Daikaiju Enterprises

Issue #43

January/February, 2000

Reviewer:    C. L. Werner

Articles include:

• Coming to America!!! - Toho's latest Godzilla film, Godzilla 2000 will receive a United States theatrical release in the summer.

• News - G-Fest 2000 guest list continues to grow. Random House is still in the Godzilla business, keeping the Marc Cerasini novels and the Official Godzilla Compendium in print, though there is no word on a release of Godzilla and the Lost Continent. Two Godzilla conventions, one in Chicago and one in Toronto plus the August release of Godzilla 2000 make this summer a highlight for G-fans.

• A Godzilla Fan Adventure - by Mark Obert - A fan's impressions and experiences when seeing Godzilla 2000 in Japan, including an exhibition that highlighted Godzilla props and unused designs for both Godzilla and his adversary Orga.

• Godzilla vs the Y2K Bug - by Ed Godziszeweski - A more critical look at the first real Godzilla film since TriStar's iguana rampage, faulting Toho with a poor script and lackluster pacing as the biggest culprits to bringing down the film.

• 100 Greatest Godzilla Collectibles - by Sean Linkenback - Rating some of the most ellusive and sought after Godzilla goods on the market, including the Ken Films' Super 8 monster films and the Mattel Rodan figure from their Shogun Warriors line.

• G-Fan Directory 2000 - An updated list of G-Fans around the world.

• The Journal of Dr. Rex Summeral - To Catch a Kaiju (Conclusion) - by Skip Peel - After being bested by almost all of the other teams sent out to capture kaiju for the Monsterland exhibit, Dr. Summeral at last subdues Godzilla.

• You'll Never Eat This Town For Lunch Again - The Gamera Autobiography - by J. Christian Grymyr - Gamera brings his biography up to date with his relation of the events surrounding his Heisei era comeback in Gamera Guardian of the Universe.

• War Against the Wild Gods - by George Thomas - Book Three: Godzilla vs Dogorah - The Wild Gods epic continues with Godzilla once again plagued by an unlikely foe, this time the space jellyfish apparition Dogorah.

• The Godzilla Report - More new releases in the world of kaiju collectibles from Japan.

• Battles of Godzilla - by Gabe McIntosh - A look at the awesome power of Godzilla in a destructive series of full color comic panels.