Greeting Loyal Airmen. Well things are heating up in Seattle as producers Erik Franklin and Daniel Husser assembled a majority of the cast for the Brother Bones movie last Friday for a reading of the script.

We’re told that no sooner had they sat down then a fire alarm went off in the building causing the obvious confusion one would expect. As it turned out to be a false alarm, the group returned to the room and continued with their reading. According to both Erik and Daniel it went of fabulously as they truly have a group of super talented artists.

Speaking of such, leading this stellar group is actor David Stoker who will play the Bonello twins and then Brother Bones. Prior to the cast get together, David joined the producers to shoot a special movie teaser in which Brother Bones find his skull mask and dons it for the very first time. Above is a still from that little video that will be posted on the Kickstarter page and throughout the internet once completed. When seeing this image, the Air Chief was simply bowled over. With worries that our character might not translate well to the medium of film, it was a truly gratifying feeling to see this truly frightening image…even with the gruesome skull mask, the energy in David’s eyes is clearly visible. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, with this kind of effort from the team, how can this project possibly fail?

Earlier in the year, as most of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief met and hooked up with independent publisher John Helmer of Lucky Comics. The end result being asked to write a short 8 pg Beetle Girl story for him.  We did so, submitted the script and waited to see who would be recruited to illustrate it. In the meantime, we began our Brother Bones Free Comic Book Day promotion and Lucky ended up putting out a very special 8 pg Bones comic retelling his origin. While that was happening, John landed artist Stanley Holder to draw our Beetle Girl tale and he did a truly amazing job with both the interior pages and the stunning cover above. The book was released this week and you can find it by Googling Lucky Comics. It was much fun to do, has Beetle Girl battling a new villain, Madame Silk…and yes, John is already wanting a sequel. We’ll see if we can squeeze it into an already overly full schedule. Ha.

As some of you will recall, last month Moonstone Books released the pulp novella we had written, “Faces of Fear” with illustrations by Rob Davis. It teams up the Black Bat with the Purple Scar. Well we got our copies in the mail the other, but softcover, with a cover by Dennis Calero and the hardcovers with a cover by Rob. Both books can be purchased on Moonstone’s store website. Check it out, we think you’ll enjoy it.

And finally this week, several more of our artists plans have done their own versions of Brother Bones The Undead Avenger to share with all of us. Above to the left is one by Barry McClain Jr. and the other to the right by Rhian Engel. We loved them both and note, Barry’s will be getting colored by another pal, Warren Montgomery. Soon as it is finished, we’ll be sure to put it up here again. All of this is to continue promoting the Brother Bones Movie Kickstarter campaign which only has a month left to go….and is far from being anywhere near successful. Will be a real tragedy if by the end of the month, the producers pull the plug on the the entire project. But without funding, there really is nothing else they can do. We’ll keep you posted.

Ron – Over & Out!