Why had nobody hired me yet? Even I think this is awesome and I have low self-esteem!

Apparently while I was at work last week Siskoid of Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery and Michael May of Michael May’s Adventureblog were talking about the world of Godzilla and friends and decided to make their own  Top 10 Kaiju lists as a sort of blog collaboration project. Siskoid also decided to invite me, since my love of Godzilla can easily be found both at the Spotlight and to a lesser extent at Reviewers Unknown. Plus I’ve been known to live tweet Godzilla and Gamera movies recently. I also tried to bring in Mat Burkett, host of Monstrosities, and one of, if not the, biggest kaiju fans I know. Granted, May is the one to actually MAKE a kaiju comic, which I totally need to find time to read, but i don’t know him as well as Siskoid does. All i have is the “Team Godzilla” concept and maybe the crossover idea above.

But before I get to my MY list I thought I would set some ground rules for myself. I don’t know if the others are going with this but this is what I decided on.

1. Godzilla is instantly #1 so we won’t include him on the list. This gives the others a moment to shine.
2. Stick with the live-action stuff, because if I included animated versions this would be a whole different list. Say what you will about Hanna-Barbera, they picked up some darn good monster designers in their time.
3. I don’t have to stick with Toho, or even Japan. While they will dominate the list, that’s because they dominate the giant monster genre. What have we done lately? That I’ve been able to see! They HAD to release Pacific Rim around convention time, didn’t they? But if I’m not going to treat anime and manga any different from animated programming and comics from other countries, why do the same with giant monster movies? Suffice to say, however, the giant bunnies from Night Of the Lepus aren’t on this list. That should surprise nobody.

So with those rules in mind here are my 10 giant monsters!

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