… any book that features a woman with a tail and a man with an additional mouth at the base of his neck is bound to be a winner!
Charles Burns’ “Black Hole” graphic novel was a very quick read, but far from an easy one mentally or physically. The setting is 1970′s Seattle and local high school kids are growing mutations on their bodies after having sex with infected partners. Some of the subsequent images and mutations in Black Hole are so haunting and grotesque and sickening that they literally gave me David Lynch-style nightmares. I really enjoyed the fact that plots started and stopped without reason or apology or any promise of continuation. Sometimes being unsatisfied is satisfying, and Black Hole‘s conclusion fits that sentiment. It wasn’t tidy, it wasn’t perfect, it was more than a little evil and disturbing, but any book that features a woman with a tail and a man with an additional mouth at the base of his neck is bound to be a winner!
Black Hole can easily be read in a two-hour sitting and it will keep your attention throughout. Pick it up if you like blue cheese with your hot wings.
JW | Jojo Wrinkles
t1m
08/31/2011
yo is this a comic book? i lyke the books that r written lyke comics. wings r the shit yo.
jojowrinkles
08/31/2011
All of the above are true. Scholars would call this a graphic novel though. Our Lord and Savior Chuck E Cheesus encourages us in the Navel to read novels about mutations, so give it a try!