And as we learn a little more about everyone it of course gets more complicated! Turns out that Pound Cake is some kind of assassin, hired to take down Ice Cream for reasons the comic has yet to unveil. Power rankings are in effect, but more importantly is how everyone functions as a member of their disorganized ''helping'' operation. The comic takes a moment here and there to go over things like evolution and how some of the more video gamey elements work, but for the most part O.K. Who are these mysterious forces surrounding this happy go lucky elf?Īs is the case with a lot of comics born from the web, part of the fun is that they are basically Saturday morning cartoons that say 'fuck,' and Ice Cream & Beast is a grand continuation of this. Following Ice Cream around everywhere is the mysterious looming Beast, and to further complicate things Ice Cream seems to be stalked by monkey mage Pound Cake. But there is much more around the margins. Our hero is Ice Cream, also known as Icey, an energetic elf creature whose made it her job to take care of the Neomons (you see what I'm saying?), a race of quasimagical imps, with the help of her partner, the muscle bound bunny eared Alex. Ice Cream & Beast is set in a fantasy world that seems to be running on a mix of Neopets and Digimon.

One of the ones I made sure to grab was Ice Cream & Beast by Iggy Craig, which I had read a preview of on Twitter years ago and have been wanting to fully read through it for some time. The other day I picked up a couple books from Peow Studios, a great comic publisher that looks like it is shutting down for good this year.

EX.Mag, Vol. 01 by Peow Studio