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*[[Godzilla/Legendary|Godzilla]] | *[[Godzilla/Legendary|Godzilla]] | ||
*[[MUTO Prime]] | *[[MUTO Prime]] | ||
*Dagon | *[[Dagon]] | ||
*[[Death Jackal]] | *[[Death Jackal]] | ||
*[[MUTO]] (male and female; flashbacks) | *[[MUTO]] (male and female; flashbacks) | ||
*[[King Ghidorah/Legendary|King Ghidorah]] (computer screen) | *[[King Ghidorah/Legendary|King Ghidorah]] (computer screen) | ||
===Characters=== | ===Characters=== | ||
*Dr. [[Emma Russell]] | *Dr. [[Emma Russell]] |
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Godzilla: Aftershock (ゴジラ:アフターショック is a prequel graphic novel to Gojira Afutāshokku)Godzilla: King of the Monsters set to be published by Legendary Comics on May 21, 2019,[1] and by Village Books on May 24 in Japan.[2] However, many Barnes & Noble stores began selling it in early May. The third official graphic novel tie-in for the MonsterVerse, it is written by Arvid Nelson, the writer of Skull Island: The Birth of Kong, and illustrated by Drew Johnson. Set several months after Godzilla (2014), it features a battle between Godzilla and a new Titan called MUTO Prime, the parent of the MUTOs. The Japanese release of Godzilla: Aftershock is translated by Shiori Miyo.
Description
Plot
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Chapter One
In 2014, the infamous mercenary Alan Jonah is interrogated with little success on an American military base in Guam. A sudden earthquake preludes the appearance of a giant monster resembling the MUTOs, who feasts on a nearby nuclear submarine. Godzilla quickly arrives to battle it, but it strikes him with a massive arm and returns underground. Monarch assigns Dr. Emma Russell to the case. After she arrives in Guam, Dr. Ishiro Serizawa explains that the first earthquake caused by the monster took place eighteen hours prior in Kyushu, Japan. Inside the base, she meets Miles Atherton, a representative of the United Nations' San Francisco Commission sent to oversee her activities. As they prepare to fly to Japan, Jonah holds them at gunpoint on the runway. Tarkan Cavusgolu, a member of Monarch's Crisis Response Unit, draws his own gun on him, but Jonah tackles him and escapes. Cavusgolu reveals that Jonah's phone, confiscated before the attack, has information on all of Monarch's bases. He suspects the mercenary was hoping to kidnap Russell specifically.
Chapter Two
In Japan, a Shinto priest takes Russell, Cavusgolu, and Atherton to a shrine next to a massive pit opened up by the monster who attacked Guam. The Monarch agents explore the cavern, but the monster seems to be waiting for them and forces them to withdraw. The priest reveals that the creature was named Jinshin-Mushi in ancient Japan, and was the enemy of the thunder god Raijin. Monarch cracks Jonah's phone and finds the mercenary had already discovered another pit in Siberia, next to an abandoned Monarch outpost. Meanwhile, Atherton interviews Russell's estranged husband Mark, who expresses doubts that she should still be in Monarch. Meanwhile, Jinshin-Mushi destroys a Russian submarine. Again, Godzilla rushes to battle it, and again it knocks him aside before leaving.
In Siberia, Russell's team finds two ancient MUTO egg casings and Alan Jonah, who again tries to abduct her. He is instantly surrounded by Monarch agents, a trap set by Cavusgolu, and turned over to the Russian government.
Chapter Three
Jinshin-Mushi attacks the Athena II Nuclear Power Plant in France. Facing Godzilla once more, it proves to be more than his equal in combat before departing, although he prevents it from using its ovipositors. Dr. Vivienne Graham brings Russell's daughter Madison Monarch's outpost in the Philippines to lift her spirits. Graham informs Russell that the Japanese government has a collection of Phoenician stone tablets depicting a battle between Jinshin-Mushi and another member of Godzilla's species, which they called Dagon. Jinshin-Mushi prevailed, injecting Dagon with two eggs which drained the creature's internal nuclear furnace and ultimately killed it in the Philippines. Russell names Jinshin-Mushi "MUTO Prime" and theorizes that it's either the adult form of a female MUTO or the sole survivor of a MUTO plague which caused one of Earth's mass extinctions. She also speculates that the sonic pulse emitted by the MUTO eggs could be replicated to disorient MUTO Prime. As she prepares to leave for MUTO Prime's next destination, the Azores, retired Monarch agent Houston Brooks offers a word of caution, saying she reminds him of his son Aaron just before his unsanctioned mission to Skull Island. On the flight there, Cavusgolu tells her that Jonah escaped from the Russians. Unfortunately, the sonic pulses she prepares only agitate the monster, which kills most of her team. Her mistake, she realizes too late, was not making the pulses sound like they were emitted inside Godzilla.
The United Nations suspends Monarch's efforts to combat MUTO Prime, though Atherton offers his endorsement of Russell. He then steals a prototype sonar device she and Mark designed with a UN grant so she can use it at the site of MUTO Prime and Godzilla's next battle, a nuclear repository station in Montana. MUTO Prime shatters Godzilla's dorsal plates with a sonic roar, but the prototype causes it to pause its attack. Godzilla lifts it onto his back and sends it flying into the air by releasing waves of energy from his back. After it falls to the earth, crippled, he crushes its head and returns to the sea. In Boston, Russell promises to keep Madison safe in a rapidly-changing world.
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Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- Written by Arvid Nelson
- Illustrated by Drew Edward Johnson
- Colors by Allen Passalaqua
- Covers by Christopher Shy, Arthur Adams
- Story and Mythology Development by Barnaby Legg
- Mythology Manager George Tew
- MonsterVerse Creatives Katie Aguilar, Brian Hoffman, Josh Parker
- Lettering and Design by John Roshell, Jimmy Betancourt, Sarah Jacobs
- Edits by Robert Napton
- Special Thanks to Alex Garcia, Jay Ashenfelter, Michael Dougherty, Zach Shields, Rui Machida, Brooke Hansohn, Jeremy Colwell, Makenna Knudson, Jennifer Stewart, Legendary Marketing
- Translated by Shiori Miyo (Japanese version)
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Trivia
- With the release of this graphic novel, every entry in the MonsterVerse so far has received an official tie-in graphic novel. Godzilla previously received a prequel graphic novel titled Godzilla: Awakening, while Kong: Skull Island was accompanied by a four-issue miniseries titled Skull Island: The Birth of Kong.
- This is the first American Godzilla comic published since the final issue of IDW Publishing's Godzilla: Rage Across Time in November 2016.
- Godzilla: Aftershock was originally scheduled to be released on April 16, but was eventually delayed to May 21, just ten days before the release of Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
References
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