With a story by Michael Geszel and Peter Spinetta, TRIBES boasts lush visuals by the team of artist Inaki Miranda and colorist Eva de la Cruz. Based in Madrid, Inaki and Eva previously worked on Judge Dredd for 2000AD and are collaborating on a new series for Vertigo/DC.

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This is a scene from the climactic battle of the HOLLYWOOD KID WARS in Los Angeles, in the aftermath of the longevity nanovirus outbreak. The Westside Killer Dudes storm the castle, or in this case Dodger Stadium where the Eastside Gangsta Motherf**kers make their last stand, hoping for a secret ploy to work at the very last minute.  The culmination of years of skirmishes and tribal combats, until the two sides cohered around charismatic leaders, this battle called the Battle for DodgerDown determined the course of Los Angeles history for the next hundred years.

I need to set this up:  This is a “flashback” image of a battle scene from the “Hollywood Kid Wars.” The wars followed the collapse of civilization brought on by the viral plague that shortened the human lifespan to 21 years.  In Los Angeles, ultimately after many skirmishes two sides squared off – the Eastside Gangsta Motherf**kers versus the Westside Killer Dudes.  The war raged on for many years…

OK ya got me.  This one isn’t lettered either.  What can I say – COMICON was a big distraction.  But I still think it’s intelligible.  No doubt I will get around to sending pages to the letterer.  In the meantime enjoy trying your own dialogue – some people had fun with that. By all means…

OK so I’ve been a bit lazy.  Pages need to be sent to the excellent letterer (Comicraft).  But I looked at the page and I think it’s intelligible as is, though that’s not to suggest it won’t be lettered eventually.

Option B for the Diamond Distributors catalog.  The entry needs to impress.  In this version the idea was to spotlight the center foreground – Fallingstar and Sundog, with the title.  I thought option A, though splendidly vivid, did not direct the eye enough through the image. Foreground and background competed for attention.  Here in option B, the foreground is clearly delineated, and the eye knows what to focus on first.  All that said, it’s still a toss-up.  Comments welcome.

Here’s something to chew on – a prospective cover image needed now for IDW’s Tribes ad/entry in the Diamond Distributors catalog.  Tell us what you think.  This colorific version will be followed by option B, decidedly more brooding.  This one also lacks the title overlay.

When a nano-virus accidentally shortens the HUMAN LIFESPAN to TWENTY-ONE YEARS, all hell  - as one would imagine – breaks loose and civilization falls into a deep decline.  Chaos engulfs populations centers and all semblance of civil society collapses.  What’s left, after the last afflicted “adults” die off, are scattered groups of kids and teenagers.  They slowly start to reorganize and eventually, over a hundred years after the “plague” hit, there are now packs, clans, groups, even TRIBES, which have formed around unifying mythologies. Human culture is reestablished, mini-societies, fragile, hopeful and desperate to survive, hang on for dear life.  Welcome to the world of TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS from SoulCraftComics.com.

The visual language of the Sky Shadows - glyphic ideographs of their preoccupations.