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!