Crash Team Rumble promotional comics

Alongside the release of Crash Team Rumble, a series of intermittent comics are being released in order to promote the game. Each comic is named after and are focused on individual characters, with the first released on the 7th of May being Catbat.

Catbat
Catbat, the first comic in the series, explains the origin story of Catbat. It was exclusively released via an article on Kotaku.

The comic begins with Catbat escaping Cortex Castle after N. Brio failed to hold them down during an experiment, much to Neo Cortex's frustration. They soon find themselves in the lively city of Mosquito Marsh, where a kindly stranger finds them and offers them a burger. Catbat is inspired by the stranger's rock-and-roll style and reinvents themself, taking over as the leader of Mosquito Marsh's bat denizens. Catbat works together with their newly obtained crew to sabotage Cortex's machinery as revenge for the scientist's cruel experiments. The comic ends with Catbat encountering Cortex again during the events of Crash Team Rumble and angrily confronting him, determined to make him remember their name.

Ripper Roo & N. Gin
Ripper Roo & N. Gin is the second comic in the series, released on the 24th of August to coincide with N. Gin's introduction to the game. It was released on Toys For Bob's blog.

This comic is of a small scene featuring Ripper Roo and N. Gin in Calamity Canyon, attempting to hack a relic station in order to rig it in their favor. While internally Ripper Roo's genius mind is easily able to understand the station's secrets, externally he's up to his usual hopping and cackling antics, much to N. Gin's annoyance. The two doctors work together to pry the thing open with the assistance of one of N. Gin's devices, and while N. Gin is dusting himself off, Ripper Roo has an epiphany - which apparently involves blowing the whole thing sky-high with a pile of explosives. As Ripper and N. Gin pick themselves up, a strange pink energy begins to swirl within the combined wreckage of the relic station and N. Gin's machine - which soon forms into a portal, from which an unknown voice is heard.

Trivia

 * Two lines in the last page of Catbat are direct references to dialogue from Crash Twinsanity.
 * N. Gin's "smartest pile of ashes" line in Ripper Roo & N. Gin is a direct reference to a line in Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, foreshadowing Ripto's arrival.