Black Hole

If there was a better sci - fi / horror as metaphor for the human condition tale thanCharles Burns‘Black Holein the last X , then we ’d like to see it . Part AIDS - metaphor , part emblem for puerile paranoia and leaving childhood things behind , it also act on a more straight - forward , “ Subtext ? What subtext ? ” story , which is where it succeeds when more well - know efforts ( Hello , V ) fail . Ten years in the making ( during which clip Burns ’ art style become so well - known thanks to gigs like his regular The Believer covers and patronage from uber - house decorator Chip Kidd that it spawned imitations ) , the ruined edition – published in 2005 – reads like the ultimate horror story : Something so outlandish and , in its own way , horrific that it could n’t be true , but which feel real to everyone that reads it and had a troubled adolescence . Which is to say , everyone .

While The Zeroes / Aughts / That First Decade We Do n’t Have A right Name For ended up as an undead clusterfuck , it ’s deserving think back the comedian that got bulge before the mainstream got prick by the automaton pestilence : Robert Kirkman ’s The Walking Dead is n’t just the book that made his reputation ( Or one of them , at least ; Invincible did more than a little moment of the heavy - lifting as well ) , it ’s also the Christian Bible that ’s been strong enough to stand firm the barrage of automaton in comedian and all other forms of medium . Slow , atmospherical and appropriately bleak , we have no idea where it ’s going next … but we ’re sure it ’s nowhere good .

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