![]() ![]() One breeder seems to be a version of Doug’s ex-girlfriend the other is a double of Sarah, who asks Doug/Nitnit to bring her romance comics-which he does-only he skips a few issues. His primary role though is secret librarian, catering to the reading needs of the breeders of The Hive. Doug (or Nitnit) has found employment in The Hive as a kind of mail clerk or janitor. ![]() The title refers to a location in Interzone. The Hive (part two of the proposed trilogy) deepens the richness and complexity of the world Burns has imagined. What made X’ed Out so compelling (apart from Burns’s thick, precise illustration, of course), was the sense that this Interzone was a reality equal to Doug’s own “real world” - that it was somehow more real than Doug’s dreams. In this alien world, Doug takes on the features of Nitnit (an inversion of Tintin), the alter-ego he adopts when performing spoken word cut-ups as the opening act for local punk rock bands. In his parents’ suburban basement, Doug parcels out the last of his late father’s painkillers, slipping from haunted memories of his relationship with Sarah into fevered nightmares of abject horror and then into a wholly other world, a realm that recalls William Burroughs’s Interzone. ![]() In X’ed Out, Charles Burns created a rich and strangely layered world focusing on Doug, a confused and injured young man. ![]()
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