Back
Charles Burns: Black Hole (French language, 2005, Pantheon Books) 4 stars

The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague …

Review of 'Black hole' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

weird. and sexual. and actually pretty honest.
there's a plague where people are becoming....other. the lucky ones seem to attain animal attributes, the rest of them get disfigured along alien lines. the whole plot occurs inside the confines of a highschool subculture - so the plague (passed through sexual contact) is a way to ostracize the affected students. or maybe. because some plague side effects can be hidden, so then some kids get to pretend they 'belong' when they don't. alot like regular highschool, right?