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Abt_Nihil

on Jan. 22, 2008

I didn't comment much on this scene because I think I mentioned the important stuff already - Kat's brother and the knight/angel are now one being.

The "burden" they're talking about reflects Kat's impression that she can somehow run away and escape whatever consequences her life brings with it, e.g. her going home after she's grown wings. She simply returns to her home as if nothing had happened. The wings symbolize not only a rebirth of some sort, but more importantly some odd characteristic that will stick with her - a general trait of human life, bearing odd characteristics which simply stick and most of the time can't be turned into something meaningful. The wings are simply THERE. They're not for flight, they're not practical, they're probably even quite uncomfortable.

The urgency of dealing with it increases as the wings turn into something she deemed a thing of the past.

(The last three panels are some of my favorites of this whole comic.)

EDIT:

Midge: That's a difficult question… I wouldn't say they are purely symbolic - but I wrote this whole comic from the gut, I can't quite separate symbolic from literal meaning here. Remember that all the interpretations I gave are "after the fact" - I interpreted myself after writing this. "Literally", these wings are another form of the last angel.
cda: Thanks!
DAJB: Thanks! That's survival of the fittest, eh? Like, wings are to an Ostrich what nipples are to human males? :-)