![]() ![]() ![]() Around the same time Keith contracts it from Eliza, a woman he meets while trying to buy cannabis at a friend's house. Chris immediately feels she has been deceived and stops speaking to Rob for some time. Because of a failed attempt to warn her of his condition, Chris is not aware that Rob is infected until they are already having sex. Apart from some introduction into the setting, the story starts off with Chris contracting the disease from Rob, a popular kid in school. The story generally focuses on four central characters-Chris, Rob, Keith and Eliza-switching back and forth between their stories as they come in contact with and contract the disease. Set in the suburbs of Seattle during the mid-1970s, the comics follow a group of mostly middle class teenagers who, over the summer, contract a mysterious sexually transmitted disease known as "the Bug" or "the teen plague," which causes them to develop bizarre unique physical mutations, turning them into social outcasts. These pages are considered by some critics to be essential. ![]() This collected edition, however, lacks many pages that were included in the first publication- the ones that showed some characters' faces. A compiled hardcover volume was released by Pantheon Books in 2005. The first four issues were released by Kitchen Sink Press after Kitchen Sink went out of business, Fantagraphics republished the first four issues and the remaining eight. It was published as a 12-issue comic book limited series between 19. ![]()
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