This graphic novel was very eye-opening. The book/memoir deals with a condition that I have not been remotely exposed to, and feel unfortunate for not having been well educated on those with this condition. Blue Pills helps separate people with HIV/AIDS from their condition. It is so easy to empathize with the feeling that (because an illness is so dangerous and consuming) you have become your illness, and you are just as dangerous and destructive. This book beautifully illustrates the human with the illness rather than the illness in the human. Peeters' seams between a flashback or daydream and a presently occurring scene are flawless and brilliant. Blue Pills is in black and white, and by the end the reader realizes it couldn't have been any other way.

I am excited to read this book again, especially the last 1/3, as our narrator, Fred, rides atop a mammoth, discussing his thoughts and fears and the many different points of view he could take in his situation.