Godzilla: The Half-Century War #3 Review

It’s been quite sometime I last reviewed a comic, which was Issue #2 of Godzilla: The Half-Century War. So as the last review of this 5-part mini-series, the issue was set in 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War where Lieutenant Ota Murakami and General Schooler track down Godzilla’s path, until trouble arose for our human characters.

So now we’re taken to 1975 in Ghana where we see an older Lieutenant Ota laying low with other troops, including an older General Schooler. Ota pretty much explains to the audience on what has happened and in Vietnam. He also talks about the discovery of the Psionic Transmitter uncovered by General Schooler. The Psionic Transmitter’s main purpose was to repel giant monsters from cities and other certain areas around the globe, but the device was then scrapped. However, the inventor of the device, Dr. Deverich (who’s the main antagonist of this mini-series), tweaks it to become a weapon of luring in giant monsters to cities and such.

Ota and the crew are trying to figure where Deverich might be hiding, later concluded that he would be at a building with a radio tower that was a couple miles in front of them. The crew then go through 2-minutes-of-hell through a maze of destruction and avoiding being crushed by the monsters. Once they’ve reached the radio station, they go down to the basement of the station and locate Deverich.

We see Dr. Deverich talking to potential buyers via video feed and sell to the buyers his Psionic Transmitter device. Ota and the crew would soon interrupt the sale and try to take in Deverich – however, Deverich turns the device to full-power, luring the monsters to the radio station. The radio station then starts to cave-in and Deverich escapes, while Ota and the crew try to escape too. Unfortunately, General Schooler gets trapped in rubble, which would soon get crushed and burned. Thus, ending Issue #3 of Godzilla: The Half-Century War.

This issue is pretty damn good, better than Issue #2 as we get to see more human drama and emotional drama, especially at the end of the issue when Schooler is killed. We’re also confronted by the main villain of the mini-series, Dr. Deverich, who’s a pretty interesting character himself. Of course, we get to see a lot more daikaiju in this issue than the previous two: Godzilla (of course), Hedorah, Kumonga, Mothra, Ebirah, Battra, Megalon, and Rodan.

The artwork is still just phenomenal, as well as the color palette. The story/plot has also improved from Issue #2 and pretty much gets into the action right away from Page 1.

Overall, Issue #3 goes up there with Issue #1, but I’d say that Issue #1 is still the best, with Issue #3 just right on its tail. I’d recommend picking up this issue if you haven’t yet; if you haven’t gotten around to owning this mini-series yet, then what are you waiting for?

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