Greetings Loyal Airmen, this week we’re going to kick off things by recommending a television series we recently discovered. As a history buff, the Air Chief has always admired President Theodore Roosevelt and consider him one of the greatest Americans to ever bless our country. For those of you who aren’t all that familiar with the man, he was born to a wealthy New York family at the turn of the century and being a sickly child growing up, decided to make physical exercise part of his daily life. After college, he was being groomed for political life when tragedy struck. He lost both his mother and his wife, Alice, on the same day. The former from typhoid, his wife from a difficult childbirth. It had such a profound effect on him, that he left his newborn daughter with his sister and escaped to the Dakota Badlands to somehow get away from the emotional pain he was suffering. It was while in the west that he came to love nature in all its savagery and beauty. He became a new man molded by the frontier. For years the Air Chief has always wondered why no one has ever bothered to dramatize this great man’s life and now that’s happened. ELKHORN is a series about young Roosevelt’s adventures out west and was produced by the INSP streaming network in 2024. Now, thankfully, it has been picked up by Amazon Prime and we’ve begun watching…and enjoying it. Roosevelt is wonderfully portrayed by Mason Beals who himself is small in stature and has a squeaky high-pitched voice as did Roosevelt. So, if any of you Loyal Airmen love history as much as we do, we recommend you find this series. Then let us know your own thoughts.
JIN & TONIK # 2
Artist Cesar Feliciano continues to wow us with his amazing and wonderful art. Here on Pg 27 of our “JIN & TONIK” number two, Sammy Jin gets ready to teach some martial art moves. Oh, yeah.
LETTERING BROTHER BONES
One of the wonderful highlights of this past week has been the addition of ace-letterer Mike Belcher to the Brother Bones graphic novel project. To date artist Joe Arnold has completed 40 pages for the 120 pg script. All the art and gray-scaling. We’ve shown off a few of those pages. But pictures alone on a page do not make a comic book and a few days ago, Mike jumped in and lettered the first 20 pages. Both yours truly and Joe were simply blown away. A gifted comic creator, Mike does it all, from writing to drawing, coloring and of course lettering. Now this becomes the fourth of our projects that he’s a major part of with his beautiful letters. The others are “Jin & Tonik,” “The Crimson Nun,” and “Beyond the Stars.” To say Mike is a busy fellow is simply stating the obvious. Thanks, Mike, you have so elevated Brother Bones to the next level.
A DASH COLOR
And finally we are going to end this week’s Flight Log with a few color-ful peeks at what’s coming down the road with two other exciting projects. At upper left is another page from “JIN & TONIK #2” with art by Cesar Feliciano and beautiful colors by Matt Webb. While at upper right is another page from our sci-fi saga “BEYOND THE STARS” by artist Andrea Bormida and the first glimpse of our new colorist series, Elise. That’s a pretty good start we think.
And there you go, Loyal Airmen, as always tongs of things happening at the old Hangar 27. As always thanks for stopping by and you always appreciated support. Ron – Over & Out!
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