While I really enjoyed both of our graphic novels, I would say I found Black Hole much more relatable and I think the problem for me with V for Vendetta was that I had already seen the movie and knew the story, so I was able to enjoy the story and chain of events of Black Hole that much more. While I can say I had a pretty decent, hazing and disease free high school experience I know myself and other people have felt some of the exact emotions that were expressed by Chris, Rob, Keith, and Eliza in this book dealing with the frustration of trying to be included and accepted and while simultaneously figuring out who you are.

When I first started Black Hole I didn’t put myself back into the mindset of being in high school and I felt somewhat superior and too adult for the character’s problems. I found myself struggling to connect to the characters because I found their personal concerns to be childish and overly dramatic. Then I kind of shifted my thinking to remember what it was like when I was in the high school world and then I actually started remembering that these things that Chris and Keith are actually miserable about were the exact B.S. I was worried about before I came to college. I feel like the ending of Black Hole was very good because when Chris, Keith, and Eliza are able to escape the town and the disease it reminded me just as many kids leave the hell of high school and get to go to college, life seems a lot simpler, or at the very least there’s so many new and cooler people to get to know separate from where you grew up.