WHAT’S COMING?
26 Jul | '2024Greetings Loyal Airmen, we thought today we’d discuss a few new Airship 27 titles that are now in production and coming your way.
METROPOLIS PREQUELS
The late movie genius, Fritz Lang’s greatest cinema marvel was his 1927 silent sci-fi classic, “Metropolis.” Having read about most of our youth, we finally saw a screening one night at the World Science Fiction Con in Boston many years ago. It mesmerized us. To think such a great movie could have been made in those days, with spectacular special effects. Wow. Jump ahead to our starting Airship 27 Production with Rob Davis and the idea of doing prequel Metropolis anthologies. Lo and behold, the wonderful Mike Kaluta, upon hearing of our plans, offered up the cover, a left over from his own amazing illustrated edition of the novel by Lang’s wife, Thea van Habou. (Above center) Then earlier this year, we finally were able to deliver as yet a second volume of “Towers of Metropolis” and this time artist James Lyle came aboard with his dazzling cover and breathtaking interior illustrations. (Above right) But we aren’t finished yet, in just a few short weeks, Airship 27 will be releasing a prequel novel, “Metropolis -Resurrection” written by Michael Panush and Charles Santino. It is one of the most brilliant prequels the Air Chief has ever read and much to our delight, James is back on board, delivering all the artwork. Oh, and without revealing all our secrets, we’ve a special edition for this title in the works. You Metropolis fans are not going to want to miss this one.
SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE
Of course the best selling series from Airship 27 has since day one been our Sherlock Holmes anthology series, Consulting Detective. From the first volume, launched a decade ago, with Mark Maddox’ gorgeous covers to the next eighteen volumes, these collections have brought Holmes & Watson fans the most exciting, captivating, and thrilling stories ever envisioned by today’s top pulp scribes. At present Rob is busy at work on Volume Twenty, which will be something truly special. Not only will it be a bigger book with more stories than we normally release, but Rob is designing to look like an actual issue of the classic Strand magazine, the London periodical that first introduced the world to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s amazing detective. We’ve seen the first chapter, from a brand new I.A. Watson mystery and we’re excited. Really excited. If you Loyal Airmen have enjoyed this series from the start, you can consider this extra big volume our humble thanks for your continued support.
THE ETERNAL SWORD
The Air Chief, along with Rob Davis, publisher of Redbud Studio, are proud and excited to announce the release of writer/artist Gary Kato’s new graphic novel, “The Eternal Sword.” It is a fantastic 48 pg dramatic retelling of the King Arthur legend. Done in black and white and suggested for mature audiences, it is now available at Amazon. Trust me, Loyal Airmen, this is a great and beautiful read.
JIN & TONIK
Never one to let dust gather under his feet, artist Cesar Feliciano, over the the week-end whipped up these new JIN & TONIK pin-ups for a very special occasion. The Air Chief isn’t at liberty to say more right now, but when Cesar gives us the all-clear, you Loyal Airmen will be the first to know.
THE WOODEN BLADE # 3
The adventures of our magic sword wielding ram, Raizee continue in this third issue wonderfully illustrated by Olivia DeGaine. The book is in its final stages of production and we hope to have it available to all our fans at this year’s Rocky Mountain Con in Nov in Denver. Stay tuned.
BEYOND THE STARS # 4
And of course artist Andrea Bormida and his colorist Angelo Vecciarelli continue to finish the remaining few pages of BEYOND THE STARS # 4 as seen above.
And that, Loyal Airmen, is it for this week’s rambling. As ever thanks for stopping by and try to stay cool out there.
Ron – Over & Out!