Punch! Punch! Punch! Writer Craig J. Clark joins us for a tag-team battle: Superhero Godzilla and his new robot friend Jet Jaguar vs. goofy buds Gigan and Megalon (who is not a guy). We talk about Jet Jaguar's origins in a children's art contest, the shadow of popular toku heroes like Ultraman and Kamen Rider, and how MST3K, John Belushi, and the Democratic National Convention helped make this extremely low-budget movie a surprise hit in the US.

Read Craig's articles on Crooked Marquee and Werewolf News.

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Cover Art by: ⁠Andy Vanderbilt⁠ (Bluesky⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠Twitch)

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Sources include:

• ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Godzilla: The First 70 Years by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
• A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series by David Kalat
• Wikizilla

It's a tag-team battle with Godzilla and his dog vs. Ghidorah and his knife alien chicken sidekick! Cartoonist Walter Trush joins us for this comic book-themed espionage romp, where a manga artist and his karate champion girlfriend join a team of goofballs who get wrapped up in an alien conspiracy to build an EVIL amusement park (with a Godzilla Tower)! We talk about the Sentai team of human characters, Haruo Nakajima's departure, lots of reused footage, cockroaches, and of course... THE RETURN OF ANGUIRUS!

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Cover Art by: John Snyder (@HenshinJohn)

Read Derek's Kaiju United piece on Akumaizer 3!

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Sources include:

• ⁠⁠⁠Godzilla: The First 70 Years by Steve Ryfle and Ed Godziszewski
• A Critical History and Filmography of Toho's Godzilla Series by David Kalat
• Wikizilla

As disastrous as the 1998 American Godzilla film may have been, one unequivocally good thing came out of it: Godzilla: The Series, a dark Fox Kids sci-fi show that reinvented and rearranged elements of its predecessor into something much smarter and cooler. With a premise that essentially remakes the Hanna-Barbera Godzilla cartoon, this show features high-concept stories, psychic ancient undersea aliens, robots, time travel, and plenty of freaky mutated kaiju. We talk about all the creative connections with other cartoon greats (including a surprising number of Spider-Man cartoons), the bizarrely stacked cast, and more!

Watchlist:
"New Family, Parts 1 & 2"
"Leviathan"
"Monster War, Parts 1-3"
"Future Shock"
"What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been"

This episode originally aired on ⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠ on January 11, 2025.

Cover Art by: Doug

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Theme song:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠"BIO WARS - Synth Cover" by Kweer Kaiju⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Sources include:

• Sci-Fi Japan's extensive behind-the-scenes page!