Dennis Eckersley
“I think his card may be one that I am super proud of simply for how ridiculous it is,” Pardee said. “I had such a left-field obscure idea for what I wanted to do that I didn’t think it was going to get approved at all but it did!”
“Dennis Eckersley’s nickname was ‘ECK,’ and one of my favorite movies is Mars Attacks, and in Mars Attacks, the aliens scream ‘ACK ACK.’ I realized that Topps created the original Mars Attacks property, and that they still own the IP rights to Mars Attacks, so my idea was to create Dennis Eckersley AS a Mars Attacks alien screaming ‘ECK ECK.’ And to my absolute surprise, it worked. That was cool.”
