It’s a Christmas Miracle!

Merry Christmas, Action Agents!  We got you an all-new comic story starring the World’s Greatest Half-Vampire Skateboard Champion Private Detective, Solomon Stone!  Just click the image above for nine pages of holiday cheer from your pals at the Action Age!

And it’s truly a Christmas Miracle:  our own Chris Sims wrote this story in a fit of the Christmas Spirit last week, and “Dynamite” Matt Digges stepped in for Matthew Allen Smith,  Solomon Stone’s regular artist, to pencil, ink, color and letter the story in just ten days!

We hope you like it, and from Chris, Chad, Matt, Smithy, Ben, Rusty, Kate, Steve, Nathan, Andrew, Teddy, Ezra, Penny, Dr. Blake, Judah, Pete, Solomon and Minxy…

Happy Holidays!

The Christmas Chronicles of Solomon Stone:  Atnas Came to Town

• Read it on the web
• Download the PDF
• Download the CBZ

PS: If you’re craving more all-new, all-free, all-awesome comics, check out El Gorgo! #3, released today by our good friends Mike McGee and Tamas Jakab!

A couple of giant “thank you”s go out to the brilliant Dan McDaid who left this little pin-up gem in our pumpkin-shaped pail of awesome, and El Gorgo’s Tamas Jakab who was just waiting inside to color the hell out of it.

Seriously, fellas, amazing job!

And for those who’re wondering, “Hey, what gives?  Didn’t they say we’d have a new Monster Plus in October?”, we’d like to answer you with “Uh, yes… we did say that.”  However, we’ve gone executive on your asses, and decided to postpone Action Age’s most multi-faceted monster’s sophomore outing and have replaced it with something even better: a fiendishly fun evening out with your friends and family.  So worry not on our inability to deliver on promises made, Action Agents, as we encouarge you to cuddle up with your favorite boy or ghoul, and make the most of the one night outta the year where a freak can be a freak.  Except in Texas.

On October 10 and 11, Action Age artist Chris Piers set up at the Baltimore Comic-Con with copies of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1!

Our pal Jessi picked up her copy at the show!  If you’ve been to any of the major conventions, you might’ve seen Jessi in her amazing Black Canary and Superwoman costumes.  What’re the chances you’ll be Penny Devlin for San Diego next year, Jessi?

And here’s Caitlin Kittredge, writer of the Black London and Nocturne City novels!  Thanks for your support, Caitlin!

Hey Action Agents!  If you’ve picked up a copy of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N., take a picture and let us know!

Last weekend, Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1 made its in-print debut at the Small Press Expo!  Artist Chris Piers had a few copies printed up to sell, and we’ve got pictures of how it all went down!

Hey, it’s War Rocket Ajax co-host Eugene Ahn, picking up two copies!

Indie superstar Kate Beaton got in on the A.C.T.I.O.N., sketching a quick Penny Devlin for Chris Piers…

…who got another sketch from our friends at Let’s Be Friends Again, showing WOA writer Chris Sims getting socked in the jaw!

If you stopped by SPX to pick up a copy, we at the Action Age just want to give a heart thank you!  And hey, if you’ve got a picture of the issue yourself, let us know!

If you didn’t make it to Bethesda and still want a copy of your own… well, stay tuned to this website for information on that in the very near future, Action Agents!

If you’re at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD this weekend, we’ve got some good news!  Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. artist Chris Piers is set up there, and not only does he have copies of his all new crime anthology, Spoils of Crime, he’s got a limited number of print copies of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1!

That’s right, folks: it’s  the very first Action Age print comic, and for the low price of $4, you can own it this weekend!

Peerless Piers is set up with the DC Conspiracy in Section F of the convention, and if you need a map, he’s handily posted one right here.

So if you’re there (or if you’re in the DC/Bethesda area and looking for something awesome to do this weekend), find him and support the Action Age!

>PHEW<

Things have been busy around here at Actionopolis.  Not only are we working overtime, putting all the finishing touches on The Hard Ones, but we’re also elbow deep in creating a slew of new comics.

And tonight, in the grand Action Age tradition, we’re showing off artwork from several of those upcoming projects that, if you’re not careful, might just knock your socks right outta those sneakers.

First up is Carl Yonder’s amazing cover to an all new Danger Ace adventure headed your way this November, The Madness in Madrid. And let us just say, Action Agents, that you’ve never seen anything like the villains in this one.

We teased about this before, but tonight we’ll make it offical – Impossible! is returning later this year, with story by ”Mad” Chad Bowers, covers by Chris “The Guy” Nye, and stunning interiors by one of our newest AA recruits, Adrian Rodriguez.  Here’s page 3 where a guy in a jet-pack gets punched in the face.

And, oh why not?  Let’s make one more announcement.

Coming in Q1, 2010 — BIG ‘UN.

A southern-flavored Kaiju romp by Chad Bowers and artist Fred Guillen!

Now, some might say, “Guys, with The Hard Ones, Solomon Stone, Monster Plus, Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N., Impossible! and Danger Ace, there’s only so much awesome one medium can stand!”  Well, to you, sirs and madams, we ask “Haven’t you been listening?

This is the Action Age of Comics… and we’re just getting started!

The third and final chapter of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1 is now available, right here at the Action Age!  If you’re new to the story, click here to start at the beginning, or jump right to chapter 3 for the explosive climax from Chris Sims, Chris Piers and Steve Downer!

And don’t forget to stick around after the story for our letters page, Calls to A.C.T.I.O.N., and a couple of amazing pin-ups!  In addition to the one above (from Swingin’ Steve Downer himself), we’ve got a piece from the phenomenal Kate Holden–who, as a genuine English girl herself, was a big help in checking dialogue for WOA–and a second from the Action Age’s own Rusty Shackles, whose art on the The Hard Ones will soon be thrilling Action Agents like never before!

And you don’t have to just read it online:  We’ve got a .cbz file ready to download right now!

• Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1 in CBZ!

Thanks guys, and thanks to you for reading!  If you’ve liked what you’ve read, head back here and give us a shout!  And don’t worry:  Penny Devlin will return in Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #2–coming soon to the Action Age of Comics!

The second senses-shattering chapter of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. is now available to read! Just click the image above to read the next seven pages of spy-fi adventure from Chris Sims, Chris Piers and Steve Downer!

Of course, if the image above doesn’t look like one of Piers’s Peerless Pages, that’s because it’s a pin-up by our good friend Mitz, of the webcomic Plan B! It’s been getting a lot of great buzz lately, and with good reason!  So once you’ve thrilled to our second installment, head over to GoonPatrol.com to see why!  And who knows?  This might not be the last time you see Mitz here at the Action Age!

So enjoy Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. Chapter 2, and be here next Wednesday for the cataclysmic climax of our story, plus amazing pin-ups by the Action Age’s own Rusty Shackles, the lovely and talented Kate Holden, and a special bonus pin-up by WOA colorist “Swingin’” Steve Downer!  All that and a letters page, plus downloadable versions of the entire story, right here in the Action Age of Comics!

The wait is over!  Click the image above to get started with the first chapter of Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N.:  Suspended, an all-new Action Age Adventure by Chris Sims, Chris Piers, and Steve Downer!

In the first chapter, meet Penelope Devlin, one of the top agents of the Advanced Counter-Terrorist Intelligence and Operations Network!  Yesterday, she saved the world.   Now she’s got to deal with the consequences, and if idle hands are the Devil’s workshop, then an idle super-spy is in for a world of trouble!

Click each page to advance to the next (or use the handy navigation buttons), then come back here to let us know if you enjoyed the first ten pages of our full-length 25-page spectacular!

And be back next Wednesday for Chapter 2, followed on August 12 for the conclusion, featuring pin-ups, a letters page, and of course, all-out adventure in the Adequately Affable Action Age Style!

Look alive, Action Agents!  The Countdown starts now!

That’s right:  we’re one week away from the debut of the next Instant Classic of the Action Age of Comics:  Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N.!

Written by Chris Sims with art and lettering by “Peerless” Chris Piers and the dynamic color of “Swingin’” Steve Downer, Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. is a full-length pop-spy adventure that’ll be serialized in three thrill-packed chapters every Wednesday!  Plus, the third installment will include a letters page and two amazing pin-ups that you’ll have to see to believe!

So tell your friends that if they’re not already in on the greatest thing to hit comics since gorillas on covers, they need to be right here on Wednesday, July 28 for Woman of A.C.T.I.O.N. #1!