Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for February 23, 2013

Why did I just read that text Balloon in a Woody Allen voice?Also how can you prove that Lord is not either a unicorn child or a talking land Narwhal? Maybe he’s a midget. I hope he’s laying down and not standing.

Either way I think He’s beneath Marigold.

Also It IS a very lovely shrubbery. I like the Laurels particularly.

When he emerges, he will be either the most stunning beast in all of Nature’s (Magic’s) creation or he’ll be 2’ high with a 2’ corn. I’m sure Dana will still surprise us with her creativity tho… No pressure! ;)

Um…..can you actually picture a voice?

In my head, LSH’s voice is sounding a lot like Commander Data of Star Trek.

The Ant from Antz. He cameoed on the Simpsins claiming it was the only movie kids would know him from.

I don’t think we will ever get to see more than his horn. He seems to have a camoflage sheild, a variation on Marigold’s sheild of borringness. The type of camo will probably vary a lot depending on context. That should make for a lot of comic opportunities.

Humble?Or is he just shy?

It’s time to show yourself Male unicorn.

Is that a horn on his head or is he just happy to see her? I’m sorry somehow I felt compelled to voice my inner 12 year old boy. He’s gone now. I see the word shrubbery and it makes me think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, so the voice has got to be Graham Chapman in his King Arthur voice. Just when I think I can’t love this strip or Dana more…..

…aging fangirl sigh….

I thought “humilty” came from “humble”, not “humilated” ;)

And I think we may need Word of God on the voice

So didn’t she say she’d never met him before? Or was it that she’d never SEEN him before? I was just thinking that: she’s never met him, but he seems to know who she is on sight, sounds like he’s interested enough to have learned her name.

Now we just need 4 more and assorted back ground characters and we’ll have our main six

BTW I had another thought in my head (in Dana’s world not the MLP one) Are Unicorns Equestrian? A question long on our lips One could argue yes as both have the same basic structure and diet one could argue No as Unicorns have magic and lion tails, cat like napping habits, intelligence, the ability to speak. etc however the ability to speak does not make one intelligent nor does a number of unlike features put you in a new classification of Genius, Order, Family etc. Humans for example look nothing like the slow loris but are still primates but Pandas often called bears are Ailuropodidae where as bears are Ursidae there for Pandas are not Bears but are Unicorns horses? Well Equidae also inludes Zebra, and Ass but the order is Perissodactyla that also brings in tapir, and rhinoceros. Unicorns also share with Ariodactyla Bovidae (gazelles sheep goats etc ) Felidae ( cats) and Cetacea Monodontidae (Narwhals) that some legends say was the evolutionary off-shoot of the unicorn when it fled to the sea to avoid hunting. So how many changes must a unicorn go threw before she is no longer equestrian? How many unicorn habits are still identical to the equestrian’s habits despite them not being the same animal? and what of the Pegasus? is it too equestrian? or not? Now Marigold her self has strongly hinted that she is not a horse many times and yet she still eats apples and grass and hey. on the other hand, she purs like a cat when she sleeps for every similarity that brings us back to horses there is a difference to seperate her. A Platypus is niether duck nor beaver, An Echidna is not a porcupine but a Flying squirrel and a capybara are both rodentia and look and act nothing alike. Well untillI see a book or a chart I’ll allow the Equestrian refrences since I like learning about them, but I can not at this point vote yah or neigh on unicorn classification. Now let’s classify the chimera.

He could be like Nelly in “Mutts,” who never shows more than her ears but still wins Mooch’s heart.

I want to see him!!!