Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you all know, last weekend, Valerie and the Air Chief once again we guests at Tim Moret’s Rocky Mountain Con in Denver. We aren’t exactly sure which year this was, maybe 7 or 8, but we’ve been at everyone and they are never a disappointment. We see so many old friends and always get to make new ones. It is a great show and we look forward to it every year.

AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN CON

Here we were after setting up Friday night. We should mention it snowed all day Friday and the ride down to Denver was a bit hairy. We went down with pals Olivia & Zane DeGaine and Zane is a really good driver.

In fact their table was directly across the aisle from ours. Zane and the Air Chief were both thrilled to have him debut the completed cover to our new western series, Hamlet’s End. He’s almost finished the art and our hope is to launch the Kickstarter campaign sometime in January after the holidays. Meanwhile Olivia and the Air Chief should have our series, The Wooden Blade # 3 completed as well.

We mentioned the fun of making new fans. One such was comics writer Iggy Michniacki who both wrote and lettered his own western comic, Billie. The art is by Zack Rezendes and the colors by Michaela Patton. It’s a terrific comic and per our own Hamlet’s End, it appears westerns may be making a come back. Not a bad thing indeed. If interested in picking up a copy go to (www.project-nerd.com)

Finally, on the last day of the con, this charming young lady arrived dressed up like a rather well known company icon. Considering the fact that Ronald McDonald arrived when the Air Chief was in grade school, you can easily imagine the grief we endured from our pals in the schoolyard. Of course time heals all wounds and we do laugh about it. Enough to have Valerie snap this pix of the Air Chief and his one time nemesis.

For all you curious Loyal Airmen, of all the books, both comics and prose, available on our table at out show, these above were the top sellers. The memoir title particularly was a pleasant, and humbling surprise. Again, Tim, thanks for much for truly wonderful weekend. Oh, and the sun was shining the day we wrapped it all up.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTION

We’re happy to announce the release of our latest pulp thriller, “Falco & Company” by writer Wayne Carey. This is a great spy thriller in the vein of the old Mission Impossible TV series. Art Director Rob Davis provided both the cover (above) and the black and white interior illustrations. As always, now available from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle.

CAPTAIN JAIN MARLEE – Space Smuggler

Over the years, the Air Chief has written five comic stories starring the irascible Captain Jain Marlee, a mercenary space smuggler. Now thanks to our pal Rob Davis and his Redbud Studio, her stories have all been collected in this black and white one-shot comic. The artists involved by appearance are Brian Level, Luis Rivera, Richard Jun, Gary Kato & Ariel Aguire. The book is now available for purchase at Amazon. On, and Rob was gracious enough to do that really super-cool cover. We’ve come to love this character over the years and honestly, we doubt we’ve seen the last of her adventures yet.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Artist Cesar Feliciano’s is hard at work on our spy series JIN & TONIK book # 2. Here’s a panel featuring the character Eddie Nightsky, a Navajo shaman.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

BEYOND THE STARS # 4 is completed save for wrapping up the various covers. Andrea Bormida’s are is fantastic along with Mike Belcher’s super lettering. Expect the Kickstarter to start soon. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we’ll certainly keep you posted.

Also, we should note that we actually finished writing the script for book # 4 of THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2. Rob Davis is currently illustrating issue # 3. One more and that’s a wrap for that series. Next up on our writing schedule is the script for THE CRIMSON NUN # 3 and then the script for JIN & TONIK # 3. As you can see, the Air Chief has a full slate of writing chores well into 2025. We are super busy, but it’s way better than the alternative of having nothing to do.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, after an entire week to recoup, we’re back with another full Flight Log for you to digest. Playing catch-up with all the Air Chief’s various projects. But first, we had to share the coolest experience we’ve ever had with all you Loyal Airmen.

I’M FLYING

While in Florida, we visited a military museum in Naples. It is a remarkable place and all of us enjoyed it. But imagine our surprise when we learned they had two Flight Simulators and people could try them out. So Gus, our brother-in-law, and the Air Chief, immediately headed for that room and had the great fun of using them. Each was handled by an experienced pilot. The Air Chief sat down and within minutes was taking off in a small single engine aircraft flying over southwest Florida. What a hoot! And then under the pilot’s guidance, we brought her down in a not overly bouncy landing. Honestly, it was an experience we will always cherish.  Alright, now back to the projects.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2

The best news that happened while we were in Florida was that Indy Planet finally put up issue # 2 of our series, The Boston Bombers Vol 2. Rob Davis is doing all the art on this series, to include his dynamite color covers. In writing the script for this issue, we suggested the Cardinal look like the actor Morgan Freeman and as the cover and page above indicate, Rob captured that likeness brilliantly. So, if you’re picking up the series, go to (www.IndyPlanet.com) and pick up a copy. Let us know what you think.

BROTHER BONES THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

Artist Joe Arnold continues his masterwork in this project and he should have the first chapter of this project in relatively short time.

THE CRIMSON NUN

Artist David Mowry tweaked his original color illo of CN, as if it wasn’t already great. Meanwhile series artist Jesse Thomas, busy at work on issue two, offers up these first sketches of another key player in the series, one Henry Metien. The Air Chief promises, you are going to love this character.

HAMLET’S END

Artist Zane DeGaine continues work on wrapping issue #1 of our new western series. Note, along with the Air Chief, Zane, and his wife Olivia, herself a professional graphic artist, will be guest at this week-end’s annual Rocky Mountain Con promoted and orchestrated by our pal Tim Moret at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Denver. Show runs Sat 9 to Sunday 10th. Zane will have all the original pages of Hamlet’s End on display, plus a roster for con-goers to sign up for information as to when the official Kickstarter will launch in January of 2025. Gonna be a great weekend.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Hot on the heels of our release of JIN & TONIK #1, artist Cesar Feliciano is busy whipping up issue # 2. Above is the black and white cover and to the right, pg # 1. Matt Webb has signed on to color the cover and we’ll post that version when completed. Can’t wait to share it with all  you Loyal Airmen.

IT’S BIRTHDAY TIME

FYI, I’ve now joined the Tues Night Silverline Comics Podcast. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egi0gr1RMVc) The good people publishing my BEYOND THE STARS series. Check it out.

Another highlight of the past week was on Nov 5th, while everyone’s attention was focused on our national elections, the Air Chief celebrated his 78th birthday. Oh yeah. And to start the day off right, Valerie made us our favorite food of all, crepes. Mom use to make them for us while growing up and before she passed, she gave Valerie the recipe. Trust me, Loyal Airmen, they tasted as good as they look in this photo above. Then later that night, after we’d gone out and voted, we had a small family party. Lo and behold Val, and our son Alan and his wife Nicole, surprised me with a brand new office chair. A Lazy Boy no less, with a great lumbar support feature. Hot dog, no more aching lower back after hours of writing away. Truly, the Air Chief was once again reminded what a blessed man he is.

And there you go, Loyal Airmen, this was one busy week and we’re always glad you stopped by. Take care and God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, Val and the Air Chief just got home from 10 super fun days in Florida. So being a wee bit tired, we’re just going to post a few Crimson Nun illos from artist David Mowry for now and come back with a regular Flight Log next week. Thanks and God bless,

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as you read this entry, Val and in the Air Chief are still in Florida enjoying a short vacation visiting family. While we are aware, we thought we post a little something for those of you who actually check in here regularly. It’s about a cool idea between three comic amigos.

ONE SCRIPT – TWO COMICS  

Three comic creators are about to produce a rather unique comic event in drawing two comic books from one script. The concept was born when Antarctic Press publisher, writer/artist Ben Dunn hooked up with writer Ron Fortier at a comic con in Loveland, Colorado. There, Fortier proposed writing a brand new Crimson Nun mini-series based on the character Dunn had created in the late 80s. Dunn liked the idea and gave Fortier the green light to proceed. Fortier then recruited artist Jesse Thomas to draw and color the series with artist Mike Belcher doing the lettering. Issue # 1 premier October.

While Fortier was busy writing that first issue, Dunn suggested they do an issue of his Tomorrow Girl together wherein she would team up with Mr. Jigsaw – Man of a Thousand Parts. Jiggy, as he’s often referred to by fans, was created by Fortier and artist Gary Kato over forty years ago for Charlton Comics. Since then, his adventures have continued in an ongoing series produced by Rob Davis’ Redbud Studio by the same creators. Fortier liked Dunn’s idea and went ahead and wrote a 24 page one shot adventure called “Time Quakes.” During its writing, he started thinking how it might be possible to get Kato involved with the project. Initially his idea was having Dunn draw the comic with Kato doing the cover.

Shorty before sending Dunn the finished script, Fortier had an altogether different and  radical idea. What if he gave the script to both Dunn and Kato to draw? The version Kato would draw would then be published as the next issue in their Redbud Studio series. While the comic Dunn embellished would, as planned, be published by Antarctic Press. In the end there would exist two different comics based on the exact same script. The more Fortier entertained the idea, the more he fancied it. “I’d never heard of anyone ever doing this before,” he said recently. “The thought that fans would be able to purchase both comics then compare them, page for page would be fantastic. They could see where the two artists approaches were similar and at the same time where they were different.”

Most comic readers are aware that each graphic artist has his or her own unique style of drawing. Now they would be able to appreciate that in reality.

Fortier first approached Kato who signed on immediately and is now finishing his comic. Dunn, on the other hand, needed a little more clarification as to who would be doing what. After a few e-mail exchanges, he understood the concept and agreed to join in the fun. He has yet to decide where his comic will appear after he’s finished drawing it. “What all three of us, me, Ben and Gary, have in common,” Fortier concludes, “is our love of comics and keeping the fun in them. That’s why we’re all really excited about this project. We hope our fans will be as well.”

BEN DUNN’S COVER FOR THE TOMORROW GIRL COVER

We love it.  No worries, we’ll show Gary’s cover for Mr. Jigsaw when he turns it in.  And there you have it Loyal Airmen. We’ll see you back here next week when we get home. God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, before we get into this week’s Flight Log and our hectic activities, we want to let all of you know it’s vacation time for Valerie and the Air Chief.  On Sunday the 20th we are flying off to Florida for our annual visit with Val’s family. Happily our own destination didn’t suffer anything by rains and heavy winds from the last hurricane that slammed into the Sunshine State.  We will be gone for ten days, returning to Colorado on the 30th of October. Just in time for Halloween.  As we indicated in last week’s Flight Log, we are buried under sooooo….many comic projects, never mind our editorial duties for Airship 27 Productions.  Which is why, we are asking all of you we are currently work with on all these projects….DO NOT SEND US ANY ARTWORK OR MANUSCRIPTS UNTIL WE ARE HOME AGAIN.  Please.  We are not taking any PCs or laptops etc. with us.  These ten days in Florida are going to be true R  & R – Rest and Relaxation from the truly hectic year we’ve experienced thus far.  And believe me Loyal Airmen, it’s not going to let up any time soon as is evident by this next time

COMIC PROJECT # 13

Over thirty years ago, the Air Chief, inspired by the old C.C. Beck Captain Marvel comics, had an idea for a comic book series about a young teenage girl who was paralyzed and a diehard comic book fanatic. Her favorite hero was a World War II character called American Amazon. Through a weird series of events, the hallmark of most comic stories, this girl, Kendra, ends up being the new, modern day American Amazon for real. We’re not going to say any more, other than tell you this project has been collecting dust in our files all these years and the only real artwork ever done was the faux-comic-cover above at left by our pal Gary Kato. Okay, so last week, shortly after posting our list of the 12 comic projects we are currently working on, we received a FB message from artist Clint Scott wanting to know if we might have something he could work on with us.  OUCH. We informed Clint of how busy we were and that taking on as yet a 13th project would be insane. Still, no writer every wants to say no to an artist knock on his or her door. We asked Clint to show us sample of his work. We liked what we saw and decided to take the plunge. We sent him that old clunky proposal and awaited his reaction. Well, Clint loved the concept and started doing up sketches from that proposal. Above right are Kendra and two of her friends, a couple of the projects supporting characters and he’s still working on more as we write this. Hopefully on our return from Florida, the Air Chief will find the time (HA) to re-write the entire proposal, it’s way too dated right now, tweak it, shape it into some looking like a decent modern day comic tale and then (BIG SIGH) write a script for Clint to sink his talented chops into.  Loyal Airmen, wish us luck. Lots and lots of Luck.

BEYOND THE STARS #5

Colorist Angelo is doing a great job on the first few pages of BEYOND THE STARS # 5.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN CON

Want to thank my pal, Denver con promoter Tim Moret for announcing yours truly as his first gust for this year’s Rocky Mountain Con to be held Nov. 9th & Tenth. The Air Chief will have copies of The Crimson Nun # 1 on hand as well be promoting sign-ups for the official Kickstarter to our western comic, Hamlet’s End. Note, Hamlet’s End artist Zane DeGaine will also be on hand and we just may have another special ash booklet for all you cowboy fans.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

Artist Joe Arnold continues his amazing work on the new Brother Bones graphic novel. This is actual origin story told in comics. Every time we new pages, we get wound for sound. Keep’em coming, Joe.

AIRSHIP 27 PODCAST

Yesterday Chief Engineer Rob Davis and the Air Chief recorded the 97th episode of our Airship 27 Podcast. Though we only had a few titles to promote this time around, along with our bad jokes, you might want to go and watch it. The major topic of this episode is how much longer we’ll be keep Airship 27 Production going? We take a hard look at that question a discuss what our plans are going forward and just how many more years we can do this.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As we sign off, take care and remember, we will return in two weeks. God bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the other day the Air Chief got to thinking about all the comics projects we’ve been working on this year. To highlight those, we put together the collage of covers below.

These are six of the twelve comic book projects we are currently actively engaged with. Not in this collage are Mr. Jigsaw, Chivalry Inc., The Black Bat, Genies, The Wooden Blade, Hamlet’s End and Captain Jain Marlee. Not bad for a 77 yr old comic geek.

FINN THE FORMIDABLE

And because all our own comic projects are what we call “Independent,” it is easy to see that the Air Chief also is a fan and supports other such Independent projects. One we discovered recently is “Finn – The Formidable” by our Fort Collins pal, writer/artist Brian Loner. Above is the cover to the first issue and the book is really well done. Though appearing on the “cartoony” side ala old classics like Groo etc. Brian uses the style to tell a straight up, dramatic story about a former knight who’s wife and son have been kidnapped by evil forces from another dimension. Brian’s art is terrific and his keeps his readers turning those pages. We really liked this opening chapter and can’t wait to see what happens next.

THE BEYOND THE STARS

Issue # 5, pgs 1,2 & 3 inked from master artist Andrea Bormida.  Looking super.

THE CRIMSON NUN

Our pal, artist Dave Mowry turned in another great sketch of the Crimson Nun in action. Dave recently signed on with Airship 27 to be one of our many talented book illustrators. Really thrilled to have him on board.

And that’s a wrap for this week Loyal Airmen. Thanks ever for dropping by and we hope we’ll see you back here next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, before anything else, let’s take care of some comic book business.

How To Buy The Crimson Nun # 1

We have a limited number of copies of Issue # 1, both with the Fred Lang cover (above left) and with Ben Dunn’s cover (above right.) We are selling them for $10 each, this includes mailing. If you are interested in buying one, write us at (ronfortier104@gmail.com) include your check made out to Ron Fortier. We do not have PayPal and do not accept Postal Money Orders. Checks only. In your letter, tell us which cover you want and include, printed your own mailing address. Note, all copies will be autographed on the back cover. Again, this is a limited supply.

CHIVALRY INC.

Having recently bought a brand new tablet, inker Jesse Hansen and once again back to inking artist Javier Lugo’s beautiful pages for CHIVALRY, INC. # 1.  Again, this is a 3 issue mini coming from Silverline Comics when completed.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

And here’s the last two sets of character sheets by artist Joe Arnold for the Brother Bones Graphic Novel which he is hammering away on every day. The plan continues to be to divide the script into a mini-series to then be funded on one of the campaign platforms after which they would be collected. Each issue, a chapter of the graphic novel story, will also include a bonus short strip at the back to be done by guest artists. More as things near completion.

HAMLET’S END

Hooked up with western artist Zane DeGaine this past week to discuss our comic project. “Hamlet’s End.” Zane has completed 16 of the 22 pgs making up issue # 1 and of course the cover (above left). He’s excited in getting those last 6 pgs wrapped up by the end of next week. This book will be funded by a Kickstarter Campaign which Zane will run and our plan is to set a goal which, when reached, will get the book published…but in black and white. Whereas there will be a second tier goal and if we can get to that benchmark, we’ll do the book in full color. So, Loyal Airmen, lots will depend on your support for sure. If all goes well, we hope to launch the campaign by the 1st of Nov. All fingers crossed.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS Vol 2

Rob Davis continues his stellar work on the third issue of The Boston Bombers Vol 2. Above is his just completed page three.  We are so wound-for-sound. This is a story over twenty-years in the making.

JUNGLE TALES Vol 3

And finally we wrap up this week with announcing the release of our newest Airship 27 pulp title, JUNGLE TALES Vol 3 featuring Ki-Gor the Jungle Lord. This volume contains two brand new Ki-Gor adventures by Terry Wijesuriya and Carson Demmans. Writer Curtist Fernlund introduces Jenna of the Jungle (above right) and Bob Madison feature adventure Richmond Kane. In all four great jungle stories with interior illustrations by John Gallagher and a stunning cover by Ted Hammond. In all, we think you Loyal Airmen are going to love this book. As ever, available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle.

And that’s it for this busy week, Loyal Airmen, as always thanks for stopping by and God Bless.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, been a fun and exciting week here at Hangar 27. Lots of great projects coming together slow but sure and we’ll touch base with a quite a few. So here we go.

HAMLET’S END

Artist Zane DeGaine isn’t wasting any time getting issue # 1 finished. Above (right) is the completed pg # 15 of this 22 page comic. Meaning 7 to go and then on to lettering and the launching of whatever funding program he wants to use. The initial idea will be to propose the book as a black and white….BUT….if we meet our goals, then will deliver it full, glorious western colors. Stay tuned.

SHORT STORIES OF KEVIN J. ANDERSON

From New York Times bestselling author, Kevin J. Anderson, “For those who missed my KJA Short Fiction Library Kickstarter last spring, the books are finally going to be released to the general public. Today, Fantasy Stories vol 1 is available from @WordFirePress https://wordfirepress.com/products/fantasy-stories-volume-1”

Basically what Kevin did was collect a lifetime of published short stories and printed them in a wonderful seven volume set, as his press release above indicated. Many, many years ago, Kevin and the Air Chief belonged to a correspondence writers’ club and became pals. Other members included David C. Smith, Ardath Mayhar, and the late Charles Saunders. During that time, Kevin and yours truly wrote a short story called “Skeleton in the Closet.” It is reprinted in Vol 2 of this Fantasy sub-set. See cover above at right.

BROTHER BONES CHARACTERS

More of artist Joe Arnold’s characters from the Brother Bones graphic novel now in production.

More characters sketches from artist Joe Arnold for the now-in-production Brother Bones graphic novel. Joe’s doing a great job with these.

CRIMSON NUN IS HERE!

And finally, per the title of this week’s Flight Log, CRIMSON NUN # 1 is officially out. We received our copies from Antarctic Press’ own Ben Dunn yesterday. We will have these, both with Fred Lang’s cover (above left) and Ben’s (above right) at November’s Rocky Mountain Con in Denver. It was a dream come true for the Air Chief to get this assignment and the comic looks fantastic. Thanks to artist Jesse Thomas and letterer Mike Belcher. Now on to issue # 2.  Oh, yeah.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, things are revving up with all the Air Chief’s many projects. So let’s jump right in, shall we.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

Artist Joe Arnold has been tweaking his design work for the characters that appear in our Brother Bones the Undead Avenger stories. All in preparation for the brand new graphic novel he is drawing. It will, for the first time ever, tell Bones’ origin in comic form. Stay tuned, it is going to be wild.

THE BOOK HUNTER’S DISCIPLE

Our newest Airship 27 Production pulp title release is “The Book Hunter’s Disciple,” by Barbara Doran. This is the second in Barbara’s Chinese fantasy series. Artist Gary Kato provides the nine black and white interior illustrations and Colorado’s own Guy Davis the fanciful color cover above here. As ever book is available at Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. Continued thanks to all you Loyal Airmen for your support. It means the world to us.

A NEW SHORT STORY

We mentioned a few weeks ago that we were writing a Codename – Intrepid short story for Bob Mendenhall’s fourth volume in his action series. From creator/publisher Robert J. Mendenhall comes the complete roster. “Volume 4 is scheduled to hit the stands in February 2025 with a stellar line-up including Ron Fortier, Fred Adams, Jr, John C. Bruening, Andy Fix, and Gordon Dymowski. And some guy named Mendenhall. Holy Smoke!” The Air Chief is really thrilled to be included among this group of super talented New Pulp writers. Above is artist Ron Randall’s depiction of the Intrepid team.

ME & BOOMER

Was having a little chat with our dog Boomer the other day and our granddaughter Cora snapped the photo above. He’s a golden lab just a few months beyond a year old and we all love him dearly.

HAMLET’S END

Artist Zane DeGaine continues his excellent work our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Here’s his Pg 15 from issue # 1. Again, our hope to have it out in time for November’s Rocky Mountain Con here Denver.

And that’s a wrap for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, last week we showed off three new pages from our new western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” Written by yours truly and art by good buddy Zane DeGaine. All of this came about when shortly after settling in Fort Collins, Zane and his wife Olivia, joined the Air Chief and Valerie in going out to a nice Italian restaurant for dinner one night. While awaiting our entrees, we asked Zane what kind of project he’d like to work on. Of course our intent was find out what he had a passion for and then seeing if it was something we might be able to offer him. “Westerns,” was his immediate reply.

It took a few years, but eventually the Air Chief came up with an solid idea for a western and that was “Hamlet’s End.” Zane read the script last year, loved it, and signed on. He even went as far as to do a short ash-can issue featuring the first 9 pages (above left) and sold them at a local con. Now he’s hard at work on completing the entire 22 pg first issue. Here’s pg # 13 (above right). His hope is to have it done within the next couple of weekss, and then he’s going to start a Kickstarter Campaign for it. Trust us, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is totally wound for sound about “Hamlet’s End.” Zane’s work on this comics is stunning and we can’t wait until the day you get to read it. We’ll keep youposted.

THE CRIMSON NUN

At the same time artist Jesse Thomas is back hard at work on the pencils for The Crimson Nun # 2. See those gorgeous pages above and that one sketch of our hero, Gabrielle Joan Cauxvette. You’ll allow the Air Chief grace for naming her after our mother, Gabrielle. And as far as we know, Antarctic Press is still set on releasing issue # 1 next month, Oct. Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

BROTHER BONES THE UNDEAD AVENGER

The Brother Bones graphic novel, now coming to life thanks to artist Joe Arnold, is also gaining steam  indicative of the pencil roughs above. Joe says he’s having a ball drawing this origin tale of our Undead Avenger and we can tell from the enthusiasm he’s exhibiting in his art.

Joe’s been using pages from a 1930s Sears & Roebucks catalog to research dresses for our female characters. His hope is to have 50 pgs completed before we start assembling the Kickstarter campaign. Dang, but we do have lots of fun stuff on the way, Loyal Airmen. Start saving up your pennies.

SPECIAL HARDBACK EDITION OUT!

As you’ll recall only two weeks ago we released our Super Special Edition of Sherlock Holmes – Consulting Detective Vol 20. We made a big deal out of this because Art Director did the issue up to look like a copy of the actual Strand Magazine where most of the original Sherlock Holmes tales had first appeared in print. About the same time we’d also released the hardback edition of “Metropolis – Resurrection,” the sci-fi prequel novel. So…a few smart Loyal Airmen went to Rob and asked why not a hardback edition of the special Consulting Detective. Ever one to satisfy our readers, Rob got on it immediately and now if you head on over to Amazon, you can pick this volume in four editions. First on Kindle, then our regular paperback size, then our bigger magazine size…and now that larger size in hard back. Hopefully that pleases all you terrific Holmes & Watson fans out there.

NEW PROSE FICTION STORY

Back at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper con, we talked with writer Bob Mendenhall about possibly writing a story for his terrific Codename – Intrepid action series featuring a super-secret military team. Bob graciously gave us the green light and we recently wrapped up a story featuring Master Sergeant “Hammer” Downe (above right) called “The Lost Jungle.” Thanks to pal Lee Houston Jr. who helped with formatting. That’s a terrific sketch of Hammer by artist Ron Randall and the link below is to Bob’s site. Check it out, Loyal Airmen. This is the good stuff.

(https://robertjmendenhall.com/code-name-intrepid/)

ANOTHER AUDIO BOOK ADDED

A little while back Art Director Rob Davis decided to try posting one of our novels to Audible via its Amazon listing. I.e. Amazon makes this arrangement and Audible uses AI voices to do the narration. His first attempt was with one of Nancy Hansen’s Jezebel Johnston pirate books and everyone thought it worked better than expected. With that positive result, he’s now put up one of our Sherlock Holmes Consulting Anthologies, Vol 17 to be specific (see cover above) which features stories by I.A. Watson, R.A. Jones, George Tackes and Jonathan Casey. It’s now up at the Amazon page. If you enjoy audio book downloads, go on and give it a try. You may be pleasantly surprised.

BEYOND THE STARS # 4

And finally the biggest news of this week. Artist Andrea Bormida has finished work on our sci-fi series, “Beyond the Stars” # 4. The pages are now in letterer Mike Belcher’s talented hands and as soon as he wraps it up, the book will be delivered to Silverline Comics. As this is a six part mini-series, we are left with only to chapters left. Thanks again for all your Loyal Airmen who have helped by supporting the funding campaigns for the first three issues. We’ll let you know when this one is up.

And phew, Loyal Airmen, that’s plenty for one week. Ha. As Ever thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you all back here next Friday morning.

Ron – Over & Out!