Only two more Pastels left

According to Jennifer Diane Reitz, Pastel Defender Heliotrope has only two more strips to go.

Like her previous webcomic-turned book, Unicorn Jelly, the story has been a roller-coaster through a grand idea, or set of ideas; unlike UJ, however, PDH has more closely resembled Sir Julius Vogel’s Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman’s Destiny in that the ideas were more important than the interactions of the characters. I’ve been trying to write an essay on the themes explored by UJ and PDH (and to a lesser extent To Save Her) but keep getting long-winded and losing my point.

There’s the common crux of the “magical girl” who has uncanny powers and acts as an interface between the traditionalist present and the oncoming iconoclast future. While this imagery is worth discussing in itself, there also seems to be another, deeper theme:

Neither gods nor man alone can uplift us; both must work together, though it may change both.

I’m still not sure what that might mean, however.

Posted in Comics (,) by R Cruickshank Jan 14, 06:33 PM Tags: ,

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