Comic Book Called Black Hole

Through this week’s study and learning and reading, we have read the comic book entitled Black Hole and the movie It Follows. And it is a great necessity to illustrate the issue concerning STD also known as the Sexually Transmitted Disease. As is universally acknowledged that, HIV/AIDS, is considered as a fatal illness in recent years. As a matter of fact, HIV/AIDS is a great challenge of researchers and scientists to diagnose and treat for so many years.

Due to unsafe sexual behaviors, it is very likely for people to catch the virus of HIV as well as AIDS. As far as Black Hole is concerned, this story is mainly focusing on the consequence of a sexually transmitted disease resulting in unnatural mutations among teenagers.

In fact, the mutations in the story of Black Hole can be interpreted as adolescence and sexual awakening. During the mid 1970s, a group of teenagers contracted an extremely bizarre sexually transmitted disease.

Such a mysterious in fact referred to as “the Bug”. Because of the Bug, these young teenagers had a great many of strange behaviors and even finally became social outcasts. In this book, there are four central characters, which are respectively Chris, Rob, Keith and Eliza. As for these four teenagers, Chris is a high school student who was infected with the disease by Rob. As Chris said, “it was so weird”(Charles, 2005). Meanwhile, Keith contracted the Bug from Eliza. Then the most of teenagers living in the town affected the Bug and they tried to get away from the society due to their mutations.

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As a result, a conclusion can be drawn that it is the sexual awakening and the transition into adulthood instead of mutations that lead to the death of those main characters.

Apart from Black Hole, the movie we have watched this week, It Follows is also with the similar theme. As a supernatural horror movie, the movie is mainly about a teenage girl Jay. Jay is surrounded with some supernatural events after encountering a sexual experience with a man named Hugh, which was a ghost approaching the girl and the appearances of the ghost varies each time it appears.

And I think all the appearances of the so-called “it” symbolizes the sexual diseases such as AIDS/HIV, because we can see that “It” approaches to its victims very slowly, and “It” can kill its victims by having a sexual relationship with its victims, and last, “it” will follow you wherever you go, which indicates that “It” is not an real ghost but a disease passed by having sex. In the movie, under such an urgent circumstance, it is necessary to kill the supernatural entity, and in the battle of fighting against the supernatural, all of these young college students worked together and finally killed the monster. To some extent, this movie mainly tells us that only love can free ourselves from danger. More importantly, love and sex can be seen as two great tools to push death away.

In conclusion, these two works of art are both centered on the topic of Sexually Transmitted Disease. We cannot deny the fact that HIV/AIDS can be seen as a fatal illness in