Чарльз Бернс

An early classic from the author of Black Hole. - Meet El Borbah, a 400-pound private eye who wears a Mexican wrestler's tights and eerie mask. Subsisting entirely on junk food and beer, El Borbah conducts his investigations with tough talk and a short temper. He smashes through doors and skulls as he stalks a perfectly realized fim-noir city filled with punks, geeks, business-suited creeps a...

The long strange trip of Doug in all its mind-bending, heartbreaking totality. The fragments of the past collide with the reality of the present, nightmarish dreams evolve into an even more dreadful reality, and when you finally find out where all of this has been going, and what it means . . . it will make you go right back to the first page and read it all again with new eyes. Just like Doug.

Этот недуг поражал только тинейджеров. Одни называли его молодежной чумой, другие - просто заразой. Симптомы болезни были разнообразны и непредсказуемы - у некоторых появлялись обыкновенные прыщи, другие превращались в уродливых монстров и приобретали новые, несвойственные человеку части тела. Но самое ужасное было в том, что если болезнь тебя пометила, ты становился изгоем навсегда.

Doug is still in the netherworld. He's working a cleaning job in the Hive's stinking hallways, trying to ignore the screams, and reading romance comics to the breeders. But as the stories unravel on the page, frame by frame, mirrored memories plunge him back into his waking life. And that's where the real nightmare is. In Burns's trademark hard-edged style, "The Hive" is horr...

Meet Doug, aspiring young artist. He's having a strange night. A weird buzzing noise on the other side of the wall has woken him up, and there across the room, next to a huge hole torn out of the bricks, sits his beloved cat Inky. Who died years ago. But that's no longer the case, as he slinks through the hole, beckoning Doug to follow. So he does. Now there's no turning back. What the heck is goi...