In Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, one of Caesar’s assassins notes that unicorns can be trapped by trees as bears can be trapped by mirrors and men by flatterers. He proceeds to flatter Caesar and lure him to his painful and treacherous death.
As Caesar says as he receives his final wound, “Et tu Brute! Then fall Caesar.”
As Mark Anthony later says of Brutus’s role in the killing of Caesar, “This was the unkindest cut of all.”
It occurs to me that Marigold should have just requested a mirror and asked Phoebe to knock her out of her reverie after a few hours, then she wouldn’t even notice the loss of magic during her update!
Averagemoe almost 5 years ago
At least her horn seems to have landed in a knothole that was there already.
Sugar Bombs 95 almost 5 years ago
Irrelevant to today’s strip, but Dana posted this on her Twitter today. https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1600363
Templo S.U.D. almost 5 years ago
oh, how unfortiunate
Dirty Dragon almost 5 years ago
♪♫ Watch out for that… treeeeeee! ♪♫
codycab almost 5 years ago
What did that tree ever do to you, Marigold?
Antiyonder almost 5 years ago
Yeah, gets harder and harder to do anything without interest, I mean magic.
Tigressy almost 5 years ago
What next? – Does she need a parking assistant for sitting down?
Troglodyte almost 5 years ago
You may have to call time on the game for a bit, Phoebe! It seems to be stuck at this point…
asrialfeeple almost 5 years ago
Marigold has a hole in one.
scyphi26 almost 5 years ago
Man, there must be so many trees with unicorn horn-shaped holes in their trunks scattered around their neighborhood by now…
DDrazen almost 5 years ago
So that makes TWO games you shouldn’t play with unicorns: tag and leap-frog.
Calvinist1966 almost 5 years ago
In Shakespeare’s “The Tragedy of Julius Caesar”, one of Caesar’s assassins notes that unicorns can be trapped by trees as bears can be trapped by mirrors and men by flatterers. He proceeds to flatter Caesar and lure him to his painful and treacherous death.
As Caesar says as he receives his final wound, “Et tu Brute! Then fall Caesar.”
As Mark Anthony later says of Brutus’s role in the killing of Caesar, “This was the unkindest cut of all.”
LrdSlvrhnd almost 5 years ago
It occurs to me that Marigold should have just requested a mirror and asked Phoebe to knock her out of her reverie after a few hours, then she wouldn’t even notice the loss of magic during her update!
craigwestlake almost 5 years ago
Among humans that magical ability, while rare, is called “common sense”…
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 5 years ago
@Sugarbombs 95,Thank you that is a nice crossover Dana has done since poor Suzy usually gets the bad end of Calvin’s machinations.
Wizard4168 over 4 years ago
Judging by the number of memorial plaques in the local woods, Marigold’s “magical tree-dodging” doesn’t work all that well even on a good day.