The covers for Godzilla: Skate or Die #2 have dropped! The first cover is mine and the second is Juni Ba’s amazing variant cover for this issue. Out in July, make sure you’ve ordered through your local comic store! 🦖🛼🛹🛼🛹🦖
More on the comic here: https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/louie-joyce-godzilla-skate-or-die-comic-book-interview
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Drew Kaiju ship requests via Twitter, get ready for a long ass post
Mothra/Biollante
Goji/Dagon
Varan/Baragon/Manda
MVGoji/Miregoji
Scylla/Barb (Queen MUTO)
Godzilla/Rodan (Heisei)
Titanosaurus/SpaceGodzilla
Baragon/Anguirus
posting more in a bit
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Really cool footage of a Destroy All Monsters photoshoot, featuring the entire cast of kaiju, a gaggle of kids, and more Baragon action than the movie itself! H/T MechaniKongZilla.
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Alright, some more Godzilla monster sketches. First, a batch of polished designs for Anguirus, Hedorah, and Gorosaurus. If you're thinking, "Wait, did I miss Gorosaurus sketches?", the answer is you did not...
...because I figured him out pretty quickly. Retrosaurs come easy to me by this point. Varan's going to need some more work, though.
I think I got my approach for Titanosaurus pretty quickly, but had to spend a while refining the details. The original Titanosaurus's head has all these details fighting for prominence - the big fin, the fin ears, the horns, AND some catfish barbells, all clustered around the eyes. It's a lot! Figuring out how to work them all in elegantly was difficult, and I ended up shifting things around. Even then, I think I'm probably going to cut the barbells in the finished design.
You might notice that both Titanosaurus and Gorosaurus (and Varan's unfinished sketches) have some details in common with my Godzilla. I'm kinda taking a page from Singular Point and making them part of the same clade of fictitious prehistoric reptiles - Goro's species lost the gills as it took on a fully terretrial existence, while Titano's gills are more prominent to enable her almost entirely aquatic lifestyle.
Baragon gets to join the Godzilla relative train too, mainly for meta reasons. He's somewhere between Godzilla's branch of the family tree and Gorosaurus's - because his role in Frankenstein Conquers the Role was at one point pitched to be Godzilla's, and his role in DAM was ultimately taken by Gorosaurus, you see. I didn't change his design very much beyond skewing some proportions to make him seem more mole-y - I mean, I tried to, but Baragon's hard to improve upon, he's already weird as fuck as is. Baragon's... kinda perfect?
Stepping away from prehistoric monsters, I had fun with Orga, mainly by playing with elements of his Godzilla Unleashed: Double Smash incarnation. He's gonna getcha with his big ol' grabby hands, you see. God I wish I could find that tumblr post. EDIT: There it is!
Finally (for now), I'm... still figuring out Gigan, honestly. Not really sure what angle I'm going to end up with, he's proving hard to pin down. Will require more sketching.
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More kaijumon stuff! The classic guardian trio Anguirus, Varagon, and Varan which i personally would think of as possible starters. Along with them theres also Orga and Megalon! two more big bois joining this pocket sized monster list.
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Godzilla versus Varan, Baragon, and Anguirus, the kaiju writer/director Shusuke Kaneko originally wanted use in his 2001 film. Toho overruled him, and replaced Varan and Anguirus with Mothra and King Ghidorah.
That film became Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack.
At least Baragon got to stay, even if the poor guy was left out of the title.
Images by sculptor Masazumi Matsumoto from his ArtStation page.
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Varan - a triphibian kaiju that hs the ability to move on land, water and through the air. It was a giant prehistoric reptile that lived beneath a lake nearby a Japanese mountain village. This guy made its first appearance in Toho's 1958 film, "Varan".
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