Preview: The Activity #15 by Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads

October 2, 2013 by The Comic Book Critic

Preview of The Activity #15

Here is a six page preview of The Activity #15, written by Nathan Edmondson and drawn by Mitch Gerads, on sale October 2nd, 2013 from Image Comics.

THE ACTIVITY #15

story / NATHAN EDMONDSON
art / cover MITCH GERADS

OCTOBER 2
32 PAGES / FC / T+
$3.50

“BUDDY SYSTEM”

Hiding from Russian authorities, Switchfoot and Fiddler trek through the ice of Northern Siberia to recover a fallen satellite piece. Meanwhile Weatherman and Bookstore are on a recon mission in Afghanistan, and what they see has ominous implications for the near future.

Interactive Site Launched for The Activity by Nathan Edmondson & Mitch Gerads

January 9, 2013 by The Comic Book Critic

THE ACTIVITY CREATORS LAUNCH WARFAREWITHOUTWARNING.COM

New interactive website for special operations comic from Image Comics

Press Release

THE ACTIVITY, an Image Comics series that follows the missions of the secret operatives on Team Omaha, part of the ultra-clandestine Intelligence Support Activity, by Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads, now has its own website, www.WarfareWithoutWarning.com. Using an interactive world map, visitors can learn more about the locations of Team Omaha’s missions, discover new comics stories, and purchase original art and merchandise.

Navy SEALs Co-Write THE ACTIVITY #7 From Image Comics

May 22, 2012 by The Comic Book Critic

A LOOK INSIDE BLACK OPS IN THE ACTIVITYComic written with cooperation of members of U.S. Military & Intelligence

Press release

They do their work in secret, the goals of their missions and the discipline, teamwork, and skills needed to carry them out well out of the sight of the American public. However, on May 2, 2010, an elite team of Navy SEALs carried out Operation Neptune Spear, killing Osama bin Laden and launching "Black Ops" into the American consciousness.

Among the imaginations captured by these elite forces was that of Nathan Edmondson, a writer (WHO IS JAKE ELLIS, DANCER) who was inspired to create THE ACTIVITY, a comic book series that follows the lives of members of the special operations group Intelligence Support Activity. Drawn by Mitch Gerads (with guest issues by Marc Laming), THE ACTIVITY depicts the training and covert missions of Team Omaha within the real-life organization with glimpses of the "regular" lives they live where no one knows about their real jobs.

Review: The Activity #1 (Image)

December 29, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Nathan Edmondson
Artist: Mitch Gerads
Letterer: Mitch Gerads
Color assistant: Kyle Latino
Cover: Mitch Gerads

Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Date: December 2011
Cover Price: $3.50

Title: “Fiddler on the Roof”

The Activity follows a group of operatives in an unnamed division of the Intelligence Support Activity of the US Government. These teams focus on more selective, secretive, and high-stakes ops than normal covert ops teams. Given bleeding edge tech, they are the problem solvers and first responders that go in and sometimes even have to clean up the CIA’s mistakes.

The story itself gives us snippets of The Activity’s operations, intelligence gathering, and recruiting actions, but there are large gaps in between. This might sound like it’s a bad story, but it is far from it. The way Nathan Edmondson crafts the story, the reader is given just enough info to follow along without giving too much away. This creates more of a mystery surrounding the events and one which Edmondson can control as he sees fit.