6/8/2023 0 Comments Hole graphic novel![]() What we become witness to instead is a fascinating and eerie portrait of the nature of high school alienation itself.Īs 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. Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky : the graphic novel / adapted by Robert Venditti illustrated by Olivia Stephens coloring by Laura Langston. There’s no turning back.Īs 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. 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 outset that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. “The best graphic novel of the year” (Time) tells the story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle, revealing the horrifying nature of high school alienation-the savagery, the cruelty, the relentless anxiety, and the ennui. ![]() ![]() ![]() Black Hole by Charles Burns / 368-page paperback with flaps from the Pantheon Graphic Library / ISBN 9780375714726 ![]()
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