Black Hole Trade Paperback TBD Charles Burns

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways &mdash from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) &mdash but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s no turning back.

As we inhabit the heads of several key characters &mdash some kids who have it, some who don’t, some who are about to get it &mdash 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 &mdash the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety and ennui, the longing for escape.

Winner of the Eisner, Harvey, and Ignatz Awards

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