And on that note while you’re writing them...ask for a Mars Attacks Old School Set to be made. Get back to the darker pulpy art. This is why the original set stands alone. New sets have been too comical and have been taken in the wrong direct art-wise.
Topps already did this three times -
Mars Attacks Archives in 1994, the
Mars Attacks Screamin' model kit cards in 1995 (which, I think, were meant to be connected with
Archives, since they used the same story line that was being used at the time) and
Mars Attacks Heritage in 2012, the 50th anniversary year of the series. In the cases of
Archives and
Heritage they even added in 21 deleted cards from back then that didn't make the final cut - 11 in
Archives and 10 in
Heritage, for a grand total of 85 cards in all, including the nine model kit cards (in the case of the 21 deleted cards in
Archives and
Heritage, however, I think that if Topps had put all of
those cards in with the Classic 55 and made it the Classic 76, those concerned parents and teachers wouldn't have been satisfied with just
pulling the
Mars Attacks cards off of the shelves, they'd have wanted each and every one of them completely and totally
destroyed - and they would
not rest until it was done).
And
Mars Attacks: The Revenge! actually picked up
Mars Attacks: The Original Version (as I call it) in 2017, the 55th anniversary of the series, five years after the first story ended (the two stories took place in 1962 and 1967, respectively) and it was
great! I didn't see anything comical about
that series. In fact, one part that
I liked about it is that we
finally found out what happened to that captured Martian soldier from card 25 of the Classic 55! In fact, I don't even think that, back in 1962, Topps even
conceived that the story would
ever be continued beyond Mars' destruction (however, whether or not they'll actually
make a third series, 60th anniversary in 2022 or otherwise, remains to be seen...although I wouldn't mind if they stopped it right now, depending on
how the second series actually did in the end - in other words,
we make up the third act (by the way,
was the second series a success or not? Please let me know)).
Now, if Topps would just tell us if they're
ever going to continue
Mars Attacks: The Second Version (i.e.,
Mars Attacks: Invasion (2013) and
Mars Attacks: Occupation (2016)) beyond that point and
maybe even finish it off...