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Dave, I’d match HAL JORDAN to GL, and the LanternS book to GLC, personally — GL was always the Hal title, and GLC the “Not Hal”

Interesting is the five-years-ago figures (from just before the New 52 started) versus now. So in spite of all the “darker and edgier” New 52 revamps, “DC You,” “Convergence,” and other changes, the only characters to see a rise in sales figures since then are Batman (who’d probably sell well anyway), Superman, Batgirl, Constantine, and… Scooby-Doo? Interesting that in sales growth percentages, Scoob and the gang are one of DC’s main successes…

Scooby Doo Apocalypse was a lot better than I could imagine. It inspired me to buy the other similar books. Nice surprise in fun and entertaining reading

I’m really surprised by Unfollow. It’s a great book, full of mystery, intrigue, and plenty of weirdness! It’s a perfect Vertigo title! Why is no one buying this thing?

Nahan: bad marketing strategies. I probably would have been interested but no interior art was visible in the Previews (I think), price of the vertigo floppy was upped 33% just before and they didn’t made any effort on the price of the first paperback as they used to.
And launching a serie demanding such a very long run of issued to be correctly mamanged (the counter can’t drop from 140 to 10 in 2 issues) at a time were any new launch making it past issue 12 is a miracle was perhaps a little too risky.

Nathan: I’m buying it. And it is the perfect Vertigo title. It reminds me of Air by Wilson & Perker from a few years back, gives me that same feeling of those cool little books poking their heads out between Sandman and Preacher and Animal Man and Fables, you know? That…Vertigo feeling…mmm…

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.

As long as Keith Griffen has a hand in it, I’m sure it will be hilarious and well worked.

RE: New Flintstones

Yabba Dabba Don’t.

Hey Spike!:
But Giffen is an old white guy trying to make money,..
Ruh-oh!

“But Giffen is an old white guy trying to make money,..”

Working in comics? Talk about your screwball plans…

If these comics sell poorly, will they blame those meddling kids?

I understand the cold business aspect of trying to mine some new money out of old properties, and I’m sure it was fun for those involved to do their ‘What If?’ takes on these iconic characters — but in the end, isn’t it all rather creepy looking? Sort of like when aging stars have too much plastic surgery. Or that time when 63 year-old Pat Boone dressed up in a studded leather collar, bared his chest and did that album of heavy metal songs.

Just because you can do something, doesn’t mean you should.

Heidi, this is my favorite thing you’ve ever written.

It’s always an angry old white guy with some crazy real estate scheme.
(Rut Roh…better send those meddling kids to Cleveland!)

As for the Scoobiverse movie franchise… well, they did cross-over with Batman quite a few times!
(I’ll let others figure out the Six-Degress-of-Scooby-Doo chart…start with Laff-A-Lympics… )
Meanwhile, you all might get a kick out of this:
http://scoobydoo.wikia.com/wiki/Scooby-Doo!_Mask_of_the_Blue_Falcon
WATCH THE BACKGROUND CHARACTERS!

For the record, DC is reprinting the Joe Kelly Space Ghost miniseries.

Shaggy needs to shave that hipster moustache.

I’m totally on board for Wacky Racers: Beyond Thunderdome

Will there be a second wave which includes Captain Caveman, Jabberjaw and Huckleberry Hound?