The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of CRYPTOZOIC MAN #1 from Dynamite Entertainment. Bryan Johnson writes and Walter Flanagan draws.
Alan Ostman is a guy who’s trying to do the best he can. It’s
not his fault that he’s stuck in the middle of what might just be an
apocalypse. When his daughter disappeared, he gave up and was recruited by
aliens to kill cryptids. Now he’s met one who has a story to tell, and who may
have a clue to his daughter’s whereabouts.
This is a story with a somewhat non-traditional story
structure (as much as I can tell from one issue, anyway). Ordinarily we’d get a
bunch of either character building or backstory, but what we get here is better
described as world-building. It’s a cool way to do it; it would be really hard
to pull off in an ongoing series, and also it gives the artist a chance to
shine. And Flanagan does indeed shine here; the consistency he shows with
really strange characters is impressive.
There’s enough weirdness in this issue to make me really
want to see what’s on the other side of that portal. And to see where this
story is going, too. Keep it coming, Comic Book Men.
CRYPTOZOIC MAN #1 is available now at your LCS and online at
dynamite.com.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
