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We’ve received a press release from IDW Publishing regarding their summer plans for Godzilla comics!

GODZILLA’S ONE CRAZY SUMMER!
IDW announces digital Godzilla comics, new characters, and a new title!

San Diego, CA – Expanding what has become an explosive publishing partnership, this summer IDW Publishing and Toho Co., Ltd.are bringing even more kaiju chaos to comic fans everywhere!

May 23rd brings the launch of Duane Swierczynski and Simon Gane’s new, ongoing Godzilla series, which features covers by Arthur Adams and Tony Harris! That’s not all, though!

That same day, after much anticipation, Godzilla will finally hit digital platforms! Available on iOS, Android, and Nook, IDW’s entire back catalog of catastrophic, giant monster destruction will be available as single issues and trades. Not only that, but the new Godzilla ongoing will launch day and date with two exclusive digital variant covers!

This bounty of crushing comics destruction comes hot on the heels of IDW’s announcement of Orc Stain creator James Stokoe’s Godzilla: The Half-Century War, a generation-spanning tale packed to the gills with Stokoe’s trademark hyper-detailed linework and nearly-psychedelic colors. If any comics creator out there was born to draw giant monsters leveling crowded metropolitan areas, folks, it’s James Stokoe.

And as if all that city-stompin’ goodness wasn’t enough, IDW has made the necessary space in Godzilla’s monstrous world for even more of Toho’s creatures, with more than 20 of Godzilla’s co-stars joining the roster of licensed characters. From fan favorites such as JET JAGUAR to lesser-known greats like the gargantuas, SANDA and GAIRA, the future of Godzilla at IDW is bound to be even more action-packed than ever.

Needless to say, it’s going to be a chaos-drenched summer for Godzilla fans.

Hopefully they all have insurance.

Godzilla #1• 32 pages • $3.99 • in stores May 23 • Diamond order code: MAR120364
Godzilla: The Half-Century War #1 • 32 pages • $3.99 • in stores 8/22 • Diamond order code: JUN120326
Godzilla: Legends TPB • 128 pages • $19.99 • in stores June 13 • Diamond order code: APR120372
Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, Vol. 3 TPB • 104 pages • $17.99 • In stores now • Diamond order code: MAR120367

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books. IDW can also be found at http://www.facebook.com/#!/idwpublishing and http://tumblr.idwpublishing.com/ and on Twitter at @idwpublishing.

under Kamen Rider

New scans of the multi-combo Kamen Rider’s Super Imaginative release have begun circulating the web.

Also included are some early scans of SIC versions of OOO’s other Combos!

TaToBa is scheduled for release in September at an estimated cost of 6000 yen.

Thanks to Kiryu for the heads-up! :)

http://tamashii.jp/t_item/t_item.php?eid=00100

under Godzilla

Bandai’s Tamashii website has updated with official images of the upcoming S.H. MonsterArts King Ghidorah. Due for the release in September, the king of the monster’s three-headed rival is priced at 9,800 yen and comes packed with his trademark electric-bolt breath effect parts!

Check out all the images of this titanic figure after the jump. Thanks to TokuNation.com member MidoGreen for the heads up!

under Kamen Rider

Scans from the latest issue of hobby magazine FigureOh have revealed S.H. Figuarts Kamen Rider Fourze Cosmic States! The final form of the current Kamen Rider is due for release in September (costing 3,360 yen), and will come packed with activated/unactivated versions of the Cosmic switch, along with his signature Barizun sword.

Thanks to TokuNation.com member Kiryu for the news!

under Super Sentai

Today it was revealed that S.H. Figuarts Black Condor from Choujin Sentai Jetman is going to be a Tamashii Web Exclusive. Orders are live as of May 25, 2012 at 16:00 JST.

He will retail for 3,675 yen and stated for a release date of October 2012

http://p-bandai.jp/tamashiiwebshouten/a0011/b0016/item-1000016356/

under Super Sentai

Update!: From a crude picture taken of a Bandai advertisement, we finally have a price for the MMZ-01! Brace yourselves in September however, as it will cost a whopping 12,600 yen. Preorders (whether mass retail or Tamashii Web) have not yet opened, so stayed tuned for more information if you plan to bear through the pain of being an Akibaranger fan!

under Godzilla

For fans of Godzilla Comics by IDW Publishing, today we bring you a preview of Godzilla #1 from the new ongoing series!

Godzilla #1
Godzilla is back… in an all-new ongoing series! Duane Swierczynski and Simon Gane launch this ultimate action-movie blockbuster, ushering in a new era of monster battles. Ex-special forces tough-guy Boxer is a man with a grudge and vows to end the terror of Godzilla, no matter what. He assembles a top notch team to take down monster-sized threats… at $7 billion a bounty. What starts as a vendetta could become a lucrative business for Boxer… if he can live past day one!

Read on to preview this new issue! It’s scheduled for release tomorrow, Wednesday, May 23rd 2012.

under Power Rangers

Not to be totally outdone by Shout!’s massive boxset, Lionsgate has announced new Power Rangers Samurai DVD releases- featuring the beginning of the “Super Samurai” saga.

As with previous Samurai DVD announcements, these Volumes will contain 4 DVDs for a suggested price of 14.95.

The Super Samurai volumes will be released in mid-August!

http://tvshowsondvd.com/n/16970

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When we helped break the news some time ago with a translation from a TOEI interview regarding how Toei was re-shooting the Pirate Sentai Gokaiger “Legendary War” footage to contain US-only heroes, the speculation began across the entire Power Rangers fan community that there was a possibility that we’d get Gokaiger as the 20th Anniversary Season in 2013.

Well, thanks to the on-going casting and information thread both at RangerBoard as well as at RangerCrew, we have the audition role for the male Power Rangers call-backs script.

Why is that important?

Well, for starters it mentions a working title for the 2013 season, as well as giving away what series may be the final one coming for the anniversary season. Curious to find out? Click the story title (or the discuss link) and read the casting spoiler!

CREDIT: RangerCrew