W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo's horror anthology Ice Cream Man has long been one of Image's most consistently daring comics, but of late it's become clear that it's a truly great one, too – see issue #39 and #40's heart-wrenching two-part 'Decompression in a Wreck.' That story was both a dazzling exercise in exploring how time works in graphic storytelling and an agonising moment-by-moment breakdown of a car crashing into a lorry that spanned just five seconds in the lives (and deaths) of its characters. But while the book has always been chilling (er, pun sort of intended, I guess), it's also always been blackly comic too.
This week's Ice Cream Man #43 moves between both these tones and more on any given page. It's a special issue which breaks from tradition by bringing onboard writers other than Prince for the first time. And what writers! Yer actual Grant Morrison! Kelly Sue DeConnick, Patton Oswalt, Matt Fraction, and more. It's a starry selection, with the contributors each delivering a horror story over the course of a single page.
