MAN GOAT & THE BUNNYMAN #1, available from Zenescope Entertainment on April 7th, 2021, introduces readers to Phil and Floyd, just your average hunters and woodsman who happen to be the world’s least secretive cryptids.
The Details
- Written By: Joe Brusha
- Art By: Guillermo Fajarado
- Colors By: Ulises Arreola
- Letters By: Taylor Esposito
- Cover Art By: Edgar Salazar, Ivan Nunes
- Cover Price: $3.99
- Release Date: April 7, 2021
Was It Good?
It’s highly amusing.
This is not a comic you take seriously. It’s a farce playing on the concept of real cryptids with everyday, human problems in a world that doesn’t understand them. If you need a baseline for the tone and type of humor, it’s a mix of Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys meets The X-Files.
What helps make this comic work is the serious approach and quality put into the art. The character designs are solid and high-quality on every level. It’s a good-looking book with an engaging story.
What’s It About?
[SPOILERS AHEAD]
We begin mid-fight with Phil and Floyd, Man Goat & Bunnyman, meting out bloody justice to a mutant cult keeping a trio of innocent women trapped in a basement under their cult house.
Immediately you learn Phil is a gun-toting man’s man (err… man goat), and Floyd is a rampaging murder bunny with an ax (he can’t use a gun with his paws). And they’re not afraid to get blood-spattered when they’ve got a job to do. Although, Floyd is prone to blacking out when getting violent, which means he’s more than a little bit nuts.
When they free the captive ladies, said hostages instantly chase them down because they confuse Floyd and Phil for demons that are part of the cult. Apparently, working on rescue missions frequently land Phil and Floyd in similar hot water due to their appearance.
We flashback to Phil and Floyd’s house where they live as roommates. Phil has no trouble getting a date but Floyd can’t seem to catch a break in the romance department. Floyd has a crush on a certain someone in town, but Phil warns him against approaching her since it will risk exposing them publicly.
For their main job, Phil scours the Internet and news sources for information on cults and cryptids to bust if innocent lives are threatened. In a roundabout way, they’re an independent contractor version of Scully and Mulder from The X-Files.
Back to the cult house, Phil and Floyd beat a hasty retreat to keep from getting assaulted by the freed hostages. The quickly make their way to a hired helicopter waiting for them to finish the job.
Meanwhile, another cult is assembled, complete with ancient robes and torchlit meeting halls, to discuss their plans. Whatever they’ve got cooking requires the participation of an individual who’s half man, half goat. And Phil fits the bill quite nicely.
Back at their home, Phil and Floyd are visited by the local sheriff, Wendell, asking for help to find a missing hiker. They reluctantly agree and begin to search the woods where they run into… Bigfoot aka Bowser. Despite his massive frame and intimidating growl, Browser just wants to be left alone to collect butterflies for his collection. When Phil and Floyd question Bowser about the wayward hiker in the woods, he recalls seeing someone but failed to notice she was abducted by a group of cultists.
When Phil and Floyd follow the hiker’s trail they find what’s left of the hiker and decide to hunt down the group that killed her. What they don’t realize is the hiker’s abduction was one step in a larger plan.
How Does It End?
Bunny poop serves multiple purposes. The Man Goat is in high demand. Bunnyman’s dream comes true.
Final Thoughts
MAN GOAT & THE BUNNYMAN #1, available from Zenescope Entertainment on April 7th, 2021, is weird, funny, violent and thoroughly entertaining. If you like backwoods humor with bizarre characters, give this one a try.
Score: 9/10
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