Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for March 26, 2017
Transcript:
Dakota's four months older than me. But I'm still not the youngest person in my grade. I'm a month older than Jimmy and two months older than Declan. Hoe old are you, Marigold? I do not know. You don't know? Unicorns are not bound by time. So how do you know if you're better than somebody? If they are not me, I kind of assume it.
Sugar Bombs 95 over 7 years ago
Marigold said in one strip she remembers when there was a glacier covering where they currently are (implied to be Washington), implying that she was around during the ice age.
Phoebe should ask her if she’s ever seen a mammoth or ground sloth.
Averagemoe over 7 years ago
Phoebe has stated her age as nine both at the start of the strips run, and rather recently. I think the effect is rubbing off.
codycab over 7 years ago
I guess Marigold is just proving that age is a number.
Another Unicorn over 7 years ago
ya know, better is not an age, it is knowledge. And that does not depend on time . . . AU
TossedSaladCartoon over 7 years ago
Marigold says these things quite often. It seems as though she is very much more Dakota than Phoebe at times.
ShadowBeast Premium Member over 7 years ago
Phoebe should’ve seen Marigold’s ego-answer coming a mile away.
Darwinskeeper over 7 years ago
The curious thing is that once you reach a certain age, it switches around and being older means you’re inferior.
scyphi26 over 7 years ago
Well, she is a unicorn after all…and they believe there is nothing greater than themselves, so…
Considering some of the past hints about Marigold’s age, I’d imagine that even if she HAD been keeping track, she’d have long lost count by now.
It makes sense that a implied very-long-lived race wouldn’t bother with the keeping track of age though. I’d imagine that after a certain point it just becomes meaningless to them.
Dirty Dragon over 7 years ago
Phoebe and Marigold make an oblique cameo in today’s “Breaking Cat News”.
imjustlurking over 7 years ago
I love Marigold ’s attitude!
Kark_The_Red_Canadian_Dragon 6 months ago
Marigold: Actually, I’m probably a billion gazillion months old. I’m not sure. I stopped counting after the first few billion.