#hawktalon

This time it’s a MAP celebrating indie comics that center around cats, whether it’s Warriors fan comics like The Exiled, or original stories about cats like What Lurks Beneath. Here's the MAP call, here's the completed MAP, and here's my part for the MAP.

I decided to make my part about a comic series I hadn’t seen any other parts for, and one that’s a favorite of mine - the Hawktalon comics! Skyfall, Yin and Yang, Broken Wings, The Unforgiven, and Kingdom Come. You can find all of those comics here.

Without giving too much away, the comics center around three Clans of wingless cats living in the mountains, and four kingdoms of winged cats living in the clouds above. They have their own separate stories, then sky and earth cats meet and the stories combine and deal with these two different cultures colliding. I tried to show that in my part, the tragedies of both earth and sky cats in their separate stories, the meeting of earth and sky through the story of Stonethunder and Ariadne, and then the long fought-for peace achieved between earth and sky by the five questing cats. I tried to show an event from each comic (except The Unforgiven as it has many of the same characters as Kingdom Come and their story carried over and wasn’t concluded until KC).