Talk:Godzilla: Cataclysm/@comment-343942-20150326042952

Cataclysm offers up some interesting concepts for a Godzilla story, but fails to deliver it strongly.

I like the whole post-apocalyptic setting for a kaiju story for a change; there are only so many times you can see zombies or Terminators trudging through the same background before you start wanting something different.

The way the surviving humans view the daikaiju as angry gods isn't a new concept, but it's fleshed out a bit more here. But the thing I like most about this story is that they establish that Godzilla isn't just blindly rampaging about, he's not just following his "instincts"... he is genuinely ANGRY with humanity, going out of his way to insure humans stay in this new Stone Age.

Again, it's something that's been touched on in the films, but never fleshed out much beyond the first film.

So, with all that going for it, what is the downside to Cataclysm? It's too short and too rushed. They had all these brilliant ideas, but squeezed them into too few issues. If they had just spread it out over an extra three or four issues, the story would've probably been a lot stronger.

Overall, interesting ideas, weak delivery. Worth a read, but not essential.