Ice Cream Man is proud to present an unprecedented comic book event.
Continuing their exploration into just what a comic can be, the award-nominated team responsible for Ice Cream Man—one of the most enduring comics of the last decade—has pushed the envelope…this time, so far that it might just fall right off the gosh-darn table.
“The Mortal Coil Shuffle” is a one-time-only, one-of-a-kind Ice Cream Man story…told via a deck of 55 “playing” cards. And those cards—numbered, sequenced, and packed in a beautiful custom card box—tell a comic book yarn unlike anything you’ve read before.
Every card features art by super-duo Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran… alongside the writing of W. Maxwell Prince. As for the deck…
Some cards tell part of the story; other cards cast “spells” on the characters, reminiscent of a…magical card game folks have loved for decades; some cards must be joined with other cards to form a complete piece of art—like putting a puzzle together. Not to mention: trick cards, rude intrusions, and “wild cards” that can alter the direction of the story lickety split, just like that.
It’s a first-of-its-kind comic experiment. And the story told here will also never be collected in trade. The cards will be released, and then…poof, they’ll be gone, like magic.
So get ready, comic fans, to Go Fish, Draw Four, Declare War, and (probably) Fold Your Hand in this exciting comic-book-narrative delivery innovation—anchored, of course, by the creepy, strange voice readers have come to love/hate from Ice Cream Man.
Good luck, and please do be careful: The deck is stacked.