Judge Dredd/Mars Attacks Crossover

[Richmond Clements]

so the cover has no relevance to the comic ? That really is unbelievably shite and callous.

Callous? It's only a comic cover, man. Chill out!

[James Stacey]

OK maybe callous is the wrong word. Calculating perhaps We'd need to ask Commando Forces.

[Richmond Clements]

OK maybe callous is the wrong word. Calculating perhaps We'd need to ask Commando Forces.

That's better!

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I agree with James and calculating is the kindest way to put it. I didn't read the whole thing when it popped up but just thought I'll buy that and see how the story unfolds! I only found out it was just the cover when Lee posted earlier on here.

I'm disappointed in the way this project seems to be going. I want to read the stories but something like this is the thin edge of the wedge for me. I go back to the way I reacted to the Dredd phone card series 2 and binned that after card 9 due to the company taking the piss!

All I want is for fans to be treated fairly, nothing more, nothing less!

[Kanoobi]

I love the film Mars Attacks and although I don't have any of the cards etc I like the dark humour that they represent and would have liked to read a Dredd story with the Mars Attacks Martians. That's nice cover art, but a nasty trick methinks, I was excited when I first saw this post. It's a 'Jim Bowen' syndrome: "Let's 'ave a look at what you coulda won!"

[Molch-R]

All I want is for fans to be treated fairly, nothing more, nothing less!

I'm not sure how this is treating fans 'unfairly' - it's a marketing gimmick and a great way to alert readers to IDW's range of comics, including Dredd. How is that a bad thing?

[Stan]

What is the point of that!

To get loads of 2000 AD fans to talk about IDW's new series of crossovers?

I fall for it every time. This being the first.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

I thought I was going to see Dredd wipe out the Martians

[Molch-R]

I thought I was going to see Dredd wipe out the Martians

Well, hastily jumping to conclusions and then being disappointed is hardly IDW's fault, now is it

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Bugger!

[JamesC]

I'd have loved to have seen Dredd fighting the Martians in Tom Jones block!
I think that's a wonderful cover and if that image is all we get then so be it - great fun!

[Skullmo]

I thought I was going to see Dredd wipe out the Martians

Dredd would kill them all and then they would have to cancel the Mars Attacks series. They just could not let that happen!

[Zanti Misfit]

I concur I feel a bit miffed that there's no story to accompany the spiffing cover.  Would loved to have seen martians amok in MC1, giant insects and giant robot-thingies destroying whole blocks, while H-Wagons blast out Slim Whitman's greatest hits.  Oh well, never mind. At least I'm in the mood now to listen to the Mars Attacks! soundtrack CD...

[opaque]

Worked though didn't it.
Certainly worth just buying the variant cover for that lovely piece of artwork.

[Mudcrab]

It's a great image, there's something fantastic about putting Dredd's serious face up against something really silly, such as various simps over the years/Santa/other silly characters.

As the cards also inspired the superhero cards bit of Marshall Law - Fear & Loathing, Mars Attacks is indeed a splendid thing.