Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

Product Information

From the acclaimed creative team behind GIDEON FALLS, PRIMORDIAL, and THE PASSAGEWAY comes a new series in the bold and ambitious shared horror universe of THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS. Book Three here is even worse. It wants to giveth of the big lesson, but portentous, pretentious and just plain pathetic are far too close. Something trying for a mythos with the two Main Men is of very little use in the great scheme of things; a story that starts in fluent Spanish only makes you think the creators said "hey, you know 'Buffy' got away with odd-ball one-offs that were both curve-balls, and great – d'you think we can do the first, knowing we'll never manage the second?". A lesson in how bad reality TV is just seems childish, for all its evisceration. And some kind of sci-fi story ends my time with this franchise. Collectively, all four show the series is nothing without the town, but prove it's not much more than nothing full stop. Story 12: I really love how the author tells each story in such a unique format. This one was certainly different. Even though I'm not huge on space stuff, this was pretty cool. And a nice way to end the book, I'd say. ☆☆☆.5

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. Male Frontal Nudity: The creepy little gremlin that appears in issue 18 is fully nude... including his penis. Story 8: I don't even know what I read this time. I can't make sense of it. I'm not sure what the moral is. I'm not sure how it works with the rest of the stories. But I liked it? ☆☆☆☆.5This is a little town where the Ice Cream Man resides to hand out, well, Ice cream to everyone. No, he's not a creepy pedo, which was my first guess when seeing the cover or reading about him. Instead, he almost haunts the town like the grim reaper. Going around doing the bye byes for most people in the town and showing them true horrors. This is four stories, all varying from really creepy and entertaining to just okay. The highlights being a story about a boy and his spider and the final story about a father letting go of his son who has passed.

Spiders Are Scary: Issue 1 gets a lot of mileage out of this trope, though it helps that said spider is one of the most venomous species on the planet. 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.

This Comic Book provides examples of:

My favourite flavour was the first, about a weird kid whose best friend is a spider – but where are his parents? I liked the blend of dark humour and twisty storytelling – it’s a very imaginative and fun read. The second story is an unoriginal and predictable episode on the opioid epidemic currently gripping America as a pair of heroin addicts struggle to maintain their habits. It’s a well-written/told piece but not nearly as creative as the first and, if you’ve read enough stories about heroin addicts as I have, it’s as generic as you can get with this kind of tale. A tale of existential familial horror by JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, RAZORBLADES) and GAVIN FULLERTON (BOG BODIES, Bags). Thom is moving cross-country with his family and dragging the past along with them. His son, Jamie, is seeing monsters in the bedroom closet and will not let them go. Body Horror: All over the place, the comic usually has at least one nasty example of this per issue.