This Week's Comics: June 20, 2018

Looks like another slim pickins week. 

From Comixology there's Injustice 2 #63. Which was great. Okay, I'm not going to give you any context, but just in case you're not reading this book, here's a little incentive for you: Lobo is given a power ring, and he uses it to create a big green dick which he hits a bad guy with--whilst exclaiming, "Beware my power, Green Lantern's Dick!" I am not kidding. Although they did bleep out the word "dick." 

Tom Taylor does ha ha better than anybody else that I know of who is currently writing comic books. And he can do the other end of the emotional stick, too. But I really like his ha ha.

From The Great Escape there was Cave Carson Has An Interstellar Eye #4. Which was kind of off for me, but I might could guve it another go to see if ut was just my funk.

And that was going to be that...until I spotted two new books that looked interesting: Shanghai Red and The Lost City Explorers. Both were $3.99 books, and I probably wouldn't have bought them if it hadn't been such a light week, but they were both interesting books. Shanghai Red was a pirate story, and had good art (which reminded me of Michael Lark's work--big compliment there) and an okay story. A little too heavy on the brutality shit for my tastes, but I'm a bit sensitive on that issue these days. I should also mention that once again Image broke out the good deal here: 28 story pages, no ads. You don't ever get that from Marvel or DC these days. I doubt that I'll be back for issue 2, but I'm not sorry to have bought this one.

The Lost City Explorers, on the other hand, was my cup if tea. I haven't bought manyAfterShock books to date, but the title of this one appealed to me, and once I got hold of the premise, the money just jumped out of my wallet (so to speak): a scientist and his team has found an underwater entrance to the lost city of Atlantis beneath the island of Manhattan. Mmm-hmmm. They had me at under Manhattan. The guy who wrote this previously wrote Eclipse and Port of Earth, both of which were pretty kick ass. The art  on TLCE was just functional for me...good enough, but nothing special. But hey, I'm usually in it for the story, so as long as the art isn't bad, I can deal with it. I'm quite (QUITE) interested in seeing where this story goes and mos def will be back for issue two.