Godzilla is laying the smackdown on the Marvel comics universe this year, and it doesn’t get any meaner, or any greener for that matter, than the GODZILLA VS. HULK upcoming showdown. Confirmed by studio Toho’s Godzilla Instagram page and originally reported by Evan Valentine from comicbook.com just yesterday, this series by Gerry Duggan and artist Giuseppe Camuncoli is looking rather… larger than life. Coming to audiences on April 16th.
“I grew up loving Godzilla movies and Marvel Comics, and it’s a thrill to be able to collaborate with Giuseppe Camuncoli on the absolute craziest comic I think I’ve ever been a part of, and I worked on over a hundred issues of Deadpool and once wrote a comic about Conan killing a zombie with a call girl’s leg,” said Duggan, “I won’t tell you who wins – the Hulk or Godzilla – but either way, the fans are going to be thrilled.”
“When Marvel called with this offer, I was quite thrilled,” said Camuncoli, “It felt very cool to draw this titan, although the real challenge was to make the iconic ‘70s version look extra scary and dangerous. Thanks to Gerry Duggan’s blazing script, it was quite easy – lots and lots of super crazy scenes to illustrate, I knew this was going to be so much fun. Two of the most powerful and relentless characters and forces in the pop culture world face to face for the first time… I couldn’t resist to be the one to draw that!”
Here’s the official solicit for the story according to Marvel:
“General Ross has no tolerance for monsters in any form. With his anti-kaiju taskforce The Thunderbolts he’s taken down or imprisoned the biggest and baddest monsters on the planet: Fin Fang Foom, Mothra, Kumonga, even the Hulk. Now all that’s left is his biggest hunt of all…GODZILLA. But the Thunderbolts’ efforts to bring their last monster to heel may just result in the most destructive battle royale to ever rock the Earth. It’s time to figure out who’s really the strongest there is!”
As to why this is happening, earlier this year Marvel announced a series of Godzilla comic battles to be featured in the comic line. In March, the king of Kaijus fights the Fantastic Four. In mid April, it’ll be The Hulk and at the end of April/early May, it will be Spider-Man.
Suffice to say, from every convention we’ve been hearing about – this one feels pretty lit. People really love Godzilla.
