Hello! Saw your comics Ratterrock. Really awesome. Not to mention it kicks nostalgia for a certain animated movie a lot))) Say, any way you assign species to characters or is it completely random?
Hey! Thank you so much for reading! I make Ratterrock with my partner @suzie-guru, she's the main writer but I do most of the character design.
To answer your question, it’s not totally random at all. The main driving conflict of Ratterrock is the conflict between rats and mice and their worlds. The mice of Saltscratch and the rats of Ratterrock are often at odds with one another. We pick our characters and what species they might be based on where they would fit in the narrative. Because this story deals with those factors, we think very distinctly about who is a rat, mouse, bat, and so on.
If you want to ask anymore in depth questions, Suz can answer them for you over on our comic blog @welcome-to-ratterrock