Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 30, 2024

Calvin would make a good enemy, given his hatred of girls.

Golly Gosh Darn, Batman!

Gosh darn it to heck!

The monster in Phoebe’s closet could have been a contender, but her parents evicted him when he defaulted on the rent.

If a horsefly shows up, they could call it their enemy.

Gee whiz!

Girls, “It’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice” !

I can make a few suggestions on word choice, you two.

Hokey smokes!

How Upper Midwest of you, Marigold.

Ooo! There was a “mirror universe” Phoebe and Marigold? I’d have liked to have seen THAT!

Queen Prunella. I’m telling you, she’s bad news.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Which, sadly, is a lot of work…

This is like when Calvin has no enemies after building a snow fort. He’ll just give up soon enough.

There’s never going to be any true enemies in Phoebe’s world.

This is entirely a children’s friendly series with no scary stuff or violence whatsoever.

The scariest it ever got was when marigold got supposedly kidnapped on that train going through the middle of nowhere and that dimension seemed slightly like the world of Courage The Cowardly Dog.

But again not nearly anything like that.

Dakota is considered a bully in these books, but the worst she does is walk away.

A far cry from the usual depictions of bullies in stories or cartoons.

“No phoebe, you don’t have any idea or any true enemies and you never will”

take it from someone who comes from the outside of your realm

How about the Sphinx? I remember she was usually very antagonistic to you…

“911, what’s your emergency?”

“My Marigold ain’t Marigolding.”

How can she talk that way, there are children present

Fer corn’s sake.