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Soulless Merchant of Fear said on July 10th, 2012 at 7:54 pm

OH MY GOD I HAVE TO GET THE TRADE BECAUSE THAT SOUNDS SO AWESOME I’M STARTING TO BLACK OUT JUST THINKING ABOUT IT AAAAAAAAAA

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See, while I agree on almost all the points, to me it kinda felt like there was a major shift with the Cowboy issue. Up to there, it felt like Marvel was trying to make it work as an ongoing. After, it felt like they were, for one reason or another, working with a deadline in mind.

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I liked when Godzilla played basketball against Charles Barkley.

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highlyverbal said on July 10th, 2012 at 10:24 pm

@Greg: “I liked when Godzilla played basketball against Charles Barkley.”

Flapjacks: What size was he then?

MGK: Godzilla was human-sized.

Flapjacks: No, I meant Barkley!

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As far as I can remember, both were the size of skyscrapers.

“But Charles, only you can stop Godzilla… Because you’re Earth’s greatest warrior!”

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Mitchell Hundred said on July 11th, 2012 at 3:15 am

When you say that SHIELD is hunting Godzilla, do you mean hunting as in chasing, or hunting as in trying to find him in the wilderness? Because if the latter, I would like to see how the writers manage to keep a giant lizard hidden from a flying battleship.

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I remember picking up a few issues back when they first came out. My tiny child brain was annoyed Godzilla didn’t really look like himself.

The new IDW series features a thinly-veiled Jason Statham hunting monsters.

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Love it. I remember hopping on the Godzilla Essential the day it came out, since I was worried Marvel would only have the rights to reprint it for twenty minutes or something. Luckily, they seem to have run a big batch; but it should be sold out, it’s a lot of fun.

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Soulless Merchant of Fear said on July 11th, 2012 at 6:31 pm

The day that they finally re-secure the rights to Fu Manchu for like an hour, and print “The Essential Master of Kung Fu,” I WILL BUY THE HELL OUT OF IT. As will others.

Hint hint, Marvel. Hint hint.

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@Soulless Merchant of Fear: I hear ya. For that matter, what kind of a fucked up universe do we live in that Marvel can successfully negotiate with Toho to reprint the Godzilla series, but can’t secure the rights to ROM? I mean, is Mattel sitting on those rights, rubbing their hands, knowing that any day now a wave of ROM nostalgia is going to sweep the country and they’ll be able to name their price with any comics company you care to name? Are they refusing to give up even a fraction of that ROM goldmine unless Marvel gives in to their exorbitant demands? I’ll admit, I’m stumped.

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Jim Kosmicki said on July 18th, 2012 at 4:07 pm

i believe the ROM rights also involve the guy who invented ROM and brought it to Mattel – corporations will take the buyout – individuals have emotional connections to things they invent.

Fu Manchu, at least in his first novel, should be hitting public domain soon, I would think. it would depend on if the elements they used were introduced in later novels or not.

I liked Godzilla and Shogun Warriors at the time. I can remember Fred Hembeck having a strip where he talked about trying to impress a girl in the drugstore, and then realizing that not only was he carrying a stack of “funny books,” but the top one was Godzilla with a big purple logo. Oh the days when one had to be embarassed to be a comics fan…

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Funny, I was just rereading the Avengers’ battle with Red Ronin, wherein SHIELD’s anti-Godzilla flying battleship Behemoth participates. I can imagine someone flipping through the issue and assuming it’s some kind of in-joke to reference Godzilla.

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