Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 16, 2023

How does a “UNICORN!” not see this coming?

Meanwhile, Marigold is that much closer to Nowhere.

For those not keeping track at home, this storyline started up in July 10th. When you exclude Sundays, that’s 31 days. And it doesn’t look like it’s even close to concluding.

This plot is becoming increasingly random and incoherent, with each event having little to do with the previous, so it’s obvious this is a filler arc where Dana just kind of makes stuff up as she goes.

Dana usually draws these strips a long time in advance before they’re published, so hopefully she’ll have a big surprise for us when the arc concludes.

Hmm, must be the express train.

well this is a slight problem. Trapped in a strange world with no way back and no transportation and the one person who knew about magic is also gone. I know what story I would write but Dana normally writes way shorter solutions then I do and this has never been an action strip.

How is Phoebe going to talk to Marigold now? Better make a ZOOM call.

Away sus.

Sus to the max.

Whoever set that trap was in a hurry

This could be awkward.

Way, way sus!

It must be that nefarious unicorn trapper that has been hunting for Marigold all these years and Marigold has never mentioned about before.

I would have boarded with Marigold. Better in a trap with a unicorn than stuck on an empty platform on the outskirts of nowhere.

Strqnded. mmm. Plot twist

There’s also the question of who set the trap. The goblin or the cat?

Normal child trapped in a magic land. Shades of “I Hate Fairyland”!!!

Totes way sus to the max on the flipside.

…aaaaaand now they’re unicorn-less.

I’m still half-expecting it to be revealed that there was nothing wrong at all with this train, did exactly what they needed it to, and that Phoebe and Dakota missed out by doubting Marigold’s reassurances. That seems like exactly the sort of thing Dana would do to me.

“Just a unicorn

Long ago was when she was born

She took a midnight train going to Nowhere….”

Henceforward, the strip will be titled, “Phoebe and Her Frenemy,” because she no longer has a unicorn….

And she’ll never return, no she’ll never return, and her fate is still unlearned…

I’m voting out Tan. He k!lled White in the Greenhouse before my very eyes, and then vented.

If the train engineer is a virgin, Marigold is in trouble.

Tomorrow, Phoebe’s big panic attack with Dakota that try to calm her?

Well…that ain’t good..

Waysus Christ!

super sussy

This is super sus, no cap.

“way sus” lol