Review: Godzilla Legends #3

“Secrets”

The Godzilla Legendsseries doesn’t focus on Godzilla, but that’s not a bad thing.  Periphery monsters get their ownstories.  In this issue, theunderused kaiju Titanosaurus getsthe spotlight.

The United Nations enlists Tristan, a young man gifted withamazing mind-reading abilities. The young lady responsible for the recruitment is Miki Saegusa.  G-Fans will recognize her as thementalist who had a connection with Godzilla in the Heisei series of films.

Tristan seems to have a psychic connection to Titanosaurus,the aquatic menace from The Terror of Mechagodzilla.  Duringthe training, Tristan brings forth the monster from the ocean’s floor.  And then aliens abduct the boy and themonster.

The Problems:

1) There’s too much dialogue.  Kaiju don’t talk in Godzilla films (except for the Americandub of 1972’s Godzilla on Monster Island).  With the monsters having nothing tosay, the writers overcompensate by having the humans say way too much.

2) Titanosaurus barelyappears in this comic.  Here’s atip for writers of the Godzilla comics: watch the films and learn theformula.  The monster shows up, thehumans react, then the monster stomps model buildings and fights mecha andother monsters.  GodzillaLegends suffers from an under use of that formula and the monsters.  That’s a shame because Godzilla:Kingdom of Monsters works so well.

The Cool:

1) There’s an awesome two-page spread of the aliensconstructing an army of Mechagodzillas. Additionally, they are gathering troops and space tanks.  On top of all that, Titanosaurus fightshis shackles in a pool prison.  Thepages took my breath away with the war that the images imply.

There’s a promise of something amazing building up in thestorylines of this comic.  The mainproblem is that the storytelling in this particular Godzilla books needspolishing.

Score: 2/5

IDW

$3.99

Writer: Mike Raicht

Art: Tony Parker

Colors: Ian Herring

Letters: Chris Mowry

Comments

[Connor]

lol i own a movie with titanosaurus

[Carl]

Next to Destroy All Monsters, the Titanosaurus-friendly Terror of Mechagodzilla is one of the great G-films.