Wow -- this is very cool indeed! Aside from
the "Birds of a Feather" comic, an illustrated story in a foreign magazine and one short story in a collection of Disney bedtime stories, there are practically no official stories connected to SP, so this was quite a surprise.
And now for the overly long list of observations:
The "Kiara meets with Kovu more than once" idea isn't too far-fetched (and looking at all the merchandise of cub Kovu and Kiara playing together, you'd think they
would be constantly meeting each other), but it's surprising to have the story come right out and say that they're meeting after the encounter with Simba and Zira.
I see that Kovu and Kiara both have that distinct "SP merchandise" look -- Kiara has pointy ears and her head looks a bit squished, and Kovu doesn't have elbow tufts and has a differently colored muzzle and belly (he looks like that in the SP Gamebreak! game too). On the other hand, Simba definitely looks a bit better than he does in the movie aside from the weird-looking paws (but come on -- why did the artists have drawn him in the exact same pose on
two consecutive pages? There are a lot of repeated poses in this story, but at least they're more dispersed).
And I just have to comment on these lines:
[quote]All she would have to do was lose Timon and Pumbaa somewhere along the way. That should be easy enough.
She'd certainly done it plenty of times before.[/quote]
So having Timon and Pumbaa keep an eye on Kiara is something that Simba has done
many times? Good grief...for someone who's so overly protective of his daughter, he's really doing a horrible job at keeping her safe. Still, it's refreshing to see cub Kiara engaging in some heroic activities instead of getting captured by a vulture and having to be rescued like in "Birds of a Feather".
(And is it just me, or does everyone look like they're levitating on page 92?)
Anyway, congrats on finding this and thank you very much for sharing, Noah!
I like how Simba is actually colored right as opposed to the movie.
