2 OZLA: RULERS OF EARTH MOWRY • FRANK ZORNOW

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STORY BY CHRIS MOW RY AND MATT FRANK

WRITTEN BY CHRIS MOW RY

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MATT FRANK AND JEFF ZORNOW

INK ASSIST BY MOSTAFA MOUSSA (CHAPTER THREE)

COLORS BY PRISCILLA TRAMONTANO

LETTERS BY SHAWN LEE

SERIES EDITS BY BOBBY CURNOW

COVER ART BY MATT FRANK

COLLECTION EDITS BY JUSTIN EISINGER AND ALONZO SIMON COLLECTION DESIGN BY CHRIS MOWRY

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Originally published as GODZILLA: RULERS OF EARTH issues #5–8. THE STORY SO FAR

Humanity has come to terms with the arrival of giant monsters across the globe. After an attack from space that nearly destroyed the planet, Godzilla reappeared in Hawaii and nearly killed budding scientist Lucy Casprell and her Watcher research team. Saved by Commander Steven Woods of the Counter-Kaiju Reactionary forces (CKR, “Seekers”), Lucy joins her group as they depart for China in search of a mysterious giant monster.

The CKR team discovers a new species called and a piece of Godzilla’s flesh, and take both to their facility in San Diego for analysis. An attack at sea which destroyed an aircraft carrier and supporting fleet signals the invasion of downtown San Diego by a swarm of Destoroyah crabs. Leaving the facility to engage the crabs, the CKR forces are unaware that an alien race known as the Cryog have stolen the Godzilla specimen, leaving a sole survivor.

Turning the Godzilla specimen over to their undersea cohorts, the Devonians, the Cryog are confident that Godzilla will soon be destroyed, easing their conquest of the planet. When Godzilla faces the mighty Destoroyah, he nearly falls in defeat. Only with the intervention of do the two defeat Destoroyah, and thwart the Cryog/Devonian plans.