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codycameron09
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| I agree! I cannot wait and hopefully we get some awesome new monsters to duke it out with the king! |
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Mr. X
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The 2nd Printing of #2 is to be released this week. I haven't found any pics yet, but it's supposed to look like this:
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kaijukurt
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| It's always good news when a Godzilla comic goes back to the press for a second printing! |
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Amen to that kaijukurt. Great news indeed.
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Mr. X
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| Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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Huh, didn't expect to see that this early.
Also,
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kaijukurt
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 5:34 am Post subject: |
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| So the panel, I believe, will be in issue #5? |
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KaijuX
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| kaijukurt wrote: | | So the panel, I believe, will be in issue #5? |
I'm pretty sure that's issue 4's panel, since it takes place in Mumbai, India.
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TokyoVigilante
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Godzilla: Half-Century War is shaping up to be one of the best Godzilla comics ever made. It's the closest the character has come to not just having an entertaining comic, but a legitimately well done piece of sequential storytelling.
I really am tired of the "military man w/ grudge" school of Godzilla plotlines that have dominated the films since the nineties, but seeing it explored in a fifty-year epic is entirely fresh. This is looking to be the "end all" of that Godzilla story.
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Mr. X
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| Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| TokyoVigilante wrote: | | Godzilla: Half-Century War is shaping up to be one of the best Godzilla comics ever made. It's the closest the character has come to not just having an entertaining comic, but a legitimately well done piece of sequential storytelling. |
Agreed.
Also, bigger preview pic of #4. Now you can actually read it!
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Mr.Negativity
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The Hellboy Memorial Awards: ComicsAlliance's Best Comics of 2012, Part 4 BEST ARMY BROS VS. GIANT MONSTERS COMIC
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Godzilla: The Half-Century War
By James Stokoe
Published by IDW Publishing
Available: Comics shops (print) / ComiXology (digital)
With Guillermo del Toro's big-budget mecha-vs-kaiju Pacific Rim movie coming out in the summer of 2013, I'm sure we will continue to see an increased interest in giant monsters and the men and women tasked with combatting them. But out of all the comic book versions of that scenario, the best available right now is James Stokoe's Godzilla: The Half-Century War, a comic that sets the acclaimed Orc Stain creator loose in the cinematic world of Toho, Ltd.
As I write this, only the first three issues of the five-issue miniseries have been released, but the shape of the story is clear: each issue depicts a decade-specific battle between the AMF (the Anti-Megalosaurus Force) and Godzilla (and friends), and as the years go on, things get increasingly more insane. The first issue opens in 1954, and while it's James Stokoe doing his hyper-kinetic, excitingly-detailed depictions of men and monsters and machines, it's the tamest issue of the bunch. It's mostly an issue about establishing the unusual and unexpected nature of the giant monster threat, and giving Godzilla a chance to unleash. By the time of issue #3, we've jumped ahead to 1975, the ragtag AMF-ers pilot a barely-souped-up Volkswagen van (with a trippy Mothra painted on the side) through the streets of Ghana, dodging giant spiders and lobster creatures and atomic breath blasts.
While a publisher like Marvel or DC might allow a creator like Stokoe to play around with their characters in a jokey anthology project like Strange Tales or Bizarro World, IDW and Toho have given the cartoonist a chance to have some fun with the Godzillaverse characters in a miniseries that actually has a substantial plot and character development. This isn't a pushed-to-the-side, oh-look-how-funny-it-is-for-this-indie-artist-to-draw-our-characters kind of comic. No. This is a great giant monster comic -– the best I've ever read -– that is full of humor and playfulness and absolutely stunning imagery.
This is what you get when you give James Stokoe the steering wheel and he takes off, with the rest of the comics industry saying, "where the heck is he going? Can we even try to keep up?" Maybe not, but we can all at least watch where he's headed and enjoy every moment. |
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kaijukurt
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Nice to see praise from ComicsAlliance!
But that's not all!!!
Godzilla: The Half-Century War is 80 in CBR's Top 100 Comics of 2012!
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=42843
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80. Godzilla: Half Century War
Written by & Drawn by James Stokoe
Published by IDW
"Who on Earth doesn't want a James Stokoe Godzilla spread as a poster? Never cared for G-the lizard before, but when Stokoe's wet, organic art showcased the radioactive wrecking ball in all his glory, I was immediately sold.
But to have him draw all the other darlings like Mothra is the icing on the cake. Seriously, Stokoe has made me a Godzilla fan. End of story."
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Batagor
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James Stokoe is truly a master of the genre...
EDIT: [img]CENSORED![/img]
We've been warned  
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Mr. X
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EDIT: Batagor, James Stokoe requested that the image be taken down. Edit that post, man!
DOUBLE EDIT: Nice edit.
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