The Ice Cream Man

Just your friendly neighborhood Ice Cream Man, ready to serve frozen sweets with a smile on his face! He’s certainly not an ancient world-hopping embodiment of chaos, alive long before humanity and definitely outliving it. Wherever sadness is, the Ice Cream Man’s not far behind!

Strength

• Grips the side of his van hard enough to deform it. (source)
• Went to town on a man with a vegetable peeler. (source)
• Seemingly tore a man’s stomach open. (source)
• Catches a strike from Maria and slaps her away before killing her lover with a knife to the back. (source)

Durability

• His vulture form takes an arrow through the head, but the Ice Cream Man is still speaking at the issue’s end until Caleb shuts him up. (source)
• Takes a gunshot from a young cowboy and a few strikes from a girl before easily stopping them both. (source)
• Unaffected by a ray gun that could blow a hole through a spaceship’s wall. (source)

Shapeshifting

• Has a monstrous, werewolf-like form.
• Implied to have slurped up a cat and left an intact skeleton behind. (source)
• Throws a kid into a woman hard enough to knock her down and break the kid’s arm. (source)
• Takes a bite from a Brazilian Wandering Spider and is perfectly fine later. (source)
• Turns into a vulture and killed two people, plucked a third person’s eye out. (source)
• Turns into a long limbed version of himself with fingers like a spider’s legs. (source)
• Was a beloved Mexican General for a while. (source)
• Becomes a Superman expy. (source)
• Lifts a giant mechanical spider. A Jimmy Olson knockoff says he throws it into the sun. (source)
• Has an ‘Isolation Palace’ full of references to previous issues. (source)
• At the end of the issue becomes a Batman/Daredevil expy. (source)

Treats

• With a snap of his fingers, makes a stick into two scoops of chocolate in a cone. (source)
• Turns a Brazilian Wandering Spider into a vanilla cone. (source)
• Offers Karen a drug greater than anything she’s had before, which kills her. (source)
• Gives a washed up musician a vanilla cone that makes him dream that his music can save the world. Of course, dreams have to end eventually. (source)
• Gives a man a triple scoop that splits his life into three paths. (source)

Misc

• After Karen steals and crashes his ice cream truck, he appears in her house and assures her that he has more. (source)
• Goes by many names, such as Rick. Also has an ice cream cart. Caleb refers to him as Riccardus. (source)
• Knows Portuguese. He’s saying ‘I will eat your children’s skin.’ (source)
• Torments a man from beyond the grave, saying that he remains in ’the sweet place’ after he dies. (source)
• The sweet place returns, now used as a pantry for some zombie Kardashian references. (source)
• Turned some office workers into chimpanzees. (source)
• Has a shack in the woods at the end of a trail of sprinkles. (source)
• Brings chaos to a small town. (source)
• Lured Caleb’s dog away with a tune before skinning it alive. (source)
• Creates an arachnid from nothing. (source)
• A far larger arachnid kills his Uncle before Caleb can finish it off. (source)
• Transports a man into a reality TV show full of living mannequins. (source)
• Then a show where he’s forced to dissect his uncle. It’s implied that Rick killed Uncle Bob very recently. (source)
• Outlives most of humanity. (source)
• After getting fired at in a cave, appears in an astronaut’s spaceship looking like his old self. He then takes control of the astronaut’s AI companion, killing him with it. (source)