Greetings Loyal Airmen, things are rolling along fast at Hangar 27. It seems like just yesterday we were celebrating the new year, and now one month is already in the rear-view mirror. So let’s see what’s been popping both in comics and pulps.

JIN & TONIK

Artist Cesar Feliciano continues his wonderful coloring over his pages of JIN & TONIK # 1. He’s quickly reaching the finale of this issue. Then it’s lettering and off to our Kickstarter. The Air Chief is still wound up about this project. Stay tuned.

BEYOND THE STARS & VIDEO

So while artist Andrea Bormida continues to pump out fantastic new artwork for issue # 4 (above left) the Air Chief, along with the rest of the Silverline Comics crew has been busy promoting the new Kickstarter Campaign which will launch Feb 16 for BTS # 3. If you Loyal Airmen would like to check this out on You Tube, here’s the link. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxLzPnonsAc) Feel free to leave a comment. And as always thanks so much for your continued support.

APOCALYPSE 1952

Hopefully in another week or so, we’ll be announcing the release of writer Darryle Purcell’s latest thriller “Apocalypse 1953.” Where is isn’t quite ready yet, we thought we’d tease you Loyal Airmen with a look at the back over …and an interior illustration by artist Jeff Dobberpuhl.  This is Jeff’s first work for Airship 27 and it won’t be the last.

Alright, that’s it for this week, Loyal Airmen. We hope you’ll check out our video, brave men behind enemy lines sacrificed to bring you that video. Well, not really, but you get the idea. Chuckle. And as ever thanks for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well it looks like the New Year isn’t slowing up one bit as we’ve got lots of things to talk about today. So lets get rolling with a bit of humor.

Recently our grandson, Alex, has to register his truck and get new plates. No big deal, right. Then he goes to the DMV office and they hand him the plate above with the letters DWI.  Ha. Alex has a wonderful sense of humor and took it all in stride. For the record, he doesn’t drink and is an excellent drive. Of course we in the family all got a good laugh when he we first saw his new plate. As Valerie always says, “You can’t make this stuff up.”

THE NEW BTS KICKSTARTER IS COMING!

As we’ve indicated in previous weeks, the Kickstarter campaign for the third issue of BEYOND THE STARS by yours truly, artist Andrea Bormida and letterer Mike Belcher will kick off on Feb. Again, this is the half way mark in this six part mini-series. Above right, are pencils for pg # 4 of issue # 4. Rest assured, Andrea is whipping them out fast as all of us are geared up to see the entire series completed and in your hands, Loyal Airmen. But as ever we can’t do that without your support. As of today the actual pre-campaign is at the Kickstarter site at the link below. Please, go to it and hit the NOTIFY ME button. The Air Chief would love to see at least 100 taps on that button before we launch. As ever, thanks for all your continued support. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/silverlinecomics/bts3b2)

THE CRIMSON NUN

While artist Jesse Thomas continues his stellar work on THE CRIMSON NUN.  Wow, just wow!!

JIN & TONIK

Artist Cesar Feliciano continues to blow us away with the great coloring job he is doing on his pages for our new series JIN & TONIK. Last we looked, he’s only about ten pages left and then its on to lettering and Kickstarter. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, you are going to love JIN & TONIK.

CHIVALRY INC.

We’ve also been hyping another never before completed from our far away past, CHIVALRY, INC. A few weeks ago we plastered this page with illustrations of Valerie Chevalier by other artists who came and went on the project. Well today, this is something special. The official first poster for the Silverline Comics series coming your way as written by the Air Chief, Illustrated by Javier Lugo with letters by Mike Belcher and colors by Aiden Belcher. Note, Valerie lives in Montreal and that’s a hockey tee she’s wearing under her jacket. Can you guess which team? Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we’ve Javier’s first pencils for this three issue mini-series and they are beautiful.

And that’s a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by, and please spread the word about the new soon to start campaign for BEYOND THE STARS # 3!!

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as the Air Chief pens this entry, more than half the country is in a winter deep freeze while the North East Coast of New England has suffered tremendous flooding damage. Truly horrific and our prayers go out to those who have lost property and had to endure this truly cruel start to the new year. Here’s hoping, the weather changes to be better for all of soon.

CRIMSON NUN

Artist Jesse Thomas continues his amazing work on Crimson Nun # 1 and has completed (pencils, inks and colors) to the first eleven pages of this 22 page first issue. We are truly in awe of his work and he’s made our script look amazing. Thanks so much, Jesse.

BEYOND THE STARS

So here’s the first poster promotion for the completed Issue # 3.  Bringing us to the half-way mark in this six-issue series. The official Kickstarter campaign to fund the book will launch on Feb 16th. Worry not, Loyal Airmen we’ll keep you posted. And of course truly appreciated your support once again.

AND HERE COMES BTS # 4

Meanwhile in Italy, artist Andrew Bormida has begun work on his pencils for issue # 4 of BEYOND THE STARS. Here are the first three pages of that issue. We are psyched. His work on his project has been his best comic art ever.

JIN & TONIK

Artist Cesar Feliciano continues to do a bang-up job coloring his amazing artwork on “Jin & Tonik” issue # 1. This is our spy-thriller which runs to over 30 pgs. He’s got a bit more to do and then on to lettering. We remain really excited about seeing this series launched. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION

While on the pulp front, Airship 27 has just released its second title of 2024, “Domino Lady” Vol # 5. This one contains five stories of the sexy masked avenger by writers Gene Moyers, George Tackes, Gene Popa and Fred Adams Jr. Artist Warren Montgomery provided all the art for this one, from the twelve black and white interiors to that gorgeous color (above left). The book is now available in paperback and Kindle from Amazon. As ever, Loyal Airmen, thanks so very, very much for your continued support. Looks like the New Year is off to a great start.

And that’s a very full Flight Log for this week, Loyal Airmen. Thanks again for stopping by and we’ll see you again this time next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is terribly excited to let you know we’ve just released our first Airship 27 title for 2024. Oh yeah. Read on, McDuff! (See we had Shakespear in school too.)

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION presents –

Airship 27 is so proud to announce the release of “JEZEBEL JOHNSTON – CAPTAIN JOHNSTON” the 9th book in the Pirate Queen saga by Pulp Grandmaster Nancy Hansen. In this chapter, her daring Jezebel finally gets her own ship and crew and begins to start the next and most exciting stage of her pirate career. Historically accurate in every detail, these books are amazing reads. As ever our own Art Director Rob Davis provided all the black and white interior illustrations, (above middle) while Canadian artist Ted Hammond the absolutely gorgeous cover (above left). If it looks even a wee bit familiar, that’s only because way back when, Ted did the cover to Volume 4 “MOURNING STAR” for us and the Air Chief has always loved it. Enough so that we went back to Ted and asked if he’d like to do a second for us and he delivered. Note, this book is dedicated to his daughter, Stephanie, who passed away in 2023. As ever it is available now at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Again, thanks for your continued support Loyal Airmen.

LUKE COMBS CDS

The Air Chief has been a huge Luke Combs fan for several years now. We believe he’s one of the best Country Western singers/songwriters working today and love all of his music. Recently, we thought we’d use some of Santa presented Amazon cards and buy Luke’s two latest CDs, “Growing Up” and “Getting Old.” When ordering them on-line, we thought it strange that the cover photos looked very, very much alike. It wasn’t until the CDs arrived yesterday that we realized…putting them side by side, they formed on continuous image. (See above.) Someone in his group is a very creative designer. We can’t wait to listen to them. So, what kind of music do you Loyal Airmen enjoy?

MEET MAXI & ZUKO

Our son Kevin and his wife Melanie love bulldogs and ever since they married, they’ve always had one. Whereas several years back to acquired a brother a sister, Maxi and Zuko. A few days ago he sent along this pix of them which the Air Chief found adorable and wanted to share with all of you. Dogs are such beautiful and loving creatures.

Alright Loyal Airmen, we’ll end this short Flight Log here. Things have been hopping around the old Airship 27 Hangar with lots of great new story submissions coming our way. And after launching Nancy’s new Jezebel Johnston title, you can expect to several others popping up soon enough. It’s looking like 2024 is going to be a busy year. So stay with us.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen and welcome to our first Flight Log of 2024. Have a few updates as ever to share with all of you, so let’s get cracking.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2

After finally launching the second Volume of Boston Bombers last year (color cover above), artist Rob Davis hasn’t wasted any time getting to work on the second issue of this mini-series we are doing via his Redbud Studio. That’s a new page for issue # 3 (above right). Not exactly sure how many issues this volume will run. With Rob hard a work illustrating issue # 2, we wrapped writing issue # 3 about a month ago. The plan, the series will take as many issues as is needed to tell the story. Guess you could say the Air Chief believes each story, like water, finds its only perfect level. Stay tuned.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

One of the many projects the Air Chief is excited about in 2024 is the new Brother Bones graphic novel which will for the first time detail his origin. Artist pal Joe Arnold, who recently wrapped up the second issue of Mike Baron’s amazing “Thin Blue Line” is the driving force behind this push to get Bones out there. He’ll be handling the art chores (that’s his poster above middle) while our amigo, Todd Jones, will be assuming the role of Associate Editor on the project. The story will be broken up ala a mini-series and get the Kickstarter Treatment. We’ll provide further information as it starts to happen. Above upper left is faux-cover done up by Kenneth Stock, the Bones fan who actually cast that Brother Bones bronze figure in the picture (above right).

CHIVALRY INC.

In last week’s entry we told you how artist Javier Lugo was in the process of illustrating the first issue of “Chivalry, Inc.” a new series we are doing for Silverline Comics. Now the word “new” is by no means accurate in regards to the age of this concept. Much like my thirty years of waiting to get “Satan’s Ways” realized this was another one of those projects that we’ve tried to get made for decades. Along the way several truly talented artist tried their hands of Valerie Chevalier and her supporting cast, to include ex-cop Donat Richer and Catholic priest Father Dumont. Sadly, as wonderful as their art was (a small sampling shown above) for whatever reasons, these folks simply could not stick the project and so the Chivalry folder kept adding lots of great new art, but no comic. And now, with all fingers tightly crossed, that’s all about to change. Meanwhile, we thought it would be fun to open that folder and share some of that marvelous art with all you Loyal Airmen.

A JOHN CARTER NEW YEARS

On New Year’s Eve, Valerie and there Air Chief watched  the movie “John Carter” again. Every time we do, we are transported to that time when we were young and first discovered Burroughs and John Carter Tars Tarkas and the beautiful Dejah Thoris.  It was a magic time in our life and that movie allows us to relive it. That’s movie magic.

And there you have our first Flight Log of the New Year Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Lout!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we hope all of you had a truly wonderful Christmas. We are writing the start of this Flight Log the day after and wanted to share a few little bits with all of you. As ever we received lots of beautiful, loving Christmas cards whereas the one that made us laugh aloud arrived from son Scott, which you see above left. Too funny Scott. And if you’re at all curious as to what Santa brought the Air Chief, there were lots of great Amazon gift cards which we appreciate so much, being the avid reader we are. Then on opening gifts under the tree there indeed were several fun surprises like the Lainey Wilson CD Album, “Bell Bottom Country.” Her song, “Heart Like a Truck” is one of our favorite the past few months. Then we received a new Funko Pop, this one of Spike Spiegel from the classic anime series “Cowboy Bebob.” While over the years the Air Chief has contributed a half dozen comic strips to pal Warren Montgomery’s comic series, “Fun Adventure Comics.” Well, Warren collected all of them in one huge omnibus and someone in the family saw it on or Amazon wish list. Oh yeah. Way to go Santa. We hope all you Loyal Airmen also received some wonderful surprises as well.

CHIVALRY INC.

We are thrilled to inform you that Florida based artist Javier Lugo has begun work in earnest on “Chivalry Inc.” This is another one of those projects we created decades ago about a female private eye that for one reason or another simply could not get off the ground, though several super talented artists worked with us on it in the past. Now Javier is on board as is Silverline Comics which will be published the mini-series. Above is the symbol for Valerie Chevalier’s agency, Chivalry Inc. “For People in Need.” A sketch of Valerie and the roughs of pg # 1 by Javier. Yes, Loyal Airmen, we are really excited about this one. Look out 2024, here comes Chivalry!

RADIO RITA RETURNS!!

Just received the final story for “The Adventures of Radio Rita – Vol 2.” Hot dog!! Ready for new flying adventures with the redheaded ace of Hangar 27? Oh yeah. This volume’s writer are Curtis Fernlund, Gene Moyers, Glen Held and Samantha Lienhard. As ever, this will be one of many great new titles we have coming your way in 2024 from Airship 27 Production. Stay tuned.

And that’s a wrap for this, the last week of 2023, Loyal Airmen. As always, thanks for stopping by weekly. We truly appreciated all your support and wish you and all your loved ones a truly Happy New Year.

A JOHN CARTER NEW YEARS!

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as the wonderful image above depicts, the special star has appeared in the heavens and soon our savior will arrive. In this last week of Advent we pray for all of you with the courage to put aside the hustle and bustle of this commercial world we live in and reflect on the true meaning of this time. Get your house in order, surround yourselves with the people you and let’s get this journey to Bethlehem on the road.

CRIMSON NUN

Artist Jesse Thomas is keeping busy with more pages of our Crimson Nun project finished. Here are the pencils and inks for Pg # 17. The action is really starting to heat up here.  Hopefully issue # 1 will be out early in 2024. We’ve a truly awesome Fred Lang cover in the files and the book will be published by Ben Dunn’s Antarctic Press. Stay tuned.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION

With the year coming to a speedy close, we are thrilled to announce the last title from Airship 27 Production for 2023 will be “Buck Jones in the 21st Century” by Darryle Purcell. This is a terrific, fun fantasy adventure where the famous western stars of the early 40s, Buck Jones, is brought into the 1970s by government agents, via a secret time machine, and he aids them fight communist spies operating out of the Arizona desert. It really is a wild romp and Purcell, an Army Vietnam veteran, former Hollywood animator and self-publisher, provided all the art for the book, from his dandy cover above left and all the black and white interior illustrations. Rob Davis designed it all and it is now available at Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. As ever, Loyal Airmen, thanks so much for your continued support.

BOSTON BOMBERS

After we wrapped up our new I.V. Frost story last week for Joe Gentile’s Moonstone Pulps, it was back to work on script # 3 for the second volume adventures of The Boston Bombers, which we are doing with artist Rob Davis. And we finished that two days ago. Above are years old sketches of some of the Bombers cast done by artist Robin Ator. Sadly Robin only ever worked on these preliminary pieces and never got to illustrate the comics. But having these wonderful pictures in our files, we thought you Loyal Airmen might enjoy seeing them.

JIM & TONIK

A week ago or so, we made it known that “Jin & Tonik” co-creator and artist, Cesar Feliciano would be taking over the coloring chores for that project.  Above to the left above is Pg 18 of issue # 1 as colored by Matt Webb. Matt’s a pro colorist and it’s obvious. On the right above is that same page only now colored by Cesar. Keeping in mind, this is new to Cesar, we were blown away. He’s totally got the knack for this and we are confident the finished book is going to look fantastic. We’ll keep you posted.

FINALLY – HE HAS COME!

And finally in just two days we will have come to the end of our Advent journey to that small stable in the little town of Bethlehem where a baby boy was born to Mary & Joseph. Our God and Savior, come in human form, helpless and vulnerable, so that he might save us from our sins and lead us back to our heavenly. It is our wish, Valerie and the Air Chief, that all you Loyal Airmen have the most beautiful, loving, Merry Christmas. God bless you all,

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, as Christmas draws every nearer, we hope you are enjoying the season and avoiding the frantic madness that is the material end of the madness. Which is why the Air Chief thought we’d kick off this week’s Flight Log with a TV recommendation.

THE ENGLISH GAME

Valerie loves sports stories and is always trying to find sports themed movies. She recently discovered the 6 part British series “The English Game” on Netflix. It is based in part on the history of soccer in England and how it originated among the high class gentry and ultimately was accepted by the working class. Though the series plays fast and loose with history (on so many things) the writing in regards to characters, human drama and sub-plots is powerfully well done. So if you are looking for a really feel-good experience this Christmas, both us highly recommend, “The English Game.”

MR. JIGSAW CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!

Quick reminder, after writing Jiggy’s adventures for over 40 yrs, artist Gary Kato and the Air Chief finally got a Mr. Jigsaw Christmas story done and we released it last year. You can pick up a copy at Amazon. It’s in full color and has additional bonus stories in the back.

UPDATE ON VALERIE

On this past Wednesday Valerie had her post-op visit with the surgeon. He was totally impressed with how well her knee is healing and the efforts she has put into doing her recovery exercises. He let her know that and if she continues to do that work, the pain will eventually dissipate and within a month or two she’ll be walking circles around all of us.  We are so proud of her!!

THE THIRD WEEK OF ADVENT

As we approach the Third Sunday of Advent, we pray all your Loyal Airmen, in the midst of all your running around, you’ll take time to spend with those you love. To let them know how much they mean to you. This is the season of love, let’s all be sure we celebrate it fully.

Till next week, Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, before getting into any comic or pulp stuff, we want to keep you updates on Valerie’s recovery from her knee replacement surgery she had done a week ago today. And the Air Chief is so damn proud of her. Three days after the surgery, a licensed therapist came to the house to see how things were going and explain new exercises Val would need to do as part of her recover. Well, the therapist was simply blown away totally surprised to see Val walking up and down the hall to the kitchen and back to the bedroom without the use of any kind of walker. Then when we showed her how we hourly exercised her leg, as the surgeon had taught us, again she was blown away. In the end, she said was leagues further along in her recovery than 90% of the patients she sees. And that we were making her job lots easier. We’ll be seeing a home therapist twice more this week and the three next before our post op visit with the surgeon. So we got an A+, which was no surprise to the Air Chief, as we are married to the toughest, strongest, bravest woman in the world. Thanks to all of you for your continued prayers. Please, don’t stop now. We both need them more than ever. God bless you all.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2

Artist Rob Davis, another busy dude, managed to whip up the newest page to issue # 2 of “The Boston Bmbers Vol 2” and as ever it is stellar. As he does so, the Air Chief is hoping to be able to finish the script for issue # 3. As expected, with Val’s surgery, things got pushed back a wee bit. But we’ll manage, having too much fun doing Bombers again.

THE BABY IN THE MANGER

Trust us, Loyal Airmen, nobody loves Christmas more than the Air Chief. Our life has been filled with lots of wonderful, cherished memories of this truly beautiful time of year. As children entranced with all the magic, the tree, the story of that Elfish Toy Maker Santa Clause etc. etc. etc. But at the same time, our parents never forgot to stress the real importance of our celebration, the birth of our savior Jesus Christ. Our Lord, the God who created us, came down to walk among us; to forgive our sins, open the gates of heaven for ever and show us the truth, the light and the way. And as the late Bishop Fulton Sheen remarked, he came down behind enemy lines disguised as an innocent babe. For all his wiles, the enemy never saw that coming. Now it is advent and we once again prepare for his arrival. Oh, you can almost hear the angles singing. Amen.

THE SHEIK

One of the most popular actors of the silent screen era was Rudolf Valentino, a handsome guy with moody dark looks that his female audiences swooned over. One of the many films this modern day Casanova of the Silver Screen made was “The Shiek” in which he played an Arab prince of the desert. It rocked him to international stardom. So why does the Air Chief bring it up here? Well, one of the books we have in production at Airship 27 is a romance novel by the talented R.A. Jones and somewhere in the story, a dashing hero wearing a turban will appear. The artist doing the cover and interior illustrations asked us if we had any decent reference photos of such…and of course the Air Chief immediately recalled Valentino…and “The Shiek.” We sent the above pix to that artist.  Ah the joys of pulp editing.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, this morning, as many of you read this entry, Valerie is undergoing knee surgery. After years of painful suffering with severe arthritis, she is finally having them replaced with artificial knees starting with the left one today. Please, we ask you humbly to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. The next few weeks of recovery will be tough, but she is the strongest person in the world, in our humble opinion. Thanks so much.

SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERIES Vol 3

A few years ago, the Air Chief and Airship 27 Art Director Rob Davis had the idea of collection lots of writer Ian Watson’s Sherlock Holmes stories in one Kindle Only title. We called it “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries by I.A. Watson.” It sold quite well for us. Then, as time went by, Ian amassed another bunch of Holmes stories. You see, Loyal Airmen, he’s penned a new Holmes mystery for every single issue of our best-selling “Sherlock Holmes -Consulting Detective” series, plus others. So we did another Kindle Only collection, “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Vol 2 by I.A. Watson.” And now, nearly a year since that volume, we are happy to announce Vol 3 (see Rob’s cover above) is out and available at Amazon. Again keep in mind, in Kindle Only. Whereas there is a bonus brand new story in this volume 3, which, for you regular fans of the Consulting Detective will be printed in the 20th volume of that series due out sometime in early 2024. So there you have, Loyal Airmen. Ian’s a great writer and his Holmes and Watson stories tons of fun.

DARRYLE PURCELL & BUCK JONES

Darryle Purcell is a writer we hooked up with several years ago when he sent us one of his Hollywood Cowboy Detective books to review. From that, we learned Darryle was a Vietnam veteran, who, upon his return to civilian life had a long and successful career in Hollywood as animator. Retired from that profession and now living in Arizona, Darryle began writing his own fun, pulp tales featuring classic cowboy stars from long ago. Lots of his books featured such cinema personalities as Hoot Gibson, Big Boy Guinn and Raymond Hatton to name a few. Recently, after reviewing many of these enjoyable tales, Darryle began submitting manuscripts to us here at Airship 27 Production. At present we have two in production. One is an apocalyptic sci-fi thriller and the other a time-traveling thriller called, “Buck Jones in the 21st Century.” Aside from Tom Mix, Buck Jones was one of the most popular early movie cowboy stars and we were thrilled to be able to produce this story. Then last week, to our pleasant surprise, Darryle wrote suggesting he do the artwork for that book to include all black and white interiors and the cover. Naturally we immediately replies YES!!  Above is a cartoon caricature of himself, a photo of Jones and the pencil roughs for the book. We’ve seen the final version, and it’s awesome. With fingers crossed, “Buck Jones in the 21st Century” will be coming your way within a few weeks. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, all of you are in for a treat. A Darryle, a hardy welcome to Airship 27!

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by. See you back here next Friday morning. God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!