# Any other Skin Horse fans here? (open spoilers probably) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649 "2018-08-15T12:29:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/1 "2018-08-15T12:29:39Z")
I’ve been reading SH every day for at least two or three years. It’s funny, it’s got great characters, and it updates every day. And it just dumped a HUGE reveal. One that had the [most insanely subtle foreshadowing ever](http://skin-horse.com/comic/2018-08-12/). I don’t actually know anyone else IRL who reads Skin Horse who I can discuss it with. So if there’s anyone here who does: whadaya think? ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/2 "2018-08-15T15:26:41Z")
I used to read it religiously, then I faded when they had a guest author for a while a year or so ago - maybe the author was pregnant? I can’t recall. Now I don’t know where to start again. Did it perk back up? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/3 "2018-08-15T21:00:54Z")
The guest author was only for one story arc- a short one, if I recall, maybe a week or two. Everything since then has been the regular writers. ---
**Author:** ![Hapax\_Legomenon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8c91f0/32.png) [@Hapax\_Legomenon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hapax_Legomenon)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/4 "2018-08-16T19:45:21Z")
There were a bunch of guest artists in 2014, when Garrity was on maternity leave. All good, but some of the styles were so different as to be disconcerting. Skin Horse is very good; it’s just hard to follow because it’s a daily strip that does long story arcs. I like to read it once a month or so, so I get a decent chunk of plot at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/5 "2018-08-18T00:37:37Z")
So if I jumped back in in 2015, would that be reasonable? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2018, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/6 "2018-08-19T02:35:40Z")
> [@Hapax\_Legomenon](#): > > There were a bunch of guest artists in 2014, when Garrity was on maternity leave. All good, but some of the styles were so different as to be disconcerting. Oh, that’s right, _Grillo Parlante_! I’d forgotten about that one. I was thinking about _Ghosts I Have Been_, which was a Kickstarter guest _storyline_, and really was only two weeks. > [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > So if I jumped back in in 2015, would that be reasonable? I think the _Grillo Parlante_ arc can be summed up as “Jonah and Nera investigate weird stuff, call for Skin Horse to be brought back; Mr. Green reads their blog and decides it would be a good idea to bring Skin Horse back for his own purposes.” Now you can skip to _Mixed-Up Files_. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-skin-horse-fans-here-open-spoilers-probably/819649/7 "2018-08-20T15:02:12Z")
Ok. I will do this thing and report back in a year or so.