Ice Cream Man Volume 1: Rainbow Sprinkles

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Doing In the Wizard: Despite the cover and supernatural nature of the series suggesting otherwise, there was no ghost in issue 7. The poltergeist just existed entirely in the protagonist's imagination as a way to cope with her best friend's death. Bad: The middle of the book suffers from being "okay". Not bad stories by any means but never anything all that enthralling. I also thought the third story was the worst.

Probably best described as an anthology series. The first few issues follow the events of a town, but by the middle of the book each issue is an unrelated vignette held loosely together by the titular character. I actually tend to like that style of storytelling - Gaiman's Sandman does it very well. This book does it okay. The art by Martin Morazzo is oddly unsettling, a mix of the ordinary and the grotesque. The stories remind me both of the EC horror books and of House of Mystery under Joe Orlando's regime, nice little horror tales. The writing reminds me of Stephen King's Needful Things more than anything else, maybe with a dash of Sandman and Twilight Zone.Jimmy Sangster might have left Maryland for the vampire-infested city of “Killadelphia,” but there is still untold evil lurking the streets of Baltimore. The demon Corson has surfaced from the underworld to possess a once-wronged man, and his vengeance will come at the cost of humanity’s despair! But Jimmy’s former lover Nita Hawes—a woman with demons of her own—has begun a quest to root the evil out of her city. Guided by the ghost of her dead brother, she must come to terms with her own past, lest she join her brother in a state worse than death! STRAY DOGS is a heartbreakingly adorable suspense thriller by My Little Pony comic artists TONY FLEECS and TRISH FORSTNER. It’s Lady and the Tramp meets Silence of the Lambs.

There are some genuinely decent ideas here, though some average execution often lets them down at times. The art too, is hit and miss, with its very indie leanings working at times, and looking a bit amateurish at others. One thing you can credit this book for is its originality. I don't think I've ever seen such an original collection of 'horror' stories ever assembled together in one place. But again, originality doesn't always equal good. If some of these more middling issues had been better executed, even with more traditional stories and settings, I would have finished this book enjoying it more than I ultimately did.This is truly one of a kind. Childhood horrors meet adult scenarios and trepidations, encouraging you to fix what you can now before it’s all gone. A major theme in this is that all life ends at the same exact place. All paths are bound for the same destination. New Media Are Evil: Issue 11 has a modern media addict who neglected his family end up trapped in various tv shows.