Godzilla has an extended and fruitful comics historical past—including at Marvel, along with his legendary ‘70s sequence 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 workforce up with the King type of a bummer.
This week Marvel introduced that throughout September and into October, it should 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. Nicely, principally towards, however at the least Cyclops and Venom appear to get the image that Godzilla is cool, moments of mass destruction apart. Right here’s the complete checklist 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
On Sale 9/11
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
On Sale 9/18
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
On Sale 9/25
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 concept, and the covers are nice! However truthfully, coming so quickly after DC capped off its big Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong sequence, it’s onerous to not really feel like Marvel bought the brief 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 seem like he’s taking part in the sector by instantly bouncing from one main comics writer to the subsequent. It’d be improper! However it might be much more enjoyable to see an prolonged tackle the concept of Godzilla preventing with or towards Marvel’s mightiest as a substitute of simply getting a number of very cool covers. How does Godzilla really feel about Mutantkind in a post-Krakoa world? Does he suppose Spider-Man is a threat or menace? Inquiring minds wish to know!
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