The other day on BlueSky, Gail Simone pointed out that an almost sure-fire indicator of quality comics nowadays, surprisingly enough, was Godzilla. Probably unrelated, unless they saw an opportunity and hopped on it, seemingly about 20 minutes later Humble Bundle put out a big ol' bundle of IDW Godzilla comics.
(From Godzilla: Heist, written by Van Jensen, art by Kelsey Ramsay. Not bad, although I think Aftershock had Kaiju Score maybe a couple years prior.)
And it is a big ol' bundle, with some of their recent "Kei-Sei Era" titles and the books pictured here, six big volumes of the Godzilla Library Collection, four volumes of Godzilla: Rivals that seemingly check in on every kaiju you can think of, and some Godzilla: Monsterpiece Theatre and more! Now how much would you pay?...well, I think $18 gets you the lot. 
(From Godzilla: Skate or Die!, story and art by Louie Joyce. Stylish and fun.)
The only downside on this one, is that instead of directly through Humble Bundle, you have to get the books from Kobo.com; which I suspect is a licensing issue. It's mildly annoying to have this chunk separate from my other library; and I worry that these might eventually go away, like Sony did to all those Playstation movies. My Humble library goes back to 2014, and to the best of my knowledge, I've never had anything ganked from it. Moreover, the Humble stuff I can download and keep. Still, $18 for charity, and to read a bunch of Godzilla? I could hardly sleep on that. It's still available now if that grabs you!
One more thing: this does not include the recent Godzilla books Marvel and DC have been doing...and honestly, I feel like they aren't the only ones, he's been all over the place of late! DC's were based on the recent, American version with Kong; while Marvel is currently in the middle a multiverse thing (of course) featuring Knull (I hope you have someone in your life that pushes you like Marvel pushes Knull...) and has largely become Dr. Doom's show--again, of course.
2 comments:
While I myself never read them, I definitely recommend getting any Godzilla bundle that has the entire Dark Horse library of Godzilla comics. You can NEVER go wrong with Art Adams covers.
Art Adams LOVES drawing giant monsters so I’d believe that.
Yeah, why is Godzilla all over the place the last couple years? Did something become public domain? I think he’s even a Happy Meal toy! Haven’t read any of the series but it doesn’t look like anybody’s doing the ‘shrink him down’ bit, and I don’t know how you can do much that’s unique when he’s that big.
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