Shaggy looks like he lives in Newtown now and works at an artisanal milkshake pop-up. Zoinks, Scoob!
Corporate synergy is afoot. Warner Bros. owns both DC Comics and Hanna-Barbera. For years, the former company has published comfortingly familiar comics based on the latter’s baby-boomer cartoon properties. Now, as announced today in an Entertainment Weekly interview, they’re re-imagining The Flintstones, Wacky Races and Scooby-Doo as part of a new wave of titles.
A promo image for Scooby Apocalypse by Jim Lee show off sexed-up, hipster-ised (sorry, there’s really no other way to say it) versions of Fred, Daphne, Velma and Shaggy, with tribal tattoos and dandified facial hair on the guys. The version of The Flintstones by Amanda Conner — artist on the best-selling Harley Quinn series — hews closer to the original series, but imagine the cast with body proportions that are closer to the real-world. And Wackyraceland looks like a Mad Max: Fury Road riff on the old-school car-combat crossover show.
While those new takes are the most divergent, the re-inventions don’t all come off as that jarring. Future Quest looks like a mash-up of the H-B action characters and the Darwyn Cooke promo art is line with Alex Toth, the beloved cartoonist (and influence on Cooke) who contributed character designs to some of Hanna-Barbera’s biggest shows. I’m a longtime Johnny Quest fan and will admit to getting tingly at a comic where his crew and Space Ghost’s team might have adventures together. Gonna need some convincing on the rest, though.
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13 responses to “What The Heck Is DC Comics Doing To Scooby-Doo?”
Wacky Races looks like a Mad Max wannabe and the Flintstones designs look really… ordinary. Leave it to Beaver BC. The others seem to have some potential, but Wacky Races and the Flintstones seem to have had all humour surgically removed.
Shaggy is now a complete fuckwit apparently.
Fred looks like a young Adam Baldwin, the crappy game controller in Velma’s hands looks like an awful cliche.
The Flinstones looks like a bad porno.
The Fuckstones!!!! (A real thing too lol)
I think Velma’s controller is for that drone-copter… because the picture didn’t scream “we’re still relevant, kids!” without a frigging drone.
How fucking tiny is Velma too?
Shaggy looks kinda like if Aquaman and Green Arrow had a cadamus clone made from both their DNA
Shaggy could loss the Stash. Scooby looks like he is not going to talk anymore, but rather, that eye thing is giving him literal thinking bubbles. I do like the si-fi look of the gadgets, and going from the monster, maybe there going to take a more Ghost Busters approach to it?
Translation. They think anyone who still remembers the old cartoons is now long dead, kids these days won’t got near said cartoons so they are doing as they please with the IPs.
Actually, Scooby Doo is still hugely popular. And some of the movies have actually been hilariously fantastic.
**double post
I’m more concerned by the fact that Velma looks like a…
**EDIT – Let’s make that slightly more politically correct, shall we**
… little person with a very big person head.
She looks like a Halfling.