Skin Horse

Skin Horse is a mad science webcomic set in the same universe as Narbonic, but featuring very little crossover. The main characters are a cross-dressing psychologist, a genetically engineered dog, and a zombie construct, with their boss (a swarm of bees), their helicopter (a black-ops Wetware CPU experiment), and others making appearances. They all work at the titular "Project Skin Horse," a secret government organization that manages non-human affairs, trying to grant the abandoned experiments of mad scientists some ability to interact with humanity.

It feels a lot like Girl Genius at times, though the plot is not a sprawling epic. It's just a story about a bunch of office drones, who happen to work with very interesting people.

It updates every weekday, and has recently transferred to full color. First comic here, today's here.

I love it, but I'm a bit confused by the latest story arc.

It involves a number of callbacks to previous plots and reveals. You do really need to be familiar with the comic to get what's going on.

Hypocrisy from Sweetheart! Unheard of!

The hilarious bit being that it actually does make sense for her to use the files first- she's the one scanning and digitizing them, and could distribute copies to everybody afterwards.

Huh, didn't expect this one to come up again. And a good example of what Spin was saying, how this arc is a bit self-reference heavy.

edited 30th May '14 7:39:11 AM by Discar

Instincts versus psychology. And once again Sweetheart likes doing her job—whatever that job might be at the moment.

"This girl is friendly and helpful. Let's mock her to her face."

It's notable that we've been seeing in this arc that Bubbles, despite her limited spoken vocabulary, has an internal life and emotions.

Apparently they did it on purpose. And don't like it.

Oh look, Sweetheart's going mad with power again.

Oops.

It's always important to consult with the sanest member of your team.

What follows is fun too. I love this gag.

Tip, you of all people should know what people name their weapons.

Tip is a great listener.

You know you're in trouble when Tip is the sane one.

This is how all welfare programs should be done.

So, this is an old thread to resurrect, but we got a shout out.

Big bump. A lot of stuff has been happening, with alternate universes, the restoration of Skin Horse, and the fall of Anasigma. Dr. Lee finally gets involved.

The fall of Anasigma? I'll have to re-read the last few strips, because all I saw was one A-sig facility falling.

Right you are, it's just the one lab.◊ I was wrong. Still, it's the lab that held their future-seeing device and a bunch of other important stuff, so it's still a serious blow to the organization.

Indeed, they must be pretty PO'd.

I honestly expected this to happen forever ago.

For a comic that doesn't get a lot of attention here, Skin Horse pays a noticeable amount of attention to TV Tropes.

edited 15th Dec '16 8:19:02 AM by Spindriver