Review: Scooby Doo Where are You? #94

Synopsis:

After reviewing a couple of comics based on DC’s newer interpretation of the Scooby gang it’s nice to get back to basics with the original concept. I loved Scooby-Doo as a kid and, like Star Trek, I can still thrill to the amazing adventures of a scardy cat…er…dog that I grew up with as new shows and movies are being churned out. Some franchises never die! Here the Mystery Machine gang have to take on the abominable snowman but they’re not in the Himalayas, they’re in the middle of downtown, the heart of the city. Then in the second story, It’s a freeloading ghost and finally, the gang finds themselves in a story called At Least That Beast.

The Creative Team:

Sholly Fisch opens with a Fred Jones wondering why they were called in the first place. “Benjy” lets them know that he tried to call the police, but because the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti, is considered to be more animal than human, they told him to call animal control. animal control said that because of the human characteristics, it’s more of a police matter. In other words: It’s not our problem. So Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby were called in. Great stuff includes the list of suspects that could have a reason for ruining Benjy’s business also Velma’s plan for capturing the Yeti. Darryl Taylor Kravitz brings us an exciting story where we open with the obligatory old man in a mask ending, this time at the beginning of the tale! Then, in Terrence Griep’s story, our heroes wind up investigating Lake Tele, which is said to be haunted!

Randy Elliot and his fellow artists do a great job at bringing us a feeling for the original 1969 characters from the Saturday morning cartoons. I feel brought back in time to my childhood and that’s a nice place to be. Ya gotta love the groovy scene that our favorite paranormal investigating teens have to jam from. Elliot and the others are primo for making me feel young again! Highlights include the ghost in the mystery machine and the appearance of the River Beast.

In Conclusion:

Many of the Scooby Doo tropes are here. The old man in the mask did it (although for a neat twist, this happens at the beginning of the story, in this chapter anyway) Scooby and Shaggy’s immense appetite, and Velma losing her glasses at a crucial moment in the story. These three stories won’t set the literary world on fire, but they’re what I come to expect from Scooby Doo and that’s what I like. They’re a lot of fun and make me remember an era where I would lie on the floor on my stomach in the late ’60s and early ’70’s on Saturday mornings hanging loose and watching cartoons as well as re-runs of the old George Reeves Superman TV shows for hours on end! It was outta site man and if the keen DC crew that brought us these wonderful tales were here I’d ask them to give me some skin! (that’s not a sexual reference, for those under 50 it’s ’60’s slang for “give me five,” or slap my hand, kind of like a high five, but down low. I don’t know, maybe you had to be there.) ***

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Writer – Sholly Fisch, Darryl Taylor Kravitz, Terrance Griep
Art – Randy Elliot, Karen Matchette, Scott Neely
Colors – Pamela Lovas, Heroic Age
Letters – Saida Temofonte, Randy Gentle, Swands
Publisher – DC

Author Profile

Kevin Given

Kevin Given has studied with â€œ Longridge Writers Group â€ and â€œ Writerâ€™s Boot Camp â€ a speech/communications major from the University of Maine Presque-Isle/Orono sites. He has created the â€œ Karl Vincent Vampire Hunter â€ franchise which includes novels and comic books. They can be found on amazon, Indyplanet and Kindle. For a limited time you can get digital copies of â€œ Karl Vincent: Vampire hunter â€ # 1 and â€œ Files of Karl Vincent â€ # 1 for free on Indyplanet. Kevin is producing the third novel in the series â€œ Dracula Rising â€ (working title) and developing â€œ Foul Blood â€ into comic book form. Don't forget to check out the YouTube show " Comics: Let's Talk " hosted by Kevin Given