EPISODE 15: STARSHIP GODZILLA

Short but sweet this week - it's definitely quality over quantity!

This week, we're looking at STARSHIP GODZILLA, a new title from IDW, and one of three new GODZILLA titles they started publishing last year. It's a great, fast paced crime caper set on the skeleton of MECHA GODZILLA, who has been turned into a starship, crewed by a bunch of lovable space crooks.

We're looking at issue one, the start of the whole story, and a real scene setter, introducing the cast and tone of the stories. 

Also listen out for Eliza-Mariah being a bit cheeky this week as Morgan tries to hold the show together... Enjoy!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Um welcome back to Morgan Talks Comics. This week we are looking at Starship Godzilla, which is a fairly new title from IDW Publishing. Uh joining me this week, as always, is Elizabeth Chamberlain.

SPEAKER_02 0:13

Hello, and could I remind you of something?

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Please do.

SPEAKER_02 0:17

Your phone is up there taking a video.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Yes, I haven't lost my phone.

SPEAKER_02 0:22

So when you can't find it, you know where it is. And I would have to admit that I didn't realise either when you were looking for it. Not that I was looking for it, I was running my own business, but absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

We all make mistakes. Yes, we do. Um, yeah, so this is a fairly new title. Started last year, we're up to about issue six now. Um I was quite excited when IDW announced they were going to be doing a line of Godzilla comics because I've been a huge Godzilla fan since I was really little. I love the original films. Um was lucky enough to see quite a few of them when they were re-screened at a local cinema last year. And I love Mechagodzilla probably more than Godzilla himself. I think Godzilla's a him.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

What's Mechagodzilla?

SPEAKER_00 1:13

So Mechagodzilla is a robot Godzilla that that was built to sort of fight and destroy him, but it didn't happen like that because Godzilla just destroyed Mechagodzilla.

SPEAKER_02 1:24

Oh, that's sad. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

But then Godzilla always wins in the films, so there's no point in watching it then. There is because it's great fun. It's really great fun. I just I just love the way they're put together. Anyway, um yeah, Starship Godzilla is one of three titles, Godzilla-related titles that IDW is publishing. Uh they started three new titles last year. There's a a main Godzilla title, the Starship Godzilla, and then they did a shorter series called Into the Dead Zone. It's all about radioactivity and wastelands and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

I'm looking oh sorry, I'll mark the colour.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Yeah, yeah, please do.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I'm looking at the cover now. Is that a her or a hing?

SPEAKER_00 2:08

It's a her. Right, yeah. Yeah. So um you're gonna say something.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Yeah, what what's with the cat?

SPEAKER_00 2:19

He's the ship's cat. So the premise of this of this comic is that the they've taken Mecca Godzilla and can sort of turn him into a he's turned him into a spaceship. He can fly anyway, because he's got like rockets and stuff. Um Eliza Mariah's looking despairingly at all of this.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

I want to know about the cat more. I haven't I don't haven't found everything I want to know about the cat. Is it something like super cat or something?

SPEAKER_00 2:45

Not that I'm aware of, I think he's just a cat.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

You guess on the front page.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Guess on the front page. What's the case? I guess I don't know. I don't know. I guess uh Oliver Owner, who's the artist here, um really likes cats.

SPEAKER_02 2:59

It's probably his cat.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

It's probably his cat, yeah. Um so yeah, they it's basically it's a it's a ragtag bunch of of slightly disreputable people who have us who are using the using Mechagodzilla as a starship, so they fly they fly through the universe sort of doing missions and stuff. I've got another question. What's this? Looks like a pineapple to me, or it might be an egg. I think there's I think we'll get to some eggs later in the world. What are these things? They could just be little planets or little missiles. There's not much difference between planets and missiles, is there?

unknown 3:39

No. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

Uh anyway, before we dive in, uh a little bit of background on the creative team. So Oliver Ono is an artist I became aware of a couple of years ago, um did a really lovely graphic novel called uh Monster Island Summer Camp, and it was about a group of like young students having a hot having a summer holiday on Monster Island. Monster Island is where Godzilla and everybody lives. That was silly of them, wasn't it? Well it this there was a summer camp set up and and it features Minilla, who's the the the offspring of Godzilla, is like Godzilla Jr. But it's a really it's really love beautifully drawn. I really like Oliver's style.

SPEAKER_02 4:22

I'm probably really showing my ignorance here, but what exactly is Godzilla?

SPEAKER_00 4:27

So to the to do even more of a deep dive, Godzilla is uh the original film came out in 1954. Uh it's a Japanese film, and it's basically a protest film against nuclear weapons.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

Yeah, but what is he?

SPEAKER_00 4:44

Godzilla is like a big is like a dinosaur, like a big lizard, uh, who was affected by all the radioac radioactivity of the nuclear testing in the 40s and 50s and grows to an enormous size and sort of goes on the rampage destroying things.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Right, get it now.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:01

And is this the the um what you have here is the one that was supposed to be. So this is Mechagod's. That's what I was trying to remember.

SPEAKER_00 5:10

This is a slightly later version. The original version appeared in 1974. That there were who's that? This is another one of the crew members here.

SPEAKER_02 5:20

Right, so we find out more about him or her later.

SPEAKER_00 5:23

Yeah, as we dive in.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Okay, dive in.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Okay. Um yeah, so Oliver and O yeah, really like his style. It's it's he's uh works in kind of a bit of a manga anime style. What's the matter?

SPEAKER_02 5:36

I'm ready to dive.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Oh it's a shame the camera wasn't pointing the other way then, because that was quite funny. Um yeah, so and Chris Gooch, who is the writer on on this on this title, he is also an artist as well. What he does, what usually happens is that Chris does a variant cover for this because variant covers are really popular. Liz Mariah's rolling her eyes at this because it's all commercialism of making money.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

Well, I haven't got a problem with that, but I wouldn't fall into the trap of buying more than one.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

No. But I like I like Oliver's work, so I'm quite happy to have the the standard cover, which is which is Oliver's stuff. So we'll dive in.

SPEAKER_02 6:24

Right. I like the colour of the first yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

So we've got like a uh a title spread page to introducing the creative team and giving all the details of IDW. Uh they have the license from Toho, Toho Pictures are a Japanese film company who make all the Godzilla films. Um IDW have the licence to publish Godzilla in comic book form.

SPEAKER_02 6:50

Right. What's this person's name? Did you tell me? I can't remember.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

No, we haven't we haven't actually found out yet.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

Oh don't you know?

SPEAKER_00 6:58

So we jump no, we just jumped straight into the action.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

Oh sorry. What's going on? You're having a Barney?

SPEAKER_00 7:06

So basic yeah, having a Barney. Um we we jump straight into the action, so we jump straight into a fight scene and they're trying to capture one of the uh crew of of Starship Godzilla. Um but they they try they're making a break for it.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Uh could I uh clarify something? It's called Starship Godzilla. Yeah. Is that because Godzilla is on it? No, no, it's because that other pretend meta.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Because Mecha Godzilla is actually is being used as a starship, so a spaceship.

SPEAKER_02 7:43

Oh dear. Yes, okay, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

Okay, and then we carry on through and we see the two two characters here, and they've actually they've come to take what looks like eggs. So I think they're actually supposed to be kaiju or monster eggs.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

Right, what sort of monster?

SPEAKER_00 8:07

Don't know yet because they haven't hatched.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

Oh my they I'll tell you what they look like, they look like the sorts of things you get from Cadbury's or something that they used to tell. Little mini eggs. Yeah. I like those.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

Yeah, so they're talking over like uh sort of walkie-talkie to somebody who's actually on the s on their ship. Um yeah, and they said it's kaiju eggs, so it's monster eggs. Yeah, and they they said that they're rare, so they've all they've been they've been sent out to get these eggs, they've been paid a price to get these eggs. But they they missed one of the guards on the other ship or wherever they are, and he sets off an alarm.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

No, hang on. I've got this confused. He's they've gone from the mon from Mecca Godzilla. And they've gone on to a different ship, have they, to get those cabbage cream eggs, but not cream eggs, not the eggs. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

To get the eggs, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

And one of the guards done an alarm on there.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

Yeah. Okay, right, moving on. So they've turned around and say, We need an extraction now, and they're they're gonna run off with the with the eggs. And it looks like this is inside, so it could actually be inside like a big insider city. There's kind of a cityscape here with like roots and stuff growing out of it. Mmm, looks very odd. Yeah, and we have a full page of stuff of the starship Mecha Godzilla.

SPEAKER_02 9:38

What does that say?

SPEAKER_00 9:38

It says carash.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

Oh well that's the the monstery thingy.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

Yeah, right. So they come diving in, the two crew members here down at the bottom. So we get a get a nice shot of the actual ship coming into the uh into the page.

SPEAKER_02 9:52

Oh no, they're not. The the city thing isn't in the ship. No, the ship is actually landing. Now hang on, which ship's there?

SPEAKER_00 10:01

That's this is Starship Godzilla, this is Mecca Godzilla coming in here at the top.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

What's the where's the other ship gone? The one with the I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

I thought I said they could be in a ship, but it they might actually be on a planet. So there's like a city here. Right. So they've they've gone on onto the gone into wherever this city is to get the eggs.

SPEAKER_02 10:19

I shouldn't be listening to you then, should I?

SPEAKER_00 10:21

No, I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on at all. And then we have a big splash with the title, Starship Godzilla.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Reminds me of Star Trek, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

It has got a bit of a Star Trek vibe to it. Oh, this looks interesting. So, next page, we've got to see a a big shot of the whole of Starship Godzilla, so you can see how they fitted sort of like a ship, Starship bit onto the actual skeleton. They say it's the skeleton of Mechagodzilla, but it's metal, so exoskeleton they meant, don't they? Yeah, exoskeleton, yeah. I remember a little bit of biology from stool. And we've got our two characters here. Um about they're talking about the canister where the eggs are, but one of the eggs has actually hatched.

SPEAKER_02 11:11

Mm-hmm. It's got chicken it.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

But do we know her name yet? No, not yet.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Oh sorry.

SPEAKER_00 11:22

No, sorry. She's saying sorry there as well, because all of a sudden there's loads of holes through the hull of the ship, so clearly whatever was in the egg has eaten their way through the ship.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

Right, that's a bit of a calamity.

SPEAKER_00 11:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Oh, what's this in the is that what so here's the cat.

SPEAKER_00 11:41

I think so. If we just go back a page, I think uh and the the the lead character here says, you know how much Ralphie loves anything warm, and I think Ralphie is the cat, so he's curled up around the eggs. Yeah, you can see him here, he's curled up around the eggs.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

What colour is brown in there?

SPEAKER_00 11:58

It's because it's because the glass of the canister is sort of like it's tinted, yeah. Yeah, so Ralphie the cat is curled up around the one that around the eggs, and one of the eggs is hatched, and whatever was in the egg is is eating its way through the hull of the ship.

SPEAKER_02 12:13

So naughty Ralphie actually made a hole in here.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Or opened the door. He opened the door and went in with the eggs where it was warm, yeah. Because we know what cats love to say love to stay warm.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Oh yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

Now he's really stuck in there. Now he's really stuck in there. So the captain is off is um calling for a uh shipwide lockdown, um return to your quarters, and then he's called upon this monkey-like character who's I believe he's called Lyff. Uh, and he says, Meet me on level nine, bring your gun. And then you can see all these hatches closing throughout the ship.

SPEAKER_02 12:53

Right.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

And then there's there's another uh seated white.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

I had a big drink not very long ago, not middle spoken.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

Somebody's got a little bit of a rumbly tumbly.

SPEAKER_02 13:08

I do apologise if you could hear that. I'll hold my hat suck through it.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

So the captain's looking here, and um there's a hole through the bottom through the floor of the deck here, and he's saying still hot. I mean, it must be close. Yeah. So they're looking around the ship.

SPEAKER_02 13:24

Oh this I don't quite get this picture.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

So this is just sort of mechan electronic mechanical stuff, maybe down in the engine room. We'll see. And the Lyft character is uh is saying that he's gonna take take him out with a laser bolt between the eyes, and the other the other character saying no, we're not killing anything.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Quite right, so or is it the woman that's saying she's not gonna kill anything? Quite right, so she's she does look a little bit of a harden up, but maybe she has got some brains in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 13:58

So they're they're all they're all coming together into one point, they're tracking down where the creature is.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

What's this? Is this the club?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

And then look then they look up and the actual the creature is that's come out of the egg is actually above on the roof, and it comes bashing down, crashing down in between in between all of them. Lif is threatening to shoot, and uh the other character says, Don't shoot. Yeah, yeah, and then because they're in out of space and shot the glass, they're saying there's one the reason not to shoot, is they've shot through the glass that's in the ship, and it's like gonna causing a vacuum because the fact space is a vacuum. Understand that yeah, you understand that bit. So about the only bit you have understood so far. I've got an exoskeleton. You've not got a skeleton on the outside. That's an exoskeleton. That's what we were talking about minutes ago. But you've not got an exoskeleton.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

I never said I had.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

I don't know. We're getting very we're getting very confused this episode. You've been drinking. No. So they see you off the hole, so and then they catch the little the little creature that's come out of the eggs, and uh the lead character dies and stops Lyff from uh shooting it.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

I said I've I got exoskeleton, not I have got exoskeleton. It took a while for me to this is a good picture there, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Yeah, really I really like Oli uh Oliver's style. It's uh really nice artwork.

SPEAKER_02 15:31

But some of it isn't as realistic, is it?

SPEAKER_00 15:36

No, it it's drawn in kind of the ma in a in you know more of a manga style, so they're like a Japanese style. But so it could it could work as an as an animated stuff.

SPEAKER_02 15:47

But this is different, isn't it? This is like a proper piece, proper piece of art.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

You're saying the rest of the art isn't proper.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

I didn't say that.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

So they're all in in like a lift here. You can see the you can see there's a long thin panel here of them go in the lift shaft.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Many years ago I used to see women walking out of a factory looking like that with scarves on their heads. That's her hair. Yeah, I had realised over there, but that was my first thought. I don't know if they do it now. I might be so showing my age.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

Oh, there's the cat.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

So this is Ralphie the cat here, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:28

Oh, he's out the uh whatever.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Yeah, he's having some treats. He doesn't deserve those. No, he doesn't really. So they're talking about the creature and saying that it looks scared, and then they said, but it is dangerous. IN is the character's name. I am IN, yeah. A Y A N.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Not I am is that the cat food.

SPEAKER_00 16:52

Not by IAMs, the cat food, no, definitely not.

SPEAKER_02 16:56

I N.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

But you say, what if it attacks one of the crew or destroys the O2 tanks, oxygen tanks? And he's saying, but we have to kill it for the good of the ship. Why can't they just catch it? Well I think that's I think that's what they're gonna try and do. And then the the sh the creature has actually managed to get away and it's actually come up onto the onto the bridge of the s of uh of the ship. So they make an emergency stop. Climbs out of the top of the uh lift. What does this say? It's a scrit noise or something. Grating to a hole. Mm-hmm. And we say we see uh Anya and uh Ralphie climbing up the ropes, the cables on the lift. And she's trying to get to the creature before the other ones do because she wants to save it, the other ones want to kill it. We see the creature at the end of the page here.

SPEAKER_01 17:55

What's this saying?

SPEAKER_00 17:57

It's it's hit it's S' so it's like it's hissing.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Yeah, like a like a hissy thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

I mean that says smash, does it?

SPEAKER_00 18:10

That's a smash.

SPEAKER_02 18:11

She's looking quite pleased with herself.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Yeah. And then the creatures the creatures actually turn round and they realise that the creature's actually quite cute and friendly in the end of it. And it says see. I told you she was friendly. Oh, it's a she. It's a she. So uh then come back and there's another another nice shot of the whole of Mechagodzilla, the the starship. And uh the captain's talking to Ilsa, this other character here, who I think is his girlfriend, I think. Um talking about how are you feeling, and they're talking about the eggs and everything else. No wonder no wonder no wonder someone's paying us a small fortune to steal them, because these guys are mercenaries. Yeah, kind of mercenary criminals, sorry. What's that say, black? But then the captain bre um treacherously shoots Ilsa. His girlfriend. His girlfriend. I think they I think it's supposed to be his girlfriend. Not anymore, huh? Not anymore. It's not the best sort of boyfriend I have. So he's clearly a bit of a rogue.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

He is.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

So it's just setting the scene. It's like setting the scene for what's going to happen moving forward. So then the following page, we've got like a a news page about the whole line of comics that they're doing. So there's advertising. Yeah, preview of the next issue. They're talking about the other two titles, the Dead Zone and the ongoing Godzilla title.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

Which are all I've noticed. Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Which I'm also reading. I'm reading all three titles. Dead Zone has actually finished, but I believe there's going to be another story span off from that later. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Yeah. I was going to say that in novels I've noticed they've started writing um the printing in it the first chapter of the sequel. Yeah, I don't like that. I never read it, I can order it.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

Yeah, I I generally yeah, if they have like previews and stuff like that, I tend to just skip across them because I'd rather read the story likewise. Issue by issue or chapter by chapter, you know, or or when the books are actually out. Yeah, so there's news page about what's coming out. Then there's the other variant cover, so there's the c the cover here by Chris Gooch, who's the the writer, and some other variant as a star Star Wars. Happy Star Wars Day, by the way. It's May the 4th today, as we're recording. Oh my word.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

I'd forgotten about that when I saw the day.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

I like the the cover with the cat.

SPEAKER_00 20:43

Yeah, there's yeah. Um, and then another like nice line of uh comics that uh IDW are bringing out at the moment is these Godzilla versus different cities of America, which and it's really great because they're getting artists and writers from those cities to create the stories.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

Right.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

So this is Godzilla versus Boston. So all of the artists and writers here all come from are originally came from or are based in Boston.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

Do you reckon they'll do Godzilla in Fleckney?

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Probably not. You could do it then. I could do that.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Yeah. More advertising?

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Uh yeah, just a general because this came out in Oct this came out in October last year, or yeah, the beginning of October last year. Any letters pages or not a letters page as such, no. There usually is, isn't there? Sort of feedback. Quite often, yeah. Um IDW also have the license have the licence to publish the turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

No, they're not called ninja, are they?

SPEAKER_00 21:49

They are. They are now. They changed it for a while with the cartoon and the and the and stuff like that. They call them Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles.

SPEAKER_02 21:58

That's right. That was for here, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 22:00

Yeah, because they thought ninja was too violent.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

But they're not real, are they?

SPEAKER_00 22:07

They're not real, but originally they were called teenage mutant ninja turtles.

SPEAKER_02 22:11

Mm I liked their names.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Yeah. And there's the turtles on the back page. Well, they look a bit more vicious than they used to. Yeah, they've they've kind of become a bit more um He-Man. Yeah. Actually, I think the artist who did this, um Freddie E. Williams, I think he actually did a Masters of the Universe, so he did a He-Man comic. There's been a crossover with the Turtles and and Masters of the Universe.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

I seem to remember seeing them on wallpaper or something.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Yeah, they've been everywhere. Much, much like Godzilla. Godzilla's been merchandised, like left, right, and centre.

SPEAKER_02 22:52

I haven't seen it merchandise, I've just heard it from you. Again and again and again.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

I do like, yeah, I do like the Godzilla films, especially especially the originals. I know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:06

Can I get a bit of feedback on that one? Yeah. It could have been nice, but it was awfully dark drawn, wasn't it? Like I can't tell what's going on there.

SPEAKER_00 23:17

I mean the colour the colours I suppose are are darker darker tones, but it's it's quite nice and bright.

SPEAKER_02 23:24

No, I don't think so anyway. It's got all these mustardy yellow things on it, so but later on it gets even darker, doesn't it? That's quite nice.

SPEAKER_00 23:34

So you've got nice colours there, yeah. That works really well.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

It's a city.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

I like that because it reminds me of Star Trek. See, this is quite dark, although I do like that image. I like what's this supposed to be here? Pipes.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

They're pipes, yeah. So it's as the creature's bit eating its way through the ship, through the hull of the ship.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

So I don't really like the darkness of it all the way going through.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

So I guess it's supposed to say that it's got like subdued lighting. By this point, they come to a part of the ship where it's more like the engines and stuff, so it's generally darker down there. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 24:12

It's like films in snow, don't like those either. Yeah. All the same. Yeah. I'm not struck on that, and of course, I've got my usual thing, they're uppercase.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

They are.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

So everything loses a point from being uppercase automatically.

unknown 24:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

Loses more points by being too dark, generally.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

But is that a peculiarity of yours? Because you do have a problem with seeing images that are dark. So what if it is, I'm giving the numbers.

SPEAKER_02 24:43

I'm just saying, just saying because just because I'm peculiar, I I will I still allow to take points off because it's peculiar. And the other thing is it's only a bit of a story, it's only actually a very small bit, and they've made a meal of it.

SPEAKER_00 24:59

Well, yeah, but it's the it's the first issue, so they're setting the scene, introducing you to the characters and to the premise of the whole series. Yeah, so I think they're taking quite a sim quite a simple bit and spit. Yeah, but this is what comics do, they they have to stretch a story out to cover at least 20 pages of artwork.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

Yes, I have noticed this. Somehow actually have good good stories.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

Not too much fighting in that, was there? Not not much. No. So I think I'll give it about a seven out of ten. Excellent, good. I forgot to rate last week's ones and now I can't remember. So it was a non-event last week, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_00 25:41

We did Supergirl.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

Wasn't that in bits though?

SPEAKER_00 25:46

Yeah, that's that's yeah, that were sections from the the graphic novel that's coming out in a couple in about a month's time.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

I forgot to rate it, but at the same time, perhaps it doesn't deserve to be rated because it's just a bit of advertising, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 26:00

At the end of the day, yeah, it's it's a bit like we've just had sorry, um at time of recording, just this week the previous weekend, we've just gone come through. We had free comic book day on Saturday. Oh yes. So um obviously a lot of titles, and I I guess being a bit mu being a bit cynical about it, it is more about marketing, it's more food.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Many people have found marketing, that's oh yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

The best marketing's like that, actually.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

Yeah, you dressed up, didn't you?

SPEAKER_00 26:30

I did dress up.

SPEAKER_02 26:32

Yeah, I didn't see you dressed up, I saw a photograph.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

And I got I thought you were flipping your long hair back.

SPEAKER_00 26:38

Apparently I was doing that all day. So I was wearing a long pink wig.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Yes. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

Oh yeah. So I think we've gone to the end of that, haven't we? Got to the end of that. Yeah. So it started with Godzilla, it's of the three Godzilla titles that have come out from IDW, it's it's my favourite title, mainly because I like Becca Godzilla so much as a character. Um I'm working on my own kaiju story at the moment, which will have a robot creature in there as well.

SPEAKER_01 27:12

Are you allowed to do that? Yeah. We don't publish it. Because of course they're unlocked by the colour.

SPEAKER_00 27:17

No, no, I I will be publishing it.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

But it's aren't they?

SPEAKER_00 27:21

It's copyrighted and I'm not I'm not um making it Godzilla and everything. My character's got different names and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 27:28

It's all so don't give the game away. But you've stolen the idea from there.

SPEAKER_00 27:33

Oh, I'm sorry, homage. It's so what it is, is somebody's teasing me here. I'm being I'm being picked on, I think. Um long story short, my my next graphic novel that I'm working on is a mixture of it's kind of it's got elements of Godzilla films in it, it's got some peanuts cartoons in there, and it's got um Action Man, who's which is a British to British military toy from the well started in the 60s and moved into the 70s. Had no bits, had no bits, yeah. So I've kind of taken things predominantly from my childhood and I've bumped I sort of squashed them all together to make like one one story.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Are you going to put your dog in it? The one that went a little bit loopy.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

No, there's no there is a dog in it, but it's not uh it's not a Dalmatian, no.

SPEAKER_02 28:29

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Yeah, we had a Dalmatian that ended up sadly we had to have her put down because she got uh Well, we now probably know she got she got canine dementia.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

That is very sad, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 28:41

And because because me myself and my sister were quite young at the time, there was the there was a risk that that Katie, our Dalmatian, could have turned against us and hurt or killed us.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

How old was she when she was?

SPEAKER_00 28:53

I think Katie was about she would have been about five, about six or seven.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

So oh using the bullshit time she died before she got.

SPEAKER_00 29:04

She was a puppy when I was a baby, so yeah, she would have been about six or seven. Yeah. There you go. So that's this week's comic in a nutshell. Uh Sasha Godzilla, probably my favourite one at the moment. I funnily, when I get my comics, I buy my comics like each month. What do you see? Yeah, that's the captain, the one who shot.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

Oh, I see. I thought he was a monster and that this was a and now I can see his face. Oh I ignore me, ignore me. Talking rubbish.

SPEAKER_00 29:39

Yeah, um, yeah, so generally when I when I get my I buy my comics each month, and at the moment I keep this one till last because I've been really enjoying reading it, so I keep the best till last. So it's a really good way of in making sure I actually enjoy the comics. So there you go. So yeah, Starship Godzilla by Chris Gooch and Oliver Ono, published by DW. Uh, really good title. Uh, yeah, about six issues so far. So if you wanted to catch up on it, I suspect there'll probably be a trade paperback out fairly soon because they usually do that when there's six issues. So if you wanted to catch up on it, that'd be a really good place to start.

SPEAKER_02 30:16

No, that's enough, thank you. Thank you very much. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

I don't think Eliza Mariah was particularly bold over this week.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Well, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

So we we'll say Cheerio and we'll see you next Wednesday.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

Oh, Cheerio! Where did that come from?