Don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, but as we write this Flight Log, we are exactly one month away from this year’s PulpFest in Columbus, Ohio.  Airship 27 Productions has been a part of this wonderful gathering since its inception and we always look forward to meeting old and new Airmen there.  As ever, the Air Chief will be moderating the New Pulp Fiction panel and this year’s theme will be “The Heirs of Weird Tales,” whereas we’ll be talking with five of the best and brightest new pulp writers working today on how the old classic pulp mag, Weird Tales influenced their lives and careers.  Should be a great discussion and we hope many of you attending the con will join us.  It takes place Saturday afternoon.

We recently released our second volume of Fred Adams’ SIX-GUN TERRORS. Thing is, while deciding what the cover should be, the Air Chief kept looking at artist Zachary Brunner’s cover for volume one which features a demon gunslinger standing in the middle of a western town.  So what if we were to extend that street outward and from it form the cover monster cover for volume two.  A quick conference with Art Director Rob Davis and Zachary and voila…look at the background in both covers and you’ll see how they really are both part of the same western main street.  This is some of the fun we have in producing our books for you Loyal Airmen.

The Air Chief was all of 13 years old in 1960 when Marvel Comics came on the scene.  Imagine all those great titles, Fantastic Four, Spiderman, the Hulk, Thor, Iron-Man etc.  It seemed every month a new, fantastic hero was coming our way.  Amongst them Kirby & Lee whipped arguably the smallest hero of them all, the Ant Man.  And we loved him.  We can’t say exactly why, but maybe it’s part of our American sensibilities that we always root for the “underdog,”  the “little guy.”  And there was no on littler than Henry Pym, the Ant Man.  And it was always a blast seeing him shrink down to ant size so that his familiar world became an alien setting for giants.  Now Marvel Studios is unleashing a big summer blockbuster featuring the diminutive hero and you can bet your Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Card, Val and the Air Chief will be going to the local cinema sometime next week (after all the opening weekend furor has abated slightly) to watch THE ANT MAN. It looks like another Marvel winner to us.

And that’s this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen, as ever, thanks for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!