Reply With QuoteGrabbed this a couple months back at C2E2 from Fialkov himself and read it all on the car ride home. Awesome book, and the production values on it for a $15 buck hardcover are insanely nice for the price. Highly recommended.
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This week we are reading: Tumor HC by Joshua Hale Fialkov, Noel Tuazon, Richard Starkings & Jimmy Betancourt (Archaia Entertaiment, LLC, 06/09)
Our reviewers this week are:
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Next week we are reading:
- *new* Madam Samurai #1 by Gary Young & David Hitchcock (Scar Comics, 06/16)
- Meta 4 #1 by Ted McKeever & Dana Moreshead (Image Comics, 06/09)
This week's companion threads:
- BB Alternative Review Group #134: Neil Young's Greendale HC by Joshua Dysart, Cliff Chiang & Dave Stewart (Vertigo, 06/09)
- BB Review Group week 290: Young Allies #1 by Sean McKeever, David Baldeón, N. Bowling, Chris Sotomayor & Joe Sabino (Marvel, 06/09)
Upcoming: *new* Artichoke Tales by Megan Kelso (Fantagraphics Books, 06/16), Billy Hazelnuts and the Crazy Bird by Tony Millionaire (Fantagraphics Books, 06/16), *new* How I Made It to Eighteen by Tracy White (Roaring Book Press, 06/09), *new* Power Out by Nathan Schreiber (Canal Press, 06/09), Mondo Urbano Vol. 1 by Mateus Santolouco, Eduardo Medeiros & Rafael Albuquerque (Oni Press, 06/09), BB Wolf and the 3 LPs HC by J.D. Arnold & Rich Koslowski (Top Shelf Productions), A Distant Neighborhood Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 by Jiro Taniguchi (Fanfare/Ponent Mon, 10/07 & 11/25), Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms HC by Kono Fumiyo (Last Gasp, 01/06), The Original Johnson Vol. 1 by Trevor Von Eeden (IDW/Comicmix, 12/23),...
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8 - Highly recommended but it has minor flaws
7 - Very good, it does have some problems
6 - Above average but has deep flaws
5 - An average comic
4 - Below average, the flaws outweigh the good
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2 - Forgettable, a waste of time
1 - Stay away!! One of the worst comics I've read
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Last edited by Andreas; 06-13-2010 at 06:27 PM.
Grabbed this a couple months back at C2E2 from Fialkov himself and read it all on the car ride home. Awesome book, and the production values on it for a $15 buck hardcover are insanely nice for the price. Highly recommended.
I really liked Noel Tuazon's art on Elk's Run, but found the art on this book from just flipping through it to be very scratchy and sketchy...almost unfinished.Originally Posted by LenNWallace
Thoughts?
That's weird, because the one thing that kept me from being able to read Elk's Run was Tuazon's art in it, whereas I couldn't recognize that it was his art on Tumor because I thought it was much more refined...
Samuel Bayer Directing an Adaptation of Graphic Novel 'Tumor'
by Ethan Anderton - Oct 13, 2010
With the mediocre remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street in his rear view mirror and a forthcoming sequel already in the works, director Samuel Bayer already has an eye on moving out of the horror genre. In a report about the launch of a new company called Red Crown Productions, Variety says the new banner already has a frontrunner for its first project with an adaptation of Joshua Hale's graphic novel Tumor, which premiered at Comic-Con this past summer. Apparently Bayer is already attached to direct the story of a failed private detective who suffers from an inoperable brain tumor that causes time-bending hallucinations.
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I don't know how this book went completely under my radar. I liked Elk's Run a lot.
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