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Centering on the concept of a “teen plague,” a theme Burns has explored extensively in prior works, Black Hole focuses more on the teenagers than the disease. Minimal time is spent exploring what caused the plague, what its symptoms are, how it’s transmitted or trying to find a cure. Instead, Burns characterizes the teenagers affected, through a series of shifting first person narratives, as they struggle to understand the changes in their lives.

Keith Pearson and Chris Rhodes, the two main protagonists, are thoughtful, intelligent, and in some cases poetic in their descriptions of their experiences. Both are the victims of “the bug” which results in grotesque physical mutations rather than death. A strong sense of alienation runs through their monologues, but Burns captures a realistic sense of teenage angst without ever slipping into cliché. But while Keith and Chris are like most teenagers, with sex and drugs their primary social vehicles, their deeper motivations are understanding and acceptance amongst their peers, even when those peers are the mutated outcasts of society.

BLACK HOLE just might be the most perfect comic book going, if not the sexiest. Sometime in the mid-seventies, the teenagers of an anonymous and unnamed suburb are afflicted by a strange sexually transmitted disease that inspires horrific mutations. As our characters stagger in and out of parties, drug hazes, and one another's beds, they begin to lose control of their bodies: a tiny mouth over the adam's apple; a preternatural tail; the shedding of skin. The metaphors are easy to pick apart, but it's really not Burns' point: BLACK HOLE is a slow, sexual creeping horror and is at once exhilarating and terrifying, oscillating madly between Cold and Hot.

Trep escribió:I almost cried reading some issues of "Black Hole" I wasn't particularly fond of previous work of Charles Burns, but "Black Hole" is better than the best David Lynch.

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Charles Burns - Black Hole


En España está siendo editado por Ediciones La Cúpula. Os la recomiendo encarecidamente. La edición en sí es una obra de arte: las portadas, contracubiertas... Todo está planeado de principio a fin en unidad con la historia.

Ale, disfrutad

P.D.: Los comics están en formato cbz/cbr (son simples zips/rars renombrados). Recomendable verlos con el ComicDisplay