Product Description: For thirty years, the King of Monsters has slept off the shores of Tokyo. But now he's back, and he's looking to make up for lost time! This 200-page manga epic collects the Godzilla six-issue miniseries originally published in 1988, adapting to English the Kazuhisa Iwata graphic novel. This new edition features a redesigned cover and an afterword on the big lizard's film history. With the advent of Dark Horse's new Godzilla series, no manga, monster, or movie fan will want to be without this critical collection!
The best Godzilla Book !!!!!!! This Godzilla book is a classic which I have read all my life and it is still fantastic!!!!!!
Now all he needs is his own anime... Godzilla going manga? I thought that was cool, and turns out so is this book. It's a nice change from the usual American-style that Dark Horse always does. Now all the Big G needs is his own non-dubbed anime and he's set.
Godzilla does appear different from his usual look, but that by no means takes away from his giant dinosaur charm. He's still as cool as ever. This is also one of the few books where Godzilla actually looks more closely at human beings, courtesy of the main characters. Not a bad book. Maybe he should team up with Astro Boy or something.
Godzilla Meets Manga I give this graphic novel three and a half stars, but since Amazon.com doesn't do half-numbers, I put three in. Anyway, "Godzilla" is a comic book adaption of the 1984 film, "Gojira" [translated as "Godzilla"]. Thirty years after Godzilla original attack on Japan in 1954, he is awakened by a volcanic eruption and stomps Japan's capital again. This is an adaption of the Japanese version of "The Return of Godzilla" (the international title of the film), so it (thankfully) excludes all of the American-filmed scenes from "Godzilla 1985", the US version of the film. Like my rating suggests, this book is between average and good. The manga-style art is kind of weird (remember, we're talking about Godzilla here), and the characters look nothing like the actors in the film. The drawings of Godzilla could've been better. Besides the story itself, there is a small art gallery of Godzilla drawings by different artists, ranging from great to terrible. There's also an essay-esque afterword by the book's editor, who tells the story of how he became a Godzilla fan in the 1970's when he was a child. With some extras along with the main story, which is good overall, this is overall a good graphic novel. Godzilla fans will definitely like this book, especially if they haven't seen the Japanese version of "The Return of Godzilla."
Manga Goji: Speed Racer vs. Godzilla This black-and-white, manga version of 1984's "The Return of Godzilla" (U.S. title: "Godzilla 1985") was originally published in the U.S. bu Dark Horse Comics as a six-issue mini-series in 1988/89. The English translation was by Randy Stradley and Mike Richardson. This single-volume collection features a wonderful cover painting by Bob Eggleton. The story is pretty straightforward: after thirty years, Godzilla returns to menace modern Tokyo. Since this was an adaptation of the Japanese cut of the film, there are no scenes with Raymond Burr, who reprised his Steve Martin role for "Godzilla 1985." It's also much clearer in this version that the Russian nuclear missile launch on Japan was a mistake, not intentional. The manga style of art employed by Iwata is an odd mix with a Godzilla story. G-fans not used to it might think the whole thing comes off as a sort of "Speed Racer vs. Godzilla." The collection also comes with a nice gallery of Godzilla art by such U.S. comic artists as Art Adams, Mike Mignola, Steve Bissette, and British artist Alan Moore. For the price, it's well worth it even for marginal 'Zilla maniacs. For fans of the 1998 TriStar "Godzilla" -- shame on you!
Oh no! There goes Tokyo... This book is a faithful, surprisingly powerful and moving graphic adaptation of the movie "Godzilla 1985". The black and white pages add a somber tone to the tale of the disasterous return of a monster the world has thought long dead. Godzilla himself is lovingly drawn, as are the battle scenes between the Big G and the JSDF's ultimate weapon - the Super-X. The story is sometimes jarred by the "cartoony" appearance of some of the human characters, but overall this is a book any kaiju fan will want to read again and again.
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