What I Bought 11/20/2020 - Part 2

One perk of my job is definitely the paid vacation time. So nice to take most of this week off. The tradeoff is all the less-pleasant aspects. Like dealing with angry people who blame me for their poor choices in elected officials. Two Wednesdays from now is going to suck.

But that's a problem for Two Wednesdays From Now Calvin. Right Now Calvin is reviewing the other comic he bought last week.

Atlantis Wasn't Built for Tourists #3, by Eric Palicki (writer), Wendell Cavalcanti (artist), Mark Dale (colorist), Shawn Lee (letterer) - Was not expecting an Apocalypse Now homage cover. 

So the sheriff clocked Lucas with a shovel. Drags him back to the jail and chains him to chair, wanting to know if there's reinforcements coming. Technically, Lucas should be expecting something from the note he sent with the soda distributor in issue 1, because he shouldn't know that guy got killed, but instead we get Lucas' origin. Which is that his mother's New England fishing town offered her up as a bride of sorts to the mermen that lived off the coast, in exchange for continued good fish catches.

Lucas kind of hates this town because the sheriff is fine with vampires, because the fear of them keeps everyone in town in line and law-abiding. He thinks it benefits the town, and if a few people suffer, oh well. I can see how that would hit home. Plus, the sheriff's a dumbass who thinks the vampire in his brother's body is someone he can trust. Ah well, small-town sheriffs being tin dictators and morons is a well-established trope. Probably because it's accurate.

The sheriff's niece gets Lucas out, after she grabs something from her wrecked truck. The escape isn't exactly quiet, so now there's a very large deputy after them. Possibly half-Bigfoot. Not sure if Lucas was joking about the 'shaved Sasquatch.' I mean, he's half-sea person, there's vampires, I'm not ruling out someone fucking a Bigfoot.

 

With, I think, only one issue to go, I'm curious if Palicki is going to draw all these threads together. maybe some of them never end up coming into play. Or are left dangling for some potential sequel. I can't see Lucas' story ending here, for one. The idea of the large deputy as the sheriff's defense against a vampire betrayal kind of came of late in the game, it feels like. And maybe it's irrelevant at the moment, seeing as all the vampires except one are dead. Be interesting to see how all this falls together.

Although I wonder if Lucas is even telling the truth about anything. If he was conceived in Massachusetts, how does he know his father is near Seattle? There some hive mind connection in that heritage? A lot of literature on the migration patterns of Creatures of the Black Lagoon salt-water cousins?