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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) |
Charles Burns
Hardcover | Pages: 368 pages Rating: 3.84 | 41106 Users | 2326 Reviews
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| Title | : | Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12) |
| Author | : | Charles Burns |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary 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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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…Rating Regarding Books Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12)
Ratings: 3.84 From 41106 Users | 2326 ReviewsCommentary Regarding Books Black Hole (Black Hole #1-12)
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'tI 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
In truth, Black Hole should probably only rate three stars, but it's such an impressive effort and intriguing concept I'm giving it four. Stylistically, Burns' art is extremely intricate and has a very nice noir quality to it. I have a soft spot for any really well-done horror comic book. Like Adrian Tomine, Burns has obviously taken plenty of tricks from Clowes and Crumb. The strange thing about his art style is that even though it is very slick and eye-catching at first, the more you look at
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
I 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
Can't believe I've never remembered to put this on my shelves. I love this graphic novel, which turns teen sexuality (and terror of same) into a metaphor that's, like, Hawthornian in its perfection and simplicity.
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