I just want you to think about that for a moment. Nowadays, if you pick up the nice fat book of Black Hole you may or may not notice that little note in the first couple of pages stating that it was originally published as a series of single issues between 1995-2005, but back then, trying to figure out where it was headed and what it all meant, those years just gave us more time to pore over each issue and try to read between those inky black brush strokes for Burns' hidden message. A girl I met quite randomly ended up letting me stay in her insanely interesting apartment while she was away for a week, it was strewn with all manner of zines and foreign comic books that I'd never seen before and she gushed about Black Hole, even though it was only just beginning. Pre-social media, there were so many things I'd never seen before, and one of the things I stumbled on upon was the first issue of Black Hole. Not yet the hub of internet companies it would later become, rent was still cheap and so it was still home to all sorts of artists and strange, old shops, which very quickly changed the direction of my life. When I first moved to there in 1996, San Francisco was in a transitional period. It was impressive.īeyond the strange experiences of last night, this is a book which has long been a lurking in the firmament of my life. I couldn't get them to uncross, and eventually I succumbed to my body and surrendered to sleep for another half hour so that I could wake up in a slightly less physically confused state. tags: black-holes, depression, love, physics. Jasmine Warga, My Heart and Other Black Holes. Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole-its so dense that theres no room for light, but that doesnt mean it cant still suck me in. Waking up itself was a shock too, because my eyes were crossed, which has never happened. Quotes tagged as 'black-holes' Showing 1-30 of 35. When I did finally fall asleep, I dreamt about impersonal dismemberment and important shaving rituals which lingered upon waking even though them made no sense. After I finished reading I lay awake for what felt like hours staring into the darkness and trying not to imagine that I could see anything in it. First, the book is so good that there is absolutely no way that I could put it down without finishing it, so I was up half the night (and it is good enough so that I really can't rush it, even if I have already read it before.) Second, Black Hole is creepy, not in a generic horror movie way, where I get all twitchy and have to keep looking over my shoulder because I'm so on edge, but in an insidious, creep-into-my-subconscious-and-screw-with-my-dreams way. There are two reasons why this is a bad idea. Burns took a full ten years to write this entire story and it was serialized in a number of comic book issues.Last night I picked up Charles Burn's Black Hole to read in bed.Were the characters differentiated enough? Were they supposed to be? Did any character stand out or were any particularly memorable?.How does Burns’ artwork affect the mood of the book? Does it add to or detract from the story? Black hole imagery is used frequently in the book – what does this imagery reflect about the story itself?.Teenagers Keith and Chris have disturbing dreams and visions of a mysterious plague that causes mutations in its victims. Are there elements of horror in this book? What are they? Does the subject matter lend itself to the horror genre? How so? The first chapter of Burns acclaimed horror graphic novel.Could this mutation be a metaphor for something (or several things)? Teenage experience? STD stigmatization? Do the unique types of mutations reflect anything about the characters themselves? When teens are infected they often mutate in some way.Is this common among teenagers? How do drugs and sex influence the characters? Is this behavior just a product of the time period in which this book is set? Drugs and sex factor in heavily to the lives of the characters. Why do the characters seem so ostracized from the adult world? Are adults leaving them out of the picture, or vice versa? How does the disease itself ostracize teens from their peers as well as adults? Is it just the disease that is responsible?.In what ways does this book capture teenage angst? Is the STD the cause of this angst? Why or why not? How well does Burns capture the typical American teenage experience? Are we writing teens off a bit by just calling them “angsty”?.(From the Association of College and Research Libraries - Residency Interest Group)
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