“Umm…he went that way. Really, REALLY big guy. If you hurry you might catch him. I’m a little girl.”
Sonic The Hedgehog #105
Archie Comics Publications (March, 2002)
EDITOR: J.F. Gabrie
“You Say You Want A Revelation?”
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Ron Lim
INKERS: Pam Eklund & Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST: Josh & Aimee Ray
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
Downunda Freedom Fighters: “Myth Taken Identity” finale
WRITER: Michael Gallagher
ARTIST: Nelson Ribeiro
COLORIST: Frank Gagliardo
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I come from a time where Godzilla being one of the good guys was nothing new. The movies primarily produced in the “showa” era of Japan’s history owes a bit to business decisions. Kids really enjoy giant monsters smashing buildings and fighting each other. So that’s what Toho gave them, using their most popular monster to do so. However, they reasoned Godzilla should become a good guy, a guardian monster for the kids to cheer on, as definite good and evil forces were created, usually aliens from space and one undersea kingdom. And one terror group we never seem to remember because their monster was a giant crab.
A lot of newer Godzilla fans hate this. “Godzilla should be the bad guy, the threat to Japan inspired by the atomic and now nuclear explosives or payback for Japan’s sins.” Well, Godzilla was a threat but not necessarily evil. With a few exceptions in later continuities, Godzilla’s biggest issue was that he didn’t like walking around things, joined by his willingness to fight to retain his “king of the monsters” title. He didn’t hate humans so much as he didn’t care unless they started shooting at him or using his dead relatives as giant robots. Then he hated them.
Just for some interesting filler I wanted to put together a full list of the showa period guardian monsters. I don’t think they necessarily formed a battleline outside of their battles with Ghidorah, not a lot of team-ups. Still, when it came to protecting the earth from space monsters and robots from a black hole, these were the kaiju you called.
I want to make a joke but I just heard about what happens at the start of season 2, and I don’t do that kind of gag.
The Peacemaker #3
Charlton Comics Group (July, 1967)
WRITER: Joe Gill
“Our Future World”
ARTIST: Patrick Boyette
EDITOR: Dick Giordano
The Fighting Five: “Special Prisoner”
PENCILER: B. Montes
INKER: E. Bache
LETTERING: A Machine
Okay, we have 18 chapters to go, and a bunch of them will be read together because they’re really short. A curse of the time stamping used in these books.
Last time we only had the one, as Striker started their plan to halt and board the train, but hopefully nobody gets hurt because we have an alternate solution in the works if the call goes through.
No spoilers in the intro. We have two chapters, totaling maybe five pages, but I’m low on time lately. So let’s get right to it:
Because you aren’t a proper superhero universe without an archer. I guess.
Ultraverse Premiere #1
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (March, 1994)
It should be noted that this is a flip book, the other side being Rune #3. I don’t read that comic and the site I’m using is nice enough to keep the flip sides separate so I don’t have to read it. So I won’t be looking at Rune’s story, just the other stories.
Ripfire: “Genesis” part 1
WRITER/PENCILER: Darick Robertson
INKER: Jon Holdredge
COLORING: Moose Baumann & Foodhammer!
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
Warstrike: “Pilgrimage” part 1
WRITER: Dan Danko
ARTIST: Hoang Nguyen
COLORIST: Robert Alvord
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
Elven: “Gimme Shelter”
WRITER: Len Strazewski
PENCILER: Greg S. Luzniak
INKER: Tim Roddick
COLORING: Keith Conroy & Violent Hues
LETTERER: Tim Eldred
EDITOR: Hank Kanalz
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