Godzilla’s Gonna Ultimate Showdown His Way Through Literature in New Comic

What’s blistery close present successful the eyes of Hollywood? Godzilla and IP crossovers, chiefly that archetypal one. What would beryllium the champion mode to harvester the 2 present that the large lizard’s fought King Kong, the Justice League, and adjacent the Power Rangers? Give him a existent challenge, a large curveball nary 1 would’ve expected earlier now: pit Godzilla against a roster of well-known characters from occidental literature.

Later this year, writer/artist Tom Scioli and IDW are bringing Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre to shelves. In the three-issue miniseries, Godzilla volition spell up against Sherlock Holmes, Jay Gatsby, HG Wells’ Time Traveler and…Dracula? Yep, the Prince of Darkness himself. Our basal setup is that it’s 1922, and 1 of Jay’s large attention-grabbing parties does its job too well and lures Godzilla onto the scene. After the King of the Monsters does what helium does best, Jay teams up with the different literate characters amusement him what’s for, aged sport. How are they gonna instrumentality him down? Who knows, but it’s astir apt gonna beryllium arsenic silly arsenic this full premise.

“Imagine if Godzilla thundered into the large American novel,” Scioli told TheWrap. As a instrumentality of the archetypal Godzilla movie, he’s ever wanted to bash a comic with the character, to the constituent helium made a Godzilla graphic caller arsenic signifier for this. He went connected to telephone it the literal comic of his dreams, a “grand, globe-spanning escapade and intimate communicative of emotion and heartbreak.” Scioli’s besides determined to bash the astir with it: according to him, Godzilla’s going to smash up a creation contention during his rampage, and elements similar submarines, horses, and speedboats volition besides travel into play, arsenic volition Jules Verne somehow.

Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre kicks disconnected successful October. Peep the main, pulpy screen by Scioli himself down below.

Wonder however precocious schoolhouse English teachers would consciousness close present if they saw this.

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