ICE CREAM MAN DECOMPRESSION IN A WRECK DELUXE EDITION

A family on a cross-country roadtrip. Two truckers hauling dairy upstate. And a violent interstate crash that stretches, slows, and warps time…

Presented here in deluxe format (square-bound card stock! ) is the collected edition of ICE CREAM MAN issues 39 and 40-a two-part experiment that explores comic book decompression, the myriad conflicts of the human soul, and that magical place where prose and sequential narrative sometimes meet. DECOMPRESSION IN A WRECK is a comic story like no other, and one that could only be told by the team responsible for ICE CREAM MAN .

Across two interconnected chapters, this brace of bummers features ICM ’s familiar formalistic play and lapidary narration-plus a magic trick disguised as a New Yorker fiction article! Not to mention: a newly designed wraparound cover and bonus materials galore.

Keep your eyes on the road.

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