Tumor Chapter 1

Tumor #1

by Joshua Hale Fialkov

<P>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. <BR></P> <P><BR></P>TUMOR is a dark Los Angeles noir from the Harvey Award nominated creators of the critically acclaimed ELK’S RUN.

Genres: Graphic Novels

62 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 24, 2009

About the author

Joshua Hale Fialkov is the creator (or co-creator, depending) of graphic novels, including the Harvey Nominated Elk’s Run, the Harvey and Eisner nominated Tumor, Punks the Comic, and the Harvey Nominated Echoes.

He has written Alibi and Cyblade for Top Cow, Superman/Batman for DC Comics, Rampaging Wolverine for Marvel, and Friday the 13th for Wildstorm. He’s writing the DC relaunch of I,Vampire, as well as debuting the new Marvel character The Monkey King. This fall sees the launch of The Last of the Greats from Image Comics with artist Brent Peeples.

He also served as a writer on the Emmy Award Nominated animated film Afro Samurai: Resurrection, and as Executive Producer of the cult hit LG15: The Resistance web series.

Elk’s Run, Tumor, and Alibi are all currently in development as feature films. He has written comics for companies including Marvel, Wildstorm, IDW, Dark Horse, Image, Tor Books, Seven Seas Entertainment, Del Rey, Random House, Dabel Brothers Productions, and St. Martin’s Press. He has done video game work for THQ, Midway Entertainment, and Gore Verbinski’s Blind Wink Productions. He also wrote a Sci-Fi Channel movie starring Isabella Rossellini and Judd Nelson. Unfortunately, at no point in the film does Judd Nelson punch the sky and freeze frame. Joshua grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, went to college in Boston, where he got a BFA in writing and directing for the stage and screen, and then worked in the New England film industry, until finally deciding to move to Los Angeles to do it properly. He lives with his wife, Christina, daughter, Gable, and their cats, Smokey and the Bandit.

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Photograph by Heidi Ryder Photography

Reviews

[Mike · Rating 3 out of 5]

Narrative felt a little disjointed, and a few characters were left unexplained. Between panels the main characters face seemed to change. I'm sure subsequent issues will make the story interesting, but this isn't for me.

[Chipper35 · Rating 4 out of 5]

When the Kindle was quite new.......this series was released to sort of show its graphic novel capabilities (which were rather crude compared to today, but I digress). For a multi-issue graphic novel story line, this is a great start! The protagonist discovers he has cancer.......he's a grizzled old LA private eye...........and there're all types of gritty and emotional sub-lines that run through the whole series. This is a good volume all the way around.

[Richard Dominguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this sample as a free download from Amazon and it only included 10 pages (I believe it was the first chapter). The story was interesting and the main character Frank had a certain style that was refreshing under his particular circumstances. For a single chapter it was an entertaining read