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I was looking at a hole…a Black hole, and as I looked, the hole opened up.

Black Hole by Charles Burns

June 13, 2019 by vel veeter 1 Comment

This is a bizarre and potentially interesting graphic novel. It’s about a suburb or small town in the 1970s and a set of high school students who contract and pass a kind of sexually transmitted cosmic body horror. It’s not as succinct about the ways in which the “disease” is contracted and spread as say “It Follows” but the two stories have some parallels. The disease itself seems to manifest with various skins lesions, maybe growing a tail, maybe your skin peeling off, facial distortions, […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: black hole, charles burns

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:343 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: black hole, charles burns ·
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