![]() ![]() That’s probably the one thing I wasn’t prepared for going in to this tome of a graphic novel (at well over 100 pages, it’s one of the longest single graphic novels I’ve ever read) – the depth and sadness of these teenagers’ stories. ![]() The cells are penned in heavy black, much like the cover, and the teens of our story all look incredibly similar, which made many of the characters blend together in a way that is partially infuriating and partially serves to make the story more universal.Īnd, more importantly, the heavy lines and dark shading of the story really does an amazing job of echoing both the time period that the novel takes place as well as the incredibly sad, dark story lines that result from all of this teenage deviancy. It’s a disease that leaves the recipient marked in some kind of way (a porcine tail, a mouth on the chest, the ability to remove one’s skin) and clearly delineates the sexually active from the non. ![]() The basic plot involves a disease being spread through sexual contact among a group of teens in the 1970s. ![]() I felt like I was looking into the future… and the future looked really messed up. ![]()
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