Ice Cream Man #31

The cover of Ice Cream Man #31 frames everything in a single, quietly unsettling image: a massive golden scale, with a man clutching an infant on one side and the eerily cheerful Ice Cream Man himself — in his white uniform and cap — casually balancing on the other. The subtitle, "A Scale (Sort of a Poem)," promises the series' signature blend of dark whimsy and genuine unease, and that visual metaphor of innocence weighed against something far more sinister delivers it perfectly. From Prince, Morazzo, and O'Halloran, this 2022 Image issue is another example of the series doing what it does best — making you deeply uncomfortable with a smile on its face.