Skin Horse 4: ... what the ??

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Skin Horse: ... Well, a 11.5 year archive of dailies

Previous threads:
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...ngly-Enigmatic
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...248-Skin-Horse
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...441-Skin-Horse

Set in a world of a small but still significant number of non-human sentients.

I can't really describe it better, because at the moment I've only read the first month, and the most recent month.

http://skin-horse.com/comic/

As a bonus, the titles of the episodes tell a story -- http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/skinhorse.txt

[Willie the Duck]

Yes. I can't believe it's been almost a dozen years and supposedly slowly wrapping up. I still think of it as 'Garrity's new project.'

A description might be: Men In Black, if the 'aliens' were instead terrestrial weirdlings like creations-of-mad-science and the MIB were more like bumbling Health and (non-)Human Services department rather than secret agents.

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At the moment, I have finished the first chapter. So I've gotten a very brief intro to what's going on.

Seeing this last month or so, posted comic by comic in a discord I'm in, made me wonder just what the heck was going on, and I wanted to find out more ... and now I'm trying to catch up on Gunny Court and this.

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http://skin-horse.com/comic/like-it/

"Classified: Not to be read by anyone ever XXX"

Cute.

Multiple levels of sub-basements, containing multiple decades of shadow government records ... why am I thinking of the Portal 2 sub-basement levels? :-)

I must say, a bunch of bugs making a castle out of office supplies ...

EDIT: Silverfish opera? With a standard-sounding italian opera? :-)

"Three cheers for the government" / "That's not something you hear everyday" :-)

EDIT 2:
Ok, so the silverfish are being attack by the centipedes. The centipedes are being Squ-ished (two syllables) by the death robots. How long is this chain going to go?

Michael Brewer (wusemajor) says: Ok, so we have Italian Silverfish, Amish Centipedes, and now Barnstorming Robots? Or are they 0r-Vi11e and Wi11-BUR?

EDIT: Ok, found the pest control team :-).

EDIT 2: Oh dear, this section of the story is wrapping up.
And, remember, this is 11 years ago:

"You can't elect a psychotic xenophobic flesh-hating entity as your leader!"
"Hey, this is America, dude"

[John Campbell]

As a bonus, the titles of the episodes tell a story -- http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/skinhorse.txt

I need to update that. I'm a couple of weeks behind on it because of the lazy.

Have you read Narbonic? If not, you should. Skin Horse is not exactly a sequel to Narbonic, but it's set in the same universe and some of the same characters appear. It's been strongly hinted in several places that Unity's brain was cloned from Mell's.

Narbonic had a story hidden in the URLs, too, though I think it got lost when WCN died. Fortunately, I preserved a copy of that one too: http://www.ci-n.com/~jcampbel/narbonic.txt