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...blue looks nice with your olive skin," Remele tells Sylvia W. Houghteling ’06. Expertly, he hushes the girls’ complaints (the most prevalent being "I have no boobs!"). He knows just how to deflect perfunctory wails about flat chests or thick waists, or to suggest that a petite girl wear a dress at tea length. One of his admitted entrepreneurial advantages is that many of the customers are his friends. "Since many of the girls are in the same social circle and go to the same parties," he reasons...
...felt like an endless, inescapable vacuum without air or light. 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...
...Black Hole” is Burns’ most chilling work to date. This is no small achievement for a man who produced “Skin Deep: Tales of Doomed Romance,” the collection which included “Dog Days,” the tale of a teenaged boy who receives a canine heart transplant. Another Burns favorite is “Big Baby,” an uglier version of “Desperate Housewives” with more violence, told from the point of view of a strange child...
Burns does, however, understand the campiness of the ’50s-horror atmosphere. The front cover of the book has yearbook photos of healthy teenagers, and the back cover shows them unimaginably deformed: sores, horns, goiter-like growths and molting skin. Burns also includes his own transformation, but by something far worse than...
...simple and earnest plea for tolerance in the aftermath of 9-11, is likely to split opinions. The song’s first verse is artlessly direct, and betrays Young’s leftist sympathies: “Was he thinking about my country / Or the color of my skin? / Was he thinking about my religion / And the way I worshipped him? / Did he create just me in His image / Or every living thing? / When God made...