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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!

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!

FUN AT SCHOOL CON

On 15 May | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as we mentioned in last week’s Flight Log, artist pal Zane DeGaine and the Air Chief were guests this past week at the Fort Collins Compass School, a private charter school in the city, as they held their third annual Comic Con. Needless to say we had a blast. Above, teacher and con organizer, Dawn DuPriest snapped a selfie of the three of us.

THE HOW TO MAKE A COMIC WORKSHOP

Aside from the usual activity of having tables with our comics on them to sell, Zane and I joined forces to put on an informal hour long workshop on How to Make a Comic Book. Dawn snapped this pix just as we got started. The Air Chief offered up a brief history of American Comics, then the two of us, with Zane handling art chores, proceeded to have our audience attempt to draw their own comic page based on a page script the Air Chief had written for the event. Both of us were really impressed with the talent of these students.

FIXING R2-D2 & A LOVELY ELF

The show really was a lot of fun and the Air Chief managed to snap a couple of pictures. One of the lovely young lady decked out as elf with elegantly sculpted ears. There was so much cosplay at this show. Then right across from us were a few techy gentlemen who had built their own working remote-control R2-D2 robot. At one point, they took off his head piece and did a little repair work, which the Air Chief snapped. All in all it was a fun day and hopefully let’s invite us back next year.

A NEW JUNGLE ADVENTURE FROM AIRSHIP 27

The Air Chief is excited to announce the release of our newest pulp title from Airship 27 Production. Writers Michael Panush and Charles Santino offer up fresh, exciting jungle adventure set against the mysterious backdrop of the Amazon Jungle. Here are strange characters, exotic animals and danger everywhere. It’s a pulse-pounding tale illustrated by artist Ron Hill with a dynamic cover by Ted Hammond. Now available from Amazon in paperback and soon on Kindle. As every Loyal Airmen, thanks for your support.

CHIVALRY INC. Book One pg 12

And here’s colorist Mickey Clausen latest completed page from Chivalry Inc. book one. We are blown away. He’s now past the half-way mark, as the issue is 22 pages. We’ll keep you posted. Wahoo!

So there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Lots of projects moving forward smoothly. As of this weekend, the Air Chief has written nearly 25 pages of issue # 4 of our Crimson Nun series for Antarctic Press. This most likely be the biggest issue by the time we’ve wrapped it up. Then again, it is the finale of this opening sage of our new Crimson Nun. What happens next will be up to Ben Dunn. He’s got some big plans and the Air Chief has a few of his own stay tuned. Till next week, be well, be kind to one another and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

FUNDING GOAL REACHED!

On 8 May | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’re starting this week’s Flight Log with the good news that our Funding Campaign for BEYOND THE STARS reached its set goal of $750 this past Monday.

So with that done, our creative juices now turn to getting the sixth and final issue all wrapped up. But first we need to say…

THANKS YOU LOYAL AIRMEN, from the Air Chief, Andrea Bormida and Mike Belcher. As ever, none of us can do any of this fun stuff without your continued support. We never ever take it for granted and remain sincerely grateful. You Loyal Airmen are the best!!!

FUN ON FCBD

Once again, the Air Chief and Val were guest at our local comic shop this past Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, an event we look forward to every year. And as always all our Fort Collins and Loveland fans show up eager to see what’s new on the Air Chief’s table. This year the big sellers were chapter one of the Brother Bones Origin Graphic novel and issue # 2 of The Crimson Nun.

Of course we weren’t the only guests, as Fort Collins is the home to quite a few comic book creators. Among those there with us were fellow writers Aaron Powers (above left) and Todd Jones (above right) publisher of Wicked Awesome Tales. Always great to hang with these two amigos.

The biggest surprise of all was the return of two dear friends, Jon & Darcy Bonjour. The Air Chief first met Jon when he was still a teenager and he and his sister Jamie were making their own comics. Over the years we became friends and Jon even illustrated a Blimp & Turtle back-up story for an issue of Mr. Jigsaw. Then a few years ago he met Darcy, they fell in love and married. Then they up and moved to Texas and we lost touch with them. Seeing them setting up next to us as con neighbor was a truly wonderful surprise. We then learned they have moved back to Fort Collins after several years of globe-trotting from Texas to Hong Kong, on to Thailand and the New Zealand where they spent a year living and working. And now they are home and we couldn’t be happier. Jon is creative as ever and the Air Chief looks forward to lots more coffee shop get togethers. Finally, we hope all you Loyal Airmen also had similar experiences at your own local comic shops.

MY FAVORITE COMIC SERIES

If you’ve been following this blog for any length of time, Loyal Airmen, then you are by now well aware my favorite comic book series is “Mike Belcher’s The Man in the Mask.” So you have to know how delighted we were when the mail arrived a few days ago with both issues # 6 and # 7. Wahoo. Mike is a real old fashion comic creator and he does Man in the Mask mostly all by himself. That is writing, penciling, inking and lettering. Every now and then he does get help from his son, Aiden, on the coloring but can fill that job if required. The Air Chief has had the privilege of working with Mike on several small strips in the past and it was a real treat. In fact, Mike and the Air Chief have a big project due to be announced publicly. Hopefully before the end of this month. Meanwhile, as for these latest release we have Tommy Franklin taking on an arsonist in issue # 6 and then in #7 he investigates an underground, illegal fighting club. Trust me, you enjoy both of them. If you’re interested in picking them up, simply got to (IndyPlanet.com) as they carry every single issue. Or better yet, got the Man in the Mask Facebook page. Tell them the Air Chief sent you.

ANTARCTIC PRESS’ MR.JIGSAW & TOMORROW GIRL

Remember last year when we announced we’d written a Mr.Jigsaw story in which he teamed up with Antarctic Press’ Tomorrow Girl? And that we, yours truly and artist Gary Kato were going to do a version of the script and that Ben Dunn would produce one for Antarctic. Ours was completed rather quickly, being like all our Jiggy issues, in black and white. Meanwhile Ben created a really cool add for it for the back of “The Crimson Nun” # 1. (See above left.) So here’s the update, Ben relegated the script to a new artists wanting to work for Antarctic and he is slowly turning in pages. Above right is this person’s page number # 1. Whereas we don’t know his/her name, but the manga like styling, our best guest is the artist is from the East, most likely the Philippines, which over the past years has produced lots of fantastic graphic artists who’ve gone on to work in American comics. Note, once the Antarctic issue is finished being illustrated and lettered, it will be colored. Honestly, Loyal Airmen, we can’t wait to see the final completed issue. We’ll keep you all posted.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 3

COMPASS CHARTER SCHOOL CON FORT COLLINS 9th May

Finally, tomorrow the Air Chief, along with fellow comic creators Zane DeGaine and Mike Baron will be guest at the Fort Collins Compass Charter School and their one day comic con put on by the teachers and students. Looks to be tons of fun. The Air Chief will be doing a morning workshop on “How to Make Comics” and Mike will do one in the afternoon. (https://compasscomiccon.com/) Going to be tons of fun.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen. As you can see, May has kicked into a truly busy month here at Hangar 27. Lots of activity which we love. Thanks for stopping by and as usual, we hope to see you back here next Friday. Till then, God bless. Ron Over & Out!

BROTHER BONES AT LAST!

On 1 May | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as we slide out of April and into May, there’s a whole lot happening at Hangar 27 so take off your hats, pull up a chair and let’s get to it.

CHIVALRY INC.

Last week we posted one of the finished colored pages as done by the super talented Mickey Clausen. Well Loyal Airmen, here’s another one. And as of this past Monday, Mickey had finished coloring half of issue # 1. We’re also told, penciller Javier Lugo is hard at work on issue # 3. You might say this one is really whipping along.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

BROTHER BONES BOOK # 1

And now for the big news of the past week, our copies of Book # 1 of the BROTHER BONES ORIGIN GRAPHIC NOVEL arrived!!! Wahoo, with alternate covers. The first, by the book’s artist, Joe Arnold, as seen above, and the second, by our amigo Rob Davis, who did the entire art for the fantastic 8 pg back up story in this volume. This comic is fifty black and white pages of pure pulp action and horror. It is the first time our character, Brother Bones the Undead Avenger’s origin story has ever been adapted to comics. All thanks to Joe suggesting we get it done. As of now, the Air Chief is happy to announce Chapter Two is almost completely finished and we hope the have the Kickstarter campaign sometime mid June, so stay tuned Loyal Airmen. Lots more good stuff heading your way. Also, THANKS to all you Loyal Airmen who made this first (of 3) chapters possible.

THE STORY OF EVERYTHING

Finally will wrap up this week by applauding an amazing documentary that tackles the greatest questions of all : Why are we here? Who created the universe? The galaxies? Where did the Big Bang come from? Is there an intelligence behind the world we exist in? “The Story of Everything” details the evidence of a truly benevolent creator as presented by some of the greatest scientific minds in the world today. Several even identified themselves as atheist before their search for the truth uncovered facts that simply could not be denied. Here’s the film’s on-line promo. “The Story of Everything is a cinematic exploration of the cosmos that reveals the hidden hand behind our universe. From the precise laws that govern the stars to the intricate patterns found in every living cell, the film traces evidence of intentional design throughout nature. Whether examining distant star-forming clouds or the spiral structure of DNA, we discover a consistent signature woven into the fabric of existence.” Can you say WOW, Loyal Airmen? Note this film is only available to the public Fandango and will only be in release for one short week.

And with that we’ll wrap things, thanking God our Lord, for another amazing week…and for every single one of you. Ron – Over & Out!

PODCAST # 104 & CHIVALRY INC.

On 24 Apr | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well this week has certainly been a busy one for the Air Chief. Back on Monday afternoon, we, and Chief Engineer Rob Davis recorded our 104th episode of the Airship 27 Podcast, and here’s the link on You Tube. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIAYXb74UwM) Check it out if you’ve got time, we have lots of fun doing these.

CHIVALRY INC.

After long hiatus, production our 3 issue mini-series CHIVARLY INC. for Silverline Comics is back in full production, with Mickey Clausen adding his gorgeous to the pages illustrated by Javier Lugo. Who knows, this first issue just may see the light of day before the year is out. All fingers crossed.

CAMPAIGN STRETCH GOAL

So some updates on our Funding Campaign for BEYOND THE STARS # 5. At this writing we are close to 75% achieving our $750 goal. Feeling confident we are going to make it, Silverline Publisher Roland Mann suggested we offer up a Stretch Goal. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a Stretch Goal is a special added incentive added for those pledging if a even higher money amount is reached. So…if we reach $,1000 on this campaign, everyone who pledged, regardless of the amount, will receive a free digital copy of our first Captain Hazzard novel, “Python Men of the Lost City.” It was one of our very first pulp novels. Here’s the link again, (https://www.fundmycomic.com/campaign/985/bts5) Let’s make this happen, Loyal Airmen.

While on the subject of the Funding Campaign, thought this would be a good place to show off alternate cover B. This one done by none other than Airship 27’s own Chief Engineer Rob Davis. Next week we’ll be sure to show alternate cover C.

And there you have this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll hopefully see you back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

On 17 Apr | '2026

Part of the fun of the show was a game the Air Chief whipped up in which our co-host, while going through sketches of the characters from the series had to guess who actually created them, either Andrea or the Air Chief. It was a fun hour and we hope you’ll check it out. Podcast Game for BTS # 5 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y_DojBZupM) As for the funding campaign, our goal is $750 and we’ve till May 5th. Here’s the link. (https://www.fundmycomic.com/campaign/985/bts5)

Finally a reminder, if you’re at all interested in picking up issue # 5, but weren’t aware of the series before now and don’t have the first four, no worries. At the Funding site, you can still pick issues 1, 2, 3 & 4. So we’ve got you covered, Loyal Airmen.

NEW SINBAD VOL 9 IN DEVELOPMENT

It was beginning to look like our entire Flight Log this week would be focused on BEYOND THE STARS # 5, not that that is a bad thing. But you Loyal Airmen know, we do like to spice things up by giving you peeks into multiple projects not only happening with the Air Chief, but good old Airship 27 Production as well. So yesterday Art Director Rob Davis informed me that artist Gary Kato had turned in all 12 black and white illustrations for the latest SINBAD – The New Voyages # 9. This volume features two full length novellas. One by Richard C. White and the other by Fred Adams Jr. As we pen this entry, Rob is now busily assembling the PDF version to send to our proof reader. When ready, the cover will be done by Michael Youngblood who blew us all away with his cover for Vol 8. Fingers crossed these latest adventures of the Nubian Sailor Prince and his international crew of the Blue Nymph will be released sometime in early May.

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, this week’s Flight Log. Before signing off, we have to let you know the funding campaign for BTS # 5 passed the half-way mark to its goal in just twenty-four hours. We’re amazed. Here’s hoping by next week’s Log, we can report goal reached. Thanks so very, very much for your continued support and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

MORE CRIMSON NUN

On 10 Apr | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, and Happy Easter. In the Catholic Church, we celebrate Easter for 50 days, so there’s lots of wonderful blessings and graces still ahead of us, Loyal Airmen. And this week we’re thrilled to show of some artist Jesse Thomas’ new pages for “The Crimson Nun” # 3. Above his one of his pencil pages features our heroine and one Sister Clara, named for an old nun Valerie and the Air Chief knew when attending parochial grade school many, many years ago.

And here’s one in vibrant color where the action is heating up fast. Jesse is such a gifted artist and he has brought so much to this story, we are forever grateful. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we’ll keep you posted as progress continued. Meanwhile, the Air Chief himself has started writing issue # 4. Wish us luck.

HERE COMES BTS # 5!!!

Finally, after lots of hard and fine work, artist Andrea Bormida has completed issue # 5 of our 6 part sci-fi series BEYOND THE STARS and it has been fully colored. Then Mike Belcher lettered all of it and handed it all off to Silverline Comics publisher Roland Mann, who did a bang-up putting it altogether. Next Tues, April 14th, Roland will launch the funding campaign and you know we’ll have it all plastered across the internet that same night. Never mind having a launch party that night our Silverline Tues Night Podcast. So, to get all you Loyal Airmen wound up about this all, we thought we’d give you a sneak peek at one of the three covers that will be offered for your support. The one above will be Cover A as it Andrea’s own dramatic cover featuring one of our science warriors in combat with an animated stone statue. Shades of Ray Harryhausen! Trust me, Loyal Airmen, you won’t want to miss this all action issue.

CHERISHED FAVORITES

During our recent vacation in Florida, Valerie and the Air Chief had the genuine fun of meeting folks with little babies. All of them were adorable. As grandparents of now full grown adults in their 30s and 20s, we miss the joy of being with such little ones. Enough so that on our return home, Val suggested we send each a copy of the Air Chief’s one and only children’s book, “Jamie & the Fished Eyed Goggles,” which we did ages ago with our Mr. Jigsaw artist, Gary Kato. (Cover above.) Okay, so we ordered a handful from Amazon and in the past two days packaged them up and mailed them off to these young parents in hopes that one day they will read them to their children. At one point in all this, the Air Chief took a few minutes to simply sit down and re-read one. It had been a long time since we done so. Often, when we writers look back on old works, we tend to find our mistakes and cringes a great deal. Happily that was not the case here, in that we feel the story still hold up remarkably well and how can you go wrong with Gary Kato art? So, we thought we’d repost it here for you Loyal Airmen, should any of you be young parents or happy old grandparents. The book is very much still available and we think you’d enjoy it. Thanks for listening to my pitch.

Okay, Loyal Airmen, that’s pretty much it for this week’s Flight Log. As ever thanks for dropping by, and please do mark your calendar for next Tues 14th May, and our Silverline Podcast where we are going to show off a whole lot of BEYOND THE STARS artwork. You won’t want to miss it. Till then, take care and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

HAPPY EASTER!!!

On 2 Apr | '2026

Greetings Loyal Airmen, obviously today is not Friday. So why is the Air Chief posting our weekly Flight Log a day early? Because tomorrow, is of course Good Friday and the start of Easter weekend. As a person of faith, we choose to spend tomorrow in contemplation and prayer; reflecting on the death of our savior Jesus Christ on a cross. for the salvation of our souls.

CONGRATS PULP FACTORY AWARDS WINNERS!

Meanwhile last weekend was the annual Windy City Pulp & Paper Show in Chicago and many of our New Pulp colleagues gathered for a rollicking fun time. Sadly, due to a conflicting schedule, Airship 27 was unable to attend and we sorely missed being there. Thanks to PF members Jonathan Sweet & Brian K. Morris, the Pulp Factory Awards ceremony went on without a hitch that Friday night and above is the list of all the winners. We want to congratulate all of them, including all the nominees this year. Over 500 members of the Facebook Pulp Factory voted, proving New Pulp is very much alive. well and growing. As for Windy City, count on seeing us next year for sure!

PROJECT HAIL MARY

Towards the end of last year, our grandson Alex gave me a sci-fi book he’d just finished reading. Said it was one of the best books he’d ever read. That’s saying a lot. For the longest time, Alex just wasn’t a reader. So naturally we were curious as to what kind of story had captivated him so much. As it turned that book was “Project – Hail Mary” by writer Andy Weir; the same fellow who wrote the highly popular “The Martian” later turned into a successful movie with Matt Damon. “Project – Hail Mary” is a really fast paced adventure wherein scientist from around the world discover our sun is dying out; some unknown cause is devouring it. Not only our sun, but also all the other suns in the galaxy; except one. Tau Ceti is not dimming at all and seems to be impervious to whatever is ravishing its sister stars. Solution, sent a team of astronauts to Tau Ceti to learn what is its secret. That’s the basic premise and along the way, we meet Ryland Grace, a high-school science teacher who eventually discovers the “thing” destroying our sun and the fact that it can be used as a super-propellant to get our astronauts to a sun light years away from Earth. Grace is played perfectly by Ryan Gosling in the movie; one he personally optioned four years ago when it was still in manuscript form before publication. There’s so much more to this story, including Grace’s encounter with an alien on a similar mission as his own to relate here. Let me just say we loved the book and earlier this week, with most of our family in tow, we saw the film adaptation together. All of us came out of the theater with huge smiles on our faces. “Project – Hail Mary” is one of those old style sci-fi books we discovered while in high school, when sci-fi was all about the hope and challenge of the future for all mankind. Instead of the stupid, dark & gloom dystopian bullshit that it serves up these days. That’s why this book and movie is such a breath of fresh air and audiences around the world are making it one of the biggest movie hits in decades. But don’t take our word for it, go out and see it for yourself. You can thank us later.

THE SILVERLINE TUES NIGHT PODCAST

Finally, we just wanted to take a minute to tell you Loyal Airmen about the podcast show the Air Chief has been co-host the past year hosted by the Silverline Comics outfit. It’s pretty much five comic creators getting together every Tues night to discuss a topic geared to help new would-be comic creators, writers and artists, by giving them things we’ve learned in our own careers. Left to right above is Tim TK, a young writer and the show’s moderator, Jose Fuentes, a Kubert school graduate artist/inker, Brent Larsen a published writer of both comics and screenplays, then in bottom row, yours truly, the old man of the group and lastly, professional comic colorist David Rios. The shows are live Tues night, but then post to You Tube the following Wed morning at this link. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdUHCi7YKLk) If you are at all interested in the how comics are made, please join us, either live on Tues night or check out the shows on You Tube. We’re hoping to build our audience and if you’ve any ideas for a topic you’d like us to cover in a future episode, let us know.

And there you have it for this early Flight Log entry, Loyal Airmen. All of us at the Airship 27 Hangar want to wish all of you a truly joyous and wonderful Happy Easter. May the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ bring peace and love leading you to His eternal heavenly home. God bless, Ron – Over & Out!