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Ice Cream Man, Vol. 3: Hopscotch Melange

Not sure why this volume was part of Hoopla's free borrows instead of volume 1, but whatever. I was on the fence about reading this stuff, so I figured if this one piqued my interest I'd go back and read the 1st one.Anyway.Yeah. Ok, this was weird, but especially considering that I started with vol. 3, Hopscotch Melange wasn't too bad. I guess the stories are loosely connected by these two dudes who show up over and over all across time and space playing out this odd little dance of death with each other. I did think it was kind of pretentious that a good chunk of the 1st part of the 2nd story was in Spanish. It said there was a 'cheat sheet' you could look up in the back, but that's just not something that I would ever take the time to do for a story I'm not terribly invested in. I've done that before for other comics and I've always regretted it because it seems as though authors get a kick out of making readers translate the most mundane, useless shit they can think to write. If this was the final issue of Saga, I'd spend an hour translating every word. <--this isn't Saga.Besides, I had just enough Spanish under my belt to get the gist if not the nuances. Alright. Other than that, this was ok. Obviously, I must have missed out on the part where the evil guy was an actual ice cream man in the earlier volumes, because there was nothing but sort of nods to that with little musical notes and whatnot in this one. I may go back for the other stuff when I'm looking for something horror-y around Halloween.

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