Today’s Comic> Godzilla: The New Heroes (FCBD preview)

“Pardon me, can you direct me to Toshi’s Sushi Emporium?”

Godzilla: The New Heroes

IDW Publishing (April, 2025)

LETTERER: Brian Kolek

EDITOR: Jake Williams

“Godzilla”

WRITER: Tim Seeley

ARTIST: Nikola Cizmesija

COLORIST: Marissa Louise

“Enter The Deadzone

WRITER: Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan

ARTIST: Pablo Tunica

“Starship Godzilla”

WRITER: Chris Gooch

ARTIST: Oliver Ono

IDW (I do not like their new company logo, by the way) must have rebooted Godzilla since I last read it, like they did Transformers and the Ninja Turtles. That’s getting annoying out of them. It’s gone bad for them before and they’re now officially worse than DC. In the new continuity Godzilla wakes up in 1954 like in the movies and Earth has been dealing with his rampages and the other kaiju for years. In present day a group of G-Force is set-up in San Francisco but it appears the G-Mutants here have superpowers, and they just recruited their latest member. This one may be able to fight Godzilla because he’s powerful enough to take his nuclear blast.

I don’t think the Godzillaverse needs superheroes. I’m just reminded of the Neo-Knights and if you haven’t read my Marvel comic reviews or the old Furman Files, I hate the Neo-Knights. Also, we get Jet Jaguar, but he can only talk in his theme song? Is that supposed to be funny? Because it isn’t and did my boy dirty. The others get names but we don’t know what they can do, and there’s another bit about naming Godzilla’s power with fake Japanese which gets called out. I was not enjoying this one at all.

The other stories are shorter in comparison. The first one took have the comic and is probably the title story. The second discusses a location mentioned in the first, the “deadzone”. We get introduced to another G-Mutant called the Wanderer, who kills smaller kaiju…for a price. These aren’t the mutants I remember from Final Wars, and the “deadzone” appears to be a trashed city, not really sure where. This felt even less connected to the Godzilla universe than the first story.

That continues with our final tale, which doesn’t even seem to be in the same continuity. This last preview sends us to space. two thieves steal a bunch of kaiju eggs for an unnamed employer and have to be bailed out by their third member and their spaceship…which happens to be Mechagodzilla? Is there a point to that?

Godzilla at IDW has gone downhill since I stopped being able to pick up new Godzilla comics, and that also happened to Ninja Turtles, while Transformers from them never really clicked with me beyond the early issues of 1.0. I don’t think I’d be getting these comics and as a Godzilla fan I don’t like saying that. Why do my favorite franchises continue to find the wrong people to work on them? These were not fun for me to read, and Godzilla is usually either fun or a work of art (the first movie was hardly “fun” but this is not in that movie’s league).