TWWR Round up 01/19/2026– This Conversation is Important

Today is a holiday in the United States, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. So if you have off, please have a great day whether you’re out doing community service or just relaxing. For everyone outside the US, I hope you have an excellent Monday!

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Having Bes and Anaka stumble upon the elephant carcass would be bad news for the clan. Perhaps more than Nuru could handle. I’m curious as to what will go down with the threat of three lions instead of just one. That said, Faida is dead set on having the clan survive, so she’s got something in mind with that wicked grin in the last panel. Does the end of the world mean attacking Bes’s cubs, the same way her and Badru’s cubs were attacked? Maybe, but I’m doubtful there as there are still four lionesses at their camp, and two hyenas are not a match for them. So perhaps Faida means to either attack Kauket before she reaches the carcass, or even rush Bes himself. Both options would be suicidal, though.

What Lurks Beneath | Pages(s): 967 – 968 | Patreon

This is the page where we learn that Fangtooth is also trans. Her mother knew the entire time! Her response to her mother knowing is hilarious. Instead of the usual heartwarming hug or tender moment, she just says “Because if you knew, why didn’t you tell me?!” She was also a little older than Hake when she learned that about herself, while Snapper was much older– well into adulthood. We also learn that Fangtooth changed her name, and decided to go with a name fitting for her very long canines. Hake wonders if he ought to change his name as well.

We know he doesn’t, but I’m curious if he’ll mull it over on the next page. Again, it’s awesome that Hake has so much support from the Family cats.

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Here’s another page where I feel bad for Tulpi being disheartened at how well Motte and Morgan get along. Not only that, but she completely misread her friend’s take on if they’d be staying for the night or not. Morgan’s reasoning on why they ought to spend the night on the boat is sound. After a full day of work, climbing a rock face on the shore would be dangerous. I chuckled at how Danell proposed the same thing as Morgan, but Tulpi turned it down believing that Motte wouldn’t want to stay another night in one place. Only for her to say the opposite, then Tulpi going against what she just told Danell. The twin is not buying what the Akita-mix has to say.

Will Tulpi talk to Danell or go to Piper to seek more advice? Or more realistically, wallow in her own self-pity with PIG. I’m also betting that Motte spends another night in Morgan’s embrace, making the continued journey with her Akita companion all the more unintentionally awkward. Of course, the reason Motte doesn’t want to stay in one place for a single night is because of the dogs she’s running from. Crossing the strait on a boat should put a good distance between them and the Borzoi’s past.

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Antaras has Loss and Eve well bound, and it’s crazy to see them have to follow behind the former God-caller. Curiously enough, Loss’s ring isn’t on his tine yet, and I’m guessing we’re about to witness the event where Eve’s ring ends up around the rope necklace of Oudia’s corpse. The gods being gods, likely figure that whatever Antaras has planned, they’ll just outlive or outsmart him, so perhaps that’s why they’re going along without much protest. I wonder if he promised them they’d be released after they perform the task he has in mind for him.

On a sadder note, it breaks my heart to see Oudia frozen solid like that. She died in place snuggled around her mate and daughter, and their fluffy pelts weren’t enough to keep her warm. Usma’s eyes are firmly shut as they walk by the frozen Grasslanders, but it looks like her father is taking all this in for the first time. I feel like when Oudia died, time stopped for Antaras, and he just went through the motions of everything until he set his mass murder plan into place. Now he’s seeing what’s become of his beloved wife for the first time since she took her last breath, and he’s finally processing the horror of her fate. Otherwise, there’s no way he’d look so shocked to see her frozen body even as he calmly asks Eve to bring her back.

Oudia is perfectly preserved in the ice, but how exactly would Eve bring her back? The poor girl is frozen solid. How does one get the body moving again under these conditions? I’m also wondering if Eve’s breath of life is temporary, like with Gitta and Prue’s Halvs? Maybe she simply couldn’t bring Oudia back under these conditions, and could only breathe life into the unborn fawn. The only way to possibly keep the fawn alive was to pilot the doe’s body. So many questions that I hope will be answered in upcoming pages.

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Okay, wow. So Feaf really did just brush off that conversation with Rhov and moved on like it never happened. Again, if she’s that worried for the lives of their unborn children, why not take the time to help her mate understand her fears? Instead, an event has happened, and this entire conversation has been dropped. Even Rhov has moved on instead of insisting that he and Feaf talk later. This right here is the lack of communication I hate so much in Home. A good portion of this comic’s problems would be solved if characters just talked openly and honestly with each other. And we can’t have that because we need conflict that feels manufactured instead of happening organically.

It’s good that the Asmundr pack will receive help with moving, and the glow from their traveling companions will keep the ghouls away. I have no qualms about their pack joining Ronja in the north in order to combine some of these plots. I just have to wonder if Feaf will give birth before they make it to Nordgarde Tribe. Johaan deserves better than comic relief. Wasn’t that originally Raimo’s role in Asmundr?

I have mixed feelings about the transition on the fifth and sixth panels. On one hand it’s incredibly jarring, and I found myself confused for a moment until the seventh panel made it clear that we’re back in Meteor Tribe territory, and Iberon has just done some hunting. That said, I do like the thought put into the transition. The pelt hitting the ground at the same time as the dead herbivore is a cool scene change. Could it have worked better as the transition to a totally new page? I think so. Basically the page ending with Johaan pulling the pelt down, and then the deer hitting the ground at the start of a new page. I really do appreciate Kique at least experimenting here, and using the correct onomatopoeia as a sound effect.

As for the dog approaching the camp, is it someone from the rebellion meeting, or a loner wandering around the abandoned territory?

Off for the week:

In The Lion’s Den: The Scarlet Uproar | Page(s): | Patreon

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