Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth #9 – Review

By: Chris Mowry (writer), Jeff Zornow (art), Priscilla Tramontano (colors)

The Story: This is but one of the legends of which the people speak…

The Review: There’s nothing particularly meaningful about a giant lizard, nor anything especially profound about destroying a city in effigy, but while not every Godzilla story aspires to the seriousness of the original film, any great daikaiju story needs to speak to something. There has to be a purpose for the destruction, metatextually or literally. That’s what this issue provides Rulers of the Earth.

A major problem of this series has been a certain aimlessness about it. Godzilla, Rodan, Varan, and their kin have largely been reactive forces, with the story driven by the Cryog and their master plan. Now, with the Cryog gone, the series turns its eye to the nature of earth’s kaiju.

The revelations in this issue are another great shot in the arm for a series that has already been improving, and have the potential to really give fans what they want, however I do have worries about the pacing of the story. RotE was originally approved for only twelve issues, meaning that if things are still holding to the original plan we’re three fourths of the way through this series. I’m not sure that we have enough time to explore the ramifications of these events.