Artist: Martin Morazzo
From the Publisher:
Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, addiction, musical fantasy…there’s a flavor for everyone’s misery. ICE CREAM MAN is a genre-defying comic book series, featuring disparate “one-shot” tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingers—lickety split!—can change the course of your life forever. Written by W. MAXWELL PRINCE (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY), with art by MARTÍN MORAZZO (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC). Collects ICE CREAM MAN #1-4My Thoughts:
Do not mistake this graphic series for a tween or children's comic!!! Despite the title, this is for the older teen interested in the creepy evil that silently lurks in clowns, and now the ice cream man. I think there has always been something sinister about the music coming from the ice cream trucks and the way it just calls to little children like some great promise. Have you watched Chitty, Chitty Bang Bang recently? There is a scene where the child catcher, in his colorful garb and little bell goes door to door: "children, where are you?. . ." Ugh. That kind of creepy.The colors in this graphic series, like bubblegum and taffy adds to the horror of this series and in the end I really am confused about what specifically this ice cream man is. Evil, sinister, or just a mirror to our own depravity as a society? I don't know.
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