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THE MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN KATO

On 24 Jul | '2026

THE GREAT AIRSHIP RACE Pg TWO

And with Pg 2, here’s the Air Chief and his co-pilots, Gordon Dymowski (with bowtie) and Brant Fowler. Things are heating up. Next week Pg 3!

THE BLACK TERROR 2.0

We are happy to announce our work on BLACK TERROR 2.0 issue number one is nearly complete. All the art by Dell Barras is done and the coloring by David Rios. We’ve a few pages to color then it will be off to Ben Dunn at Antarctic Press for his verdict. All fingers crossed he likes what he sees.

R.I.P. MITCH BYRD

We were truly saddened to hear of the passing of comic artist Mitch Byrd. Many years ago we crossed paths with Mitch when involved with the small independent comic out of Maine, Alpha Production. Mitch was just breaking into the business and we wrote a little 5 pg horror script called “Repeat Performance” and Mitch drew it perfectly. In appeared in one of Alpha’s anthologies and then years later in our own, “Ron Fortier’s Tales of the Macabre.” That’s pg # 1 above along with picture of Mitch. There was no doubt Mitch would make it to the big time and at DC Comics he became popular on the book, “Guy Gardner – Warrior.” He was a truly talented artist and good soul. Rest in peace old friend, you will be missed.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As always thanks for stopping by and checking out the doings at Hangar 27. With fingers crossed, we should have a new pulp title to announce next week. So until stay out of the heat, be well and God Bless. Ron- Over & Out!

NEBRASKA HERE WE COME!

On 17 Jul | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you’ll recall, the Air Chief posted the above add only a few weeks ago. Well, now there’s only 24 hrs left to shout it out. Tomorrow, artist Zane DeGaine will be guests at the High-Plains mini-con held at the Broken Spoke restaurant in Minatare, NE. Yup, we’re going to open up shop in an eatery and yes, it’s a first time for both us. The Air Chief will take photos. Count on it. The show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m and in the middle of that, at 2 p.m. we’ll be giving a panel on how to make comics. Should be a fun day. Here’s hoping any of you Loyal Airmen living in that neck of Nebraska will stop by and say hi.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 Issue # 4

Wahoo, artist Rob Davis just turned in the latest page on issue # 4 of THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 and at long last, we get to see the Bomber Queen flying back into action with our team of lovely heroes. This series really has the Air Chief wound for sound.

THE GREAT AIRSHIP RACE

Long ago the Air Chief was the member of a fun monthly podcast called Zone 4. We’ve mentioned that before in the past. During that time, the entire Zone 4 website crew had fun coming up with our own cartoon adventures until the Air Chief thought it might be fun to do a little 5 page adventure strip. Above is Page # 1 of THE GREAT AIRSHIP RACE and it showcases pals Erik Radcliffe and Bill Gladman, now morphed into Erik Von Ratfink and Gil Badman. We thought you Loyal Airmen would get a kick out of seeing it, so we will post a page a week here. Hope you enjoy it. Do let us know if you’d like to see more such strips.

COMING SOON FROM AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and look for us here again next Friday morning. God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

BROTHER BONES 2 IN THE WORKS

On 10 Jul | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’ve some exciting news for you this week. Artist Joe Arnold informed us recently that production has begun on issue # 2 of the “Brother Bones Origin Graphic Novel.” As with the first book, Joe will be doing the primary art on the main story and there will be a short bonus back up Bones tales. This one is called “Party Girl” and Joe recruited artist Gabriel Rearte to do the art for it. He will also be providing the alternate cover for this issue. Above are three of early roughs for what that cover might look. If you think we’re excited about this, you’re on the money. Joe hopes to launch the Kickstarter shortly. Once again, thanks so much to all you Brother Bones fans who made chapter one such a huge success.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 3

And here’s another inked page from issue # 3 by artist Jesse Thomas. This quiet scene depicts Gabrielle having breaking with Pope Pius XI after the dramatic events of the previous night. They are soon to become dear friends and he has some very amazing plans for her future. Oh, yeah.

And believe it or not, Loyal Airmen, that’s pretty much it for this week. Nothing unusual in regards to being a comic writer in the independent market. Oftentimes it takes weeks, even months before we’ll see progress on a comic. Roughs take time. Pencils take time. Inks take time. Colors take time. And even then after you’ve finished your issue, there’s the whole funding issue which tags on even more waiting time. So yes, the Air Chief is working on 8 different comic series, and the two pieces above show that. As for the other six, they are in various stages of development.

On a positive note, our small reading postcast from Rod Davis, First Flights, where we read from the first chapter of Brother Bones has gotten 70 hits. Wow. Just wow. And we’re happy to report lots more Airship 27 writers have signed on to do more of the fun shorts, so stay tuned. And finally, after years of nurturing an single idea in our mind, this past week the Air Chief began writing a new novel. We don’t want to give away much more, save to say it’s not fiction but based on the exploits of several truly amazing people after World War I. Intrigued? Good. Ha. Until next time, stay well. Ron – Over & Out!

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

On 3 Jul | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as is the routine, we creators get our copies of our comics long after all our supporters have gotten theirs. Which is only right, as without them, we simply couldn’t publish these titles. So as happy as the Air Chief is here, deliriously so in fact, we are extremely grateful to each and everyone one of you purchased a copy and help make our funding campaign a success. Alright, so now stay tuned as the final chapter of this sage, issue # 6 is almost finished according to artist Andrea Bormida and believe me, it will blow your socks off. It’s the big battle climax the entire tale has been building up to. Trust me, Loyal Airmen, you won’t want to miss it.

AIRSHIP 27 TEST FLIGHTS LAUNCHES

Some big news here, Loyal Airmen. At the end of our last Airship 27 Podcast, Chief Engineer Rob suggested the possibility of our producing short, dedicated podcast wherein one of our many talented Airship 27 writers would read from their published works. After the show, Rob and the Air Chief continued the discussion until we volunteered to be the first reader. We chose to read the first chapter from our first ever Brother Bones story, “The Bone Brothers” which kicked off the very first book, “Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger.” The reading took 12 minutes and after that file was set, Rob then proceeded to dress it up with lots and lots of illustrations from our Brother Bones files to enhance the reading with visuals. It is now completed and can be found at you tube here. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fViMwXS-x_w) Naturally we hope you’ll check it out whereby will gauge your reactions and then decide which writer will tag to do the next one. Wish us luck, Loyal Airmen. These are fun.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 3

Was looking through our Crimson Nun files for issue # 3 now in production and the more we studied Jesse Thomas’ pencils, the more we appreciated his amazing storytelling talent. We know we’ve posted the above page before Loyal Airmen, both inked and colored. But we really just wanted to give you some honest to goodness eye-candy with the dynamics of Jesse’s gorgeous pencils. Enjoy.

HIGH PLAINS MINI-CON

Finally, here’s a quick ad for my forthcoming appearance at the one-day comic con in Minatare, Nebraska, put on by our pal Matthew Rhys. As most of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief stop doing big scale shows long ago. They were too crowded, devoted to movie and TV personalities rather than comics and really became no fun at all. In the past few years we were left the Wicked West Con held in the Spring. The Free Comic Book Day at the local comic shop and the Rocky Mountain Con in Nov. Well there was no Wicked West this year. Free Comic Book Day was its usual blast, but as of today, there has been absolutely no word on whether Rocky Mountain will happen this year or not. As you can see our public appearances have begun to shrink. Never mind we didn’t do the Windy City Pulp this year due conflicting schedules for partner Rob. Thus when Matthew hit us up early about his little one day show, we signed on immediately. And we won’t be attending alone, as one of the other guests is our Fort Collins creator neighbor artist Zane DeGaine. We’ll be riding up with him. He’s got a whopping big old truck that can easily haul both our comic boxes and banners etc. So there you have it, Loyal Airmen, if any of you are anywhere near Minatare, Ne. on the 18th of July, why not come on over and say hi. We’d love to meet you for sure.

HAPPY 4th OF JULY

Finally, Saturday is our country’s 250th birthday. Happy Birthday USA, land of the free because of the brave. May God continue to bless you. Amen. Ron – Over and Out!

BARRY BASKERVILLE # 10

On 26 Jun | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you’ll recall, last week we mentioned that our tenth volume in the children’s book series, “Barry Baskerville and the Rare Coin” was within days of release. Well later that Friday it was up bright as a daisy on Amazon. Above the is the cover. As ever, story by creator Richard Kellogg with all art by Gary Kato and book design and layouts by Art Director Rob Davis. So yes, go to Amazon and check it out, along with the previous exciting nine books. These are perfect young children from 5 to 8. And as ever Loyal Airmen, thanks so much for your continued support.

DRAGON ON A STAMP

One of the greatest martial artist and film stars ever to wow an audience was the late Bruce Lee. Via his role as Kato on the short-lived and much lamented TV series, The Green Hornet, Lee introduced the world to Chinese fighting ala Kung Fu. Then he went on to make the classic feature, “Enter the Dragon,” before dying suddenly. Last Saturday the Air Chief received a really sweet and funny Father’s Day card from daughter Heather that featured Marvel’s wacky hero, Deadpool. We loved it. Then as we were starting to put away the envelope it arrived in we realized the character on the stamps was nothing by the legend himself, the one and only Bruce Lee. Wow. It’s an honor long over due. Thanks US Postal, you got it right this time. And to you, Heather dear.

THE AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST EPISODE # 105

The episode # 105 of the Airship 27 Podcast is now up at You Tube. Rob and the Air Chief talk about our recent releases and what new titles we have in the works. See link below. Enjoy.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Iwr91I4QY)

MR. JIGSAW MANGA STYLE

Reminding all you Loyal Airmen, the Mr. Jigsaw story being produced by Ben Dunn at Antarctic Press, using the same script we wrote for issue # 19 of the Mr. Jigsaw issue from Redbud Studio is still happening. Above is one of the current pages turned in by the “unknown” artist. Hopefully Ben will provide us with a name eventually. Ben says we’ve ten pages left and then….we shall see. At one point the idea of coloring “both” versions and publishing back to back was discussed. Again, we’ll leave this Ben. Still it is just plain weird seeing these pages done manga-style. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen.

CRIMSON NUN # 3

BIG BOY IN SCRANTON

Back in the early 1940, the Union Pacific Railroad had a few dozen giant locomotives built. They were nicknamed Big Boys. Today there is only a handful of them remaining. One such in the past month has crossed the country in conjunction with America’s 250th Birthday Celebration and two weeks ago arrived in Scranton, PA. Naturally its stops along the way has drawn thousands of viewers and among those in Scranton was our son Scott, a devoted train-enthusiast. His grandfather was a conductor all his life on the Boston & Maine Railroad. Anyways, Scott drove the two hours from his Connecticut home to view this marvel of engineering and snapped a few photos ala the one above. He tells me, this Big Boy will continue on per the plan of its arriving in Philadelphia on July 4th. Now that should be a sight to behold. Thanks Scott, for sharing this amazing experiences with us.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As you can see, rather a busy one at that. As always thanks for stopping by and checking out what’s new. Hope to see you back here next Friday. Until then God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

CHIVALRY’S NEW INKER

On 19 Jun | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we thought we’d kick off this week’s Flight Log with some exciting news. We have a new inker on our 3 issue CHIVARLY, INC. mini-series now in production for Silverline Comics. Inker Erick Dotson, joins pencil artist Javier Lugo with issue # 2. Above is one of his first pages for the issue. He’ll be joined by colorist Mickey Clausen and letterer Mike Belcher. At this writing issue # 1 is now having covers done up, having been completed drawn and colored. Stay tune, it’s getting real.

THE BOY WHO WOULD BE SHERLOCK HOLMES

As most of you Loyal Airmen are well aware, for several years now, Airship 27 has been published the children’s books series, “Barry Baskerville Boy Detective,” as written by Richard Kellogg and illustrated by the terrific Gary Kato. The series follows the adventures of a young detective who idolizes his hero, Sherlock Holmes. Gary recently turned in the artwork for the 10th Barry Baskerville mystery and at present Art Director Rob Davis is assembling those pieces with the manuscript. With fingers crossed, the book could be up at Amazon by week’s end. If that happens, we’ll promote it at the end of this Flight Log. If not, then for sure next week. Stay tuned.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 # 3

At long last! Boston Bombers Vol 2 # 3 is available at Indy Planet.
(https://www.indyplanet.com/the-boston-bombers-v2-3) The Air Chief had to laugh, as artist Rob Davis calls this our romance issue. He’s now working on issue # 4 while yours truly tries to whip issue # 5 into shape. No rest for us comic creators.

AN EXPENSIVE DREAM

Recently Antarctic Press Managing Editor, Ben Dunn, has been playing with doing up AI models of his company’s popular characters. You can imagine the Air Chief’s surprise when he opened his email a few days ago and found the above image awaiting him. We almost fell out of our chair. This is such a sweet Crimson Nun action figure complete with her two custom made automatics. Oh yeah. Sadly, the reality of what it would cost to purchase such a piece from any of the companies out there today would be astronomical. At least way, way…way more than either Ben or the Air Chief have in our piggy banks. But hey, as we told Ben, we can always dream.

UPDATE – BLACK TERROR 2.0

and finally we wrap up this week’s entry with this great peek at the new Black Terror comic the Air Chief is working on with artist Dell Barras. Above are illos of the “old” version from the Golden Age and on the right is our new interpretation of the character. Our colorist on the new series, David Rios, previewed that stunning cover this past week on the Silverline Tuesday Night Podcast show, on which the Air Chief is a co-host. Needless to say he wowed our fellow host and viewers. David has only a few pages left to color to completion and the lettering is almost finished as well. Can’t wait to assemble the package and get it off to Antarctic Press. Keep those fingers crossed, Loyal Airmen.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Want to end with giving a loving shout-out to all the Dads out there for Father’s Day. Being a Dad has always been a blessing to yours truly. You are all heroes. Thank you. Ron – Over & Out!

THE STREETS OF GOLGOTHA

On 12 Jun | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’re going to kick off this week’s Flight Log with announcing a new Airship 27 Production book that is truly near and dear to yours truly. After producing well over 300 titles in the past 15 years, this one was special to both the Air Chief, and Art Director Rob Davis.

Writer/editor Jamie Ramos was a remarkable fellow who battle health issues most of his adult life. But he never once let those define him, remaining a kind, warm-hearted soul; devoted husband and father and true and loyal friend to all who know him in the New Pulp community. Before he passed away last year, Jamie was in the process of putting together a brand new anthology to be called “Streets of Golgotha,” that would include stories by the cream of the crop in regards to today’s pulp scribes; Teel James Glenn, Nancy Hansen, Lee Houston Jr., Wayne Carey, Bobby Nash and Jamie himself. Whereas his malady accelerated and one day we received a message that simply said, “Thanks for being my friend.” The Air Chief had heard both of his condition and the project he’d been working on. We reached out to one of those writers on the team and had him convey to Jamie that he could rest as we’d take on completing the project. A week later Jamie passed. And so for the past months, the Air Chief and Rob began assembling the stories, getting spot illustrations completed and assigning the amazing Adam Shaw to do our cover, oh, and we changed the title slightly. As of today, June 8th, 2026, “Jamie Ramos’ Streets of Golgotha,” is now available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Seeing it there this morning, the Air Chief said a little prayer, feeling that Jamie was looking down on all of us with this huge smile on his face and giving us a big old THUMBS UP!! God bless, my friend. We miss the heck out of you.

MORE FROM CRIMSON NUN # 3

As the story of Gabrielle Cauxvette unfolds, she finds herself in the Vatican encountering members of the Pope’s own private army, the Swiss Guards. Turien and Jaques are two such recruits in training. Art as ever by the talented Jesse Thomas. The history of the Swiss Guards is fascinating and there will be an essay about them in the fourth and final issue. Meanwhile, we have to get issue # 3 finished and out!

PENCIL PAGE

YELLOW MOON

The joy of today’s independent market is that super talented creators no longer need the approval of big-shot editors to make and publish their comics. One such fantastic new offering is “Yellow Moon” a gripping western/horror graphic novel by writer Clayton Rozman of Colorado. The art and colors are by artist Bruno Letizia whose work reminds me of David Mazzucchelli of “Batman Year One” fame. They are joined by Ferran Delgato on colors and Chris Stevens edits the entire package. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, this is a winner right out of the gate. Go support this fantastic project. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/octoberpress/yellow-moon-a-western-horror-graphic-novel)

And there you have it for this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. Lots of good stuff out there, we hope you’ll check it out and of course join us back here next Friday. Till then be well and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

FUN FANDOM THROUGH TIME

On 5 Jun | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, over the years the Air Chief has been involved with one form of fandom or another and along way work with some really fun fellow comic fans. Upon first moving to Fort Collins, we hooked up with the ZONE 4 weekly podcast (voice only then) along with three other great comic guys. As our avatars on the show, we became the Air Chief, then Brant Fowler was the Swordsman, John Wilson the Superhero and Gordon Dymowski the Jedi Knight. We had so much fun and this show lasted several years. After it wrapped up, Rob and the Air Chief opted to start the Airship 27 Podcast.

AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST

Along the way to lift off, we also brought along Radio Rita. Note, in the beginning, Rob was still a novice at all this podcast stuff and Brant jump into the help us get rolling. So for maybe a half-year, Brant would record the shows for us until Rob was comfortable to take it on himself. And as of now, we are 105 episode into that series. Thanks Brant, we’re forever grateful.

THE SILVERLINE TUES NIGHT SHOW

And finally, last year, the Air Chief signed on to co-host the Silverline Podcast on Tuesday night joining the team of Tim TK (writer) Jose Fuentes (artist) David Rios (Colorists). It’s been a wild couple of months and we’re fitting in nicely with these talented creators as The Old Dude. Hahahaha.

THE CRIMSON NUN SKETCHES

Although very busy at his day job, Crimson Nun artist Jesse Thomas, managed to find some minutes to do up a few new sketches. Here he gives us Gabrielle Cauxvette as a young lady in the middle of her training to be a special agent of Pope Pius VI.

And here is His Holiness. Note, although Gaby and our story is fictional, Pius XI was real and in the final issue of our mini-series, we will be featuring a short essay on his life and times hope you Loyal Airmen will find interesting. He truly was a holy man for his turbulent times.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2 Update

Above is artist Rob Davis’ pg # 3 of THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2, Issue # 4. Now we’re aware all of you are still waiting for us to get Issue # 3 out. Unfortunately the good people at Ka-Blam Printing have yet to post it on their retail site (IndyPlanet.com) where you can get issues # 1 & # 2. Of that Rob and the Air Chief have absolutely no control. Trust me Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief checks that on-line site once a week and is just as, if not more, frustrated as you are. The second it post and we see it there, we’ll cut the link and plaster it all over the internet to include right here and of course our Facebook pages. Hang in there, it has come sometime. Meanwhile Rob continues his work on issue # 4 while the Air Chief is pounding away on the script to issue # 5. Ah, the foibles of independent comics. Ha.

And that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen, as always, thanks for stopping by. We hope wherever you reside you are all enjoying this nice summer weather. Till next week, Ron – Over & Out!

WHEN ORIGINALITY STRIKES!!

On 29 May | '2026

Creating Loyal Airmen, hope all of you had an enjoyable Memorial Day holiday off of work. Time to visit relatives and remember all those brave men and women who fought and died for our country. Dear Lord in Heaven, let us never ever forge them. We owe them everything. Okay, so let’s see what’s been happening around old Hangar 27 and we kick off with a truly remarkable book.

THE EDGE OF BORDEN

Shortly after moving out here to Colorado years ago, Valerie and the Air Chief met a young comic creator named Jon Bonjou and his sister Jamie. All of us ended up tabling at Free Comic Book Day often, then Jon took one of our “How to Write Comics & Graphic Novels” classes we teaching at a local community college. He was extremely talented, both in writing and drawing and all of us became fast friend. Several years ago time sped up and Jon met the lovely Darcy and they were married. Shortly thereafter they packed their bags and took off for Texas. Needless to say all of us here missed them greatly. Then several weeks ago, after several years gone, Jon and Darcy returned and after having been to Hong Kong, Thailand and finally a year in New Zealand. All of us were thrilled to have them home again. So much so that the Air Chief suggested to Jon that we have coffee at a local coffee shop to really catch up. And we did. Now imagine our surprise when, after taking our seats at a table by a window, Jon plops this massive, 180 pg comic book on the table and says, “I brought you something.” This is a project he’d been working on for more than a year on his Patreon page and after having completed six full color chapters of the story decided to get printed up and are we ever glad he did. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, “Edge of Bordertown” is by far one of the most outrageous, insane original comics we’ve ever had the joy of reading. The basic plot is the world has gone CRAZY. Yup, all sanity has somehow disappeared and the survivors are forced to deal with living plant monsters, ghost highways, flying whales, giant dice that roll around the landscape destroying houses and a hero who happens to have an octopus head named Q’Rakkan!!!! Okay, so our initial reaction was, “Poor Jon has lost his mind.” Then we started reading, turning the pages…and lo and behold that crafty rascal sucked us in totally. Really. There is more imagination in one page of this book then hundreds of other comic titles combined. And don’t try to label it. It is weird, funny. touching, insightful and yeah, sometimes scary. Thing is it all works and it is SO unique, one quickly understand only Jon could have created it. It is his vision and we applauded it soundly. If you are interested, you can pick up a copy here. (https://www.jonbonart.com/shop) Tell them the Air Chief sent you.

SINBAD – The Voyages Vol 9

Don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, but Airship 27 Production has just released it’s new title, and it happens to be the 9th volume of our fun adventure series, “Sinbad – The New Voyages.” This volume features two full length novellas, one by Richard C. White and the other by Fred Adams Jr. Our buddy Gary Kato provides the wonderful nine black and white interior illustrations and Michael Youngblood turns in that great cover seen above. This is Michael’s second Sinbad cover for. We could be happier. As ever the book is now available up at Amazon in paperback and within a day or so it will be on Kindle. And again, thank you Loyal Airmen for your wonderful and continued support.

JIN & TONIK # 2 UPDATES

While chatting on FB Messenger last evening with fellow comic creator, Roland Mann, he posted the above image and asked if we recognized the characters and knew the artist responsible for it. Of course we immediately told him he had a wonderful, early sketch of Jin & Tonik, the two characters created by artist Cesar Feliciano, and now appearing in their own comic series as written by yours truly. Coincidentally that same day we received a note from colorist Matt Webb informing us that he was finished with several other obligations and was clearing his plate to get back to wrapping up the colors on “JIN & TONIK” issue # 2. Now that’s what we call great news. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen, we’ll keep you posted.

And there you have this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for dropping by. Here’s hoping all of us are in for some good, warm summer weather. Ron – Over & Out!

A World of Animals

On 22 May | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’re going to kick off this week’s Flight Log with the the story of two really wonderful, fun and heartwarming movies. All too often, we, and many others, bemoan Hollywood’s seeming inability to make decent, positive movies that lift the human spirit. That reflect our better natures and leaving us all feeling better for having seen them. So what were the odds two such rarities would emerge within weeks of each other for the Air Chief’s pleasure. The first we found on Netflix called, “Remarkable Bright Creatures” based on the novel by Shelby Van Pelt and starring Sally Fields. It is the charming tale of a lonely widow who spends her evenings as a janitor at a local aquarium where she befriends a giant pacific octopus she names Marcellus. It’s available on Netflix right now. The second out at theaters from Amazon Pictures is “The Sheep Detectives” based the on the novel “Three Bags Full” by German mystery writer Leonie Swann and the delightful cast (both real and voice) is headed by Hugh Jackman. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, these movies tell the stories of real people looking to help one another, to share their life experiences, tragedies and in the end most importantly, their love. The world is a harsh place, but knowing there are some folks in Hollywood who can still recognize “good” stories gives us much hope indeed.

REIGN OF THE CRIMSON HOWL

THE POWER OF COMICS

Recently the Air Chief has been posting more and more artwork from the now in-production comic book, “Chivalry, Inc.” issue # 1. Pencils are by Javier Lugo, inks by Jesse Hassan and colors by Mickey Clausen. Mickey has been ramping up his work and we are getting closer and closer to having the 22 pg issue completed and off to super letterer Mike Belcher. One day last week, in looking at one of the finished colored pages, my fell on the bottom panel and the Air Chief was instantly mesmerized. Everything about this one panel was simply perfect, from composition, to art. It all worked. A wounded woman hiding a gun under her hospital pillow. Wow. And here’s the thing Loyal Airmen, when the Air Chief wrote this script almost two years ago, this scene didn’t particularly stand out as anything important or dramatic. It was just the end of a scene…that’s all. Whereas Javier, Jesse and Mickey turned it into something jaw-dropping beautiful. Wow…again. And that, dear Loyal Airmen, is why the Air Chief loves comics!

AN AIRSHIP COFFEE???

So marked this under too funny for words. A few days ago, Valerie and the Air Chief were grocery shopping at a local store when going down the coffee aisle, we spotted this new product; AIRSHIP WHOLE BEAN COFFEE. Both of us were surprised and naturally curious. The Air Chief picked up a package and discovered it featured the flavors of caramel, vanilla and brown sugar. Way – way too sweet for our palettes. Both the Air Chief and Valerie prefer a more dark, robust brew. That and the price for the one bag was a bit too pricey as well. Would be curious of any of you Loyal Airmen have come across this new caffeine offering and if any of you have given it a try. If so, drop us a line. Meanwhile, we’ll admit we thought the logo and cover image were lots of fun.

And that’s our Flight Log for this week, Loyal Airmen. As always, thanks for stopping by and we hope you’ll check out our new Airship 27 titles. Till next week take care and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!