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What people Say: Jessica
Well, the art was very lovely, and there were a lot of points at which I was like, " does his brain this shit??" which is kind of the ultimate for art in one way, isn't it? But I do wish this had been around when I myself was a bad teenager, because I'm sure it would've affected me a lot more then. Burns does get at some extremely dark and real stuff about the horrific experience of adolescence, particularly that bizarre combo of fear, curiosity, and nihilism that drives so much s Well, the art was very lovely, and there were a lot of points at which I was like, " does his brain this shit??" which is kind of the ultimate for art in one way, isn't it? But I do wish this had been around when I myself was a bad teenager, because I'm sure it would've affected me a lot more then. Burns does get at some extremely dark and real stuff about the horrific experience of adolescence, particularly that bizarre combo of fear, curiosity, and nihilism that drives so much self-destructive experimentation at that age. The depiction of drug culture and abuse is particularly disturbing here, in large part because Burns nails it so accurately. My problem with this was that I just didn't care at all about the characters or the story. I mean, I liked reading it, but I never felt emotionally engaged in the slightest bit. I guess this wasn't a problem, exactly, but it's not really the mark of successful fiction.... Still, it's hard to argue with a gorgeously illustrated tale of burnt-out sex-mutant teenagers in the Pacific Northwest during the mid-nineteen seventies. If that sounds at all appealing -- and why on earth wouldn't it!? -- then you should definitely read this comic, preferably while horny as hell and stoned out of your mind in your parents' basement.
Nicky
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ME: Everyone raves about this book. It’s one of like ten graphic novels everyone is supposed to read and love. Me: It looks creepy. ME: It’s creepy, but it’s also artsy and intellectual and a big metaphor about something important. Me: What’s the metaphor? ME: There’s a scary sexually transmitted disease, so… AIDS? Me: I’m not buying it. ME: Well, read it anyway. Trust me. It’ll be worth it. Me: Okay, but it’s more than just an extended metaphor, right? There’s a real story with a real point? ME: Just r ME: Everyone raves about this book. It’s one of like ten graphic novels everyone is supposed to read and love.
David Schaafsma
Adolescence as Disease Charles Burns’s Black Hole is a strange and somewhat disturbing graphic novel depicting some teens engaging in drinking, smoking pot, and sexual acts. Ho hum, eh? It is also one of the best graphic novels and novels of any kind of the new century. If a “black hole― is the effect of gravity pulling so hard on a site in space that light cannot get out, the black hole of this particular summer of sex and drugs looks at times like it is a vortex you could not recover from. I wa Adolescence as Disease Charles Burns’s Black Hole is a strange and somewhat disturbing graphic novel depicting some teens engaging in drinking, smoking pot, and sexual acts. Ho hum, eh? It is also one of the best graphic novels and novels of any kind of the new century. If a “black hole― is the effect of gravity pulling so hard on a site in space that light cannot get out, the black hole of this particular summer of sex and drugs looks at times like it is a vortex you could not recover from. I was creeped out about it in an initial reading 6 or 7 years ago, but in close readings with summer and fall 2016
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classes I began to see some warmth and compassion running through it. The artwork is amazing, and the disruptive and discontinuous representation of chronology, of time, is innovative and consistent with the disruption of adolescence Burns represents. The story is set in one summer post-high-school-graduation from a Seattle high school in the late seventies, when Burns himself would have been graduating from a Seattle high school. Four characters take center stage, Chris, Rob, Keith and Eliza, though a bullied boy named Dave also plays a central role. In the story young people who desire each other begin to develop physical abnormalities. Some critics thought Burns might have been making a commentary on the AIDS crisis, but Burns himself said it was more generally about adolescence than just sexual awakening. This transition to adulthood as Burns depicts it is infused with lots of drug use/hallucinations, and nightmares; while friendship is important in the story, it is mainly a tale of desire, fears, confusion and what happens if you are in any sense different as you pass form childhood to adulthood. The social distortion is matched by visual images of distorted bodies, though images of the natural world—the sky, trees, ocean--and physical beauty (including bodies) are also present. When I first read this story I thought it was about a bunch of late seventies teens, boys and girls, but in this reading I think Chris and Eliza are the main characters. It's a book in part about girls and all the complicated issues they face as they experience sexuality. It almost seems impossible terrain to navigate, and they experience a range of both beautiful and terrible sexual things, but we get some sense that it may be possible to--as most of us do, as difficult as it can be--survive this trip to adulthood. Black Hole is a coming age novel of some complexity, which I categorize as horror, but which involves murder and insanity as one might expect from a book I call horror, but also ends somewhat hopefully for some of the main characters as horror often can do. Evil exists, but it is human-made evil, preventable, avoidable. Black Hole is as difficult and challenging as any great post-modern novel, with visual representations that evoke the complexity of growing up instead of just words. As a story it’s not “fun― but is also not so disturbing that you can’t learn from it about what it means to make the often difficult transition to adulthood. Think of David Lynch and you are almost there, but this is its own art, a comics creation of real depth and power.
Marissa
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In truth, Black Hole should probably only rate three stars, but it's such an impressive effort and intriguing concept I'm giving it four. Stylistically, Burns' art is extremely intricate and has a very nice noir quality to it. I have a soft spot for any really well-done horror comic book. Like Adrian Tomine, Burns has obviously taken plenty of tricks from Clowes and Crumb. The strange thing about his art style is that even though it is very slick and eye-catching at first, the more you look at i In truth, Black Hole should probably only rate three stars, but it's such an impressive effort and intriguing concept I'm giving it four. Stylistically, Burns' art is extremely intricate and has a very nice noir quality to it. I have a soft spot for any really well-done horror comic book. Like Adrian Tomine, Burns has obviously taken plenty of tricks from Clowes and Crumb. The strange thing about his art style is that even though it is very slick and eye-catching at first, the more you look at it, the more you look you notice a certain clumsiness abaout it. Partly this is because he draws so perfectly I think it kind of makes your eyes tired to look at and emphasizes the faults, but I do think some of the facial expressions and angles are not done quite right. As far as the writing goes, I felt a little disappointed with where he took the plot and the dialogue and narration weakened over the course of the book too. He also uses a vagina-esque motif continuously in Black Hole, which bugged me. I mean, unless you think it's fun to see how many comparisons you can make between female genitalia and hideous gashes, tiny creepy mouths, and transforming into a freak. It may just be my dumb feminazi hang ups or something.
MJ Nicholls
I was caught up in that lamentable period of American cinema (has it stopped?) where implausibly attractive actors in their late twenties pretend to be nubile teenage virgins hiding from serial killers or participating in leery innuendo-laden unfunny antics with ex-sitcom stars. Oddly enough this phenomenon was helped along by Wes Craven’s
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, a film that satirised all the clichés of a genre it single-handedly repopularised—the layers of irony gradually falling away until the reliably bankab I was caught up in that lamentable period of American cinema (has it stopped?) where implausibly attractive actors in their late twenties pretend to be nubile teenage virgins hiding from serial killers or participating in leery innuendo-laden unfunny antics with ex-sitcom stars. Oddly enough this phenomenon was helped along by Wes Craven’s , a film that satirised all the clichés of a genre it single-handedly repopularised—the layers of irony gradually falling away until the reliably bankable properties of cheap sexism and hack writing were fully reinstated at the top of the box office. Where they belong. This collected comic strip dates form the early nineties and beyond so can be excused for leaping on any sexy-teenagers-and-the-supernatural bandwagons that have popped up in recent times. My central problem with is my weariness at having sexy American teenage brats as protagonists, especially those undergoing coming-of-age experiences with an added macabre aspect. Especially if the sympathetic characters are overly sexy teenagers drawn to look like actors in their twenties. I have no time for this shit. The teenagers in American films resemble no teenagers I have ever met in my short life. They might as well be bepimpled alien creatures with tails and horny schnozzles. Still, despite this bulging bias, I found compelling for its structural cleverness, its striking plunder of the dark imagination, the uneasy union of the erotic and perverse. I still resented how the sexy chick escaped with only a partial tear down her spine, and distanced herself snootily from her fellow freaks, but those are my own armchair issues. (I suppose it makes a change to have a graphic novel where the nerd isn’t the hero). As for the dialogue, it clearly escaped from a teen movie of some description, but the drawings redeemed the whole shebang. Hopefully no movie will ever be attempted. I have been informed by an absolutely furious friend this GN has more in common with fifties horror B-movies and ye olde pulp comics than the nineties teen-slasher parodies mentioned above. There also isn’t really a hero (even though the sideburns guy is a hero), so apologies for that misleading piece of shoddy reviewage. Also, “reviewage― isn’t really a word, and only highlights my own desperate ploys for lexical originality in these hastily typed literary judgements. And finally, the forthcoming film should be written/directed by David Cronenberg or someone of his ilk, not written by Neil Gaiman and directed by some other geezer. I apologise for the distress this misinformation has caused. P.S. I also have issues with sexy beauty-queen freaks. Thanks.
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