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ECCC ’12: James Stokoe Destroys Japan With New Godzilla Mini

By | March 31st, 2012
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Announced over at ComicsAlliance, our favorite “Orc Stain” writer and artist James Stokoe will be writing and illustrating a brand new Godzilla mini-series for IDW, set for release later this year in August.

Entitled “Half Century War”, the book takes place in its own continuity during the year 1954 when Godzilla first attacks Japan. Lieutenant Ota Murakami and “his pal Kentaro” go on the defensive to combat Godzilla, but end up involved in a story that takes place over fifty years. Each issue takes place in a different decade, and there will be various easter eggs and nods to the Godzilla films of that time period.

In the interview with CA, Stokoe adds,

There’s a lot of little nods to Godzilla and kaiju film tropes I’m trying to cram into the book; some are just visual (drills on everything!), some are part of the story. The second issue even has the first test firing of the Maser, which anybody who has seen a Godzilla movie will know barely ever works as intended. I got completely stumped trying to figure out what the sound effect for Godzilla’s trademark roar would be, so I looked up what it looked like run through an oscilloscope and just traced over that with some vague lettering. Godzilla has almost 60 years worth of movies, in different eras and with some radically different tones, so it’s great to pick through and try to figure out how to make those ideas work in a comic book.

Suffice it to say, Stokoe on a book — any book — means an instant buy. (Although we’ll still quietly cross our fingers for some more “Orc Stain” here and there as well.)

For more information and art, be sure to check out the announcement at ComicsAlliance.


Matthew Meylikhov

Once upon a time, Matthew Meylikhov became the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Multiversity Comics, where he was known for his beard and fondness for cats. Then he became only one of those things. Now, if you listen really carefully at night, you may still hear from whispers on the wind a faint voice saying, "X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not as bad as everyone says it issss."

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