Greeting Loyal Airmen.  Here we are into October, the leaves here in New Hampshire have started to turn color and fall with the cool weather. Halloween is just around the corner.  Meanwhile, Valerie flew out to Colorado two days ago to help visit our son, Alan, and his family, leaving the Air Chief to hold down the hangar. Most of you Loyal Airmen are well aware of how much the Air Chief likes toys, especially action figures.  We've put up pictures of many in our collection right here over the past few years, from Sherlock Holmes to our life-size Yoda. Well, recently we added another very cool toy to the pack.

   
Last year, at a local Portsmouth comic con, I met artist Jay Piscopo for the very first time and we hit it off immediately.  Both of us have a love of all things comics and pulps.  Jay introduced me to a new pulp character he had just created called Commander X, the Man From the Future.  About a week after that initial meeting, Jay called and asked if we would like to write a Commander X short pulp story for a digital comic he was putting together. Thrilled, we accepted immediately and ended up delivering, The Thing in the Moon, which was published with several illustrations by British artist, Mike Fyles.  It all came out great.  Meanwhile, Jay had asked what we wanted in payment for the story and we told him it was a gift from one pulp fan to another.  We honestly didn't want any money for doing this fun project.  But Jay's a persistent dude and he offered, in lieu of cash, to give us one of his newly made Commander X mego action figures.  That, we were only too happy to accept.

Two weeks ago, Jay and the Air Chief finally hooked up again at Bang Pop, the Bangor Maine comic con and there he handed us the Commander X 1930s version mego figure.  This is such a cool toy.  Above you see it in its package.  Believe me, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief never waste any time getting his toys free of their plastic cells.  Comics are meant to be read, toys are meant to be played with.  We've often believed that our own imagination was fired when we were young by the toys we were blessed to have and dream with.

               
                  Commander X on Easter Island.
As you can see, our Commander X action figure soon found himself in the South Pacific on another perilous mission to save the world.  Complete with his black boots, X belt, pistol, mask and Captain's hat.  Believe me Loyal Airmen, this going to be only the first of his many adventures. 

If any of you are at all interested in picking up a Commander X figure, and Jay has several of them in various guises from a cowboy, to spaceman., to an undersea avenger.  All of them super, super cool.  Simply  go to his website (WWW.CAPTNELI.COM) and there you'll find these Commander X toys.  Tell him the Air Chief sent you.

That's it for another week, Loyal Airmen.  As I write these words, the final 8 baseball teams in the play-offs are doing battle and thus far we've seen some great games.  The Red Sox have their hands full with the Los Angeles Angels and the outcome right now is anyone's guess.  Go Sox!!

Ron – Over & Out.