Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (2023)

Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons #1 • #2 • #3 • #4 • #5

Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons (ゴジラ：竜の棲む島,   Gojira: Ryū no Sumu Shima, lit. "Godzilla: Island of Dragons") is a five-issue Godzilla comic miniseries published by IDW Publishing from June 21 to November 1, 2023. Written by Frank Tieri and illustrated by Inaki Miranda, the series is set in the 1500s and recounts a lost voyage of Sir Francis Drake in which the English explorer and his crew encountered Godzilla and other kaiju inhabitants of Monster Island. The series received two 2024 Eisner Award nominations, for Best Limited Series and Best Penciller/Inker.

A sequel miniseries, Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II - Sons of Giants, began on June 26, 2024. Phase Six brought the original to Japan as a trade paperback that June 28.

Issues

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  Issue #1

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  Issue #2

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  Issue #3

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  Issue #4

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  Issue #5

Trade paperbacks

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  Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons

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  Books-A-Million exclusive cover, signed by Frank Tieri

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  IDW online exclusive cover, signed by Frank Tieri

Development

Collider was the first media outlet to report on Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons on March 23, 2023, revealing the comic's writer, artist, and premise, as well as several images from it and comments from Tieri and Miranda.

Gallery

Concept art

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  Godzilla character sheet

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  "One-Eyed" Henry Hull character sheet

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  Sir Francis Drake character sheet

Trivia

• This series marks the second appearance of Sir Francis Drake in a Godzilla story, after issue #10 of Dark Horse's Godzilla (1995-1996).
• This is the first concluded Godzilla comic series from IDW Publishing in which Anguirus does not appear within the series itself; he does, however, appear on a variant cover of the first issue.

References

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