Recent Comments

1. about 1 month ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   No. If X takes a corner, O takes the center, and X takes the opposite corner, O can then take any side (not a corner). Both players then take turns blocking each other, ending in a tie.If X starts in a corner and O takes the opposite corner, X can take another corner. If O blocks, X can take the final corner, which leads to a win for X.

2. 5 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn
   “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done the day after tomorrow just as well.”

   (popularly attributed to Mark Twain, but variations have been around much longer)

3. 8 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Iron not being irony?!

4. 9 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   I bet the readers will win, and Phoebe and Kyle will tie for second place.

5. 12 months ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Ask any parent and you’ll learn the correct answer is “Because I said so!”

6. over 1 year ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   The “unspeakable horrors” are probably a bunch of fun-house mirrors.

7. almost 2 years ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Talking to LSH wouldn’t help Max. LSH is more of a humble-bragger; like other unicorns he fully believes in his own greatness, he just adds an exaggerated sense of humility. In the November 16th strip he teold Phoebe “I am certainly the most admirable being you have ever met, but if you praised me in writing, it would damage the most admirable thing about me: my extreme humility.”

8. about 2 years ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Solar panels. Upside: No cloudy days. Downside: Nights are 2 weeks long on the moon. You’d need plenty of spare rechargable batteries, or an electrical grid circling the moon to bring power from the day side to the night side.

9. about 2 years ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   She said she was more sparkly than the waves.

10. over 2 years ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Marigold does understand the concept of humility, because LSH provides such a splendid example of it.