Artist Andrea Bormida now has his own Patreon page. (https://www.patreon.com/MakingComics001) Andrea is one of the finest, most talented artist the Air Chief ever had the pleasure of working on. Our sci-fi series, “Beyond the Stars,” for Silverline Comics is nearing it end.
CNI CLASSIFIED Vol 5
One of the best action-packed New Pulp adventure series to appear in the past few years has been the “Code Name Intrepid” series created by writer Robert J. Mendenhall. Bob premiered this series featuring an all military team fighting Nazis prior to World War II at Airship 27 and then branched off to start his own publishing imprint, Blue Planet Press. Shortly after that, he launched a separate series he called, “CIN-Classified” wherein he invited other pulp writers to contribute stories featuring his great characters. The Air Chief had a tale published in last year’s Vol 4. While at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper show in Chicago, Bob informed us that he was going to be wrapping up the series with Vol 5 and asked if we’d be willing to write an Introduction to the book. We were flattered and honored to do so. That volume has now been published and is available at Amazon. We recommend it, and the previous four, to all you Loyal Airmen. Truthfully, it is a really awesome, fun pulp series. Don’t miss it.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CON 2025!!!
Another major excitement, the first ad for this year’s Rocky Mountain Con, as delivered by pal and promoter, Tim Moret. This has been the Air Chief’s home-con ever since we moved here to Colorado. Tim rolled out the red carpet for us and every since it has been a great show. Looking forward to this one big time.
BLACK TERROR 2.0
At long last, here is a special sneak peek at the new BLACK TERROR 2.0 comic the Air Chief is now doing with artist Dell Barras for Ben Dunn’s Antarctic Press. Joining us on the creative team are David Rios our letterer and Oluwadmilola Akinayo doing the letters. We were going to keep it under wraps a wee bit longer but since Ben went ahead and posted these two pages on Facebook Wed, it was time to show them off officially. Ben labelled it a one shot, whereas that’s not our overall intent and we’ve way too much story to tell in just one comic. So here’s hoping reception for the story is huge and it will continue beyond number one. Stay tuned.
BEYOND 30 by Edgard Rice Burroughs
It’s here at last and Airship 27 Production is thrilled to present to today’s pulp readers a long-forgotten tale by the Master of Adventure. In 1915, Edgard Rice Burroughs, the master of adventure fiction, wrote “Beyond 30,” a prophetic vision about our world locked onto a course certain to lead us to a horrendous World War. That global nightmare became a reality in ways the brilliant Burroughs couldn’t imagine and so he never returned to the apocalyptic setting he’d created. This was a rarity for a writer who loved to pen series, ala Tarzan, Barsoom, Pellucidar and many, many others. Given the opportunity to publish a long forogtten book by Edgar Rice Burroughs there was no way we were going to pass it up. Now Pulp Factory Award Winner and Art Director Rob Davis has embellished this wonderful novella in a brand new, beautifully illustrated edition available from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. It also sets the stage for the sequel written by Harding McFadden and coming soon from Airship 27 Production. Loyal Airmen, you don’t not want to me this one.
JIN & TONIK # 2
Finally, shades of Bruce Lee, as artist Cesar Feliciano delivers another great page from “Jin & Tonik” issue # 2. He’s really whipping through this one, Loyal Airmen and we couldn’t be happier.
And with that we wrap up a pretty full and hectic week. The Air Chief has just a little over one week left on his cancer radiation treatment and happy to report all is going well. Thanks for all your continued well wishes and prayers. Okay, see you all back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!
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