![]() ![]() A game changing graphic novel and one of Lambiek's favorites. FANTAGRAPHICS STUDIO ED HC CHARLES BURNS BLACK HOLE. To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin. PREVIEWSworld Comic Book, Graphic Novel and Pop-Culture Merchandise News, Previews, Release Dates. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying,Black Holetranscends its genre by deftly exploring a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it- back when it wasn't exactly cool to be a hippie anymore, but Bowie was still just a little too weird. What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself - the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters - some kids who have it, some who don't, some who are about to get it - what unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. ![]() ![]() The disease is manifested in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) - but once you've got it, that's it. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. ![]() Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. Walt Disney The Black Hole last edited by KillerZ on 12/15/21 03:32PM View full history. ![]()
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