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Originally Posted by Daithi
I just wanted to comment on Tumor by J.H. Fialkov & N. Tuazon. It's a graphic novel where each chapter costs 99 cents. It's on Sporadic's list and I don't know how many chapters there will be in total, but I imagine the cost for the whole book could get up there once all the chapters have been purchased. So, I can't say that this book is really free or inexpensive --- but the first chapter was pretty good.
The story is about a retired private detective that comes out of retirement to find a crime boss's missing daughter (think Philip Marlow/Sam Spade), and is told from the detective's point of view. However, the detective has a brain tumor and is dying -- and one of the effects of the tumor is that it screws with the detective's sense of time. The way this ties into the story is really cool -- it reminds me of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (except I actually like Tumor). The dialog and the inner thoughts of the characters in Tumor are extremelly well done, especially when you consider that these items must be kept to a short length in a graphic novel.
The artwork isn't spectacular but it is still good. The images resemble a talented artist's sketched still frames of camera shots for a film or TV show (i.e. a director's storyboard that is a little rough), but I feel this adds to the grittyness of the novel, so this isn't a complaint. I don't know how the novel looks on the Kindle 1 and 2 as I read it on a Kindle DX. I had no problem reading the story or viewing the images on the DX, but the image sizes were definately NOT drawn for the DX's screen size. Lastly, the pages turned very quickly for images. All-in-all, it's really good.
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According to the story's site, it is going to be 8 chapters.
http://www.tumorthecomic.com/?page_id=3
I looked at Chapter 1 on my K1 and it looks pretty good. Definitely readable.
Here's an interview with one of the creators.
http://robot6.comicbookresources.com...-hale-fialkov/