I’m always up for a good Bigfoot story, and Flink by Doug TenNapel does not disappoint.
The story starts off as many all-ages comics do, with young kid who’s disconnected from his parent, in this case, his father.
But they’re on a hunting trip to rekindle a relationship. Trouble’s afoot when the plane crashes in the woods! The young boy is left all alone… until a sympathetic sasquatch comes to his rescue.
One thing that really intrigues me about TenNapel’s view of Bigfoot is that he really expands on the mythology of the sightings and puts his own spin on it. What’s fun is that he doesn’t spell it all out, but we get a snapshot into the life of a Sasquatch, and that’s what got me hooked.
Heartfelt, action-packed, and rather smile-inducing, Flink is an inventive and enjoyable take on the plane-crash-survivor trope that I would love to see as an animated short someday. (Any animators out there? :D)
Anyway, the book is great!