By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 5/31/2016
Scooby Apocalypse #1 Plot and Art Breakdowns: Keith Giffen Concept: Jim Lee Script: J.M. DeMatteis Art: Howard Porter Color: Hi-Fi Letters: Nick J. Nap This past Wednesday saw the publication of Scooby Apocalypse #1, the second entry into DC’s new line of Hanna-Barbera titles reinterpreted for a modern audience. While last week’s Future Quest #1 was business […]
By: Jerry Beck,
on 3/29/2016
Hanna-Barbera characters like you've never seen them before.
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By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 12/13/2012
Revealed in the soliciations for DC’s March, Keith Giffen will be adding an updated version of Captain Carrot to the cast of his new series Threshold. Now called Captain K’Rot, this version of the character will apparently be “a borderline psychotic, booze swilling, whore-mongering rabbit”.
One of the top three intergalactic bunny rabbits of all time, the majority of DC fans had been wondering where Captain Carrot was in the New 52 relaunch. It may well have been the #1 question posed to Dan DiDio at conventions, causing the company to frantically lay a Stephanie Brown-shaped smoke trail across their plans for the burrowing hero, in the hope to distract people away from the floppy-eared protector of the galaxy.
But now, with the help of an apostrophe and some wonky phonetics, the character is returned, and presumably without that dratted hassle of having to pay the creators royalties for their original work. Any day now Marvel are going to announce they’re publishing a M’Arvelman series.
Captain Carrot’s creator Scott Shaw has responded to the redesign on his facebook page:
As long as it’s not really Captain Carrot, I don’t care. If anything, I’m kinda amused by their rather lame attempt to fit an ‘edgy’ funny animal into the ‘New 52′ universe. Somehow, it reminds me of Warner Bros. Animation’s terrible LOONATICS UNLEASHED SatAM cartoon series. Where’s Ch’p, Thunderbunny, Jaxxon, Bucky O’Hare, Rocket Raccoon and Howard the Duck when we need ‘em?
Heyo all,
It's Library Ninja Bill with what appears to be a very depressing post; if you just read the title. Let me tell ya something though....the end has never bee so fun!!! What the heck am I talking about? Check it out:
While not as technically proficient as Future Quest, it more personality and was more fun to read for me.
I anxiously await the gritty, steampunk-infused comic reboot of Jabberjaw.
I really liked it.
This feels like yet another company’s race to be second. “Archie updated the classic characters? Let’s do that too!”
I realise Jim Lee is a comic god to lots of people, but for 20 years, his art has looked like the same schtick to me. I guess I should respect that Shaggy isn’t super-buff, and Velma isn’t 36 DD, but then Fred and Daphne are.
What I’m getting at is that this looked creatively bankrupt from the start. They don’t need to make great art, but they should at least have some interest in what they’re doing from the start, not just sit around a table saying, “Scooby-Doo! How can we sell it?!”
To paraphrase the Lee/Moebius graphic novel — if Jim Lee is God then I’m turning atheist.
It may not have been a great start, but I’m willing to give this series another issue or 2 before I stop reading it to see if it gets better.
Ruh-Roy says
“I anxiously await the gritty, steampunk-infused comic reboot of Jabberjaw.:
Perhaps it will be followed by a gritty, techno-noir Captain Caveman. Which can then be followed by a gritty, futuristic Speed Buggy.