Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 18, 2024

So “evil” is just what they’re called? Are they just, really desperate to live up to their name?

I love how Dana keeps making up these awards in PaHU. It’s a hilarious gag that never gets old!

These things are more annoying than evil it seems.

Seems like they are trying to be evil, but not quite succeeding!

I like the close up in panel 3!

EVIL is just LIVE backwards. I bet you have noticed that evil folks you hear about are indeed pretty backward emotionally.

I’ve got plenty of baditude. What can that get me?

OK. Phoebe is good. But I don’t think there is any prize for making the effort to be nice and only rarely failing. Given that, Phoebe and the evils have a lot in common. Striving for perfection and not quite making it.

The Gooditude Award has not been awarded since Apple time in Eden.

Sometimes being good requires arguing with evil.

To not argue with evil would be evil.

So… being argumentative is evil.

I knew my mother-in-law was evil! >:/

Well, she’s currently not drop-kicking you little nuggets off-panel for annoying her so much…I’d call that a pretty good thing. :P

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,”* so they should try to get Phoebe to do that.

*attributed to Edmund Burke

You’d think that being evil on purpose would be super easy. Maybe it’s less instinctive to their species.

Reminds me of a class I used to teach where the students said I needed to write more gooder on the white board—ha.