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Black Hole
Hardcover 368 pp
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English (United States) · Pantheon
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B&W. Mature Readers Cover price $24.95.
Plot
Collects Black Hole (1995-2004 Kitchen Sink/Fantagraphics) #1-12.
Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. A strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact, that manifests in any number of ways - from the hideously grotesque to the subtle and concealable. What unfolds isn't the expected battle to fight the plague, or bring heightened awareness to it, or even to treat it. Instead, Black Hole paints 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. As hypnotically beautiful as it is horrifying, Black Hole deftly explores a specific American cultural moment in flux and the kids who are caught in it.
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Publication date
October 2005
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mcmanus has rated55/21/2019
Esto es lo que viene siendo una buena lectura desasosegante. Vaya cabetsa la de Charles Burns.
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diegomar2 has rated52/24/2026
Segunda lectura de Black Hole, y lo primero que me viene a la cabeza es lo mal que me vendieron esta obra en su momento. Burns esta totalmente emparentado con el movimiento indie de los 80, por mas bicho raro que quede dentro de ese grupo. No es el Junji Ito yanqui como muchos lo quieren encasillar. Dentro de las muchas cualidades de Burns destaco su capacidad de invocar una época tan específica sin recurrir a clichés. Esto es un retrato hiper específico de una época, que utilice el dispositivo del horror como motor de la trama es secundario. De hecho es tan específico que lo que mas mete ruido es su fecha de publicación. Para los 2000 el tema del VIH no te digo que habia desaparecido pero si ya habia quedado lejos en el imaginario cultural. Casi que parece un ajuste de cuentas de un hombre de mediana edad con cuestiones de su juventud lejana. Muy a la Almost Famous de Cameron Crowe. Esta es una obra maestra cuyo sentido de incompletitud obliga a revisitarla una y otra vez.