Greeting Loyal Airmen and welcome back to Airship 27 HQ.  Happily this week we have two new comic titles to tell you about and our latest short story based on a very cool, original pulp hero is also on sale. So here we go.

Our very popular and successful series; MR. JIGSAW – Man of a Thousand Parts continues with the release of issue #10.  This one contains two stories, “The Missing Mom Affair,” and “A Helping Hand,” both written by the Air Chief and all art by the super talented Mr.Gary Kato.  Note, the second story is that which features the winner of our Get Jiggy With It contest that we ran on the Zone 4 Podcast over at Comic Related.  To enter people had to write in saying why they enjoyed listening to our weekly show. The winner's name was drawn from all the entries submitted and it was Lisa Moore.  Her prize was being written this story as a supporting character and we are sure by Lisa must be very tickled to see herself interacting with Jiggy and his crew.  It was fun to write and we hope you'll check it out.  This book is available on-line at (www.IndyPlanet.com)

Also out this week from Redbud Studios was the third issue of the Air Chief's own title, RON FORTIER'S TALES OF THE MACABRE.  We've been very happy with the response this series has received from all you Loyal Airmen and this new issue features four brand new tales all written by the Air Chief and drawn by different art teams; some of the best new talent in the business today.  And our good pal, Gary Kato, signed on to do the fun cover above, showcasing a typical night at home in the castle for Uncle Ron.  Again, copies of this comic and the previous two issues can be obtained at (www.IndyPlanet.com).

Note, this time next week the Air Chief and Valerie will be down in Denver getting ready for the premier of the big DENVER COMIC CON, which opens to the public at the Denver Convention Center Friday June 15th for the entire weekend.  There are going to be literally hundreds of guest from the comic world, movies and television so we hope to see many of you Loyal Airmen there. Do stop by our table to say and check out the dozen or so comics will have on display for sale, including the two mentioned above.  Looks to be a grand time for sure.

On the pulp front we are very, very excited about the release of  TALES OF THE ROOK from Pro Se Productions recently.  The Rook is a new pulp hero created several years ago by our good friend Barry Reese and we've enjoyed every single Rook title he's put out.  Towards the end of 2011, Barry approached the Air Chief and four other writing colleagues inviting all of us to write a Rook story for his new collection, as seen above. This was a real privilege and honor to for the Air Chief and we had a blast writing our Rook adventure, called, “The Miss Beantown Affair.”  We're told its the first story in the collection. We can't wait to get out copy to read with the other writers offered up.  They include Mike Bullock, Percival Constantine, Tommy Hancock, Bobby Nash and one for Barry himself. Lots of great New Pulp fiction from some of the best in the field, excluding yours truly.  The book is available at Amazon.com – Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy now.

Finally, one of our favorite movies of this year was JOHN CARTER from Pixar & Disney, it being a live action adaption of Edgar Rice Burroughs classic pulp sci-fi fantasy adventure, Princess of Mars.  Despite what you might have read, the movie was great and was never a flop, having earned back its initial costs and continues to bring in profits for the studio. Why they chose to call it a failure has more to do with inner-studio politics than true box-office accounting.  Still, that is neither here nor there, the movie is awesome. This week it came out on DVD and Blu-ray.  We picked up the latter and watched it on our big screen TV.  It is the third time the Air Chief has watched it and we enjoyed just as much, if not more the third time around.  Mark our words, this movie is a classic.  If you haven't seen it yet, or don't own it, shame on you.  You are missing a real winner.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  Again, if you live anywhere near Denver, do try and make the show next week.  We'd love to see you there.
Ron – Over & Out!