written by Charles Burns

Combining the best elements of sci-fi, horror, and those cheesy movies designed to scare teens in the ’70s, Black Hole is wonderfully funny and subversive while also being genuinely thrilling and disturbing. In 1970s Seattle, a group of teens battles against sexual desires that threaten to leave them monstrously deformed. A new sexually transmitted disease has come alive, and there’s no cure. The strange effects of the disease—different for everyone who catches it—mirror the pain and isolation of high school. Black Hole is tragicomic in the best sense of the word: It takes itself seriously, and so do its readers. How could you not? When one chance encounter with the wrong person could lead to a lifetime of horror, you can’t help but be just a little bit nervous.

-- John Hogan

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