Even though this had some super creepy imagery in the interlude, I just didn’t connect with this one as much as I did the first two. Not sure why, it just felt a bit off. A dad and friend mend the loss of their son/friend in a very odd way.

After inheriting a farm house, Trudy and Gabby are ready to start the next chapter of their lives together…except it’s already home to a mysterious force that’s attracted ghosts, aliens, and all kinds of supernatural beings for decades. Body Horror: All over the place, the comic usually has at least one nasty example of this per issue. The only reason I didn't rate this 5 stars is because some of these stories could have been better or longer. In some of them, the creators had a specific lesson or message in mind. In others, they wanted to make the reader to think for themselves. In this, they 100% delivered! The Ice Cream Man series is a modern day version of “The Twilight Zone”, with macabre stories, all of them thought-provoking. Ice Cream Man #36 is another great tale, this time focusing on a sailor named Winslow who lost his daughter when she was swallowed whole by a whale. Winslow becomes obsessed with finding the whale, convinced his daughter is still alive, but he’s not prepared for what he finds at the end of his journey. The worldwide phenomenon based on the hit Shudder TV series comes to comics in a star-studded five-issue anthology series that will SCARE YOU TO DEATH.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. 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. 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.

Lord of The Flies meets vampires in the first volume of a bold new ongoing series from JEFF LEMIRE & DUSTIN NGUYEN, the Eisner-winning creative team behind the bestselling DESCENDER and ASCENDER series. Then, legendary Batman: The Animated Series creator PAUL DINI, STEVE LANGFORD, and JOHN McCREA (DEAD EYES, Hitman) petrify with the party antics of Shingo, the birthday clown with an appetite for more than cake! Ice Cream Man�#35 has several poignant, if heavy-handed, lessons on the necessary evils that humanity falls victim to in perpetuity, such as addiction, shame, obsession, and fear, all of which the narrator Jacob believes are� actual monsters, not just concepts or experiences. While W. Maxwell Prince has always been a stellar writer on� Ice Cream Man, this issue really gets to see the talented writer flex his prose skills, and show off the effectiveness of his metaphors, colorful language, and use of esoteric and philosophical ideas. Also, his reference to the the 1892 short “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is the perfect addition to the guide, and Prince’s transformation of the main character in the short story into a kind of cryptid is brilliant. 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. Any One Can Die: Expect roughly half of the characters to die by the end of each issue, if not more.

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There are four stories here in four issues, each with an increasingly tenuous link to the Ice Cream Man. Prince either needed to give us more on the character or just drop the contrivance entirely - as it is, the character/framing device is very underwritten. And, while the book starts well, unfortunately each succeeding story gets progressively worse. Doing In the Wizard: Despite the cover and supernatural nature of the series suggesting otherwise, there was no ghost in issue 7. The poltergeist just existed entirely in the protagonist's imagination as a way to cope with her best friend's death. Story 6: How can a story with so few words make me feel so many feelings? Especially with the dog. I should've known that a happy ending wasn't possible in a book like this. I'm confused by the story but also intrigued. I guess it just goes to show how much our actions matter in our lives. Or at least, I think that's what it's trying to get at? On a surface level, anyway. The first story that wavers in quality for me. It’s not bad or anything, but it didn’t do all that much for me in the end. Just about some one-hit wonder in some fantasy post-apocalypse where he is the key to saving the world. I did like some of the crazy imagery we got though. A contempt, cosmic parasitic being known as the Ice Cream Man takes solace in terrorizing anyone that’s around him, squirming around in the shadows like a bug under your skin, striking your reality down before you even know what’s happened.