We heard about his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, and about her violent ex-boyfriend. To recap: we first met Doug, a young performance artist, as he was recovering from a head injury. Burns isn’t in the business of neat endings. My strong feeling is that this series is one of the most vividly drawn and painfully honest expositions of male guilt I’ve ever read. Now I’ve read Sugar Skull, named after the macabre sweets we saw our hero, Doug, buying in the last frame of The Hive, it’s clear to me that the only thing to do is to go right back to the beginning of the saga and start again, the better to be sure I haven’t missed some essential symbol or sign, some deeply buried meaning. I use the word “hope” quite deliberately.
F or Charles Burns fans, this is a massive month: Sugar Skull, the third instalment of the trilogy he began in 2010, is finally here – and with it the hope that we’ll at last be able to make sense of the first two books ( X’ed Out and The Hive, which followed in 2012).
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