Two stories of opioid abuse, with addiction causing otherwise reasonable people to do terrible things, feature in this second issue of Ice Cream Man.

W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo’s horror anthology shows early signs of its experimental approach to storytelling here, with a drugged up narrative voice, a thematic use of colour in certain sequences and the two stories converging with tragic consequences by the end of the issue.

The Ice Cream Man himself is a much more active participant in the story this time around too, and it’s good to see one of the cops from issue #1 making another appearance, if only fleetingly. It certainly helps to enrich the world in which we can only spend a certain amount of time with each protagonist, given the anthological nature of the series.

Morazzo’s art is superb, and ideally suited to Prince’s grim morality tales; it’s clear to see, even this early on, why Ice Cream Man became such a breakout hit for the creators.

For more on the ways in which Prince and Morazzo have pushed the boundaries of storytelling far beyond the normal, check out my review of Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle on Card Gamer.

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