**Content warning: This comic is for adults, and it includes suicide, sexual themes, and violence as part of its story. Please be aware!**

Pinky & Pepper Forever

"After Pinky’s lethal performance art piece, her devoted girlfriend Pepper follows her into death, only to find that in Hell, Pinky is… thriving?!
Pinky & Pepper Forever is a dark comedy full of furry feelings and a little gay Catholic guilt.
Follow these two puppygirls’ relationship and artwork on Earth and their new life along the River Styx."

Pinky poses on the right with her description on the left. The text reads: Pinky. Age: 22. B-day: May 27. Major: New Media. Loves: Long relaxing baths. Pet peeve: Basic bitches.

Pepper poses on the left with her description on the right. The text reads: Pepper. Age: 21. B-day: November 11. Major: Art History. Loves: Domestic life. Pet peeve: Shedding.

Pinky & Pepper Forever is a 2018 full-color comic by Eddy Atoms. It uses characters from the discontinued 2013-2014 doll line Pinkie Cooper and the Jet Set Pets, but it transforms them into something new and unique.

A promotional illustration of the three Pinkie Cooper dolls and their dogs. The dolls have long brown or blonde hair and sparkly dresses. — I'd love to have one or two of these dolls. They're adorable!

As the comic's description states, art students Pinky and Pepper are girlfriends in a complex relationship that brings out good and bad parts of them both. At art school, they encounter mockery from other students and miscommunicate with each other. Pinky commits suicide as one final art installation in an attempt to get her peers to take her seriously, and grief-stricken Pepper follows after seeing her in a dream. They both end up in a cartoonish, torture-filled portrayal of Hell and become grim reapers together. The comic is altogether funny, dark, and tongue-in-cheek, seamlessly blending lots of different emotions and anxieties.

A comic page titled: Date Nite, with Pepper doing karaoke and Pinky watching on. Pepper proclaims at the end: I would die 4 U... — Pepper is singing "Venus In Furs" by The Velvet Underground and "I Would Die 4 U" by Prince & the Revolution respectively.

At 64 pages, it's a quick read that has a profound emotional impact on me! The loose and colorful art style is gorgeous and inspirational, and it works perfectly with the tone of the story being told. I myself have complicated experiences with the "gay Catholic guilt" described by Atoms, as well as with mental health and suicide, but reading this comic is almost a relief to me. It takes its subjects seriously, but it also manages to find humor and strength in telling Pinky and Pepper's story. With the content warning in mind, it's a comic I would highly recommend.

A comic page where Pepper is tearfully praying and surrounded by plushies.

Pinky & Pepper Forever is available to buy digitally and physically from Silver Sprocket and is also free to read. All of Eddy Atoms' comic work can be found here!

A photo of the physical comic and sticker sheet. — The physical version is beautifully printed, and it comes with some other goodies like a sticker sheet.