There is nothing funny about this picture.

There is nothing funny about this picture.

Mourning for George Floyd and all the other African-Americans who were killed while in police custody isn’t what any person would call fun. And of course, the fact that it is happening at all is a further sign of the unworthiness and failure of so many of us. Failure on so many levels. Failure that must come with a terrible reckoning.

Some might call the bringing of a kaiju to a place of public grief inappropriate. We reply that it is far less inappropriate than black men and women being choked to death, or shot in the back, or dying young because they lived next to a refinery or highway overpass. They might say that it’s not right to bring this subject into a forum of humorous escape. We reply that there is no escape, for any of us. It is not only right to bring up this subject here, but necessary. And bring it up again, and again, in many more such “unsuitable” places.

And if you'll notice, the focus is not on MechaGodzilla. He is not there to distract, but rather to demonstrate that no universe, fictional or real, is exempt from our frequently pathetic reality. Calisatsu included.

We did not consider the posting of this picture lightly. In the end, it was ultimately an easy choice, because truthfully we had no choice, if we were to respect ourselves—or anybody else—as human beings.