Next January we will see a crossover event been Topps and IDW where we will see Mars Attacks take on…well, everyone in a series of one-shots. Spread out over the course of five weeks in January, we will see a series of one-shots with the zany aliens taking on the entire IDW universe.
The series will feature regular covers by Ray Dillon in a style inspired by the classic trading cards, but they’ll also come with some surprising variants allowing Mars to attack a mix of well known creator-owned properties by artists like Mike Allred, =John Byrne, Walt Simonson, Rob Guillory, Dave Sim and Terry Moore nas well as some property variants like Judge Dredd by Ray Dillon.
The brains behind the crossover event, IDW Editor-in-Chief and Chief Creative Officer Chris Ryall, had this to say about the upcoming crossover:
“The ‘Mars Attacks’ property is a bit more insane than most of the licenses we have. There’s lots of good carnage in there, so we thought it’d be fun if we could spin that into some of our other books that are more respectful properties. Normally in ‘Transformers’ you don’t get the level of insanity of a ‘Mars Attacks’ comic. We thought it’d be fun to mash that all together.
I wanted ‘Mars Attacks’ to fit into these universes by the rules already established in these books. So if there’s a Popeye story, the Martians can only cause as much damage as you’d see in an old Popeye strip or a Fleischer cartoon. It’s not going to be quite as over-the-top violent as John Layman’s ‘Mars Attacks’ comic. It’ll fit well into the Popeye universe. So every issue is a stand-alone story, and they roll out chronologically by era. Popeye comes first and takes place further back in the timeline around the 1930s.”
Source: CBR