Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for December 12, 2019

Some people just need to explode, and the best you can do is make sure the blast area is clear.

Phoebe is going to need sunglasses on her person to be well prepared

Marigold, you keep doing that and she’ll go blind!

Thanks for the warning, Marigold.

“My God, it’s full of stars!”

It is suggested that unicorns only do this at dawn and dusk to prevent damage to the senses of non unicorn.

So that means you should only twilight sparkle.

So maybe Marigold is responsible for giving Adolf Miethe inspiration for flash photography?

“She blinded me… WITH SPARKLES!”

I’ve just witnessed sparklegeddon!

On the bright side* Phoebe won’t be able to see any of the usual awful stuff on the news tonight. (*wordplay not intended)

In today’s strip we don’t see if Phoebe still has a tail. It will probably be gone when she can see again.

As poor Phœbe tries valiantly to ignore Marigold Heavenly Nostrils’s fart and lame attempt to lead the conversation down the garden path, she wishes she were somewhere else, even Kansas!

Shouldn’t Nostrils come with some kind of “sparkle warning”? “Attention: please close your eyes and cup them with your hands or wear protective welding goggles. Heavenly Nostrils is about to sparkle. 5… 4… 3…”

One would think that Marigold would have understood that certain non-magical creatures, like humans, can only handle so much sparkling at one time and give some warning (and time to prepare) before emitting a day’s worth of sparkles at once.

“Eyes are overrated anyway.”

I wouldn’t want to keep a noisemaker that close to my moneymaker.

I wouldn’t have thought unicorns would TAKE orders from electronic devices………..

It’s nothing unusual; you can get the same effect by sticking your finger in a light socket…

“Its too late, Marigold. I seen everything now”

Either Phoebe stated that she’s seen enough because of the fact the sparkles blinded her, or she was mortified of Marigold’s method for emitting 10,000 sparkles.