YOUR COMIC BOOKS ARE LYING TO YOU:
Kleid & Salvi's ACTION OHIO in May's Zudacomics Competition.

What if the Silver age of comic books was created to distract us from
the existence of real superhumans hiding in the heart of America?

This month, Xeric winner Neil Kleid and artist Paul Salvi explore
these questions in ACTION, OHIO, a tale of heroes, villains,
deception, murder and comic books, appearing at Zudacomics.com, DC
Comics' online webcomic competition. Each month, Zuda's editors select
ten comics to compete against each other. Readers vote for their
favorite, often going as far as to campaign and sing its praises and
the comics which receives the most votes at the end of the month wins
a contract to continue the story on the Zuda site for the rest of the
year. The only way to see your favorite comic continue is to vote, the
only way to vote is to head to http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438 and
register, and the comic to vote for in May is ACTION, OHIO.

ACTION, OHIO is the story of Detective Andrea Bruce, a Detroit
policewoman who doesn't believe in heroes. But when a teenager dies
stopping a fire with amazing abilities and the coroner suspects foul
play, Andrea discovers a secret town of superheroes while tracking his
killer. In the sixties, men responsible for the birth of Silver Age
comic books found a town riddled with the fallout of the atomic age
and invented fictional characters based on its residents to divert the
world from their existence: If America thought super heroes were
fictional beings, it wouldn't go looking for them. Supported by an
aging group of heroes, Andrea tries to hide Action from the world but
as a town founded on policies of non-involvement begins to crack and
Andrea digs into the underbelly of a town that's imprisoned itself to
save the world, she begins to wonder: if Action, Ohio is a town of
comic book heroes, then where are the villains? Andrea, an outsider
with no use for heroes, must choose between solving her case and
opening a Pandora's Box of evil closed forty years ago, or putting
aside her vendetta to ensure that the sleepy little town hiding from
the citizens of the world doesn't reach out, ignite and destroy them.

How can you help?

1) Click over to http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438. Read. Register.
Vote for ACTION, OHIO before May 30th. All it costs is a moment of
your time: http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438 - don't forget to send
this link around to EVERYONE you know and urge them to do the same!

2) Head to the production blog at http://actionohio.blogspot.com or
join www.myspace.com/actionohio where you can find early sketches,
behind the scenes commentary and web banners, web flyers and
promotional materials you can use in spreading the word.

3) Once you've voted, leave a comment and let the team know what you
thought!

You *do* have to be a registered Zuda user to vote, comment, and
favorite (it's an easy process), so head on over today and put the
democratic process to good use this month.

ACTION, OHIO: This May, discover that superheroes are a cowardly lot.

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Links:
http://www.zudacomics.com/node/438
http://actionohio.blogspot.com
www.myspace.com/actionohio
www.rantcomics.com
www.paulsalvi.com