Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says: I thought the maintenance guys were his friends.
N La Teer (zapatos) says: So far, Tip has lost his boots and those cute square earings. I fear for his ginchy little belt.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
I must admit, I’m getting attached to the rat. Would he be willing to join the Skin Horse team?
Also, what is the black patch behind Tip? Could it possibly be a … TARPIT??
Terry Smith (tjlsmith) says: This isn’t hard. Just get a soundproof barrier for the door. The maintenance guys can install it. Quietly.
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Well, Tip thinks in terms of people solutions (for a very loose definition of “people”), not technological solutions, Terry.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says:
Oh no! It’s a TARPIT TRAP for the PARTy of TIP and the RAT!
Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) says:
Ed Gedeon: Actually, the black patch is just a tarp.
Also, one of the reasons the rat is so large is that it has been genetically spliced with tapir DNA.
Have fun with the above information. I know you will.
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says:
A Tarp for the Tapir Rat and Tip, not Tarpit?
*dodges tomato*
Dov Mittelman (silentspeaker) says:
No, a tarp trapping the part-tapir rat/Tip pair, for pirate prats.
Martha Mintz (muffinthamighty) says: my head is starting to hurt…
Brian Rogers (billionsix) says: I just got a copy of the Skin Horse mini-comic! Shaenon drew a silverfish on the envelope! Incredible-awesomic!
Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says: And thus, they begin their slow descent through the tarpit to the rat’s lab. You know, the one where he keeps all his super secret plans for peaceful cohabitation?
Cameron Nielsen (cameroncn) says: Why am I getting a political vibe off this strip? … Ah, yes. That.
Adam Underfoot (unnatural20) says:
Political vibe? Perhaps. Maybe the strip is pointing at ‘the other side’ and saying “They think that’s the right way to do it, ha ha, how silly!”
Or we start from that side, and the punch line is “Look at how easily the desire for peace through peace crumbles in the face of actual trouble.”
Or maybe it it’s just funny because that turn of phrase is silly and somewhat oxymoronic. I don’t think it’s very fair to look at this as a political strip, because whichever viewpoint you look from, you’re putting words in someone else’s mouth.
…As I’ve probably done right here. So if you find my transplanted words bitter, feel free to spit them back at me.
Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) says:
This is probably as good a time as any to say this:
This strip is a work of fiction. Any similarities between actual persons, institutions, societies or political ideologies, living or dead, past or future, are either coincidental or superficial. In addition, the opinions expressed by various characters over the course of this strip do not necessarily reflect those of either author. Neither should the situations said characters find themselves in be necessarily taken as a statement of authorial opinion on any given matter.
Thank yew.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
Maybe it was accidental on the part of the writer, but I got a mental flashback to the Vietnam-era, “We had to destroy this village to save it,” mindset.
No, I am not a Vietnam vet, nor do I play one on TV.
Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:
I will not, as Tolkein says, “confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory'”, but it does call to mind a long string of American presidents of both parties madly stumbling through the Middle East trying to get different tribes to cease the xenophobic violence to which Man, the animal, is heir.
Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says: I thought the maintenance guys were his friends.
N La Teer (zapatos) says: So far, Tip has lost his boots and those cute square earings. I fear for his ginchy little belt.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
I must admit, I’m getting attached to the rat. Would he be willing to join the Skin Horse team?
Also, what is the black patch behind Tip? Could it possibly be a … TARPIT??
Terry Smith (tjlsmith) says: This isn’t hard. Just get a soundproof barrier for the door. The maintenance guys can install it. Quietly.
Dave Van Domelen (dvandom) says: Well, Tip thinks in terms of people solutions (for a very loose definition of “people”), not technological solutions, Terry.
So It Begins (soitbegins) says:
Oh no! It’s a TARPIT TRAP for the PARTy of TIP and the RAT!
Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) says:
Ed Gedeon: Actually, the black patch is just a tarp.
Also, one of the reasons the rat is so large is that it has been genetically spliced with tapir DNA.
Have fun with the above information. I know you will.
Aaron Shades (prof_tinker) says:
A Tarp for the Tapir Rat and Tip, not Tarpit?
*dodges tomato*
Dov Mittelman (silentspeaker) says:
No, a tarp trapping the part-tapir rat/Tip pair, for pirate prats.
Martha Mintz (muffinthamighty) says: my head is starting to hurt…
Brian Rogers (billionsix) says: I just got a copy of the Skin Horse mini-comic! Shaenon drew a silverfish on the envelope! Incredible-awesomic!
Justin Grubbs (the_purple_knight) says: And thus, they begin their slow descent through the tarpit to the rat’s lab. You know, the one where he keeps all his super secret plans for peaceful cohabitation?
Cameron Nielsen (cameroncn) says: Why am I getting a political vibe off this strip? … Ah, yes. That.
Adam Underfoot (unnatural20) says:
Political vibe? Perhaps. Maybe the strip is pointing at ‘the other side’ and saying “They think that’s the right way to do it, ha ha, how silly!”
Or we start from that side, and the punch line is “Look at how easily the desire for peace through peace crumbles in the face of actual trouble.”
Or maybe it it’s just funny because that turn of phrase is silly and somewhat oxymoronic. I don’t think it’s very fair to look at this as a political strip, because whichever viewpoint you look from, you’re putting words in someone else’s mouth.
…As I’ve probably done right here. So if you find my transplanted words bitter, feel free to spit them back at me.
Jeffrey Channing Wells (channing) says:
This is probably as good a time as any to say this:
This strip is a work of fiction. Any similarities between actual persons, institutions, societies or political ideologies, living or dead, past or future, are either coincidental or superficial. In addition, the opinions expressed by various characters over the course of this strip do not necessarily reflect those of either author. Neither should the situations said characters find themselves in be necessarily taken as a statement of authorial opinion on any given matter.
Thank yew.
Ed Gedeon (eddurd) says:
Maybe it was accidental on the part of the writer, but I got a mental flashback to the Vietnam-era, “We had to destroy this village to save it,” mindset.
No, I am not a Vietnam vet, nor do I play one on TV.
Tiff Hudson (tiff_hudson) says:
I will not, as Tolkein says, “confuse ‘applicability’ with ‘allegory'”, but it does call to mind a long string of American presidents of both parties madly stumbling through the Middle East trying to get different tribes to cease the xenophobic violence to which Man, the animal, is heir.
[misanthropic pundit mode off]
Oops, forgot to close my bold block.
Oops, forgot to close my bold block.