Ice Cream Man #21

Few anthology horror series deliver dread as inventively as Ice Cream Man, and issue #21 from Image Comics is a perfect example of why. The cover — by Prince, Morazzo, and O'Halloran — presents a deeply unsettling tableau: a melting face-shaped blob of ice cream pooling across what appears to be a storm drain grate, oozing down from a pipe above, rendered in sickly browns and yellows against stark geometric shadows. It's the kind of image that turns something mundane and sweet into something quietly horrifying, which is exactly the sensibility that makes this 2020 series so distinctive.