Skin Horse

By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
By Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells
Color by Pancha Diaz
  • About Us
  • Cast
  • Store
  • Extras
  • Original Art for Sale
  • Our Patreon
RSS
2022-05-24
‹‹ First ‹ Prev Buy! Comments(57) Next › Last ››

2022-05-24

by shaenon on May 24, 2022 at 12:01 am
Chapter: Phantomwise
Comments RSS

Discussion (57) ¬

  1. palenoue
    May 24, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    In the words of the late, great Gilbert Gottfried: YOU FOOL!

    • jdreyfuss
      May 24, 2022, 9:12 am | # | Reply

      In the immortal words of Otter: “You fucked up. You trusted us.”

  2. Robert Nowall
    May 24, 2022, 12:03 am | # | Reply

    Moustachio’s torso is a useful device.

    • woodensarsen
      May 24, 2022, 1:37 am | # | Reply

      As they say, beauty is in the eye of the bee holder!

      • BMunro
        May 24, 2022, 6:31 pm | # | Reply

        (Insert applause GIF)

        Anyone remember beeserker? https://web.archive.org/web/20110905062630/http://www.beeserker.com/?page_id=44

    • JoB
      May 24, 2022, 4:23 am | # | Reply

      Considering that Pavane can, in some so far unknown manner, control a space ship, I’m not at all sure that Moustachio’s body will prove as immovable and unescapable as they hope …

      • skullthetroll
        May 24, 2022, 9:40 am | # | Reply

        It was amazing what Skitter from Worm could do with a swarm of bugs.

    • Nomi
      May 24, 2022, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

      Isn’t that Hitty? Didn’t Moustachio’s original torso get lost or destroyed in some way?

      • Rob Nobody
        May 24, 2022, 6:00 pm | # | Reply

        I’m not positive if this is Moustachio’s original torso or a replacement, but Nigel the Anti-Gravity Ferret separated him and Hitty right before they got on the ship:

        https://skin-horse.com/comic/that-way/
        https://skin-horse.com/comic/said-gavotte-3/

      • David B Huber
        May 24, 2022, 6:05 pm | # | Reply

        While dear Moustachio did indeed interface with Hitty for some time, he has had his own mobility restored, thanks to Nigel.

  3. proxiehunter
    May 24, 2022, 12:12 am | # | Reply

    Rule number one, when someone says “trust no one”, shoot them in the face before they betray you in act three.

    • thejoemoose
      May 24, 2022, 12:14 am | # | Reply

      Why shoot when you can poison in act two?

      • Birion
        May 24, 2022, 1:37 am | # | Reply

        Because poison always goes wrong. Either you use too little, or you poison someone else by accident. If you shoot them, you can then double-tap to make sure they’re dead.

        Plus, it makes them actually _work_ to explain their inevitable survival and return in act three. You can just handwave poison.

        • Aname
          May 24, 2022, 3:15 am | # | Reply

          The chalice from the palace has the brew that is true … I think.

          • Foradain
            May 24, 2022, 3:54 am | #

            The flagon with the dragon holds the brew that is true. The chalice from the palace is no good for you.

          • Foradain
            May 24, 2022, 3:59 am | #

            Or was it the vessel with the pestle?

          • Paul
            May 24, 2022, 6:27 am | #

            The vial in the pile will kill in a while.

        • awgiedawgie
          May 24, 2022, 7:24 am | # | Reply

          I’ve spent the last few years developing an immunity to iocaine powder.

          • Marc Bean
            May 24, 2022, 8:25 am | #

            INCONCEIVABLE!

        • Moe Lane
          May 24, 2022, 10:36 am | # | Reply

          Throw them off a cliff. As I told my GM once: you can’t dodge falling damage.

          • Duane B.
            May 24, 2022, 11:13 am | #

            *cough*..*cough*…Monk class…*cough*

          • Shadowmehr
            May 24, 2022, 1:02 pm | #

            Feather fall spell.

          • M
            May 24, 2022, 2:39 pm | #

            You can turn into a gerbil or land in a full swimming pool.

          • Robert
            May 24, 2022, 2:49 pm | #

            Don’t be silly- who would ever think of such a thing?

          • Aname
            May 24, 2022, 3:50 pm | #

            Rocks fall, everyone dies

        • CFsoftie
          May 26, 2022, 9:39 pm | # | Reply

          One can even poison somebody too late, as happened in one of Agatha Christie’s Poirot stories: The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The victim was taking a very dilute solution of strychnine (a common “tonic” at the time); the poisoners added a small amount of potassium bromide to the bottle, causing strychnine to precipitate out, so that when the victim drank the last dose from that bottle, she got a fatal overdose. This happened several days after the KaBr was added; unfortunately for the murderers the victim had in the meantime changed her will so none of her hangers-on would benefit, thus, she hoped, removing any temptation to murder her!

  4. Robert
    May 24, 2022, 12:20 am | # | Reply

    Nice distraction… now that the surviving swarm bees are locked up, Sweetheart can sniff out the hive and the Queen Pavane!

    • Regret
      May 24, 2022, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Queens are just baby making machines, why are we looking for Pavane’s womb?

      • awgiedawgie
        May 24, 2022, 7:21 am | # | Reply

        Well, we don’t want her making any more babies, do we? At least not for a while.

        • Regret
          May 24, 2022, 11:37 am | # | Reply

          Woah now, putting your opponents in prison is a whole other level than controlling their reproduction!
          😛

          • BMunro
            May 24, 2022, 6:27 pm | #

            If you lock someone up with no members of the opposite sex, you are kinda controlling their reproduction… 🙂

          • Rockphed
            May 24, 2022, 11:56 pm | #

            I don’t know if bees work this way, but lots of wasps have a queen morph but the worker morphs are not completely infertile. Also, the way bees determine sex is by chromosome count. Queens can give birth to male offspring without needing a male. They require a male to have female offspring.

  5. casimir
    May 24, 2022, 12:32 am | # | Reply

    …from full on donnybrook to fait accompli.
    … the effect of Tip’s wish-on-a-star?

    • David B Huber
      May 24, 2022, 12:47 am | # | Reply

      Thank you, casimir! I haven’t seen “donnybrook” used in a sentence in far too long! 😉

      It’s interesting to conjecture whether Tip’s pent-up mojo could have influenced the fait accompli, is it not?

  6. DWVR
    May 24, 2022, 12:39 am | # | Reply

    Okay, so they’re traveling in a spaceship and they just locked up the pilot. Can Tigerlily fly this thing? Not seeing much thinking or planning going on here.

    • 25
      May 24, 2022, 7:17 am | # | Reply

      I think you don’t understand mad science….

    • Robert Nowall
      May 24, 2022, 12:30 pm | # | Reply

      KT is a pantologist, which is supposed to mean she’s an expert in everything, pants included. She must know how to steer a flying saucer.

  7. dvandom
    May 24, 2022, 1:16 am | # | Reply

    “You are far too trusting.”

  8. woodensarsen
    May 24, 2022, 1:36 am | # | Reply

    Sweet dreams are made of bees,
    Who am I to diss a bee?
    Travel the world and seven seas,
    Everybody’s looking for… bees

    • Moe Lane
      May 24, 2022, 10:36 am | # | Reply

      Nice. Keep going…

      • Ken
        May 24, 2022, 10:05 pm | # | Reply

        Some of them want to buzz you.
        Some of them want to get buzzed by you.
        Some of them want to sting you.
        Some of them just want to get stung!

        • Marisa Mockery
          May 24, 2022, 10:19 pm | # | Reply

          I heard this in my head

        • Rockphed
          May 24, 2022, 11:59 pm | # | Reply

          Resort to thuggery…oh for shame!
          Staple grill shut…trust no one!

    • Robert Nowall
      May 24, 2022, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

      Can it be the bees that makes the pleas aware of tragic inhume? Oh, no, it isn’t the bees, it’s beehive doom.

  9. awgiedawgie
    May 24, 2022, 7:18 am | # | Reply

    “You’re too much like your creators after all.”

    “Oh? And you’re not?”

    • Robert Nowall
      May 24, 2022, 3:15 pm | # | Reply

      They’re like Shaenon and Jeff?

      • awgiedawgie
        May 24, 2022, 7:10 pm | # | Reply

        Insane, yet lovable? Yes. Yes, I am.

  10. Dewy
    May 24, 2022, 9:58 am | # | Reply

    I REALLY want to know how they wrangled her inside Moustachio.
    I’m going to go with something involving fly paper, a vacuum cleaner and 200 yards of mint flavored dental floss.

    • Duane B.
      May 24, 2022, 12:49 pm | # | Reply

      Nice science experiment….I don’t want to try it.

    • Shadowmehr
      May 24, 2022, 1:05 pm | # | Reply

      Why mint flavored? Standard floss should work just fine. Okay, I’m going to quit now before I start drawing up diagrams.

      • JoB
        May 24, 2022, 1:59 pm | # | Reply

        Well, it had to have some rather volatile aroma to allow Sweetheart to follow the thread during the antimatter induced blackout, and in spite of the maillard reaction going on within the life support systems.

    • Robert
      May 24, 2022, 2:09 pm | # | Reply

      Only the finest Montana-grown dental floss is good enough!

      • John Campbell
        May 24, 2022, 4:26 pm | # | Reply

        Properly harvested with a pair of heavy-duty zircon-encrusted tweezers.

        • Robert
          May 24, 2022, 5:12 pm | # | Reply

          “Movin’ to Montana soon…”

    • awgiedawgie
      May 30, 2022, 12:57 am | # | Reply

      Maybe Unity ate all the bees and then barfed them back up into Moustachio. Disturbing, yes, but just about as plausible as any other explanation.

  11. Robert Nowall
    May 24, 2022, 12:35 pm | # | Reply

    Pavane in Moustachio’s torso. Complains of their uses of force, oh. She sees them as tratiors ’cause they’re like their creators. It’s true, yes they are, only more so.

  12. The Flower Cosmic
    May 24, 2022, 9:54 pm | # | Reply

    Solid burn from Sweetheart!

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

More by Jeff

  • The Scrivnarium

More by Shaenon

  • Horror Every Day
  • Li'l Mell
  • Monster of the Week
  • Narbonic
  • Shaenon.com
Creative Commons License
Skin Horse by Shaenon K. Garrity & Jeffrey C. Wells is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://www.skin-horse.com.

©2007-2022 Skin Horse | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑