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2022-05-18

by shaenon on May 18, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
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  1. Robert Nowall
    May 18, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    That’s better. See some sights, do a little shopping, eat at little roadside stands…

    • Duane B.
      May 18, 2022, 7:53 am | # | Reply

      It’s not a greasy spoon, It”s a greasy spork!

    • waynezombie
      May 18, 2022, 11:37 am | # | Reply

      Do they have the little Duncan Hines placards?

    • Shadowmehr
      May 18, 2022, 1:02 pm | # | Reply

      Or in U.N.I.T.Y’s case, eat the roadside stands.

  2. Robert
    May 18, 2022, 12:22 am | # | Reply

    I hope there are no The Thing or SuperAmerica billboards in space!

    • BMunro
      May 18, 2022, 12:52 am | # | Reply

      Just the Burma Shave signs, spaced out half a light year apart.

      • Duane B.
        May 18, 2022, 7:59 am | # | Reply

        In this world,

        of trouble,

        and sin..

        your Flam goes bald

        But, not your sner@k

      • David B Huber
        May 18, 2022, 9:54 am | # | Reply

        The Burma Shave signs were clever, innovative and appropriate to their era. I’ve always wanted a shower curtain covered with their blurbs! 😉

        Your drive is warped
        But not your mind
        The smoothest skin
        You’ll ever find
        With
        Burma Shave

      • Robert Nowall
        May 18, 2022, 12:17 pm | # | Reply

        In outer space
        Your hairs are scratchy
        Remember us
        Our rhymes are catchy.
        Burma Shave.

        • David B Huber
          May 18, 2022, 5:15 pm | # | Reply

          (bows)

          • Robert Nowall
            May 18, 2022, 7:31 pm | #

            Could’a said:

            If you’ve got legs
            And find them hairy
            Our brushless cream
            Will leave them merry.
            Burma Shave.

  3. TheWreck
    May 18, 2022, 12:53 am | # | Reply

    Or “South of the Border” billboards that appear at regular intervals along the route.

    • D. Walker
      May 18, 2022, 4:06 am | # | Reply

      “YOU NEVER SAUSAGE A PLACE!”

      • Andy4Hire
        May 18, 2022, 7:34 pm | # | Reply

        “Your sheep are all counted at South of the Border” was the one my sister and I always looked out for. We liked the motorized “jumping” sheep.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 18, 2022, 7:36 pm | # | Reply

      “Pedro Corny?”

  4. Lurker in the Thread
    May 18, 2022, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    Undead Sister sounds like a band name. A really boss, punk rock band

    • Wallraven
      May 18, 2022, 2:17 am | # | Reply

      Or maybe a cross between Twisted Sister & The Grateful Dead

      • Duane B.
        May 18, 2022, 7:50 am | # | Reply

        Now I’ve got that image in my head.

    • Lady E
      May 18, 2022, 11:54 am | # | Reply

      Undead Sister is my Weird Al tribute band.

    • Dewy
      May 18, 2022, 12:15 pm | # | Reply

      Sounds like a band that would be opening for My Chemical Romance.

  5. Midwestmutt
    May 18, 2022, 7:41 am | # | Reply

    Wall Drug-1.23 parsecs.

    • Robert Nowall
      May 18, 2022, 9:06 am | # | Reply

      South of the Galactic Equator?

    • Robert Nowall
      May 18, 2022, 7:40 pm | # | Reply

      Also Happy Herpie’s Sunshine Sanctuary. Here’s what I posted last time:

      Oh-oh-oh, when you’re feelin’ chirpy,
      Come and stop at Happy Herpie’s.
      The place that’s got most everything in lizards galore.
      Their Sunshine Sanctuary
      Is evolutionary.
      They’re the place with all the greatest reptiles and more.

      So come on by and put it to the test.
      Snakes, iguanas, we’ve got all the best.
      We’ll show you lizards you didn’t know exist.
      And herpetology you cannot resist.

      So when you’re feelin’ chirpy,
      Come and stop at Happy Herpie’s
      The place that’s got most everything in lizards galore.
      And come and have some fun
      With snakes that have uncoiled…
      Happy Herpie’s will not be underdone
      Ooh-ooh-ee-ooh…

    • Sean K
      May 18, 2022, 10:21 pm | # | Reply

      Breezetron – Planet of Motels!

  6. jdreyfuss
    May 18, 2022, 8:04 am | # | Reply

    Pavane has a lot to learn. The reason Ira’s methods failed is because if you frame it as repression for the good of the repressed they will always rebel eventually. If you frame it as an object lesson that they had to learn for themselves or they would never properly understand, like Gavotte does, not only will they happily stay under your supervision, but it will be their idea.

    • David B Huber
      May 18, 2022, 9:56 am | # | Reply

      “She had to learn it for herself.”

  7. Robert Nowall
    May 18, 2022, 9:11 am | # | Reply

    Pavane says it’s for their own good. She actually misunderstood. She thinks that she’s smarter, but that’s a non-starter. So Lovetron—well, unlikelihood.

    • JSStryker
      May 18, 2022, 10:57 am | # | Reply

      I think Tigerlily and the gang are starting to realize “If you think I need to be saved from myself, I probably need to be saved from you.”

  8. Frank Hightower
    May 18, 2022, 9:45 am | # | Reply

    If there’s rest stops, I have a whole lot more questions on the nature of the universe

    • David B Huber
      May 18, 2022, 9:59 am | # | Reply

      IIRC, the Jetsons prominently featured “greasy spoon” diners?

    • Semper Solus
      May 18, 2022, 11:49 am | # | Reply

      Pretty sure, in space, rest stops violate Newton’s First Law.
      And, depending on your driver, Asimov’s as well.

      • Dewy
        May 18, 2022, 12:21 pm | # | Reply

        I don’t think Newton understood that there is no such thing as an object at rest in this universe. Maybe all the rest stops are relative.

      • Robert Nowall
        May 18, 2022, 1:30 pm | # | Reply

        Asimov suffered from kidney stones for many years, so that meant he had to increase his liquid intake—which would necessitate rest stops.

      • Towering Barbarian
        May 18, 2022, 11:55 pm | # | Reply

        No particular reason L-5 colonies can’t serve that purpose. 🙂

  9. davefromindy
    May 18, 2022, 11:26 am | # | Reply

    What about the Jack Rabbit signs? No text required…

  10. awgiedawgie
    May 18, 2022, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

    The dialogue here reinforces the notion that Tigerlily is not, in fact, from Lovetron at all.

    • Daibhid C
      May 18, 2022, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

      It certainly reinforces the notion that Tigerlily herself doesn’t really believe she’s from Lovetron, which she admitted to Tip way back when (“I do know. I’m mad because I don’t care,”) It would be kind of funny, and well within the sort of plot twists this strip does, if she turned out to be wrong.

      As Tigerlilly says here the fact she has, on some level, been waiting for someone to tell her “Yes, you really are a princess of Lovetron” her entire life is exactly why she’s not buying what Pavane’s selling. Whether she is one or not is more or less irrelevent to that.

      • Daibhid C
        May 18, 2022, 1:03 pm | # | Reply

        Link got swallowed. Tigerlily says it here:
        https://skin-horse.com/comic/workspace-would/

      • awgiedawgie
        May 18, 2022, 8:01 pm | # | Reply

        It’s also Pavane’s comment in the second panel. If Tigerlily were really a Lovetronian, why would Pavane say “wait until we reach Lovetron”? Methinks Pavane’s scheme is about to unravel completely.

    • M
      May 18, 2022, 5:57 pm | # | Reply

      Yeah. I reckon:
      – Lovetron doesn’t exist.
      – Pavane used it as an ploy to get all the NHSs onto the spaceship, for reasons TBC.
      – Pavane blundered, because she thought Tigerlily really believed she was from Lovetron, rather than not caring that she isn’t.
      – T realised P’s scheme was a lie, so decided to play along until the opportunity came to stir up trouble.

      Of course, the trouble with this genre is, any sufficiently mad science is indistinguishable from a plot device.

  11. David B Huber
    May 18, 2022, 6:05 pm | # | Reply

    If I ever got stranded in an alternate reality, I’d open an inn named “The Laughing Vulcan” to attract anyone from neighboring dimensions.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 18, 2022, 8:51 pm | # | Reply

      Now I’m picturing a sci-fi version of Callahan’s or Strangefellows.

      • Foradain
        May 19, 2022, 10:43 am | # | Reply

        An interstellar version of Munden’s Bar, or the Draco Tavern…

        • Foradain
          May 19, 2022, 10:44 am | # | Reply

          Or perhaps Poul Anderson’s The Old Phoenix…

          • Robert Nowall
            May 19, 2022, 3:48 pm | #

            The White Hart, if you prefer a British bar.

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