NEXT WRITING PROJECT
- On 23 Aug | '2024
Greetings Loyal Airmen, well summer for most students across the country is now finished and they are back in school. When young, we thought summers lasted forever. On becoming an adult the reality was something else. They all too short. Okay, so soon Fall will be upon us and meanwhile the Air Chief is pounding away at his newest writing gig.
CODE NAME INTREPID – CLASSIFIED
Few years ago, writer Robert J. Mendenhall came to Airship 27 with an idea about a super military team that operated in the time between World War I and II, taking on only the most crucial, special assignments that often dealt with the supernatural. He titles his collection of stories “Codename – Intrepid” and we were only too happy to publish it. (Above left.) Later, having gotten the New Pulp in a big way, Robert made the decision to create his own publishing imprint from which to continue the team’s adventures. (Note..all of them are available on Amazon – check them out.) Then last year he had the idea of inviting other writers to do stories with these characters and launched a series he called “CNI-Classified.” (Above right.) A really awesome idea. When we hooked up with Robert earlier in the year at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con, we congratulated him on the series’ success and suggested we might be interested in writing one of those tales. Happily Robert loved the idea and so we committed to having a story to him by the end of this year. After a few months of dealing with tons of other comic book projects plus all our new Airship 27 titles, we managed to come up with a plot and this past week have been hammering away at the keys. The story is coming along. Wahoo. We’ll keep you posted.
JEFF’S HORNET FUN
The first time we met artist Jeff Butler, at a San Diego Comic ages ago, he showed us a portfolio of his work and there was this pin-up sketch of the Green Hornette. (above left) We loved it and within months of that meeting, we recruited to Jeff to be our partner in producing the Green Hornet comic book for the now defunct Now Comics out of Chicago. Recently, on Facebook, fan Scott Garrison, has been talking about how he’s been collecting, through various sources on line ala E-bay etc, the entire run of that series. That’s quite an achievement in itself. Well eventually we saw that post and added a few comments of applause for his efforts. Then Jeff saw and the other day added as yet another Hornette (above right) this being our lovely Mishi Kato. So here they are side by side. We thought all you Loyal Airmen would get a kick out of seeing them. Enjoy…and thanks Jeff.
CAPTAIN JAIN’S OWN COMIC!
As many of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief has been writing the comic strip adventures of Captain Jain Marlee Space-Smuggler for a long-long time now. If memory serves us correctly, we’ve written at least six of these short tales. In fact the last, an 11 pager called “Ghost World” has yet to see print.
Very recently a fellow writer approached us with an intriguing proposition regarding our lovely space rebel. Enough so that it got us thinking maybe it was time we collected all those stories into one comic book. And that is indeed what we are setting out to do. Most likely through pal Rob’s Redbud Studio. As it comes together, we’ll keep you Loyal Airmen updated. As to what that idea presented to us entailed, well we’re going to keep that under wraps for a little while longer. Keep you guessing a bit. Till then, look forward to this one shot comic project.
And that’s a wrap for this installment, Loyal Airmen. As ever, thanks so much for stopping by we hope to see you back here next Friday. Till then stay well and God bless.
Ron – Over & Out!