an two star-crossed lovers avoid getting smashed by a giant monster?

That’s the question posted by Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla, the first in IDW Publishing’s four-issue line of oversized one-shot comics that drops the King of the Monsters into famous works of literature.

The series is branded under the Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre Presents banner, spinning off from Tom Scioli‘s Godzilla’s Monsterpiece Theatre limited series that debuted in 2024.

Written — in iambic pentameter! — by Adam Tierney with art by Sean Peacock, Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla reimagines Shakespeare’s tragedy on a kaiju scale, blending feuding families, budding romance, and large-scale destruction in Verona.