Mars Attacks

À l’occasion des cinquante ans de la création Mars Attacks (créée en 1962 par Len Brown and Woody Gelman), l’éditeur IDW publiera une nouvelle série régulière basée sur la franchise ainsi que plusieurs rééditions d’anciens titres.

La nouvelle série sera écrite par John Layman (Chew) et dessinée par John McCrea (Hitman; Dicks).

“I’m a huge fan of Mars Attacks from a long way back. I own about half the original card set from 1962 and have a pretty big collection of collectables and doodads,” Layman said. “It’s always been a dream of mine to destroy the Earth and inflict huge degrees of suffering on the rest of humanity. With this Mars Attacks series, I finally get my chance.”

“We were excited to hear of the award-winning creative team that IDW had secured,” said Ira Friedman, Topps vice president of global licensing. “John McCrea was our first choice to illustrate Mars Attacks and we were thrilled that IDW was able to bring him aboard. His experience drawing over-the-top violence on comics like Hitman, Judge Dredd and The Boys, coupled with John Layman’s penchant for twisted, offbeat humor makes them the perfect team to relaunch Mars Attacks.”
Source: www.idwpublishing.com

Par ailleurs, IDW annonce que le #1 paraitra avec pas moins de 55 couvertures en référence aux set de cartes ultra collector sorti en 1962.
Oui c’est énorme.
Mais Comme dit le proverbe “quand on aime on ne compte pas”… enfin presque

MARS ATTACKS will include covers by McCrea and alternate covers by such comic-book luminaries as Sam Kieth, Ben Templesmith and Eric Powell. The first issue will also feature a unique approach to variant covers: It will ship with 55 different covers, each depicting one of the original trading cards from the debut set of Mars Attacks from 1962. A complete collector’s set of the 55 covers in a box that replicates the original card packaging will be offered separately as well.

MARS ATTACKS #1 ($3.99, 32 pages, full color) will be available in stores in June 2012.