Mars Attacks Idw

author: Chris Ryall

name: Wayne

average rating: 2.50

book published: 2013

rating: 3

read at: 2013/05/09

date added: 2013/05/09

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

A fun, sometimes loopy comics crossover idea that works for the most part, IDW has taken the iconic characters from the Mars Attacks Topps trading card series (and the later Tim Burton movie) and mashed them up with four of their other properties. In this comic series, the martian invaders with the oversized brains meet characters from Popeye, Zombies vs Robots, Kiss, The Real Ghostbusters, and The Transformers.



I loved these kind of crossover comics as a kid, and I still think their fun. An imaginative "what if" story. In all five the martians invade and have strange encounters. I think the Popeye story was my favorite and worked the best. I was less familiar with the Zombies vs Robots comic, but loved the zombies going crazy over the martians with their huge brains. The Kiss story is the only one that didn't work as well, and maybe that's because they tried to play it straight instead of going for a more campy feel. Your mileage may vary, of course.



Art styles vary throughout. Again, my favorite was the Popeye story with it's washed out color panels, but all the art was quite good. Some of it might be hard to follow without reading some of the other properties, but a fun, light read nonetheless that took me back to the summers of my youth.





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