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Andrea’s Patreon Page

On 8 Aug | '2025

Artist Andrea Bormida now has his own Patreon page. (https://www.patreon.com/MakingComics001) Andrea is one of the finest, most talented artist the Air Chief ever had the pleasure of working on. Our sci-fi series, “Beyond the Stars,” for Silverline Comics is nearing it end.

CNI CLASSIFIED Vol 5

One of the best action-packed New Pulp adventure series to appear in the past few years has been the “Code Name Intrepid” series created by writer Robert J. Mendenhall. Bob premiered this series featuring an all military team fighting Nazis prior to World War II at Airship 27 and then branched off to start his own publishing imprint, Blue Planet Press. Shortly after that, he launched a separate series he called, “CIN-Classified” wherein he invited other pulp writers to contribute stories featuring his great characters. The Air Chief had a tale published in last year’s Vol 4. While at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper show in Chicago, Bob informed us that he was going to be wrapping up the series with Vol 5 and asked if we’d be willing to write an Introduction to the book. We were flattered and honored to do so. That volume has now been published and is available at Amazon. We recommend it, and the previous four, to all you Loyal Airmen. Truthfully, it is a really awesome, fun pulp series. Don’t miss it.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN CON 2025!!!

Another major excitement, the first ad for this year’s Rocky Mountain Con, as delivered by pal and promoter, Tim Moret. This has been the Air Chief’s home-con ever since we moved here to Colorado. Tim rolled out the red carpet for us and every since it has been a great show. Looking forward to this one big time.

BLACK TERROR 2.0

BEYOND 30 by Edgard Rice Burroughs

It’s here at last and Airship 27 Production is thrilled to present to today’s pulp readers a long-forgotten tale by the Master of Adventure. In 1915, Edgard Rice Burroughs, the master of adventure fiction, wrote “Beyond 30,” a prophetic vision about our world locked onto a course certain to lead us to a horrendous World War. That global nightmare became a reality in ways the brilliant Burroughs couldn’t imagine and so he never returned to the apocalyptic setting he’d created. This was a rarity for a writer who loved to pen series, ala Tarzan, Barsoom, Pellucidar and many, many others. Given the opportunity to publish a long forogtten book by Edgar Rice Burroughs there was no way we were going to pass it up. Now Pulp Factory Award Winner and Art Director Rob Davis has embellished this wonderful novella in a brand new, beautifully illustrated edition available from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. It also sets the stage for the sequel written by Harding McFadden and coming soon from Airship 27 Production. Loyal Airmen, you don’t not want to me this one.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Finally, shades of Bruce Lee, as artist Cesar Feliciano delivers another great page from “Jin & Tonik” issue # 2. He’s really whipping through this one, Loyal Airmen and we couldn’t be happier.

And with that we wrap up a pretty full and hectic week. The Air Chief has just a little over one week left on his cancer radiation treatment and happy to report all is going well. Thanks for all your continued well wishes and prayers. Okay, see you all back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!

Summer Slips By

On 1 Aug | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, seems like the older we get, the fast time speeds by. Here we are sliding into August and scratching our heads wondering what happened to July? Ha. Still, lots and lots of comic projects are gradually coming to fruition in the next few weeks, so hang. It’s gonna get wild.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Our artist pal, Cesar Feliciano has been knocking our sockes off with his amazing new pages for our JIN & TONIK Issue # 2. Above are his latest pages showing martial artist Sammy Jin in action. Beautiful stuff, every single panel. And wait until colorist Matt Webbe gets a hold of these pages. Oh, yeah.

THE CRIMSON NUN # 2

Last week, artist Jesse Thomas surprised me with having completed nearly all of issue # 2 of our mini-series, “The Crimson Nun.” He turned in four fully colored pages, to include the gorgeous one above. This leaves only four left to color and then the pages go to our amazing letterer, artist Mike Belcher. In staring at these new pages, we couldn’t help but marvel at how Jesse even got the message left in the lower left panel is actually written in French. Now that’s attention to detail and getting the story right. We can’t wait to have this one wrapped up and off to you Loyal Airmen. Stay tuned.

COMING NEXT WEEK !!

Last week, we happily announced the fact that we were in the final stages of production for our new edition of an Edgar Rice Burroughs classic pulp adventure, “Beyond 30.” Well, all that hard work is completed and Art Director Rob Davis is currently working on the final cover that will grace this new book. Here’s a peek at the back cover and one of his six black and white illustrations that will grace this truly beautiful edition. Also happening now, associate editor Gordon Dymowski is giving the book a final proof reading. Once done, and the cover gets wrapped, it’s off to Amazon and…again, if all goes according to plan, the Air Chief will be announce the book’s publication on this very Flight Log next Friday, so don’t miss it!

BEYOND THE STARS # 5 FINISHED!

Finally, we end this week’s entry with announcing “BEYOND THE STARS #5” is finished. It is currently being lettered and the crowdfunding campaign should start within the next week or two. Above his Andrea Bormida’s dynamic cover without colors and logo etc. Hey, we don’t want to give everything away. With this issue wrapped up, that leaves us the sixth and final chapter of this sci-fi sage we’ve spinning for the past two years. As ever, thanks for your continued support, Loyal Airmen.

And that’s it for this week. Hope to see you all back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!

The Cowboy President

On 25 Jul | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, this week we’re going to kick off things by recommending a television series we recently discovered. As a history buff, the Air Chief has always admired President Theodore Roosevelt and consider him one of the greatest Americans to ever bless our country. For those of you who aren’t all that familiar with the man, he was born to a wealthy New York family at the turn of the century and being a sickly child growing up, decided to make physical exercise part of his daily life. After college, he was being groomed for political life when tragedy struck. He lost both his mother and his wife, Alice, on the same day. The former from typhoid, his wife from a difficult childbirth. It had such a profound effect on him, that he left his newborn daughter with his sister and escaped to the Dakota Badlands to somehow get away from the emotional pain he was suffering. It was while in the west that he came to love nature in all its savagery and beauty. He became a new man molded by the frontier. For years the Air Chief has always wondered why no one has ever bothered to dramatize this great man’s life and now that’s happened. ELKHORN is a series about young Roosevelt’s adventures out west and was produced by the INSP streaming network in 2024. Now, thankfully, it has been picked up by Amazon Prime and we’ve begun watching…and enjoying it. Roosevelt is wonderfully portrayed by Mason Beals who himself is small in stature and has a squeaky high-pitched voice as did Roosevelt. So, if any of you Loyal Airmen love history as much as we do, we recommend you find this series. Then let us know your own thoughts.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Artist Cesar Feliciano continues to wow us with his amazing and wonderful art. Here on Pg 27 of our “JIN & TONIK” number two, Sammy Jin gets ready to teach some martial art moves. Oh, yeah.

LETTERING BROTHER BONES

One of the wonderful highlights of this past week has been the addition of ace-letterer Mike Belcher to the Brother Bones graphic novel project. To date artist Joe Arnold has completed 40 pages for the 120 pg script. All the art and gray-scaling. We’ve shown off a few of those pages. But pictures alone on a page do not make a comic book and a few days ago, Mike jumped in and lettered the first 20 pages. Both yours truly and Joe were simply blown away. A gifted comic creator, Mike does it all, from writing to drawing, coloring and of course lettering. Now this becomes the fourth of our projects that he’s a major part of with his beautiful letters. The others are “Jin & Tonik,” “The Crimson Nun,” and “Beyond the Stars.” To say Mike is a busy fellow is simply stating the obvious. Thanks, Mike, you have so elevated Brother Bones to the next level.

A DASH COLOR

And finally we are going to end this week’s Flight Log with a few color-ful peeks at what’s coming down the road with two other exciting projects. At upper left is another page from “JIN & TONIK #2” with art by Cesar Feliciano and beautiful colors by Matt Webb. While at upper right is another page from our sci-fi saga “BEYOND THE STARS” by artist Andrea Bormida and the first glimpse of our new colorist series, Elise. That’s a pretty good start we think.

And there you go, Loyal Airmen, as always tongs of things happening at the old Hangar 27. As always thanks for stopping by and you always appreciated support. Ron – Over & Out!

ERB COMES TO AIRSHIP 27

On 18 Jul | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’re kicking off this week’s Flight Log by announcing that we are now in the process of producing a novella written by the Master of Adventure, Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, John Carter of Mars and so many other great pulp tales. A while back, one of our writers informed us that he had written a sequel to this long forgotten book Burroughs at penned at the start of his career entitled “Beyond Thirty.” The Air Chief had never heard of it. Our writer went on the explain that the property had fallen into public domain and so we immediately hunted it down and managed to get a copy from Amazon. Obviously being public domain, other publishers had decided to do their own editions. Whereas after reading it early this year, and aware that we in fact a brand new sequel now in our files, it was obvious we needed to release an Airship 27 edition, with Rob Davis handling all the art chores, from cover to black and white interior illustrations. He began that process last week and so it was time to make the public announcement, and Rob whipped up the ad above. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we guarantee this is one title you are going to want to have in your home library.

BROTHER BONES GRAPHIC NOVEL

Artist Joe Arnold continues his stellar work on our Brother Bones the Undead Avenger graphic novel and informs me that we are not too far from launching the funding campaign. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, this is the Bones project you’ve been waiting for.

THE ADVENTURES OF DOC ATLAS Vol Two

Airship 27 Production is thrilled to present the second in a series of books starring Doc Atlas. Created by Michael A. Black and Ray Lovato as their homage to the classic 30s and 40s characters such as Doc Savage, Jim Anthony etc. etc. In no time at all Doc and his team became huge fan favorites appearing via multiple publishers such as Eclipse Publishing and Crossroads Press. Now at long last, the dynamic trio of Doc, Thomas “Mad Dog” Deagan and Edward “Ace” Assante have found a new home with Airship 27 Production. Rob Davis provides both the stunning cover above and the black and white interior illustrations. The book is now available from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle. As ever, Loyal Airmen, thanks for your support.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Our pal, artist Cesar Feliciano continues his stellar work on our spy-thriller series, JIN & TONIK, with another page (# 26) for issue # 2. Note, you can still pick up a copy of this fast paced, action comic at Amazon.

And that pretty much wraps up this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. In look at the schedule for next, it is just possible, Chief Engineer Rob and the Air Chief might be able to work in a new Airship Podcast next week. Till then take care and God bless. Ron – Over & Out!

The Radiated Man

On 10 Jul | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, whereas this past Tues. we began our post-mastectomy radiation treatments, the Air Chief just couldn’t resist falling back into his comic-book way of thinking. I.e. though we may not turn green ala Marvel’s the Hulk, or glow gold like Captain Atom, perhaps our alter ego will be “The Radiated Man.” Now to come up with some cool super-hero name. Any suggestions?

THE CRIMSON NUN # 2

Speaking of comics, we are happy to say several of our upcoming issues are nearing completion and will soon be published. The first of these, i.e. closest to announcing should be “The Crimson Nun # 2” as Jesse Thomas has finished inking all 23 pages and is almost a third of the way coloring the issue. Once done it is off to letterer Mike Belcher. Then we deliver to Ben Dunn and his Antarctic Press. Above is pg # 18.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5 FINISHED!

And now for the most exciting news of this week. Issue # 5 of our six issue mini-series BEYOND THE STARS is 99% finished. Artist Andrea Bormida has finished the art on all 22 pages and they were just colored by his artist friend Angelo. Now, while Andrea works on the cover, the pages go to Mike Blecher for lettering. Then its off to Silverline Comics and funding. Stay tuned Loyal Airmen, we’ll keep you all posted. Again, wicked excited. Only one more issue to go!

BLACK TERROR 2.0

We are also very, very happy to give all you Loyal Airmen our very first peek at our new Black Terror comic book series which we are doing for Ben Dunn’s Antarctic Press. Above is a page from issue # 1 by the amazing Dell Barras. The Air Chief is dang thrilled to be working with Dell, one of the finest and most talented professionals in the world of comics. Next up, David Rios will color and Dami Akinayo will letter. Once those elements are added to this Pg 7, we’ll let you see it again. Promise.

HAPPY 40th BIRTHDAY ZANE

And finally, yesterday was July 10th, a special day for our good pal, artist Zane DeGaine. He turned 40 yrs old!!! That’s Zane and the Air Chief early on when we first started work on our western comic, “Hamlet’s End.” For the record, Zane is the last stages of inking and lettering issue # 1. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZANE, wishing you all the happiness in the world.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever, lots of things keep the Air Chief busy. And don’t worry, should we start to glow a bright green, we’ll take lots of pictures. Till then, God bless. Ron – Over and Out!

R.I.P. Jim Shooter

On 4 Jul | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, this week we begin with somber news. We were saddened to learn that Jim Shooter had passed away this past Monday, June 29th of cancer. Beginning at the age of 13, when he sold his first story to DC Comics, he was a force to be reckoned with. From that auspicious start, he would go on to become one of the most influential editors and publishers this community has ever had. We met him a few years ago at a small con in Pikesville, Ky and he as a genuinely nice man, fun to talk to and was intrigued by Airship 27 and New Pulp in general. Rest in peace, good sir. He was 73 years young. May the almighty welcome you to eternity. Amen.

MORE JIN & TONIK # 2

Was thrilled to find this in my in-box, another great page from JIN & TONIK #2 by artist Cesar Feliciano as beautifully colored by the amazing Matt Webb. Ironically, it’s a cemetery scene. This issue is moving along nicely. Whereas this past week also revealed another side of our artist amigo; Cesar the author.

RENAISSANCE MAN INDEED

Not only is Cesar content to be a talented visual storyteller, as is evidenced by his past graphic work, but he recently decided to jump into the literary pool and try a hand at novel writing. End result, “Border Run,” which just this past week became available on Amazon. It’s a gritty yarn as described on the page. Here described : “Frankie was born with a Bronx soul and a battlefield heart, Frankie is ripped from the world he knows and thrown into the clutches of the Cuervos cartel—an empire built on blood, shadows, and silence. Tortured, sedated, and reshaped into something unrecognizable, he becomes both prisoner and pawn. But Frankie was never built to break. From the dark alleys of Tijuana to the blistered sands of Baja, Border Run unfolds with relentless grit and lyrical fire. It’s a story of betrayal and redemption, family and faith, where loyalty is tested by ghosts and salvation walks a knife’s edge.” So Loyal Airmen, do yourselves a favor and go on over to Amazon and get a copy. It’ll make for great summer reading.

PRESENTATION ON QUARTERMAIN & CHALLENGER

Recently one of our best Airship 27 writers, Thomas Kent Miller, gave a presentation on the history of H. Rider Haggard’s Allan Quartermain hero and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Prof. George Challenger, at the senior facility in which he resides. Both heroes figure into his new book, “13.5 Billion_Year Detour.” With an audience of thirty five attentive fellow residents, the event was such a success, the home’s Activities Director has asked Thomas to give the talk at other local facilities. Below is the illustrative board he put together for his presentation. Excellent job, Thomas.

ONE BROTHER BONES PANEL PEEK

Although we don’t want to give away too much more on this great new Rob Davis BROTHER BONES strip, we figured one little old panel would suffice to keep you all excited. Oh, yeah.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY USA!!!

Ron – Over & Out!!!

JIN & TONIK AT AMAZON

On 27 Jun | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen. We start this week’s Flight Log with some great news. A year ago, the creative comic team of Ceasar Feliciano and Fortier, debut the first issue of their modern-day spy thriller, “Jin & Tonik.” Based on an idea by Feliciano and expanded and scripted by yours truly, the story focuses on two deadly assassins from different backgrounds and their eventual collision. Matt Webb joined the team with coloring the first half and later Mike Belcher added his marvelous lettering to complete the book. An independent project, the book was crowd-funded and a set number of copies were printed. Those copies quickly sold-out and many of your loyal fans weren’t able to pick one up. Now the issue, in its entirety is available at Amazon and already selling nicely. Now it is available to general public at Amazon. Issue two is currently in production.

AND IN BOOK # 2

Here we have Pg 15 from JIN & TONIK # 2 beautifully colored by the amazing Matt Webb. His colors bring so much to the story. We’re so lucky to have him as part of the team.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

Here we go, Loyal Airmen, the pencils from artist Andrea Bormida for pages 19 & 20 of issue # 5 of our sci-fi saga, “Beyond the Stars.” Two more pages to go and this issue is completed!!! Oh yeah, am so excited to know the final issue is just around the corner.

WHEN GOD ANSWERS

Most of you Loyal Airmen are aware that our faith means a great deal to us. More than mere words can express at times. Soooo….recently the Air Chief had been wrestling with a question of conscience about certain creative projects we’d been involve with and were looking for some indication of which way to go moving forward. Along about this time, we went on Amazon to purchase a small desk statue of Saint Joseph holding the baby Jesus. We wanted it to accompany the one of the Blessed Virgin Mary that we’ve had on our desk for several years. Alright, so this past week, that new stature arrived and we placed on our desk, a few inches away from the one of Mother Mary. The next morning, upon booting up our PC, up in our email comes the latest page of “The Boston Bombers” for issue # 3 by artist Rob Davis. We start scrolling down the panels, as ever delighted by Rob’s beautiful artwork when our eyes fall on the very last panel on the page…and….well, take a look at the photo above. Coincidence, no such thing, if you truly believe all things that happen are the will of the Father. As we do. And seeing that panel, we understood the answer we’d been praying for. That’s all we’ll say about that, save to say, prayer is powerful stuff, but you have to believe He does answer. Because, my dear Loyal Airmen, we know. He always does.

NEVER GROW OLD

Finally we want to end this week’s Flight Log with some melancholy thoughts we hope you’ll all appreciate. As a child, our favorite Disney animated feature was Peter Pan. Seeing it for the first time, the Air Chief was in awe of a world where one never ever had to grow up. Never-Never Land. A magic place where youth was eternal, along with playing games, and creating all kinds of wild and free mischief, never mind even being able to fly. Over the years, the film became even more endearing as we came to understand aging physically and “growing old” are two different things. Really staying young is about living life to the fullest, relishing all its beautiful moments and learning to love. So as time went on and we became a comic book guy, we eventually got to write our own new Peter Pan adventure and had the pleasure of seeing beautifully illustrated by our dear pal, Gary Kato. Initially it was published by Adventure Comics, a subline of the old Malibu Comics. Then a few years back, we managed to collect all the original pages and had them re-colored by the super talented Aiden Belcher. Once done, Rod Davis published the book via his Redbud Studio and it remains available to one and all at Amazon. Recently, we gave a copy to a friend who then reported one of her daughters loves it and they take turns reading to each other almost every night. Even to the point her daughter has memorized many of the lines of dialog. Hearing that we were so happy. Apparently some of that magic pixie dust that rubbed off on the Air Chief all those years ago is still working its magic. Currently, we have absolutely no plans of growing old.

Ron – Over & Out!

The Angelic Voice of Andrea Bocelli

On 20 Jun | '2025

Recently friends of Val and the Air Chief were hoping to visit Denver and attended the Andrea Bocelli concert appearance at the Ball Arena. Sadly, there was a conflict in their schedules after they’d purchased the tickets which were non-refundable. Aware that we are Colorado citizens, they called and offered us the tickets. The chance to spend an evening listening to one of the greatest singers of our time was something we were not about to pass up, Loyal Airmen.

For almost two and a half hours, Bocelli, and his troop of singers and dancers entertained a crowd of thousands, including Val and the Air Chief. Before the show got underway, a friendly stranger offered to snap the picture of us in front of the stage. It turned out great, save for the fact the digital show going on the background bathed the entire arena in a blue light. Ha. When seeing it Val, cringed. Hey, a minor annoyance compared to the sheer joy of listening to one of the most beautiful voices God has ever graced our world with. Mr. Bocelli is a treasure, a gifted man of faith he loves sharing that gift with the rest of us. It was a night we will never ever forget.

THE CRIMSON NUN 2 NEARS FINISH

Don’t look now, Loyal Airmen, but it looks like The Crimson Nun Issue # 2 is getting closer and closer to be all wrapped up. Super artist Jesse Thomas has pretty much finished drawing all 23 pgs. What is left is for him to color them, and then ship them off to artist Mike Belcher for lettering. Once that’s done, it’s off to Ben Dunn and Antarctic Press. Keep those fingers crossed. This one was worth the wait. Oh, yeah.

JIN & TONIK # 2

Meanwhile over in Japan, things are happening in JIN & TONIK Issue # 2 by the incredibly gifted Cesar Feliciano. Each new page has us smiling from ear to ear. Hopefully we’ll soon see a new colored page from Matt Webb as well.

CAN YOU FIND THE BROTHER BONES COVER?

Above is a panel from a new Bun Dunn comic from Antarctic Press. Not the first time Ben had done this little fun gimmick. He’s hero is in a comic shop, so Ben goes to Facebook and invites comic creators to send him the covers to their comics to slap on the wall of this make believe comic book shop. The Air Chief wasted no time sending him our cover to the one and only (to date) Brother Bones comic. It’s # 5 from the left on the top row. Thanks Ben, these kind of things are always fun and support the entire independent comic community.

SPEAKING OF THE UNDEAD AVENGER

Speaking of Brother Bones, here’s a peek at a few more panels from Rob Davis’ short Bones tale which will be featured as a bonus back-up to the first issue of the new comic series coming very, very soon now.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

And there you have it, Loyal Airmen, this week’s Flight Log. As you can see, lots of great things happening. Thanks ever for stopping by and hope to see you all back here next Friday morning, nice and early. Ron – Over & Out!

MORE GOODIES

On 13 Jun | '2025

So before anything else, the Air Chief wants to thank all of you who joined in our joy at being cancer free. And to those who shared their own stories of dealing with that awful disease, your victories and your losses, our hearts to go out to all of you. Let’s continue to pray that one day, God will bless doctors and scientist with a true cure for every single cancer. Amen.

BROTHER BONES PEEK PAGE

Last week we explained how the forthcoming Brother Bones crowdfunding comics will each feature a bonus short strip at the back. Well, the first such, written by yours truly, is currently being illustrated by Rob Davis and we thought you’d like a peek at page one. Believe, when the main artist on the graphic novel, Joe Arnold, saw this page, he flipped out. Oh yeah, we’ve got a winner coming your way, Loyal Airmen. Be patient.

JIN & TONIK # 2

And here we have Pg # 23 if JIN & TONIK issue # 2 by the always amazing Cesar Feliciano. We are still working with a small independent comic publisher to make this series available to all via Amazon. Stay tuned.

BEYOND THE STARS # 5

Finally we’ll end this week’s entry with a bit of behind the scenes on writing a comic page. Our super talented partner on the sci-fi series, BEYOND THE STARS, recently wrote that he was getting set to draw the remaining few pages of issue # 5. Andrea works on multiple series at the same time (like many of today’s artists) and was finishing up on another project. In sending us this e-mail, he included the page 18 panel break-downs he put on paper. At first the Air Chief only laughed deciding that alone would be nothing to post here. But upon further thought, we thought you Loyal Airmen might like to see the corresponding page of script and how the Air Chief wrote it. And that’s above to the left. The sequence is part of the space battle between the Science Warriors and several giant stone warriors. You’ll note our exposition is very, very minimal, as Andrea is already familiar with how all these elements look. Nor do we tell which panel is more important visually than the other four. Again, that’s his call, he’s the artist. We never take that hat. Finally, per our habit of many, many years, we never forget that comics are a visual media and the more panel one has on a comic page, the smaller the artwork will be. Not want any comic fan ever wants. We want big panels giving our artists lots of room to show of their amazing pictures. Do keep in mind, this is only Andrea’s first break-down of the panels. Often time, when he begins drawing, he’ll change them if he’s a better way to compose the page. And trust us, Loyal Airmen, when it is all done, those now empty boxes are going to contain some truly beautiful pictures. Oh, yeah.

ANOTHER I.V. FROST MYSTERY

Finally some really fun news. One of the coolest classic pulp heroes ever created was Professor I.V. Frost. His inventor was writer Donald Wandrei, who during his career, wrote 18 I.V. Frost tales that all appeared in Clues Magazine. Over the past decade or so, the Air Chief has had the pleasure writing several new I.V. Frost stories for Moonstone Books, edited by pal Joe Gentile. Above is a drawing of Frost and his beautiful blonde assistant, Jean Moray. In those years we’ve written two Frost short stories and one full color comic book, which was published by Redbud Studio and contained two I.V. Frost adventures illustrated by our Mr. Jigsaw collaborator, Gary Kato. Anyway, this is our round-about way of letting you know, long ago last year, if not earlier, we actually penned a third I.V. Frost story called “Recipe For Murder” and two days ago were notified by Joe that they are getting ready to publish it. Into what book or anthology, we’ve yet to learn, but as soon as we do, we’ll post it here and where you Loyal Airmen can pick up copies. For the Air Chief, we’re wound for sound. These are great, fun characters and it is going to be great to see them in print once again.

And there you have it for this week, crew. As ever thanks for stopping by, hope you’re all enjoying the warm summer weather and we look forward to seeing you back here next Friday. Ron – Over & Out!

NEW BONES SHORTS

On 6 Jun | '2025

Greetings Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is really excited about the progress artist Joe Arnold is making on the new Brother Bones graphic novel. In first planning out the project, Joe determined that he would break up my 130 pg script into multi-issues, each would have its own campaign funding drive. But at the same time he thought it would be fun to add a short, “bonus” Brother Bones short story at the back of each of this issues. To that end, we immediately wrote several and delivered them to Joe. His plan was to recruit several different artists pals to illustrate them. One of those being our amigo, Rob Davis…and we wrote Rob’s “Nowhere to Hide” especially for him. Okay, so that’s one down. Now imagine my pleasant surprise when Joe messaged me that he has an idea of his own for a short and would we like to hear it. Talk about commitment to a project. Of course, we replied and he went and sent us page break-downs above right and a detailed plot summary. We loved the story and have already scripted it. We’re calling it “Danny and the Party Girl.” As you can see, this project is already much fun. Oh, and before we forget, each issue will have two different covers, with Joe doing the primary and another artist taking on the alternate. Issue number one’s alternate is in Rob’s capable hands. We can’t wait to see both. Oh, yeah!

MAN IN THE MASK

THE NEW BLACK TERROR CREATIVE TEAM

As you may recall from last week’s entry, Loyal Airmen, the Air Chief is writing a brand new Black Terror comic for Antarctic Press to be illustrated by super comics pro, Dell Barrass and colored by my Silverline Podcast co-host David Rios. Well, as of this week we’ve completed the creative team by recruiting a very talented young letterer, one Oluwadamilola Akinwale Akinayo. Oh, yeah, that’s certainly an African mouthful indeed, whereas he’s okay with the nickname Dami. With him now on board, we hope to start scripting issue # 1 very shortly. Especially after the BIG NEWS we’re saving for last here.

THE BIG AND WONDERFUL NEWS

If you’ll allow me, I’m going to forego the editorial “we” here to thank all of you Loyal Airmen from the bottom of my heart. As most of you know, about a month ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer and thus began a series of tests, blood work and body scans. On the 9th of May I had a mastectomy that removed my left breast. I was told this was a stage one cancer and that my chances were good. Whatever it is doctors mean by that. Both Valerie and I are practicing Catholics and share a strong faith in our lord, Jesus Christ. And so prior to the surgery we’d begun praying, asking all our family, friends and colleagues to join us in the hopes of a positive outcome. All the while, I gave myself up to His will, whatever it would be. So, the surgery went well, really well. There was no post pain what so ever and we began to consider what would come next. Words like chemo and radiation had been used and we knew those kind of post-surgery things were possible….depending solely on the full results of the surgery samples taken from lymph nodes remove etc. So we continued to pray. I knew I was in his hands all the time. This past week, Val and I met with the oncologist in charge of my case and were told, due to the data collected, the odds of this type of cancer ever returning within the next ten years were all of 4%. At which point the doc looked at me with a giant smile on her face and said, “Ron, no chemo.” My head dropped and some tears began to form, I felt Jesus’ love for me and this was totally answered prayer. The prayers you Loyal Airmen and all our dear, dear friends and family offered on my behalf. Jesus heard them….and according to his will, he answered them. Moving forward, I most likely will be taking a pill that will be preventative in assuring that cancer does not return and there may be a few side affects, but I’m more than okay with that. Whatever. When I was scared, I prayed to Jesus that I would walk down whatever path he had in store for me, as long as he held my hand. He continues to do so and your old Air Chief is truly one blessed dude. God bless every one of you in abundance, and please, pray to him, he loves you more than you can possibly imagine.

Ron – Over & Out!