Greetings fellow airmen. This week we’ve a few items on the agenda covering a nice variety of topics. First up, Valerie and I are off to the Holiday Inn in Nashua, N.H. tomorrow to attend the first ever 2 day comic con in the Granite State. There will be over twenty professional guests (yours truly in that merry group) and a hundred (yup…that’s 100!) vendor tables selling everything the discriminating genre fan could want from comics to video games and action figures. So come early and bring your check books. Ha.

I’ll be selling copies of my pulp books plus a very neat poster of the BROTHER GRIM cover art painting. If they go over big at the show, I plan on selling them here at the old Airship 27 later. So keep a sharp eye out. Joining me at this Halloween fun-fest will be Craig Shepard, making his professional con debut. Craig is bringing up tons of original artwork from our CAPTAIN HAZZARD comics project. So fans will be in for a treat. The doors open at 10 AM both Sat. & Sun. and the show runs to 5 PM. Hope to see many of you airmen there.

Last week I gave you a little bit about the history of the composing of the score for the original KING KONG movie. Well, there has been more exciting developments on Peter Jackson’s new version, due the 14th of Dec.
It seems Jackson just loves the big gorilla so much, he has turned in a whopping 3 hours epic!
According to the press releases I’ve seen, executives from Universal were flown down to
Wellington, New Zealand, to view an early cut of the finished spectacular. Word is, after seeing it in this length, they all applauded Jackson’s
efforts and have given him a green light to release this long cut. So we are going to a get a full blown three hours of movie thrills from a master film maker. How’s that for an early Christmas gift?
Hoorah! Go Kong!

I’ve received some very nice comments concerning the addition of our gallery pages.
Per my promsise to keep it updated, this week you will find three really funny illustrations by Chad Hurd for a project called THE GODBOX. Its a way-out fantasy adventure featuring a teenage version of Indiana Jones. Chad is an art student at the University of Maine in Orono, and his work is just magnificent. Enjoy these shots of our hero and his kid sister.

Finally, HAPPY HALLOWEEN to all you airmen and your families. Growing up in a small, New Hampshire town, I have lots of great memories of dressing up on Beggar’s Night and hitting the streets immediately after nightfall. My brothers and I used pillow-cases and pretty much
hit up half the houses in town with our Trick or Treating cries. By the time we got home, hours later, those pillow cases were bursting with enough candy to keep a dozen dentists busy into retirement. So, have a great time, stock your candy shelves, and get into the spirit of a truly American holiday original.

Over and out, Ron.