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1. about 9 hours ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Whenever Marigold whinnies, I can never tell whether she’s making actual horse noises or literally saying “whinny”.

   In this case, it would be pretty funny if she literally said “freaked-out whinny”.

2. 4 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Now it’s Phoebe’s turn to troll Marigold with made-up stories about her species.

3. 6 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   “Butterfly, have you seen others like me? Have you seen even one?”

   “Oh have you seen the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin maaaaan?”

4. 11 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Apparently one of Gailman’s inspirations for Coraline was the Lucy Clifford short story “The New Mother”, which involved a pair of little girls acting naughty to get a drum from some beggar girl, and so their mother leaves them and replaces them with a new mother with glass eyes and a wooden tail.

   Some of you may remember a variation of the above being re-adapted into “The Drum” in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

5. 11 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   I don’t remember.

6. 11 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   This comic is a reference to how people who rescue baby birds feed them using a hand puppet designed to resemble a bird of the same species to prevent them from imprinting on the scientists.

   I realized the reference as a child because I remember seeing a photo of some scientists feeding a condor chick with a puppet in a different book.

7. 13 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   Wait, I’m confused. I thought the plan was to get Ethan attached to the OLD house, not the new one. Did they suddenly end up back at the old house after they made the pixies go away?

8. 14 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

   At first I thought the spell was changing the color of the room, but it does that in the previous strip too.

9. 16 days ago on Calvin and Hobbes

   Is Calvin part shark?

10. 17 days ago on Phoebe and Her Unicorn

    Yeah, I imagine it happened before Phoebe met Marigold, hence why she got the euphemism.