This was my brilliant idea for a 100th comic celebration: an unnecessary recap. Feel free to ignore it, it didn't exactly provide anything interesting or new.

I don't know why Keeby decides the first thing they should do upon getting back to Dream Land was to make his way to King Dedede. I had the meta reason of wanting to give the Kirbies a bit of an adventure to go on, but I didn't really have a valid reason for any of it to actually occur. Oops.

Oh look, yet another joke stolen directly from Order of the Stick (the 'double your zero pay/triple it' lines). I was a master of originality, and this isn't even the last time this occurs.

Meta Knight's Spanish in the Gray Space was done because he has a Spanish accent in the English dub of the Kirby anime. It was written via simple Google Translate, and approximately translates to "Ha ha! Kirby, your fall will come as soon as I think of a plan!" Though, 'más crudo' seems to translate to 'more raw', and I have no idea what that could've actually originally been in English. Clearly, the intent didn't get translated properly at some point, but I doubt I ever properly checked, and I no longer recall the intent.

It was also at this point that I had managed to acquire custom spritework for Marx that would allow him to have at least a few more poses in his smaller form.

This is probably the best and most memorable joke from the original run of Yoshi & Kirby. For the record, the Gordo is an enemy in the original game that basically does exactly as Keeby describes here: they're flying, invincible enemies that are used as obstacles to dodge, and either move around in simple set patterns or remain static in the air. They don't talk or chase the player around. Thus, I made one go crazy, because why not?

I really kept being mean to Dream Land residents, didn't I? So many of them eaten, trampled, and outright-murdered. I suppose this is because death in Kirby games tends to be fairly painless and impermanent, anyway. Lots of characters, from basic enemies to named characters, can come back to life easily, either through respawning mechanics or in-universe lore reasons of rebirth or inexplicable survival. It's just kind of the nature of Kirby's world that death isn't a notable factor to worry about.

Kracko (seen here in his lesser Kracko Jr. form) is a common cloud boss in the Kirby series. Though, typically, he's depicted as a bit of a force of nature (and there are multiple Kracko entities as well), rather than a single being with a down-to-earth personality.

Oh hey, this is around the time I began my "side" comic, Kirby Adventure. So, this is approximately around May 2010 now (so everything you've read was all done within a 5-month timespan, from start to now.) Clearly, transporting the characters to Kirby's world had me wanting to explore more Kirby content, which was what partially inspired the creation of Kirby Adventure as a comic to begin with. Using some of the Photoshop skills I had learned with Yoshi & Kirby, as well as just better visuals in general (such as the use of sprites from Kirby Super Star Ultra on the DS, and actual proper text bubbles), it pretty quickly became my main comic after this point.

The two Kirbies here, purple and green, are Raize and Saia from the Kirby Adventure comic. They bring up Warp Stars because this occured around the same time in Kirby Adventure that Saia, the purple one, took Raize for a wild joyride on a Warp Star, piloting it recklessly and speedily until it crashed. Since I had Gim bring out a Warp Star here, I decided to basically quote my own comic verbatim. Much of Gim and Yoshi's dialogue is basically taken right from Raize and Saia's version of the scene.

I would once again swear that I took this joke from someplace else, too. Was it another Order of the Stick quote? Possibly. I'll have to think about it.

The "I prefer battles I'll win" line is a paraphrase from, once again, the Order of the Stick. I just couldn't get enough. Don't worry, eventually I learn to write my own jokes.

Simirror is a generic magical enemy in the original Kirby Super Star, but here I randomly made him Dedede's main lackey. I couldn't tell you why, aside from wanting to do this magical cloning bit.

The decision, however, to make Simirror's text color change colors, was something I can only label as "awful". "Horrendous" and "poorly thought-out" would also work. Good luck telling that it's him speaking without any text box tails to make that distinct. God, why was I so bad at comic visuals back then, lmao

The strange dark-blue Kirby in the bottom right was an acquaintance of mine who actively read the comic through the Brawl in the Family forums. His username was Falcon_Pawnch75, aka FP, and his avatar was this blue Kirby. He had been asking a lot to see Biospark, a ninja enemy from Kirby, make an appearance in the comic at some point now that the world had shifted to Kirby's universe. Like with other fan and/or friend interactions, I elected to respond to the comments by putting it in the Empty Gray Space panels.

Test and Yoshi in the same comic, AND Simirror's text color changing constantly? It's a wonder anyone can tell who's saying ANYTHING. Good luck. I won't clarify just to make it as unnecessarily awkward nowadays as it was back in 2010.

Remember when this comic was called 'Yoshi & Kirby'? I hardly had been including any of the Yoshi characters for a while, so wrapped up in the Kirby content I had given myself access to. The Yoshi stuff kinda got pretty badly sidelined, it was rather awkward and I never really fixed it much before cancelling the comic. Oops.

This is the last we see of Capsule J, or hear of Gim. Honestly, I can't really tell you what their whole purposes were for this comic, I think I just liked the robot enemy designs and wanted to include them somewhere, somehow. It was all a bit arbitrary and nonsensical, like most of the comic.

With my annotation talking about death in the Kirby world, this whole page suddenly throws a random wrench into that entire concept, and MAN is it tonal whiplash. I think I was trying to set up the idea of one of the Kirby characters dying and Kirby being unprepared to deal with the loss? A very randomly heavy topic, but I was nothing but ambitious back in those days. I don't remember who, if anyone, I had planned or was considering to kill, though. Keeby, perhaps? Or Test? *shrug*

I guess this prototype portal thing was something I gave Baby Bowser because he had vague access to Wily technology? I don't know.

The pink scarfed Yoshi was the Yoshisona of Captain Yoshi, the creator of Moonlight Man.

Captain Yoshi had, in the months between MM's last appearance and now, made new sprites for Moonlight Man and his various other fanmade Robot Masters (as seen in the bottom left). Thus, this was the reveal of the new spritework in Yoshi & Kirby, though it's honestly not that notable of a difference and if you're unaware of the change and if I hadn't said he had an upgraded body, it's a pretty subtle and missable update.

Also shoutouts to me using the design change as an excuse to get rid of his plot-hole-creating Time Stopping powers. Past me knew it'd be an issue even then and tried to fix the issue, which is commendable given how inexperienced I still was at the time.

The two Koopatrols who initially led Kirby and Yoshi into the dungeons in Chapter 3, where one was planning an assassination, were named Koopatrol Alpha and Koopatrol Beta in my head, but this was the first time those names got mentioned in-comic. This Koopatrol ghost, meanwhile, was one of the ones frozen by Deska in Page 44 and then eaten by Test to give him the Ice ability in Page 47.

Prologue, Chapters 1 & 2

Chapters 3, 4 & 5

Chapter 6

Chapters 7 & 8

Chapters 9 & 10

Chapter 1

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