Greetings Loyal Airmen, most of you will be reading this Flight Log on Nov 1st, All Saints Day, the day after HALLOWEEN, still, we hope you all had a great time at one of our favorite holidays of the year.  Today is Mom's birthday, she turns 89 and is doing really well, for which we thank God.  The Air Chief will be turning 67 next Tuesday, Nov 5th, Guy Fawkes day in England. Perhaps that explains some of our quirkiness.  Ha.  Okay, let's get this week's Flight Log rolling along.

Joy, of joys, our beloved Red Sox last night won the 2012 Baseball World Series.  The first time this victory took place in their home stadium of Fenway Park in front of 38,000 fans.  We were watching on TV and couldn't contain our excitement at their taking the championship again, that is three times in ten years.  Our baseball caps also get tipped to the marvelous Saint Louis Cardinals who were great competitors and deserved to be the National League champs. Their a class act.

Now when the Red Sox ended their 2012 season at the bottom of the American League East, no one in the world would have ever predicted they would come back the very following year and win the World Series. But somehow General Manager Ben Cherington has a plan to recruit veteran old players who knew how to play the game right, who had a positive attitude, who were good teammates.  To make this plan work he and Red Sox management brought former pitching coach John Farrell to lead the charge.  And that dream began on the first day of Spring Training down in Ft. Myers, Florida.  These Dirt-Dogs, old and new, came together, they bonded and became a team, not a collective of super stars, but a real team, a group of like-minded players to supported each through through and long and grueling season, all with a common goal, to win the World Series.  And they did it!!  Nuff said!

On the creative front, Airship 27 Productions has released its newest pulp anthology featuring another little know classic pulp hero, THE CRIMSON MASK.  He's featured in four brand new stories in this volume beautifully covered by artist Andy Fish.  You can pick up a copy at Amazon.com or if you prefer, get it on Kindle.  As ever, we thank you so much for your continued support.  It looks like we'll be setting a new production record by the end of the year.  Last year we put out 16 books.  THE CRIMSON MASK is number 14 and we've still got two full months ahead of us.  Stay tuned, Loyal Airmen.

Over the last few years many of the Air Chief's fans have suggested we should be writing new Green Hornet stories for Dynamite Comics, the outfit who now has the rights.  People fondly remember the old GH series we did for Now Comics (a cover is spotlighted above).  Now there is a program out there called Kickstarter that was launched a few years ago in which people wanted to publish their comic projects would go on line and ask people to contribute money to help them achieve their goals. It became extremely popular and many comics have been produced via this route.  The Air Chief isn't a big fan of such “begging” and that's why we've gone the self-publishing route with most of our own titles over the past few years with Redbud Studio.  Still fans kept pushing the idea of our working on the Green Hornet for Dynamite.

Which was when the light bulb went off in our old noodle.  Why didn't we start our own version of a Kickstarter program, but one in which we didn't ask anyone for a single penny but rather their support in starting a letter writing campaign to Dynamite directly asking them to recruit the Air Chief to write the Green Hornet for them.  We got this going on our Facebook page at the start of the week and have been humbled by the overwhelming support the idea picked up almost immediately.  In fact there has been several on-line podcast that have mentioned this campaign and urged their listeners to sign on.  If you Loyal Airmen out there would like to join in, again, all we ask is that you write Dynamite Comics, either at their Faebook page or their own website and ask them sign up RON FORTIER TO WRITE THE GREEN HORNET.

Will they listen?  Who knows?  But we'd like to think if the numbers of letters that arrived in their boxes climbed to the hundreds, they would at least take notice. Chuckle.  One just never knows.

And there you have it for another Fall Week at Hangar 27, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks for stopping by and we'll see you back here next week.
Ron – Over and Out!