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"As I was leaving, I said,
'Maybe, one day, we can write a comic book." Two years later, Reznick emailed him just after Cate's first story, "Hunter Quaid," had appeared in "Dark Horse Presents" and they decided to do "Buzzkill." Cates said the book has its moments of levity, with nods to the co-creators' love of music
-- there's a character named Panteradactyl -- but "Buzzkill" remains a serious meditation about fighting the evils of addiction. "The hero never thinks that what they're doing is bad. Everything that they're doing, they think they're doing for the right reasons," he said, even when it's not necessarily the case. ___ Online:
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