today's "skin horse"

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I hope I'm totally stupid, but I have NO idea what's going on in today's "Skin Horse" comic. Can anybody enlighten me?

I believe it's the end of the storyline...

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We had in the previous scene, two humans, one cute animal, and an array of fantastic weaponry aimed at them. In this strip, we see three piles of dust, and what looks like the Dr. Who screwdriver that one of the protagonists was lugging around. Funny, it looks a lot like an old-fashioned can opener.

The stage is set, then into the mise en scene a little bird flutters by, a nice bucolic touch to indicate pastoral serenity in the aftermath of incredible destruction.

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Cheers,

Puddin'

A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
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today's "skin horse"

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Oh -- that's easy. It is merely an abstract yet thought provoking manifestation of the struggle of all living creatures, both sentient and non-sentient, toward the liberation of our psychic apparatus in the face of hegemonistic and bourgeois cadres who use praeternatural paradigms to mobilize the cognoscenti in acts of repression toward the actual and perceived aggregations of influence.

Either that, or its a comic strip with a bird in it

Trap

Classic deconstructionist gobbletygook there, Trap

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LOL!
hugs, Veronica

And here I was thinking it's either a chilling parable about the follies
of technocracy and the grim spectre of Mutual Assured Destruction...
or something that came out of a horse's ass.

(But I do love the strip, especially the zombie girl Unity and Sweetheart the dog...)

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"Government will only recognize 2 genders, male + female,
as assigned at birth-" (In his own words:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1lugbpMKDU

no

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i cancelled my rss subscription to it a while ago; it was making too little sense and not enough funny.

Continuing from yesterday....

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In the previous day, we left our 'Jr. B&E artists' in the sights of three nasty looking 'weapons'. Today we see the aftermath. The two larger piles of 'dust' represent the two kids and the smaller pile represents the little creature that jumped on the boy just before the weapons opened up.

Is there a moral to all of this? Beats the heck outta me!

PB

Skinhorse

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Well, based on the comments on Skinhorse' page, there's some kind of Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five ref with the bird. Having not read Slaughterhouse Five, I've no idea what the ref is.

I'm personally hoping today's Skinhorse is a several days late April Fool's, we'll see what we get tomorrow.

Yours,

John Robert Mead

It's not a can opener. It's

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It's not a can opener. It's the wrench the guy picked up in an earlier strip.

I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.

This is Anasigma.

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They exist in a world where mad science exists.
They hooked an avid computer gamer called Nick Zerhakker up to a Virtual Reality system, extracted his brain and installed it in an Osprey aircraft without him noticing (until after the entire procedure was completed).
They created a zombie-ish ultimate soldier (UNITY) - unfortunately she's got the mind of a teenager with a severe case of ADOS (Attention Deficit... Ooh Shiny!)

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if, even though the physical bodies of Nera and Jonah have been turned to dust, their consciousnesses survive... somewhere.

Given the strip runs from Monday to Saturday, ending the current storyline on a Thursday (two days early) seems slightly suspicious.

As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

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