Bzzz Bee Café

    (Buzz Bee Café, 2003)
™ and © Buzz Buzz Café Publishing

Is this a comic book or a religious tract for a cult that worships chocolate? It’s hard to tell. Renee is a waitress who takes her job way too seriously. She tells a job applicant how to be a real waitress: To serve the customers their fixes of coffee and chocolate, one must deprive oneself of chocolate. To feel hungry is to identify with them. The waitresses can perform miracles, by the way. And they worship the Triple Chocolate Mocha Madonna who appears to them incarnate. It would be heavy–handed and preachy if it were a work of non–fiction. As it is, it’s just bizarre and bewildering. The art by Roberto Goiriz is detailed and striking. The rich and vivid colors by Manuel Gonzalez, Ruwer Amarilla, and Amado Escobar enhance the art tremendously. Together they make Bzzz Bee Café one of the more striking comics on the shelf. But the story by Skip McRobert? It’s easy enough to follow but it leaves the reader wondering why. For what purpose did he share with readers this pseudo–theological manifesto? With what are they supposed to come away? It’s OK to establish a unique culture or religion as part of a set of circumstances in a comic book, but in this issue that’s all there is.

— Jack Abramowitz
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