![]() The final story is an especially bleak tale about a telethon to benefit an average guy named Jerry, who has no idea he is the star. ![]() There is also a callback to the first story, in the form of a reference to Uncle Ray and his nicotine addiction. They are interspersed with illustrations, including a fairly tasteful depiction of the horrific onscreen snake attack. “Late Night Splashes” tells the story of a late night TV host named Mack Benson, largely though text pages narrated from the point of view of various characters. The Ice Cream Man makes a couple of brief appearances (as a plastic figurine and a snowman), but it is otherwise a serious story with a call for donation to Planned Parenthood in the last frame. “Advent Calendar” depicts a desperate young pregnant woman deciding what to do–via the daily small gifts from an Advent calendar. A kind of happy ending, despite the overall bleakness of the story. Private detective Ray Kowalski is hired to find one of them, and what he finds is enough to convince him to turn his life around and save his failing marriage. ![]() “The Big Sweet” is about a cult that is apparently murdering ice cream men. ![]() Maxwell Prince, writer Martín Morazzo, art Chris O’Halloran, colorsĪnother collection of four diverse tales about the world of the Ice Cream Man. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |