Category Archives: Graphic novels

Alan Brooks and the Flying Saucers

Posted on Friday, March 28, 2008 by Robert Hood

One of the great cinematic creators of giant monsters is famed stop-motion animator Ray Harryhausen, whose movies have rested firmly at the centre of the Hollywood giant monster tradition since his 1953 The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms. Even earlier than … Continue reading →

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Godzilla vs the US Navy

Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

Godzilla does what he does best in the next installment of Todd Tennant’s American Godzilla ’94 graphic novel: For those who don’t know, kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been engaged in an ambitious project to create a … Continue reading →

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New: Death Walks the Streets

Posted on Sunday, March 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

Vampires. Demons. Zombies. Werewolves. The Mob. Did I mention zombies? Death Walks the Streets is a new comic series from creator James Zahn. It’s been a long-term project but apparently issue #0 is about to begin walkin’ and stalkin’ any … Continue reading →

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Mecha Bible Heroes!

Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 by Robert Hood

Yes, it’s Bible stories in the form of manga, with appropriate “translation” of the characters into giant robots, action heroes and other manga-esque entities: You can see some of the internal pages here. And in case you thought that such … Continue reading →

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American Godzilla Page 56

Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 by Robert Hood

There has been a glitch with the American Kajiu site, a glitch that resulted in the reinstatement of an older version of Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the 1994 Jan De Bont script, and the subsequent removal of the most … Continue reading →

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More Godzilla 1994

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 by Robert Hood

Speaking of the “Lost Godzilla”, Todd Tennant’s graphic novel based on the original “Jan de Bont” script is proceeding very nicely indeed. Seven new pages went up this week, culminating with this: The new sequence begins here. For those who … Continue reading →

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The Real American Godzilla Movie

Posted on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 by Robert Hood

Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been turning the original script that Jan DeBont was intending to use as the basis of his Godzilla film into a graphic novel. To date there are 38 pages, five new ones … Continue reading →

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Giantkiller

Posted on Friday, August 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

Giantkiller by Dan Brereton is a graphic novel about a world overrun by giant monsters. These daikaiju have entered our reality through a spatial tear caused by volcanic activity in an ecologically turbulent area of California — an effect that … Continue reading →

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