Name: Escape From The Forest – Trip Through Time | Warriors Analysis
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Back to the mangas again, and this time it is the second entry in the Tigerstar and Sasha

Adverbs of degree

I'd like to first make a very brief address to a common comment from the first entry,

which is that Sasha and Tigerstar's extremely shallow and glossed over relationship makes

more sense if you read it as a one-off night on Tigerstar's part that he never really

Aside from this variety of lust not really being an aspect of Tigerstar's character

in any other situation–he didn't even express any affection for, or frankly even

interact with, Goldenflower on-screen–there is a reason this seems implausible in the

text, and it is because of how much the comic stresses the passing of time in a montage.

Several nights, assumed to be at least several weeks, pass, and Sasha only expresses that

she is falling in love in the mid-section of this montage.

Tigerstar not only listens to Sasha but tells her about all the intimate details of his

experiences in the clans, one detail per night, seemingly, which was framed as both a time

The issue, which is one that exists across every character and relationship in the story,

not just used as an intentional choice for this relationship, is that they use description

to summarize the most basic events of relationships and characters without giving them much or

any dialogue in which to express themselves, their feelings, their goals, or their intimacy,

and it makes the entire manga come off as a wiki article rather than a story.

I just hope that is a trend that doesn't continue, or at least that lessens, going

Also, before I get in too far, the comic page I'll be redrawing today is this one.

My patrons actually picked out this page among a couple I was mulling over, and I agree it

But it also means I will be drawing a human later in this video so…oh boy.

Uh prepare for this to not be my best video on a purely artistic basis.

Escape From The Forest was released on December 23rd of 2008, a little less than 3 months

after Into the Woods and Eclipse, which as I similarly mentioned in the last episode,

is not remotely enough time to make a quality comic, that is unless all three entries of

this arc were finished or mostly finished ahead of time and only released months apart

to fit in with how the first manga series on Graystripe was released.

It also released almost exactly a month after Long Shadows, but mercifully did not release

on the same day as any other books, so we can expect at least some amount of extra time

The comic is still written by Dan Jolley and, as with the first Tigerstar & Sasha manga,

illustrated by Don Hudson, and it includes an anonymous Erin note as the previous mangas

This one refreshes us on what a horrible guy Tigerstar is for betraying the clans and his

mates along with sharing that this Erin's favorite thing about Sasha is her strength

of spirit, being willing to see the good in anyone and remain optimistic despite awful

I…think that's at least a nice inference that could be made given her actions, but

seeing as my biggest issue with the book was never showing the deeper feelings characters

had or the motivations for any actions, this impression isn't one that has come across

I guess we can see, as soon as we check in with the statistics.

Escape From The Forest has a speaking cast of 29 cats-well, characters, only 4 of which

That said, twolegs that make up a large number of the support lines in this book don't

get official names since we can't speak their language so take that with the grain

The top 5 characters here get 88% of the lines, pretty low for a manga especially compared

to the 94% the first manga in this series had.

We could, therefore, see a larger amount of interpersonal communication or development

of characters aside from Sasha, which would be a very welcome addition.

Let's then see if that happens as we delve into the story.

We open up with a copy-pasted panel from the last entry to pick us back up at the moment

where we ended: with Tigerstar asking if Sasha will join Shadowclan.

Here, she says no, she will not join Shadowclan, Tigerstar.

Just to make sure we remember the situation and characters, you know.

Sasha doesn't want to be feared and thought Tigerstar loved her, which he insists he does,

but he also has a destiny and simply must rule the forest.

Sasha points out that he's doing much worse, plotting several murders including against

cats who just have connections outside the clans…cats like her.

Tigerstar realizes she was the one spying on them and Sasha accuses him of just being

power hungry, refusing to be a part of it.

Tigerstar says she's making a mistake and that she will always be nothing before he

struts away, leaving her completely unharmed despite her knowing all of his secrets.

Anyway Sasha is heartbroken over this guy somehow but still resolved to her decision.

Now she just has to figure out who she is without her housefolk or Tigerstar or the

She dreams about Ken, her twoleg, and wakes up sad, leading her to leave.

Before she goes, though, she runs into Pine, who smells Shadowclan scent on her but doesn't

Sasha lies to him about where she's been and tries to run away, but Pine cuts her off

and desperately asks to hunt with her or help her to find prey and shelter, even avoiding

He definitely wants her to stay with him as a friend, precisely the thing Sasha was missing

that was her only reason for not being a loner, but Sasha instead wants to leave and track

Lazer-focused on her old man, Sasha avoids every other cat and person as she traverses

her old home, though she is once spotted by a mom twoleg who screams at her, telling her

to scram for just showing up in the vicinity.

You know, like all twolegs besides a cat's housefolk do when they see a cat 30 feet away.

Lost, hungry, on her own, and with absolutely no possible options, she goes into a pet store

to hunt down a mouse and gets thrown out when a family tries to adopt her.

She finds some of Ken's clothes but not him, gets chased by more mean twolegs, gets

chased out of town by Bloodclan, and is left to wander alone until she reaches a boatyard.

It's quiet, safe, and smells of fish, so she goes to sleep.

When she wakes up, the boat is moving and she meets the boatman who shoves her into

Then he takes her out and lets her go away, wherever she wants.

However, Sasha sees him walk off on his own and can tell that he is lonely and sad, just

like Ken was, so she sticks around to hunt and sleep.

The next day, a family pops by and asks for the boat cat, Sasha of course, and they quickly

The boatman promptly claims Sasha as his own for business reasons and Sasha notes that