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Godzilla (Dark Horse) #3
Godzilla: Past, Present, Future
Godzilla is a threat to the entire planet, and only G-Force has the resources to track, study, and contain the King of the Monsters. See Godzilla battle the All-Terraintula, big-game hunters from another world, a mad scientist with a time machine, and the Spanish Armada? It`s horror on the high seas and terror on the Titanic when Godzilla takes to time travel.
272 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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Arthur Adams
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Arthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk and Ultimate X, as well books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.
Arthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk and Ultimate X, as well books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.
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November 24, 2014
Godzilla: Past Present Future collects five stories from issues #5 - 15 of the Dark Horse Comics run of Godzilla: King of the Monsters:
Target: Godzilla!: When Godzilla strides into Portland, Oregon, the military might of the United States unleashes its powerful new "ultimate" weapon, All-Terraintula (a kind of Mecha-Kumunga). But nothing is quite what it appears to be.
Lost In Time: A greedy scientist with a time machine "steals" Godzilla in order to rob past tragedies and disasters of their valuable "lost" treasures.
Turf War: Godzilla fights a monster that is only interested in defending its nest.
To Climb The Highest Monster: G-Force attempts to climb Godzilla and implant a sedation device.
The Yamazaki Endowment: A mysterious scientist creates a giant monster to do battle with Godzilla.
There is also a bonus short story, from A Decade of Dark Horse #4:
The Origins of a Species: A member of G-Force and the rage fueled Dr. Yamazaki have a brief discussion that reveals the demons that are tormenting the vengeance seeking mad scientist.
The stories collected in Godzilla: Past Present Future run the gamut of the Godzilla Legacy. Target: Godzilla! is a tongue in cheek romp that both brings back the nefarious Ape Men of the Third Planet from the Black Hole, Outer Space (the memorable villains in the very first Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla and its sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla) and introduces an all new threat. A space faring team of Big (and I do be mean BIG) Game hunters that do battle with the Big G in an almost irreverent manner. The style and tone of the Target: Godzilla! story fits perfectly in with Godzilla's campy 1970s period adventures.
Lost In Time, an adventure scripted by filmmaker Alex Cox, of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy fame, feels more like one of Godzilla's over the top Spy-Fi/Space Opera era adventures from the 1960s (i.e. Invasion of Astro-Monster or Destroy All Monsters). Even though it gets deliriously out of control with its leaping across all of space and time, sending Godzilla to level Pompeii, sink both the Spanish Armada and the RMS Titanic, before flinging the Big-G into a distant future that is woefully unprepared for him, the story plays everything out with a fairly straight face. It was great fun.
I wish the stories that had followed Target: Godzilla! and Lost In Time had been as much as fun to read as the first two stories had been. But Turf War and To Climb The Highest Monster are both one shots that do not get the time and space to pull out the stops the way Target and Lost did. The Yamazaki Endowment is meant to set up a major story arc and villain and leave the reader wanting more. While it definitely succeeded in getting me interested in what would happen next, it was not the most satisfying story to end an anthology with.
Target: Godzilla!: When Godzilla strides into Portland, Oregon, the military might of the United States unleashes its powerful new "ultimate" weapon, All-Terraintula (a kind of Mecha-Kumunga). But nothing is quite what it appears to be.
Lost In Time: A greedy scientist with a time machine "steals" Godzilla in order to rob past tragedies and disasters of their valuable "lost" treasures.
Turf War: Godzilla fights a monster that is only interested in defending its nest.
To Climb The Highest Monster: G-Force attempts to climb Godzilla and implant a sedation device.
The Yamazaki Endowment: A mysterious scientist creates a giant monster to do battle with Godzilla.
There is also a bonus short story, from A Decade of Dark Horse #4:
The Origins of a Species: A member of G-Force and the rage fueled Dr. Yamazaki have a brief discussion that reveals the demons that are tormenting the vengeance seeking mad scientist.
The stories collected in Godzilla: Past Present Future run the gamut of the Godzilla Legacy. Target: Godzilla! is a tongue in cheek romp that both brings back the nefarious Ape Men of the Third Planet from the Black Hole, Outer Space (the memorable villains in the very first Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla and its sequel, Terror of Mechagodzilla) and introduces an all new threat. A space faring team of Big (and I do be mean BIG) Game hunters that do battle with the Big G in an almost irreverent manner. The style and tone of the Target: Godzilla! story fits perfectly in with Godzilla's campy 1970s period adventures.
Lost In Time, an adventure scripted by filmmaker Alex Cox, of Repo Man and Sid & Nancy fame, feels more like one of Godzilla's over the top Spy-Fi/Space Opera era adventures from the 1960s (i.e. Invasion of Astro-Monster or Destroy All Monsters). Even though it gets deliriously out of control with its leaping across all of space and time, sending Godzilla to level Pompeii, sink both the Spanish Armada and the RMS Titanic, before flinging the Big-G into a distant future that is woefully unprepared for him, the story plays everything out with a fairly straight face. It was great fun.
I wish the stories that had followed Target: Godzilla! and Lost In Time had been as much as fun to read as the first two stories had been. But Turf War and To Climb The Highest Monster are both one shots that do not get the time and space to pull out the stops the way Target and Lost did. The Yamazaki Endowment is meant to set up a major story arc and villain and leave the reader wanting more. While it definitely succeeded in getting me interested in what would happen next, it was not the most satisfying story to end an anthology with.
November 5, 2015
A very strong set of stories, freeing Godzilla from the man-in-suit limitations of film and throwing him into the sci-fi world of time travel is a surprisingly fun master-stroke.
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