Godzilla: Rulers of the Earth #6 – Review

By: Chris Mowry (story/script), Matt Frank (story/art), Priscilla Tramontano (colors)

The Story: Gigan trashes Vegas, only to find a frustrated Godzilla on the horizon, looking to play the slots. Silently, he curses his poor timing.

The Review: After an interesting stopover in China last month, RotE returns to  the exploits of its titular character just in time for him to face off with one of his most popular foes among the ruins of Las Vegas. Even better, series artist, Matt Frank, is back after a one month absence. All of this points to an excellent issue of Kaiju craziness. Unfortunately, while many of the best elements of this series have returned t the spotlight, it seems that Mowry’s improved writing didn’t come with them.

As is becoming a trend in this book, Mowry opens with a page of melodramatic musings leading to a large panel of a Kaiju. From there we jump around chronologically as our still nameless aliens fight to reclaim some confiscated property.

Honestly, Godzilla films have often suffered from an unnatural separation between the human and kaiju plots, especially in cases where human-sized aliens are controlling the kaiju. This series has done a fine job of tightening the connection between the mastermind invaders and their main event pets. These sorts of ideas are sown throughout the issue and the series, quite ably at that, however, in this instance the book falls down in its execution of those ideas.