Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

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However, some plots weren't always home runs. This is a thought provoking book and one that you must experience and read... But, not all stories were equally well written as their narrations and lessons. Body Horror: All over the place, the comic usually has at least one nasty example of this per issue. Martin Morazzo’s art is quite good. He nails the horror scenes when he needs to and he shows versatility in drawing both stark realism and fantastical dream sequences with equal confidence. I don’t love his style but I don’t dislike it either. In this suspenseful new series, readers meet Sophie, a dog who can’t remember what happened. She doesn’t know how she ended up in this house. She doesn’t recognize any of these other dogs. She knows something terrible happened, but she just…can’t…recall…Wait! Where’s her lady? Now Sophie has to figure out where she is, what’s happening, and how she’s going to survive this.

Story 2: I'm an addiction counselor, so this one hit kind of close to home. Heroin is a nasty drug, and the visuals were at times a bit hard to look at, but they were also entirely perfect for the story being told. The downwards spiral the characters experienced is one I'm familiar with, that's been told time and time again. I was saddened by the ending. Then I was given a bit of hope that actually got my eyes watering. And then it left me uncertain because I think they took that hope away again. Well done. ☆☆☆☆☆ Fingore: A particularly gruesome example happens to the protagonist of issue 15. It's even featured on the cover art. In the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band—who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there? What do these ghosts want? And does this mean the band has to break up?Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action as Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes really), and as writer DAN WATTERS ( Lucifer, COFFIN BOUND) and artist CASPAR WIJNGAARD (LIMBO, Star Wars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt) delve into the horrors of misspent youth. Compared to most comics - where the meat and complexity is in the plot, here we find symbolism and thought provoking philosophical tidbits as the hidden jewel behind this gem of a collection. Henry West is brutally kidnapped in the middle of the night while his wife Julie watches, terrified. Henry awakens to the reality of his whereabouts, but Julie, with no evidence of the phantom crime, is unable to get help to search for him. A new series from the minds of cutting-edge horror creators STEVE NILES ( 30 Days of Night) and SZYMON KUDRANSKI (SPAWN, The Punisher).Rural mystery and urban horror collide in this character-driven meditation on obsession, mental illness, and faith from the creators that writer BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS said “will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!” Jimmy Sangster might have left Maryland for the vampire-infested city of “Killadelphia,” but there is still untold evil lurking the streets of Baltimore. The demon Corson has surfaced from the underworld to possess a once-wronged man, and his vengeance will come at the cost of humanity’s despair! But Jimmy’s former lover Nita Hawes—a woman with demons of her own—has begun a quest to root the evil out of her city. Guided by the ghost of her dead brother, she must come to terms with her own past, lest she join her brother in a state worse than death! Fun with Palindromes: Issue 13 in it's entirety is a palindrome and is read the same no matter which end the reader starts from. Given all of the surreal and disturbing imagery contained in the issue the effect this has is... unnerving.

Shout-Out: Issue 17 reads like one big love letter to famous comics, particularly Superman. Even the cover is a reference to Action Comics first issue. There is a companion six-issue mini series called Haha with the final issue crossing over by telling the origin story of Happy Hank who first appeared in Ice Cream Man #8. Similarly, the mini series Swan Songs crosses over in it's sixth issue. Covers Always Lie: The front cover ◊ of the Ice Cream Man Volume 1 graphic novel compilation. It looks all happy and whimsical with all those smiling children. Very misleading, given the actual content of the stories. I loved Martin Morazzo’s art, which was consistent throughout even if the stories wavered a bit in quality. It was like a weirdly perfect mix of the best aspects of Steve Dillon and Frank Quitely, along with some of Morazzo’s own personal touch. Really want to see him draw more books like this. W. Maxwell Prince does have a pretty solid grasp on comic writing too, and I’m intrigued to see what else he does in his career. Never heard of him before this. COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn’t prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK Assassination to Flat Earth Theory and Reptilian Shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth?The art by Martin Morazzo is oddly unsettling, a mix of the ordinary and the grotesque. The stories remind me both of the EC horror books and of House of Mystery under Joe Orlando's regime, nice little horror tales. The writing reminds me of Stephen King's Needful Things more than anything else, maybe with a dash of Sandman and Twilight Zone. Unspecified Apocalypse: Though several minor causes are listed as contributing to the end of the world and humanity in issue 12 the book never actually tells the reader exactly what happened. All the reader really finds out is that the devastation was apparently so bad that the last known living human is seen piloting a ship in deep space looking for a new planet he can recreate the earth on. Paramedics Mike and Jenny in issue 8 are far too busy chugging down and mixing powerful hospital medication to actually help in any of the several disasters that occur around them over the course of the issue.

Martin Morazzo’s art and Chris O’Halloran’s colors on Ice Cream Man #36 perfectly capture the gothic mood of the story. The art is reminiscent of illustrations you would find in an old Edgar Allen Poe or Tolkien book, having a classic horror feel. It’s beautiful work that enhances the great writing.Confession Cam: Played for Horror in the chapter where a scriptwriter gets Trapped in TV Land by the eponymous Humanoid Abomination and finds himself in increasingly disturbing reality shows. Each time he shifts to another show, there are interludes like this where the guy details how he suddenly found himself in these shows, how disturbed he is by what's going on, and how desperate he is to leave. There are also interviews with the other show participants (like a mannequin woman in a dating show and three zombie women in a Real Housewives sendup) who talk about their roles in the disturbing shows like nothing unusual is going on, as well as an interview with the scriptwriter's uncle who was also pulled into the shows, killed, and is now surprised that he's dead. Turn Out Like His Father: George's son John divorcing his wife and possibly losing his family like his father did years before is one of the main sources of drama in issue 18.