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- Tim Seeley ("Godzilla")
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- Nikola Čižmešija ("Godzilla")
- Pablo Tunica ("...Deadzone")
- Oliver Ono ("Starship...")
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Marissa Louise ("Godzilla")
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Godzilla: The New Heroes is a one-shot comic book from IDW Publishing. Released on Free Comic Book Day on May 3, 2025, it consists of an original 10-page prelude to IDW's Godzilla (2025) and 5-page previews of Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone #1 and Starship Godzilla #1.
Description
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The FIRST LOOK at IDW’s new Godzilla universe. In July 2025, a bold new Godzilla story is coming… but you can get your first look here! Godzilla: The New Heroes FCBD 2025 features an original ten-page prelude to the new IDW Godzilla continuity, as well as preview pages for other books set in the new Godzilla shared universe. Each of these books is a fresh exploration on what it means to be a Godzilla comic — from a group of mercenaries that fly through space in Mechagodzilla to a strange wasteland inhabited by a half-kaiju, half-human freak, to a bold superhero take on G-Force. A new era of Godzilla comics starts here![1]
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"Godzilla" plot
In 2025, Godzilla rises from the waters off the coast of Manhattan and approaches the giant wall surrounding the city. Shrugging off the interception of fighter jets and a missile turret, he blows a hole through the wall with his atomic breath. Later, at the United Nations Godzilla Countermeasure Center in San Diego, Commander Riviera presents footage of the attack to G-Force U.S.A., whose members include Japanese transfer Dr. Rumi Chiba, heavy munitions expert Nuki, pyrotechnician Incense, and the musical android Jet Jaguar. Riviera explains that Godzilla was first awakened in 1954 by an "unknown weapon test" which also infused him with mysterious Kai-Sei energy. His subsequent razing of Tokyo proved to be the first of numerous kaiju attacks over the coming decades, motivating the nations of the world to come together in search of ways to stop them. The team proceed to watch Godzilla topple the Gravesend Charter Academy, a boarding school that takes in children orphaned by kaiju. Outside of the school, a fistfight breaks out between two of the evacuated students, who are only snapped out of it by the sight of a looming Godzilla. One of the kids, Jacen Braid, urges the other to run away before being blasted into a crater with atomic breath. However, Braid suddenly erupts out from the cloud of smoke unscathed and lands an energized punch on Godzilla's foot. Though the attack succeeded only in getting Braid tail-whipped, Riviera explains that the boy is a "G-Mutant"—and the most powerful one they've ever seen. Just then, Braid walks through the door in a G-Force uniform and declares that he will kill Godzilla, to Dr. Chiba's chagrin.
"Godzilla" appearances
Monsters
Characters
- Commander Riviera
- Dr. Rumi Chiba
- Nuki
- Incense
- Jacen Braid
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Trivia
- Godzilla: The New Heroes is the first Godzilla comic created specifically for distribution on Free Comic Book Day.
- Godzilla's design on the cover by Oliver Ono does not match the one in the comic itself, as his design in the continuity was not yet finalized when the cover was completed.[2] Like past Godzillas drawn by Ono for IDW Publishing comics, his tail sports prominent dorsal plates.
- In correcting Commander Riviera's translation of Kai-Sei, Dr. Chiba ironically makes an even more egregious error. Cover D of Godzilla #1 shows that Kai-Sei's Japanese rendering is 怪精, which can be translated as "strange energy", making Riviera's suggestion of "strange beast energy" mostly correct. Despite this, Chiba writes it off as an Americanism and asserts that the phrase directly translates to "sea star", which is patently false; there is no word in the Japanese language pronounced kaisei which means sea star. This was likely caused by the writer being confused over the word hitode (海星, "sea star"), the kanji in which are pronounced kai and sei in other words.
References
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