Greetings Loyal Airmen.  One of actor Michael Fox's more popular (& weird) movies was something called Teen Wolf, a comedy in which he plays a  young high school student bitten by a werewolf who then turns into one himself. The movie was favorably looked upon when released for it comedic elements and went on to spawn a sequel and TV movie back in the early 90s.  Now MTV has gone a created a brand new Teen Wolf, this one a weekly TV series and they've made it much darker and scarier, while maintaining some of the original's dark humor. The end result is a really terrific new show.
 
    
                      Actor Tyler Posey as TEEN WOLF in new MTV weekly series.
The show has a tremendous cast of charismatic young actors lead by newcomer Tyler Posey as Scott McCall, the asthmatic lacrosse player who is bitten by a werewolf monster and suddenly begins to display strange, super natural powers. At the same time he's fallen in love with a newcomer at his Northern California High School, one Allison Argent, played by Crystal Reed. The show is actually filmed in the Atlanta area. And if that wasn't trouble enough, lo and behold, we soon discover Allison's dad is a member of a family that hunts werewolves.

So far the show has aired five of its thirteen episodes and Valerie and the Air Chief are hooked.  Many of the early episodes were written by veteran Australian writer/producer, Russell Mulcahy and his work on this show is some of his best ever. So if you one of those Loyal Airmen who still laments the passing of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Moonlight, let us recommend you catch TEEN WOLF.  We think you'll enjoy it as much as we do.

             
This has certainly been a summer of genre blockbusters.  Thus far the Air Chief has really enjoyed both THOR and GREEN LANTERN, and been horribly disappointed in SUPER 8.  In a few weeks we hope to catch the last Harry Potter movie.  Having read all the novels, we know what's in story for this slam-bang action finale and are eager to see it.  Still the biggest target of anticipation on our movie list this summer is CAPTAIN AMERICA – THE FIRST AVENGER.  Cap is one the Air Chief's favorite comic book heroes and Joe Johnston one of our favorite director.  He did the classic ROCKETEER.  The film clips and trailers we have seen of this movie only have us counting the days till its release at the end of the month.  This movie is going to be so much. Many were the days when the Air Chief was just a kid growing up in a small New Hampshire town in the early 60s discovering Marvel comics and wondering why no one in Hollywood was making movies of these great characters.  Well, live long enough and even one's wildest dreams can come true.

That's it for another week, Loyal Airmen.  Next Friday will talk about the soon to be released comic, RON FORTIER'S TALES OF THE MACABRE # 1, and our newest Brother Bones pulp story in over six years. So see you all back here in seven. 

Ron – Over & Out!