With issue 2 of Scout Comics’ Atlantis Wasn’t Built For Tourists, writer/ creator Eric Palicki (No Angel, Fake Empire, etc) continues the tale of the stranger who arrives in town and won’t leave. A hitchhiker with a past, and an agenda.
Atlantis is a town without pity, to be sure, but don’t pity the newcomer either. He has strengths that seem to match the seamy underbelly, the decayed logic motherboard of the town’s where-with-all, its ‘raison d’etre, its reason to be ‘cruel to be unkind’.
Artist Wendell Cavalcanti (Brazilian, The Phantom, etc), keeps the creepy, the shadows, the sly-eyed slant on the down-low. There are plenty of confrontations, and as we tour the dive bars and prison cells, the grey grey ground of home keeps itching under our skins.
Colourist Mark Dale (The Pride season 2, Gwar Orgasmageddon, etc) is maintaining a grey look and somber, understated colour. This is a tale told by gesture, dialogue, and mood. Dale does not stray from the narrative, the spider-thread of lurking menace.
Scout Comics, Atlantis Wasn’t Built For Tourists #2, $3.99 for 24 pages of content. Mature
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