David Bridges
Godzilla has an extended and fruitful comics historical past—together with at Marvel, along with his legendary ‘70s collection from Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. He’s gone to hell, battled ferocious beasts, he’s teamed up with fellow heroes. He has, sometimes, been allowed to stomp the bejesus out of Superman. However it’s that final one which makes Marvel’s newest group up with the King type of a bummer.
This week Marvel introduced that throughout September and into October, it would publish 21 Godzilla-themed variant covers from an array of famous person artists, depicting everybody from the X-Males, to the Avengers, a number of Spider-heroes, and extra working with and towards the almighty kaiju. Effectively, principally towards, however a minimum of Cyclops and Venom appear to get the image that Godzilla is cool, moments of mass destruction apart. Right here’s the total record of points and artists for the variant covers:
On Sale 9/4
DAREDEVIL #13 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Nick Bradshaw
EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Leinil Francis Yu
FANTASTIC FOUR #25 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Greg Land
IMMORTAL THOR #15 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Jonas Scharf
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #24 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Romy Jones
SCARLET WITCH #4 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Mitsuhiro Arita
SPIDER-BOY #11 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Lee Garbett
CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Phil Noto
SPIDER-GWEN: THE GHOST-SPIDER #5 Godzilla Variant Cowl by InHyuk Lee
VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #9 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Taurin Clarke
AVENGERS #18 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Ario Anindito
DAZZLER #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Elizabeth Torque
DEADPOOL #6 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Paco Medina
INCREDIBLE HULK #17 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Andrei Bressan
VENOM #37 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Dave Wachter
X-MEN #4 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Chris Samnee
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Leo Romero
AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Pete Woods
PHOENIX #3 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Rickie Yagawa
UNCANNY X-MEN #2 Godzilla Variant Cowl by David Baldeon
On Sale 10/16
WOLVERINE #2 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Roge Antonio
It’s a enjoyable thought, and the covers are nice! However truthfully, coming so quickly after DC capped off its enormous Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong collection, it’s exhausting to not really feel like Marvel bought the quick shrift right here by way of Godzilla collabos. And also you’re the fellows celebrating your historical past with Godzilla this 12 months!
Possibly that is only a predecessor to a extra fully-fledged Marvel/Godzilla comedian crossover. In any case, the King of all Kaiju can’t appear to be he’s taking part in the sphere by instantly bouncing from one main comics writer to the following. It’d be improper! However it could be much more enjoyable to see an prolonged tackle the concept of Godzilla preventing with or towards Marvel’s mightiest as an alternative of simply getting numerous very cool covers. How does Godzilla really feel about Mutantkind in a post-Krakoa world? Does he suppose Spider-Man is a menace or menace? Inquiring minds wish to know!
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