Godzilla vs. America: Kansas City (2025)
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Godzilla vs. America: Kansas City, titled Godzilla vs. Kansas City on its covers, is the fourth 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 Kansas City, Missouri. It was published on October 29, 2025,[1] with a hardcover edition following on March 10, 2026.[2]
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Godzilla heads to the heartland with Kansas City in its sights in four comic tales full of action and excitement!
Calling it “Kansas City” wasn’t enough to throw Godzilla off the trail—the King of the Monsters knows it’s really in Missouri, and it’s on its way. You may have thought your city was too small to attract a kaiju…well, you shouldn’t have stuffed it so full of incredible comics creators. So, join a star-studded group of Kansas City–based comics creators as Godzilla smashes its smallest city yet! Includes stories by Buster Moody, Freddie E. Williams II, Kyle Strahm, Baldemar Rivas, and Jake Smith![2] |
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Plot
"Make a Mark"
Two graffiti artists discuss a recent Godzilla sighting in eastern Missouri while tagging a wall in Kansas City. Skree thinks the monster could attack Kansas City, while Onk finds the prospect as likely as them making a mark at the top of One Kansas City Place. Just as they finish their piece, which combines their names in different fonts to form "Skreeonk", a security guard catches them. They dash past him to find attack helicopters filling the sky—and Godzilla towering over the Kauffman Center. The helicopters open fire on the monster as he stomps the center, then breaks all four Bartle Hall pylons in two with a swing of his tail. As rubble falls all around them, Skree and Onk spot the guard pinned under a fallen fence, and their friend Ruth, oblivious to the destruction due to her headphones, skateboarding nearby. Skree saves the guard while Onk tackles Ruth out of the way of another piece of rubble, though her board is destroyed. The four run to safety.
Godzilla grabs a helicopter out of the air and hurls it at a tank truck, obliterating the military tanks firing next to it. The remaining helicopters form up for a concentrated assault, but this only allows him to destroy them and the skyscraper behind them with a single blast of atomic breath. Surveying the destruction, Godzilla moves on, crossing the Missouri River. Onk, standing before his miraculously-intact art, remarks, "Talk about making a mark" as Godzilla roars.
"Tornado Watch"
A Xilien UFO flies over Kansas City, its alien occupants seeking to confirm a report that the city itself repelled a monster attack. Godzilla soon surfaces, wrecking the Christopher S. Bond Bridge, as the Xiliens debate whether Godzilla can see them through their ship's phase cloak. They watch as a citywide alert sends the populace streaming into underground shelters, designed primarily for tornadoes, not kaiju. Multiple landmarks around the city glow with an unknown power before forming an inhibitor field around Godzilla, the UFO, and and a portion of downtown. The Xilien commander notes that the city is rumored to be at the intersection of several ley lines. Godzilla fires his atomic breath, now weakened by the inhibitor field, at two helicopters nearby, grazing the UFO in the process. He fires again at the glowing KC Wheel, only for the Ferris wheel to absorb most of the energy from the ray. The Bartle Hall pylons then fire the energy back at him, staggering him. The UFO's phase cloak goes offline, and Godzilla quickly notices it. The commander concludes that the field is absorbing power from both Godzilla and their ship before he hits it with his atomic breath, knocking out its shields. Its flight brings it near Arrowhead and Kauffman Stadiums, the former beginning to generate superheated air while the other chills it. They combine to form a tornado, strengthened by the energy in the UFO's fuel cells, which sends both the ship and Godzilla flying away from the city. The panicking aliens crash-land and attempt to transmit their findings back to Planet X before Godzilla comes down on their ship feet-first, destroying it.
"Local Flavor"
A screening of Barbiezilla at the Screenland Armour Theatre is cancelled when Godzilla himself arrives in Kansas City, locked in battle against three multi-eyed sauce monsters. Roscoe the Robot, an employee at the theater, calls an emergency meeting of the KC Collective of Small Business Owners. He explains that Godzilla's aura has mutated the contents of the Sauce Ducts, byproducts of the millions of pounds of barbecued food Kansas City consumes every year. The assembled owners questions how they can stop the monsters and if they could eat them instead, but are rallied by Captain Roberts, the theater's pirate-like owner. As Godzilla seemingly dispatches the sauce monsters one by one, the group's witch gathers her sample of Antizillium, a mineral that becomes unstable in Godzilla's presence, the repairman prepares a stabilizer to time the substance's detonation (and properly cook the monsters), and the organizer of Planet Comicon takes a golf cart out of storage. Roberts tasks Roscoe, built in 1928 to defend against a potential invasion of the United States to deliver the payload. The sauce monsters reconstitute themselves as the robot drives the golf cart towards them, wielding the Antizillium as the tip of a staff. The substance detonates before the trio can overwhelm Godzilla, the explosion consuming all four monsters. Roscoe survives, but due to the repairman's stabilizer design, so do the sauce monsters, merging into a single creature, and Godzilla. Roberts deems their mission a partial success, as two kaiju will cause less property damage then two, and he senses Godzilla would rather fight a single opponent.
"Lost in the Sauce"
Diane laments how slow business has been for her food cart, Lost in the Sauce, since she came to Kansas City. Her younger sister Babs tries to encourage her, telling her she just needs to let more people know she exists, before snapping a selfie with her pet monkey. They are interrupted by the amalgamated sauce monster stomping towards them. Babs tries to push the cart out of its path as Diane pleads for her to run. The monster's foot comes down, missing them but sending them both flying. Diane picks herself back up, but can't find Babs; a bystander informs her she's embedded in the monster. It duels Godzilla near the Bartle Hall pylons, rapidly reforming after he slices into it with his tail and one of the pylons. Babs adapts quickly to the situation, taking selfies of herself enjoying a bottle of Diane's barbecue sauce as the battle rages. Commandeering a vintage car that was on display nearby, Diane drives towards the monsters—and a ramp formed by a fallen Planet Comicon billboard. Just as Godzilla fires his atomic breath, vaporizing the sauce monster, she hits the ramp, going airborne, and Babs grabs the flag tied to the car's roof. They come to a stop on a rooftop and Babs shows Diane a selfie she posted with Godzilla in the background, the caption promoting Lost in the Sauce; it already has millions of likes. As Godzilla leaves, they debate his motives, Babs viewing him as a force of nature, Diane believing he's moving on to another city to save.
Staff
Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.
- "Make a Mark"
- Story & art by Buster Moody
- Color flats by Ludwig Olimbo
- Letters by Sandy Tanaka
- "Tornado Watch"
- Script and layouts by Freddie E. Williams II
- Finishing inks by Buster Moody
- Colors by Andrew Dalhouse
- Letters by Sandy Tanaka
- "Local Flavor"
- Story by Kyle Strahm, Jake Smith
- Written by Kyle Strahm
- Art by Jake Smith
- Colored by Valentina Pinto
- Letters by Sandy Tanaka
- "Lost in the Sauce"
- Story by Kyle Strahm, Baldemar Rivas
- Written by Kyle Strahm
- Art by Baldemar Rivas
- Colored by Heather Breckel
- Letters by Sandy Tanaka
- Edited by Jake Williams, Nicolas Niño
- Design by Sandy Tanaka
- Special thanks to Aaron John Gregory, all of Toho
