Saturday, May 28, 2011

Tumor by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon


Tumor by Joshua Fialkov and Noel Tuazon, graphic Novel 240 pages.
Frank Armstrong had been a private detective, and not among the best of them, by all accounts. Now he finds himself with an inoperable brain tumor and one last job. He is not sure if he is up to it. Gibson, a man Frank believes would like to see him dead, instead hires him to his missing daughter, Evelyn. Frank is unsure of Gibson's true motives, and when he finds Evelyn he doubts her motives as well. Because of the effects of the Glioblastoma, he starts to doubt a lot of other things as well. He passes out occasionally in mid-event, or mid-conversation and finds himself in the recent past, back in the hospital. More and more, as the story progresses, Frank finds himself drifting into a situation he faced in the past that was similar to his (ostensibly) present one. While he never doubts himself for long, the reader comes to see him as a very unreliable narrator. The art supports the story well, with background detail that doesn't quite reveal what we need to know, as it admirably mirrors Frank's confusion and displacement. A very good, very interesting graphic novel.

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