Alright, I’m done being lazy. Time to talk about the Creepypasta comic.
So I’ve known about this comic for awhile now, like late 2023. I just randomly managed to find this comic while looking for Creepypasta comics and I came across this!
The Cryptidnals, an interesting ongoing comic. Right now they have 5 issues out and a double feature issue coming out…. I don’t know when, they have yet to set a release date.
Anyways, here’s the basic synopsis:
“ Monsters of Mesoamerican myth such as La Llorona, legends of Texas like the Lake Worth Goatman, and oddities such as the immortal San Elizario Man-dog. Creatures that have been claimed to exist but have never been proven… These monsters are what our fear of the dark is based upon.
But what if the legends are truer than we believe? What if these abnormalities have their own secret society? From ancient supernatural deities to Cthulhuian horror that has been present before the dawn of man? Furthermore, what if that society is being threatened by new atrocities arising from the ethereal realm of cyberspace, with evil TULPAS, like the malevolent El Ñango and the heinous Rake, and more sinister beings, these emanations have been created through the power of belief!
Enter THE CRYPTIDNALS. Monsters who have been criminalized by human society for existing and the only hope for mankind. ”
To help sum it up, think X-Men, Creepypasta, Cryptids and Lovecraft all rolled up into a ball.
The Cryptidnals is a team of Cryptid/ Urban Legends who are attempting to stop the rise of the Tulpas. The team is very X-Men inspired, at least to me. You have Man-Dog aka Deacon Call who is basically a gunslinger Wolverine. Spring Heel Jack aka Wraydon who is the Cyclops like team leader. Goatman who serves as the team muscle to Colossus, you get what I am throwing down.
These guys are facing off against The Tulpas lead by a tall faceless entity named El Ñango ( Slenderman is copyrighted so they couldn’t name him that. ) The Tulpas have The Rake, Smile Dog and even later on, Jeff The Killer fighting for their side. But besides them, cryptids like Sasquatch and Chupacabra have joined their ranks.
So without spoiling much else, where can you read this? Well only the first 4 issues are out physically yet they are kinda difficult to find at the moment, once they are available I will let you know. However you can read all 5 issues right now at GlobalComix, you can read the first issue completely for free but you can get a pretty cheap subscription for a month to read the rest ( And all of the other comics on GlobalComix )
If you fellas want, I will reblog this post with bios for the Cryptidnals and Creepypastas. Just comment below if you want me to.
Now to discuss one big issue I have with the Creepypasta characters in this comic, feel free to skip so you don’t get spoiled.
I am honestly not crazy with how these characters are used. El Ñango is fine, but the others aren’t handled that well in my opinion. So the Tulpas don’t feel like a team, but rather a faceless army. Like there is no Rake, there is many Rakes. There is no Smile Dog, but several Smile Dog. There is no Jeff The Killer, but a whole damn army of them.
This is something I really don’t like… they aren’t treated as characters but as enemy types for the heroes to fight. As a Creepypasta fan and a comic fan in general, this isn’t really all that interesting. It reminds me of how Michael Bay handled the Decepticons in the Transformers sequel movies; instead of being a team with interesting or awesome characters, they were a faceless horde. Like it was so bad they only had two or three named characters than the rest of the ranks was filled drones and/or random clones because they just felt like using the same character model.
I wish the creators of this comic actually made the Creepypasta characters more like the Brotherhood of Mutants and gave us interesting dynamics with the heroes. Like for example, Deacon Call and Jeff The Killer being brutal savages who just want to tear into each other similar to Wolverine and Sabretooth. Or The Rake and Goatman hunting each other through the woods, trying to see who is the greatest hunter. You know? Something like that would be fun to explore.
But besides my issue with it, I do recommend at least checking it. The artwork it great and the Lovecraftian elements are fun. The action isn’t bad either. I just had to get my nitpick out as a Creepypasta fan who enjoys and loves these characters. ( the good ones and bad ones. )
Sorry for any typos or grammar mistakes, it’s 3 in the morning here and I am tired. I just really wanted to get this post out before I forgot about it… again.
