Giant Monster Comic & Book Thread
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Giant Monster Comic & Book Thread
I don't think we have a thread for giant monsters in written mediums. Generally yes, we have some talk for Godzilla or Kong, but that's about it. Maybe a general thread to share these books and review them would be helpful.
Getting things started:
Comic Books/Manga
Enormous
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Godzilla: Awakening
Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero
Pacific Rim: Tales From The Drift
Godzilla (Marvel)
Godzilla: Rulers of Earth
Novels
Godzilla – The Official Movie Novelization
Kong: Skull Island – The Official Movie Novelization
Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization
Project Nemesis (a Kaiju Thriller)
Project Maigo (A Kaiju Thriller)
Getting things started:
Comic Books/Manga
Enormous
Skull Island: The Birth of Kong
Godzilla: Awakening
Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero
Pacific Rim: Tales From The Drift
Godzilla (Marvel)
Godzilla: Rulers of Earth
Novels
Godzilla – The Official Movie Novelization
Kong: Skull Island – The Official Movie Novelization
Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization
Project Nemesis (a Kaiju Thriller)
Project Maigo (A Kaiju Thriller)
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Couple more Godzilla novels
Godzilla 1998 movie Novelization
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Godzilla Invades America
Godzilla Journey to Monster Island
Godzilla vs the Space Monster
Godzilla Returns
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla At World's End
Godzilla vs The Robot Monsters
Few more King Kong books
King Kong 1933 Movie Novelization
King Kong 2005 Movie Novelization
King Kong The Island of The Skull (prequel novel to the 2005 Kong film)
Kong: King of Skull Island
Kong Reborn
Godzilla 1998 movie Novelization
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Godzilla Invades America
Godzilla Journey to Monster Island
Godzilla vs the Space Monster
Godzilla Returns
Godzilla 2000
Godzilla At World's End
Godzilla vs The Robot Monsters
Few more King Kong books
King Kong 1933 Movie Novelization
King Kong 2005 Movie Novelization
King Kong The Island of The Skull (prequel novel to the 2005 Kong film)
Kong: King of Skull Island
Kong Reborn
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On the subject of comics, Marvel Comics' MONSTERS UNLEASHED ! comic event, and the follow-up ongoing by the event's writer, Cullen Bunn.
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We just gonna list things?
I can list all kinds of comics I've never read.
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MARVEL UNIVERSE. Not to be confused with the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. A sadly short-lived anthology mag written by Roger Stern, telling tales in the MU before the arrival the Fantastic Four. The first tale featuring the premier WW2 super-team, the Invaders, going up against Baron Wolfgang Von Strucker, and a freshman HYDRA organization. Cpatin America, Prince Namor,and the original Human Torch try to stop HYDRA from obtaining the necessary materials to build an atomic bomb. The second story which brings this recommendation here. Monster Hunters(http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/monsterhuntersmv.htm), involves a gathering of individuals gathered by the enigmatic government operative, Agent Curtis. Ulysess Bloodstone. Wakandian native Zawadi. And paranormal investigator Dr. Anthony Druid. The purpose of this gathering is to discover the source of the scads of monsters terrorizing the world.
SHOGUN WARRIORS.
Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. The writer, artist team from Marvel's GODZILLA:KING OF THE MONSTERS, continued the monster action in this mag, which only lasted twenty issues sadly. But it did feature a bevy of monsters that would give Godzilla a run for his money. Also the return of Godzilla's human foe from his Marvel Mag, mad geneticist ,and mastermind ,Doctor Demonicus.
SHOGUN WARRIORS.
Doug Moench and Herb Trimpe. The writer, artist team from Marvel's GODZILLA:KING OF THE MONSTERS, continued the monster action in this mag, which only lasted twenty issues sadly. But it did feature a bevy of monsters that would give Godzilla a run for his money. Also the return of Godzilla's human foe from his Marvel Mag, mad geneticist ,and mastermind ,Doctor Demonicus.
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No one lists Konga, Gorgo or the Reptisaurus comics. ;_;
Imagine getting angry your out of date and obsolete stats for rubber suit monsters were 'stolen'.
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Kaijumax is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. The stories are really well down tributes to the genre and they're pretty hilarious. Excited for the third TPB in May.
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List, review, whatever you like.Ivo-goji wrote:We just gonna list things?
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Mayday by Chris Strange. Pretty good book actually. I rather enjoyed it.
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I've almost finished reading a trade of Jack Kirby's Devil Dinosaur. a month or so ago, I read a novel called Gila! by Les Simons.
Thousands of Giant Gila Monsters rampage through New Mexico eating everyone in gory detail, even children.
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Guy N. Smith's Crab book series, 7 novels and a collection of short stories about Giant crabs attacking the UK.
Thousands of Giant Gila Monsters rampage through New Mexico eating everyone in gory detail, even children.
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Guy N. Smith's Crab book series, 7 novels and a collection of short stories about Giant crabs attacking the UK.
- Night of the Crabs
Killer Crabs
The Origin of the Crabs
Crabs on the Rampage
Crabs' Moon
Crabs: The Human Sacrifice
Killer Crabs: The Return
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I read Crab's Moon a few years back. It's very gory, but it's also pretty tasteless. Most of the characters are unlikeable pricks who cared about getting laid more than anything else. There's the whole bit about the adolescent with mental limitations who declares his intentions to get laid, and then goes after the crabs and points his fingers at them and yells, "Bang!", only to get slaughtered. The book ends with the male protagonist hoping that he'll score with the married woman he survived the ideal with. Everyone should've just died in this.kingkevzilla88 wrote:The stories are very gore, describing in great detail people getting dismembered by the Crabs.
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I've always liked Don Glut's Tragg and the Sky Gods. Anyone know if this series (which lasted nine issues) ever was collected in book form? I'd love to get that one, if it's available.
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The Gorgo comic books were surprisingly entertaining. Upthere with the Marvel Godzilla run in entertainment. Gorgo fights aliens, t-rexes, the works. One issue even has Gorgo and his mom fighting aliens, with Reptilicus/Repitsaurus flying in the background. If you're a gorgo fan, look these comics up.
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Eat Them Alive
I read about it in Paperbacks From Hell and from looking online, this is a nasty one. Written by an old lady using a pen name, Eat Them Alive is about a crazy man, who finds Island newly resin from the sea, teeming with 8-ft praying mantis. He trains them and uses them to get revenge on a gang of criminals who robbed, castrated him and left him for dead. Like the Crabs series, this incredible over the top with the gore.
I haven't read this one, but I do plan on doing so. In this one, Gigantic worms and mutant beetles have destroyed the world, and biker gangs run a post-apocalyptic London. It really does sound like fun.
I read about it in Paperbacks From Hell and from looking online, this is a nasty one. Written by an old lady using a pen name, Eat Them Alive is about a crazy man, who finds Island newly resin from the sea, teeming with 8-ft praying mantis. He trains them and uses them to get revenge on a gang of criminals who robbed, castrated him and left him for dead. Like the Crabs series, this incredible over the top with the gore.
I haven't read this one, but I do plan on doing so. In this one, Gigantic worms and mutant beetles have destroyed the world, and biker gangs run a post-apocalyptic London. It really does sound like fun.
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The CLICKERS series of novels. The first written by Jorge Gonzalez and special effects artist Mark Williams. From a concept by Williams. The next three co-written by horror scribe, Brian Keene.
CLICKERS tells the tale of a small town on the Maine coast being swarmed by thousands of crab/lobster/scorpion
hybrids that invade the cozy hamlet during a hurricane. On top of having claws that can cut through the strongest of wire with the greatest of ease. The stinger on the Clickers injects a poison that is so toxic, it dissolves its prey. But the title beasties in the book aren't the worst thing as the townsfolk of Phillipsport also have to deal with what drove the voracious crustaceans to shore. As the series continues with THE NEXT WAVE and DAGON RISING, the Clickers , which start out the size of a labador retriever in the first book. Start showing up at the size of small automobiles, to at least a hundred feet tall. The fourth book, CLICKERS Vs. ZOMBIES, involve the walking dead that terrorize the Brian Keene novels, THE RISING and THE CITY OF DEAD, butting heads with the Clickers. Also fans of Keene's works, and the Clicker novels, also encounter alternate versions of the characters who appeared in Keene's and Gonzalez's works. And this year, with the passing of Jorge Gonzalez, comes an anthology, CLICKERS FOREVER, of various authors, edited by Keene.
One of my favorite , along with the first , novel by horror author Robert R. McCammon that I read. STINGER,
,involves the dying Texas mining town of Inferno. When one day a spaceship crashes outside the berg. Its pilot is fleeing something nasty customers from where it comes from. They send something really nasty to get her back. The hard core creature action starts halfway though the novel. Also leaves me wondering why this hasn't ever been adapted into a movie as of yet.
CLICKERS tells the tale of a small town on the Maine coast being swarmed by thousands of crab/lobster/scorpion
hybrids that invade the cozy hamlet during a hurricane. On top of having claws that can cut through the strongest of wire with the greatest of ease. The stinger on the Clickers injects a poison that is so toxic, it dissolves its prey. But the title beasties in the book aren't the worst thing as the townsfolk of Phillipsport also have to deal with what drove the voracious crustaceans to shore. As the series continues with THE NEXT WAVE and DAGON RISING, the Clickers , which start out the size of a labador retriever in the first book. Start showing up at the size of small automobiles, to at least a hundred feet tall. The fourth book, CLICKERS Vs. ZOMBIES, involve the walking dead that terrorize the Brian Keene novels, THE RISING and THE CITY OF DEAD, butting heads with the Clickers. Also fans of Keene's works, and the Clicker novels, also encounter alternate versions of the characters who appeared in Keene's and Gonzalez's works. And this year, with the passing of Jorge Gonzalez, comes an anthology, CLICKERS FOREVER, of various authors, edited by Keene.
One of my favorite , along with the first , novel by horror author Robert R. McCammon that I read. STINGER,
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Eric S Brown has written a lot of kaiju novels, here's a list of those:
Kaiju Armegeddon (2014)
Kaiju Apocalypse (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse II (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse III (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse Box Set (omnibus) (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Murder World: Kaiju Dawn (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Zombie Kaiju Apocalypse (2015)
Dawn Of The Kaiju (2015)
Night Of The Kaiju (2015) (with Aurelio Rico Lopez III)
Kaiju Spawn (2015)
Crawlers (2015) (with Aurelio Rico Lopez III)
Megalodon (2015)
Megalodons (2015) (with Clarence Wirtz)
Megalodon Apocalypse (2015)
Kraken (2016)
Kraken Island (2016)
Kraken vs. Megalodon (2016)
Kaiju Rampage (2016)
Kaiju Wars (2017)
Antarctica (2017)
The Kraken Rises (2017)
Mecha (2017)
I am ashamed to admit it I haven't read anything by him, but see the huge volume of work he's done I'm going to change that. here's a link to his complete body of work, for anyone interested:
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/eric-s-brown/
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This one looks very interesting, Vietnam Black by Brad Harmer-Barnes
A giant centipede going on the rampage during the Vietnam war, I'm defiantly going to read this as so as I can.
Kaiju Armegeddon (2014)
Kaiju Apocalypse (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse II (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse III (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Kaiju Apocalypse Box Set (omnibus) (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Murder World: Kaiju Dawn (2014) (with Jason Cordova)
Zombie Kaiju Apocalypse (2015)
Dawn Of The Kaiju (2015)
Night Of The Kaiju (2015) (with Aurelio Rico Lopez III)
Kaiju Spawn (2015)
Crawlers (2015) (with Aurelio Rico Lopez III)
Megalodon (2015)
Megalodons (2015) (with Clarence Wirtz)
Megalodon Apocalypse (2015)
Kraken (2016)
Kraken Island (2016)
Kraken vs. Megalodon (2016)
Kaiju Rampage (2016)
Kaiju Wars (2017)
Antarctica (2017)
The Kraken Rises (2017)
Mecha (2017)
I am ashamed to admit it I haven't read anything by him, but see the huge volume of work he's done I'm going to change that. here's a link to his complete body of work, for anyone interested:
https://www.fantasticfiction.com/b/eric-s-brown/
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This one looks very interesting, Vietnam Black by Brad Harmer-Barnes
A giant centipede going on the rampage during the Vietnam war, I'm defiantly going to read this as so as I can.
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Aww, was just going to search out a thread like this.
I’d like to track down the Gorgo and Konga comics, but they’re not collected anywhere except in those Steve Ditko books which only include the ones that he did. Lol, I want them all.
I’ve only heard about the Reptilicus comics.
Are the Marvel Godzilla who is not technically Godzilla books collected somewhere?
I’d like to track down the Gorgo and Konga comics, but they’re not collected anywhere except in those Steve Ditko books which only include the ones that he did. Lol, I want them all.
I’ve only heard about the Reptilicus comics.
Are the Marvel Godzilla who is not technically Godzilla books collected somewhere?
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I found two comics today while looking amazon, both of these come from 70s British comic magazines.
ANT WARS
and Von Hoffman's Invasion
both of these come from Rebellion/2000 A.D. Von Hoffman's Invasion is about a Nazi mad scientist taking revenge on the UK with an army of giant insects! sounds fun, doesn't it?
ANT WARS
and Von Hoffman's Invasion
both of these come from Rebellion/2000 A.D. Von Hoffman's Invasion is about a Nazi mad scientist taking revenge on the UK with an army of giant insects! sounds fun, doesn't it?
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How about Album covers with giant monsters? I suggest Queen News of the World. Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell and Saga Images in Twilight.