Read X'ed Out (2010)

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Author

Charles Burns

Genre

Horror

Series

X'ed Out Trilogy

Rating

3.77 of 5 Votes: 1

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ISBN

0307379132 (ISBN13: 9780307379139)

Language

English

Publisher

Pantheon

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X'ed Out (2010) - Plot & Excerpts

X'ed out is the unraveling of a young man's psychosis - as you read further into the book you begin to understand where his addiction to prescription medication has come from. I love Burns' trippy narrative style which merges emotional and psychological problems with supernatural and often bizarre happenings. His illustration style always merges seamlessly with the narrative. X'ed Out is the first in a trilogy which I whipped through in a couple of hours. If you like this and haven't read Black Hole, make sure you check it out as well. Charles Burns is one of the great graphic novelists of our time. This is the Dutch translation of Charles Burns' X'ed Out. It's a scary, hallucinating mix of Tin Tin and the Beat Generation, a David Lynch movie in comic book format. The reader has to navigate the confusing present, past, dreams and hallucinations of Doug, a young photographer who wakes up in a strange room and follows his dead cat into an even stranger world. What is real and what is not? You'll have to read books 2 and 3 to find the answer - if there is an answer. A disturbing but brilliant book.