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Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus Free FREE JUDGE DREDD VS. ALIENS: INCUBUS PDF John Wagner,Andy Diggle,Henry Flint | 112 pages | 05 Apr 2007 | Rebellion | 9781905437146 | English | Oxford, United Kingdom Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus by John Wagner No recent wiki edits to this page. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for:. Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved. Tweet Clean. Cancel Update. What size image should we insert? This will not affect the original upload Small Medium How do you want the image positioned around text? Float Left Float Right. Cancel Insert. Go to Link Unlink Change. Cancel Create Link. Disable this feature for this session. Rows: Columns:. Enter the URL for the tweet you want to embed. Judge Schaefer Predator. Teams Aliens Xenomorphs Predators. Locations Mega-City One. Concepts Crossover. Story Arcs. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus with your edits. Make Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live. Judge Dredd Vs. Aliens: Incubus and Save Until you earn points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Comic Vine users. Use your keyboard! Predator vs. Judge Dredd vs. Aliens: Incubus and Other Stories #1 - HC (Issue) 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 Dark Horse Comics 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 comic book series in the United Statesfrom March-June 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 comics anthology 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 Judge Dredd Megazine. The character has made various attempted inroads into the American comics world at times, including an American publishing venture by AD publisher Eagle 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? This article covers a licensed crossover event that has been deemed non-canon by either the author or the Alien vs. Predator licensees, and thus should not be taken as a part of the "real" Alien vs. Predator universe. Cover to AD by Kev Walker. Cover to AD by Greg Staples. Cover to AD by Frazer Irving. Cover to AD by Jock. Retrieved on Categories :. Universal Conquest Wiki. Judge Dredd versus Aliens: Incubus - Xenopedia - The Alien vs. Predator Wiki 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.
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