#godzilla valentine's day special

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (February 4-10, 2024)

Zoe Tunnell's Godzilla: Valentine's Day Special for IDW was everything I wanted it to be and more. While the kaiju are essential to the story, the focus is on the rivalry-turned-romance between an EDF captain and an independent kaiju researcher, which unfolds wonderfully across multiple attacks. Kaiju researchers have decried a military-first approach since 1954, of course, but Piper Simmons goes a step further by questioning whether an explosion in defense spending on shiny super-weapons is just making the problem worse. Essential reading.

Shout Factory! TV added seven vintage Toei tokusatsu titles out of nowhere, all in Japanese with English subtitles. Magic Serpent (retitled Dragon Showdown) is probably the most familiar and of-interest title to kaiju fans, but there's also Planet Prince (the first of two films edited together and dubbed under the title Prince of Space), Invasion of the Neptune Men, Watari: The Ninja Boy, Ninja Scope, and The Golden Bat. Earlier today, we learned that they're all being released in a Blu-ray set as well—but more on that in the next column.

Here's a new CG short called Daikaiju vs. the Giant Girl (we are ignoring the typo in the thumbnail/video title). Great action, and I had to check the credits to confirm it was completely computer-animated.

When Titanic Creations first announced its articulated Gorgo figure, I was less than confident they'd be able to deliver on their promise of a graphic novel sequel to the film. Well, work on it seems to be progressing well, although at some point along the way it became a prequel instead. Artist Patrick McEvoy posted on his Facebook that the comic is fully inked. The company is also rather boldly setting it in the same universe as their original kaiju graphic novel Soul War, also illustrated by McEvoy.

Warning from Space has a surprisingly large role in this Martin Scorsese-directed Squarespace ad. Leave it to the world's foremost Marvel hater to have me watching and enjoying a Super Bowl commercial.

I don't often post X-Plus news, but this Bagan figure based on his appearance in Godziban seemed noteworthy. They're also releasing a figure based specifically on the giant Cybot Godzilla animatronic from The Return of Godzilla, with the Shonen Rick limited edition including a small Shockirus.

#kaiju week in review #godzilla #godzilla valentine's day special #idw #bagan #warning from space #magic serpent #gorgo #daikaiju vs. the giant girl #kaiju

[smashpages]

Out this week: Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special (IDW, $4.99): Zoe Tunnell and Dani Pendergast tell the story of an  intrepid amateur kaiju researcher and a global kaiju-response lieutenant, who are “hopping from country to country to take in the sights and splendor in the fleeting seconds before Godzilla smashes the skyline.”

See what else is arriving in comic shops this week!

#godzilla #godzilla valentine's day special #idw #comic books #comics #new comic book day #can't wait for comics #ncbd #new comics day #new comics #new comics wednesday #idw publishing #zoe tunnell #dani pendergast

[godzillajuniorreborn]

My girl Piper speaking some facts on just how utterly pointless and meaningless it is to try to kill Godzilla instead of just learning to live with him and the other Kaiju.

I just can't believe it had to come from a Valentine's Day special for the larger Godzilla franchise.

#ooc #godzilla #godzilla: valentine's day special #idw

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Preview: Godzilla: Valentine's Day Special #1

Godzilla: Valentine's Day Special #1 preview. Truly, there's nothing like the thrill of an international game of cat and mouse between an intrepid amateur kaiju researcher and a global kaiju-response lieutenant #comics #comicbooks #godzilla

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#comic books #Comics #dani pendergast #godzilla #godzilla: valentines day special #idw publishing #zoe tunnell

[fell-hound]

Really excited to reveal my cover for the Godzilla Valentines Day Special from IDW! Written by Zoe Tunnel with interiors by Dani Pendergast, edited my David Mariotte. This is going to be a QUEER ROMANCE in this Kaiju smashin' story, and I'm really excited to have contributed a small part! Go pick it up next January!! Solicit info below.

#mycomic #comics #godzilla #idw #cover art #queer romance #illustration #kaiju

[davidmariottecomics]

Save Your Work!

Hello, friends! 

This week is going to be very quick because, not to get ahead of myself, but next week is likely going to be pretty long. I didn't mean to time things out so there'd be a long one right after I'm done with work for the year and most people are off for that final week, but that's how things worked out. And the week after that, the last weekend of the year, I'm going to do a Best of 2023 round-up. 

But, in my brief update this week, I wanted to talk about some very straightforward best practices. 

I turned on my computer this morning and was shocked to find that I was *turning on* my computer this morning. One way or another, it had shut down since the last time I used it. Maybe it was Becca or a planned restart or something, but however it happened, my computer was off. And as any artist should know... you neeeeeeeeeeeed to make sure your stuff is saved again and again. You see, I was working on my holiday gift guide that I'm building for my Patreon when the computer shut off and I lost a whole spread and some change. All of it. The images, the hyperlinks, the text--both in terms of what I wrote and the font choices I made--everything. It shouldn't be terrible, but it'll add at least an extra hour on as I have to rebuild all of that. So, if you ever work on anything that would benefit from being saved, make sure you do!

The other best practice I want to emphasize today is something I say a lot. If you'd like to work in comics professionally, please make it easier on yourself and any potential collaborators/hiring folks, by making your web presence clear and accessible. Something I've slowly been working on over the past few weeks is going through my Twitter as I get ready to delete it before the end of the year and looking to make sure I have contact information from anyone I'm interested in not losing. I'm looking for emails, or agents, or websites. And the more varied the information, the better. Because I'm trying to incorporate that into my existing digital rolodex, whenever possible, while emails (for talent or their agents) are the things that are most helpful, I am looking to add your website info so I can quickly pop to it before emailing you and make sure you're who I think you are and your style is what I think it is. As much as possible, when I look through info I got from old like Visible Women sheets and the like, I'm looking for people who aren't just including their handle on one social because those can change, or who aren't just linking to an Instagram or Twitter account with "DM me" because while I know some people work best in DMs, for legal paperwork and the like, an email is so much more helpful. 

Lastly, and this should go without saying, but this is a post about common sense practices, be kind to folks. I don't know why this seems so counter-intuitive to certain people, but if you're openly hostile toward your peers, they don't want to work with you. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy of ostracization. It literally can't be said enough. Comics as an industry is doing just fine and differentiation in the medium in both format and talent is only a good thing. 

Alright. More next week! 

What I enjoyed this week: Dungeons & Daddies (Podcast), Reverse 1999 (Video Game), Nancy (Comic), Lego Masters (TV show), Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (Short story collection), Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Links (Video Game), Dandadan (Manga), Godzilla: Minus One (Movie), Godzilla Raids Again (Movie), Cunk on Earth (TV show), I'm a Virgo (TV show), Clyde Fans by Seth (Comic), getting and making some really exciting 2023 news. There's some amazing stuff to come! 

New Releases this week (12/13/2023): Sonic the Hedgehog: Winter Jam (Editor)

Final Order Cutoff next week (12/18/2023):  Godzilla Valentine's Day Special (Editor) If you haven't seen it, I put together a little explainer on what exactly a "Final Order Cutoff" is and why it matters! And if you found this helpful and have a platform where you think people should know, those explainers are watermarked and good to share! 

New Releases next week (12/20/2023): Godzilla: The War for Humanity #3 (Editor) Godzilla Rivals: Jet Jaguar vs. Megalon (Editor)

Announcements: If there is one blog this year that you should not miss, it's next week's. Big news to come. 

The Cartoonist Cooperative is still doing E-Sim cards for Gaza. You can donate a digital sim card so that residents can get access to the internet and have more functional phones and, in exchange, get some comics or a drawing or whatever else is available from the many participating artists. Additionally, the CC is hosting their mini-comic awards! It's a cool way to maybe get your mini-comic recognized and make some scratch! 

You can also give more directly. If you don't have money, and I get it, you can call or fax or email or show up at the offices of your representatives. Keep your eyes open for actions too, whether they're another general strike like what happened last Monday or demonstrations and marches in your area. Given the nature of the things, they often come together fairly quickly, so do exercise your due diligence. Also, of course, being informed and just giving your time to Palestinian writers is incredibly valuable. Whether that is journalists on the ground--who are being murdered at extraordinary rates--or reading Fiyah's Palestine Solidarity issue or anything from Verso's solidarity reading list, having and sharing that knowledge is significant. 

Becca just did their Art vs. Artist post for 2023. They did a lot of really cool work this year! They also posed a spicy art version. And as if it could not be said enough, while we've got some things brewing (and now on a schedule), you should reach out if you'd like to work on comics with them! I think we're both looking to do more next year! You can find their gallery on their website and also, y'know, maybe pick up a few things for belated gifts while you're there! 

If you aren't a Patreon backer yet, well, like I said above, I've been working on something pretty cool. I'm building a holiday gift guide. It won't probably be out with a lot of shopping time for Christmas in particular, but I thought it'd be a fun way to showcase some of what I've been learning more generally about design and how to make comics and zines and stuff. I'm really proud of it and it'll be exclusive to $10+ backers for December and then will be made public in a couple months. Also at that $10+ tier, there's stuff like a tour of my workspace, an adults-only podcast pilot that Becca and I recorded called "Abandoning the Premise" (short sample here), a review of root beers is also coming up quick, old D&D campaigns I ran, and more! Another goal of mine for next year is to grow my Patreon and also have it start making some money to fund more comics ventures for myself. 

Pic of the Week: I teased it last week, but the Winter Jam team did a Winter Jam-piece! Our fabulous leader, Iasmin Omar Ata, got Reggie Graham, Adam Bryce Thomas, Abigail Oz, Shawn Lee, and me to put together a happy holidays card from the Winter Jam cast! I did the thought balloon Froggy because even when Big is holding "Froggy", he can't stop thinking about that frog! 

#comics #sonic idw #comic tips #save your work

[sebaspiriz]

Godzilla valentine's day special

W: Zoe Tunell

C: Rebecca Nalty

L: Johanna Nattalie

E: David Mariotte

IDW

[necrotranscjk]

Comics Read Day: 02/09/2024

Godzilla: Valentine's Day Special 

Crave #3

Devilman #1

Total Comics Read: 137

#comic books #comics #comics read #image comics #Godzilla #devilman #go nagai #manga

[jimmyaquino]

Comic News Insider Episode 1483 - My CNI Valentine!

Comic News Insider: Episode 1483 is now available for free download! Click on the link or follow on Spotify/subscribe on iTunes!

Reviews: Godzilla Valentine's Day Special #1, Star Wars: Mace Windu #1, Thundercats Vol 3 #1, Halo season 2

A quickie episode for you! Thanks to reviewers Melissa, Marta and Jon! Always so insightful and informative in their reviews. Jimmy gives Emily the week off and tries the news himself which includes: Garth Ennis returns to Marvel Comics, Funimation is closing down, SyFy's WYNONNA EARP is returning with a 90-minute special and more. And as usual, Jimmy has great recommendations to pick out in the Top 3!

Also, get a hold of us!

Thanks for listening!

[cheese0spider]

Good night everyone tomorrow is New Thundercats,Ultimate Black Panther,Xmen,Avengers,Fantastic Four,Venom,Mighty Morphin Power Rangers The Return,Shazam,Doctor Strange,Captain America,She Hulk,Thanos,Fire And Ice,Wolverine Madripoor Knights,Suidie Squad Kill Arkham Asylum,Superman 78,DC How To Lose A Guy Gardner In 10 Days,Godzilla Valentines Day Special,Batman Scooby Doo Mysteries,Birds Of Prey and Daredevil Gang War :D

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

i'm very proud of this line but found out 0.8 seconds after posting it that one of the characters is nonbinary

#oh well now it's somehow even more a comic made for me specifically #godzilla valentine's day special #godzilla #idw #comics

[thegaminggang]

IDW Publishing Comics for February 7th, 2024 - https://thegaminggang.com/comic-books/idw-publishing-comics-for-february-7th-2024/...

[godzillajuniorreborn]

"I know the EDF saves lives, I've seen you save plenty. But you can't stop picking fights! I know Godzilla's dangerous, I'm not stupid! But Godzilla's part of our world, you can't fight that, the EDF keeps trying. Everyone wants bigger guns or robots so they can be the one that finally kills Godzilla. Billions of dollars sunk into junk that doesn't work and blows up cities. Think of what that money can do put developing towards study, or developing deterrents, or warning systems? That's why I will never join the EDF. I think we can do better." -Piper Simmons

#godzilla #godzilla: valentine's day special #idw #ooc #piper simmons #tam sauvette #i did a little paraphrasing

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Godzilla Valentine's Special is a beautiful story about two people finding each other

Godzilla Valentine's Special is a beautiful story about two people finding each other #comics #comicbooks #godzilla

Just in time for the big greeting card holiday, Zoe Tunnell, Sebastian Piriz, and Rebecca Nalty give readers a sweet, gay kaiju treat in the form of Godzilla Valentine’s Day Special. This one-shot chronicles a growing slow-burn romance between an unemployed burnout-turned-monster chaser named Piper Simmons and Lieutenant Tam Sauveterre, an officer in the Earth Defense Force, a self-explanatory…

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#comic books #Comics #godzilla #godzilla: valentines day special #idw publishing #rebecca nalty #sebastian piriz #zoe tunnell

[sapphirelords]

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50 shades of grey scenes

I thought this would be my one opportunity, so I said yes.” She adds, “There’s all sorts of fun you can have in a darkened room … You can eat lots of popcorn, for example … But there’s a special thrill seeing what used to exist only in your head and on the page up there on a screen for an audience to experience together. I used to work in TV, and I enjoyed it, but like a lot of TV people I’d always wondered how it would be to work on a movie. But when they went viral and started selling in millions, Hollywood came calling, and the demand for a movie, from studios and from fans, became almost overwhelming. James says, she wasn’t sure she even wanted to make a film, but then jokes, “Have you met my agent, ?” She adds, “When I started out writing Fifty Shades and sharing it with friends on the Internet, I had no idea this is where this would all lead. There are few book-to-film projects in recent memory that have been as anticipated, debated, and kept under wraps as Fifty Shades of Grey. “Life was all about parties and entertaining.” The couple lived in a Georgian home in Marylebone. Jopling, Taylor-Johnson’s first husband-an Eton-educated son of a Tory M.P.-became one of the most powerful art dealers in Europe and the primary salesman of the Y.B.A.’s, including Hirst and Tracey Emin. “In the art world, the more blue-collar you are, the more you get invited to dinners with ambassadors of whatever, because you’re presumed to be an interesting person,” she said, a bit dryly. We talked about her childhood in England, spent on welfare in a “strange, dark, gloomy house that still gives me nightmares,” before she made her way to Goldsmiths art school, where she befriended Damien Hirst and many of the young artists known as the Y.B.A.’s, or Young British Artists. It helps me clear my mind and helps me keep sane,” she explained. “I have had to every day because of the madness of Fifty Shades. Stepping lightly in her sneakers, Taylor-Johnson headed out of her home and began hiking up a steep path. “And we’ve also got two dogs who are girls, so Aaron is completely outnumbered: it’s seven to one in this household! There are crazy hormones here.” “Aaron takes care of the girls when I’m working and he’s not,” she said. The kids went off to the playground with their father. “It was move the family to Los Angeles to finish Fifty Shades or commute from London,” said Taylor-Johnson, a slender, self-possessed blonde who had dressed in sporty blue shorts and a white T-shirt in expectation of taking a hike. On a recent weekday at 8:30 A.M., those young girls, plus Taylor-Johnson’s two daughters from her previous marriage to art dealer Jay Jopling, a near tween and a teenager, were climbing around her Hollywood Hills villa like macaques on a Hindu temple.

“No, it was amazing,” said Taylor-Johnson, adding that women shouldn’t listen to male doctors at hospitals who tell them to give birth in a certain way. The two were married in 2012, and together they have two daughters, whom Aaron delivered on his own at their home in London. She’s also futzed with her name of late, after falling in love with Aaron Johnson, the 24-year-old Godzilla and Avengers: Age of Ultron star, whom she cast as a young John Lennon in Nowhere Boy, her first feature film. Like James, Taylor-Johnson, 47, is British. That is, few women except Sam Taylor-Johnson, director of the first film in the Fifty Shades trilogy (yes, there will be not one, not two, but three movies, provided that the first, which opens in theaters on Valentine’s Day, isn’t a colossal misfire). James, the 51-year-old, dark-tressed British author who created a compendium of her sexual fantasies, called the book Fifty Shades of Grey, and watched in shock as the book and its two sequels ( Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed) sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, making her more than $100 million.

Few women in the world are more self-actualized than Erika Leonard, better known as E.

#50 shades of grey scenes