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2017-11-10

by shaenon on November 10, 2017 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Unsinkable
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  1. Urlance Woolsbane
    November 10, 2017, 12:04 am | # | Reply

    The only thing that could improve this arc’s cast would be the appearance of Tigerlily Jones.

    • Robert Nowall
      November 10, 2017, 12:21 am | # | Reply

      Well, I wouldn’t mind seeing Aimee or Baron Mistycorn.

    • Chrisn
      November 10, 2017, 1:48 am | # | Reply

      Virginia.

    • frithrikr
      November 10, 2017, 12:28 pm | # | Reply

      Heck! Alla them working in unity for better chaos works for me.

      • Pygar
        November 10, 2017, 1:34 pm | # | Reply

        I think you meant “with Unity”

        We haven’t seen Imogene Frog in far too long, or Gavotte, who I just read on ye olde Cast page, installed herself as head of Skin Horse…

    • OneUniverse
      November 10, 2017, 3:19 pm | # | Reply

      That spider appears to be talking a form of jive, so Tigerlily is probably around.

      • awgiedawgie
        November 11, 2017, 1:26 am | # | Reply

        Tigerlily built him, so he’s always talked that way. It’d be kinda cool if she showed up, but she’d need her coat-hanger tansporter to get there (which of course would make it even more cool if she showed up).

      • BRGR
        November 11, 2017, 1:27 am | # | Reply

        That spider is one of Doctor Jones’ fines creations, Sweet Daddy Jupiter Velvet. He was also Captain Waters’ first lover, back when she was just a lowly water dispenser, young and naive.

  2. thejoemoose
    November 10, 2017, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    I…certainly wasn’t expecting him. XD

  3. Jerry Aethers
    November 10, 2017, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    I understand more what Bubbles with her limited, yet expressive speech, than the jive spider. For all I know, it could be pure jibberish or completely legit. I wouldn’t know the difference.

  4. Robert Nowall
    November 10, 2017, 12:27 am | # | Reply

    I’d take it to mean “We’re under attack. Start shooting or we’re dead.” But my jive is rusty.

    • Casey
      November 10, 2017, 12:39 am | # | Reply

      Maybe we can see if June Cleaver is available to act as a translator.

      Probably not, as this takes place on a boat rather than an Airplane!

      • Robert Nowall
        November 10, 2017, 12:44 am | # | Reply

        Well, it is an aircraft carrier.

      • bergerjacques
        November 10, 2017, 10:02 am | # | Reply

        Barbara Billingsley don’t take that June Cleaver smack lightly. Keep it real.

  5. Melian D
    November 10, 2017, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    If I’m sort of understanding the jive spider-
    Drip = extremely rude term for someone.. er think pus.
    Coking us to the bone = well either he’s saying their being cooked or they are being kept awake. I’ll say heating up or cooked since it makes more sense.. So, being badly heated up..
    Roscoes = Street slang for guns
    Exo-dust = No urban slang that fits but exo usually means something outside earth’s atmosphere, exodust would fairly obvious
    So, my interpretation, “Someone is heating us up badly, if you don’t get things under control / shoot something that’s attacking us we’re going to be blown out of the atmosphere and into space.
    Er exactly what is that iceberg powered with???

    • Aevylmar
      November 10, 2017, 12:40 am | # | Reply

      I’d go with “blown into [destroyed until we are] space dust” as the last line, but other than that, I think you’re spot on.

      • Candace
        November 10, 2017, 2:15 am | # | Reply

        How about “Knocked into orbit”? An oldie but a goodie.

    • Altarboy
      November 10, 2017, 2:34 am | # | Reply

      I’m thinking make tracks, exodus(t).

      • awgiedawgie
        November 10, 2017, 7:20 am | # | Reply

        How about using “exodus” as a transitive verb? Like when little Jimmy had to be disappeared. If exodus as a noun means ‘a departure’, then as a verb it could mean ‘forcibly ejected’. In other words, to get ‘exodused’ (exo-dust) is to get ‘blown away’ or in this case, ‘blown out of the water’.

        But I like your idea as well. Maybe he’s saying fight or flight… “line up them roscoes” – ready the guns; “or exo-dust” – let’s get the heck outta Dodge… or in Nick’s lingo, let’s dust off.

        We need Shelby to translate for us.

        • eternalfarnham
          November 10, 2017, 1:22 pm | # | Reply

          I thought drip was a little more literal — “the water (drip) is flooding the engine room; either start firing the cannons or get out fast.”

          • awgiedawgie
            November 11, 2017, 1:23 am | #

            Kinda what I was getting at in my second paragraph.

            I wasn’t even trying to make sense of “Drip cokin us to the bone, Blood”. But as you say, maybe it translates into naval lingo as “Conn, Engine Room. We’re taking on water!”

      • Jon
        November 10, 2017, 12:11 pm | # | Reply

        Heh. Nice, could be a double meaning. “Exodus or exo-dust.”

    • OneUniverse
      November 10, 2017, 3:20 pm | # | Reply

      Did Tip learn enough jive to communicate with the spider, or do they have to call in Tigerlily to fix the situation?

      • Candace
        November 11, 2017, 12:08 am | # | Reply

        Looks like Captain Waters understands Sweet Daddy just fine.

  6. palenoue
    November 10, 2017, 1:06 am | # | Reply

    If they had descriptive lights, they’d have to change the bulb between yellow and red alert.

    • WuseMajor
      November 10, 2017, 1:11 am | # | Reply

      For reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_gZ_7sdZg

    • Chrisn
      November 10, 2017, 12:39 pm | # | Reply

      On Red Dwarf they had blue alert, which probably meant hey, look over here, no sweat tho.

      • Candace
        November 11, 2017, 12:12 am | # | Reply

        Don’t forget the purple alert. Apparently that was a really serious one.

        • Bathymetheus
          November 11, 2017, 1:31 pm | # | Reply

          According to Dr. Who, mauve alert is worst.

          • awgiedawgie
            November 11, 2017, 3:49 pm | #

            Yeah, but for the gang at SH, mauve was “Military AI gone rogue”, and who knows what it might mean for AG-I. Knowing them, it’s probably something like “we’re out of toilet paper in the ladies’ room”.

  7. Shane Wegner
    November 10, 2017, 1:11 am | # | Reply

    These digital lifeforms aren’t taking our language super seriously.

    • awgiedawgie
      November 10, 2017, 1:42 am | # | Reply

      Not their fault. A computer is only as good as its programming.

      • greenknight32
        November 10, 2017, 10:24 pm | # | Reply

        Yep – and he was programmed by Tigerlily Jones, so he speaks only Jive.

  8. casimir
    November 10, 2017, 1:14 am | # | Reply

    If I had an engine room Sweet Daddy would be my first choice engineer. I wonder if he does a Scottish accent.

    • Efogoto
      November 10, 2017, 3:35 am | # | Reply

      Not even Scotty managed that trick.

  9. Robert Nowall
    November 10, 2017, 7:53 am | # | Reply

    I wonder if the others from the safe house are around somewhere as crew. Alfie’s sister Meg is probably the ship’s doctor.

    • Shadowmehr
      November 10, 2017, 7:44 pm | # | Reply

      And the Killobots are the maintenance crew, for much the same reason as Sweetdaddy in the engine room. I’m sure some of Capt. Waters’ office supply buddies are helping in some of the minor jobs in and around the ship.

      • Robert Nowall
        November 10, 2017, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

        I figured Number Two ran the mess.

  10. rylen
    November 10, 2017, 11:42 am | # | Reply

    That strip was perfect.

    If we’re asking for reunions, either one of the Jersey Devils or the basement rat would be fun.

  11. Carl Burke
    November 10, 2017, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    If only we had a robot who only spoke in Cockney rhyming slang, then we’d really have something.

  12. mrinku
    November 10, 2017, 11:26 pm | # | Reply

    The ship might be fully staffed by Bubbles’ exes.

    She does get around.

  13. BrokenEye, the True False Prophet
    November 12, 2017, 4:00 am | # | Reply

    Oh, stewardess! I speak jive.

  14. Knuckles
    February 4, 2022, 1:50 pm | # | Reply

    So does Unity get a free pass into this ship’s crew?

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