Greetings Loyal Airmen, well this past week saw the return of Marvel Comics to network television, something not seen since the days of the old Spiderman and Hulk weekly shows.  But before we get that amazing event, we've a new comic to announce.

The fourth issue of  RON FORTIER'S TALES OF THE MACABRE is finally out with a really wonderful covre by our friend, Olivier Raymond. This one features four brand new stories by the Air Chief joined with four amazing artists. There's a vampire, a werewolf, a femme fatale and robot hero. A cool kind of comics fun mix we hope you'll enjoy.  It's now on sale at (www.IndyPlanet.com)  Give it a go and as ever thanks for your support.
Issue #5 is now in the works.

The cast of ABC's new AGENTS OF SHIELD, the super secret government police agency run by Colonel Nick Fury in the blockbuster Marvel Movies.  In the TV series, which takes place after the events that occurred in the Avengers movie, Agent Phil Coulson, wonderfully played by actor Greg Clarke is assigned to recruit a brand new special operations team to deal with new threats involved “super” beings, good or bad. The premier episode this past Monday night was the biggest audience winner on network television on four years.  Needless to day the Disney company and ABC are thrilled.  Written and directed by Josh Whedon, the Air Chief absolutely loved it and can't wait to see what comes next.

One of the major points in the premier of this series was the fact that Agent Coulson was killed by the vengeful God Loki in the Avengers movie and fans having been waiting a long time to see how Whedon and company would explain his so called resurrection.  In the show he tells us he died but they brought him back.  Considering the wound he suffered in the movie, the Air Chief doesn't buy that for a second.  In fact we believe the real Agent Coulson did die, but that Shield had his entire memories/psyche imprinted on either a clone or android and it was awakened believing it is really Coulson.  Obviously there were some vague clues dished out in the premier and we fully expect to see more of this mystery explored as the series goes on.

Now in a stroke of pure marketing genius, Disney also released their new IRON MAN 3 movie on Blu-ray and DVD on the same day as the Agents of Shield premiered.  On that disc is a special short film starring actress Haley Atwell reprising her role as Agent Peggy Carter, the wonderful young lady who was in love with Steve Rogers; Captain America.  The story shows her working in the US after World War II and how she ends up giving the assignment to head the new top secret group called, Shield.  There have been lots of rumors floating around that ABC and Marvel want to look at a possible Agent Carter TV series.  Well, after seeing and totally loving this short film, we couldn't agree more.  To have a series wherein Peggy Carter (and a few other recognizable supporting characters from the Captain America flim) build up Shield from the ground up would be a perfect book-end series for the new Agents of Shield series.  Let's keep our fingers crossed this comes to pass.

Finally we want to direct your attention to a new digital anthology called LEZ-VAMPS created by super artist Mark Wheatley.  Several months ago Mark posted a stunning picture he'd done a while back and challenged writers to do a story based on the image.  Well so many started sending in scripts, Mark went to a group of his friends, the Air Chief included, and asked them to help judge the entries. The best would be collected into a digital and voila, after all the judging etc, the mag is finished as you can see above.  And it is going to be given away for free during the entire month of October, sort of Mark's Halloween treat to all his fans.  So, if any of you Loyal Airmen would like a free PDF of this truly outstanding horror collection, simply me drop me a line and the Air Chief will be only too happy to send one along.  Oh, and be fore we forget, our dear friend and fellow host of the ZONE 4 podcast, Gordon Dymowski, was one of the writers whose story was accepted and it is his first ever published prose work.  And no, the Air Chief did not judge Gordon's story, so there was absolutely no favoritism here.  But we did read it..after it was accepted and loved it.  Way to go, Gordon.

And there you have it for another week, Loyal Airmen.  As ever thanks for stopping by.
Ron Over & Out!