The Adventures of Cain & Yurk: Page 04
The startling, earth-shattering conclusion of our (first?) Cain and Yurk tale! What a huge inconvenience for poor ol’ Cain! Maybe if Yurk’s in a good mood he’d be willing to share?
Eh, probably not. These Canid/Ermehn friendships can be pretty treacherous!
Anyway! With this, our initial foray into Nessa is complete, and we’ll begin to dive into the main arc of Song of the Eastern Sands starting the week after next (with a title page next week for the chapter, as per our usual modus operandi). Jerome and I are both incredibly excited to begin the main event!
As a bit of a celebration of Cain and Yurk’s entry into Western Deep canon, I figured I would share a fun little mini-comic brought to us by longtime reader and contributor, Saraa Luna (based on a separate unrelated comic that made the internet rounds a while back)! Readers have had some fun with the “bromance” between Cain and Yurk, and this comic is no different.
Thank you SO much for all your amazing (and occasionally hilarious, as demonstrated by the above) artwork, Saraa! It’s always fun seeing our characters through your lens :)
Another special surprise this week! In addition to Space Miner Wars being released on iOS, Dust: An Elysian Tail, which I helped to write, was ALSO released on iOS at the same time! To celebrate the release, creator Dean Dodrill drew up a fun little comic — his first comic in quite a while, actually. I helped with the wordsmithing, and I think the result is pretty great!
Hahahahaha, Cain’s priceless face.
And Yurk’s equally priceless line.
Well, this has put me in a good mood for SOTES. Thanks, Alex and Jerome.
Oh those two. Such a heart-warmingly friendship that even rivals that of Quin and Dakkan. I bet they would contest on it too.
Who is the TRUE Dunian bro pair?!
Lol XD – Can you imagine the duel Dakkan and Quinlan VS. Cain and Yurk XD? with swords would be a bit of a fragile thing :/ , so I think that a better match up would be that one (and I think that Yurk will glad/so happy XD) .:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LTcLxwYi7o
XD
What are friends for if not to chug awful alcohol with?
Don’t worry, if Cain gets fed up with these madcap antics he can always dispossess Yurk of his home, food and belongings and banish him to a frozen wasteland,
unable to return on pain of death,
persecuted and confined to the lowest rungs of the hierarchy of needs,
bereft of culture and education,
hope and dignity,
security, justice and a sense of purpose,
ground down a little more each day by the cold attrition of hardship until only a savage husk remains where once there was a person.
HA HA HA HA!!!!
Haha – I mean duel on drinking bear and Vodka – who have more powerful head (I guess that Yurk has great chances of winning after Tamian wine XD haha XD )
Hahah XD Tress – that wolud be explained why this conflict was started –
After drive out Yurk by Cain to the ice land, they became enemies. They both were married, and have childrens, and teaching their children that “it was his fault”, and this childrens have childrens, etc. and many years later all the time childrens of this childrens hear this version ask “Why?..” .: Canid version “Yurk laughed from us and did silly jokes -.- ” / Ermehn version “Canid haven’t sense of humor”
XD
Yes, the war absolutly started like that.
XD
“Yuuuurk … ”
Well, technically, Yurk’s right: the giant Ermehn *did* eat it. It’s lying down there *somewhere*.
GREAT second panel here. Good work, Jerome! Thanks for entertaining us so, and look forward to a lot more from you in the weeks ahead! (Trust me, you and Alex are far from the only ones excited by the prospect of “SotES.”)
Oh, and … *applauds Saraa too*
You helped write Dust? Wow! I loved that game! Although I always did wonder how fast Dust’s matabolism had to be to stay fighting trim when I was hitting the button to hork down enough chicken, steak, and cake to kill a horse after ever battle.
I was…pretty bad at blocking….<.<
Poor guy…doing all those flips and and high speed jumps while stuffed with food…
But yes! I love how Yurk doesn't even appologize for it. He just keeps on eating. Lovely little stoat person :3
Too much awesomeness in this week’s post!!!!!!
Lol XD haha XD I was expecting something different but this is really funny too – and their faces XD (Cain’s face “Are you kidding me?…” – the best XD ) – and next confirmation of the fact that I’d be Ermehn – Yurk has a similar line of thinking like me XD XD I like him bro XD
Just I love these both XD :D Cool idea for a brief introduction ^^ :D And of course, I can’t wait to start the main action ^^ :D
(I also wanted to have this type of friend XD)
Ah, and Saraa’s comic again make me laught XD Lol, really I love it Saraa XD haha XD
Best ending xD Cain’s face in the second panel is perfect.
Jerome is great at drawing expressions! So much personality conveyed with no dialogue.
Now having read this mini comic,I’m more excited than ever to read SOTES!
Can’t really see the ermehn face there…
Chug down an entire bottle of tamian wine, you’ll see it… maybe ;P
I was wondering why I couldn’t see the face either, but that explains it. Sadly, I do not have access to Tamian wine to test this idea.
Hmm… You don’t need look for Tamian wine – you can drink any kind of wine For example now I drink delicious white sweet wine – “Matka Boska Niebieska”/”Liebfraumilch” – and I See Ermehn face without any problem C: XD So I recommend it… :) Anyway – Cherrs for you all my friends :)
I’m actually sitting in the middle of a vineyard right now, but roommate probably wouldn’t approve of me testing out her family wine. Ah well, next time.
Mmm :/ I feel sorry for you – but that is good that we culturally drink wine, just we want see face of Ermehn ;) ^^ – But If you would see second Ermehn I recommend Vodka ( I don’t druk it yet but I know that when you drink it you can see second Ermehn :) ;) Sometimes even three or more 0.0 ;) )
Haha, I think I’ll pass on that.
Haha XD
Your fan comic is totes adorbs, I love it!
Aw, thanks! If you haven’t seen the dragon bro comics, that was a direct remake of one of those. It seemed very fitting.
Ooo :D Hey, and where we can see this “Bro-dragons” comic Saraa :D ?
Late reply! You can read them href=”http://floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/tagged/dragon-bros”>here.
Lol XD Now You destroyed all system Saraa XD
Blasted html formatting. *grumble
You guys, I can totally see the grinning Ermehn face. But it’s up on top of the tower.
That smug arse-hole.
Mmm :/ I feel sorry for you – but that is good that we culturally drink wine, just we want see face of Ermehn ;) ^^ – But If you would see second Ermehn I recommend Vodka ( I don’t druk it yet but I know that when you drink it you can see second Ermehn :) ;) Sometimes even three or more 0.0 ;) )
Cain’s face– I love it. Yurk’s excuse– I’M LAUGHING SO HARD I’M GONNA DIE!!!
He’s one, man. He’s gone. A new face in the comments section found and lost in the blink of an eye. Let us at least take solace in the fact that he died happy.
*wakes up* Nope. Not daed. Just passed out for a while. Plus, I’m a deep sleeper
*heavy sleeper
Hey XD And what with me ? :C XD , many Times sometimes I got heart attack from laught with BWD and comments, and especially emotions like a few months ago when were many blood… XD I’m alone :C …
Do not be sad, there is always a chance for you to find your special one.
I approve.
This makes us the Bushtailed Lively Discussion Devotees of the Salmon Party.
“Bit of a mouthful, ain’t it?” Dakkan would say.
https://westerndeep.net/comic/chapter-1-page-44/
Now try saying that with a mouthful of bread
Just make very sure that ‘bushtail’ isn’t some kind of horrible Dunian racial epithet.
Very late, but . . .
a) This is hilarious. I’ve laughed the last three or four times I’ve read it.
b) I love the idea of a genki Vulpin fashionista.
For everything else, there is MasterCard.
Whered you get your inspiratiom for your ermehn tattoos
Only 9, huh? Getting them started young, aren’t we?
Title page looks great, as do the B&W sketches, which I think I’ve seen before but are always worth seeing again! Can’t wait for the actual story to start, and to find out who these four are!
Odd, that comment above was meant to be for the title page of “SotES,” but for some reason it posted here. Ah well.
Lovely use of expressions here. It really gets emotions and feelings across. I also like the way Cain draws out his friend’s name- it almost implies that this was not entirely unexpected. I like that the final shot pans over Nessa- reminding us of what’s coming next.
i think this one was good and funny