Garbed in mail studded with pine cone scales, a thorn dagger with a lucky bean embedded in its hilt on his hip, fern frond wings, a porcupine quill spear in his right hand and a mole skull on his head — Meadow Sprite is ready for action.

He’s the guardian of the galaxy, not separate from it but part of it, returned from Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, his destiny fulfilled...