I'll be providing bits of commentary and annotations as pages are displayed, to help clarity and elaborate on important information, context, and insights.

Text bubbles are the ugly black rectangles you can see in each panel. Their color of font is the indicator of who's talking, so apologies for any colorblind users. Yes, there are no text bubble tails to indicate who is talking, and unfortunately I never wind up using that until the rebooted comic.

Also worth pointing out is the "Empty Gray Space". Mostly used in the earlier pages, these are occasional noncanon filler panels that break the fourth wall, and are meant as cheeky asides once the main panels are all finished reading. Think of them like Author's Notes, but where characters can engage with and react to what they themselves just went through in a noncanon way.

Speaking of Authors, like most sprite comic authors at the time, I had an authorsona. But since this original comic of Yoshi & Kirby predated even my username of Ultimate Yoshi / Ultimate Kirby, instead at the time I went by the very creative "Galactic Knight 09" on the website Kirby's Rainbow Resort. Since that was what prompted me to start making Kirby sprite comics at all, that username was the one I included in these comics, and made a multicolored, constantly-changing recolor of Galacta Knight to represent myself in these Empty Gray Spaces. It was bad and ugly and now you have to just deal with it.

Initially, there was zero explanation or context for how Kirby and Yoshi crossed over. While I do provide an explanation later, for now one just has to deal with the fact that Kirby is just kinda suddenly here.

You can see that I quickly experimented with various panel sizes, page layouts, and font choices in these earliest pages. Also, I should note that these annotations will assume one has at least a basic knowledge of Yoshi's Island/Super Mario and Kirby as worlds and set-ups.

I believe "Neo" was a user on the Brawl in the Family forums who suggested that I use a custom sprite sheet of Yoshi that they had found/made rather than sprites from Yoshi's Island. This was my way of responding to them.

The various colored Yoshies found within this comic are all 'original' creations of mine. While multicolored Yoshies exist in the Mario series, none of them are traditionally named. Here, though, I had the main green one be named Yoshi like in the Mario games, and came up with personalities and names for the various other colors. Red became Flashfyre, Yellow became Boalt, Light Blue became Deska, Indigo became Xenali, Black became Sencen, and White became Silica. You'll see as more pages progress.

Another unique quirk I decided to give three of the colored Yoshies was to give them elemental powers. Thus, Flashfyre has fire powers, Boalt has lightning powers (as seen here), and Deska has ice powers. It's just the three of them who have these, and as I recall there's very little explanation given for it. They just kinda have them for no real reason.

The quote "Don't apologize, it's a sign of weakness" is one from the character of Leroy Jethro Gibbs, from the TV show NCIS. He's essentially a hard-broiled Navy cop who solves crimes with his team. The show was one I used to love as a preteen/teenager, thus my writing brain decided that making references to things I liked would be fun. Does it make sense why there's knowledge of a real world TV show in Yoshi's Island? No, but that wasn't exactly a concern for 13-year-old me.

The black Yoshi, Sencen, has white text boxes since black text on black boxes would have been unreadable even more than usual. This had the side effect of making the "Welcome to Yoshi Village" sign I drew onto the background extremely-easily confusable among the rest of the text boxes. Just ignore it and it'll be hopefully sensible.
Though, considering the absolute nonsense of this whole "trial" mini-arc and how none of it makes much sense, 'sensible' is certainly a relative word choice.

Really, all this was my attempt at early drama, trying to set up this white and black Yoshi duo as antagonists. I had no idea what I was doing as a writer, though, so every single bit of it kinda fell apart. But hey, archiving all my work includes the messy stuff, this kind of thing included. I just like to look at it as a sign of how far I've come since I started.

A 'bounceball' was what I called an object from Yoshi's Island that essentially acts like a spring. Their official names are Spring Balls, or Bounce Arrows, apparently, but I didn't look that up back in the day.

As of this page, I believe the font size finally starts remaining consistent, at a bit more legible of a size as well.
Also, this was a reference to a Brawl in the Family comic. BitF was a Nintendo themed comic craeted by Matthew Taranto (aka TriforceBun, his forum username) that ran from 2008 to 2014. One early page of the comic featured what was known as "Highly Detailed Face Kirby", or HDF Kirby. Since I was mirroring these pages on multiple websites, including the forums for BitF, I thought referencing the comic would be fun, and did this by basically pasting the original BitF comic's art onto the mask of a sprited Shy Guy.

For whatever reason, this bit of this sequence is referencing the Mario & Luigi series of RPG games. That's where the big star came from (it's a battle transition effect) and why they suddenly start performing attacks in turns to fight. The giant Shy Guy is a semi-original creation (albeit just a recolor like most other things).

Despite quickly abandoning the turn-based RPG gimmick of this fight scene, for whatever reason I still elected to include damage numbers, as if they had health bars (they don't). A 'lucky' attack is essentially a critical hit in the Mario & Luigi series, but is something only the player character normally gets to do in those games, hence the confusion from Yoshi in the Empty Gray Space.

Can we just marvel at my old writing for a moment? "Why take the puffball hostage? I'm confused at why." A true master-class of redundancy, that's what that is. Incredible. Genius.

For what it's worth, there is no such thing as a "Yoshi's Code", it's something I randomly made up. Also for what it's worth, no, I really don't know why the hell Sencen the Black Yoshi is so hell-bent on trying to kill Yoshi (or how he's able to do like 3 completely separate plans at once).

Prologue, Chapters 1 & 2

Chapters 3, 4 & 5

Chapter 6

Chapters 7 & 8

Chapters 9 & 10

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

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