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SPOILERS: Review: Buzzkill#1/Kiss Me, Satan#1 Dark Horse - Lyesmith

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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...