Comments on: Pirates, Ninjas, Cthulhu, BOOM!

Pirates, Ninjas, Cthulhu, BOOM!

Artw — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:25:39 -0800

Free comics! BOOM! Studios' new web comics site, launching today, will be posting a page a day from six different titles including its Ninja, Zombie and Cthulhu Tales anthologies...

By: Caduceus

Caduceus — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:56:44 -0800

That's a pretty sweet Gug on page five of Cthulhu Tales.

By: whir

whir — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:02:48 -0800

I picked up some issues of Cthulhu Tales recently - the stories sometimes seem to lack an ineffable something, but a good deal of the art is agreeably awful. I especially enjoyed this portrait of a lady.

By: whir

whir — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:04:43 -0800

(er, that's awful in the complimentary sense, of course. Ia! Ia!)

By: Ron Thanagar

Ron Thanagar — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:01:40 -0800

I'm new here... is this an ad?

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:31:19 -0800

Once I got to Page 5 of "2 Guns" and realized that it was all covers and glowing praise blurbs (and the content looked increasingly like Brubaker Warmed Over), I bailed.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:19:39 -0800

Okay, to be fair the other series do have actual content.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:12:26 -0800

Well, I'm quite enthused by what their doing (well, I made the FPP, I supposed I'd have to) but I do wonder if starting off with meatier content would have been better – like actually getting to the end of one of the anthology tales and maybe starting another one and doing the day-by-day dripfeed on that. Probably it's going to be better to read this in little bursts than hang on it every day, since these weren't initially meant to be read a page at a time. Still, that's a LOT of material they are planning on posting there. And I'm a sucker for horror anthologies.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:34:47 -0800

I root for BOOM! studios, and I enjoy the hell out of a lot of the stuff they put out, and they bring in lots of people I like, and I want them to succeed. But part of me groans a little at the endless series of internet memes they mine. Cthulu, ninjas, zombies, sure. Giving the (web) people what they want, or pandering? I go back and forth. But the day they do LOLCats Tales, I'm done with them.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:52:58 -0800

I think they're actually doing something pretty smart there - historically, for whatever reason, anthology titles have been a tough sell in the US market, and pushing a strong theme and brand seems a good way around it.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:37:02 -0800

Yeah, I agree, it's smart business. And in the end, making enough money to survive's probably more important to them than nurturing the tender sensibilities of some fussy dude in Minneapolis.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:02:45 -0800

I'm totally pitching LOLCAT Tales, BTW.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:13:14 -0800

If they go for it, send me the submission guidelines. My principles'll go right out the window if I can haz exposure.

By: Artw

Artw — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:40:18 -0800

Update: FWIW There's some full stories there now, and second stories starting. I kind of like the first Zombie Tales one.