TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 16
Friday, January 7th, 2011TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS – unlettered page 38
Monday, August 3rd, 2009OK 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…
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS – unlettered page 37
Monday, July 20th, 2009OK 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.
Rockjumper in action…
Thursday, October 16th, 2008Faced with need to develop throwback defenses and weapons for hand-to-hand combat with both beasts and hostile tribes, Rockjumper, Chief of the Sky Shadows, has been forced to improvise from what materials were at hand in Tribes: The Dog Years, the new color comic book from Soulcraft Comics.
Rockjumper’s resourcefulness is his fortune. It was Rockjumper who brought his tribe its first major technological advance with the introduction of recovered sports equipment as combat armor. One of his early scavenging expeditions led his brother, Deerslayer, then the Sky Shadow Chief, to a warehouse filled with packaged and boxed products meant to be delivered to stores: among them a sporting goods retailer.
The helmets, elbow pads, football uniforms, shoulder pads, and facemasks were quickly repurposed by the Sky Shadow warriors under Rockjumper’s direction. Soon, dozens of Sky Shadow hunter and warrior teams were sent into battle wearing plastic and synthetic fabrics instead of metal and hides. With their lighter and machine-manufactured armor, the Sky Shadows found themselves well fit for battle with advantages in both weight and flexibility.
Tribes: The Dog Years is coming soon to SoulCraftComics.com
Rockjumper of the Sky Shadows
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008The tribe of Sundog, Fallingstar and Rockjumper is ruled by a Chief and two advisors: the Medicine Man and the First Warrior, in Tribes: The Dog Years, the new color graphic fiction/comic book series from Soulcraft Comics.
As the story opens, the reigning Chief, Deerslayer, is in failing health, and it will soon fall to Rockjumper to assume the leadership role of the Sky Shadows, a role he has observed as First Warrior and the leader of many hunting parties.
But there are doubts that the heir apparent to Deerslayer’s rule is ready for his responsibilities. Rockjumper seems to be very rigid in his adherence to the “Sky Shadow Way,” the central warrior code that holds the tribe together and forms the heroic myth by which hunters are trained and their success is measured.
These doubts are inflamed when Sundog begins to chafe at Rockjumper’s ruthlessness, and the stage is set for an eventual showdown between the voices of the future and those of the past.

























