This is a huge passion project for my friend so please go check it out! _ Main comic site: https://kattabolt.com/ _ Kattabolt will be added to Tapas and Webtoon in a few weeks if those are your preferred platforms, so keep an eye out!✨

Hiyo! My friend @areyoshi just released their comic Kattabolt! Go check it out here: kattabolt.com 12yr old Alex is a “young ambassador” sent to a country led by an aloof and mysterious woman named Kerri. In a world of magic, beasts, and abilities, what secrets will Alex’s own mysterious power unlock?

My webcomic Kattabolt is launching on 4/4/24! Bookmark, RSS, or join my Patreon to read ahead now!

12yr old Alex is a "young ambassador" sent to a country led by an aloof and mysterious woman named Kerri. In a world of magic, beasts, and abilities, what secrets will Alex's own mysterious power unlock?

I've been reading a new comic called Kattabolt, which is too new for me to review yet. It's a'ight so far, though. The art is very cute, the story is moving quickly, and it tags all the characters who appear on a page for easier searching, which is surprisingly rare in webcomics, so it's one of those comics I'm keeping an optimistic eye on. (wouldn't mind some keyboard navigation, though).

But I can't decide how I feel about "Your advantage over me is null" from firey teenage street thug Ray in panel 4 there. On the one hand, it seems kind of an odd phrasing, both in general and for the character of a street thug (though if we learn Ray is some kind of nerdy street thug than this is great foreshadowing).

On the other hand, it's fairly elegant exposition, where Ray is completely justified in saying something he and Nathan (the purple guy) both know, that trusts the reader to make some satisfying conclusions of their own. From those six words, we know that it's not just that Ray has fire powers and Nathan and Leigh (wait, the gang duo has rhyming names? That's cute) have water powers. There's this whole system of elemental powers, that have Pokemon-style type matchups, and that was the main reason Ray didn't jump to beating Nathan's ass until he had backup (as opposed to, say, Nathan being a kewl action hero). We can also deduce that if Ray, a bully, was nervous at a type disadvantage and didn't learn anti-Nathan lightning magic to deal with this recurring nuisance, then he probably can't do it, and this is an Avatar-style world where people can use exactly one (1) element, only unlike Avatar there's elemental weaknesses. That's really a lot of information to be able to glean from six words!

It's also a good use of genre convention. The magic system in Kattabolt is "Avatar with type advantage", which is a system that's very easy to understand. Kattabolt takes advantage of this tropey magic system to be able to explain the entire thing in a single throw-away line and get to the interesting part of the comic.

Y'know what, I think I've talked myself into it. "Your advantage over me is null" is a bit of a clunky line, but it carries a ton of expository weight and lets me catch on to the magic system myself instead of treating me like an idiot or pretending "kung-fu with elemental magic" is some kind of novel idea worth spending six pages explaining. And that's more than worth a single somewhat awkward sentence.

12yr old Alex is a "young ambassador" sent to a country led by a mysterious woman named Kerri. In a world of magic, beasts, and abilities, what secrets will Alex's own mysterious power unlock?

Kattabolt is available to read RIGHT NOW!

Main comic site: kattabolt.com/

Tapas: tapas.io/episode/3149156

Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/kattabolt/list?title_no=945131

Or you can read the entire archive of Kattabolt right now, pages become available to patrons as soon as they're finished: www.patreon.com/areyoshi

wanna help me out or just support my webcomic while it gets moving? every dollar through patreon makes it easier to get by!

It’s update Thursday!! SOMEONE’S gotta shoot their shot (and they probably have orange hair. And a fox tail.)

New page is here!

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If you would like to see pages before they’re posted publicly, there is a Patreon you can follow! It’ll give you access to posts, but even cooler, you’ll get access to a Discord server where extra art and WIPs are posted!

New Kattabolt page up‼️

Check out page 9 of Kattabolt now!! Nathan is really making a splash on this update 💦

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If you would like to see pages before they’re posted publicly, there is also a Patreon you can follow! Come by and take a look, maybe even subscribe to support the comic 👀

After a lot of work and process refining, page 1 of my comic Kattabolt is now available for patrons!

Pages will not be free to read for a good long while, so if you want to start following the comic now, Patreon is the way to go!

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What is Kattabolt? Kattabolt is a webcomic about Alex, a cat girl with a unique ability who's been sent abroad on a special mission. There's found family, coming of age, action, adventure, and a lot of truths to uncover.

PAGES AVAILABLE ON PATREON FOR ALL TIERS!

Like adventure? Fantasy? Funny cat girls who can electrocute you? Kattabolt might be the webcomic for you!

Twelve year old Alex is sent to the neighboring country of Thandinas as a "young ambassador". She's supposed to make her way to the home of Lord Kerri, the deeply mysterious matriarch of Alex's new host country, but Alex is barely off the train before plans begin to unravel.

Kattabolt is not yet available to the public! Click the patreon link above to have early access to a developing comic, plus art roundups and comic dev blogs! All for as little as $1!

Kattabolt update coming in hot!!

Page 10 is here, and this is the look that Alex gives people when they don’t let her have a silly little treat

Click here to check it out!

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If you would like to see pages before they’re posted publicly, there is also a Patreon you can follow! Come by and take a look, maybe even subscribe to feed an artists cats 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

Kattabolt!

The first chapter of the comic is still in production, but this project is very important to me. You can follow along on the progress by becoming a patron. Even $1 gets you access to update logs! When the pages start being produced, patrons will see them as they come out, and because I plan on waiting until all of chapter 1 is complete before launching the public site, that’s a HUGE advantage!

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Here’s a test page from 2022 and some other images for you to enjoy.

Manor concepts by slyllama

IT'S KATTABOLT'S LAUNCH DAY!!!

Check out my new webcomic, I'm so excited to share it with you! Read the first 7 pages RIGHT NOW: kattabolt.com