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TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 37
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
At the Sky Shadow village, the alarm sends warriors to the gates. Fallingstar, intent on joining the fight, bristles at Rockjumper's protective orders and overbearingness.
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 30
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 28
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 21
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 20
Saturday, January 15th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 16
Friday, January 7th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 10
Friday, January 7th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – page 2
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS graphic novel – Page 1
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
TRIBES: The Dog Years – page 1 – PENCIL
Friday, December 19th, 2008
We reduced the number of inset panels from five to three, trying not to clutter the page. Some think the coloring is too dark. I think colorist Eva de la Cruz’s work is sublime. Whatever your opinion, here is Inaki Mirands’s pencil to feast your eyes on. Nothing like an artist inspired.
Highway Ramp Lookout Post
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Sky Shadow Chief Hut
Sunday, September 28th, 2008
From the days of their first Chief, LightningRider, who brought the tribe their founding myth, the Sky Shadows have been led by Chiefs who earn their station by their lineage. They rule over a village “empire” with each stage of life having its own house. Because of their limited years and the virtual certainty of their lifespan, the Sky Shadows are obsessed with time. In their village are such structures as the “mothering tent” where children are taught to walk and speak, and the “Chief’s Hut” where a trinity of “elders” including the Chief, the Medicine Man and the First Warrior meet to discuss tribal business. There is also a “Death House,” which serves as a primitive hospital and shrine.
Stay tuned for TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS, a new color comic book, coming soon on Soulcraftcomics.com.
The Sky Shadow Camp
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
For a people reeling from the loss of one civilization, building a new culture has its own challenges. Of all the scattered bands of humanity in North America, the Sky Shadow Tribe of the Pacific Northwest may be one of the few that is succeeding.
The Sky Shadow village is an obvious target for the maurading Headhunters that compete with Sundog, Fallingstar and Rockjumper for the resources of their home. Despite their plight, the Sky Shadows either believe or expect redemption, as everything about their tribe is a symbol of fearful survival.
Tribes: The Dog Years is coming soon to Soulcraftcomics.com!
Rockjumper of the Sky Shadows
Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
The 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.
Fallingstar’s Idealistic Fight
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
“I am not a mother yet. I want to fight.”
Fallingstar utters these words to justify participating in the defense of the Sky Shadows against an enemy attack.
It is Fallingstar who seizes upon Dr. Adams’ description of a future where kids can actually know their grandparents. His dream seed sprouts in her mind. And she decides to leave everything behind – her future husband, the Sky Shadows, everything – to try to forge a new future for herself. Though she defies expectations of her role in the Sky Shadows tribe, she carries her maternal idealism to the battlefield to fight for the future of the entire human race.
Will she succeed? Will her strength help humanity secure its future?
Find out in Tribes: The Dog Years, the new color comic book series from Soulcraft Comics.
Fallingstar of the Sky Shadows
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
FALLINGSTAR in Tribes: The Dog Years, the new color graphic fiction series from Soulcraft Comics:
For the Sky Shadow tribe, life consists of a series of tough choices between absolute necessities. Survival is paramount; everyone has a role to play in a tightly knit tribal system. But for Fallingstar, being chosen as the future wife of a Chief, somehow does not feel right. What is her true destiny? Why does she yearn for more, beyond her role.
She yearns to become more than is expected of her. Does she dedicate her life to her duty, or does she take another path? Can a young woman determine her people’s priorities while also avoiding her role as one of their leaders? Will her determination endanger her and her people’s future? But there is no time to ponder. In the world of Tribes: The Dog Years, humans live to only twenty-one years of age. Fallingstar must act – now!
And so she is inspired by Doctor Irving Adams, the seemingly immortal scientist who has apparently lived nearly three lifetimes, and his tales of a world beyond the limited existence of her isolated and constantly threatened tribe. How has he survived? Is his magic real, as opposed to the nonsense of the Sky Shadows’ medicine man, Signeader. Dr. Adams seeds the dream that one day she might actually see and help raise her grandchildren.
Her influence stirs Sundog, our reluctant hero, to join Adams and his mysterious quest to find the source of the “plague” that robs humans of precious life at the tender age of twenty-one.
Fallingstar, future wife of the Chief of the Sky Shadows, will play a crucial role in the future of humanity.
Sundog of the Sky Shadows
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
“You are not Sky Shadow.” The words are enough to provoke a fight to the death between any two self-respecting members of Sundog’s tribe, yet the turning point in this young hunter’s life is when his own chief utters the words “I am not Sky Shadow.” Sundog is a central character in Tribes: The Dog Years, the new graphic fiction series from Soulcraft Comics.
His early days are spent honing his skill, speed and instinct, but as he reaches an age where he can challenge his peers for leadership and privilege, he finds that his courage may diverge from that of his chief.
More than any other character, Sundog carries with him the weight of almost an entire civilization, if one tribe can be called that. If Doctor Irving Adams, the immortal, is successful in his search, Sundog’s strength may change the future of the entire human race.
Without Sundog’s support, Doctor Adams may never get the chance to follow his “magic” to what he believes may be the key to ending humanity’s plague. Is it his destiny to blaze a path for humanity? Will a new tribe – a Tribe of the Quest – be borne of the ragtag remnants of the defeated, the lost, the aimless? Will Sundog, a humble hunter in the Sky Shadows, be reborn as a new leader?
Only time and experience will tell. For Sundog will travel thousands of miles, and his journey will be full of fantastic discoveries and mortal dangers in Tribes: The Dog Years, coming soon from SoulCraft Comics.
Tribes Preview PDF
Friday, April 18th, 2008
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Please click on this link to download a PREVIEW of TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS, new graphic fiction from SoulCraft Comics, coming soon, first to the web, then print.
