If you’ve been reading the ISB since, oh, the Dawn of Man or so, you’ll remember that I was once working on a comic called Skiptracers The Hard Ones. It was the first thing Chad and I wrote together all the way back in 2007, with art by Rusty Shackles, lettering by Benjamin Birdie and cover colors by Steve Downer. Even though it’s been done for a while, we’ve been holding off doing anything with it other than printing up a few copies to show off at conventions, but this summer, we decided to put it up as a free comic over at the Action Age.

So this weekend, that’s exactly what we’ve done! It’s an extra-sized 28 page adventure, complete in one issue, and it’s totally free to download in CBZ format. Have at it!

The Hard Ones #1: Get Lucky!

If you enjoy it, let us know and tell your friends. If you don’t enjoy it, well, this is the Internet, I imagine you’ll tell your friends anyway.

Note 1: This has nothing to do with the secret project I’ve been teasing for the past couple of days. Well. Almost nothing.

Note 2: If you don’t have it already, cDisplayEX is the program you use for CBR/CBZ files, like this one and the other comics I wrote for Flashback Universe. If you don’t feel like downloading a new program (it’s free and doesn’t take much space), you can always change it from .cbz to .zip and pop it open to get at the images that way.

In which family is complicated, especially with time travel.

Also, it occurs to me that I might not have linked out to the more recent posts with the scheduling we’ve had lately. Now I’m sure that doesn’t matter since you’re all checking in with AH on the regular and following it via RSS, but if you missed it, the main story resumes here, and don’t miss the very important Nurse Punk Rock Fill-In, Anarchy in the OR! Plus, some great pin-ups from our pals in between!

In which Chad Bowers and JoJo Seames tells us what happened to Nurse Punk Rock after she walked out.

In which long-term treatment is called for.