Charles Burns
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.84 | 41106 Users | 2326 Reviews
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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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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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| Title | : | Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12) |
| Author | : | Charles Burns |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First 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 |
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Ratings: 3.84 From 41106 Users | 2326 ReviewsAssessment Epithetical Books Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12)
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 Picture puzzle. It was also creepy, creepy faces, shadows, that filled me will a dark sick feeling. The little bits of the 70's shown in the background the music, the drugs the attitude, nailed it. I was aI find myself wondering about the people who read this collection when the issues were first individually released. Did people truly devour each and every story? Were they so enthralled by the end that this collection needed to be compiled? Weren't people concerned about the lack of plot and resolution? Or were people simply lost in the art and their own fucked up memories enough to dismiss the book's faults?Maybe the story passed over my head. I am willing to admit the chance but I still feel
I like to think I've read a lot of comic classics, but I always found myself putting off Charles Burns' work. Black Hole and X'ed Out became books I'd flip through when walking through bookstore or comic shop isles. I'd note some impressive line work, tripy-looking art, and move on to whatever else caught my eye. Luckily, all the stars aligned when I found Black Hole in a late-night comic store encounter for an irresistible $12. I'm glad I finally got the chance to see what all the hype was
I guess I just expected more..? This was very strange and very boring and the plot never really went anywhere. Some of the images were very creepy and terrifying which is what I wanted from this but the story was not compelling at all, and I found myself skimming most of the story. The ending wasnt satisfying at all either (if thats even considered an ending really...?) This has some really creepy imagery but other than that the story itself is very uninteresting.Book 2 of the Spookathon is
If you want to read a weird comic with horrifying pictures, a plot that doesn't really go anywhere and a completely unsatisfying ending, then have I got a book for you.
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,
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
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