A review by tophat8855
Barbalien: Red Planet by Tate Brombal, Jeff Lemire

5.0

Again, I really like the Black Hammer universe. I’ve been reading them in order, but this was bumped up to the front since it was a free borrow on Hoopla. Barbalien is a great character and it’s good to have good queer superheroes (him and Dr. Day at the hospital). This takes place in a fictional city during the 80s AIDS crisis, before antivirals were able to make HIV undetectable and untransmittable, at least for people who have access to the medications. So yeah, content warning for AIDS crisis- how people with HIV have been and currently are treated is reprehensible and damns us as a society.