The release date for the English version of 'Black Hole: A Graphic Novel' by
Charles Burns is Oct 2005. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Subterranean In the mid-1970s, Seattle. From the beginning, it is made clear to us that the teens in the neighborhood are suffering from an unusual disease that is spread via intercourse. The illness may show itself in a variety of ways, ranging from the egregiously obscene to the subtle and undetectable, but once you have it, there's no turning back. There isn't an escape.
What takes place isn't the anticipated effort to stop the epidemic, raise awareness of it, or even find a cure as we live through the minds of several important characters—some children who already have it, others who don't, and some who are going to have it. Instead, what we see is an intriguing and unsettling portrayal of the essence of alienation in high school: the brutality, the cruelty, the constant fear and boredom, the need to go away.
After then, the killings begin.
Black Hole is as hypnotically beautiful as it is terrifying, and it goes beyond its genre by skillfully examining a particular American cultural moment in flux and the youth caught up in it—a time when being a hippy wasn't quite acceptable anymore, but Bowie was still a touch too crazy.
Not to mention developing horns and shedding skin...