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#25
Feb 20, 2018 23:05:16 GMT -5
Post by Doo on Feb 20, 2018 23:05:16 GMT -5
SCOOBY APOCALYPSE #25 Written by KEITH GIFFEN and J.M. DeMATTEIS Art by RON WAGNER, ANDY OWENS and others Cover by HOWARD PORTER Variant cover by BRYAN HITCH After nearly fifty years of Scooby-Doo, the unthinkable occurs! This month death claims one of the most beloved figures in pop-culture history: Fred Jones! This stunning turn of events will have repercussions that you won’t want to miss! On sale MAY 9 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T
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#25
Feb 21, 2018 17:06:24 GMT -5
Post by scoobnick on Feb 21, 2018 17:06:24 GMT -5
Wow, Killing off Fred! going for the ' feels' there, now arent they?
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#25
Feb 21, 2018 17:15:06 GMT -5
Post by russm on Feb 21, 2018 17:15:06 GMT -5
Wow, Killing off Fred! going for the ' feels' there, now arent they? The solicitations seem to be more suggestions, they haven't been the best guide to what is in each issue at times. This is either 'ratings dropping, do something drastic' or they are taking this in a very different direction to what we were thinking. But you never know, Fred may come back, if he dies at all. The solicitations to #26 may give a clue. No mention of a secret squirrel back story so will we get a full issue of just SA?
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#25
Feb 21, 2018 17:30:58 GMT -5
Post by scoobnick on Feb 21, 2018 17:30:58 GMT -5
quite possible russm. ratings stunts, including either killing someone off, or having two girls kiss, or some other publicity stunt, are common in tv shows. and comics due to their shorter storylines often end on cliffhangers " What will happen? Read the next issue to find out!
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#25
Feb 26, 2018 2:26:20 GMT -5
Post by Scooby-Dingus on Feb 26, 2018 2:26:20 GMT -5
And I thought Shaggy shaving off his trademark beard was jarring.
I'm wondering where they were going with the Secret Squirrel backup feature myself... It's very odd-- sort of X-Files-meets-blaxploitation-film. The whole missing-brain business is all very interesting, I'm worried it could bog down quickly and be left unresolved if this magazine folds suddenly. And if it goes on another 12 issues, or so, will this arc conclude and we see another classic H-B character get a dark makeover? What next, Top Cat seizes every back-alley gambling operation and drug den in the city and becomes the kitty kingpin of crime? The Hillbilly Bears get into a spat with the government over $1 mil in grazing rights and organizes a militia?
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#25
Feb 26, 2018 18:01:01 GMT -5
Post by candy1026 on Feb 26, 2018 18:01:01 GMT -5
Oh gosh, for a moment I thought something happened to Frank Welker. EDIT: As if they're actually going to kill Fred. Watch me be proven wrong.
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#25
Mar 15, 2018 8:07:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2018 8:07:36 GMT -5
When it comes to DC...death isn't permanent...just ask Donna Troy about it.
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#25
Apr 20, 2018 15:52:00 GMT -5
Post by russm on Apr 20, 2018 15:52:00 GMT -5
Variant cover
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#25
Apr 20, 2018 17:24:40 GMT -5
Post by scoobnick on Apr 20, 2018 17:24:40 GMT -5
thats really creepy. reminds me of the souls grabbing Hades at the end of Disney's Hercules film.
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#25
May 9, 2018 9:36:30 GMT -5
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Post by russm on May 9, 2018 9:36:30 GMT -5
When it comes to DC...death isn't permanent...just ask Donna Troy about it. He looks pretty dead in this issue.
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#25
May 9, 2018 17:47:48 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on May 9, 2018 17:47:48 GMT -5
Well he might become a spectre host- oh wait this is a seperate timeline. Phooey.
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#25
May 10, 2018 2:21:10 GMT -5
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Post by russm on May 10, 2018 2:21:10 GMT -5
Well he could come back if... 1. The whole story is a dream Velma has after being knocked out after the 'mole men' incident. 2. It's another one of the gang's dream 3. This is a weird computer simulation/game 4. Velma can do something with the nanites to resurrect Fred 5. Fred reanimates anyway thanks to the nanites. 6. Scrappy revives him 7. Raccoons, things, stuff, dunno
Or he is really dead.
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#25
May 14, 2018 19:15:03 GMT -5
Post by candy1026 on May 14, 2018 19:15:03 GMT -5
This was a unique issue. For once, they got it right. They nailed it. They didn't fill it up with insignificant blabber and then zoomed through it so fast we didn't even blink. It didn't cop out and derail from what the summary had promised us. For once, they did something creative. Not "The tough as nails military experiment has a last second change of heart thanks to an adorable little boy." Etc. Oh, and they took this version's Daphne, and humanized her. The last time that they made me feel anything for her that wasn't wasn't anger or disdain or apathy was ten issues ago, and was because she was chewing out the one character I felt even more distaste for, not being sympathetic in her own right. Of course, it wasn't perfect-while I'm well aware of people who fight and are friends, the writers could not (and still can't) pull it off to save their lives. Having two characters being viciously (And in one party's case, violently) at each other's throats and then just having other characters say, "Oh, but they're best friends, honest" is just the lamest, most pathetic thing ever. If the characters weren't constantly shoving down my throat by watching them fight and randomly saying that those two are "Best best friends with a UNIQUE way of expressing it" I would've thought they were mortal enemies. Hey, Scooby Apocalypse Writers? There's something out there called SHOW, don't tell. Beyond Velma suddenly being inexplicably gleeful that her all-but-named mortal enemy didn't die, you have a LONG way to go. But other then that, excellent issue. Keep it up.
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