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‘Godzilla vs. Marvel’ – Epic Crossover Event Announced by Marvel Comics
The King of the Monsters takes on Marvel’s greatest heroes across various different eras in Godzilla vs. Marvel, an epic crossover event announced by Marvel Comics this afternoon.
Marvel previews, “The King of the Monsters will make its royal return to Marvel Comics in 2025, with plans to stomp across the paths of its most celebrated superheroes and villains.”
Godzilla vs. Marvel is coming along 40+ years after the original Godzilla comic series from Marvel back in 1977, which came courtesy of writer Doug Moench and artist Herb Trimpe. Marvel Comics is promising the event will spawn “at least six all-new original one-shot stories.”
To celebrate the news, Marvel has released a pretty epic piece of promo art by Leinil Francis Yu and Romulo Fajardo Jr., which sees members of the Avengers, X-Men, and Fantastic Four face off against Toho’s most iconic kaiju. You can check out that promo art in full below.
The first in the “Godzilla vs. Marvel” lineup will be Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four #1 by writer Ryan North (Fantastic Four) and John Romita Jr. (The Amazing Spider-Man). The tale will pit Marvel’s first family against Galactus and his newest herald, King Ghidorah.
The aforementioned Godzilla: King of the Monsters comic book series from Marvel ran for 24 issues between 1977 and 1979, and it featured guest appearances from Marvel characters.
Expect the launch of Godzilla vs. Marvel in March 2025.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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