Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons II: Sons of Giants #[nn]

History

The series grew out of the unexpected critical reception of the 2023 original, which earned two 2024 Will Eisner Award nominations — Best Limited Series and Best Penciller/Inker for artist Inaki Miranda — giving IDW Publishing the commercial and critical confidence to greenlight a sequel. Writer Frank Tieri revealed in a pre-launch interview that the project had spent roughly a year and a half in developmental limbo after being initially pitched with editor Mark Irwin and developed with John Barber, before IDW Editor-in-Chief Jamie S. Rich rescued it and championed the sequel concept. The full creative team — Tieri, Miranda, and colorist Eva de la Cruz — returned intact, with Miranda noting that the additional issues of the first series gave him a significantly stronger command of Godzilla's physical forms going into the second run. Issue #1 shipped on June 26, 2024, with a Cover A by Miranda, a Cover B by Gavin Smith, and a 1:10 retailer-incentive black-and-white virgin variant of Smith's cover, with an SDCC 2024 Jacob Edgar foil variant also produced.

Trivia · 8 facts

• Five-issue miniseries published by IDW Publishing from June 26 to November 13, 2024; trade paperback collecting all five issues released May 21, 2025.
• Written by Frank Tieri with art by Inaki Miranda and colors by Eva de la Cruz — the same core creative team as the 2023 Eisner-nominated predecessor.
• Serves as the second installment of what Wikizilla confirms is a trilogy, followed by Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens (2025), also written by Tieri.
• Issue #1's primary storyline is set in 1804 and centers on journalist Mortimer Lane confronting Vice President Aaron Burr over a Godzilla-emblazoned coin found on Alexander Hamilton's body after their famous duel.
• Issue #2 reveals the 'true' origin of Beowulf's monster Grendel as Hedorah, placing the Smog Monster in ancient Denmark and depicting its first meeting with Godzilla in ancient Rome — the first time in any medium that Hedorah is portrayed narratively as a Godzilla ally rather than enemy.
• Issue #3 presents the 'biblical origins' of Mothra, re-casting the eighth plague of Egypt as a Mothra event — the first time this origin has been depicted in Godzilla comics.
• Thomas Jefferson is revealed as a Sons of Giants member conducting a secret meeting inside the White House, with the series also implicating Lewis and Clark's expedition as kaiju-related.
• The series' premise of Toho kaiju shaping human history across multiple time periods is a direct spiritual successor to IDW's earlier Godzilla: Rage Across Time (2016), which Wikizilla explicitly notes as a thematic precedent.