Godzilla: Awakening (Legendary Comics)

T-minus 3 days until the movie opens... do you want to read this? Yes. Is it necessary? Probably not, but (as a prequel) it seems to lay out the background of this new G universe quite nicely (and I did love this backstory). Is it full of spoilers? Haven't seen the movie yet, only the trailers; but as far as I can tell, there was nothing in Godzilla Awakening that would spoil anything in the movie itself, other than (possibly?) the character and nature of Godzilla itself. Beyond all that: looks awesome on the HDX (8.9"), some really beautiful pages and their corresponding pencil and ink sketches in the back, and an entertaining story that, like the movie itself, has a few great nods to the 1954 original. Highly recommended.

It is great for readers who wanna know about the history about our kiaju and how it was awaken it is quite interesting

Godzilla: Awakening is the prequel to the recently released film starring the eponymous monster. It deals with the backstory of Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's search for the titular monster, but the comic actually stars his father, who's the one who started said search. The story depicts Serizawa finding out about the existence of monsters and being recruited into the US army, as advisor on how to find and destroy the monsters. At some point, he starts hearing rumors and finding imagery that depict a monster that he's never encountered, but some natives call "Gojira", convinced he's a mythological creature whose purpose is to fight the other monsters in order to restore balance to the world. The structure of the story is actually quite similar to that of the film, including the fact that we see most of Godzilla from the eyes of the humans, and his presence is very lite. There is another monster in the story, but it's never named (well, except for the general moniker of MUTO, but it's not the same monster from the film). The problem is that there is too little story and it's unnecessarily stretched. There's also the question of the art, which while it's very good, it gets confusing at times due to the decision of including special shots detailing scenes that will happen later in the middle of the story. Now, it's common in comic compilations to do this: they include the cover art for the issue in question before each chapter, and that cover art usually depicts a scene that will happen later. But this is not the case here. This is not a compilation, it's a standalone issue divided in chapters. Furthermore, the "cover" art for each of these shots is done by the same artist that draws each chapter, which means you will mistake those "cover" pages as a sequential part of the story, instead of just a depiction of what will happen later. It gets confusing, because the art is not labeled in any different way. Had they just inserted pencil art or put a "Chapter X" on top of the art, it would be better. In any case, it's a neat story. It's not required to understand the film, and it's certainly nothing that will blow your mind, but it's a nice add-on. There are a couple of extra pages at the end, with the authors talking about making this comic and detailing some pencil art. The cover of the comic is gorgeous, though done by a different artist from the other three who make the art from the book, and the hardcover edition makes for a wonderful collector's item. I say, for the actual price it's worth it.

I absolutely love Godzilla. From the first to the last,there are exceptions the supposed Godzilla from 1990 with Broderick and Shin Godzilla both movie were a huge disappointment to me. The Legendary version awesome. Just waiting for two and three. Now for the comic, a well written story. The backstory of Serizawa's father and how the scientist joined Monarch. I really wished it was much longer. I didn't want this story to end. If you enjoy good stories and comics, then make time for yourself, sit back relax and enjoy.

Huge Godzilla fan so I was obviously going to get this. It's basically back story to 2014's Serizawa. Artwork is nice and it's a quick read. I wouldn't say its a nescecity to read it before the movie but there are some slight references and it did make me smile knowing what they were referring to

Like many I was skeptical about another American Godzilla movie, but both this book and the film do Godzilla justice. The images were well drawn, the plot was interesting, and it gives us the backstory to what could potentially be used for future Godzilla films. I really didn't find anything bad about the Graphic Novel and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who calls themselves a true Godzilla fan.

I love Godzilla, and while this has been on my radar for a long time, I just never really got around to buying it. But now that the sequel to the 2014 movie is coming and it's my most anticipated movie of the year, I decided that it was the perfect time to read this and the new graphic novel that's coming out soon that ties in with the new movie. This was okay, it wasn't great, I think the author and the artist probably wanted to do a lot more, but studios and publishers always have a tendency to limit tie-in fiction, plus since when this was written no one knew weather or not Godzilla 2014 would do well or spawn a shared universe, I'm guessing the higher ups might have put a few more limitations than normal on this. There's not much monster action in here, we see everything from the human point of view, and while it was kind of interesting to see how MONARCH got founded, with such a cool monster they had for G to fight, it could have had a lot more action. The art was okay, though a lot of it was kinda confusing, I could never really tell what exactly was going on, plus I loved a lot of the art in the other Godzilla comics, so I couldn't help but compare it to those and found it somewhat lacking. Overall this was okay, it could have been better, but it was enjoyable enough, though I probably wouldn't recommend it over some of the other Godzilla graphic novels that are available, unless it's on a really good deal.

The art on this graphic novel are pretty impressive on my own perspective. As much as I have gone through browsing the illustrations, you won't get to see Godzilla all the time in this book but of course he is still in the book. This concentrates on the events some 40 - 50 years before the events in the movie occurred so don't expect to see Bryan Cranston or Elizabeth Olsen in illustrated form. The last few pages are dedicated to the conception of the art found in this graphic novel. The cover itself, I can probably spend a good amount of time looking at it. I recommend this to any Godzilla memorabilia collectors.

Not worth its price - high price

Sin lugar a dudas una de mis mejores compras, me gusta mucho este cómic, muy interesante como de desplaza la historia y como desenlaza, recomendable al 100%

Un super ouvrage. Permet de se pencher sur la prequel du film godzilla de 2014. Je le recommande franchement. top

Does what an e-book should

I really enjoyed this comic. I found the story pretty interesting and the art work is awesome, and the hardcover copy is pretty nice. Its a nice build up/prequel to the 2014 Legendary Godzilla film .... and if you loved the 2014 Godzilla film as much as I do I'm sure you'll love this comic