New Series Spotlight: Starship Godzilla [Kai-Sei Era] #1

By Nico Marjolin | August 20 2025 | Comics

The Kai-Sei Era, IDW’s new Godzilla universe, expands with Starship Godzilla. Issue #1 releases October 1st (Final Order Cutoff for retailers is this coming Monday August 25th). Be sure to to reserve your copy at your local comic shop!

The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!

You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?

In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!

This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.

A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!

 

Check out the covers below, and you can always ask your comic shop about the other two series in the Kai-Sei era – Godzilla and Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone.

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The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!
On sale Oct 01, 2025
FOC Aug 25, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!
On sale Oct 01, 2025
FOC Aug 25, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!
On sale Oct 01, 2025
FOC Aug 25, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!
On sale Oct 01, 2025
FOC Aug 25, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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The Kai-Sei era goes to space inside a brand-new Mechagodzilla!You didn’t think kaiju were only on Earth, did you?In the fight for galactic supremacy, no weapon is more powerful than a kaiju…and no team is better equipped to capture and transport these titanic monsters than the crew of Starship Godzilla!This ragtag group flies through space in Mechagodzilla and takes high-risk, high-reward missions across the galaxy. A kaiju heading toward your planet? Give them a call. A colossal space pest clogging up your trade route? They’ll get rid of it. A galactic civil war utilizing kaiju on both sides? They’ll…uh…do their best to stay out of it. But where there’s a galactic war, there’s a galactic conspiracy-, and this may be one fight our crew doesn’t land on the same side of.A brand-new kaiju space epic starts here in Chris Gooch (In Utero, Under-Earth) and Oliver Ono’s (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp) Starship Godzilla!
On sale Oct 01, 2025
FOC Aug 25, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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THE KAI-SEI ERA, IDW’S NEW GODZILLA UNIVERSE, STARTS HERE!In 1954, experimentation with a mysterious energy source known as Kai-Sei awakened Godzilla and a host of immortal kaiju. In the years that followed, humanity has been pummeled by near-constant monster attacks. While Japan has begun to treat the kaiju like natural disasters, understanding that their attempts to fight Godzilla only make the threat worse, the American G-Force is going to fight, fight, fight.The Americans have just discovered the ultimate tool in the fight against kaiju: a young boy named Jacen with the power of Godzilla. Able to harness the mysterious Kai-Sei in the same vein as the King of the Monsters, this boy will either save the world…or bring about its doom.Join Tim Seeley (Grayson, Hack/Slash, Local Man) and Nikola Čižmešija (Sword of Azrael, Batman and Robin) on the ride of a lifetime!
On sale Jul 23, 2025
FOC Jun 09, 2025
Comic Book
44 Pages
IDW Publishing

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After a shocking first issue, the flagship ongoing of the Kai-Sei era is back with more!Jacen and his fellow G-Force members made short work of Anguirus…but were they only able to defeat the kaiju because it was weakened by the same leeches currently fighting to bring Jacen to a watery grave? And if these leeches are able to weaken kaiju…can G-Force weaponize them in their mission to kill Godzilla?And finally, learn more about Lament, the mysterious new kaiju who seems to be puppeteering from the shadows.All this and more in Tim Seeley and Nikola Čižmešija’s thrilling new series!
On sale Sep 10, 2025
FOC Aug 04, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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What’s going on inside the Deadzone?! Find out in the second book of the KAI-SEI ERA, IDW’s new connected Godzilla universe!Inside the new IDW Godzilla universe, there exists a mystery larger than any other…what is the Deadzone? Inhabitants of this new world know the Deadzone to be a walled-off portion of the Pacific Northwest, sequestered after the most disastrous Godzilla attack the country has ever faced. The government would have its citizens believe that nothing is still alive inside the Deadzone…but do you believe that?There are stories of a man. Or rather…a half kaiju, half man…who travels freely throughout the Deadzone. Some say he can even kill a kaiju. Some say…he’s not the only of his kind.Journey into this mysterious new world in Godzilla: Escape the Deadzone with the Eisner-nominated writing duo Griffin Sheridan and Ethan S. Parker (Kill Your Darlings) and fan-favorite artist Pablo Tunica (TMNT/Ghostbusters 2, Sea Serpent’s Heir).
On sale Aug 06, 2025
FOC Jun 30, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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The second entry in the Kai-Sei era continues!The Wanderer is a kaiju/human abomination who rarely sees something he hasn’t before, and never sees anything that scares him. That is, until the chest of the largest kaiju he’s ever seen bursts open to reveal a human girl controlling the monster.Before the Wanderer can learn more about this girl, they’re both captured by a mysterious cult known as the Church of Godzilla! What does the church want with them? And more importantly, can they escape alive?!
On sale Sep 17, 2025
FOC Aug 11, 2025
Comic Book
32 Pages
IDW Publishing

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