Enlevé par des extra-terrestres après avoir perdu sa fille sur les terres du Bigfoot, Alan Ostman, un père de famille quarantenaire, découvre que la survie de la planète dépend de la capture des monstres légendaires. Ça, plus l’extermination du cinglé en costume de cochon sadomaso.
C’est le point de départ de « Cryptozoic Man » créé par Walt Flanagan et Bryan Johnson, tous deux créateurs de la série télévisée « Comic Book Men » parrainée par Kevin Smith. Cette mini-série en quatre numéros sera d’ailleurs au centre d’un épisode de la troisième saison de Comic Book Men.
[quote]Cryptozoic Man #1
Story by Walt Flanagan, Bryan Johnson
Art by Walt Flanagan
Cover by Walt Flanagan
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, October 9th, 2013
From Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson of AMC TV’s « Comic Book Men » comes « Cryptozoic Man »! 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…not to mention defeating a psychopath in a pig-shaped leather bondage mask, Alan knows he has his work cut out for him. The storyline revolving around this four issue series will be revisited in Comic Book Men Season III.[/quote]
[quote]Cryptozoic Man #2
Story by Walter Flanagan, Bryan Johnson
Art by Walter Flanagan, Chris Ivy
Cover by Walter Flanagan, Wayne Jansen
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, November 27th, 2013
After landing in jail, Jack Gimlin is bailed out by a mysterious industrialist who offers him the job of a lifetime…tracking and trapping the world’s most famous cryptids, who also happen to be portals to alternate dimensions. Meanwhile, the fur flies when Cryptozoic Man learns the fate of a loved one during a cosmic tea party.[/quote]
[quote]Cryptozoic Man #3
Story by Bryan Johnson, Walter Flanagan
Art by Walter Flanagan
Cover by Walter Flanagan
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, January 8th, 2014
The « Hostiles » have crashed the party commonly referred to as “life on earth” giving humanity about, oh, sixty seconds to live. Dr. Alan Ostman discovers that after the Hostiles breech, that not only have both Heaven and Hell been deserted, but the world’s legendary cryptids which function as portals to alternate dimensions are being murdered at an alarming rate. Cryptozoic Man steps in to repel the demonic hordes, but not everything is as it seems and mankind’s fate rests on an unthinkable sacrifice.[/quote]
[quote]Cryptozoic Man Vol. #1
Story by Bryan Johnson, Walter Flanagan
Art by Walter Flanagan
Cover by Walter Flanagan
Publisher Dynamite Entertainment
Cover Price: $17.99
Release Date Wed, October 1st, 2014
MATURE READERS
From the minds of Bryan Johnson and Walter Flanagan, stars of AMC’s hit television show, Comic Book Men! Shortly after Alan Ostman’s daughter goes missing on a family camping trip, he finds himself living life on the fringes. After a particularly rough night, an industrialist interested in Alan’s research focusing on the “alternative sciences” bails him out of jail and offers Alan a job. Think your boss is bad? At least they’re (probably) not a leather pig-mask wearing, inter-dimensional miscreant bent on having a race of malignant beasts exterminate the world’s best known cryptids and destroy the entire universe in the process. Does humanity have a shot? A mythical society of Gray aliens didn’t create Cryptozoic Man for nothing![/quote]
