Source: IDW Publishing

Special Thanks to Kahlil Schweitzer and Rosalind Morehead

Last Friday, IDW Publishing announced their new Godzilla comic book mini-series Godzilla: Cataclysm. Today, the first issue was solicited to retailers for release in August 2014.

Godzilla: Cataclysm is scripted by acclaimed writer Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Venom) and features amazing artwork from Russ Manning Award nominee Dave Wachter (Breath of Bones, Night of 1000 Wolves). The first issue will also have a variant cover by Mehdi Cheggour (Enormous). An additional variant cover from Hugo Award-winning artist Bob Eggleton will be available for subscription customers only.

Years have passed since the monster apocalypse nearly destroyed mankind. Now it is merely a distant, nightmarish memory for Hiroshi, an elder in one of the few remaining tribes of humans. Little does Hiroshi know that the apocalypse is not over, and that his memories of the past may yet save the future!

Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 (of 5)

Writer: Cullen Bunn

Artist: Dave Wachter

Cover: Dave Wachter

Retailer Incentive Variant

Cover: Mehdi Cheggour

Subscription Variant

Cover: Bob Eggleton

Tentative In-Store Date: Late August 2014

Pages: 32

Cover Price: $3.99

About IDW Publishing

IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.

About Toho Co., Ltd.

Founded in 1932 and headquartered in Tokyo, Toho Company, Ltd. is one of the leading entertainment conglomerates in Japan. Toho is best known worldwide as the producer of twenty-eight Godzilla motion pictures, based upon a character the company unleashed on the world back in 1954, and masterpiece films directed by Akira Kurosawa. Toho has been the number one distributor of motion pictures in Japan (both domestic and foreign) for eight consecutive years since 2003. The company is also, throughout Japan, the leading producer of theatrical works and one of the largest owners of office buildings and theaters.

For more information on IDW’s Godzilla comics, please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan:



