Hunter Patrick 7/18/18 Hunter Patrick 7/18/18

Review: Ice Cream Man #5

By Hunter T. Patrick

Free falling. The most surprising thing about the series is how strong it began, and how it does the impossible and keep getting better and better. If you missed issues 1-4 do not worry, each issue is a stand-alone tale thus far. Typically, the plot is about madness caused by the mysterious titular character, the Ice Cream Man. This issue is no difference besides the fact that he is never shown in the way he usually is. His catchphrase “lickity-split” is what distinguishes him and this time it is said by various other characters. This is what happens when an entire business building becomes affected by Ice Cream Man. The issue goes from a man jumping off a 100-floor building and confessing his sins, counting down to the bottom, and it moves to the business building and the madness that ensure. This is Ice Cream Man at his most ferocious, or at least so far.

Hunter Patrick 6/20/18 Hunter Patrick 6/20/18

Review: Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

By Hunter T. Patrick

What a feel-good time for everyone but the characters. Ice Cream Man is an anthology series. Each issue is its own one-shot, all being connected by the titular Ice Cream Man. This volume features four different issues and four different stories. Music, drugs, and various other main themes become present. Nothing is scarier than humanity. This is horror, pure delicious horror. The scares are all brief in the pages, but like all good horror, the more thought in this psychological terror, the more fear, and despair that will come to the reader. The horror sticks with you for the four different plots, each different than the last. If you want anything from trouble with couples to trouble with the self and isolation, go on and give it a try. Everything is sprinkled, delicious, terrifying sprinkles.

Hunter Patrick 4/25/18 Hunter Patrick 4/25/18

Review: Ice Cream Man #4

By Hunter T. Patrick

Dark. Twisted. Delicious. The book where you can’t help but keep returning to try all its fun flavors. This issue does not feel like it has the standard horror as the other issues. Sure there is still some horror, but this issue has a different feel compared to the others and makes the issue all the stronger. The horror elements do not really come after this issue’s protagonist as it feels separate. This issue trades that in for heart and a new type of horror that haunts everything else: loss. No crazy monsters or anything this month in the traditional sense and it helps this strong series stays on top.

Dustin Cabeal 1/17/18 Dustin Cabeal 1/17/18

Review: Ice Cream Man #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Listen… I have no idea what I read, but I enjoyed it. By that I mean, it’s unclear to me what’s going on in this story and where it’s going to go from here, but what I read was enjoyable. It really boiled down to one line of dialogue, which I won’t spoil, but basically, I was like, “yeah, I agree.” There was probably a swear word and something else that I said attached to that sentence, but that was the gist.

Dustin Cabeal 1/16/18 Dustin Cabeal 1/16/18

Comic Bastards Podcast - 026

By Dustin Cabeal

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025 - This week on the show it's all about the first issues again. Yeah, there were just too many first issues to ignore and not enough returning crap that I read. There's also a manga pick so enjoy that one person who listens and likes both comics and manga. You know who you are, I don't, but you do.

Titles covered in this episode:

James Bond: The Body #1
Damage #1
Go West #1
Belle #1
Ice Cream Man #1
Children of the Whales vol. 1

Press Release 10/12/17 Press Release 10/12/17

Get ready for a [bitter]sweet treat in ICE CREAM MAN this January

Press Release

Writer W. Maxwell Prince (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY, The Electric Sublime) teams up with artist Martín Morazzo (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC, The Electric Sublime) and colorist Chris O’Halloran (GENERATION GONE, Black Panther) for ICE CREAM MAN, a genre-defying series of disparate one-shots arriving this January.