        September 25, 2017, 8:35 am | # | Reply

        It’s very much a Mad Genius problem. On normal machinery, GODOT could write whatever the hell he likes, Emergency Stop controls are designed to be extremely obvious without reading the labels. In many carriages, they are the only controls there. All of this, however, assumes a normal train, not one run by Madboys.

  11. Moz
    December 5, 2012, 5:44 pm | # | Reply

    Plenty of normal trains lack emergency brakes. It seems that someone realised that stopping a train a mile into a tunnel isn’t always the best solution to a problem onboard.

    • WJS
      September 25, 2017, 8:37 am | # | Reply

      SCRAM-ing a nuclear reactor isn’t always the best solution to a problem with it, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to leave the option out when I build one.

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