I Don’t Believe We Should Be Eating the Goddamn Things!

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Ghidora, Godzilla, Indie Comics, John Cassaday, monsters, Mothra, Planetary, planetary omnibus, Rodan, Warren Ellis, Wildstorm

In Planetary #2 we travel to Island Zero. Here we find corpses of famous Japanese movie monsters: Godzilla, Mothra, and Ghidora. As fun as that sounds, things take a turn for the worse when our clinically insane leader forces us at gun-point to snack on the rotting flesh of Godzilla. Barf!

Only Warren Ellis would come up with such a sick idea. His heroes remain bystanders, baffled by the madness. Artists John Cassaday and Laura Martin take us now to the scene of the chow…

Collector’s Guide:
– From Planetary #2; Wildstorm, 1999.
– Reprinted in Planetary TPB #1
– Reprinted in Planetary Hard Cover #1

Update: As of 2014, the entire series is collected in a single Planetary Omnibus!