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.
The Angelic Voice of Andrea Bocelli