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Burns's art is inhumanly precise, and he makes ordinary scenes as creepy as his nightmare visions of a world where intimacy means a life worse than death. - PW
Pantheon
October 2005
368 pages
ISBN: 037542380X
Hardcover
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Graphic Novel
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 not 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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