Pretty Violent #2

The cover of this 2019 Image series says it all: a pink-haired heroine perches cheerfully atop a giant ice cream cone mounted on a thoroughly wrecked, blood-splattered ice cream truck, tiny blue companion in hand, while a blue creature rummages through the carnage below. Derek Hunter, Jason Young, and Spencer Holt are delivering something gleefully subversive here — the pastel, cartoon-cute aesthetic colliding head-on with absolute mayhem. If you've been craving a comic that wears its contradictions proudly, Pretty Violent #2 is making a very convincing case.