If there's a shred of evidence or authority behind the story, the news media would pounce on it. People are desperate to believe in the supernatural.
What happens when the local police department comes face to face with mythos creatures during the course of an...
But that was the best part. Not even kidding, the comic sucked. Especially by Moore standards. Alzheimer's?
Sad but quite true.
Twitter and FB censorship engines would be busily scouring their sites and deleting any mention of eldritch abominations because it's "hate speech and racism" too.
Until someone higher up in the chain of command tells them to talk about Kim Kardashian's latest hairstyle being racist or Katy Perry's latest song being communist propaganda that will destroy Christmas
SAN loss
They give a call to their wizard consultant and back off.
They cover it up, because their bosses are working for the klinton krime kartel
They finally listen to the town "nutcase" that's been ostracised and harassed by the local authorities for years because of their "crazy obsession with x"!
Turns out, the nutter really IS crazy, but was driven mad by the entities that are now threatening the town, and is the only one with any knowledge of weaknesses, etc., for defeating the things...
It was pretty hot.
He only wrote it because he was contractually obligated, that's why there was so much fish rape he was just being a stinker about it. His next work, Providence, was pretty good.