Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 21, 2019

Eremurus Chrystaline Ferlocks needs to get his eyeglasses checked.

Oh great, Eremurus is one of THOSE unicorns!

Huzzah, by a miracle, I happened to find this just by clicking on a random date that I assumed was in the vicinity.

https://www.gocomics.com/ozy-and-millie/2017/04/28

Denial…sounds like that other unicorn who denied obvious fact ….What was the name?………….Oh yeah….Trumpus Denseheadica Ignoramous.

Marigold: “Explain yourself to _me, then.” – Eremurus: “Err…”

bop him in the nose that’ll prove it.

“Give the governor a harrumph!”

You are explaining yourself right now, Eremurus

Maybe she SHOULD give him some ear scratches.

I have an idea. Hold up a mirror and when he becomes transfixed, hit him in the head with a rock. That worked last time. Or… just hit him in the head with a rock. Something is bound to improve.

Give him a “non existent” slap, then see if he thinks your not real

You’re “not really there” either, horsie!

This guy must be fan of the first two chapters of “Martian Chronicles”.

This would be a great time to grab his goatee and get his attention.

Just take his scarf and glasses. It wouldn’t be stealing if you don’t exist after all.

Looks like he’s still trying to sit in a certain river in Egypt, then…

As I was going up the stair

I met a man who wasn’t there

He wasn’t there again today

Oh how I wish he’d go away

So, you won’t explain to people who are not there, but you WILL talk to them?

And yet he talks to them.

First thing that sprung to my mind?I read several years ago a Star Trek book (forgot the name) where the U.S.S. Entrerprise visited Vulcan regarding a referendum that Vulcan should split from the Federation.To cut the Fluff an arachnoid delegate was holding her speech when a vulcan stood up giving a sermon how the universe would be an illusion. While said vulcan was build ing his steam the arachnoid left the podium, marched up the stairs (it was an amphitheatre) and bit him in his leg. Afterwards she stated that he was screaming rather enthuastic for an illusion and should consult a healer. :XDDDD According to Spock (after a question from Kirk) this was legit, even up to armed trial by combat.

So perhaps Phoebe should either grab his beard or tickle it, depending on her mood. :XD

Smack him (her?) and say it doesn’t hurt if I don’t exist.

Yesterday upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / oh how I wish he’d go away!

This reminds me of the Halloween strips where Marigold dressed as the Lone Ranger and Phoebe dressed as Death. Marigold saw no reason to explain herself to a nonexistent abstract being. :-)

I see a bloody nose in the very near future.

But Eremurus isn’t skeptical.  He is perfectly sure.

So even in the magical realm “None are so blind…”…

I dislike him more and more.

However, he did explain why he doesn’t explain!

I wonder if Eremurus is a Flat Earther too. Probably not: He knows the earth is shaped like a Unicorn.

Eremurus Chrystaline Fetlocks, why are you responding to a person who is not really there?

why do so many of the other unicorns wear glasses? too much time staring at their reflection?

Phoebe: (Slaps him across the face) If I was not really here, would I be able to do THAT!!? >:(

That’s what I would’ve done…

Eremurus is on to something in that last pane