Customer Reviews

Tumor Chapter 1

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(8)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

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.

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.

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.

I have not yet found an ereader that can render enough of a graphic novel to make it worth buying a graphic novel for an ereader. with that said, I have published comics of my own, as well as worked as editor and chief of an indi comic company for over seven years, this book did not move me. The art, although greatly rendered, was not exciting to say the least. The story was more exciting but lacked in many areas.

Its a free read so you can try it if you like.

Very hard to read on Kindle. Probably enjoyed by comic book fans. Plot too maniac for my reading taste.

It's really hard to read on the kindle. The story is ok so far but I haven't read much of it since it's so hard to read.

THis is my first graphic novel for the kindle, and I was rather excited because I enjoy both graphic novels AND free stuff.

For being a free chapter, this is not too bad, BUT my major pet peeve is the size of the artwork on the kindle.. its TINY! I have to hold the dang thing real close to my face just to see the facial expressions on the characters.

I do not know if every kindle graphic novel has text and pictures this small, but unless you have eyes of a freakin' hawk- I suggest you just buy physical graphic novels, ones with color and large, legible text/pictures.


As for the chapter's CONTENT, I wasnt as "swayed" as the other reviewers. I had no idea what was going on in some scenes and character entrances are very abrupt- adding to the confusion.

It wasnt as great as I expected it to be, but I will read the 2nd chapter just to see if it gets better.. HOPEFULLY the next chapter will clear some things up... that is when I locate my magnifying glass in order to read it.

as several others, i read this because it was free on the kindle and i wanted to try out my new kindle with a comic. i was disappointed in the format. it is not at all optimized for kindle's screen format, thus making it a difficult read. you would have better luck on your computer using the kindle reader app.

This is a free for kindle owners graphic novel of a man suffering with a tumor. He seems to move from place to place. At one time he is in the hospital very agitated. At another time is being taken to a gangster who hires him to commit a murder for $10,000. This also agitates him. The drawings are all right, but the language is filled with gratuitous vulgarities. Readers may wonder: is he really in a hospital bed hallucinating about the murder? Or, is the situation just the opposite. He is involved in the murder contract, but thinks about a time he was in the hospital? Or, are both hallucinations; the result of his tumor?

This is a graphic novel, a somewhat underutilized medium of storytelling on the Kindle. It seems like the DX would be a perfect fit for such a book, and it is. The art style of the book is very well done and conveys exactly the right mood for the story. At times I did wish that the art strokes were a little darker, but it was not bad enough that couldn't make out the panel. Also, the story uses an interesting mechanic that is intentionally disorients the reader from the timeline. It fits in perfectly with the story and is a plus.

On the downside, I don't think that you can go through more than a panel or two without a curse word. The frequency is gratuitous and, I felt, unnecessary. You can convey a gritty atmosphere without dropping the F bomb in every other panel. That is this book's only weakness, but it is a glaring one. It became a huge distraction for me. I don't care about cursing in my books or graphic novels if needed, but the frequency put me off entirely.

I may try to second chapter of the series, but unless the cursing is reduced, that will be it for me.