Yahoo, loyal airmen! Look at that gorgeous comic cover above..  Outstanding!  Naturally our big news of the week is the release of our newest Redbud Studio comic, THE UNDEAD AVENGER – BROTHER BONES.  Of course as you loyal airmen all know, Brother Bones is one of our Airship 27 Prod. original pulp characters that's been entertaining readers since his pulp title came out earlier in the year.   If you closely at the upper right hand corner of this cover you'll see our familiar flying dirigible logo.  Yup.  This is the first time we've taken one of pulp heroes and adapted him to comic action.   All of us involved with the project are extremely excited about this and hope to follow it up with lots of these adaptions.

In BULLETS OF JADE, an assassin from the Far East comes to Cape Noir and begins killing Chinese Tong leaders.  It is up to the Undead Avenger to put a stop to his killing spree.  But can even the Brother Bones withstand the power of assassin's magical ..BULLETS OF JADE!   The script is by yours truly, with all interior art by the amazing John Polacek.  Lettering and design work, to include the pencils for this dramatic cover were by Rob Davis, the same artist who graced the pages of our BROTHER BONES pulp book.  After Rob turned in his pencils they were digitally painted over by Shane Evans of New Zealand, a fanstic artist in his own right.  And when I said John Polacek was a unique stylist, I wasn't exaggerating one little bit.

Take a look at the above full page.  Now that's one scary hombre!!!  This comics is ONLY available from the on-line store (www.IndyPlanet.com).  To find exactly where, go to our Air Fare page.  There you'll find the cover and link to take you right to the store posting.  The book sells for $3.50 plus shipping and handle.  Rob, John and your old Air Chief are really hoping you'll pick up a copy and let us know what you think.  The book was released only four days ago and already Indy Planet is reporting sales!!!  Amazing!  But then again, I'm not suprised.  Loyal airmen are the best damn fans in the world.

Speaking of good fans, I'd like to take a second to talk about “bad” fans.  This past Tuesday night the city of New York, and in particular the Yankees Baseball Organization hosted the annual All Star game, the summer classic pitting the super stars of the American League against the best of the National League.  Unless you've been working out on an offshore oil rig for the past four days, you are well aware how the game became a marathon event going all of 15 innings and ending in the wee hours of Wednesday morning with the AL winning their 12th consecutive contest by the score of 4 to 3.  The Most Valuable Player award (named for Red Sox great, Ted Williams) went to new Red Sox star, J.D. Drew, much to chagrin of the Yankee fans still in the stadium by game's end.

The rivalry between these two teams is well known and has made for some truly memorable games in the past; not excluding a few on-field fights.  None of which is unexpected as every year these two teams seem to go head to head in battling for their division championship.  We all get that.  But underlying the rivalry there has always been a mutual respect amongst fans were for the opposing team.  I've several pals who are diehard Yankees fans and I think the world of them.  Most Red Sox and Yankees fans are decent, knowledgeable fans who truly love the game of baseball.  But not the group that inhabited the seats in Yankee stadium last Tuesday night and showed their idiocy by booing each and every Red Sox player when they were announced and later went to bat or took to the field.  Never mind the booing, they also went out of their way to rattle pitcher Jonathan Papelbon because of misquoted statements that appeared in one of the city's sleaziest rags that morning.

A newspaper with a reputation for stirring up controversy, claimed that Papelbon had somehow disrespected the Yankees' veteran closer, Mariano Rivera.  Which was totally BS!!  Papelbon has been quoted time and time again in the press and on the air as praising the seasoned pitcher.  He even called him, “the Godfather of Closers.”  Hardly what you would call dissing someone?  Yet the morons who came to the game that night were ready to defend their team's honor for some fabricated insult.  This they did by booing  Red Sox players who were in effect, on this night, their HOME TEAM!!!  Watching the game and listening to how they tried to humiliate and shake up Papelbon when he came out to pitch was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever seen in my life.

So one more time so there is no misunderstanding here.  I think 99% of the Yankees fans in the world are fantastic, wonderful people.  On the other hand, those so called baseball fans who were in that staduim Tues. night booing Jonathan Papelbon and his teammates were the dumbest bunch of moronic idiots ever to attend a ballgame.  The sign below, a Father's Day gift from son Scott and his family, is solely for them!

And that warps another week at Hangar 27, loyal airmen.  Stay cool, enjoy the summer and see you back here in seven days.
Ron – Over & Out.