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.

Trivia

 * Two lines in the last page of Catbat are direct references to dialogue from Crash Twinsanity.