Godzilla: Rulers of Earth, Vol. 3

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GODZILLA : RULERS OF EARTH

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STORY BY

CHRIS MOWRY

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MATT FRANK

WRITTEN BY

CHRIS MOWRY ART BY

MATT FRANK

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JEFF ZORNOW

COLORS BY

PRISCILLA TRAMONTANO LETTERS BY

SHAWN LEE

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TOM B. LONG

SERIES EDITS BY

BOBBY CURNOW COVER ART BY

JEFF ZORNOW

JUSTIN EISINGER AND ALONZO SIMON COLLECTION DESIGN BY CHRIS MOWRY

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GODZILLA: RULERS OF EARTH, VOLUME 3. JUNE 2014. FIRST PRINTING. © 2014 Toho Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved. GODZILLA ®, Gojira, the related characters and the Character Designs are trademarks of Toho Co., Ltd. © 2014 Idea and Design Works, LLC. The IDW logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe St., San Diego, CA 92109. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork used for review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. IDW Publishing does not read or accept unsolicited submissions of ideas, stories, or artwork. Printed in Korea.

Originally published as GODZILLA: RULERS OF EARTH issues #9-12.

THE STORY SO FAR When the sinister aliens known as the Cryog pair the monsters Orga and Gigan against Godzilla in Las Vegas, their plan fails as the mysterious robot named Jet Jaguar teams up with Godzilla and wins the fight. Jet Jaguar relocates him far out into the Pacific Ocean, unfortunately close to where the Cyrog planned to meet their cohorts, the undersea creatures called the Devonians.

At a remote chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean, the Devonians spring a trap on the Cryog and the giant monster Biollante destroys their ship. When Godzilla intervenes and defeats Biollante, the Devonians are forced to retaliate using the sea monsters Manda, Titanosaurus, and Gezora in an attempt to not only wipe out Godzilla, but the human forces gathered at the surface as well.

Caught in the middle of the attack is young scientist Lucy Casprell and her team of researchers. Having been rescued in China after discovering a captive monster known as Gaira, Lucy and her team are now reunited with Commander Woods and the Counter Kaiju Reaction team (CKRs) aboard a small fleet surrounding the islands.

As the human forces are attacked, their only hope may lie in the battle-worn and unpredictable monster... GODZILLA.