Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 08, 2023

Someone call a doctor because Phoebe’s comeback was SICK!

We don’t really use that anymore. Not since we realized that most insults are delivered in the second person. Now its just “No U!”

So’s your old man!

Regarding the “you smell” insult in panel 3, all Marigold has to do is change the words “are” and “am” to “do” and the comeback still works.

the adjective version of recalcitrant means: having an obstinately uncooperative attitude toward authority or discipline.

A new word, Phoebe?!

Best insult ever “The village called, they want their idiot back”!

Ok so I bet Marigold wasn’t expecting to be called a horse or smelling like a horse or was that going to be part of her comeback?.

she did once refer to herself as an equine at least.

Plural equine I think she said.

It might be that unicorns are a kind of prehistoric cousin of the horse with their cloven hooves and horns.

Yet they are as different to horses as are domestic housecats from lions and tigers.

what insulted Marigold was the fact Phoebe didn’t play along here

WELL ACTUALLY, Phoebe needed to call Marigold a NOUN.

“An adjective”?! Dems fightin’ words!

Pee Wee Herman used “the world’s most devastating comeback”?

Of course Marigold smells. After all, she has a nose.

Was there really ever any doubt of that, Marigold?

I’m sorry for Marigold. But she will never beat Phoebe in this.

Well, the Jerk Store called, and they’re running out of you.

Here’s a random thought: What if Marigold met Horace from Dark Side of the Horse in one of these Sunday strips?

Everybody knows that “recalcitrant” is when you’re ranting about having to redo your calculations.

Phoebe and her unicorn: the mutual education society.

In one of the books it says Marigold smells like cinnamon.

When Phoebe and her parents are going to camp without Marigold riding along and her father says he is happy that the car doesn’t smell like cinnamon

Brilliant!

Never get into an insult match with a juvenile.

“You smell!”

“Not with this freaking cold, I don’t.”

In some ways, Marigold can be so clueless.

Paul Reubens died recently, and I know that the cartoonist liked “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure,” so this may well be a tribute.

I guess I’m slow on the uptake – I don’t get why that’s such a great comeback…