After the previous chapters, this one was an attempt to give the spotlight to the other 3 colored Yoshies. If you missed it, a panel of the previous page, the last one of Chapter 2, had Kirby spit back out the hat with a camera in it that Deska gifted Kirby (and he ate earlier). Thus, this is how Deska using this remote camera-viewer thing to figure out that Kirby got captured by Baby Bowser.

The Koopatrol sprites here were custom-made ones that I acquired via the Custom Sprites section of the Spriters' Resource. I would later use many more sprites by the creator, whose username was NO Body the Dragon.

This page was never actually uploaded to Smack Jeeves originally, it was a Brawl in the Family forum exclusive page. I did it as a Groundhog's Day celebration for some reason. It had no impact on anything, so I omitted it from other mirrors of the comic.

If you weren't aware, a Whacka is an enemy from the Paper Mario series that is essentially a whack-a-mole, which was where the Groundhog element came into play.

For the record, there isn't a location in Yoshi's Island called 'Bone Valley'. Like with many things, I just made it up for this comic.

Test is a very random, somewhat-inexplicably-created clone of Kirby, as explained via the page above. I didn't ever really have much of a reason for making Test, other than wanting to have more Kirby stuff in the comic, I think? Either way, I turned him green because of Yoshi, in fact. Something in my brain had me go "Test can be a fusion of Kirby and Yoshi, so that'd result in a green Kirby", but then never really did anything at all with the part-Yoshi aspect of him, so he's more-or-less just a green copy of Kirby from beginning to end.

The "maybe I'm New Wave" "maybe you're stupid" exchange was a joke stolen right out of The Order of the Stick, but with hardly any of the context remaining and showing a lack of understanding of the actual original joke. This was the problem with me trying to just reference stuff I liked, really, none of it tended to make sense. Ah well, live and learn.

Pep is an enemy from Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story that transitions between three various states where it has either a strong attack, strong defense, or high speed stat. I had been playing the game for the first time around the time of making these pages, and found myself greatly enjoying the design of this enemy and randomly decided that I wanted to use it in Yoshi & Kirby. Thus, this random-ass comic relief character was born, as a complete non-sequitur. He has nothing much to do with anything, he's just here, with no context and nothing but one gag of being very exciteable.

For the 50th page, I did one large comic to celebrate. This allowed the fight scene between Ice Test and Plasma Kirby to have slightly-better pacing than it would have had I given it multiple pages to accomodate. That doesn't necessarily mean any of this was GOOD, per se, but it's all relative, you know?

I don't really know why Yoshi asked Deska about the frozen Pep when it was Flashfyre who was shown to be the one who carried him out of the castle previously. Oh well.

Have you gotten sick of Pep yet? If so, you aren't alone, don't worry.

Also, the "D, O, W, N, doowwn" quote is a line taken from Candace Flynn from the cartoon Phineas & Ferb. I sure do love my references, huh?

I think I really just liked trying to write drama, and was just very very bad at it at this early point in time. Oops.

I don't know why I made Xenali such a bitch, but here we are.

The full name of "Test-001" was a remnant of the clone idea where Test was a Kirby clone infused with Yoshi DNA. Test-002 was a concept where I considered making a pink Yoshi clone that would be a Yoshi with Kirby DNA. This never came to fruition.

The original plans for Yoshi & Kirby were overly ambitious, and I had planned to wind up including more and more crossovers as time went on, beyond the original Yoshi and Kirby bits. This led to the inclusion of Mega Man content, with Baby Bowser somehow having made contact with the evil Dr. Wily from that series of games. It was extremely arbitrary and was luckily largely-ignored going forward, even within this original run of comics.

Moonlight Man is a custom-made Robot Master, and not from any of the Mega Man games. He's an edited sprite from Crystal Man, and wasn't even my own creation but instead a cameo of one of my Brawl in the Family forum friends at the time, Captain Yoshi. He was one of the ones who inspired me to make my own custom set of Robot Masters back in the day, so with my own comic and desires to include Mega Man content in Y&K, I elected to give back to him with this character inclusion.

Baby Bowser pronounces Dr. Wily's name as "Willy" intentionally, though some Mega Man games accidentally call Wily that as well.

I don't know why I decided to make another named Yoshi character, but this "Cal" never had any bearing on anything beyond this after this point.

Whispy Woods, of course, is one of the first boss fights of most Kirby games, and is a rather easy boss fight. By contrast, Naval Piranha here is the boss of the fourth world of the original Yoshi's Island game, and is a much tougher fight. The joke, being explained, is that Kirby is treating a late-game boss from Yoshi's series as the equivalent of an early-game boss from his own series.

Naval Piranha's navel, in the original game, is his weak spot, and the only place Yoshi can damage him. This is why Kirby focuses on it here.

The moves Kirby uses are based on the Cutter power's Final Cutter move, which in the original Kirby Super Star game is inputted by attacking repeatedly in-range of an enemy in front of you. Cutter Kirby would do a few slashes and swipes, before rising upward and then crashing back down to the ground with another slash and a bit of a traveling shockwave. It flows a lot better in-game with proper animation than it does in sprite comic format, but I attempted to have him use the Final Cutter here regardless.

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