Let the Avengers Fight Godzilla, Cowards

Godzilla has a protracted and fruitful comics historic previous—including at Marvel, collectively along with his legendary ‘70s sequence from Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. He’s gone to hell, battled ferocious beasts, he’s teamed up with fellow heroes. He has, generally, been allowed to stomp the bejesus out of Superman. Nevertheless it’s that ultimate one which makes Marvel’s latest workers up with the King form of a bummer.

This week Marvel launched that all through September and into October, it’ll publish 21 Godzilla-themed variant covers from an array of well-known particular person artists, depicting all people from the X-Males, to the Avengers, a lot of Spider-heroes, and additional working with and in opposition to the almighty kaiju. Properly, largely in opposition to, nevertheless as a minimum Cyclops and Venom seem to get the picture that Godzilla is cool, moments of mass destruction aside. Proper right here’s the overall file of factors and artists for the variant covers:

On Sale 9/4

DAREDEVIL #13 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Nick Bradshaw

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Leinil Francis Yu

FANTASTIC FOUR #25 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Greg Land

IMMORTAL THOR #15 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Jonas Scharf

MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #24 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Romy Jones

SCARLET WITCH #4 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Mitsuhiro Arita

SPIDER-BOY #11 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Lee Garbett

On Sale 9/11

CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Phil Noto

SPIDER-GWEN: THE GHOST-SPIDER #5 Godzilla Variant Cowl by InHyuk Lee

VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT #9 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Taurin Clarke

On Sale 9/18

AVENGERS #18 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Ario Anindito

DAZZLER #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Elizabeth Torque

DEADPOOL #6 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Paco Medina

INCREDIBLE HULK #17 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Andrei Bressan

VENOM #37 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Dave Wachter

X-MEN #4 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Chris Samnee

On Sale 9/25

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #58 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Leo Romero

AVENGERS ANNUAL #1 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Pete Woods

PHOENIX #3 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Rickie Yagawa

UNCANNY X-MEN #2 Godzilla Variant Cowl by David Baldeon

On Sale 10/16

WOLVERINE #2 Godzilla Variant Cowl by Roge Antonio

It’s a pleasurable idea, and the covers are good! Nevertheless really, coming so rapidly after DC capped off its huge Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong sequence, it’s exhausting to probably not really feel like Marvel acquired the short shrift proper right here by means of Godzilla collabos. And likewise you’re the fellows celebrating your historic previous with Godzilla this yr!

Presumably that’s solely a predecessor to a further fully-fledged Marvel/Godzilla comic crossover. In any case, the King of all Kaiju can’t seem to be he’s having fun with the sector by immediately bouncing from one principal comics author to the next. It’d be improper! Nevertheless it might be far more pleasurable to see an extended deal with the considered Godzilla combating with or in opposition to Marvel’s mightiest in its place of merely getting an entire lot of very cool covers. How does Godzilla actually really feel about Mutantkind in a post-Krakoa world? Does he suppose Spider-Man is a threat or menace? Inquiring minds must know!

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