Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 14, 2012

Bet Marigold wishes she was any place else but here.

Yayyyy. Applause for Marigold and the odd child :D

It’s been a week and I love the strip!

“If I didn’t see it myself, I wouldn’t have believed it.”

“Yes, Phoebe is rather hard to accept.”

Interesting expression on Marigold’s face. Is there perhaps a mirror in the back of the classroom?? :-)

Loving the art style.

Spoiler: In tomorrows strip we find that Marigold is invisible to the mentally balanced. Note that people that carry around an Applause sign are attention seekers.

Has anyone pointed out to Marigold that for a perfect vision of loveliness her horn seems to be a tad off-center? Or is that supposed to be a symbol for something?

all children are odd.then they become adults….

Love, love, love this – I was hooked from the first day. Thank you Dana! I’m looking forward to anything and everything that might happen…

Pleasant surprise today! Thank you for bucking the cliche of the fantastic creature no one else can see.

Sooooo, does anyone STILL think this strip is a female version of Calvin and Hobbes?

Methinks Heavenly Nostrils has very much found it’s own direction

Phoebe’s much nicer than Calvin, he’s just a sociopathAlso I think marigold is still invisible….

Comparisons to C&H are inevitable, I suppose, but ultimately unfair in my opinion as it implies that HN is derivative. I enjoy both strips on similar levels, but try not to saddle HN (no pun intended) with the baggage of comparison. I look forward to following this story on its own terms and in its own universe :)

BTW… having seen Marigold in profile so far, I have to say that her front-on view is adorable :)

If you think simple asymmetry is a blow to beauty, I suggest you look up a 40s actress named Veronica Lake.

Marigold looks like she’s thinking, “WHY didn’t I just give her the super-powers when I had the chance?”

I think they got the message now!

Can’t wait for tomorrow’s!

If this were Peter S. Beagle’s “The Last Unicorn”, all the class would see is a pretty but otherwise unremarkable white horse. And hear “Neigh” instead of “Yes, I am now friends with” etc.

oops…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Didn’t expect that she’d actually appear in front of other people. Is the other shoe about to drop?

Hunnh….I was epecting the Unicorn to be a Hobby Horse or a My-Little-Pony sort of thing