This story was really good! Although Velma's outfit was too provoking (I liked Porter's take on it on the cover)... Seeing Scooby talk that much and that advanced was epic. However, I did find Fred's scene (when he goes out to find Daphne and is attacked) really off. Who on Earth is attacked by monsters and says "gotta grab my gun"?? Daphne's death was quite shocking, but I think it would have been more horrifying if the official premise hadn't revealed this was all Velma's dream. The two final pages, done by Porter, were excellent. Eaglesham is taking over now, but I hope to see Porter in the interior art soon...
Velma was very much Red Sonja on the inside covers, it's a T rated comic and it earned that T rating. I was surprised at Velma's outfit, I didn't mind. I'll have Velma in a scale-mail bikini any day.
I never finished this series. I think this was the last one I read. It's okay and has good moments. The crazy zombie doctor and sleeping in the van using cheetoes as a pillow were good ideas.
I never finished this series. I think this was the last one I read. It's okay and has good moments. The crazy zombie doctor and sleeping in the van using cheetoes as a pillow were good ideas.
I love the series. I've read all the way through twice. Once while the series was airing, and again when I got all the volumes on Comixology for a discounted price.
That being said, there were so many, many things this series could've done better. For example, the Daphne-Velma squabbling doesn't stop until like 20 issues in. It's so repetitive, and so annoying. And then Velma's brothers. They were built up as the big bads of the entire story, but ultimately not one of them mattered. Both Rufus and Quentin were trying to reverse engineer a cure to no success. We only meet Hugo in Velma's fever dream and then three issues later we see him as a corpse in the real world. We never even HEAR about Cheeves outside of Velma's memories so screw him, right? I would LOVE to just go in and tweak a few things, especially through the lens of a Scooby superfan.
I never finished this series. I think this was the last one I read. It's okay and has good moments. The crazy zombie doctor and sleeping in the van using cheetoes as a pillow were good ideas.
I love the series. I've read all the way through twice. Once while the series was airing, and again when I got all the volumes on Comixology for a discounted price.
That being said, there were so many, many things this series could've done better. For example, the Daphne-Velma squabbling doesn't stop until like 20 issues in. It's so repetitive, and so annoying. And then Velma's brothers. They were built up as the big bads of the entire story, but ultimately not one of them mattered. Both Rufus and Quentin were trying to reverse engineer a cure to no success. We only meet Hugo in Velma's fever dream and then three issues later we see him as a corpse in the real world. We never even HEAR about Cheeves outside of Velma's memories so screw him, right? I would LOVE to just go in and tweak a few things, especially through the lens of a Scooby superfan.
I do wonder to what extent the story was made up as they went along, there was a clear direction for the first few issues but then it seemed to wander about a bit. I recall reading some of the final issue reviews and one person said that on paper this should have lasted say 6 issues but it went of for what, 3 years. So I wonder it the original success, remember it almost made the top ten comics sold for issue 1 and the first few issues had a couple of reprints - unheard of in probably all Scooby comics, if that success prompted them to go for a longer run and what would have been a tighter story got a bit too much padding. Still I will hold it was the best of the Scooby comics of its time but yes, there were quite a few things I would have changed in the story.
I love the series. I've read all the way through twice. Once while the series was airing, and again when I got all the volumes on Comixology for a discounted price.
That being said, there were so many, many things this series could've done better. For example, the Daphne-Velma squabbling doesn't stop until like 20 issues in. It's so repetitive, and so annoying. And then Velma's brothers. They were built up as the big bads of the entire story, but ultimately not one of them mattered. Both Rufus and Quentin were trying to reverse engineer a cure to no success. We only meet Hugo in Velma's fever dream and then three issues later we see him as a corpse in the real world. We never even HEAR about Cheeves outside of Velma's memories so screw him, right? I would LOVE to just go in and tweak a few things, especially through the lens of a Scooby superfan.
I do wonder to what extent the story was made up as they went along, there was a clear direction for the first few issues but then it seemed to wander about a bit. I recall reading some of the final issue reviews and one person said that on paper this should have lasted say 6 issues but it went of for what, 3 years. So I wonder it the original success, remember it almost made the top ten comics sold for issue 1 and the first few issues had a couple of reprints - unheard of in probably all Scooby comics, if that success prompted them to go for a longer run and what would have been a tighter story got a bit too much padding. Still I will hold it was the best of the Scooby comics of its time but yes, there were quite a few things I would have changed in the story.
Too long? I thought this comic run didn't last long enough. They looked for a cure for the first 20 issues until they came across another facility which was completely abandoned. Had they ended it there, that would've been fine. But then they meandered for 10 more issues and then introduced the concept that the Nanites had become sentient enough to actively try to destroy humanity and recruit Velma (ironically enough, making her nightmare as close to reality as possible). And then instead of taking the time to wrap up the Nanite King arc, they ended it in like 4 issues.
The entire run suffered from pacing issues and not having a concrete beginning, middle and end. But it was definitely not too long. I personally think it could've lasted for 50 issues like Team-Up did. Or hell, considering how similar in concept it is to The Walking Dead, it could've lasted almost 200 issues like that one did, given proper story arcs. And considering Scooby Doo has 50 years of supporting characters and monsters to lean on, I definitely think this run could've done so much more.
Too long? I thought this comic run didn't last long enough. They looked for a cure for the first 20 issues until they came across another facility which was completely abandoned. Had they ended it there, that would've been fine. But then they meandered for 10 more issues and then introduced the concept that the Nanites had become sentient enough to actively try to destroy humanity and recruit Velma (ironically enough, making her nightmare as close to reality as possible). And then instead of taking the time to wrap up the Nanite King arc, they ended it in like 4 issues.
The entire run suffered from pacing issues and not having a concrete beginning, middle and end. But it was definitely not too long. I personally think it could've lasted for 50 issues like Team-Up did. Or hell, considering how similar in concept it is to The Walking Dead, it could've lasted almost 200 issues like that one did, given proper story arcs. And considering Scooby Doo has 50 years of supporting characters and monsters to lean on, I definitely think this run could've done so much more.
To some extent I agree with you but towards the end the art was beginning to suffer, they had dropped the original artists and you got the feeling that the new ones had less time to produce the work. In the end it was WB not HB who decided to pull the plug on this and all the DC Comics/HB crossovers so they had to wrap it up somehow, the comic could have continued for longer had WB not stopped everything. It was good that they had time to wrap up the story rather than it just stopping*. They would have needed the right set-up in terms of artists and writers and a clear committment from the higher-up that they were good for the long-term.
*It's a bit like Babylon 5, planned for a 5 series story arc, told at the end of series 4 they were not getting the last season so they wrapped up everything in the final episode of the forth series The Deconstruction of Falling Stars, and they then got picked up by another network for the last series.