Webcomic: I Want to Believe

As I've gotten older, I've become an insufferable skeptic. If you doubt everything all the time no matter what, you'll be right more often than you'll be wrong. I like to play the averages. I was an especially big fan of doubting the stories my dad told me. He's a firm believer in ghosts, Bigfoot, and UFOs. He's the least enthusiastic about that last one, but he does have a tale from his hunting days about two weird lights in a pasture that hovered over him. The worst part is there was another witness. It scared his hunting companion so badly that he left and never went out hunting again.

For years, I tried to explain away that story. Then the Air Force acknowledged there were things floating around that they couldn’t identify. After that, The New York Times ran stories and shared flight camera footage nobody could explain. That was devastating news because I had to do the worst thing in the world: concede to my dad that he could be right.

Lately, the pendulum has swung in the other dir…