The Christmas Chronicles of Solomon Stone!

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Merry Christmas, everybody! I got you a comic!

 

 

It’s The Christmas Chronicles of Solomon Stone: Atnas Came to Town!–an all new nine-page holiday epic from the Action Age of Comics!

Long-time ISB readers–and heck, even recent ones–will probably be familiar with my love of Christmas comics, and I even wrote one last year, marking the very first comic I was paid to write: FlashBack Universe’s Saturn Knight Before Christmas! I was thinking about that one last week, and I realized that I’d missed the opportunity to do another one this time around.

And then I had an idea.

An awful idea.

Chris Sims had a wonderful, awful idea!

I’d see if I couldn’t create a Christmas Miracle of my own, so I wrote the story you see above in a little over an hour–and it shows, I’m sure–and then set about finding an artist who could draw it on the incredibly tight deadline I had in mind. And I did.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it the hell up for Mathew Digges, who stepped in for my usual Sol collaborator Matthew Allen Smith (who is himself hard at work on Sol #2 as we speak). I’ve worked with Digges before (on secret projects that have yet to be seen) and he did a fantastic job on this one, especially since he penciled, inked, colored and lettered all nine pages in just under ten days.

And that, my friends, is a real Christmas Miracle.

So give it a read and let us know what you think, and if you still want more awesome free comics, don’t forget that Mike McGee and Tamas Jakab have returned to the world of time-travling super-scientist rock-star gorilla luchadores with El Gorgo #3, which also dropped today!

22 thoughts on “The Christmas Chronicles of Solomon Stone!”

  1. freaking incredible… Im gonna yell that at every artist I ever work with in the future…

    “you’re gonna be a little late? you want more time? Why you, Dynamite Mathew Digges once penciled, inked, colored and lettered nine pages of a solomon stone christmas psecial in under ten days! Get back to work you bum!”

  2. You’ve been waiting to write yourself into that “wonderful, awful idea!” line for at least 20 years, haven’t you.

  5. Of course Antas has giants help out in his workshop.

    Merry Christmas, Sims! Continue to fight the good fight!

  6. Boy, talk about other peoples’ fascinating traditions! I thought waving broken bottles in peoples’ faces was something only MY family did! Thanks for showing me that the gift of understanding other people is the REAL meaning of Christmas, Chris! And bravo, Matt! The art looks great!

  7. “I thought waving broken bottles in peoples’ faces was something only MY family did!”

    Y’know, I’ve long suspected all us isb frequenters had more income that just a love of comics and questionable morals.

  10. Love the Army of Misfit Toys. Is it too early to spoil the fact that a copy of Twilight was in there? It CAN induce rage and cause itself to be hurled across the room, possibly causing structural support and collapsing a house on an unsuspecting family. At any rate, that was fantastic.

  12. You have just used my third-favorite ever Dr. Seuss quote, which accompanies my favorite ever animation sequence. I may faint with joy.

  13. Yeah, smoking penguin. Joy!

    Ahem, not sure about the term “Christmas Humbuggery“, though I guess Atnas might partake in that dubious act.

    And I’m sure I’ve seen those misfit toys – and worse – for sale on Amazon.

    Excellent work chaps. And Merry Christmas to you too!

  20. Best birthday present EVER. You always know what to give a fella, Chris!

    This is a fantastic story, Sims. Reads great for something written in an hour, and Matthew Digges’ turnaround time puts THIS Action Age contributor to shame. Well done, dudes!