Ice Cream Man #10

This tenth issue of W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo's unsettling anthology series delivers another beautifully eerie tableau: a woman in a Victorian-style ruffled dress, her face painted in skeletal Day of the Dead makeup, stands at the center of a dimly lit parlor while an attendant kneels at her side and a painter clutching a palette looks on from the left. In a doorway behind them, a uniformed figure — unmistakably the Ice Cream Man — watches with quiet menace, and the walls are hung with framed paintings that add layers of strange, melancholy atmosphere. Morazzo's meticulous linework and the muted, antique palette make the whole scene feel like a portrait that knows it's being watched.