Hello lords and ladies.
Welcome back to Cartoon Hangout, your place
for all things cartoon.
And today it's more of Scooby Apocalypse,
a comic book series featuring our favorite
sleuths set during a monster apocalypse.
I want to apologize for once again falling
behind on my reviews of this series, but as
some of you may know I have been having some
family issues lately and haven't exactly had
much money to spare to a comic book.
Even now I actually spent the last bit of
money I had left to get this review up on
time, so yeah, fun.
Anyway, let's talk about issue 8, "The Doctor
Will Kill You Now!"
I always try to avoid reading other people's
opinions on shows or in this case comics that
I plan on reviewing soon.
I don't want to have any preconceptions about
an upcoming episode, show, or issue other
than my own.
My worry is that someone else and their opinion
will accidentally influence the tone of any
of my reviews and I can't have that.
Unfortunately due to the lateness of this
review and my penchant for following the Scooby-Doo
wiki, I did end up being exposed to some chatter
about this issue and so I was expecting it
to be crap.
What I got instead was nothing close to crap.
Sure, the group spend way too long in the
hospital and much of the plot could have been
moved along much quicker, but the actual issue
ended up being just fine as opposed to a steaming
heap of dog shit.
I will admit that a constant source of criticism
of mine will always be the writing for Daphne.
I hate to beat a dead horse but it's still
awful.
Just when you think the healing has begun
between our two only female characters, the
writer sees fit to throw it back into the
same old thing.
Luckily the silver lining in all this is compared
to past issues, the fighting between Daphne
and Velma is significantly less.
Which sadly is going to go right out the window
by next issue or so given the cover for issue
9.
So I really wish the writer had maybe gotten
to the trusting a bit sooner so whatever happens
in the next issue or so would have more bite
to it.
Getting back on track here, though.
Another complaint, albeit a tad more minor,
is that not much is done with the hospital
setting.
Daphne, Shaggy, and Scoob do see some horrific
sights but there was no sense of dread to
the events in this episode.
The closest I got was when the first set of
human remains were shown, but that's about
it.
I guess it hurt the issue that the art went
from realistic to cartoon-y rather suddenly.
Ron Wagner has a nice art style, but it did
not fit the tone of this comic let alone the
issue.
I'm fine with fill-in artists, just make sure
the art is consistent.
You don't have a super cartoon-y artist fill-in
on your horror comic.
I do think some of the writing also hindered
the comic, as well, though.
So what we got here was an average issue in
the Scooby Apocalypse series.
It wasn't terrible, but there were some problems
in terms of pacing and the art not matching
the series up to this point.
Hopefully the next issue will be better, but
who knows at this point.
I don't even know where this series is going
anymore.
Honestly I'd say skip out on this issue.
I just basically told you all that happens.
However if you have read the issue, let me
know what you thought of it in the comments
down below and make sure to tune in later
for even more Cartoon Hangout.
Thanks for watching and take care.
