Last year, BOOM! Studios started publishing their Zombie Tales comics online. Currently, there’s 117 pages up. Zombie Tales is a collection of unorthodox short zombie stories. The undead favorites are placed in somewhat unfamiliar circumstances where they’re allowed to chew and gnaw on the flesh of the living.
Because the stories are short, the authors take chances with the zombie motif which, I certainly feel, makes it an interesting read for any zombie connoisseur. Mostly, the stories are well written and well weaved. But I can’t help feeling that the artwork could have been better, had the illustrators had more time and guts. The images are simply too soft and lack the provocative elements that make good comics. This is not to say that Zombie Tales is ultimately bad, I guess it really comes down to personal taste.
BOOM! Studios have also released other comics that can be read for free. So far, I’ve only read HEXED which has been published on MySpace.
Needless to say, I love all good free things. But I is tiresome to wait for the next page to be uploaded. And from what I’ve seen graphicly from Boom, I probably won’t invest in their comics in the near future.
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You should have a look at some of their Lovecraft-inspired stuff, specifically Fall of Cthulhu and Cthulhu Tales. CT is the non-euclidean equivalent to ZT, that is, short stories about Cthulhu, et al. I’ve only read the first issue of that one, but some of the art in it is pretty damn good.
Fall of Cthulhu looks a litte like Sandman, pre-absolute, but with softer colors (sometimes). Both are a great read, given a penchant for good old Howard Philips, but who doesn’t have a soft spot for him?
Re ZT, I think I might have read an issue, but I completely forgot about again. I’ll be sure to have another look.
January 16th, 2009
The Cthulhu thing sounds great. I also saw it while I was at Boom’s webpage, but did not immediately consider reading it. From what you say, though, it sounds like I should read it.
In the mean time I also found this: http://fightevilwithevil.com/ , an online cyberpunkish comic. I haven’t finished it yet, but it seems like it might be interesting.
January 16th, 2009
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