Other teens have their facial features transformed into furry creature faces. People develop tiny mouths on their neck, feet, and back. Or they meet someone with a tail and don’t really see it as that unusual. For example, they pass out and hallucinate that they are falling into a black hole. The teens notice an outbreak of strange medical phenomena. Black Hole by Charles BurnsĮssentially, Black Hole is about a group of teens in the Seattle suburbs during the mid-1970s. Let me back up and try to give you a passable summary. Yet it is absolutely a must-read litmus test for your opinions on sexuality, medicine, infectious disease, love, and the suburban teen experience. It is almost a Rorschach ink blot where it means different things to everyone. This is partially because Burns’ novel, now considered a landmark classic in the history of modern-day graphic novels and comics, truly defies categorization. While I was reading the novel, I fluctuated between so many emotions-wonder, boredom, disgust, fascination, repulsion, transcendence. It seems impossible to write a book review of Charles Burns’ Black Hole, a graphic novel compendium of a comics series from 1995-2005.
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