People attempting to deal with depression by getting drunk in Comic Books.
- Astro City: In the story "Shining Armor", Irene Merriweather did this after she scared Atomicus into leaving Earth forever.
- 52: Renee Montoya does this at the start of the series. Of course, at that point, it wasn't so much drowning her sorrows as it was just plain drowning. At least she learns her lessons.Kane: [Hands her a cup] Some hot cider, might make you feel better.
Renee: Only if you added some bourbon to it.
Kane: I didn't. But I can. If you like.
Renee: No. Seems that all the problems I have when I start drinking are still there when I stop. - All Fall Down: Portia resorts to this after the loss of her powers, as do several superhero wannabes after being disarmed by the Ghoul.
- All Roads: In the graphic novel prequel to Fallout: New Vegas, mainly focuses on a Great Khan tribal named Chance who spends his days getting blitzed on chems to escape his memories of the Bitter Springs Massacre. Late in the comic, the bigshot Vegas mobster Benny tells him a story about one of his own tribesmen who did the same after Mr. House "civilized" them and they became the Chairmen; he argues that whether they admit it or not, deep down they're both trying to return to the past rather than escape it.
- Doctor Strange: Several tellings of Doctor Strange's origin show Stephen Strange hitting the bottle and the skids between the accident that ends his surgical career and his tutelage under the Ancient One.
- Earth 2: Jay Garrick finds himself drowning his sorrows in Buzz Beer after he just got dumped by his girlfriend Joan Williams (who in pre-New 52 DC Universe continuity was his wife) when Mercury came falling out of the sky, granting him the power of superspeed.
- Empowered: It's heavily implied (read: all but explicitly stated) that this is why Ninjette is the Hard-Drinking Party Girl she is.
- Firefly: Brand New 'Verse: The one image of Malcolm Reynolds we get is of him either asleep, passed out, or very drunk at a bar next to an alcohol bottle.
- Flare: The comic did this in the "Duel" story, which was a crossover with Eternity Smith.
- Hellblazer: John Constantine does this at least twice, most notably in the Tainted Love arc where, after a painful breakup, he not only drinks constantly but lives on the street for months, refusing to "magic" his way out of it.
- Iron Man:
- Tony, already established as a recovering alcoholic, fell off the proverbial wagon hard when his company got taken over during The '80s.
- Obadiah Stane went out of his way to make Tony's life hell for the express purpose of making him fall off so that he could take over.
- Later, when Carol Danvers (Ms. Marvel) loses her power the second time (as Binary), she fell onto this and caused her to get expelled from The Avengers. She manages to get out of this thanks to the counseling from Iron Man himself, as a fellow alcoholic.
- In Fear Itself he started screaming at Odin and the other gods, yelling that if they wanted a sacrifice he'd give them the "only thing he could give worth anything": his sobriety, by taking a huge swig of alcohol.
- The Outsiders: In Outsiders (2003), Shift indulges in this after being forced to kill Indigo. Despite claiming that alcohol doesn't affect his physiology, he manages to get pretty damn hammered.
- Queen and Country: Tara Chace has a penchant for this.
- Red Sonja: Red Sonja frequently turns to alcohol to deal with her depression. Her volatile state when drunk has made her the bane of any unfortunate barkeep's existence.
- Revival: May Tao goes this route after realizing she may be a journalistic one-hit wonder.
- Robin (1993): After having to declare bankruptcy, sell his mansion and move into his condo in the city Jack Drake refuses to leave his bed for anything but to grab a bottle, change the music or grab a book leaving his wife and son to have to do all the paperwork involved in liquefying his assets and keeping the family afloat.
- Savage Dragon: This happens early in continuity. After a love interest gets Stuffed In A Fridge, the main character drowns his sorrows at a bar. A Bar Brawl soon follows after a supervillain decides to literally bully a dragon.
- Sonic the Comic: Subverted, as Sonic is shown in disguise at a bar after believing he killed the Freedom Fighters as Super Sonic but doesn't drink alcohol.
- Spider-Man: Spider-Man also did this in one issue. (Although, given everything, we should probably cut him some slack...)
- Strangers in Paradise: Katchoo does this a few times, usually after a bitter argument with, or involuntary separation from, Francine or David.
- Superman:
- Superman went to the bottle in response to losing all of his powers in JLA: Act of God.
- Strangers at the Heart's Core: The ancestor of Supergirl's enemy Gravity Lord "drowned both his sorrows and himself" in rum after losing his family fortune.
- In Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, Kara goes to an alien bar to try to forget for a bit about her planet destroyed and family gone by getting drunk.
- Teen Titans:
- In Blackest Night: Titans, Red Star is drinking in memory of his family (Pantha and Baby Wildebeest).
- Brainiac 5 says something along this line after seeing Impulse again.
- Ultimate Spider-Man: Mr. Big defied the Kingpin for the control of the criminal world. His henchmen, the enforcers, betrayed him and sided with Kingpin, and hold Mr. Big while Kingpin killed him. Sometime later, however, Ox is trying to get drunk, saying that "we are not men!", regretting the betrayal of his former boss.
- Werewolf by Night likes the occasional beer, but it becomes clear how miserable and depressed he is in volume 2 (1998) when he is rarely seen without a bottle of whiskey. His girlfriend has asked him many times to stop drinking, but that doesn't stop him from having a bottle in hand even when behind the wheel of a car.
- X-Men: Cyclops, after a revelation that he was having a psychic affair with Emma Frost, ended up in a strip club and was drinking his sorrows in wine.
