Image Comics‘ Ice Cream Man regularly pushes the comic book form with every issue. But a new one-shot from creators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran won’t be a comic at all: The Mortal Coil Shuffle is being published as a deck of 55 cards.
“I love storytelling challenges so you can say I’ve always been very pleased with Ice Cream Man,” said Morazzo via press release. “Now, more than 44 issues in, it’s awesome we’re still trying crazy, never-done-before, stuff!”
The custom-designed deck featuring custom backs and a custom box as well are designed by Morazzo, O’Halloran and Good Old Neon. Image teases that “Some cards will tell part of the story; while other cards cast inscrutable spells on unwitting characters; and some must be joined with other cards to form a complete piece of art.”
Added Prince, “When I was nine, I contracted chicken pox. And the only person available to watch me while sick was my German next door neighbor—a lovely woman named Inge, who, over time, would become a sort of surrogate grandmother to me. She taught me how to play Gin rummy that be-pocked week, and if I close my eyes now I can still hear her shuffling the deck, tapping her gigantic press-on nails onto the table between drags of her extra long Kool cigarettes.
“The cards were alive for me back then, and so this little Ice Cream Man experiment is dedicated to Inge: let’s see if we can’t bring some cards to life one more time!”
The Mortal Coil Shuffle will be a limited one-time-only printing, and Image promises there will never be a second printing, no new runs, and it will never exist in any of the Ice Cream Man trades or collections.
Ice Cream Man: Mortal Coil Shuffle will hit comic book shops on Wednesday, October 1, but you can get a look at what to expect, below.
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