Godzilla: Heist issue 1
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Godzilla: Heist #1 is a comic book from IDW Publishing. It was published on February 19, 2025.[1]
Description
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What if you could predict when and where Godzilla would appear? What if you knew of the perfect opportunity to pull off the heist of the century?
Jai is a young man who knows two things: A heist needs a good distraction, and there’s no distraction like Godzilla. So, when Jai discovers Godzilla responds to specific energy signals he can send into the atmosphere, he creates the perfect opportunity to stage high-profile heists in the middle of Godzilla attacks. But these heists put Jai on the radar of some very dangerous men, men who want Jai to work with them to pull off the most dangerous job the world has ever seen. Join the superstar crew of Van Jensen (The Flash, Green Lantern Corps, Godfall) and Kelsey Ramsay (Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor, Dark Spaces: Good Deeds) for one last job in Godzilla: Heist.[1] |
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Plot
Jaion "Jai" Kulkarni walks into a Manila casino and announces to two security guards that he has come to steal the millions stored in its vault. They scoff at him until Godzilla caves in a wall of the casino. Kulkarni steals a keycard from one of the guards in the chaos, then deploys six tiny drones to open fire on the kaiju outside. With the entire casino evacuating, Kulkarni reaches the vault and uses the drones to induce Godzilla’s atomic breath. The beam blasts a hole into the vault, and the drones return to help Kulkarni carry off massive bags of cash. Godzilla destroys two drones as they withdraw, then notices the thief and stoops down to roar at him. The Philippine chooses then to intervene and Kulkarni, shocked that he’s still alive, makes his escape. He reaches a safehouse and packs up a small device, reflecting that Godzilla moves faster than he expected and he needs to study more footage of the monster for later stages of his plan.
In Macau, Kulkarni spends his stolen cash lavishly and conspicuously. A burly man named Alpha, told of Kulkarni’s connection to the Godzilla attack in Manila by another man hidden by shadow, tracks him down in a club and knocks him unconscious. He dreams about something his mother invented to prevent attacks against India, the British government’s seizure of the invention, and his promise to her to steal it back. He wakes up tied to a chair suspended at the edge of a yacht. His interrogators - Alpha, joined by Beta, Kappa, and Chi - are all ex-military. The owner of the yacht, their wealth benefactor, remains hidden from view. He soon confesses to masterminding the Godzilla-aided casino heist. He keeps the details of his method to lure Godzilla to civilization vague, only saying that he invented a Neutrino Cannon that can cause atmospheric anomalies. They ask him to help with a much grander heist of their own - with death as the only alternative - and he accepts.
Alpha explains that their target is inside the Ministry of Defence Main Building in London, protected by elite guards and top-of-the-line security systems, and possesses world-shaping power. Kulkarni is ready to quit over his refusal to specify the target, but Alpha only adds that it’s a man-made object.
The team travels to London, where the Neutrino Cannon, now mounted on top of the yacht, lures Godzilla to the city. A young tourist wearing a Godzilla hat is the first to spot his dorsal plates emerging from the water. Kulkarni, standing apart from the rest of his team, silently gloats how he’s duped them. Alpha’s capture of him was just another part of his plan, and he already knows what the target is: his mother’s relinquished invention, Mechagodzilla.
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Gallery
Covers
Cover A by Bob Eggleton
Cover B by Pablo Tunica
Cover RI (1:10) by Bob Eggleton
Previews
Page 1
Page 2
Pages 3-4
Page 5
Page 6
Trivia
- Though Godzilla sports an original design in the comic, cover A uses the 1964 "MosuGoji" design. This was discarded with subsequent issues.
- Cover B is based on a poster for the 1992 film Reservoir Dogs, which also revolved around a heist gone wrong.
References
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