Last Updated on July 3, 2025 by Angel Melanson
Despite turning 70 last year, Godzilla has arguably never been more prevalent than he is at this very moment. With the continued success of the MonsterVerse in the form of last year’s Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One and even an official Godzilla LEGO set, among many other things, the King of the Monsters is everywhere. Starship Godzilla is the latest thing that fans will soon be able to enjoy. It sounds particularly bonkers.
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The folks at IDW Publishing are launching a new shared universe for the legendary kaiju later this year. One of the books that will help make up this universe is Starship Godzilla. The series hails from writer Chris Gooch (In Utero) and artist Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) and is due to hit shelves in October. “Oliver Ono's art on Starship Godzilla makes you feel like you found a VHS tape of a cult favorite '80s space anime you've never heard of,” Godzilla line editor Jake Williams recently said of the book speaking with FANGORIA.
This will be the third new book to hit stands as part of IDW’s interconnected Godzilla universe, dubbed the Kai-Sei era. The line also includes Godzilla, which launches in July, followed by Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone in August. All three books take place in the future but this particular book is leaning into that futuristic vibe the most by offering up a spacebound sci-fi adventure. The synopsis for the book reads as follows:
“The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!
You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you? In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju… and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!
This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll… uh… do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.”
“I'm really trying to make the worlds we visit feel tangible and fantastical at the same time, and am excited to see readers noticing all the little details I'm shoving into the background of this gargantuan story,” ono said to Fango.
That all admittedly sounds pretty bonkers. It also sounds like the perfect story to tell in the pages of a comic book. Though it also sounds like something that would be right at home in the Heisei era of the franchise alongside the likes of Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla vs. Destroyah. For my money at least, that's a compliment.
Starship Godzilla hits shelves on October 1. For more, get the lowdown on the upcoming original horror video game Cronos: The New Dawn.
