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Tumor Chapter 1 |  | Authors: Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuazon
Publisher: Archaia Studios Press
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  14 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
ASIN: B002J256D8
Publication Date: July 24, 2009
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Product Description
Frank Armstrong has an inoperable brain tumor that-s killing him. In his final days, with his body, senses, and mind failing him, he-s going to do the one thing that he-s never been able to do before- save the girl.
TUMOR is a dark Los Angeles noir from the Harvey Award nominated creators of the critically acclaimed ELK-S RUN.
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 Great book! April 22, 2010
Jason E. Palmer (Seattle, WA)
Reads well on the kindle but you need to buy this in Hardcover and read it! Josh Hale Fialkov is a great writer. In fact, just buy all his books!!
 meh April 14, 2010
Victoria Lugo
It's alright. not too special. the images are more like rough sketches. some lines were a little too repetitive. but i did find it amusing. it's not very long.
if your the kind of person that doesn't like randomly inserted flashbacks, then this will irk you; personally, i found it was an element that was pulled off pretty smoothly.
 Looks like the rough sketch for a completed comic January 19, 2010
Marc Dell Angelo (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm sorry but this was just poor. Couldn't get through the dialog, especially during the hospital-car scenes, due to the very loose drawing. Those type of renderings work for storyboards done on demand but not in graphic storytelling.
And, as said before, the gratuitous language is distracting. I still have strong hope for the kindle as a medium for comics, though.
The "Boondock Saints" of comics January 2, 2010
Brian Clarke (Gainesville, Florida)
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
You know how someone will highly recommend you something that turns out to be awful or just mediocre and forever after you take their recommendations with a grain of salt? For me, that's "Tumor," a comic that had been recommended to me by a couple of people whose opinions I once trusted who I'll now look at cross-eyed.
If you've never read another crime comic or seen a crime film, "Tumor" might be the comic for you, just like "The Boondock Saints." You'll marvel as the protagonist tries to solve one last case as his perception becomes unreliable, but then one day somebody will show you "Memento" just like you hope somebody would show a "Saints" fan "Pulp Fiction" or even "Full Contact" and they'd realize what they've been marveling at is actually a piss-poor imitation of something great that it's ripping off. It's not that "Tumor" is so terrible, it's that the exact same story has just been done so much better so many other times.
What's always a dead giveaway for me is the dialogue. Whereas Quentin Tarantino or Raymond Chandler have as much fun with the words their characters say as they do the story, the lines here are as pedestrian as something you'd find in a recent Val Kilmer DTV title (in fact, there are many lines in "Tumor" that may seem familiar if only because you've heard them repeated in so many bad cop shows and telemovies throughout the nineties). The characters all speak in the same voice and it's flat and perfunctory. "Boondock Saints" falls into that same category as the look of the protagonists is quite cool from the second you see it, but the moment they open their mouths, they reveal their idiocy and the movie loses most normal, thoughtful audience members.
Ignoring "Boondock Saints," let's compare apples to apples. Take Brian Azzarello and Victor Santos's comic, "Filthy Rich." Like "Tumor," it's a crime noir, it's black-and-white, it's manga-sized and the main character has a dark past that's revealed across the main plot involving a troublesome dame who the main guy is tasked with protecting. It's a familiar trope, but with every line and every twist and every character, Azzarello brings something new to the story because he's that kind of author. In "Tumor," Fialkov and Tuazon appear content to have the high concept do all the work for them. If you find it hard to be dazzled by the idea that a man with a tumor is having a hard time with his perception as this story happens around him, then this is a hard book to recommend. It's an interesting set-up followed by seven chapters of painfully boring and clumsily-revealed exposition that drums out any good feeling you had towards that concept by the time you reach the end. You know this by the time you get to Chapters 4 and 5 when still, nothing has happened.
It's too bad because for this to be the first comic "created for the Kindle," you'd hope that would be something that would open the floodgates for more content with a bang, instead of a whimper. If this is the best we can hope for, then I'll think twice before downloading another creator-owned book.
Hello Zoom Function! December 28, 2009
Sarah E. Portwood (Bloomington, IN USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This was the first comic I viewed on my new Kindle 2--I chose it because it was free. The comic is great. I was worried about it being formatted for the larger DX, but once I found out you could zoom in using the 5-way controller, it became quite comfortable to read.
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