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| Title | : | Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12) |
| Author | : | Charles Burns |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 368 pages |
| Published | : | October 18th 2005 by Pantheon (first published 1995) |
| Categories | : | Sequential Art. Graphic Novels. Comics. Horror. Fiction. Graphic Novels Comics |
Charles Burns
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.84 | 41106 Users | 2326 Reviews
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Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. 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. There’s no turning back. 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. 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. And then the murders start. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole transcends 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. To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin…
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| Original Title: | Black Hole |
| ISBN: | 037542380X (ISBN13: 9780375423802) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Black Hole #1-12 |
| Setting: | Seattle, Washington(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Harvey Awards for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work (2006), Ignatz Award for Outstanding Anthology or Collection (2006), Prix du Festival d'Angoulême for Les Essentiels d'Angoulême (2007), Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Graphic Album: Reprint (2006) |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 41106 Users | 2326 ReviewsCritique About Books Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12)
We watched Riverdale recently, The CW's newish series based on the Archie comics, and I found it a frustrating experience. It had all the elements that I normally love namely, small-town America, murder, secrets and sexual tension among high-schoolers and yet it didn't go nearly dark enough or deep enough to really hit the spot. I was fretting vaguely about these themes for some time afterwards, and when I saw a copy of Charles Burns's Black Hole in a bookshop, I realised that it was exactlyI was caught up in that lamentable period of American cinema (has it stopped?) where implausibly attractive actors in their late twenties pretend to be nubile teenage virgins hiding from serial killers or participating in leery innuendo-laden unfunny antics with ex-sitcom stars. Oddly enough this phenomenon was helped along by Wes Cravens Scream, a film that satirised all the clichés of a genre it single-handedly repopularisedthe layers of irony gradually falling away until the reliably bankable
The fuck did I just read? It was like Dazed and Confused had a baby with The Twilight Zone...This book was interesting but it was like reading about someone on an acid trip that slowly went bad. It's set in the 70's and there's a sexually transmitted disease that causes physical mutations (a tail, a mouth where it shouldn't be, etc.). All of the main characters are teenagers, and it mostly follows two narratives, one girl, one boy. Things start off not too bad for the teens, but things change,
There's something both claustrophobic and cinematic about the black-and-white art in Black Hole. It demands concentration: in many panels, multiple characters, with their epicene seventies haircuts, appear identical unless you look carefully. It evokes quiet but expansive sounds, like the wind stirring a field of tall grass at night. It's intense, something to be measured out in small doses, and I can see how it would have been perfect as a serialised comic; in a single volume it's perhaps a
Adolescence as DiseaseCharles Burnss Black Hole is a strange and somewhat disturbing graphic novel depicting some teens engaging in drinking, smoking pot, and sexual acts. Ho hum, eh? It is also one of the best graphic novels and novels of any kind of the new century. If a black hole is the effect of gravity pulling so hard on a site in space that light cannot get out, the black hole of this particular summer of sex and drugs looks at times like it is a vortex you could not recover from. I was
2019 reread:God, this book is rough.--Original review:I am one of those awesome people who read this in the single-issue original run, and LET ME TELL YOU it is totally insane reading a series that only comes out once a year. But I did, and I felt creepier with every new issue that came out. I mean, if you've never read any Charles Burns, you will still recognize his style immediately when you sit down with this book. It will totally weird you out, make you feel dirty and like you're on drugs
I found myself deeply unaffected by this book and profounding bored with its metaphorical suburban misery. I don't know. It's some how less unrealistic to me that there is a mysterious sexually transmitted diseases that makes you grow a vaginal-metaphor in your throat or a tail or turn into a dog-face boy than that dozens of teenages from nice suburban homes could develop horrible mutations and disapear en-masse into the woods with absolutely no part of the adult world even noticing. I didn't
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