Charles Burns is one of my favorite horror comic artists. Mainly because a superficial look at his artwork makes it looks nice and clean and…normal, for lack of a better word. Burns’ masterpiece is Black Hole, a story about a sexually transmitted disease. I first heard of Burns in the movie Comic Book Confidential (my review) and he had been serializing Black Hole for over a decade before putting together in one collection in 2005. So, what is Black Hole?

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X’ed OUT Volume 1 by Charles Burns came out this week and this is his first new story since Black Hole. Burns is the master of creepy teenage horror with amazing art that looks innocent until one eyed monsters and creepy crawling monsters are mixed in with images of teens (with sexual images and disturbing behavior). Burns has the cleanest and most disturbing art around and his stories are genuinely creepy.