Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you will recall, two weeks ago the Air Chief was a guest at the second annual Fort Collins Comic Con. While there, we did a long interview  with Neil Greenway for Bleedin’ Cool, in it I talk about my comic career, Mr. Jigsaw, Airship 27 Productions, the New Pulp Movement, the Black Bat series and of course the Brother Bones movie.  Oh yeah.  Here’s the link to it below.

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Meanwhile Producer/Director Erik Franklin and his partner, Daniel Husser, have been scouting the great Seattle area for possible location sites to film the Brother Bones movie and these are some of the places that may end up in the finished film. As Erik explained in, special PC digital magic will remove all modern signs, cars, etc. to leave the architecture untouched and provide the look of the 1930s in which the story takes place.

In fact, one particular house, which Erik drives by daily, is one he wants to eventually use as the setting for the home of Cape Noire’s own mad scientist, Prof. Bugosi. As the creator of these tales, the Air Chief is fascinated in seeing how Seattle gradually morphs into the make-believe city of Cape Noire.  Stay tuned for more as it develops.

Next up, we’re happy to announce that the second issue of our GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT mini-series for Moonstone Comics is now on sale at comicbook shops across the country.  Script by yours truly, art by Silvestry Szilagyi with a stunning cover by Michael Stirbling.  Adventure continues as the Black Bat continues to recruit pulp heroes to aid in his battle against the group known as the Black Sun.  Hope you’ll give it a look.

Finally, on a more serious note, this week the Air Chief had his annual visit with his oncologist. For those of you who aren’t familiar with this situation, we were diagnosed with two non-Hodgkin lymphomas (one in each lung) almost ten years ago now. That discovery was made by having the lower quadrant of our left lung removed so doctors could get to the node and learn what it was. Once we knew what the Air Chief had, we visited an expert in this kind of cancer at the Dana-Farber Center in Boston and we’re told ours is mostly a non-life threatening cancer. In fact that very doctor suggested we’ll most likely die of something altogether different long before this dime size node could hurt us. Still, it is a cancer and thus once a year we have it X-rayed and visit the oncologist. Always good to keep an eye on these things. Thus the visit this morning wherein we were told, considering my general state of well being, having no symptoms of any kind and the X-ray pic remaining unchanged, that Ye Old Air Chief is good to go for as yet another year.  Welcome news as always, though it doesn’t slow down time or aging in the slightest and come the 5th of Nov. we’ll still be hitting the big 70!  Damn, the Air Chief wonders, just how the hell did that happen?

Ron – Over & Out!