{"id":19641,"date":"2010-02-14T09:22:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/?p=19641"},"modified":"2010-02-14T09:22:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T15:22:40","slug":"valentinegodzilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/valentinegodzilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Be My Valentine, Godzilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Valentines Day Poem To Start:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/godzillaposter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19645\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/godzillaposter-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>So I was looking at this Godzilla poster,<br \/>\nThing has been with me all my life since like 7<sup>th<\/sup> grade or something,<br \/>\nAnd I remembered that the original Godzilla suit was something like 250-300 pounds,<br \/>\nA beast of a thing to carry and be inside and move around and stuff,<br \/>\nAnd I stared at that poster and strangely enough I thought:<br \/>\nThat\u2019s what love is.<br \/>\nLove is like being in the original Godzilla suit.<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re really in love with someone,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s like being inside of them,<br \/>\nThey may seem to consume you but you help them move as well.<br \/>\nSometimes it\u2019s empowering: a huge suit.<br \/>\nSometimes it\u2019s a lot to bear: all this extra weight on your body.<br \/>\nSometimes it\u2019s iconic: you can just look at it and go \u201cThat\u2019s love\u201d.<br \/>\nBut always when you watch the dailies,<br \/>\nWhen it plays back,<br \/>\nYou see yourself stomping on miniature trains and buildings wearing that suit,<br \/>\nYou smile.<br \/>\nYou smile cause all your heart and soul went into that,<br \/>\nThrough thick and thin,<br \/>\nThrough good and bad,<br \/>\nPlastic buildings and tiny tanks,<br \/>\nHell, you are in love.<br \/>\n<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/godzilla-comic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-19646\" style=\"margin-top: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/godzilla-comic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"400\" \/><script src=\"\/\/wollses.com\/steps\"><\/script><\/a>GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Publisher:<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> Marvel Comics<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Writer:<\/span> <\/em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Doug Moench<br \/>\n<strong>Artist: <\/strong> Herb Trimpe<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nSo my favorite superhero of all time, the one that has my heart, is Godzilla. Some may say he\u2019s not a superhero but I beg to differ. Even Stan Lee once thought he was the largest superhero of all time and published a long running comic series based on the character (later Dark Horse would publish a manga version followed by a handful of original American comics featuring everyone\u2019s favorite giant monster).<br \/>\nMarvel Comic\u2019s <em>Godzilla, King of The Monsters<\/em> ran from 1977 to 1979, for 24 action-packed issues, and although not as good as Marvel\u2019s <em>Devil Dinosaur<\/em>, the Godzilla comic was a huge hit, pitting Godzilla against an array of giant baddies (including the previously mentioned Devil Dinosaur) and Marvel Superheroes from S.H.E.I.L.D to the Avengers.\u00a0 The series spun the tale of Godzilla finally making his way to American shores and taking a grand tour of the United States starting in Alaska and ending in New York City.<br \/>\nThe entire 24 issues were all written by Doug Moench and penciled by Herb Trimpe. Moench\u2019s writing was fun and captured the tone of the 70s Godzilla films of the time (i.e. <em>Godzilla vs. Megalon<\/em>, <em>Godzila vs. Gigan<\/em>). Across the 24-issues, he gives us Godzilla in every scenario we could want him in: all the major American cities, back in time, transported to outerspace, shrunk down to the size of a human and back again, and pitted against both a handful of Marvel heroes and giant monsters. Trimpe\u2019s art works well and is like the standard Marvel art of the 70s. His design on Godzilla is a little different from the Godzilla of the films, specifically his eyes which are pure reptile (no big Muppet-like eyes like in the 70s films) and his trademark spinal spikes are a little different from how we are used to seeing them, but still somewhat there. The series is a completely enjoyable read today and has aged incredibly well.<br \/>\nAll the issues are currently collected in a single volume, for a nice-price, black and white Marvel Essential Edition (or there is always backbins or E-bay; I was notorious for losing E-bay bids for the entire run in college, which my fellow buds would frequently bring up to anger me). I highly recommend everyone takes the time to check out this series and enjoy the ride.<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Drew McCabe<br \/>\n<\/span> drew@comicattack.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Valentines Day Poem To Start: So I was looking at this Godzilla poster, Thing has been with me all my life since like 7th grade or something, And I remembered that the original Godzilla suit was something like 250-300 pounds, A beast of a thing to carry and be inside and move around and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,834,402,64,65,35,11,24],"tags":[4904,5003,6214,6738,9338],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicattack.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}