X'ed Out
by Burns, Charles
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- ISBN 10
- 0307379132
- ISBN 13
- 9780307379139
- Seller
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Middlebury, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York : Pantheon, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 56 pages, b&w graphic novel drawn by Burns. No dj issued. Fusing the unsettling kitsch of EC horror comics, the storytelling sensibility of Euro-classics like Tintin, and the astute observations about young adults that made Black Hole so engrossing, Burns has turned out a haunting first chapter in what promises to be a spellbinder. The opening pages flip among the various realities of Doug, a young man recovering from a head injury of some kind with only a box of pills and some strawberry Pop-Tarts to speed his recovery. Flashbacks and dreams switch among various scenes: Doug and his hypocrite father; a wild party gone awry when Doug's crush object's crazy (but unseen) boyfriend goes on a rampage; and, most mysteriously, another world--found behind a hole in a brick wall--where dead cats live, worms weep, and a giant hive rules a grim city of deformed creatures. Burns's control of the story is masterful--the recurring imagery make it unclear just which is the reality and which is the dream. His sharply delineated art captures a grotesque yet sympathetic view of kids thrust far beyond a world that they can control or even understand. Record # 351878
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- Bookseller
- Browsing Is Arousing (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 351878
- Title
- X'ed Out
- Author
- Burns, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0307379132
- ISBN 13
- 9780307379139
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- art, Comic, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- art;
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