Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 09, 2012
May 08, 2012
May 10, 2012
Transcript:
Phoebe: There. I rescued you from your stupid reflection again. Marigold: What? Where am I? Oh hello. Phoebe: You missed your cue! Marigold: You are angry. Phoebe: How DID you know. Marigold: UNICORN POWERS.
Look, this comic is in its third week. Calling it “better than ‘Calvin & Hobbes’” is like calling the untitled, 800-word “Harry Potter” prequel “better than ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’”. Come back in five years or so, and then we’ll talk.
I read “Ozy and Millie” at the time, and it’s very, very good. But that doesn’t make it logically necessary that “Heavenly Nostrils” is going to be good, too, though it’s certainly starting off well. Maybe the strip will be such a success that Dana will become filthy rich from her next contract and hire assistants out of the Famous Artists School to do the strip at 50¢ a panel while she settles down to a life of lying in a daybed reading expensive imported Mills & Boone novels and eating Swedish strawberry-and-licorice bonbons. Maybe she will fall on her head and join a cult that worships Ted Nugent. While these things would surely be most deplorable, such tragedies do come to pass in this vale of tears, and naught can we poor mortals do about it but to cry “Alas!” and “Boo-hoo!” and go back to watching illegally downloaded reality shows.
And, no, it’s not “all a matter of opinion;” some art is good, and some art is crap. I recommend C. S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism”.
And anyone who doesn’t enjoy the works of L. Frank Baum is a stinky goo-head. Even behind the Iron Curtain they loved «Волшебник Изумрудного города».
“Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander—” Wait, that’s not right.
Who am I? Computer programmer, opera singer, actor, slightly-world-famous expert on Lewis Theobald’s “Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers” (1727), “Gasoline Alley” fan, Episcopalian, and I once backstage-conducted a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at Lincoln Center, and later co-introduced the song “Voulez-vous Hoppsasachen?” to New York City. “Gaudy Night” changed my life, and my wife went to Barnard.
But I haven’t the least notion of what a “crdit” [sic] may be. It sounds like something from the “Star Trek” episode with the space hippies.
BRI-NO-MITE!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
Tears of anger. I noticed yesterday. A nice touch.
pcolli over 12 years ago
Has anybody read “The Last Unicorn” by Peter S Beagle?
Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago
She may be telling the truth. She might have no way of reading human expressions visually, and is relying on empathy.
rpmurray over 12 years ago
What universe are you living in?
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
magic…
lshim671 over 12 years ago
@baby66boy1
I really like this strip, but let’s not be silly now.
Comic Minister Premium Member over 12 years ago
You’re too late unicorn. Pheobe’s show and tell is over.
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 12 years ago
Look, this comic is in its third week. Calling it “better than ‘Calvin & Hobbes’” is like calling the untitled, 800-word “Harry Potter” prequel “better than ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’”. Come back in five years or so, and then we’ll talk.
PatyAnn over 12 years ago
I think the Harry Potter prequel is better than the Wizard of Oz because I never liked the Wizard of Oz. Its all a matter of opinion.
kzcreations.com over 12 years ago
*wonders if the unicorn is going to get distracted by her own reflection once a week
reynard61 over 12 years ago
http://ozyandmillie.org/
Mataata over 12 years ago
It has its own little archive site now at ozyandmillie.org. It’s a looooong scroll to the beginning.
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 12 years ago
@Dana.looks like you need a link to your blog here…: )i started Ozy and Millie. so, …yer not new to this cartoon gig. : D
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 12 years ago
I read “Ozy and Millie” at the time, and it’s very, very good. But that doesn’t make it logically necessary that “Heavenly Nostrils” is going to be good, too, though it’s certainly starting off well. Maybe the strip will be such a success that Dana will become filthy rich from her next contract and hire assistants out of the Famous Artists School to do the strip at 50¢ a panel while she settles down to a life of lying in a daybed reading expensive imported Mills & Boone novels and eating Swedish strawberry-and-licorice bonbons. Maybe she will fall on her head and join a cult that worships Ted Nugent. While these things would surely be most deplorable, such tragedies do come to pass in this vale of tears, and naught can we poor mortals do about it but to cry “Alas!” and “Boo-hoo!” and go back to watching illegally downloaded reality shows.
And, no, it’s not “all a matter of opinion;” some art is good, and some art is crap. I recommend C. S. Lewis’s “An Experiment in Criticism”.
And anyone who doesn’t enjoy the works of L. Frank Baum is a stinky goo-head. Even behind the Iron Curtain they loved «Волшебник Изумрудного города».
Pokefan_Frank over 12 years ago
Why, http://ozyandmillie.org/ of course!
First strip here: http://ozyandmillie.org/1998/04/29/ozy-and-millie-2/
John W Kennedy Premium Member over 12 years ago
“Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander—” Wait, that’s not right.
Who am I? Computer programmer, opera singer, actor, slightly-world-famous expert on Lewis Theobald’s “Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers” (1727), “Gasoline Alley” fan, Episcopalian, and I once backstage-conducted a performance of Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at Lincoln Center, and later co-introduced the song “Voulez-vous Hoppsasachen?” to New York City. “Gaudy Night” changed my life, and my wife went to Barnard.
But I haven’t the least notion of what a “crdit” [sic] may be. It sounds like something from the “Star Trek” episode with the space hippies.
alcarte25 about 6 years ago
No
Decepticomic over 3 years ago
Maybe get a refund on this best friend thing.
jerrica.benton333 about 3 years ago
somebody needs to phoebe me off this website
maybe i should disable my adblocker, or something