Godzilla: Cataclysm #1
Written by: Cullen Bunn
Art by: Dave Wachter
I asked this question in The Weekly Spinner Picks: Who doesn't love Godzilla? For 60+ years human beings have been mesmerized by the city-destroying behemoth and his love of Tokyo. We've also grown to love his co-stars, NO not Raymond Burr or Matthew Broderick (yuck), but such classics as Mothra and Rodan. Cataclysm takes place in a world twenty years after the last of the monsters have destroyed Tokyo. Unlike the movies however, you're to assume the human race said "screw it" and stopped rebuilding after the numerous Kaiju fights. The transition between scenes in the comic is done masterfully and I dug it a lot.
I'd never read anything written by Bunn until this release. Again, the transitions were awesome and that had a lot to do with the writing. On top of that, you can feel the despair and sadness in the grandfather's words, which added to the realism of the situation. Great writing creates great dramatic effect and Bunn definitely captures that with this piece. There are still 4 issues to go in this series and I can easily see it ending on a depressing note. But who knows? Maybe Bunn will surprise us all and start cheesing it up at some point. I doubt it though. I'm not usually one for "grim dark" drama, but Godzilla started in the darkest recesses of Japanese minds after the bombings of World War 2, so it just works.
Wachter's art is lovely. The Kaiju and the humans are all drawn in such a harsh way that the sadness that encapsulates the atmosphere just vibrates through your retinas. I also dug the monotonal colors at parts that were dreams or depressing scenes. Wachter also drew Big G like a master. Seeing Godzilla wrecking the scene on the page made the kid in me smile a big hearty smile. Anything Godzilla related really.
Great read!
Art by: Dave Wachter
I asked this question in The Weekly Spinner Picks: Who doesn't love Godzilla? For 60+ years human beings have been mesmerized by the city-destroying behemoth and his love of Tokyo. We've also grown to love his co-stars, NO not Raymond Burr or Matthew Broderick (yuck), but such classics as Mothra and Rodan. Cataclysm takes place in a world twenty years after the last of the monsters have destroyed Tokyo. Unlike the movies however, you're to assume the human race said "screw it" and stopped rebuilding after the numerous Kaiju fights. The transition between scenes in the comic is done masterfully and I dug it a lot.
I'd never read anything written by Bunn until this release. Again, the transitions were awesome and that had a lot to do with the writing. On top of that, you can feel the despair and sadness in the grandfather's words, which added to the realism of the situation. Great writing creates great dramatic effect and Bunn definitely captures that with this piece. There are still 4 issues to go in this series and I can easily see it ending on a depressing note. But who knows? Maybe Bunn will surprise us all and start cheesing it up at some point. I doubt it though. I'm not usually one for "grim dark" drama, but Godzilla started in the darkest recesses of Japanese minds after the bombings of World War 2, so it just works.
Wachter's art is lovely. The Kaiju and the humans are all drawn in such a harsh way that the sadness that encapsulates the atmosphere just vibrates through your retinas. I also dug the monotonal colors at parts that were dreams or depressing scenes. Wachter also drew Big G like a master. Seeing Godzilla wrecking the scene on the page made the kid in me smile a big hearty smile. Anything Godzilla related really.
Great read!
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