Ruben is not your average alcoholic; he’s an unstoppable
superhero who derives his powers from imbibing massive amounts of alcohol.
After all the disasters it’s caused in his personal life, he’s ready to get
clean . . . and the city’s supervillains couldn’t be happier!
“What I like so much about the book is that while it has
these wild superhero trappings, at its core it’s a very sweet and very personal
story about the relationship between power and addiction, and the very real
consequences of both,” states Donny Cates. “It’s something that really
interests me, and I think that sometimes we approach issues like these in
comics as punch lines. What we’ve really tried to do here is take something
really devastating and horrible, and examine it through a very familiar
terrain. Also, there is a character named Panteradactyl. So there’s that.”
In this wildly gorgeous new four-part miniseries from
artist Geoff Shaw (Batman 80-Page Giant) and colorist Lauren Affe, Buzzkill is
drunk with power!
“Working on Buzzkill is kinda like hanging out in a bar,
drinking beers and doing shots with your buddy, and discussing the weirdest,
wildest, most effed-up stuff you can think of to put in a comic. In fact,
that’s exactly what it’s like,” says Mark Reznicek. “Donny Cates is the evil
genius of comics, so it’s a total blast to work with him. If you ever wanted to
see what a drunken, superpowered barroom brawl looks like, or wondered what
would happen to bears in the airless vacuum of space, or wanted to see a baboon
in a business suit . . . Buzzkill is the book for you!”
Buzzkill #1 is on sale September 18 in comic shops
everywhere!