#Martín Morazzo

[fictionz]

New Horror 2023 - Day 4

"The policemen who arrived on the scene found only cotton wool."

"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

We imbue objects with a power that we sometimes can't take back, and I love when a story explores that. But then I'm the guy fixated on doll and dummy horror and who recently visited the only ventriloquist dummy museum in the world. So if that kinda stuff terrifies you, this story's for you.

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"Now you listen to me, you lousy tuna sandwich!"

"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

This is horror in the way some stories from Tales from the Crypt are horror. Which is, not really. It's doesn't even have a comeuppance. Ice Cream Man appealed to me as an anthology series but I recall the last issue being pretty light on the horror as well, so maybe I'll skip these going forward. But, the particular story in this issue was neat in that Heavy Metal sort of way, just wacky space fantasy shenanigans.

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"You're ruining our time together."

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

This is not what you think it's going to be. Ask yourself, do you need to know?

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"Unfortunately, everybody's home this evening."

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Yeah I can see why this hit and spawned a series. Controls feel great, looks good for the vintage, and that music is tops. It takes the beefy Conan the Barbarian type and throws him into a castle full of monsters, what's not to love? The scariest creature by far is the little guy who hops around.

#new horror 2023 #horror #horror fiction #short stories #movies #comics #Leigh Janiak #Honeymoon #W. Maxwell Prince #Chris O’Halloran #Martín Morazzo #Good Old Neon #Attila Veres #ice cream man #castlevania #konami #Luca Karafiáth

[comicbookclub]

Top 11 Image Comics For February 2024

From the Energon Universe to Ice Cream Man and more, here are the hottest #ImageComics of February 2024.

Unlike DC and Marvel, who are taking it easy this month (not really), Image Comics is packing a ton of great titles into the shorter month of February 2024. Yes, there’s an extra leap day, but the only thing Image is doing is leaping past the competition. Okay, I’m done. Let’s break down some of the most hotly anticipated Image comics of the month. 1. The Cull #5 Release Date: February 7,…

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#Andrew Krahnke #Dan Watters #G.I. Joe #Image Comics #James Tynion IV #Kelly Thompson #Martín Morazzo #paul cornell #Ram V #Tom King #Transformers #w. maxwell prince #Zoe Thorogood

[comicbookclublive]

Top 11 Image Comics For February 2024

From the Energon Universe to Ice Cream Man and more, here are the hottest #ImageComics of February 2024.

Unlike DC and Marvel, who are taking it easy this month (not really), Image Comics is packing a ton of great titles into the shorter month of February 2024. Yes, there’s an extra leap day, but the only thing Image is doing is leaping past the competition. Okay, I’m done. Let’s break down some of the most hotly anticipated Image comics of the month. 1. The Cull #5 Release Date: February 7,…

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#Andrew Krahnke #Dan Watters #G.I. Joe #Image Comics #James Tynion IV #Kelly Thompson #Martín Morazzo #paul cornell #Ram V #Tom King #Transformers #w. maxwell prince #Zoe Thorogood

[smashpages]

This is the Walking Dead team-up variant cover for Ice Cream Man #37 (Image Comics, October 2023) by Martín Morazzo & Chris O'Halloran

#ice cream man #comics #comic books #variant covers #image comics #the walking dead #martin morazzo #chris o'halloran #comic covers

[spawn-universe]

SPAWN TEAM-UP Variants

IMAGE 30th Anniversary Part 1

3Keys #3 Cover C by David Messina

20th Century Men #5 Cover C by S. Morian

All Against All #1 Cover E by Caspar Wijngaard

Art Brut #1 Cover B by Martín Morazzo

Blood Stained Teeth #7 Cover C by Christian Ward

The Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers #4 Cover C by Andrea Sorrentino

Creepshow #4 Cover C by Javi Fernandez

Dark Ride #3 Cover E

by Andrei Bressan & Adriano Lucas

The Dead Lucky #5 Cover C by French Carlomango

The Deadliest Bouquet #5 Cover B by Chris Campana & Tom Chu

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Art Brut goes back to print for its first two issues

Art Brut goes back to print for its first two issues #comics #comicbooks

Bestselling Ice Cream Man creators W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo have hit the mark once more with a new hit series—Art Brut. Image Comics will rush issues #1 and #2 back to print this week in order to keep up with increasing customer demand. The reprints will feature new covers by Morazzo and Lopes. Alongside the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, Arthur Brut the Mad Dreampainter (and his…

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#art brut #comic books #Comics #image comics #martin morazzo #w. maxwell prince

[espantajerias]

Ice Cream Man.

#Ice Cream Man #Image comics #W. Maxwell Prince #Martín Morazzo

[theblackestofsuns]

Snowfall #7 (November 2016)

Cover by Martín Morazzo and Kelly Fitzpatrick

Image Comics

#Snowfall #Martín Morazzo #Kelly Fitzpatrick #Image Comics #Great Comics #Great Comic Covers #Dollar Bin Finds

[atthequillsmercy]

Lenni Reviews: "Ice Cream Man Vol. 6: Just Desserts" by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo & Chris O'Halloran

Lenni Reviews: “Ice Cream Man Vol. 6: Just Desserts” by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo & Chris O’Halloran

(Image Source) This volume is another series of dark short stories with the Ice Cream Man being featured. These stories are hit or miss. I’m still wishing for an overarching story in these anthologies. I thought this would lead to knowing more about the entity and why it’s so malevolent; maybe what the overall point is. I’m not seeing that and while that is ok since some of the shorts are good,…

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#book review #Book Reviews #books #comic #comic review #comics #graphic novel #graphic novel review #graphic novels #horror #horror comic #horror graphic novel #Ice Cream Man #Martín Morazzo #review #reviews #W. Maxwell Prince

[fictionz]

New Horror 2022 - Day 4

"The Door" by Ann R. Loverock (2020) "It looked the same as it had in the winter: standing alone, unfixed to the landscape."

I love this one for that particular short fiction quality of just getting started immediately and then cutting off the story before a traditional ending. It’s creepy and the implication of these events in this environment calls back to that ancient fear of forbidden knowledge or advancement. We want it but there is a price to be paid. (Also, colonialism.)

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"Rainbow Sprinkles" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Nimit Malavia (2018) "Arizona like in the movies of our dreams"

My first reaction was this isn’t horror (particularly after a more straightforward horror story in the first issue), but I think this is going to happen many times throughout the month. I’ve made the effort to seek out a more expansive range of voices and backgrounds in my horror selections and it’s going to require a broader acceptance of horror as a genre and medium for storytellers. All that said, this second issue of Ice Cream Man is more tragic and real, and horror fiction is, after all, a reflection of the horrors we face as real people.

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The Skin I Live In dir. Pedro Almodóvar (2011) "The things that a madman's love can do."

First: I thought I’d watched a Almodóvar movie before but apparently I hadn’t watched a one before this. Second: my cynical side thinks any male director with power will absolutely leverage it to make an attractive woman be naked a lot in his movie and linger on it. Third: I am a very uptight American. Fourth: holy shit.

#horror fiction #new horror 2022 #the skin i live in #Pedro Almodóvar #movies #ice cream man #comics #ann r. loverock #short stories #horror

[comicbookclub]

Ice Cream Man #37 Review: Horrifying And Adorable

In Ice Cream Man #37 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo, get ready to be traumatized in a whole new way.

In Ice Cream Man #37 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo, get ready to be traumatized in a whole new way. We reviewed the book on the Stack podcast. But in the interest of highlighting more about the title, here’s a summary of the conversation with our thoughts. And if you prefer the longer audio version, that’s below as well! Powered by RedCircle Ice Cream Man #37 Review: The latest…

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#Image Comics #Martín Morazzo #w. maxwell prince

[comicbookclublive]

Ice Cream Man #37 Review: Horrifying And Adorable

In Ice Cream Man #37 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo, get ready to be traumatized in a whole new way.

In Ice Cream Man #37 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo, get ready to be traumatized in a whole new way. We reviewed the book on the Stack podcast. But in the interest of highlighting more about the title, here’s a summary of the conversation with our thoughts. And if you prefer the longer audio version, that’s below as well! Powered by RedCircle Ice Cream Man #37 Review: The latest…

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#Image Comics #Martín Morazzo #w. maxwell prince

[re-readingcomics]

Comics Read 6/14-20/2021

In normal times when I buy the first trade paperback in a series and don’t get around to reading it for months I at least try and read it before the second one comes out. These aren’t normal times, and the pile I started recently has two examples of series where I bought a second volume before reading the first, then took weeks to get to both. In both cases I justified this by enjoy the writers’s other work.

This past week I read both volumes of Everything written by Christopher Cantwell and art by I.N.J. Culbard and colors by Steve Wands. It is the second series written by Cantwell for the Berger Books imprint of Dark Horse, the first was She Could Fly. I briefly wrote about it here, and I recently preordered the third volume. Also he contested the excellent tv show Halt and Catch Fire, which I wrote about in my other tumblr.

This is a kind of difficult story to explain. Cantwell mentions his love of Twin Peaks in his introduction to the first volume and between the settings in a small town, the mix of almost saccharine sweetness and disturbing violence I can sort of see it.

It is about consumerism, and the business practices based on always getting people to by more, which is topical for our period, but it is set during Carter administration, presumably because that’s when the kind of superstore like the one given the series it’s title we’re new. The first seven issues all open with a one page newspaper advertisement for the store that is mostly unsettling. Sometime I unkindly compared Culbard’s work here to Martín Morazzo’s in She Could Fly and other titles, but I really don’t think anyone could have done better with these fake ads.

Part of the plot involves a combination of blue and orange flowers, which create a color dichotomy that stands our, despite it already being a full color comic. I was very impressed with that and how in general the plot seemed to resist dichotomies. The blurb on the first volume gave the impression that there would be some kind of good vs evil thing with he leading characters of Lori and Shirley. But that doesn’t happen, and I like what does happen a lot more than that suggested set up.

#What I'm Reading #Comic Books #berger books #dark horse comics #Christopher Cantwell #I.N.J. Culbard #Steve Wands #Karen Berger #Martín Morazzo #Everything

[smashpages]

Image Comics will wrap up their 30th anniversary festivities with a  series of covers in December featuring one of the first characters they  ever published, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn.

Here’s the cover for Art Brut #1 by Martín Morazzo.

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#art brut #image comics #spawn #martin morazzo #variant covers #comics #comic books

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Elektra (2017) #4 art by Martín Morazzo

#Martín Morazzo #Elektra #marvel #Comic art #comic books #Comics

[browsethestacks]

Comic - Ice Cream Man #06 (Martín Morazzo And Chris O'Halloran Cover)

#Art #Illustration #Design #Comics #Image #Ice Cream Man #Horror #Horror Comics #Martín Morazzo #Chris OHalloran #2018 #2010s #10s