As people isolate and wait out the coronavirus, many industries, including the comics industry, are in a bit of a standstill — leaving comic shops without a supply of new weekly comics.
With that in mind, we’ve introduced a new feature, Binge-worthy Backlist Bonzana. While new comics might not be arriving for a while, your local retailer, online site, digital comics provider or favorite creator can still supply comics that you might not have read yet.
Today Tom Bondurant looks back at one of his favorite webcomics, Skin Horse.
Launched in December 2007, Shaenon K. Garrity and Jeffrey C. Wells’ Skin Horse is about a government agency charged with rescuing sentient non-humans created by mad scientists. Most of the cast are rescued non-humans, including Sweetheart the dog, the reanimated Unity, Gavotte the bee swarm and Moustachio the steampunk robot. Tip the psychologist is Skin Horse’s main human agent.
Although there are some adult situations, their adventures are fairly whimsical, with the long-form plotting providing a structure for each day’s punchline. The overall effect is a very playful rhythm which really comes across while binge-reading, and it’s been a lot of fun catching up with the strip’s early days.
There are eight Skin Horse collections in print, all available at its Couscous store. Skin Horse is also part of Gocomics.com.