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Zune Arts: Looks Great, Doesn’t Work

Zune Arts, the creative wing of Microsoft’s Zune team, has debuted its Lost Ones comic, which is available free online and will later be available in printed form.

I went over to Zune’s Web site to check it out, and it’s quite a fancy operation, but there’s one major problem: You can’t actually read the comic.

Sure, you can pull it up and see the pages (it’s written by Steve Niles and illustrated by Gary Panter and others). But you can’t read them. They’re too small.

And maybe this was just my computer or me being the resident luddite, but when I used the zoom function it made the pages so blurry it was even more impossible to read. Call me crazy, but I think the days of everyone reading comics on their cell phone is not just around the corner.

Oh, and if you’re curious why there’s no art with this story, it’s because that function of Zune’s site also wasn’t working. At least they have fancy videos about making the comic…

Steve Niles and Mark Waid on ‘Cthulhu Tales’

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  • February 13, 2008

Comic readers looking for a monthly fix of slimy, tentacled horror from the inky blackness, it appears that your search is over.

Boom! Studios has decided to take its former Cthulhu Tales one-shots the monthly route beginning in March, providing a regular fix of Lovecraftian horror for aficianadoes of the Ancient Ones’ dark shenanigans.

CBR spoke to Boom! Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid about the new ongoing anthology series, which will launch with a set of stories by Steve Niles and continue with an ever-changing cast of writers and artists.

Here, Niles explains one of his upcoming contributions to the series:

“The new one that I’m writing right now is going to get much stranger,” continued Niles. “This new one I’m working on is very, very weird. If I were the artist on these things — I’m sitting here working on a story, there’s a body on a slab in a morgue, and basically the world of the Ancient Ones is inside the body, so when it bursts out, we’re going to have this corpse with a room full of tentacle. Man, if I was the artist I’d have so much fun drawing that."

And isn’t that the real appeal of Lovecraftian horror? It makes you want to simultaneously clap your hands and clutch your stomach against the sudden wave of nausea.

Good times.

 

30 Days of Steve Niles!

30_days_of_night-2124336ComicMix Radio kicks off the week with a visit from 30 Days Of Night creator Steve Niles who fills us in on his reaction to the how his project looked on the big screen as well as his new series at DC… plus updates on:

• Comic creators turning up on Numb3rs

• The TV season posts its first causality, but Bionic Woman and Journeyman get new leases on life,

• And our full rundown of this week’s long box full of new comics and DVDs including a new Batman-based mini series from DC, DVD Special Editions of The Shining and 2001 and no less than three more zombie variants from Marvel.

If that doesn’t make you Press The Button – what will?

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