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Buzzkill #4 of 4 from Dark Horse Comics Writers/Creators: Donny Cates and Mark Reznicek Artist: Geoff Shaw Colors: Lauren Affe So I did the review for the first issue. Buzzkill #1 Review Which you loyal Geeks and Geekettes undoubtedly have already read.  Right? Anyway. The mini-series is now over and I have to say this is going down as one of my favorite stories of all time. This is just brilliant. The main character, Francis, is an ex-superhero who's powers only manifest when he's on something. Drinking. Smoking. Drugs. The more he does the stronger he is. He's like Popeye only with whiskey instead of spinach. After a huge knock-down drag-out fight that left scores dead that he can barely even remember happening, he decides to quit. He needs to get sober. To save himself and his relationship. But it seems it's almost too little too late. His girlfriend's already seeing someone else, he's been kicked off his super team, no ...

This week really surprised me with how many great comics started up. My two favorites have to come out of Dark Horse. I won't do many spoilers here, but I wanted the warning up, just in case. Buzzkill was the first surprise of the day. While this style of art usually turns me off to a comic, it's just not my favorite style, it fit with the story really well. And I loved their flash back scenes, taking on a more classic-comic book feel with the little dots. I'm sure those have a technical name and I just don't know it. Buzzkill is an interesting concept; a former superhero, trying to get back on his feet after doing something tragic as a hero. We may have seen that a time or two before, sure, but this hero? He gets his super powers from booze. Yeah. He's Joe Blow until he gets tanked. Then he hits like a tank. It's amusing and light, despite the protagonist (the only name we're given is Ruben, and we're lead to believe that's an alias) going through s...