Zombie Terrors Becomes an Animated Comic

Well it looks as if the collected anthology comics Zombie Terrors are getting the animated treatment.

“We’re very excited about the possibility of reaching so many new readers all over the world with these animated comic books,” says Asylum Press President Frank Forte. “Tablet computer ownership is exploding and we want to provide dynamic, top-quality content for comic book lovers. Visionborne’s amazing technology lets our readers experience comics in a cool new way that wasn’t possible before.”

Apparently it’s going to be an iPad release so Android users get boned. (Or just will have one less thing we have to spend money on, I’m OK with that.) It looks like it’d be a pretty good read and the first issue is actually free (first taste is free kids) and will be available thorugh Visionborne’s app. The follow up issues will run 99 cents each and be sold through the iTunes store.

So what’s the word on what can be found within? Well straight from iTunes we have:

Zombie Terrors #1 features a collection of macabre zombie tales by a variety of writers and artists from all over the world. Each panel is animated with mind blowing special effects by Visionborne. Word balloons and SFX jump out at you. See explosions, fire, smoke and all types of incredible animation that make the pages come alive.

Frank Forte delivers Beheaded, a tale of a crazed hillbilly who takes trophies off of his zombie victims. In Feast, a gourmet chef is taken hostage by a greedy mob boss. In Hate, a recently turned zombie that still has some semblance of his humanity must confront what he’s become. And finally, to add a little more spice to this gruesome brew, We’re throwing in some awesome pin-ups by horror master David Hartman.

Got hungry? Bite some rotting flesh on this Visionborne comic, so

Writers/Artists: Frank Forte, Royal McGraw, Adauto Silva, Doug Williams, David Hartman
Cover Art: Aly Fell

Airmid delivers the perfect balance between traditional comics and computer animation. The comic enthusiast will be able to enjoy comics in the same was as he/she did on printed paper, but in a richer, more immersive and captivating reading experience.

Airmid’s specially crafted reader, made to be as unobtrusive as possible so comics can really shine full screen in all of their glory, lets the reader:

* Swipe back and forth between the pages of the comic.

* Double tap to access a thumbnail index of pages for easy access to pages anywhere in the comic.

* Zoomable balloons for ease of reading.

* Balloons are also multilingual too, so the reader can choose to read the comic in any of the available languages.

Honestly the preview art totally catches my interest and if this was out for Android I’d probably pick it up but.. that’s new media for you. Behind the times and trying to support the second highest install base of mobile devices and not the first.