Volcanoes are jealous of Godzilla.
Godzilla #12
Dark Horse (June, 1996)
WRITER: Alex Cox PENCILER: Brandon McKinney INKER: Andrew Pepoy COLORIST: Perry McNamee COVER ART: Bob Eggleton LETTERER: Clem Robins DESIGNER: Mark Cox EDITOR: Randy Stradley
Mason’s plans have gone beyond petty time theft. Using Godzilla, perhaps other monsters, and the forbidden weapons in the future, Mason plans to take over all of time. G-Force, shrunk down and operating a Dixon robot, track Godzilla to the future and try to learn Mason’s plans but the robot is destroyed. Our heroes survive and when Mason uses Godzilla to launch an assault on the peaceful-by-genetics humans, they (along with Alice and Felicity, the two women from the Titanic Kino and Také rescued) spring into action. Then Godzilla swallows Mason and the time machine, disappearing to who knows where. This leave Kazushi to question the future of G-Force.
What they got right: The time-travel story’s over. That’s a positive. The art is good.
What they got wrong: So how did Alice and Felicity join G-Force? (And why are they dressed like pirates?) They’re a little too accepting of all of this really. They’re also kind of pointless. And even though Godzilla is gone, even in this universe there are other monsters running around. (The black & white special is still canon and whose to say Bagorah is the only space monster who will pay Earth a visit?) So why disband G-Force just because they lost the one they started chasing?
Recommendation: If you’re a completist of Godzilla comics this is still better than the cowboy two-parter Marvel put out. It’s a fair story. The writing is good if you like the concept. That’s where it lost me, the concept that Godzilla caused history’s greatest disasters. Otherwise, it’s hardly a must-own four-parter.
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