As we begin this week’s entry, it is the afternoon of Christmas Eve and the excitement of the coming day is palatable. As all you Loyal Airmen will be reading this the day after, allow the Air Chief and Val to still wish you and all your loved ones a truly blessed Merry Christmas and fantastic Happy New Year. Let’s all strive to make 2025, a kinder, more loving and peaceful time under God’s heaven. In truth we are all brothers and sisters, that is the message of the baby Jesus. We should all do our best to live it all  year long.

SANTA’S GOODIES

JIN & TONIK # 2

Artist Ceasar Feliciano continues to draw new pages ala the one above and they are gorgeous. While super colorist Matt Webb is currently coloring the completed first five pages. Your overall response to issue # 1 was so gratifying, we are truly anxious to get this latest chapter off to you. Which mean the Air Chief has to get hustling on the script for issue # 3.  Oh, yeah.

AMERICAN AMAZON

“American Amazon” is the Air Chief’s newest in-the-works comic project. We’ve joined forces with artist Clint Scott based on another of our old projects from the dusty files that never saw the light of day. As we are developing the project itself, with character bios and sketches etc. we’ve not given any thought to which independent publisher to bring it to once it is ready to be offered. So if any of our publisher colleagues are interested, give us a holler.

SANTA’S GOODIES

Finally, we wanted to share with you Loyal Airmen some of the wonderful Santa surprises we found waiting for us under the tree Christmas day.  Our family here being Santa’s helpers. Among the Air Chief’s new goodies was a 3D like Captain America wall plaque, which grandson Alex has promised to help us put up. Though honestly, our little office is almost totally out of wall space. Ha. We’ll figure it out. Then there was the new Luke Combs’ “Fathers and Sons.” Val and the Air Chief of major fans of this talented country singer/songwriter and we’d heard this was by far one of his most personal albums. All 12 songs deal with father-son relationships, something the Air Chief is intimately familiar with, having been blessed with three amazing sons, and two fantastic grandsons. Will be listening to this one often. Then came the new books from Amazon wish-list. “How To Make Great Decisions,” by Father Mike Schmitz, of the most popular and charismatic Catholic priest evangelizing today. We became fans upon following both “Bible in a Year” and “Catechism in a Year” You-Tube series. We recommend them to all Christians wanting to learn more about the Holy Bible. And lastly, “Plot Twists and Red Herrings” by Kimberly Wylie, sub-title, “A Guide to Mystery Genre Tropes.” As a pulp writer, this should come in handy for future assignments.

And there you have it Loyal Airmen, quite a nice collection of new treasures. Of course, the greatest gifts the Air Chief receives every single year is the love and affection of his family, friends and all you Loyal Airmen who support our multiple endeavors. May the God bless each and everyone one of you and great all of us a truly HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  2025 HERE WE COME!

Ron – Over & Out!