What do you get when you cross X-Files with Harry and the Hendersons?
Give up?
The answer is a new comic by Image Comics called Proof.
Apparently this new comic is going to detail the exploits of a duo of cryptid hunters as they traipse around the globe searching for cryptids for an undisclosed government agency.
The first story arc is reportedly going to be called ‘Goatsucker’ and we can all guess what that’s going to be about.
But wait — there’s a twist. It turns out that one of agents, John “Proof” Prufrock, is a little bit odd.
So odd, in fact, that he’s not even human. He’s Bigfoot himself.
The driving motivator for the main hero is to discover other hairy bipeds out there that may be related to him.
It sounds like the premise for the comic is pretty solid, but the article linked above mentions all of the cryptids they’ll be running into in the first six issues and I seriously worry that they may run out of cryptids way too fast.
There are a lot of alleged cryptids in the world, but if they hit all of the major ones too early, they’ll have to fall back to the really boring, rare, or unlikely ones and that won’t be any fun for anyone.
But if you’re into comics and you’re into cryptids, this is going to be the book for you. I’ve been out of the comics loop for a while, but maybe this is a reason to get back in.