![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Shaggy-haired Keith digs the fact that he has been partnered with the "total fox" Chris Rhodes. It even begins in typical teen horror gross-out fashion, with the two protagonists in biology class, hunched over the slit belly of a supine frog. Set in the suburbs of Washington State during the mid-1970s, Black Hole evokes that era's great teenage exploitation movies with its attention to atmospheric detail. Unlike more conventional horror stories set among high school kids, where each one gets "offed" by a masked killer, Black Hole uses the worst parts of emerging adulthood, like changing bodies, alienation and sex, as the sources for a skin-crawling creep fest that will likely be the best graphic novel of the year. For many peopleincluding myself, naturallyhigh school felt like an endless, inescapable vacuum without air or light. The title of Charles Burns' long-awaited book, Black Hole (Pantheon 368 pages $25), says it all. This season's standout graphic novel focuses on one of the scariest of all horrors: high school. ![]() Follow arrival of Halloween always brings with it a plethora of horror-related media, including comix. ![]()
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