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Post by monks19 on Jan 23, 2019 12:30:38 GMT -5
And that's another reason, the quality of the writing has gone down since the beginning. Interesting ideas, badly executed. It's almost like they have no budget. They have gone from being all ages to aimed purely at young children. If it's intentional it's fine, if its lack of budget that's bad Either way I dropped both Team Up and WAY from my pull list a few months ago. Scooby had been aimed solely at children up until maybe Pup. Just because something's simplistic doesn't mean it's bad. Team Up has the most faithful modern takes on classic HB characters and is a great way to introduce the DC canon to younger kids. Point taken (but debatable). But still. Scooby Appocalypse showed that even teenagers & adults (with & without the nostalgia factor) can still be interested if worked properly and accordingly. That'll be real shame if they let this opportunity rot. But truth be told, I think that's the only Hanna-Barbera property that can be maleable enough for this way. Not sure about Flintstones, but why not ? All they need are good stories and a lot can be provided if WB & DC can greenlight those despite the outrage from the classic hardcore fans and other single minded people that are going to behave like crybabies because it should be only aimed for kids or because of some tweaks & twists have been made "their childhood cartoon characters" in order to make the whole thing newly relevant and interesting instead. The same arguments were made about the changes of tone on some prime DC properties (Batman & Superman in the 70s for exemple), that didn't stop the creative teams and execs to even create alernative options and carry on with the prime ones. The same can also be made here with sucess given the proper attention.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2019 20:01:38 GMT -5
This was a bizarre run, interesting, but I feel Apocalypse suffers the same thing that Pre-Crisis Captain Marvel comics suffered in the 70's. Rather than integrate the flying cheese tray into the main continuity as a time warp (like they did post-crisis)...it was isolated. This storyline could have worked for Kammandi's timeline being a thing, however it wasn't. Now on Team Up? I feel Team Up does better when they team up with various DC heroes and the other mystery solvers of Hanna-Barbera like Johnny Quest. When they do the DC teamups they write it like an episode of Galactic Guardians, Challenge and LSPS just without the Darkseid is an obssessive fan of (insert most attractive female in the story here) part. I could do without the obscure parts of Hanna-B though. Maybe they could try again with something else in continuity down the road though?
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Post by russm on Feb 14, 2019 17:26:41 GMT -5
It seems that DC is cancelling quite a few comics, with the finger being pointed at WB as the main culprit behind this. The accusation is that WB is becoming as risk-adverse as Disney so only want 'safe' releases.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 16:42:24 GMT -5
That's really strange. WB has usually been all about risk taking. I would make a joke about them being chicken...but it's all fried up.
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Post by elemage on Mar 13, 2019 22:31:47 GMT -5
That's really strange. WB has usually been all about risk taking. I would make a joke about them being chicken...but it's all fried up. According to BleedingCool, it has nothing to do with WB as a whole or DC, but one specific executive at WB (specifically the one that is in charge of the licensing for the HB properties) that dislikes DC's take on the HB properties. Basically, said executive did not appreciate Scooby Apocalypse shifting the traditional formula, nor Snagglepuss being reimagined as a gay man, or many of the other HB reboots. So because of one stodgy old fuddy-duddy wanting everything to be candy-colored, family friendly mysteries, one of the darkest incarnations of the franchise has been cancelled.
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Post by konja7 on Mar 19, 2019 12:03:47 GMT -5
According to BleedingCool, it has nothing to do with WB as a whole or DC, but one specific executive at WB (specifically the one that is in charge of the licensing for the HB properties) that dislikes DC's take on the HB properties. Basically, said executive did not appreciate Scooby Apocalypse shifting the traditional formula, nor Snagglepuss being reimagined as a gay man, or many of the other HB reboots. So because of one stodgy old fuddy-duddy wanting everything to be candy-colored, family friendly mysteries, one of the darkest incarnations of the franchise has been cancelled. To be fair, the sales of Scooby Apocalypse weren't really so good (DC had cancelled comics with higher sales). So, that's probably another reason why WB doesn't want to mantain the comic.
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Post by russm on Mar 19, 2019 12:38:06 GMT -5
According to BleedingCool, it has nothing to do with WB as a whole or DC, but one specific executive at WB (specifically the one that is in charge of the licensing for the HB properties) that dislikes DC's take on the HB properties. Basically, said executive did not appreciate Scooby Apocalypse shifting the traditional formula, nor Snagglepuss being reimagined as a gay man, or many of the other HB reboots. So because of one stodgy old fuddy-duddy wanting everything to be candy-colored, family friendly mysteries, one of the darkest incarnations of the franchise has been cancelled. To be fair, the sales of Scooby Apocalypse weren't really so good (DC had cancelled comics with higher sales). So, that's probably another reason why WB doesn't want to mantain the comic. Sales weren't an issue plus given the idea/impetus for Apocalypse came from Dan DiDio/Jim Lee it would have a degree of armour within DC. At some point sales would become an issue but the sole reason for cancellation was this one exec having a hissy fit.
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Post by Old School Scooby Fan on Apr 1, 2019 4:27:30 GMT -5
If DC loses the license to publish H-B properties, it wouldn't surprise me one bit. There has been an active thread about DC cancelling titles, leaving only the core titles. I hope SDWAY makes it to issue #100 before the series gets cancelled. I think DC is better off publishing their own titles, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.
I guess you could say that Scooby Apocalypse has finally met its ultimate apocalypse.
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