King of the Monsters #4

Godzilla #4
“Godzilla Versus Batragon!”
Doug Moench and Tom Sutton

Plot Synopsis
A mysterious monster attacks an oilrig, only to be itself attacked by Godzilla. What mysteries may be unearthed from this?

Rolling Commentary
Yay! Good old-fashioned monster brawl time!

Page 2. See Godzilla is a good guy! Sort of….

Page 3. Go, Godzilla, go!

Page 4. Demonicus? Whozeewha?

Page 5. North Atlantic? Shouldn’t we be in the Pacific?

Page 6. Racism might be affecting Dugan’s judgment? This comic is kind of deep, for a monster-destruction-fest.

Page 8. I’d say this is a rather bizarre turn of events, but have you guys seen some of those Toho movies? This is pretty much par for the course, really.

Page 10. Dead humans make Godzilla sad?

Page 11. Look kids! Someone actually recognized Godzilla! Awesome.

Page 14. Ahh yeah, it’s on now!

Page 16. Well. That was brief. Alas.

Post Mortem
Yay for monster fights! Even if it was a little brief, it was still fun. And it looks like we’re going to have an all out monster brawl next issue, which rocks. Demonicus has a great name, a gawdy costume, and absolutely no motivation that I can see. So he seems to me to be a perfect human villain for Godzilla.

Not much else to add. This book is still way more fun than it deserves to be. I love it so far.