Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week we gave you a sneak peek at the above cover in its pencils and ink stages only.  Well as of now the book, FACES OF FEAR, will be solicited in the new Diamond Catalog.  The story behind this project is simple enough. Last year, while at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con, the Airchief and his pal, Rob Davis were asked by Moonstone Editor in Chief (and good buddy) Joe Gentile, if we’d be interested in doing a special project for Moonstone Pulps.  Now keep in mind, the Airchief, has done lots of writing for Moonstone in the past decade but in all that time, Rob had never landed a gig with them.  Thus the appeal of this offer was what pulled us in, the chance for both of us, as a team, to do something for Joe and Moonstone.  The end result is this hundred page prose adventure by the Airchief with teams the Black Bat with the creepy Purple scar as they battle the mysterious new villain known as Mr. Mask. For the book Rob did 10 elaborate, detailed interior illustrations in pencils only…no inks.  When you see these, your jaw will drop, they are do damn beautiful.  This softcover edition will sell for $9.99 throughout comic shops across the country.  Then later Moonstone is planning a special deluxe hardback edition which will feature a cover by Rob.  The one above was rendered by Denis Calero.  So that’s the scoop, Loyal Airmen.  We hope you’ll order a copy.  If the book is successful, we certainly love to do many like this for Moonstone. Thanks as ever for your support.

Next up, our newest pulp title from Airship 27 Productions is out and we are really excited about.  ALL-AMERICAN SPORTS STORIES Vol One is our first venture into sports pulps and we had a blast putting it together.  It features four stories involved sports in 1930s America.  There’s stockcar racing by Terrence McCauley, college football from J. Walt Layne, boxing by John Rose and the last fiction piece concerns the Baseball Negro Leagues by Fred Adams Jr.  Add to this line-up a special true memoir by Richard Kellogg about his first time deer hunting with a favorite uncle and you have real treasure package of tales.  All interior art is by Art Cooper and the colorful cover above is by Shane Evans.  You can, like all our titles, pick it up at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle.  So if you are both a pulp reader and sports enthusiast, this is certainly your kind of book. As ever, thanks so much for your support.

Next, the good people at Radio Archives continue to bring out truly excellent audio versions of our Airship 27 titles. This week alone they’ve released three.  We mentioned the Masked Rider one in last week’s Flight Log.  And now added to that catalog of great recordings, we have ZEPPELIN TALES Vol One with stories by I.A. Watson and Jim Beard and THE VRIL AGENDA, a novel by Derrick Ferguson and Josh Reynolds wherein Jim Anthony and Dillon team up. It’s a classic pulp adventure and one of the Air Chief’s personal favorites.  Again, all these audio books can be purchased at the book’s Amazon pages.  We hope you’ll them a try.

There’s an opinion among some movie fans that one should never listen to critics and go see any film to make up one’s own mind.  Now as much as that logic would appear to be sound, it does have its flaws.  We don’t need to drink sour milk to know it has gone bad, the smell is a dead giveaway.  Likewise movie trailers and early reviews hare pretty tagging the new BATMAN vs SUPERMAN flick as one rotten apple. This doesn’t really surprise us as we always had mixed feelings about Zack Snyder’s first take on Superman in his MAN OF STEEL movie.  For whatever reason Snyder obviously doesn’t get this hero and is forever trying to make him dark, mean and brutal. All the things Superman was never meant to be.  So, having seen those stupid trailers and now reading one bad review after another, the Air Chief is going to pass on this one.  Much like we did on Seth Rogen’s disgusting Green Hornet and Depp’s awful Lone Ranger.  Two films we avoided and have never regretted doing so.  Who knows, maybe when BATMAN vs SUPERMAN ends up on HBO, we might take a look…but there is no way we spending any coins at the theater on what is all to obviously a mega-turkey.  If any of you Loyal Airmen do so, we wish you much luck.

Finally as we were just getting ready to wrap up this week’s Log Entry, Radio Archives put our as yet another audio title; this one being a weird western short story by Ye Old Air Chief called THE WIND UP KID.  The amazing narrating is done by Brendan T. Stalling and is a blast.  It cost $7 and goes for 90 minutes. Again, you can find it on Amazon.  We listened to it this morning and loved it, especially Stalling’s voice for the robot gunfighter. This one’s a hoot, Loyal Airmen.  And that does wrap it up for another week.  Take care, enjoy Spring, when it’s not covered under a layer of snow, and we’ll see you all back here next week.

Ron – Over & Out!