Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 04, 2023

That puts Dakota at…

How large of a radius is “the vicinity”?

All right, Marigold! Now let’s shoot for the 4th or 5th nicest thing to say to Phoebe!

if that was a compliment, why is Marigold not levitating?

I see. So Marigold wants to make herself more beautiful, by transforming standard beauty into ugly. Jokes on her. The girls were still beautiful even as goblins.

Flattery will get you everywhere!

now see… i dont get that logic… i dont see how shes more beautiful by her proximity to less beautifulness …

An observer would see a scene with less beauty, so that would make everything less beautiful.

from my experience, whenever the most beautiful thing was around me, it made me more beautiful… i think

Panel 4…. Laughed out loud and for real, not just LOL…!

Wait, Dakota is beautiful?

It’s a crime that nobody’s ever put “lumpy, speckled flower” on a Valentine’s Day card.

Wait, so the lesson for Dakota was ‘goblins are worthy of empathy and understanding’, while the lesson for Phoebe and Marigold is ‘goblins are ugly and it is ok to bring others down to feel good about yourself’?

I feel like Marigold might be the one who needs to spend time as a goblin to help cure her of her ugliness inside…

That description sounds disconcertingly like the corpse flower.

I’m beginning to wonder if it’s appropriate for unicorns to be around children, what with the non-consensual transformations for arbitrary reasons.

I wonder what the first and second (and possibly third) nicest things were?

Don’t let a goblin hear you say that!

We need a story arc where Marigold is human for a bit.

Potatoes have flowers and they’re also lumpy and have speckles.