Keith GiffenScooby Apocalypse Vol. 1

Scooby Doo re-imagined and done in such an awesome way that it's wonderful success! I've loved Scooby Doo since I was a child and even enjoyed the movies, including the much hated sequel. This story does a great job of showing the history of this re-imagined Scooby-verse and creating a way for the characters to get together. Adding "real" monsters to it just heightens the greatness to the story. The author is very good at writing comics and has done a wonderful job making the characters likable & realistic.

This was a different take on the Scooby Gang and I loved it. Very dark and wild! It would be cool if they did a movie or an animated series about this.

I would never had imagined this take on a tried and true classic. I look forward to the rest of the series.

If horror comedy movie mastermind Sam Raimi ever took a run at writing and directing an episode of Scooby-Doo, then "Scooby Apocalypse" would be it. Great story and, so far, fantastic artwork throughout, the series will only disappoint if you can not free yourself of the Mystery Inc. gang we've all grown up with.

Fun and alternative look at Scooby Doo!

In many ways, this is the Giffen/DeMatteis/Porter's continuation of the sharp wit that made Justice League 3000 such a sacrilegious blast. On one hand, fans should be grabbing the pitchforks at the things they've done to beloved characters, but if those fans read beyond comments about Shaggy being a hipster, and are smart enough to comprehend, they'll find a comic that is humorous, intriguing and at times a bit of the heart string grabber. Drop your prejudices, and realize Scooby and the gang just got a whole more important than Saturday morning cartoons.I had not planned to like this, but a few comments in its favor, and seeing that I was a huge gan of Justice League 3000 (and then 3001), I cough up the dough and couldn't be more pleased.

Great looking cover, I got the library binding it's well worth the price, I love the thought of having a book that can out last me, looking forward to getting the rest of the series with library binding

I was initially attracted to this book for two reasons. One, I’m partial to the genre of “Children’s Properties Re-interpreted as Tongue-in-Cheek, Over-the-Top Fare for Adult Fanboys”. (What do you mean? Of course that’s a genre.) And two, the team of Giffen and Dematteis is always promising. Scooby Apocalypse seemed like a mix of stupid and awesome that just might be fun.Having just read the TPB of the first six issues, my feelings are mixed. While there’s a lot to like, everything I like has some problems as well. To start, cover art by Jim Lee for the TPB and several issues. Mostly great compositions, team shots, lots of cross-hatching—but they feel rushed. I wonder about the cover where Fred’s face is covered by the Grifter mask. That doesn’t really appear inside any issue, but it’s like nobody cared enough to go back and revise it.Interior art by Porter is largely really great, and dense. There’s so much going on, on each page—maybe too much. I noticed many pages are structured as six-panel grids, and every panel has three or more characters interacting. You don’t see artists working that hard in comics these days. The upshot is that it’s beautiful; the downside is that so much content is on each page, with most panels at the same mid-range POV, that it becomes a little hard to absorb everything. The coloring hurts in this regard. While a nice palette of blues and greens, there’s so much that it all bleeds together. There are a number of blurry panels, as well.Story-wise, the writers do well in layering the concepts—world-building was a big part of their work on JL3000, and it’s a big part of this. Frankly, Giffen and Dematteis are to be commended for seriously endeavoring to turn what could be a one-issue, throw-away parody concept into an actual, honest-to-god action and drama series. Dialogue is strong, and is a big part of why I love to read these creators. The book flounders a bit though around the third and fourth issues to figure out its direction. Continuity is a little wonky between issues, with often jarring transitions in structure or narrative voice between the issues. You’ll find a cliff-hanger at the end of an issue, then the next issue jumps past the resolution, then circles back. There’s a lot of repetitive dialogue—often, characters will word-for-word restate who they are and what’s going on. Daphne and Velma keep having the same arguement, and the reader doesn’t feel like the characters are progressing the way they should. Daphne, frankly, might be bi-polar with her wildly erratic mood swings—I’m not sure what the intention is with her character. Other characters don't react to her in a way that seems consistent with the tone of the book. She seems to be the main character, but she isn't likable; at one point, she hits Velma in the back of the head with a computer for no reason other than spite. Maybe this was supposed to be funny, but it came off as jarring. Velma’s backstory in issue 6 is a touch dark, and feels like it’s setting up something big. Scooby-doo’s dialogue is largely used just to punctuate moments in the story, but the timing of “Ruh-ro!” is consistently funny to me. I'd like to see more of the titular character doing stuff.If you read the Justice League 3000/3001 books, you’ll find Scooby Apocalypse remarkably similar in tone and execution. The world is bleak but expansive. There’s a nebulous, over-powered villain. The plotlines are deep but meander. You wish the world was more fully explored, because it’s intriguing. JL3000/3001 was ultimately frustrating because of so many plotlines both came out of nowhere and ended unsatisfactorily. BUT—the lack of closure only really mattered because what the writers set up was SO interesting.Amazingly, there are several more Scooby Apocalypse TPBs at present— quite a lot given the nature of the concept. I'll be along for the ride.

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such a cool reboot

The comic came in good condition and the quality of pages is authentic as well

Llego mas rápido de lo que decía la fecha estimada, como siempre excelentes los envíos por DHL, el formato del comic es algo interesante, en pasta blanda, que pareciera ser poco resistente, pero al no ser un comic muy extenso (Incluye los primeros 6 numeros de la historía) es suficiente para resistir, la historia en si es algo diferente al concepto que se tiene de Scooby-Doo donde de primera instancia los personajes no se conocen de nada pero las circunstancias los llevan a trabajar juntos para evitar una catastrofe mundial

If, like me, you've loved Scooby Doo since childhood, but have had to admit that (for the most part) the stories were not much cop, this reinvention, set in a monster apocalypse, really hits the spot. Ambush Bug creator Keith Giffen & J M DeMatteis are joined by artists Howard Porter, Dale Eaglesham and Scott Hanna for a comic that is the opposite of "decompressed" storytelling. Colouring HiFi makes all the art look good, but has an affinity with Porter that is astounding. Normally I hate the currently -fashionable over-detailed colouring in comics, but this is something else. If you liked the Mystery Incorporated incarnation of the cartoon, this is for you!