The Boston Globe had the scoop that IDW’s Godzilla vs. series is coming to Boston. The one-shot will arrive in comic shops on July 30th, following other Godzilla vs. America titles like the already released Godzilla vs. Chicago and the upcoming Godzilla vs. Los Angeles.
All the creatives are from or live in the location Godzilla is attacking. In the Boston edition, Steve Orlando and Matt Emmons tell a tale set in 1800s Boston, with other stories by Hanna Cha, Jesse Lonergan, and Hayden Sherman.
“It just felt like an opportunity, especially because this is a time period that you couldn’t necessarily visit in other cities, at least not in the same way,” Orlando told the Globe. “I just thought, look, this is one of literature’s greatest monsters. Let’s compare and contrast, and let’s use them as a send-up to one of film’s greatest monsters and sort of dig in and celebrate not just Boston and Godzilla, but the background.”
Emmons called the project “a nice excuse to think about Boston” and jumped at the chance to draw Godzilla. Growing up north of the city, Emmons recalls his parents purchasing a “fixer-upper farmhouse that they’re still fixing up,” with fond memories of the “old barn” and the way nature took hold over time, inspiring his love of “animals and monsters and fiction” — all things he now draws as a professional comic book artist.
“The older I get, the more I look back on where I grew up at the foot of wetlands, picking up frogs … sort of spilled into a huge, deep interest in the natural world,” Emmons said.
“It is meant to be a loving homage to them,” Sherman said. “That their building gets torn down in the story [is] the highest compliment I could give them, hopefully.”
“My dream, still, I think, is to get to be in the Godzilla suit and destroy a city,” Lonergan said. “If something ever goes right and I can have that kind of birthday party where there’s a city built for me, it’s like my dream.”
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