KAIJUDEN

Aren't books grand? Such a simplistic, low tech invention that doesn't need monthly payment plans, weekly digital upgrades, fickle Hollywood producers, overpaid cast of millions, or vinyl molds for mass production. Just an author, their boundless imagination, the text, and the willing readers. Within literature, has science fiction and fantasy thrived best, and to such spectacular heights, that adaptations in any other media always trims the creative fat, and often fails by doing so. One field, born directly form literature, is just as effective, despite its own shortcomings, and that of course being comic books. And yet, when it comes to novels and comic book series to directly deal with giant monsters, as opposed to having them as side characters, there really isn't many. Still though, there's enough there to warrant this gallery, which features the massive cosmic horrors of H.P. Lovecraft, the pre-superhero monster books of comic legends Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko, and the short story The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury...which of course help spawn the 'giant monster on the loose' sub-genre in modern film, and by turn, a creative ancestor of Godzilla, and his many friends and foes! And yes...those pesky Martians in their giant walking robot death jalopies (from H.G. Well's The War of the Worlds) are welcomed here as well. Though we should note that Kaijuden fully supports Queen Victoria and the British Empire, and are deeply offended and angered by the Red Planet's deplorable actions.