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Simon and Matt Smith. Incubus was a sequel to 's Predator versus Judge Dreddwhich was the first comic to introduce Judge Dredd to the AliensPredator and Aliens vs. Predator comics universe. Aliens and Predator. The tenacious Judge Dredd, upholding the law in Mega-City One, has faced everything from mutants to supernatural possessions Facing their most dangerous enemies yet, it's lawmen versus nature's best killing machines in a bloody battle to keep the vast metropolis of the future from becoming a breeding ground for the vicious creatures. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus brings the carnage, horror, and chest-bursters to the universe of Britain's toughest comics character. With a special extermination unit called The Verminators now on Dredd's side, it's lawmen versus nature's best killing machines in a bloody battle that leads straight to the packed Eisenhower General Hospital! The unflinching Judge Dredd and his elite group of Judges struggle to fend off an infestation of the deadly, acid-drooling Aliens and to discover their origins. Dredd initially thought that the Aliens were part of an illegal pit-fighting ring, but it's possible that they are Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus to Mutant Jack and his anti-Judge activists An anti-judicial terrorist group exists unnoticed in the ruined Undercity, plotting to breach the city's defenses to let loose Alien terror upon the Judges and innocent civilians. With the Verminators and Judge Dredd's assault squads already ravaged by an Alien attack, will the addition of the Mechanismo Droids, old robotic Judges, be enough to protect Mega City One from the fiercest killing machines in the galaxy? Incendiary, high-speed fun brought to you by a collaboration between and Britain's award-winning sci-fi anthology AD. While Judge after Judge goes down in battle, Dredd and his assault squads make little progress, even with the assistance of the Mechanismo Droids. Despite being impregnated by a facehuggerJudge Dredd faces off against Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus enraged, anti-Judge leader, Mister Bones, and his mutant henchmen. As Dredd's forces hope to curtail the Alien invasion with pheromone tags and a mini-nuke, will Dredd live to see the final battle? Or will the Alien embryo in his stomach be the end of him? Judge Giant says, "Drokk! Alien frenzy! Towards the end of the comic's original serialization in ADit was launched as a four-issue limited series in the United Statesfrom March- The issues reused the Judge Dredd versus Aliens covers from AD, and by Kev WalkerGreg StaplesFrazer Irving and Jockrespectively, although the covers by Walker and Staples were switched — Walker's cover appeared Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus issue 2, while Staple's was used for issue 1. A deluxe hardcover edition of the comic was released by Rebellion in Novemberunder the slightly altered title Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus. The comic was collected again, once more under the title Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubusas a standard trade paperback published in January This edition reused Staples' cover from the hardcover collection. The Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus trade paperback was re-released in April The series was collected again in Octoberunder its original title of Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubusalongside the comic to which it is a sequel, Predator versus Judge Dreddin a hardcover trade paperback entitled Predator vs. Rebellion, who co-published the comic, is the same Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus Developments that created the video games Alien vs PredatorAliens versus Predator and Aliens vs. Predator The company, Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus as a video game developer inexpanded into comic book publishing in the year notably purchasing the rights Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus long-running Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus ADin which the Judge Dredd crossover first appeared. Dredd is arguably the single most iconic and popular character to ever come out of the British comics scene. Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus, despite his popularity in America, Dredd and his series actually serve as a satire of American culture. The stories featuring Dredd are set in a dystopian future, making it somewhat of a thematic match for the Alien franchise. Dredd has always appeared in the pages of the AD weekly anthology series, but has also branched off into his own solo series at times, most notably . The character has made various attempted inroads into the American comics world at times, including an American publishing venture by AD publisher Comics in the s and Fleetway Publications in the s. The character was for a time optioned by DC Comics in the s, as well, surrounding the release of the big-budget American movie adaptation starring Sylvester Stallone. However, both the movie's success and the Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus of the DC Comics version of the series were short lived. Aliens: Incubus was created by a who's who of talent associated with the iconic British comics series. Writer John Wagner was co-creator of Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus Dredd in and has gone on to work variously in American comics as well, notably on a number of Batman stories for DC Comics and A History of Violencewhich was made into a film starring Viggo Mortensen. Predator crossover comics featuring the character have been published by Dark Horse in collaboration with a different co-publisher — Fleetway Comics for Predator versus Judge DreddRebellion for Aliens vs. Aliens: Splice and Dice. Predator franchises, Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus is one of a select few that forms an official, canonical part of the other comic book franchise involved. Historically, all appearances of Judge Dredd in his native stories are considered canonical and all fit into the same continuous timeline for example, the character has aged in real-time over the course of his appearances. Thus his "trans-dimensional" encounters with such outside characters as Batmanthe Xenomorphs and the Yautja are all considered part of actual Judge Dredd canon. Predator crossover comics that are likewise considered canon in at least one of their "parent" series include Agents of Law 6WildC. However, none of these comics are considered canon in the AlienPredator and Alien vs. Predator franchise. This wiki. This wiki All wikis. Sign In Don't have an account? Start a Wiki. Do you like this video? 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Sunday, October 28, Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus. We've got a special guest this week: the extraordinary Laura Hudsonformer editor of Comics Alliance, current contributor to the L. Timesand star of every karaoke joint she's ever walked into. Before she leaves Portland for her awesome new gig, she agreed to talk about Judge Dredd Vs. We counterbalance each other's cultural gaps: Laura hasn't read much Dredd before, and I've managed, somehow, to never watch any of the Alien movies, but she's seen them all--and rewatched them all this past summer. Take it away, Laura! LAURA: There's a nice bit of visual mimicry on the first page of Incubus where we see the power towers extracting energy, structures that just so happen to look an awful lot like Xenomorph mouths, frozen in that iconic moment of toothy, gaping glory, especially when you juxtapose them with the cover. And beyond that, nearly every single image in the story seems to have teeth Henry Flint is absolutely on fire here. He'd drawn most of the best- looking parts of "The Hunting Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus five or six years earlier, but had mostly just done one- and two-part Dredd stories since then; this one, I think, is what cemented him as a first-rank artist for this series. He's done some fantastic stuff on other AD series too--I think Zombo might be my favorite of all. I particularly love the sequence with the alien plunging downward over four skinny vertical panels, then smashing a giant hole into the Undercity. The Mr. Bones subplot resolves threads Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus "Out of the Undercity," which had run a few months earlier; the robots who show up at the end are, I believe, the last few survivors of the Mechanismo storyline from the mid-'90s and I don't think we've seen Mechanismos since. Also, Sanchez, who's introduced here, later shows up again in "Origins. There are a couple of bits of the story that are slightly recycled, on the other hand. Sanchez's arc--in which Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus doesn't know if she's cut out for the force, but then she does OK in a tight spot, and Dredd eventually approves of Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus pretty much the same role Judge Castillo had played in "Wilderlands. And, of course, there had been an Alien homage in Dredd in"The Starborn Thing," complete with a climax in which it impregnates Dredd. M-preg ahoy! The story's co-written by John Wagner and Andy Diggle--at the time, Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus had been a good 15 years since Wagner had written collaboratively on a regular basis with anyone, I think, and I don't know if Diggle's ever done much other collaborative writing. I like the result; this has one remarkably complicated plot for what's essentially a chase-and-fight premise, and it's got a lot of sharp character moments. LAURA: In that opening scene, where Dredd gets called in to disperse a demonstration against the power tower by the Earth Mothers, the Judges' "dispersal" tactics are pretty brutal. It's a bit funny to me that my immediate thought was "fascism," while my second thought was, "hey, is this really that different from many of the police responses to the Occupy movement? You've brought this on yourselves! One of the things I enjoy about Dredd as a series is that it's always messing with the reader's sympathies--whenever you find yourself admiring the Judges, it reminds you that they're actually kind of awful, and vice versa. So here's a question for you: One thing that this story has to do as a crossover is introduce the premises of both of the series that go into it, as well as serve and not talk down to the readers familiar with one or both of them. This one's pretty good at presenting the Judges' milieu within the first few pages, I think. I also appreciate how it switches off between calling back to familiar aspects of the world and introducing new ones; I'm pretty sure the Verminators have never been seen before or since. But I don't know how it does in terms of presenting the Aliens world; is there more to the Xenomorphs than attack-kill-reproduce? To put it differently: how does "Incubus" act as an Aliens story--which of the Aliens tropes does it follow, which does it tweak, which does it miss? And how does it fit in with the movies thematically? I gather that the scene in the maternity ward, and Bones' "It's me--d-daddy! LAURA: The more you deconstruct the Alien franchise in terms of its themes, the more you start to realize what a startling change it represents from the usual horror movie approach to gender. Rather than portraying Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus as helpless, scantily-clad victims who get penetrated by the knives of male attackers — with the obvious rape analogies that Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus — females take center stage in Alien not as objects or victims but as agents that drive the , while feminine themes like pregnancy and birth infuse both the heroism and the violence of its characters. Which is to say: instead of a horror movie that is metaphorically based on male sexuality being inflicted on women i. This turnabout isn't totally equivalent to the way women are treated in horror movies — the men aren't sexualized per se — but it's still a really fascinating and refreshingly different take on the genre. Horror movies typically link female sexuality with violence in a way that is Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus to excite the audience or punishes women for being sexual, but in Alien female sexuality becomes something powerful, something that creates power and inspires fear rather than being exploited for titillation. The most iconic and terrifying image of the franchise is that of an alien fetus bursting from the body of a writhing, impregnated man. I said 'That's how I'm going to attack the audience; I'm going to attack them sexually. And I'm not going to go after the women in the audience, I'm going to attack the men. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make the men in the audience cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat, the whole number. Pro-choice advocates often like to imagine how differently abortion would be treated if men could get pregnant, and Alien is that very truism realized in the form of a horror movie. In a certain way, Alien is a a fuck you not just to to the horror movies that portray women as supersexy knife pincushions for angry men, but to the Todd Akins of the world who treat women and their bodies as, well, something alien. One of the biggest departures from canon in Judge Dredd vs. Aliens is necessitated simply by the fact that Judge Dredd is a guy, which means that we've got a male protagonist rather than a female one, and the implications of that are even bigger than you might think. The most significant female figure in the book is Sanchez, a newly graduated female Judge that Dredd takes under his wing, although she's a figure of inexperience and self- doubt, and far more of a sidekick than a central character. The absence of a female lead negates so much of what the Alien movies are about, and while it's possible that the comic could find some interesting terrain to explore here with a testostorone-fueled character like Dredd -- well, it just doesn't. Seriously: the comic just throws in a baby and has an alien loom over it with giant teeth. Relationships between mothers and children played a big role in the movie sequel Aliensparticularly after Ripley learned that her real daughter died of old age while she was in cryosleep, and when she later took on a motherly role towards an orphan named Newt who of course was Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus by the aliens. In the Alien movies, the point wasn't simply that a child was being threatened; it was about the maternal instinct those threats awoke in Ripley, and similarly in the Alien Queen when her eggs were threatened. This, on the other hand, is just a random fucking baby. The comic also subverts the most basic metaphor of the movies with its very subtitle: Incubus. It's the nickname given to the Xenomorphs by the people of Dredd's city, and it's based on a mythological demon that took male form and was said to rape and impregnate women in their sleep. Listen: the entire point of Alien was male terror of sexual violation and the transformation of pregnancy from something female to something male. By reframing the aliens Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus the context of an incubus, the comic takes the rape, violation and pregnancy represented by the Xenomorphs out of the uncomfortable realm of men and places them back in the default realm of women, fundamentally undermining the entire concept. While in a lot of contexts "male" is assumed to be normal or default while "female" is considered something irregularwhen it comes to rape, it is too often considered inherently female and needs to be specially qualified as male. That's what the horror of the Alien movies Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus designed to address, and it's a little disappointing to see that crucial aspect of the films ignored and subverted in the comic in such shallow ways. I think it would have been a lot more interesting to see the comic deal with what it means for an ultra-masculine warrior like Dredd to be impregnated, especially since dealing with that tension is the motivating force for the horror in the franchise, but sure, let's just talk about Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus the lady judge is knocked up instead. The one hint we get about male paternity is the most superficial one possible, when the villainous Mr. The comic seems to want to play with the obvious tropes of the movie, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to understand them well enough to do anything besides make thematic check marks next to babies and stuff. Also, I truly wonder whether there was a conscious decision to realign the metaphors according to more traditional gender roles and thereby obliterate them, or whether it just Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus by default because the writer didn't give it any thought. Absent the compelling Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus iconoclastic themes of the films, the comic becomes just another space alien horrorshow, and not a particularly interesting one at that. When Dredd takes out the Queen and her eggs, it doesn't pack the same punch as when fellow mother-figure Ripley does it because there's no special thematic resonance; it's just another dude with a gun blowing up a monster. Fair enough--although I think there's a little more than reversion to stereotypes going on with the gender-role Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus than you argue there is if not a lot. I imagine the difficulty of playing up the horror of an impregnated Dredd is that a it would of necessity be another callback to "The Starborn Thing" one of whose memorable moments is Dredd, dragged back to camp by his bike, gasping "I'm But we do see Bones telling Dredd "you're hanging there for two now," Packer's Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus on, you alien freaks! Come to momma! Similarly, we do see Sanchez complaining "The thing inside me I-I think I just felt Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus move! The one thing that does make me roll my eyes is Sanchez having to shed her Judge uniform; I can see where it would make sense just for storytelling's sake Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus to have the two human characters dressed identically, but come on. One other thing that might complicate some of what might seem to be possible angles for playing with pregnancy and parent-child stuff in this particular series: Judges are celibate, or rather supposed to be celibate. Although we do see Sanchez, about four years later in "Origins"saying "Not sure I Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus with this whole monk thing anyway. All of the parentally-themed exclamations you mention are just that: exclamations. But I think my primary concern boils down to what you acknowledge as well: actually dealing with the notion of maternity and the male horror associated with both rape and pregnancy would "mess with the running gag of [Dredd] being the ultimate stoic. The power of the aliens is derived significantly from the horror of emasculation -- of a man being treated as a woman, especially with regards to rape and impregnation -- and because the comic doesn't want to "debase" Ultimately Manly Man Dredd or take away his power, it can't really let that happen in a way that means something emotionally. So instead, it ends up Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus the most powerful and subversive female metaphor in horror films to protect his masculinity. Where the Alien movies laser-targeted male discomfort and used it to provoke horror, the comic itself actually becomes an expression of that male discomfort, and by avoiding rather than confronting those gendered fears, it turns the aliens into something far more banal and less frightening. Thanks again to Laura! Jock Savage October 29, at AM. Newer Post Older Post Home. Subscribe to: Post Comments Atom.