Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for July 19, 2015

Do or die, Phoebe… even when Dakota comes around to mock you.

I have no fear of heights. I tried from the highest one and have been happily jumping ever since! :) Whee!

Do or do not. There is no cry.

LOL! That is soooo what it felt like the first time I climbed up on a high-dive.

Panel one looks like it was drawn by Gavin Aung Than (Zen Pencils)

I dislike step stools.The high board? No way!

This brings back memories of the local swimming pool.

: D Ooooh hahahaha! Marigold’s water wings and inner tube!

They live further south than I thought they did.

I think I see shades of ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ here. Phoebe and her unicorn are essentially female versions of Calvin and Hobbes. Not that it’s bad, the great Watterson himself borrowed from ‘peanuts’ and ’ Bloom county’.

Marigold + floats = comedy gold. :D

Yikes, Phoebe is missing a couple of toes! I like going off the 3 meter platform or board. High enough to be thrilling but not so high as to be dangerous. If you mess up and are about to belly flop or land on your back, just fold up and you’re fine

Phoebe, I’m with you. If you’d wanted heights, you’d have taken up with Pegasus, not Marigold, right?

Take your time, Phoebe. Never mind the line of annoyed kids behind you. Hey, is that Sue in line?(Psst, Marigold, now while she is distracted gently float her down to the surface of the water.)

Phoebe and Marigold are NOT like Calvin and Hobbes. In C&H, most of what went on was in his overactive imagination and usually ended up getting him in trouble. Phoebe’s adventures with Marigold very rarely result in trouble, and it’s not in her imagination, either.

I just hope the commenter isn’t calling this comic unoriginal, tho it is what he seems to be doing at first glance. I consider this comic to be very original :)

Aw come on Phoebe!

Cute toes pheobe!

She must be up there a while because in the first panel it’s morning (the sun’s in the east) and in the second panel it’s noon (the sun is from behind the board, which we’ve established is south).

Quite frankly I see what people living in the Pacific North West put up with. Over 19 inches of rain her since June 1st-enough already. Took a steam train excursion today and I expect food prices will rise this year as many fields are still saturated and the crops look like garbage. Summer should be 80s and rain every two weeks, not 70s and rain every day.

Well, the Pacific Ocean does provide a good sized target for splash down.

What an imagination. UvU