The Comic Book Script Archive

A big thanks to Stephen Christy at Archaia and Josh Fialkov for the scripts to Tumor!

Josh is a writer you should be following- if you aren’t familiar with his stuff, I highly recommend going out and getting Elk’s Run (more on that in a second). Seriously, it’s only a matter of time before this guy is HUGE and you’re gonna want to say you read him back in the day.

Y’know how Bendis was doing Fire, Jinx, and Goldfish before becoming the architect of the Marvel U? That’s Josh right now. His range is pretty remarkable too, from stuff like Punks to Cyblade . He’s one of those guys you should read because he’s a better writer than you are (or, I am, at least)– and when you read one of his comics, you’ll walk away with a strong desire to up your game.

Don’t believe me? Well, I got good news for ya:

Thanks to Archaia, Josh’s book “Tumor” is available for your Kindle! The first comic (I believe– I don’t want to get all Tyrese Gibson, here) to be available on that platform.
Don’t have a Kindle? Hey, just like me! Well, you’re still in luck: You can head here and read the first four chapters– free. No strings attached. Just click and start reading.
(mind you, the whole thing is going to be available to you– they’re just at issue 4 in the release schedule now)

Go now:

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.

Great, wasn’t it? And only halfway though, it’s one of my favorite comics of the year.

A flawed hero, a ticking clock, the chance of redemption, tricky narratives–  I’m flippin’ out on it.

And now, thanks to the gang, we have the scripts for Chapters one through three here:

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Nice clean PDFs, too!
– I usually prattle on with some tid-bits that I noticed while reading, but Josh has been running a commentary of sorts over on the Tumor blog. You can check it out here.

Lastly, I’ll say that it is HIGHLY worth picking up the bumper editor of Elk’s Run. The story itself is worth the price of admission, but Josh also includes the original series pitch in the back– which, I shamelessly stole from for my last pitch…which  got picked up– what’s that say to you?
What it says to me is that you should be reading everything that Josh Fialkov puts out. So you can say you did after he’s all famous and stuff.

AWESOME EDIT:

And just to prove that Mr.Fialkov is not only talented, but awesome, he’s put up the proposal/pitch for Tumor!
Here’s the pitch as a PDF document

Also, you’ll want to read Josh’s intro for it here

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