Note: this is a spoiler-free advance review of Scooby Apocalypse #1, which will be released on Wednesday, May 25.
People always say you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. But sometimes it's perfectly acceptable to look at a comic cover and say, "Thanks, but I'll pass." If Scooby Apocalypse #1's cover doesn't win you over with its depiction of a tribal tat-adorned Fred, a hipster-styled Shaggy and an emoji-spewing Scooby-Doo, nothing inside the comic will change your mind. This comic isn't nearly ironic or self-aware enough.
It's a little fascinating how diametrically opposed this series is to its fellow Hanna-Barbera revival, Future Quest. That series got off to a great start last week by focusing on what made classic cartoons like Jonny Quest and Space Ghost work, merely smoothing over a few rough edges in the process of updating those franchises for a contemporary audiences and mashing them together. By comparison, Scooby Apocalypse goes out of its way to overhaul the Scooby franchise. This first issue presents a world where a shadowy organization is performing illegal genetic and nanotech experiments and Daphne and Fred are struggling TV journalists trying to keep their conspiracy-themed show afloat. This comic is as much The X-Files as it is Scooby-Doo. There's an awful lot of back-story and exposition and world-building here for a franchise that used to be focused on a group of teenagers and their talking dog driving around and solving mysteries.
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