Godzilla #12
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Giada Belviso
Discover the truth about the girl with the power of Biollante as the second arc of the Godzilla ongoing series comes to a close!
The boy with the power of Godzilla, the girl with the power of Biollante… and a truth that will rattle G-Force to its core. Something rotten is happening at the center of this world, and Jacen is going to get to the bottom of it.
Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone
Ethan Parker, Griffin Sheridan, Pablo Tunica
What’s going on inside the Deadzone?! Find out in this comic series set in the world of the all-new Godzilla Kai-Sei Era. Inside the new IDW Godzilla universe, there exists a mystery larger than any other…what is the Deadzone?
Inhabitants of this new world know the Deadzone to be a walled-off portion of the Pacific Northwest, cordoned off after the most disastrous Godzilla attack the country has ever faced. The government would have its citizens believe that nothing is still alive inside the Deadzone…but do you believe that? There are stories of a man…or rather, a half kaiju, half man…who travels freely throughout the Deadzone. Some say he can even kill a kaiju. Some say…this “wanderer” is not the only of his kind.
Journey into this mysterious new world with writers Griffin Sheridan and Ethan S. Parker (Kill Your Darlings) and artist Pablo Tunica (Godzilla/Ghostbusters 2, Sea Serpent’s Heir). Part of the new Godzilla connected comic book universe with Godzilla [Kai-Sei Era] and Starship: Godzilla!
Godzilla: End of the Reign
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Nikola Čižmešija
Brand-new Godzilla design! Brand-new talking monsters! Brand-new kaiju-powered humans! Brand-new world! A new Godzilla comics universe begins here!
In 1954, experimentation with a mysterious energy source known as Kai-Sei awakened Godzilla and a host of immortal kaiju. In the years that followed, humanity has been pummeled by near-constant monster attacks. While Japan has begun to treat the kaiju like natural disasters—understanding that their attempts to fight Godzilla only make the threat worse—the American G-Force is going to fight, fight, fight. And the Americans have just discovered the ultimate tool in the fight against kaiju: A young boy named Jacen with the power of Godzilla. Able to harness the mysterious Kai-Sei in the same vein as the King of the Monsters, this boy will either save the world…or bring about its doom.
Collects issues #1–6 of the brand-new ongoing series—and concludes with the most shocking twist Godzilla fans have ever seen.
Godzilla #11
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Hendry Prasetya
The girl with the power of Biollante vs. the boy with the power of Godzilla!
The mysterious kaiju stampede has led G-Force to a strange farm in North Dakota… a farm currently overrun with sentient plants and a young woman controlling them. Speaking of control — Energy Godzilla has completely taken over Jacen’s body!
Who will win as Jacen fights this Biollante-themed newcomer?
Godzilla: Infinity Roar #5
(W) Gerry Duggan (A) Javier Garrón
MECHAGODZILLA RISES! DOOMSTADT ASCENDS! THE MULTIVERSE TREMBLES! DOCTOR DOOM launches his floating fortress into the Everglades as GODZILLA awakens, KNULL advances, MECHAGODZILLA engages and the first pieces of Doom’s impossible plan fall into place. Can Doom’s unlikely strike team — including the HUMAN TORCH, MILES MORALES, MAN-THING, KANG and GHOST RIDER — survive the kaiju war erupting across realities? And will Doom’s boldest gambit yet — recruiting MORE GODZILLAS — be enough to save existence, or will it ignite a crisis even Doom cannot command?
Godzilla #10
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Hendry Prasetya
Can anyone stop Kai-Sei Energy Godzilla?!
The essence of Godzilla has been absorbed into a young man named Jacen. Curiously tied together by fate (or a sinister plot?), they now share a physical body. But no time to unravel this mystery — as without the King of the Monsters, kaiju have begun to trample across the United States!
Thus, with Jacen onboard or not, G-Force has made the decision to release Energy Godzilla. But… will they ever be able to put this Godzilla-sized genie back into the Jacen-sized bottle?
In Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre Presents: Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla #1, Adam Tierney and Sean Peacock intensify the classic tragic melodrama of William Shakespeare’s doomed lovers with an old-fashioned kaiju attack on Renaissance Verona. With the exception of a gorgeous fantasy sequence and some fun genre riffs, Tierney’s plot (and language) doesn’t stray from the classic story. However, Godzilla stomping, Mothra flying, and Capulet’s medieval take on Mechagodzilla add an extra level of mayhem and dark, slapstick humor.
Adding Godzilla to the mix really shows how self-absorbed and infatuated Romeo and Juliet were with each other. While the monster destroys their town killing family and friends, they only have eyes for each other. (And by extension, so do Godzilla and Mothra.) Shakespeare’s beautiful speeches and soliloquies take the foreground while carnage reigns in the background. I cackled when Godzilla took out Juliet’s famous balcony with a blast of nuclear breath, even though it sets up Romeo as the romantic hero sweeping her up in his arms before their kiss. Also, the Capulet/Montague feud doesn’t go away while the town is being attacked, but it only gets (literally) hotter. Tybalt and Mercutio (Especially Harold Perrineau’s performance as him in Romeo + Juliet) are two of the best characters in the play, and Adam Tierney and Peacock give them time to be witty and combative. However, their deaths result from being caught in the crossfire between Mechagodzilla and Godzilla. The combination of Gothic visuals from Sean Peacock and ominous lettering from Brian Kolek, with the classic line “A plague on both your houses,” captures the comic’s overall tone very well: highbrow, yet not afraid to laugh at itself.
Yes, the themes of the irrationality of love and family feuds shine true in Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla. There’s even a gorgeously colored dream sequence where Romeo and Juliet find a happy ending under a stained glass window of Toho monsters that illustrates that this isn’t Verona’s first Kaiju rodeo, as well as the cyclical nature of war and conflict. It’s just also a plain cool piece of art from Peacock, and he adds depth and humor to Tierney and Shakespeare’s text. He has a Tom Scioli meets Classics Illustrated style that works for the tone of the book, even if some of the panel transitions can be muddled and confusing, like when Juliet takes this story’s take on the “poison”. But, overall, Sean Peacock brings a dynamic approach to layouts that draws parallels between Romeo/Juliet and Godzilla/Mothra. The way the action is staged feels like a stage play, too.
Even better than the lead story is the first chapter of Tom Scioli’s Robin Hood and Godzilla serial that will run as backups in all of the Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre Presents titles. The King of Monsters plays a background role in this story, with Scioli gleefully throwing himself into an all-swashbuckling, all-the-time adventure yarn with violence and hijinks that would make Errol Flynn smile. He uses page layouts to spring the trap that Robin Hood pulls off on the Sheriff of Nottingham and his goons, and honestly, this comic works out as a straight-up Robin Hood comic without the Godzilla bit. However, with his face poking out of the water, Godzilla represents menace and the escalation of stakes to come. Tom Scioli uses Godzilla’s presence in the book to put Robin Hood in the tradition of the chivalric romances because this hero finally has a kind of dragon to slay.
If you enjoyed Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre, Romeo and Juliet & Godzilla is much in the same vein, adapting the key moments and themes from the William Shakespeare play while adding some explosive giant monster action. Tierney and Peacock use the presence of Godzilla, Mothra, and Medieval Mechagodzilla to deepen the tragedy of the love story while also throwing in slapstick humor on a colossal scale and showing how self-involved Romeo and Juliet were, as well as the futility of their families’ feud.
Story: Adam Tierney, Tom Scioli
Art: Sean Peacock, Tom Scioli Letters: Brian Kolek
Story: 8.8 Art: 8.6 Overall: 8.7 Recommendation: Buy
IDW provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Godzilla #9
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Giada Belviso
It’s an all-out monster attack!
Kaiju are appearing across the country and causing never-before-seen levels of damage! The only being that could keep them in check is Godzilla… or maybe Jacen… but, well, they’re both sorta preoccupied trying to get their own bodies back.
Will Godzilla’s physical form ever be resurrected? Will Jacen ever be free of the curse of Godzilla’s energy? Can anyone save America from total destruction?
Godzilla Library Collection, Vol. 6
Cullen Bunn, Joshua Hale Fialkov, James Stokoe, Bob Eggleton
The Godzilla Library Collection is a comprehensive line of books that will collect every Godzilla comic series by IDW!
In Cataclysm, by Cullen Bunn and Dave Wachter, years have passed since a monster apocalypse nearly destroyed mankind. Now it is merely a distant, nightmarish memory for Hiroshi, an elder in one of the few remaining tribes of humans. Little does Hiroshi know that the apocalypse is not over, and that his memories of the past may yet save the future!
In Godzilla in Hell, Godzilla meets its greatest adversary of all time—the impossible tortures of Hell! Each issue of this miniseries sees Godzilla enter a new level of the underworld to do battle with the impossible by various creators, including James Stokoe, Bob Eggleton, Ulises Fariñas, Erick Freitas, and more!
In Oblivion, by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Brian Churilla, a scientist has created a portal to another dimension—one where monsters rule supreme! An expedition begins into a world where hope has died and Godzilla is the unrivaled King of the Monsters. But what happens when a baby kaiju hitches a ride back to the original, monster-less dimension?
After months of development, playtesting, and preparation, IDW Games has launched Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game on Kickstarter!
Join G-Force to fight the greatest kaiju of all time with the first-ever Godzilla Tabletop Roleplaying Game!
With expected fulfillment by Fall 2026, Godzilla: The Roleplaying Game reunites three Warhammer gaming legends – Jervis Johnson, Mark A. Latham, and Gav Thorpe for their first co-created tabletop game! Godzilla puts a team of players in the midst of kaiju attacks, using character sheets, collaboration, and playing cards to defend humanity. This unique new game system uses standard 52-card decks, rather than dice.
The crowdfunding campaign features multiple options for support, including a digital only tier, one that features the starter set, and another that features the rulebook featuring cover art by Jonboy Meyers, as well as a retailer tier and more.
