Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Vol. 1 Author: Chris Mowry | Language: English | ISBN:
B00IRLZHWA | Format: PDF
Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Vol. 1 Description
Dozens of new monsters have risen from the depth and are staking out their own territory, regardless of humanity’s political borders! A war of dominance beings... will Godzilla end up on top? Collects issues #1-4.
- File Size: 140136 KB
- Print Length: 124 pages
- Publisher: IDW Publishing (January 22, 2014)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00IRLZHWA
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Ever since IDW began producing Godzilla comics, many of them have been hits and misses. Thankfully, this is a hit. As a long time Godzilla fan, I say this is a comic for us G-fans. It has wonderful art by Matt Frank (with additional works by Jeff Zornow), a fun simple story by Chris Mowry, returning Toho monsters, and more of Godzilla!
As far as the plot goes, it's not really that special in terms of story. There is a "mega-zoologist" named Lucy Casprell who goes around trying to study the monsters all around the world. In the meantime, aliens are trying to take over the planet. Godzilla goes around the world fighting other monsters. As I said earlier, the story is mostly simple like many of the classic Godzilla films. A major problem with some of the previous Godzilla comics like Kingdom of Monsters was that they made some over complicated stories with some pop satire thrown in. This sometimes made people forget that they were reading a Godzilla story. Rulers of the Earth doesn't try to hard at making a super well written story and it mostly focuses on Godzilla and the other monsters, which I'm fine with.
The main selling point for me was the fact that this story was bringing back some classic Toho monsters like Manda, Gezora, Varan, Jet Jaguar and both of the Gargantuas. It was a real treat for a kaiju fan like me to see these forgotten icons make a come back in a respectable matter. Also joining them was none other than Zilla, perhaps better known as the 1998 Godzilla. I never thought I would ever see him again in any Godzilla related materiel besides Final Wars. Like the rest of the Toho monsters, Zilla's comeback is treated with respect. In fact, a major highlight of this series was issue #2 in which both Godzilla and Zilla have an actual fight.
Before I start I need to say; I am not the target audience for this book. To be honest, I have no idea who the target audience is, but it definitely is not me. When I am reading a comic of any length, especially on a computer, I can gauge my reaction to the comic fairly quickly. There is obviously a first response of ‘I hate this art,’ but that can be worked through. Alternatively I can love the art and just want to keep staring at the pages. This book has the worst response I can imagine; after reading the first two pages, I clicked onto the news feed on the internet out of boredom. Reading through this was a gigantic struggle and seeing as this was less than 90 pages long, that was quite difficult to beat.
So, the story in this book and I will be brief; Godzilla fights lots of mega monsters. That is it. There is a very minor side story where a young woman goes to a conference on Megazoology with the hope she can become the equivalent of a storm chaser, but with monsters. Also in the background there are shadowed aliens who are piloting Gigan who is a giant bird-reptile robot with a Cyclops eye who fights Kumonga who is basically Shelob, but big enough to fill the grand canyon.
I am sorry; I hate myself for sounding so dismissive. I know there are people out there who love reading comics about massive creatures destroying cities while they beat each other up. This reminds me so much of Power Rangers I find it really hard to think of much else. I know I should not judge because frankly most people feel this way about all comic books and I will admit that a fair portion of comics is dedicated to heroes and villains beating the snot out of each other.
There is nothing ‘wrong’ with this comic despite everything I have said.
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