Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Scooby-Doo! Team-Up volume 2

Scooby-Doo Team-Up Vol. 2Scooby-Doo Team-Up Vol. 2 by Sholly Fisch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I'm a Scooby-Doo fan from way back, particularly the New Scooby-Doo Movies where they teamed with celebrity guests like Batman or the Harlem Globetrotters. In fact, once when I was four, I feel sleep before Scooby-Doo started and slept through it, prompting me to ask my mom to call the station to see if they would show it again. She did not, setting the tone for our relationship for the next 39 years.

Anyway, in this volume, the Mystery Inc gang teams with The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Secret Squirrel, Jonny Quest, Superman, and finally Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. These episodes each feel like they could be lost episodes of Scooby-Doo from the late 1970s/early 1980s. The plots by Sholly Fisch ring true to the characters, both the Scooby gang and the guest stars.

The art by Dario Brizuela and Scott Jeralds looks like it came straight off of the Hanna-Barbera model sheets, both for Scooby and guests, although Superman, Harley and Ivy displayed a welcome Bruce Timm influence.

The stories are aimed at younger readers and work well as such. There are no decapitations, savage beatings, or any of the other things we take for granted in modern comics. There are hijinks aplenty, jokes, and someone getting unmasked at the end, a hallmark of any Scooby-Doo story.

Scooby-Doo Team-Up was good for a couple hours of light, fun reading. Three out of five Scooby Snacks.

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