Cryptozoic Man

Cryptozoic Man
Cover of the first issue of Cryptozoic Man
Publication information
PublisherDynamite Entertainment
FormatLimited series
Genre
Publication dateOctober 2013 – May 2014
No. of issues4 (of 4)
Creative team
Created byBryan Johnson
Walt Flanagan
Written byBryan Johnson
ArtistWalt Flanagan
PencillerWalt Flanagan
InkerChris Ivy
LettererMarshall Dillon
ColoristWayne Jansen
Collected editions
Cryptozoic ManISBN 978-1606905265

Cryptozoic Man is a four-issue comic book limited series by Bryan Johnson and Walt Flanagan, published from October 2013 to May 2014. Flanagan described the series as the "creepiest cosmic spookshow ever witnessed!"

Publication history

The concept debuted on the AMC reality series Comic Book Men in which Johnson and Flanagan star. The other co-stars of Comic Book Men are also involved in the development of Cryptozoic Man.

Plot

Alan Ostman, a middle-aged husband/father, sees his life quickly unravel when his daughter goes missing on a camping trip in the Pacific Northwest...Bigfoot country. After Gray aliens abduct him from a roadside bar, he learns that the fate of the world is dependent on trapping the world's most legendary cryptids.

The comic centers on a character who is an amalgamation of a human being and legendary creatures like Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster and the Jersey Devil.

Collected editions

The series has been collected into a trade paperback:

References

  1. ↑ Cryptozoic Man at the Grand Comics Database
  2. 1 2 Sunu, Steve (December 30, 2013). "Flanagan & Johnson Amalgamate Dynamite's "Cryptozoic Man"". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Comic Book Men's Walt Flanagan On Cryptozoic Man". Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movie, TV News. 2013-11-25. Retrieved 2017-05-11.
  4. ↑ "Dynamite® Cryptozoic Man #1 (Of 4)". dynamite.com. Retrieved 2017-05-11.