It’s the most ‘different’ endeavor from Brubaker’s other works of the period, and is the kind of thing you could hand to just about anyone. It’s not particularly new, as it’s been done before in prose, but it is a really refreshing read in comics that just transports you away. Brought to life by the spectacular Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente, it’s a really lovely ‘Well whatever comes after the story?’ take that looks at those middle-grade books through a new prism. But it is perhaps the writer at his best, in a really fun spin on the Kid Detective Story. But amidst all of them, Friday is perhaps the most overlooked, being a Panel Syndicate release without buzz. Ritesh Babu: Ed Brubaker’s been having a tremendously successful few years now. The darkness of the Ice Cream Man universe certainly follows, although Prince and his new-artist-per-issue collaborators play the stories a bit straighter, less reliant on a conceptual hook, or interconnected supernatural flavor of the day.įor more, check out my interview with W. Maxwell Prince shifting his unique brand of surreal philosophy from cosmic Ice Cream Men to all manner of costumed clowns. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran are simply the most inventive creative team in comics on an issue-by-issue basis.Įlsewhere, Haha is very much a spiritual spinoff, with writer W. Ice Cream Man has been on some version of my best of lists since 2018, and since 2020 the title of Comic Book Herald’s favorite ongoing series is Ice Cream Man’s to lose.
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