Lizard King

IDW takes Godzilla across the Earth and the galaxy with the Ka-Sei Era shared universe

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

WHILE HE'S CURRENTLY battling both Marvel and DC heroes - plus King Kong - in separate miniseries, the King of the Monsters is now also featuring in a new comics line at IDW. The Kai-Sei Era (kai-sei is explained as meaning "strange beast energy") begins with Godzilla and Godzilla: Escape The Deadzone, before continuing with Starship Godzilla.

"The shared universe opens up a Pandora's box of storytelling possibilities," says Ethan S Parker, who teams up with artist Griffin Sheridan on Escape The Deadzone. "As a reader, you may start to feel like there are only a certain number of ways to approach a kaiju story, but the Kai-Sei Era blows the doors wide open! All the classic monster clashes you love are here, but after those battles, there are places like the Deadzone left behind. The cosmos is filled with