On the inside covers of the book, Burns includes rows of portraits in the format of a high school yearbook. The disease manifests differently for each of them many appear monstrous, and when exposed in public the infected are confronted with stares, denunciations, and assaults that impress on them the shameful character of their condition. The ailing teens inhabit a make-shift tent village hidden in the woods near their community, and they subsist mainly on the garbage and occasional charity of the healthy. Sick with what appears to be a sexually-transmitted disease that they call "the bug," an expanding group of teenagers lives in exile from their families and those uninfected students who still attend their high school in suburban Seattle. The kids who populate Charles Burns's graphic novel Black Hole are definitely not alright. Too Cruel: The Diseased Teens and Mean Bodies of Charles Burns's Black Hole
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