Get Ready For Action!

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Some of you may already know this if you follow my Twitter feed, or if you were curious enough to check out the URL when you read Exterminape: The Trailer a couple of weeks ago, but tonight, I’m making it official:

 

 

Click the above image to head over to Action Age Comics and check out the projects we’re working on!

The first things we put up were for Exterminape, but really, the Action Age started with The Hard Ones, and if you got the six-page ashcan that Chad and I (along with Jay, our original artist) were giving out at HeroesCon this year, you know we’re serious about living up to the name. And rest assured, we’ll be seeing more from Pete and Judah soon–very soon, I hope–but in the meantime, Chad and I created Action Age as a place to put out the other stories we’ve got rattling around.

We’re two guys who like comics. We like reading them, we like talking about them, and we like making them, and with the Action Age and the fantastic artists we’ve got lined up, we’re trying to bring that same kind of fun to the table, with everything from short stories (like Exterminape) to one-page strips to serialized full-length comics.

Right now, there’s not a whole lot up there–although what is there is pretty kickass, I think–but keep your eyes peeled for updates on my next couple of projects as well as the debut of Chad’s Monster Plus, the comic about the mummified zombie werewolf vampire Frankenstein possessed by a witch doctor on the moon in the future that even I said went too far, but that Chad assures me goes just too far enough.

Seriously, it’s going to be awesome.

Any questions?

24 thoughts on “Get Ready For Action!”

  4. I love that Monster Plus is rocking an OMAC-hawk. OMawk?

    One of my fellow 24 hour comickers drew up a comic that made me think of you — No-Way José includes José jumping over a bullet, and then riding a motorcycle across a giant dragon before jumping onto the bad guys and making them explode.

    Mine just had a zombie cancer patient killing her Gino husband. :/

  5. Let me start by saying that it’s like 2am and I’m drunk and I love you. Well, let me finish like that too. God bless America.

  6. Shall I start laying away for a new face, in preparation for my current one being rocked right off?

    Because I suspect that’s gonna be necessary.

  10. It is at this point (being a relatively new ISB reader) that I fear for your sanities, but at least you’ll be leaving something fun behind on the way to the looney bin. (Of course, if you hear one of the doctors mention the name Arkham, you might want to run for your life.)

  11. I love the clearly thought out, ’60’s, Rat Pack casual fashion aesthetic you have for Teddy Crane. The polo shirt and slacks in the trailer and the jacket-no-tie thing in the pin-up, just make him look really old school Vegas gangster. Those are the kinds of choices that make a character unique.

  12. All credit to the pin-ups goes to the artists, and really, my only comment on the trailer itself was telling Matt that I loved the polo shirt. But thanks!

  13. At first glance I thought it said “The Action Ape”, which also works. Good luck with your anthropoid assassin.

  16. More artists? (not me, obviously, I cant draw to save my life as you have seen some evidence of) but I have friends with talent currently wasting their lives in advertising (too many good graphic-art/illustration students get sucked in by that industry and its, um, money).

  18. “…mummified zombie werewolf vampire Frankenstein possessed by a witch doctor…”

    Shouldn’t that be Frankenstein’s Monster? Or is Weapon Plus also an evil genius doctor able to reanimate dead body parts using lightning and Science!? Hmmm, either option sounds awesome.

  20. “More artists? (not me, obviously, I cant draw to save my life as you have seen some evidence of) but I have friends with talent currently wasting their lives in advertising (too many good graphic-art/illustration students get sucked in by that industry and its, um, money).”

    I was thinking of asking the same thing (though I’m actually on the artist side of that equation). Of course, I’m kind of asking Everyone if they’re hiring for comics work, but these days I’ve found that most comics are either A: Very big corporations that are very demanding and need you to have some notable experience in addition to just having good art or B: a very small company made up of two friends who would love to publish all these great ideas they hear about but just don’t really have the money for it.

  22. B: a very small company made up of two friends who would love to publish all these great ideas they hear about but just don’t really have the money for it.

    Yeah, that’d be us.

  23. its a strange convergence for awesome comics..
    my friends and I are making a comic about a “black-jew” as the nazis call him, who has his hand cut off by nazis and replaced by parts of his piano.

    not to mention hitler’s escape on a rocket to the moon after a russian version of captain america / ivan drago senior tries to rip his head off.

    I’m trying to work some nazi gorillas with chainsaws into it, but in the interim there are jewish ninjas with throwing stars of david, and A F*CKING NAZI POLAR BEAR!
    concept [not that it’ll actually look like this, but it was a good snipes pose]
    http://i35.tinypic.com/2h7jn61.jpg

    a shame to hear you aren’t taking on others at the mo’ cuz it’d be good to have one source for every ass kicking hitler punching cigar smoking neck breakin’ fembot f*cking manly man comic,
    but maybe one day you’ll reconsider!
    anyhow, good luck!