Certain things between the original and reboot were maintained, for some sake of consistency, I suppose. Even when arguably entirely unnecessary, past me felt like it was important to display that this was still the original comic's intent, just better handled. So, even though Deska didn't have a camera hat to gift Kirby for a random spying misdirection, I still had her rush off to see Yoshi and Kirby off in this version... but didn't give her any other reason this time. It can be easy to fall into a pitfall of adaptation, keeping things that really just don't need to be kept, all things considered.

There were, however, some things that honestly didn't need to be changed all too much. Maintaining moments like these, while writing them as flowing better, were the other side of the spectrum. In adaptation and rewriting, it's good to be able to pinpoint the actively important aspects and memorable moments that are worth keeping around and cleaning up. You don't always need to throw out every little aspect of everything in order to make improvements.

The final point of adaptation and rewriting is to not be afraid to shake things up, either. While I wanted to keep the general plot structure of the original comic maintained, if not expanded, there was nothing at the time making me feel like I couldn't throw unexpected wrenches in the works. Especially since I was writing this with the idea that people who had read the original would be reading this reboot, I wanted to surprise those readers with unexpected twists and not to have everything happen exactly the same. This led to a bit of a snowball effect of further changes down the line, which honestly I can only see as a positive thing. Being more flexible with how the reboot was being written and plot details were handled only led to a more interesting story as a result, at least in this specific instance.

The really weird implication here with Yoshi and Koraz talking is that Yoshies have been happily consuming sentient creatures the entire time, and never once thought about the ethical or moral dilemmas of eating other people, or even so much as talked with any of them before. It's a real Lion King situation here, huh? But in this instance, calling attention to it only makes it more awkwardly egregious. I should never have been involving these kinds of moral questions and epiphanies in the comic, because it's just a really unnecessary and tonally unfitting can of worms.

I'm not gonna bother pointing out every single obvious change and story adjustment I've made between the original and reboot, most of them are pretty noticeable to see, but at the time I was also not afraid to poke fun at the bad pacing of the original comic. Even back then, I knew how much I had improved. And in the 13 years since this, I've certainly improved even more, huh?

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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