Godzilla: Awakening Paperback – September 16, 2014

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

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.

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.

The packaging was *chef’s kiss*, just very nicely wrapped and packaged. Beautiful book.

I have yet to see the new Godzilla film. I purchased this graphic novel to read before going to see the film as this book is a prequel setting up the film. This story is a period piece set beginning in the 40`s all the way thru the nuclear testing at Bikini Atol. I found this book interesting as it mixed real history with fiction. I recently visited the atomic history museum in Las Vegas so it was fun to read this right after that experience. Good read especially if you`'re a history buff or Godzilla or mainly fan.

Its an interesting look into the past of this new movie. It tells us the story of the father of Ishiro Serizawa (The Japanese Scientist Ken Watanabe played in the film) and how he encountered Godzilla and other monsters from his era during the first few years of (SPOILERS) Monarch the organization that appeared in the film as they track a monster awakened by Hiroshima's bombing during the final days of WWII which leads up to the scene in the opening of the film where the US attempts to nuke Godzilla in 1954.I recommend it.

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.

Great book for my grandson to read.

Gostei muito da história que antecede o filme. Arte muito bem feita e adequada. Recomendo para todos os fãs de Godzilla.

Not worth its price - high price

contenti di aver fatto felice nostro figlio

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%

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