Where No Dredd Has Gone Before?!?!

Since IDW seems dedicated to using their Star Trek license for every team-up conceivable--Star Trek/Green Lantern! Star Trek/Doctor Who! Star Trek/Planet of The Apes! Star Trek/Legion Of Super-Heroes! Star Trek/Transformers!!--is it to much to ask that they next make this one real?

After all, IDW does have both licences right now...

I mean, instead of doing their, what, 19th Mirror Universe story, they could give us...

OK, not this, precisely. This was fun enough, but never really rose above the level of a one-off Mad Magazine parody.

Which is fine. But why settle for that, when you've got the chance to do the ultimate "optimistic future meets pessimistic future" 6-issue mini-series and highly marketable trade paperback?

Hopefully, it would have a better ending for the Federation boys than this one...

C'mon, IDW--what do you say?

From 2000 AD #1232 (2001)

Popeye Meets Gandhi

Spoiler Alert: this conversion doesn't last long.

From Popeye #1 (1948), as reprinted in this week's Classic Popeye #1. IDW is planning to reprint the entire Dell/Gold Key Bud Sagendorf series, which is really wonderful, so you should be reading this.

Poopdeck Pappy Prefers Candy & Soda!

From Popeye #1 (1948), as reprinted in this week's Classic Popeye #1. IDW is planning to reprint the entire Dell/Gold Key Bud Sagendorf series, which is really wonderful, so you should be reading this.

Obviously, He Prefers Romance Novels?

From Popeye #1 (1948), as reprinted in this week's Classic Popeye #1. IDW is planning to reprint the entire Dell/Gold Key Bud Sagendorf series, which is really wonderful, so you should be reading this.

Popeye!!!

Look who's back...

POPEYE!!!!!

OK, I've got nothing terribly clever to say here. It's just an all-new Popeye title!! Written by Roger Langridge! Drawn (and lettered) by Bruce Ozella!! True Thimble Theater style!!

Just go buy this book (and see what happens when Wimpy meets a shark!)!

Deja Vu All Over Again

Well, the big announcement out of WonderCon (at least for me) was that Dynamite has picked up the rights to do a Judge Dredd ongoing and reprints of the classics.

So congratulations to Dynamite on...

Wait, what??

Oh, geez, I'm sorry. That was an old item, from 2008!! Silly me!!

The Dynamite deal never went anywhere, was never even mentioned again for 4 years....4 looooong Dreddless years.

But of course, that is no reason to doubt this brand-spanking new announcement!!

Yup, just like Neville Chamberlain returning from Berlin waving his piece of paper, IDW insists that they have achieved Judge Dredd in our time.

Just like Dynamite's premature celebration 4 years ago, we have the promise of an all-new ongoing and reprints of the British stuff. Unlike Dynamite's announcement, IDW has even less specifics--no creators announced, no time frame, no real details at all (not that those details helped Dynamite at all in 2008...)

Hey, don't get me wrong. No one wants a Judge Dredd series over here more than I do. So I'm rooting for this to actually happen. And if IDW does succeed in actually getting the project launched, well, how far away can a Judge Dredd/Godzilla crossover be? And that, my friends, is a consummation devoutly to be wished!!

And it should be noted that the forthcoming Dredd movie may--may--provide enough incentive to get the project going in time to ride those coattails.

Still, given the recent track record, we probably want to avoid jubilation--at least until we actually get something more concrete. So let's meet back here in 2016 and see if anything's been published yet...