Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 18, 2024

The water isn’t stationary enough.

Is that the SpongeBob island?

You could try drawing your face in the sand, Marigold.

I’d want a magic horn that would bring me any thing I need and zap me off when I get bored.

I don’t think Marigold can get stranded on an island or anywhere it seems.

A Wi-Fi internet connection. Everything else falls in line. ;-)

“Island Girls” ! (Elton John song 1975)!

That looks like a lovely place to spend an afternoon. Mirror or not.

“Vanity, thy name is woman,” is a misquotation from Hamlet, where the Bard wrote, “Frailty, thy name is woman.”

Or, perhaps the line is from his first, now lost, play which was turned down for production. It is believed on the line in the work was “Vanity, thy name is Marigold.”

What do I want? ESPN…

No phone, no lights, no motor car,not a single luxury,

Yuck, yuck, yuck! Dat dere’s our Marigold!

Mirrors. That’s all you need!

If I was stranded on a desert island, the one thing I’d want to bring with me is a way to get back home.

For a second there, I thought Marigold’s tail tuff was a seagull that was somehow perched on the horizon in the fourth panel. :P

I’d have gone with a luxury cruise ship with an endless fuel supply and a navigator who can easily get me back to land, but you do you.

I want…actually nothing really, getting away from everyone for a couple of days would do me some good.

The answer to this question should always be a boat.

This is Marigold we are talking about. So give her a couple of hours and she will be craving artisanal hay and fresh water.