From one of the most fiercely admired graphic artists at work today comes a gothic masterpiece of existential fear and loathing, more than a decade in the making and already being hailed as a classic.
To say nothing of sprouting horns and molting your skin....
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.
And then the murders start.
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.
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.
There\'s no turning back.
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.
We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area\'s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact.
Set in suburban Seattle in the mid-1970s, it is a horror tale unlike any other.
Pantheon Books Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s.
From one of the most fiercely admired graphic artists at work today comes a gothic masterpiece of existential fear and loathing, more than a decade in the making and already being hailed as a classic
