When the comic solicitations came out for July last week, many fans began to wonder if the long-running Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? comic was cancelled when it did not appear in the solicitations. The fact that the previous month's cover art was not released until a month later than usual only provided further confusion.
Bleeding Cool has revealed the explanation for this, as well as some other news regarding the series. It seems that Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? has become a bimonthly comic and will no longer becoming out every month. Oddly, DC has also completely cancelled all orders of the Where Are You comics and placed the series on a hiatus until August. This means that #93, which was supposed to come out on May 9, will instead come out sometime in August. #94, scheduled to come out June 20, will also be pushed back to October. This may be a bit of bad news for the Where Are You series, which if not for the change, would have made it to its 100th issue in December. Some fans have also speculated that the series may be cancelled entirely, as comics which are pushed into the bimonthly "death" slot after a long run of monthly issues are generally cancelled, as a way to slowly phase out the series. Currently, no other comics will be affected by this change. Scooby-Doo! Team Up and Scooby Apocalypse will still keep their normal monthly release schedules.
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Scoob16
4/26/2018 11:47:17 am
Kinda sad that Scooby's first DC series has fallen so low.
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4/26/2018 02:25:58 pm
It is pretty sad, actually. I think the poor quality art and the reprints of previous stories certainly haven't helped it, but hopefully it won't completely end the series. Btw, did you delete your scoob_16 Instagram account? I just tried to check it the other day and it said the handle had been deleted. (Even though I don't check Instagram enough to make an account, I still occasionally look at certain Scooby accounts just for fun).
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Scoob16
4/26/2018 03:10:33 pm
Oh, no, I've just changed the name to @scooby_comics, like I have it on Twitter and messaged you from there. ;) 4/26/2018 03:34:03 pm
Oh! *facepalm* Totally forgot about that, as you can probably tell I haven't checked Twitter in a while lol. I just took a look at your new account and it looks great! :)
Scoob16
4/27/2018 12:29:43 am
Thanks! I decided to focus more on the comics, especially Apocalypse since it's the only one I'm keeping up with.
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4/27/2018 09:29:40 am
Scooby Apocalypse is the only one I keep up with as well, other than trying to stay updated on the release dates for Team Up/Where Are You so I can share them with people on the blog.
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DS-616
5/14/2018 08:31:50 am
I've really tried to get into Scooby Apocalypse but it feels like such a huge departure from basically every other version of the franchise. 5/14/2018 09:43:16 am
Yep, unfortunately it's just a "surviving the end of the world" type of thing. A lot of the first few issues is spent trying to escape the "Mall Mart" (a parody of Wal-Mart) and finding a new shelter. I agree that the gang is very off-character, however, if you're going by the original series or even SDMI. Daphne is very aggressive and constantly says she's going to punch people, and often follows through with it. I haven't read up to the latest issue yet, but supposedly they're also going to kill Fred off, which I can't say I'm too happy about.
DS-616
5/14/2018 03:29:58 pm
Thanks for the info!
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5/14/2018 03:58:37 pm
Well looking at the thread for that issue on ScoobyAddicts, it looks like he actually does die! I feel that's a little too far as well (though I won't judge it too harshly, since I haven't read up to that issue yet). It seems like they're just doing it to shock fans and stay consistent with the "T" rating, which IMO is (like you said) way off the deep-end and not consistent with the tone of the series at all.
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DS-616
5/14/2018 05:12:56 pm
Yeah the majority of shows and movies I grew up watching him in were the 3 you mentioned and The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries. I never really saw much of the earlier shows where he had a different voice actor and was alot more cocky and maybe even a bit of a douche from what I could see. 5/14/2018 06:17:59 pm
Haha, I assume that probably came from the voice actor's real-life personality. I wish I remembered the article so I could link you to it, but I read in a "behind-the-scenes" show interview that Scrappy's original VO was fired after he demanded he have an outrageous salary increase. It was something like $1,000,000 per episode, so I'm going to go ahead and say that HB was right to fire him lol.
DS-616
5/14/2018 07:18:01 pm
Ha! Well it's nice to finally know why they replaced the actor for Scrappy. Plus I always preferred his second voice anyway.
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