Right around the time Michael Dougherty’s Godzilla: King of the Monsters is released in theaters (May 31, 2019), we’ll be getting several companion pieces to the film including the official novelization as well as an art book. Also headed our way, *before* the movie comes out, is Godzilla: Aftershock, a tie-in prequel to Dougherty’s epic-looking monster mash!

From writer Arvid Nelson and illustrator Drew Johnson, the 112-page graphic novel from Legendary Comics will be unleashed over a month before the film, on April 16, 2019.

Via Gormaru Island, who scored artist Christopher Shy’s cover art for the graphic novel, Aftershock takes place after the first film’s cataclysmic events in San Francisco…

“A new threat is rising, bringing with it devastating earthquakes, and possessing an unstoppable urge to destroy. Godzilla: Aftershock is yet another exhilarating entry into the canon of the MonsterVerse.”

“The brilliant and driven Monarch operative Dr. Emma Russell races to stop the threat as clues emerge to reveal a terrible secret, a tragedy of apocalyptic proportions from the distant past that changed the course of human history, is returning to threaten it once more. A shadowy figure stalks Emma’s every move as she travels the globe to uncover secrets, while Godzilla clashes in an ancient rivalry as old as the earth itself. The fate of the world lies in the balance in an epic confrontation that no Godzilla fan will want to miss.”