Well, that has to be the weirdest "boy and his dog" story I've ever read. While Carey has told any number of stories that are directly about Lucifer in the pages of this comic, he has also written many more that focus on characters surrounding him or living in situations he made. The story that begins this issue, called "Stitchglass Slide" is about a change in the realm that Lucifer has created, but it focuses in on one of the inhabitants of that realm, and shows both his alien point-of-view and how he interacts with someone from Earth. Carey has filled the world of Lucifer with various alien and extradimensional cultures and made them interesting without making them any less alien, and Stitchglass is another in a long line of fascinating supporting characters.
One of the downsides of an alien point-of-view can be a certain lack of accessibility. Carey's script flirts with that a little bit, as Stitchglass's broken English narration is not always easy to understand, but once you've read the entire issue and then reread, viewing the whole thing in context, the story becomes pretty clear. In addition, the difficulty in understanding Stitchglass's thoughts at first pays off in making him seem very alien, very old and yet somehow retaining a certain innocence. His relationship with the young boy that he has unwittingly screwed up is sweet and touching, made all the moreso by the glimpse of the future in the first page and the sense of impending doom for the boy.
The story is largely about Stitchglass, a spider-like immortal creature building his nest in Lucifer's realm, but Carey does tie it into his ongoing Lucifer story as well. Longtime fans of the series are treated to a conversation between Lucifer and Elaine Belloc where he treats her with respect, almost as an equal, and its a very interesting relationship that has developed given where it all started for them. I also like that Lucifer is surrounded on all sides by those who would seek to temper his impulses, whether it's Elaine trying to keep his more ruthless nature at bay or Mazikeen expressing a certain frustration with Lucifer's machinations, which goes against her simple warrior nature.
There has been a definite shift in artwork from Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, adopting a more stylized look that bears more of a resemblance to Dean Ormston's work on the book. For the most part, I prefer the more realistic style that they use when dealing with characters like Lucifer or Elaine, but the more obtuse style that is used to convey the weird nature of Stitchglass and his world both fits in nicely with Ormston's style and helps to increase the alien nature of the character.
Lucifer is an unusual sort of epic, because Carey and company will very often divert from the larger story of Lucifer building his own realm and defying Heaven into tales of what happens in his realm or around the characters whose lives he have touched. This is a somewhat low-key story when compared to Lucifer battling to regain his power or fighting against powerful Titans or devious demons and angels, but it's an intriguing tale of different forms of innocence intersecting, and I expect that Elaine Belloc's rather unusual form of innocence will make another interesting spice for the mix.
