Ice Cream Man #18

From the top of an old man's open head spills a surreal cloud of memories and imagination — the grinning Ice Cream Man in his cap clutching balloons, a pink elephant, a teddy bear, a woman with a hospital crib, a jet plane, a vintage car, a bicycle, and a bus all tumbling together in dreamy chaos. Martín Morazzo's cover for this 2020 Image series entry is quietly unsettling in the best possible way, blending childhood whimsy with something far more melancholy beneath the surface. Ice Cream Man #18 promises another of the anthology's signature left-turns into human vulnerability.