Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 21, 2012
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August 22, 2012
Transcript:
I thought you WANTED your parents to approve of me. That is why I have been gradually turning down the SHIELD of BORINGNESS all evening. It was the SHIELD of HUMORING A CHILD, and then the SHIELD of MILD INTEREST, and then the SHIELD of EYEBROW-RAISING NOVELTY. Briefly it was the SHIELD of ANNOYANCE, because I forgot to carry a five... Phoebe: I do that sometimes.
I don’t understand what she means about carrying a five – the only meaning I know for that is mathematical and we haven’t seen any reason why she’d be doing maths. Does it mean something else?
When I first started reading this I was dubious – a strip about a little girl and a unicorn could so easily have turned out to be revoltingly twee. But actually it’s a worthy successor to Calvin and Hobbes, and I’m delighted that Marigold is a “proper” unicorn, with cloven hooves and a lion’s tail and as much antelope as horse. Presumably the males have little heraldic beards.