Edit: 4.5 stars, rounded up, not down. I haven't stopped thinking about this graphic novel since I read it. I'm putting it on my favourites shelf.-----------------Original review:Grotesque, sexy, romantic, and horrific. A compelling and tragic metaphor for youth, alienation, and suppressed sexuality...
Creepy, nostalgic and depressing. It read like a bad acid hit. I couldn't put it down even if I didn't want anymore. I was suck in the hole and I really didn't want to be there. The art work is amazing. The details, hidden bits and suggested images had me staring for long periods like a Hidden Pictu...
The Basics A mysterious disease is going around among a population of teens in the suburbs of Seattle in the 1970s. A disease that causes all sorts of body horror, such as growing a tail or horns or any number of physical anomalies. We follow a group of these teens who contract the disease as they...
I really felt like the author captured the 70s; the music, the drugs, the hair, the leisure suits ! I studies every page, wanting to drink in all the details. Really poignant story of some kids as they struggle with big issues. Being a teenager is hard. All those choices... and your parents don't kn...
LOVED!Read this gem of a book in a little under two hours. I throughly enjoyed how Charles Burns blurs the lines between the real and the Black Hole or bizarro worlds, as well as, the erotic with the grotesque. I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet him in person and can most certainly see how Willi...
I learned: don't sleep with people who have tails or throat-vaginas that whisper truths in the night.That's pretty unfair--but I half-expected to find this book falling down one of two critical paths: a) the literalization of body/sex angst would become outright silly or b) the body/sex angst would ...
When I read a short review of Charles Burns’ new graphic novel, Black Hole, the description of the work it proffered (quoting from the book’s jacket: “the mid-1970’s…a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact.”) made me wonder if the man ever wrote about ...
I liked the pictures. I liked the setting and the set-up for the plot. I didn't like how it all kind of falls off at the end, with a vague attempt at a murder mystery tacked on, and one of the primary story lines twisting off into nothing. Proof that graphic novelists need editors, just like regular...
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