Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for October 06, 2022

You know Marigold. But I guess the method can be adapted to almost any unicorn whose name you know.

And she has liftoff!!!

well, is that a good riddance to mechanical Marigold?

Now we only have to stick the landing. Um… Houston, we have a problem…

Leave it to a callback to the original title to achieve liftoff.

awwww yeah Heavenly Nostrils

NASA is gonna try that on SLS next month. ;-)

“You have the most heavenly boosters…”

Superior!

In retrospect, the solution was obvious.

Awesome deduction Phoebe!

Wonder if Mechagold has the ability to actually smell things with her nose?.

One strength she certainly has over meat Marigold is supposedly that she will not burn up in the atmosphere and she can breathe in space whereas Marigold couldn’t.

it would be kind of funny to see Marigold trying to breathe in space.

But Meat Marigold would also bloat until she basically exploded, so a robot is much better at going into space than living matter.

why didn’t I think of this before!?

Let’s hope that meat Marigold will never find out about this.

She left without her mechanical Phoebe.

Heavenly nostrils indeed.

Why didn’t you just lead with that one then, Phoebe?

The original title of this strip was “Heavenly Nostrils”

Phoebe should charge money to send folks to space.

Well, considering that it only works for unicorns and all unicorns hate her, she wouldn’t get much business.

PLEASE let it be gone!!!

Nice call back to the original strip title (and of course Marigold’s proper name)