The solicit for Godzilla Rivals: Biollante Vs. Destoroyah is live now and that means your first official look at the book is here. We've got a spectacular main cover by my collaborator Sean Dove and a gorgeous variant by Andrew MacLean. (A 1:10 incentive cover by my friend Camila Fortuna will be revealed soon.)

Here's the full description...

GODZILLA RIVALS: BIOLLANTE VS. DESTOROYAH
(W) Nick Marino (A) Sean Dove

No need for gloom, just drink a BLOOME! There's an irresistible new beverage, Bio-II from BLOOME, that's taken the world by storm. The lives of two unlikely allies collide as they scramble to unlock the sinister secrets behind Bio-II and halt the rebirth of the strangest botanical beast the Earth has ever seen, the blossoming Biollante!

Dr. Meena Shyam is a disgraced kaiju researcher whose radical ideas saw her shunned by the scientific community. Needles is a slacker hacker who's just cracked the code behind BLOOME's proprietary recipe. Together, crisscrossing the moonlit hills and bridges of Pittsburgh, they race against the clock to stop Biollante's destruction as they call forth one of the deadliest kaiju of all time, the dastardly Destoroyah!

Published by IDW, our issue is expected to smash its way this May into stores everywhere. Godzilla Rivals: Biollante Vs. Destoroyah is available for preorder now at your comic shop through PRH (cover A, cover B, cover C) and Previews (cover A, cover B, cover C).

My collaborator Sean Dove has been teasing our upcoming comic on his Insta and Twitter as he knocks out more fantastic pages. Here's a sneak peek at his progress...

Godzilla Rivals: Biollante Vs. Destoroyah drops this spring from IDW and it'll be up for preorder soon it's available for preorder now. You can see more process art in my Godzilla WIP Insta highlight.

ANOTHER UPDATE: IDW Publishing has released some more information about the Godzilla Rivals books announced at SDCC 2022, including a release date for my Biollante Vs. Destoroyah comic, currently slated for Spring 2023.

UPDATE: The panel was @#$%ing awesome!

Tons of fantastic fans turned out to hear us talk about the rad Godzilla comics we've been working on and I loved it.

Nola Pfau from the three-peat Eisner-winning WWAC did a totally sick tweet thread about the panel, covering all of the announcements including the upcoming Godzilla Rivals: Biollante vs. Destoroyah comic book that I'm writing with art by Sean Dove. IDW shared the pencils for our variant cover drawn by Andrew MacLean.

my collaborator on godzilla rivals: biollante vs. destoroyah is @andthankyou who is absolutely going to explode your socks off with this comic 🤘 sorry but youre gonna need to buy new socks https://t.co/ICZQo5XdfY

— nick marino is writing things (@nickmarino) July 23, 2022

Big shoutout to all of the great comic creators who I shared the stage with and everyone who attended! I'll post more about our comic as soon as I can.

ORIGINAL POST:

Rosie and I will be on IDW's Godzilla comics panel at Comic-Con in San Diego on Friday, July 22 at 4pm in Room 4. Rosie's incredible Godzilla comic is on sale in just a couple of weeks, and I hope everyone gets to see a ton of Oliver Ono's rad art. As for why I'm on the panel, well... you'll just have to wait and see!