It’s always exciting to see favorite characters from different owners/licensees get together! Judge Dredd works on numerous levels despite many people forgetting that it’s mostly a British parody of America’s love of violence: Dirty Harry and other unhinged, plays-by-his-own-rules cop.
IDW teams up with Dark Horse to have Dredd, Anderson and two unknown judges venture into the jungles of what used to be northern Florida. They’re in hot pursuit of a fugitive fleeing justice from Mega-City One. Meanwhile, deep in the forest resides a Dr. Moreau type whose animal-men have recently killed a Predator. The crazy scientist then clones Xenomorph (aka the Alien) eggs via the Predator’s Xenomorph skull trophy to see what will happen. Whenever a Xenomorph is involved, never anything good results, the creature is an amoral force of nature that can never be controlled. Another thing I’m certain of, both extraterrestrial species only piss Dredd off.
The only pending mystery to me will be how the writers will treat Dredd’s previous encounters with either creatures. He has fought each of them separately before. Five bucks says Judge Gilligan gets infected by a face hugger!
Here’s a team-up us old farts can get into! Meaning anyone over 40 would appreciate. Sixties TV Batman and the Avengers (or as the comic publisher must use, Steed & Mrs. Peel)! Camp fun alongside tongue-in-cheek humor.
Batman, Robin, Steed and Mrs. Peel are found working together in Gotham City to solve a caper involving Catwoman but matters take a crazy turn when the Avengers’ scariest nemeses show up…the Cybernauts. The what? They’re indestructible robots Mrs. Peel’s awesome savate kicks can’t stop. They’re not like the Borg, probably more of a Cybermen knock off.
My hopes for this would be more Batman A and B-list villains to appear.