Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 21, 2013

Phoebe looks as though she has grown a little in the last panel since the start of the strip. LIKE.

Your made the right decision to not move. Well whose to say there aren’t unicorns in other places you could have moves too. just here you have THIS unicorn and I can’t imagine an other unicorn being any better.

In Kansas, fireflies vary from year to year. So summers they’re everywhere. Next year, virtually nonexistent.

Two weeks ago, I was surprised to see fireflies in downtown Pittsburgh.

I’ve seen some videos of frogs that eat fireflies, then the frogs’ bellies flash in Morse Code.. Amusing.

She’s lucky to have you, Marigold (but I’m sure they both already know that.)

I know Phoebe.

I love it when my nieces come to visit my parents in NC. They don’t have fireflies where they live. The first day they arrive, they’ve got their jars set up. It’s absolutely magical to see the girls chase the fireflies.

Fireflies are the closest thing DC has to fantasy creatures. Outside of the government, of course.

I had no idea that fireflies are not found in the western US. How distressing!

Say, did you know that the old song, “Shine, little glow-worm” is from a German operetta based on “Lysistrata”?

Great work. Dana. Your use of light and shadow in today’s strip is purely awesome

“…UNICORN…”

Right you are, Alan. I’ve noticed that. I knew a Zumwalt family here in Manhattan, years ago.

I thought the glow was part of the Firefly’s radion accelerator core interplanetary drive system. See Joss Whedon for Details.

Caught this in today’s NY Times: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/the-original-green-lantern/

They might be glowworm beetles.