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This is actually a really good story, and I feel like y'all are misinterpreting it.
To be fair, the sequencing in the flashbacks isn't super easy to follow along (I'm not an artist, but the one piece of lay advice I'd give to Alpha0 if anything is that there probably should be some sort of visual grammar to distinguish the parts of the story that occur at different times). However, each new page actually reveals something from before.
I'll spell it out since some of y'all aren't getting it.
Chronologically...
the first event in the story is what's in Shabbag's journal, on pages 23 - 25. The chieftain wants a son, but is infertile, so Shabbag consorts with demons to bear him a child. To avoid bearing an obviously evil demon or having to abort (either of which would result in Shabbag's death), she traps the demonic soul within a fetish (the skull) and the body is born normal (White Fangs, our hero.) It's important to note that White Fangs *is* the name of our hero, but we'll get there later...
Anyway, the other important detail is that even though White Fangs grew up normal, the demonic soul was continuing to grow as well, and was attempting to create his own body. So she had plans to kill White Fangs so that the demonic soul would never find his original body.
Pages 10 and 11 are the next chronologically. White Fangs and Rami are growing up, being gay and fabulous. Rami sees himself as weak -- he would never fit in with the tribe as he is -- so he studies "woman's magic." He knows the difference between deadly poison and Viagra...
But, alas, we get to pages 17 and 18. Shabbag has attempted to tell the chieftain about the need to kill White Fangs, but the chieftain is not willing to face the truth. So instead, the Chieftain must discredit Shabbag as well as her apprentice Rami. Hence, the sham trial. Shabbag avoids incriminating her student by dismissing what he and White Fangs have done. This is actually important later on...Since Shabbag didn't kill White Fangs herself and the Chieftain won't kill him, she launches a plan: give the demon soul its own full body and unleash it on the Talon Tribe. Her hope is that the demon will not recognize White Fangs, and therefore will kill him with the rest of the tribe.
Next are pages 22 and 23. After a few weeks, White Fangs finds Rami again, and then they have reunion sex.
Rami tells White Fangs about all of past events (hence the journal flashback of 23-25), including to devise an alternate plan to achieve Shabbag's goals. White Fangs thinks it's insane, but what exactly is the plan?
White Fangs remembers the plan while he's holding on for some form of life within his fusion with his demon soul (pages 28-29).
Rami tells him to do the following things.
1. Call the demon by the protagonist's name (White Fangs)
2. Wear the charm as long as possible
3. Absorb as much cum as possible.
4. Find the demon's mask, and destroy it.
On page 28, you can also see the tribesman bringing the deer as a sacrifice. That takes us back to page 1, where White Fangs seeks out the demon.
Here, we see that White Fangs has to present himself as depraved and in need of Bid Demon Dick, page 3, but we now know because of page 29 that it's because the magic can only work if he absorbs as much of Demon cum as possible.
White Fangs still has doubts over his ability to maintain his sanity throughout it all. He questions on numerous pages the effectiveness of Rami's wards (e.g., losing the charm on page 6, going to the Abyss on page 19, and so on.)
The story wants us to believe that White Fangs is being corrupted (e.g., 26 and 27), and we aren't quite at the ending yet, but 29 and 30 are supposed to imply that yes, our hero is able to take control (and 29 is notable because the tribesmen still acknowledge Rami and offer him the village's protection, rather than just killing him on sight.)
Are there things that could be improved about the presentation of this story? Sure! But to say that there's "not enough story" because the artist really wanted to focus on porn just totally misses the mark as a criticism.
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