Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre issue 1

Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre
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Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre #1 Written by Tom Scioli Art by Tom Scioli Cover by Tom Scioli (CVR A/B) Jim Rugg (CVR RI 1:10) Jim Mahfood (CVR RI 1:25) Colors by Tom Scioli

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Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre #1 is a comic book from IDW Publishing. It was published on October 23, 2024.

Description

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Godzilla takes on his greatest foe yet—The Great Gatsby! The year is 1922. Mysterious man of luxury Jay Gatsby continues to throw parties from his palatial Long Island estate, all in hopes of attracting the attention of his love, Daisy Buchanan. But his affair is interrupted as his party attracts the one thing more dangerous than love: GODZILLA. Now, Gatsby has no choice but to turn his undying will away from his love of Daisy and onto revenge against the monster who destroyed his home. Come along with Gatsby on the journey of a lifetime in three oversized issues as he combines forces with the greatest men of the 20th century to stop its greatest monster—written and drawn by cult favorite comics creator Tom Scioli (Fantastic Four: Grand Design, Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics).

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Plot

In a Louisville mansion in 1917, Jay Gatsby and Daisy Fay passionately kiss away from the rest of the party. As Gatsby leaves on a train to fight in World War I, Daisy promises to wait for him. The following year, stationed in France, he writes to her, remarking that he hasn't heard from her in some time.

In the 1920s, Gatsby hosts a massive party of his own at his Long Island mansion, but isolates himself from the festivities, instead looking across Long Island Sound at a green light. The light is an electric lamp at the end of Daisy's dock, where she stands looking back at him. Her husband Tom Buchanan turned down Gatsby's invitation to the party, finding him a "self-important blowhard." Their mansion is suddenly consumed by flame, with Gatsby's mansion soon joining it. Participants in a dance contest assume that the screaming partygoers are cheering for them, only to find Godzilla peering through the windows. Gatsby and Daisy's cousin Nick Carraway rush to the Buchanan mansion via motorboat, with the monster briefly pursuing them. A massive wave buffets them after they come ashore, and a second wave convinces the Buchanans to evacuate. Tom scoffs at Gatsby's description of Godzilla, believing that they're merely witnessing a storm, but Godzilla soon makes himself known again, flipping the boat with his tail. Gatsby and Carraway surface first, with Gatsby desperately calling for Daisy.

Gatsby contracts inventor Thomas Edison to build weapons that are capable of stunning and killing Godzilla. A drunken Tom rear-ends Gatsby and Carraway on the drive back from Edison's facility, then punches Gatsby. He believes that she drowned on the night of Godzilla's attack, but Gatsby assures him that he's hired an army of detectives to look for her. Godzilla breaks the Queensboro Bridge in two before making landfall in New York City, crushing a train in his jaws and setting the metropolis ablaze. Firefighters try tying a hose around his leg and blasting him with water, but only irritate him. Carraway rescues a cat before speeding away from the monster. Gatsby and a division of tanks dubbed G-Force confront Godzilla. Though he crushes one of the tanks underfoot, he departs the city as their shelling continues. Carraway reaches Gatsby with the cat, then collapses.

Crossing the Atlantic Ocean, Godzilla sinks an ocean liner. Gatsby's detectives find Daisy after she washes ashore; he is dismayed to discover that she has amnesia. In Ipswich, England, an elderly Sherlock Holmes inspects a Godzilla footprint in a field. Gatsby meets him at his London home, asking if the legendary detective could use his political connections to authorize G-Force's deployment in London when Godzilla inevitably raids the city. Holmes adds that Gatsby's private army will not be a match for the monster so long as it continues relying on conventional munitions - and Edison will take too long to design more exotic weapons. He refers Gatsby to author Jules Verne. A cyborg who faked his death, Verne meets Gatsby in Paris aboard the Nautilus, the supposedly-fictional submarine he once wrote about. Gatsby is intrigued by Verne's sketches of a flying machine, but he rebuffs him, saying that he has no wish to see his inventions used for war.

Godzilla storms London, slicing Big Ben in two, crashing a pair of double-decker buses together, splintering the Tower Bridge, and immolating the Houses of Parliament. Count Dracula and his brides watch the destruction with interest from Carfax Abbey. Biplanes led by Victor Yeates engage Godzilla, suffering heavy losses from his swinging tail and atomic breath. The next day, Gatsby grimly reads about Godzilla's rampage in The Times. Suddenly the Time Machinist appears before him and Holmes in his time machine, now out of fuel. He announces that he comes from the future, and though he failed to prevent London's destruction a second time, he is determined to stop Gatsby's mission of revenge, which he says will cause untold global suffering.

Appearances

Monsters Godzilla Characters Jay "The Great" Gatsby Daisy Buchanan (née Fay) Nick Carraway Count Dracula Dracula's brides Sherlock Holmes "Time Machinist" Jules Verne Thomas Edison Thomas "Tom" Buchanan The Irregulars Doc Watson Victor Yeates

Weapons, vehicles, races, and organizations G-Force Nautilus Time machine G-Force tanks British biplanes Locations United States New York West Egg, Long Island New York City New Jersey Louisville, Kentucky England London 221B Baker Street Carfax Abbey, North London Ipswich France Paris Argonne Forest

Gallery

Covers

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  Cover A by
  Tom Scioli

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  Cover B by
  Tom Scioli

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  Cover RI (1:10)
  by Jim Rugg

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  Cover RI (1:25)
  by Jim Mahfood

Scans

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  Godzilla biting into a train car full of people

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Trivia

• This comic's A cover pays homage to that of Marvel's Fantastic Four #1; Tom Scioli previously authored the related miniseries Fantastic Four: Grand Design. The B cover is based on the original cover of The Great Gatsby.
• Previous depictions of Dr. Watson as a woman include the TV series Elementary (2012-2019) and Miss Sherlock (2018).
• The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus, named after the fictitious Nautilus, previously had a close encounter with Godzilla in Godzilla: Awakening (2014), and was stated to have been responsible for his emergence in 1954 in Godzilla (2014). Godzilla also sank the submarine USS Redfish, which was redressed in real life to portray the fictional Nautilus in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), in Godzilla Minus One (2023).

References

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