Godzilla vs. America: Boston, titled Godzilla vs. Boston on its covers, is the third issue of IDW Publishing's anthology comic series Godzilla vs. America. At 48 pages long, it includes four separate stories from different authors, all involving Godzilla in the American city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its constituent neighborhoods. It was published on July 30, 2025, with a hardcover edition following on March 10, 2026.
Description
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Godzilla is coming! Godzilla is coming!
They may have defeated the British king, but are Bostonians ready for the King of the Monsters? For the third stop on Godzilla’s great American road trip, the kaiju heads to New England–—and it certainly isn’t there to throw a tea party. Join a superstar team of Boston-based comic book creators in four incredible stories centered on the city on a hill.[1]
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Plot
"The Great Gorilla Whale"
In 1888, a grizzled sailor regales a Boston Harbor tavern with the story of a white whale he encountered 50 years ago. Another sailor, disfigured with burns, follows up with a tale of his own: a near-death experience at the hands of a giant, fire-breathing monster from Japan known as "the Great Gorilla Whale." While sailing home after a two-year whaling trip, the Gorilla Whale surfaced and destroyed his ship, killing most of the crew. Surviving the creature's initial blaze by hiding behind the pile of his shipmates' corpses, the man clung to a piece of the ship's hull and washed ashore in Boston. His story is cut short when, as if on cue, the Gorilla Whale suddenly surfaces in the harbor. After making landfall, he marches through Boston, shrugging off the police's bullets and setting the area aflame. The fire consumes a tank of treacle, which topples and unleashes its contents through the city. Godzilla is swept out to sea by the torrent of syrup, being stabbed in the eye by the broken-off tip of a tower in the process. The sailor watches as the Gorilla Whale retreats, remarking that it was not man that drove it back, but the city itself.
"Godzilla versus the Lobster that Attacked Boston"
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a scientist is killed in an explosion while experimenting on a strange substance. A janitor throws a canister of the substance into the dumpster. When a garbage truck tips the dumpster, the canister falls out and bounces into a storm drain, finding its way into Boston Harbor. The canister bursts against the seafloor off the coast of Little Brewster Island, mutating a rare blue lobster into a giant monster. The lobster makes landfall in Boston in the middle of the Boston Marathon and destroys the New England Aquarium. It proceeds to lay waste to several other landmarks: Union Oyster House, the Old North Church, TD Garden, the Omni Parker House, the Boston Common, and the Swan Boats. It finally swats the equestrian statue of George Washington in the Public Garden, sending it flying out to Massachusetts Bay, where it strikes Godzilla in the snout. All the while, the Boston Marathon continues, a mustachioed participant in which decides to skip ahead by taking the train. After crossing the Charles River and leveling the Boston Central Library and Trinity Church, the lobster is struck in the back of the head by a Green Line train. It turns to see Godzilla, who it proceeds to batter with its claws, pushing him into the Prudential Tower and tossing him through the John Hancock Tower. Meanwhile, the runner departs his train and rejoins the marathon. Godzilla manages to regain his footing and cooks the lobster alive with his atomic breath. He stomps away just as the runner reaches the finish line, but to his chagrin, he comes in second place. Later, trucks haul away pieces of the lobster's carcass. The runner orders a lobster roll from a food cart, but when he bites into it, the substance which mutated the lobster begins spreading through his body.
"Make Way for Mothra"
Godzilla surfaces off the coast of Deer Island with a Mothra egg in hand. He brings it ashore in Boston and guards it as he sleeps curled around the gazebo in the Boston Common. The egg hatches a larva who investigates a tree, befriends a mother duck and her ducklings, and crawls destructively down Storrow Drive. It makes its way to Fenway Park and constructs a cocoon on the field. Eventually emerging as an imago, Mothra joins Godzilla's side.
"The Green Line"
A Green Line train passes through Kenmore station with Godzilla looming just behind. At the driver's insistence, a crewman lures Godzilla with a flare. The train comes to a junction and is switched onto the correct track in the nick of time. With Godzilla drawing dangerously close, the crewman abandons the plan and tosses the flare, losing the monster's interest. The driver insists, however, that he knows what Godzilla is looking for, and needs to lure him there. The men hop off the train in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, and climb onto the roof of Coolidge Corner Theatre. There the train driver lights another flare, provoking Godzilla to stomp on the building and bore a hole through the foundation with his atomic breath. The men peer into the chasm to see LittleGodzilla trapped within the subterranean laboratory of simian aliens. Godzilla's child returns to his side as he faces off against the aliens' saucers.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
"The Great Gorilla Whale"
Written by Steve Orlando
Illustrated by Matt Emmons
Lettered by Brian Kolek
"Godzilla versus the Lobster that Attacked Boston"
Written, illustrated & lettered by Jesse Lonergan
"Make Way for Mothra"
Written & illustrated by Hanna Cha
Lettered by Brian Kolek
"The Green Line"
Written & illustrated by Hayden Sherman
Colors by Patricio Delpeche
Lettered by Brian Kolek
Edited by Jake Williams, Nicolas Niño
Book designed by Brian Kolek
Special thanks to Aaron John Gregory and all of Toho
As with all Godzilla vs. America issues, the title on this comic's covers ("Godzilla vs. Boston") does not match its title from retailers. Unlike previous issues, however, its internal legal information gives the retail title.
The title of "The Great Gorilla Whale" references the real-world origin of Godzilla's name: a combination of the Japanese words for "gorilla" (gorira) and "whale" (kujira).
The manner by which Godzilla is defeated in "The Great Gorilla Whale"—a burst tank of treacle—is likely a reference to the Great Molasses Flood disaster which occurred in Boston in 1919.
The use of the unabbreviated "versus" in "Godzilla versus the Lobster that Attacked Boston"'s title is likely a reference to Godzilla versus the Sea Monster, the U.S. version of Ebirah's debut film.
The canister which creates Ebirah likely references the original origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: coming into contact with a canister of mutagen which fell off the back of a truck and into the sewers.
"Make Way for Mothra" is an homage to the classic 1941 picture book Make Way for Ducklings, complete with a meeting between the Mothra larva and a family of ducks.
"The Green Line" is the first Godzilla vs. America story to not be primarily set in its anthology's titular location. Though Godzilla passes through Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, he ends up in the neighboring town of Brookline.
This is a list of references for Godzilla vs. America: Boston. These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: [1]
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Cover A by Hayden Sherman
Cover B by Jesse Lonergan
