Scooby-Doo Team-Up Volumes 3 and 4 Review

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Hello and welcome to The Pull Bag. This is episode

426. That's right, folks, 426 episodes of The

Pull Bag. It is the first week in the month of

September 2021. And I am serving you this amazing

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It is JT from Saskatoon. Hello. Hello. Would

I ever tell you about how you remind me of uh

-huh? Yes, I am a leader of men and oh I did

wake up this morning. I wasn't woke up this morning,

but I did wake up this morning woke in quotation

anyway We are here in scooby -dont September

because I don't know if we're gonna continue

with the scooby -doo team up series after this

episode And we're going to be talking about volumes

3 and 4, which include a bunch of stories, folks.

Bunch of stories. Funny how that happens with

a trade collection of a comic book series. Well,

yes, no, I understand that. But basically, the

stories we have in here. are Don't Be a Stranger,

Wet n' Wild, The Ghost of Gorilla City, Simply

Marvelous, Fly By Night, and A Dog Gone Crisis.

Yes. Where do you want to start with this? Because

I really don't want to be here for... I'm going

to say this. Two things. One, we did the first

two volumes, and I did enjoy reading these trades.

gosh darn crime that if Warner Brothers DC can

do Batman the Brave and the Bold, which is a

retread of the classic DC comic series where

every issue Batman teams up with a different

superhero to stop some sort of supervillainous

shenanigans, how is this not an animated series?

Yeah. Like, come on, like this for the first

story alone in volume three, folks. Involves

also us a part two is if you have access to the

classic Like the first two or three volumes of

the classic DC series who's who? It might be

preferable to have that on hand so you can flip

through that to get the lowdown and so because

that's one of the me being a an old fan of old

-school DC lore Right, you know back when they

treated them seriously enough but not so serious

that we got the 90s sort of DC stories where

everything had to be grim dark because I mean

the first story is don't be a stranger and it

involves the phantom stranger who I heard Kevin

Conroy's voice because of how he portrayed him

in Brave and the Bold coming to Scooby and the

gang to like all these other ghost superheroes

are going are going missing and then we would

have got like Michael Rosenbaum like Lex Luthor

or Smallville's Lex Luthor voicing Deadman and

you know, it's just them they go to this small

town and it's just as who's who of classic Silver

Age DC Comics characters. I mean you got the

Grim Ghost who's like this ghostly prince who

lived in a painting who would possess his descendant

and go out and fight supernatural evil. You have

Kid Eternity. Mr. Keeper was this kid that you

know, he died after a Nazi attack Nazis attacked

him and his grandpa in a fishing boat and they

both went to heaven but the kid was like Like

just so he was so pure that God sends him back

with the ability to call forth Ghostly visages

of characters from history and from fiction to

fight evil And then you got like the, like I

said, the Spectre shows up. And my favorite part

of this story is the Spectre is losing energy

because he's not, he's been physically separated

from his mortal form of Jim Corrigan. So he possesses

Scooby -Doo and all that. You know, I am the

specter, God's right -hand, it's, I am regent,

I am the right! All I can hear is Frank Welker

doing Scooby -Doo, and it's fucking awesome.

Yeah, I hear Don Messick. Sorry, Don Messick.

I mean, Frank's doing it now, but yeah. Yeah,

I mean, one of my favorite scenes is the spook,

who's not the spook that Scooby and the gang...

Tussled with he gets dogpiled by two of my favorite

DC ghostly characters One is a gentleman Jim

Craddock the gentleman ghost the other is Jeb

Stuart now for Characters are for people that

don't know Jeb Stuart was a ghostly character

from the title of the haunted tank Where Jeb

Stuart who was a Confederate general and fought

against the north and nowhere? We're not coming

down in either side of that fight folks I'm just

saying he was a Confederate general who in order

to earn his way into heaven was Gone through

the centuries guarding his descendants and one

of him his namesake was the leader of this tank

crew in World War two Who they all thought he

was crazy, but damn the advice he got from his

ghostly great -grandfather Helped them get through

the war and eventually some of the other characters

in the crew could see the ghost as well. And

it's just, like I said, it's just Silver Age

grabbing. This is the first story in the volume,

folks. Yeah. It's the first story in the volume,

and it's the first story that kind of really

feels like a holiday tale because it does happen

on Halloween. So I like that. I love the art.

Braswell's art is amazing. Dario is an amazing

artist. I love the colors. I'm just not... And

I know this is single -minded of me, folks. Trust

me, I get it. If it's not Batman, if it's not,

you know, Nightwing or Batgirl or something to

do... in that. I enjoyed reading this. I thought

it was funny. I love that dead man has to possess

everybody. One of the first things I remember

reading this is he possesses Shaggy, and he says,

I'm not hungry. Who are you? Oh, it's definitely

not Shaggy. Yeah, it's definitely not Shaggy,

obviously. I was going to say, or where they

find the spirit's body, and he separates from

Scooby. Far past time, I returned to my own human

host, but why do I have a sudden craving for

Scooby Snacks? I mean, hey, everybody eats Scooby

Snacks, even the humans do in this, in the Scooby

Doo universe, so I... I don't know, I prefer

to think of Scooby Snacks as more of like animal

crackers and not actual dog biscuits. Well...

It's either like what they say in the movie.

It's all natural made from vegetables cuz you

know cuz shaggy also if they got the movie cast

to voice this series and It would have been fun

to have Freddie Prinze jr. Double t double timing

it in the some of these scenes where he has to

voice Fred and Daphne when the spirit possesses

when the Death Band possesses Daphne, because

it goes back to the original Scooby -Doo film

by James Gunn, and anyone that doesn't love that

film doesn't have an ounce of joy in their soul.

I mean, come on, part of the villains gang was

Sugar Ray, and I always laugh like a kid when

I watch that scene. You're talking about the,

wait. The original movie. The live -action movie.

Yeah, like Freddie Prinze jr. Is Fred Sarah Michelle

Geller is Daphne the only voice for me in my

mind for Velma Linda Cardellini because I love

Kate Magucci and what she's done. She's done

very fine work She's one of my favorite voices

on the news DuckTales, but I love the gang from

the movie. Yeah Yeah, I mean it's fun. It's interesting

and it's it's one of those things where like

I said earlier It's a nice Halloween tale. It's

a it's a interesting thing that oh, they're just

you know hanging out at home and and giving out

candy and I Thought that was really really cool

Yeah Anything else you want to say about don't

be a stranger? It's Pro honestly, it's probably

my between these two volumes. It's probably my

favorite my favorite team up because just all

like the Easter eggs and callbacks and stuff

like that and Not that any of these stories really

good like the next one wet and wild where they

team up with it's like filmation era Aquaman

and Mara you know to fight black man to chicanery

my favorite callback in there was Where Fred

yells outrageous and mirrors like don't least

don't do that. Don't do that Yeah, and all I

could hear was, you know, cut was it Kevin Michael

Richardson? That did on women. No, it's head

begin Lee Ted Mc. Well, no Ted McGinley Did like

that episode with no, it was it was DiMaggio.

It was Jefferson Darcy from married with children.

He did like that one episode with the Fonz's

ambush book Yeah, just the way he's like outrageous

and I was just like I fucking love that don't

do that and Also this entire both volumes. There's

several times where Fred's Fred's Fred's got

a kink like he's He's got an obsession. He likes

Ripping masks off of people even when they're

like, you know 20 ,000 leagues under the sea

and black mantis head would go squish Yes, like

dude give it up good. It's gonna go splat. Yes

What I find interesting about this is number

one I like the callback to the old super friends

Aquaman thing because as a kid as a kid not now

I I thought it was so cool that Aquaman could

do telepathy with fish. And I thought the effect

of him doing that with the sound, and I'll put

it in here somewhere, with the sound and the

circular waves on the cartoon, I thought that

was so cool. And here I found it was cool, too.

At the same time, this entire story, I'm like...

uh wears his beard wears his hook hand justice

league did this better because if you look at

this story now i'm not saying did it better in

the sense of the writing this writing here is

fine sholey fish's writing is great but this

is the exact same story to me as uh the the enemy

below the two -parter in justice league where

it was Orm who was going to take over and blah,

blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't know. I just

I don't see that at all, Mike. I have to disagree

with you on that. If anything, you know, this

is like standard because I still enjoy watching

the filmation DC comic series, you know, but.

And maybe it's just my love of the DC animated

movie universe that concluded with Apocalypse

War. When I see Ocean Master in this costume,

I hear Sam Witwer's voice. Listeners might know

him more as Darth Maul in the Clone Wars and

Rebels and Bad Batch animated series. He just

has this great voice like he just went and ate

every inch of scenery in the Throne of Atlantis

movie and just Wonderfully over the top and I

just hear that voice coming out of Ocean Master

here versus Kevin Michael Richardson coming out

of Black Mantic is How can you not love the man?

Yeah, exactly My favorite part here is probably

where Mira is like, no, no, no, no, no. This

one's mine. And she just one -shots Ocean Master

while he's trying to run away. Yep. And Aquaman's

like, see? I told you it was better if only I

was chasing you. And it's just kind of sad. How

dumb are Scooby and Shaggy? They're trying to

eat this royal feast. There's like, you can't

eat with a scuba mask. And he's like, no! Yeah

that I I normally don't when I read comics I

obviously read them for the story and then when

we do the podcast episodes folks I usually look

through to see if I notice any art details you've

heard all that in the last eight years but especially

last month with turtles where I might have seen

something in the IDW turtles book and I pointed

it out to Joe who might have missed it And I

looked through this entire story, not that I

think Dario would ever not do this, but sometimes

mistakes happen. I looked through this entire

story to make sure that the mystery gang all

was always wearing their scuba masks. Because...

Edit point. because I was like, oh boy, how are

they gonna breathe underwater? Oh, right, the

scuba masks. What if they were ever drawn without

them on? It's like, oh, not good. But yeah, the

whole food thing, that was funny. And I mean,

there's, you know, you got classic like Silver

Age, Aqualad, Aquagirl, this one dude with the...

the blue shirt and the red pants with the Heihachi

hair from Tekken. I mean, that's probably Volko.

Yeah. He's a character. And you got Tusky from

the Aquaman cartoon just coming up and just like,

pew, pew, pew. You know, I know that is Tusky.

And I remember him. When I saw that, I'm like,

wait a minute. What is Chum Lee doing down here?

And where is Tennessee Tuxedo? Just when I first

saw the walrus I'm like waiting for that or waiting

for The 51st dates guy to show up yeah Yeah,

I mean who knew Shaggy could swim as fast as

Aquaman by the end of the story Well, I mean

hey, you know it is food like oh my god. I can't

eat. I'm out of here. Bye Yeah, now the the third

story with the flash Which was called the ghost

it goes to real city. Yeah Probably the one as

much as I again, I'm nothing You know by now.

I love the lore and the callbacks. I Felt a little

disappointed by the story because it starts with

Scooby and the gang kind of helping the flash

out Against mirror master and I was like come

on scoop the flash in the scooby gang versus

the rogues Like, you know Like captain boomerangs

gonna like throws a boomerang at Velma and shake

his scoop. It's covered in scooby stags I wrote

it Reggie, you know something like that instead

and again, it's not a bad story it's just that's

what I was hoping for and said we go to Gorilla

City and I think they kind of Overuse the joke

of talking gorillas a little bit. Yeah. Yeah

they did and It's not that like they use gorilla

grot and he's in this story But he's not the

villain and I think the weakest part of this

story was them just creating another character

who's using Gorilla City technology to try and

scare people out and it's he's a crooked real

estate developer and I was like Really? Yeah,

see, that's the same disappointment I had with

some of these stories, some of the actual reveals.

Some of them are just like, really? You're really

going to go there? And again, I don't see that

the writing is bad. It's just that as, and it's

not just because we are fans, but as people who

grew up with this stuff with these superhero

cartoon shows with the scooby -doo where are

you with the this with the that every time don't

get us wrong folks we know the old scooby team

ups minus when you know they team up with the

harlem globetrotters some of them are not great

They were meant to be in the time that they were

I'm not gonna sit here and say they do or don't

hold up today because they're not meant I don't

feel certain things certain things are meant

to hold up to today's standards of whatever standards

you have and I just didn't feel like I What I

wanted from this story, what I wanted from the

very first cover, like the cover of the book,

with Flash zooming by, stealing their sandwiches.

I was like, ooh, maybe we will get the Flash

family meets the Scooby Gang, or the Flash family,

like Barry, Wally, and I don't know if that's

even or not blood -related, but the Flash...

What's it called? The Speed Force family, they're

all together kind of thing. Jay Garrick, Jesse

Quinn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of them. Wally,

everybody. Like, that's kind of what I was hoping

for. I don't necessarily mind that they put in

their own villain and they kind of made Gorilla

Groud a good guy, sort of. But at the same time,

I was hoping for something more with this story,

not just, hey, guess what? This gorilla? Is really

Lex Luthor in disguise and he wants land rights

and I'm like That that would have made it More

that that that would have been better than we

got yeah now we move into the next one which

is you know, simply marvelous and it's you know

Scooby go and the gang going to faucet city and

teaming up with Uncle Marvel and talkie -talkie

Who I firmly believe if they ever make? At like

a ship a proper Shazam animated series like said

it and like the 70s like the Golden Age like

just that simpler Time this would be a great

cartoon for kids and Paul F. Freakin Tomkin should

be talkie -talkie The guy that voiced Gladstone

gander in DuckTales 2017 Okay, he would be perfect

voice for this, but I love this stories like

they got a Finds, you know Captain Marvel Mary

Marvel and Captain Marvel jr They're going up

against the Munster Society of Evil which of

course scares the living bejesus out of shag

and Scoob. Yeah, and I think one of my favorite

callbacks at least them again Captain Marvel

history is whereas if it's a Daphne or Velma's

but he doesn't actually have he has that they

don't Uncle Marvel doesn't actually have powers.

He's like and talkie -talkies like yeah, we just

we pretend that he does to make him feel better

and that's not like Disrespecting the character

or anything folks like in the comics. There's

been one or two times where Uncle Marvel actually

had powers but usually it's just he runs off

to the side and takes a couple of minutes to

put on his costume and I imagine it would look

somewhat like Red Guardian getting into his suit

in the Black Widow movie. Just this over older

old overweight man who maybe doesn't fit clothes

the way he should. It's a good thing and I know

that's probably not a spoiler. It's a good thing

I don't care about spoilers because even though

this episode will be released in the first week

of September I won't actually get to see Black

Widow until October 6th 2021 when it finally

hits Disney Plus for what I already pay for Disney

Plus for I mean, it's not really a spoilers.

It's in the trailer, you know And you see the

lineup of the Munster Society of Evil they don't

name all the monsters you got like Sobeck who's

like the alligator man in the suit. I have no

idea who the goat man or the weird octopus state

man -headed thing is but then you have Sabac

and Ibak who are basically evil versions of Captain

Marvel Mr. Adam the nuclear -powered wrote mr.

Banjo who I I thought it was just some random

Batman villain when he showed up in Brave and

the bold You know, but they they track him down

fairly easy because they do this whole detective

style quest they find these two dudes and I I

love how like cat uncle Marvel's just You guys

look familiar, but I can't just place and then

that a box a buck and boom they got their powers

And then the four cowards on the team, which

is roughly half the fighting force, just lead

the charge out of the warehouse. Yeah. Like,

like you've seen that DC purrs that showcase

presents the return of Black Adam short from

like years ago, right? I don't, I probably have,

but I don't remember. Well, it had like Jerry

O 'Connell voice, Captain Marvel, Got a camera.

It's the guy that played the mutt. He played

Imhotep and the Brendan Fraser mummy movies and

Okay, it's our tan from which one well from technically

both GI Joe movies. Oh Okay, I know who you're

talking about. Yeah, it'll come to me like five

minutes where it doesn't matter anymore He in

that black Adam one the Kevin Michael Richardson

voiced talkie tawny who? Was disguised as a homeless

man on the streets playing the saxophone who

helps out Billy Batson one point and then he

turns it like this Absolutely frightening talking

tiger like sheer Khan would be wet in his kitty

litter kind of scary And that's not talkie tawny

to me talkie tawny is this polite cultured well

-dressed gentleman in a suit, voiced by Paul

F. Tompkins. There you go. But, of course, the

leader of the Monster Evil Society is Mr. Mind,

who, like, when he showed up in Justice League

Action in a couple episodes, like, where he's

in a Patton Oswalt space cabin, he's, like, wrecking

this cab from the inside the dash, I was like,

you villain. It's about the only time he's really

been threatening. Yeah. Probably. All right.

What did you think was strained suspension of

disbelief more, the fact that Velma and Shaggy

just say their catchphrases and they transform,

or the collection of ancient gods and characters

from mythology that combine to make those names?

Yeah, I think the writing is more like... The

the the tablets with the zoinks and the this

and the that and the whatever and cheeks Yeah,

that was a little little strange that's a little

bit of it for anyone that's ever complained about

you know, the strength of Hercules and the Stamina

of Atlas and all that that makes up like Captain

Marvel's magic words like you think that was

bad exhibit a but yeah, they they defeat the

Munster Society of Evil and They we go on to

the next story Fly by night which involves them

teaming up going to Midway City. So, you know,

they're teaming up with Hawkman and Hawk girl

Rock girl Yeah, like I I mean I hear nothing

but Don Messick whenever I see scooby -doo like

no friends to Frank Walker He'd and he's done

a fine job for many years. Now. It's just you

know, I grew up watching, you know All those

original cartoons it's just even don messick

could not make that sound good. No and the This

is another one that I I love hawkman one of my

co -hosts on the comic con of series red ink

Constantly gives me crap in in a loving and respectful

way About my love of Hawkman because he's like

Hawkman sucks. It makes no sense. It was like

nothing in comic books makes sense, but the dude

looks awesome and This is when I didn't enjoy

as much because it's just a little dense And

yeah a little dense on the villainous plot like

you have Nicholas it's a character from history

Nickeris flammel who is like this legendary alchemist

And apparently he's haunting the museum and trying

to steal items. And then it turns out to be three

of Hawkman's most recurring foes in the comics.

The Mattermaster, the Fadeaway Man, and the Shadow

Thief working a combo play to try and scare everybody.

I was like, dude, by the point that the Scooby

Gang's been called in, Hawkman and Hawkgirl show

up. Like, the jig is up. Like, just steal the

shit and run. Why are you... Like, why are you

standing there and like, aha! It's us, Hawkman!

And I understand what they're doing with this

series, Jolly Fish and Dairy Oprah's Well -In,

whatever else, and they're doing the team -up

thing. I get that, and that obviously happened

with, like, the Scooby movies and things like

that and other things in the late 60s all the

way through up until the 80s and such. This story...

to me, again, I have to say this, was told better,

even though it didn't have a Scooby Gang, the

Hawke side of it was told better with Shadow

Thief in Star -Crossed. No, Star -Crossed was

the movie. It would have been in that one episode

in Justice League Unlimited. History. History,

that's what it is. Where they, you know, the

Shadow Thief is actually Katars or Carter, whatever

you wanna call him. Carter. Hawkman's, you know,

his other side. It's a different side to his

personality thing. And I'm not saying they could

have done that with this. His dark side, if you

will. Yeah. As soon as I saw Shadow Thief, the

first thing I thought of was, ooh, I need to

go watch that Justice League episode. Those episodes

were really good. All the Hawkman episodes are

good. It's just like my love for the characters

such as like I appreciate what they did. I thought

it was very well done. It worked within the story

that they were telling with the Justice League

cartoons. But I really like that first Hawkman

episode where I mean clearly it's James Reymar

also voicing Shadow Thief. But he's just I thought

that was Carl Sands the Shadow Thief. So when

they have the revelation that he's like this.

Iago and I don't mean the parrot from Aladdin

From Shakespeare the Iago in Othello who is like

that I was doing it for you. It was all for you

that kind of character it just it It didn't play

as well for me because you know my love of the

character and I like here that you know it's

actually Carl Sands and there are a trio of bumbling

fools and you know that bit where he puts shadow

thief on the Flagpole at the highest point in

the city. He's like pissing himself. He's like

here. Take the book. Take me out. Take me down

You know and we go I mean did you like I said

to dance and it didn't enjoy it as much as the

rest No, yeah, like I said is a little the next

one is I can't decide whether I like it or dislike

it because a I like cats fine, but I'm a dog

person and We get a scooby centric story where

he teams up with a couple other hero accounts

from the history of Hannah Barbera and Another

with two other hero accounts from DC Comics and

they go off Was a third who's kind of a joke,

but I mean kind of lovable and they go to a planet

full of super dogs It's a dog I know right that's

the first thing I thought of and I'm gonna say

this right now This is my favorite issue out

of this entire trade This story is my numb like

if we were rating these stories individually

this story would be the only story for me that

gets a five out of five Yeah I dug this. This

was so cool. Just the puns with like the cat,

the villainous cat names and the dog's names.

You get like paw pooch with like this dog's like

a centipede dog. You know, you got Mammoth Mutt

hot dog who all I could hear is Chris Evans voice

coming out of that playing the canine version

of the human torch. You got some dumb ones like

Tusky Husky. I was like, eh. but like cool cat

was like the beatnik cat with the ice power scaredy

cat that you see one with psychic powers and

i was like please call it what i think he's going

to be called please call it what i think siamese

i was like yes and then you go to the the canine

commandos and my eyes glommed on right away like

the fact that they're homaging uh the classic

image of justice society number one from the

40s and number two they've got a Yankee poodle

from Captain Carrot and the zoo crew and I was

like This is why I love this series. Yeah. Yeah,

this is so good. This is so fun Like they come

back their ghosts know they've been trapped in

an alternate dimension and also kind of looking

the canine commandos, I kind of started flashing

back to Again, it's been so long since I watched

just like that two -parter where they go to like

the alternate world where they meet like the

analogs to the justice society Let's release.

Yeah legends You got nort from the Green Lantern

who frees them from this alternate dimension

and they go back to Earth and I love that it's

a Very famous issue of Justice League of America

from the like the original run of Justice League

in the 60s where they Free the canine commandos

and it homages this I think it's crisis the original

crisis on to Earth's story where you see the

Justice League surrounding this crystal ball

and the smokes coming out and you see the Justice

Society in the smoke and they're kind of evoking

that image here and The villain of the piece

is Dogaton The canine version of per Degoton

who's the time -traveling villain from Justice

Society Like it's so cool. Yes. Yeah, they this

is one of my if not my favorite This is definitely

one of my favorite love letters to DC history

alongside the Don't be a stranger from the beginning

of the book. Yeah Yeah, no, this is absolutely

hilarious. I absolutely love this. I think this

is great. I think we need more Scooby -Doo dog

team ups Well, I mean they got that I'm kind

of hoping Scooby gets a cameo in that Crypto

the Superdog movie that's coming out like when

we're doing Johnson is voicing crypto cuz he

of course he is cuz It's the rock I don't know

if I'm gonna like that. But okay, you know Overall,

I really like this first volume Yeah, I love

this final story the first one the third volume

here. I liked it well enough I just It's For

me I wanted more Cartoon character team ups like

not necessarily a lot the laugh Olympics But

like in the last episode that we did of this

which will obviously link in the show notes Where

we had like secret squirrel and the Jetsons and

the Flintstones and all that and everything else

like I wanted more of that in this That's just

me personally Overall, I would probably give

the whole trade three and a half out of five

I'm gonna give it a four and a half four out

of five. Like I said, it's There's a couple issues

where I just thought it was a little dense and

you know, we're grown men and We're feeling our

age folks and clearly this is a comic more meant

for kids than adult fans and that's cool Kids

might enjoy that bit more. But like I said, I

found a couple of those stories just a little

lacking in certain respects, but by no means

bad and Yeah, so I give a solid four because

like I said, I love this series because of the

The callbacks and the Easter eggs and all that

You know, we didn't I I was kind of hoping we

were going to get Dr. Savana in that Marvel story

a little bit because he's my favorite Captain

Marvel villain. And I don't know if I would have

heard like it was I had to look up on behind

the voice actors like Jim Piddick did him in

Brave and the Bold and it was OG Skeletor himself

Alan Oppenheimer in the filmation Shazam series

from the early 80s. But I'm still hearing Skeletor

in my head Everyone's hearing Skeletor in their

head and it sure as hell ain't a joke Yeah, now

we move into the fourth volume In the first story

the Conjurer's Conundrum Another one that I really

liked because of the callbacks, but I'm gonna

say straight up I Saw this shit coming a mile

away. Yeah Mean it's it's so obvious Yeah, and

I missed it and like halfway through that first

page. I thought we were looking at like this

younger version of Zatara or Zatara the magician

like Satana who scooby the gang team up with

and they're looking at this Museum it's like

they're all in my collection of artifacts and

they're all the most extensive collection ever

is like gee I wonder if the asshole with the

top hat and the Gemstone and his cummerbund or

whatever is the villain. Oh look. I was right

And It's just I love it from that I knew they're

gonna go and look at all these others magic DC

heroes So we got you know classic doctor fate

living in the tower of fate. We got Sargon the

sorcerer. It was the invincible I'm not familiar

with El Karim is let me guess he took your hypnotic

monocle. Yes, I was like Okay, are you yeah,

yeah, are you and why do we care? Yeah, we go

to guys like Prince Raman Tracy 13 black Alice

who's more of a 2000s era character? I've never

heard of warlock the wizard And I knew as soon

as I read that Speech bubble. It's like so you're

a warlock or a wizard. No, my name's warlock

and I'm a wizard So are you a warlock or wizard

and I was like, well, that's ten minutes of their

lives. They're never gonna get back You got Baron

Winters who? Look up Baron Winters and the night

force folks The Wikipedia is your friend on that.

It's a really cool really intense for a comic

that DC put out back in the day I highlight great.

It's just For coming out of like the late 70s

into the early 80s where DC had this run of like

really cool horror comics and supernatural comics

that Really hold up. I can't say enough nice

things about that So they've gone through all

these characters right Mike and they even they

can't for some reason they can't even say his

name But they have to make this, you know, they're

all snappy dressers except for that British guy

with the rumpled trench coat His name is John

Constantine Just say his name Yeah, they won't

do it You know because they're probably thinking

they're gonna look at Hellblazer and the kids

are gonna get possessed by evil or Whatever excuse

people want to give you for knocking on great

comic books Then we have a completely useless

scene with the Catwoman to Zatara's Batman the

Tigress What was the point of this Yeah, again,

I'm not liking where this is going. I'm not really

enjoying this. Again, out of these two volumes,

I can probably safely say I liked one story out

of each of the volumes. I mean, I give it at

least two points on a scale of five for this

story alone, because Again, the callbacks. I

mean, you look at the supernatural villains.

You got Wotan the Sorcerer, Kulak, the Demons

Three, Clarion, Bum Bum Bum, the Witch Boy, the

Wizard, who I'm sure he's a supervillain or he's

just a really dapper dude with a cape. Yeah.

And who in the ham and swiss cheese is the blue

llama? Yeah, really. I mean Yeah, like they barely

get any Again, I'm not saying she isn't a character

folks. It's just I've never heard of this character

and apparently she's the villainess of Sargon

the sorcerer, but it's like the tiger scene Doesn't

really add anything to the story and after that

that's when they was like oh Yeah, it was that

asshole that runs the the mystic mansion which

is based on I forget the name of the place, but

it's this very famous club in Los Angeles that

you have to be an actual practicing magician

to join. Not quite a secret society, but you

definitely have to have your bona fides. Actually,

the late great Bill Bixby from the classic Incredible

Hulk show. Was a practicing magician. He was

part of this I know they kind of rep that's the

basis for this mystic mansion and then the villains

like yeah, I have the power and Scooby gets like

I really thought something was gonna Like Scooby

was gonna weave some magic and defeat the bad

guy cuz he's got all the other Items of power

and he's got the helmet of fate I was just like,

I can't do it. I am not Don Messick. Yeah, it's

just, it's not, I don't know, and I'm sure people

are probably listening to this if they listen

to it at all, asking us, why are you even covering

this if you didn't like it? Well, we got to cover

it because we read it and we spent the time doing

it. I think my favorite part about this specific

story, the Zatanna, Zatara, the fate story, is

Scooby actually getting to have the helmet on.

I thought that was hilarious. Yeah. And it's

all the setup for Fred to... It's basically the

entire story is just enabling Fred to continue

his obsession with pulling masks off of people.

Yeah. That's all this entire series is. And don't

get me wrong. I enjoy it for the most part. There

are things as we found out in these two volumes

that I'm not that big of a fan on, but if your

one guiding goal is to constantly have Fred ripping

masks off people, I don't know. I mean, I do

like that bit at the end where Zatanna just gives

Fred a peck in the cheek and he's like, oh my

God. And Daphne is like, bitch. Just see that

salty look on Daphne's face, and then Zatanna

Magic's up like the biggest pile of Scooby snacks

ever. You know, Rappy Rowell Reed everybody.

I will say the next story that comes in this,

Space Case, my favorite in this volume. I'm straight

up. It's Space Ghost. And Moltor and Zorak. Yes.

But the only way he can be coast -to -coast is

if he's, you know, sitting behind a late -night

TV show desk. God, I wish I'd got those DVDs

when I had the chance. I had the first volume

when I had to, like, sell my DVD collection years

ago because, well... Stuff, yeah. Stuff, life.

Adult responsibilities they suck I had to sell

that and I've never been able to track any of

them down since Although I do have the complete

collection of C lab 2021. So that's a minor comfort

but yeah space ghost and the kids and Was it

no Gleek is the one from? Super friends. Yeah,

Gleek is Wonder twins. Yeah, you know Feel what's

the one just looking here? Monkey. I forget what

his name is Glip. Yeah. Yeah But yes Space ghosts

is waylaid on earth that's giving kind of breaking

the continuity because I always thought the space

ghost cartoon took place in like the far -off

future of You know three thousand ten or something

right and they established that he's just a human

from like Far off in the Andromeda galaxy or

something which I'm not saying it's upsetting.

It's just like man But yeah, they they team up

the thing and they got to bring the scooby kids

into space to stop Zurich and Maltar from Whatever.

I don't really understand what their villainous

plot was So what do they do? They strap four

rockets to the mystery machine and they It becomes

a spaceship. And this is why I love cartoons.

Also, they question why he yells space ghost.

Again, it's like the whole Uncle Marvel thing,

and it just kind of made me smile with glee.

I just can't get into it. Like, if this was a

story, like I said, If Space Ghost was behind

his late night TV desk and he was interviewing

Shaggy and Scooby or Fred and Daphne or whatever

and they told, oh, remember that time we did

this and they referenced something we've seen

in animation? That would be great. But I don't

know. It just didn't. It does kind of break it

a bit. Yeah, it just doesn't. I don't know. Like

I said, I'm. I'm trying my best not to be a downer

here, but this story just isn't. Yeah. No, I

get you. Like you said, the Mystery Machine gets

rockets and they end up on the moon. I'm like,

really? Seriously? That's the way you're going

to end this with everybody on the moon? And why

is Velma? Why is everybody, including Velma?

The only three people that don't look like they

have spacesuits on are Fred, Daphne, and the

monkey. But they have this glowing yellow thing

around them, which I assume is Space Ghost power

or something. Well, if I recall correctly from

the cartoon, the twins and Blip and Space Ghost

all have these force field belts. Something brainiac

five from legion of superheroes would make that,

you know, give them an invisible spacesuit Okay,

apparently they can't lend out a few more of

those so we get like classic era looking Spacesuits

for you know jet scooby and the gang. I do like

how Velma and Daphne are fawning over blip and

he's like And then you look at the speech balloon

you can almost hear here How was it Tony Randall

like the guy who voiced brain gremlin from gremlins

to like just this cultured voice coming out of

them I Love that But yeah, they get to the moon

and you know, you see a Tranquility base and

scooby does that, you know run for our You know

one small step for scooby kind and all that and

they just Bumble their way through the end like

it's and pretty good mix of what goes on in like

a space ghost cartoon and Scooby cartoon, but

by the end of it, like I love this story. I do

it's my favorite in this one. But yeah, it's

just I Think they're uh, who's the writer in

the series again? I forget only fish. Yeah, I

think he fish was trying a little too hard to

take a Scooby story, a Space Ghost story, and

then adult swim Space Ghost stuff. So, you know,

like from he's trying to get like the camaraderie

of Zorak and Moltar from Space Ghost Coast to

Coast and like the Brack show and like that sort

of humor. Because in the original Space Ghost

cartoon, they're the very standard. I've got

you this time spell No, he used his ghost powers.

Yeah, and it's just a little a little too much

This being my favorite story the next story Happy

Harley days. Yeah, this was one of my favorites

out of this one It's my least favorite and it's

for a very nitpicky reason Okay Dario Brazella's

art is great, and every other story, he's knocked

it out of the park, the art -wise. But his Harley

is too plain. Like, you just have this very,

like, it's a girl in a Harlequin costume. It's

not, uh, it's not Tara Strong or, uh, God. Yeah,

it's like I don't get any Arlene Sorkin. I don't

get any Tara Strong. I don't even get The oh

god the chick from through Big Bang Theory Oh

Bernadette. Yeah. Yeah, it's the story in itself

is pretty good I like that how they're taking

shots at like antiques Roadshow and shit like

that and I you know, that's funny and entertaining

and then it becomes like a kid's version of the

plot from assault on Arkham because the Joker

is looking for some sort of device and Like I

hear Mark Hamill coming out of that Joker But

I yeah, it's just like I said Harley has become

one of my favorite characters in DC comics not

just because of her like multiple different designs

and you know this the journey the character has

gone on and Like she's still a lovable kook,

but now in the comic she's a lovable kook on

the side of the angels And she's not tied to

the Joker anymore, which is the best thing they

ever did for the character and I just did not

care for this story. It's It just does nothing

for me Yeah, I think this would have been a little

bit better if it was like if this was a Scooby

-Doo version of Mad Love where she runs, you

know, she leaves because of him, because of the

Joker, you know, being abusive to her and she

goes to poison Ivy and they have a holiday adventure

kind of thing. Cause at first, before the Joker

even shows up, I'm like, Ooh, where's Ivy? Cause

the first thing I thought of was holiday nights

with them, the two of them going around town

and you know brainwashing bruce wayne and spending

all his money and and everything else i mean

thank god batman and batgirl show up um i mean

the the couple things again as far as callbacks

go i like the you got punchy a couple of joker

goons there's punchy and then one of the the

first joker we see in batman beyond and the i

love the the fact that And maybe this carries

over to the animated Batman the animated series

harley's two hyenas are scooby and scrappy. I

really enjoyed that But yeah, I don't think they

named them the animated series. They just calls

us in continuity. I accept. Yeah, those characters

and Yeah, it's just I mean I'll enjoyed the next

story more which again I really think scooby

-team up should become an actual animated series

like I Still I still haven't seen space you have

a new legacy but from what I understand Warner

Brothers was Seemed more concerned with showcasing

every other IP except the Looney Tunes in that

movie From what I've been told and I won't watch

it. I don't think I'll watch it eventually, but

I'll probably wait until it's like cheap rental

online or something but we get in the next one

nothing is impossible where Scooby and the gang

go to a concert of the impossibles which for

listeners who don't know there was the I guess

the late 60s into the early 70s where they had

like a bunch of action Superhero cartoons. They

have the impossibles who are like this Beatles

esc rock band that all have different superpowers

He had Frankenstein jr. Who's running amok and

ruining this concert, you know, they're all contemporaries

of Johnny Quest if I'm not mistaken and Several

times throughout the series like they make Fred,

you know You're not that much of a detective

buddy If you can't tell that these guys were

the same guys that were on stage five minutes

ago Yeah, I mean they're they're basically all

wearing glasses, you know the like he would never

be able to figure out who car Kent really is

or I've always been in the opinion of car Kent

is the real guy in Superman's the mask, but that's

a whole discussion for an entire episode so they

do that and You see the the mad inventor that's

literally the bad guy's name. The mad inventor

has created all these like Kaiju to fight against

Frankie Jr. And I love the shot of the Hanna

-Barbera Godzilla in the background in the one

panel. Yeah. Like, have you ever seen that cartoon?

I don't remember it now. Up from the depths.

30 stories high. I love that theme song. But

yeah, so Frankie's been turned evil and they

basically just have to reboot him. Like they're

all like we have to destroy Frankenstein jr.

And the kids like no he's my friend You don't

want to destroy the kids only friend yeah, but

I mean that's literally all it is it's Mm -hmm.

I mean they even bring back this one one of the

monsters they fight is like this werewolf character.

I'm pretty sure it's one that the scooby gang

has dealt with in the past I yeah, probably I'm

pretty sure but yeah, literally buzz uses his

radar ring, which is this MacGuffin device to

call Frankie jr. To the scene of trouble I Do

like to play on the I would have gotten away

for it, too If not for that meddling kid inventor,

you know, that was funny, you know in the You

have to double down on Fred being a fucking idiot.

He's like, you mean the impossibles are really

the impossibles? Not a chance. Those would be

the worst secret. No, it means that you're an

idiot. Yeah. We love you, Freddy. You have an

incredible sense of style. You a boob. Yeah.

I honestly prefer. And I know he's not necessarily

a boob, but he's more gullible, but it's more

forgivable. I honestly prefer a young Fred from

a pup named Scooby Doo over adult Fred at times.

And this is definitely one of those times where

it's like, really? What are you going to do?

I don't know. But we go on from there to go west,

you meddling kids. Yes. And this is the one,

I love this one. Yeah. But all the other team

ups make sense because like, okay, Scooby teamed

up with a bunch of super powered dogs. Okay,

fine. Because they've established in Hannibal

Bear there are super powered dogs. And they even

take a couple of shots at Dynamite the dog wonder

with that whole copyright infringement. Yeah,

Scooby. Yeah. Oh, God. And then then we go west

now one. The good the font on go west you meddling

kids we see in the comics I am I'm putting that

down now that is a reference to Cowboys of Mumaesa

because I recognize that font like there's no

way that isn't a reference to Cowboys of Mumaesa

That being said, how are you guys not wondering

if you Scott slipped some peyote because you're

talking to a talking horse and a talking Donkey

because Baba Louise It's it's quick stir on McGraw

and Baba Booy and of course Him and his law law

abiding zeal tries to arrest Scooby in the game

because you just rolled into town Therefore you

are the criminals Flawless logic And I even love

like how they like they've got Like bloodhound

like quick straws blood actual bloodhound who

Now that I'm older seems more like a crack addict

than a dog that simply wants a snack before he

does anything. Yeah But that in itself is kind

of a reference to pup named Scooby -Doo because

I'm pretty sure that's the same motions that

Scooby went through before he turned into a rocket

and blasted off into the sky. Yeah, that is the

reference to the pup named Scooby -Doo. Yep And

at first I had to look at it again and I forgot

that he had the dog, because the dog, to me,

I'm like, wait a minute, is that Augie Doggie

or Doggie Daddy? Because at first I thought it

was Augie Doggie, and I'm like, wait a minute,

no, it's not. Now that's a Scooby -Doo team up

I would like to see. Yeah. And it could even

be like, man, Scooby and Shaggy teaming up with

Yogi is like, hey, Shaggy, we got a pickin' it

basket. And like, zoinks. Nope. Oh God I want

that so bad now and no one questions the fact

that the the spook the creep that's been stealing

is like you see him in the background like picking

the jail up and running off with it has no one

noticed that he stole Quick Straw's clothes and

now he's walking around naked and they don't

even make the joke of like, oh my god, I'm so

indecent. And then he jumps behind a boulder

and becomes the greatest Zorro ripoff in the

history of Zorro ripoffs, El Cabong. Who, if

you don't know kids, Quick Straw McGraw would

sometimes jump behind a rock, come out in this

Zorro -esque costume and fight crime by cracking

evildoers upside the head with a guitar. Because

cartoons. Because cartoons and then we have Mr.

Bunny sheriff over here ricochet rabbit ricochet

rabbit That was funny. I liked him showing up.

That was cool. Yeah, I like this he I Had that

line from Avengers. I realigned your neural pathways

You know, I hit you real hard and that's all

it takes is this Invincible guitar that el cabong

never breaks when he cracks fools over the head

and it's literally just gonna pop these people

who have been hypnotized by the Psalm trace kid,

which is a play on like hypnotism And these are

the type of villains that you would get in like

the ricochet rabbit or quick drama grow cartoons

Also the fact that ricochet I forgot ricochet

rabbit had trick bullets Like wow you and Batman

must trade notes cuz the lasso bullet Yeah, that

was very much a Diana thing Yeah, and then I

Forget the name of his slowpoke Deputy can also

ricochet like rabbit, but for some reason he

doesn't ricochet right off the cactus No, he

doesn't he lands right in the middle of it I

mean. Oh God, I love cartoons. Nope, and we get

the like this dude's got a pie like the some

trace kids got this pile of gold that smog the

dragon would be proud of. Yeah. And. God, it's

just so stupid like I love these cartoons again.

I still love him now, but I have to admit the.

I have to admit, I knew exactly how it was. He

creates mirage clones of himself, and then he

hypnotizes the deputy in Fred, who go to fight

the heroes, and all it takes is, again, El Cabong

doing what he does best. Again, this is one of

those things as soon as I saw him turn to Elk

upon I knew how this story was gonna turn out

He's just gonna you know crack fools upside the

dome with the guitar. Yeah, and I Love a Daphne

finds quick dress clothes. Oh, I think these

belong to you Oh, no, I've never said that belongs

to the world famous and staggeringly handsome

lawman quick draw McGraw I do love how earlier

in the story where Elkabong is known for swinging

on a rope and cracking fools upside the head,

and Daphne is like, that's not actually attached

to anything. It's like, damn it, you've ruined

the illusion. And it's like, where does Spider

-Man in the 67 cartoon catches webs too? We don't

know. We don't care. To Bruce's head. Yes. Yes.

Yeah, the el cabong the quick straw McGraw story

it was I I found it funny at points, but I'm

like I Just want more something You know you

talked about one of the other stories being a

little bit too dense this was a little bit too

light You need to balance that a little bit better.

I think Yeah, they're it's not perfect But like

I said, it's a lot of fun because it's taken

me back to my youth. Like it was Channel 10 when

I grew up had the Flintstones at noon, but the

15 minutes before there was two Hanna Barbera

shorts. It was like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound,

Snaggle Puss, Quick Draw McGraw, such like that.

So I have nothing but love for these cartoons.

And then we move on to the last one with The

Martian Manhunter, Out of This World. This story

jumped the noisy cricket as soon as they introduced

themselves. Yeah. Now, here's the thing. My one

gripe with this story, I really enjoyed the story.

I enjoyed the more superhero, traditional DC

comic team up stories than space ghosts and the

other characters, which are still great. My problem

is the design that Brazula did with Martian Manter.

First of all, this dude is jacked. This is John

Cena in green body paint, because John Cena has

more pronounced chins than a rock, therefore

it's John Cena. But based on the design, he kind

of looks like the Martian Manhunter from The

Batman. So I want to hear Darian Harewood's voice.

Like original roadie from the 90s Iron Man cartoon,

but at the same time My mind is like fritzing

out because it's trying to force me to hear Carl

Lumley Who is the Martian Manhunter as Kevin

Conroy is to the Dark Knight detective? That's

literally the only problem I have with this story

I Mean the and it really isn't a problem. It's

not gonna take away from my overall grade, but

the giant eye roll that I had. What alien? The

Martian Manhunter? He already left. Who are you

guys? Where are the men in plaid? Persons in

plaid. Persons in plaid. Like really? Seriously?

Yeah. Agent C and D of the persons in plaid.

That just, like I said a second ago, it jumped

the noisy cricket for me so far. And I'm like,

wow. But you have the men in black and then there

was an issue with a pinky in the brain comic

back in the day where they parodied men and blind

they were the mice and pink which has like an

entire one or two page spread of Pinky in the

brain doing their own vision version of the Will

Smith men in black song Which was great? Yeah,

that's great this like You know, but it's The

plot of the story folks said very briefly is

Martian Manhunter is on the run and they run

into him in the midst of solving a one mystery

and he's disguised as Shaggy because apparently

Martian Manhunter has also been on TV all morning

advocating that all alien heroes and characters

on earth rise up and take over. And he's like,

you know, he's talking about Kanjaro, Hawkman,

Hawk Girl, Blue Beetle, the Jaime Reyes version,

not the Ted Kord version, and his old alien sidekick,

Zook, who looks like a Disney character with

a domino mask. It's fortunate Superman's in another

galaxy. Well, yeah. And this is another one of

my favorite stories, because like, again, the

story, it's not that difficult to figure out.

It's not that I saw the The ending coming a mile

away, but again to you know, a little bit of

DC history They they light up these other alien

hero characters. You have Jem son of Saturn who's

like an analog to Martian manager that came out

in the 80s He got Teen Titans version starfire

right all I could hear is They got the Late 70s

early 80s star man. So you have original Golden

Age star man, then you had The alien prince which

was the other other other other star man. I just

love how they keep adding others to it I thought

he was a young hipster dude, which references

the James Robinson the star man of the 90s You're

his father. That's the other other star man Earthling

with a mullet. That's the one from the 80s And

then The Alien Prince was the one from like the

60s. And I love how obviously Starfire heard

this. She's like, No, I am not the Russian superhero

Starfire nor the barbarian freedom fighters Starfire,

which before either of those Starfire like the

Russian one or everyone's favorite Starfire,

you know, Princess Corey, there was a very brief

run in Where DC also came out around the time

they did their horror comics. They had a bunch

of like sci -fi fantasy Comics and starfighter

was this female freedom fighter in a far us far

off star system You know Wow And then you have

ultra the multi alien who's not actually an alien

He's just a human who was hit by a ray and possesses

the qualities of four different alien species

Yeah, I need to make one correction just because

I want to make sure we have this right. It was

Hayden Walsh who voiced Starfire. Terra did do

Raven though in the original Teen Titans. Heaven

forbid we get something wrong. I mean, it's not

like He -Man and the Masters of the Universe

came out in 1981 or anything. I'd touch you now

with a 10 -foot cattle prod. Uh -huh. You mean

the 10 -foot power sword? Of course Shaggy and

Scooby freak the flip out and They they go to

try and figure out like watching TV Fred Honestly,

I most of these comics you could say it's set

in the 60s 70s Just with the with Brazillas art

and the stories in and of themselves Like even

space goes strapping rockets to the mystery machine

and sending it to the moon within the realm of

the technology of that time period. All of a

sudden, Fred pulls out a freaking iPhone. Yeah,

that's a little much. I'm just like, oh, God.

It made me smile, of course, because whatever.

And you see the fake man hunter, fake hunter,

if you will, has got some jewelry or something

around his neck. I thought it was a zipper at

first. And then the the the persons in plaid

show up I'm just gonna say it all I heard was

Nolan North coming out of the man and Nolan North

doing a bad female voice coming out of the woman

Because the all I could see are like the Krang

from TMNT 2012. Yeah like just that mannerisms

that stiffness and Nolan North was like my MVP

of that series well him and Boone I can't remember

the gentleman that voicemaster splinter because

2012 splinters my favorite splinter That would

be Hoon Lee. That's it. Thank you Also using

a show called Banshee that it's that shows dark

and violent AF but if you enjoy that sort of

thing check it out folks, but yeah that The the

persons in plaid try to arrest everybody and

70 disco star man and Teen Titans star fire Tries

zapping them and of course, they've got Forcefield

so all it takes is gem and and John to like mine

meld with them and knock them out and they steal

these weird zappers and They run away to all

they do is look at the photo That Fred took and

they deduced like what building they're in Mm

-hmm and it's slow that scene where you see the

different starmen and starfire and they're in

the trench coats and I couldn't help but think

of gargoyles for some reason they're Like yeah,

I'd like Jim definitely looks like Broadway in

his Humphrey Bogart get up and there's a very

infamous image of What they were going to do

when the show is going to be more of a comedy

of these the creatures where you see Goliath

shoved into a trench coat and a hat Sitting on

a park bench and everyone's staring at him. He's

like, how's it going fellow humans? You know

stuff like that, but they get to this this skyscraper

and They they They tag you see it's just a dude

in a costume like it's always a dude to cost

you but I was kind of hoping it was gonna be

like some rare DC super villain that Martian

Manhunter fought or this dude the human flame

who Famously killed John Jones just before the

final crisis crossover years ago No, it's just

some random dude wearing a costume who apparently

he's an old John Jones villain I'm not that well

-deeped in the Silver Age John Jones comics,

but neither am I. He's probably just a mad scientist

with an increased cerebellum and the persons

in Plaid who come up and they're gonna try and

arrest everybody and they turn out to be the

great Roswell aliens. That's funny. Like I love

the story because it's so goofy and it was fun

And this is exactly what an issue of scooby -doo

team up should be every time out of the gate,

right? Yeah Absolutely, it should be And yeah,

I mean, I don't know I like I said I wasn't as

Like once I read these two trades I wasn't exactly

thrilled with them, but there are aspects I do

enjoy. The art is amazing. There are a few times

where the art looks off, but overall, the colors,

the lines, the backgrounds, everything is great.

Sholey does a great job writing. It's just for

me personally, I'm not into the characters that

they're using half of the time. And some of the

time... the problem I have is the Scooby aspect

of it, where it's like, we have to fit these

characters into the Scooby -Doo Mystery Inc.

formula, like you said earlier, where it just

seems like all is they're trying to do is have

Fred rip masks off, or whatever. I don't know.

Yeah. I mean, if we continue this in the future,

And and obviously we've dragged on a little longer

on that first volume because I went nuts with

all the minutiae At least I think it would be

a better episode if we did like one volume next

time if we ever come back to this because you

know about that because I mean you look at the

the next volume the first story is Ghosts are

not healthy for dogs and other living things

and involves the scooby gang teaming up with

green arrow green lantern black canary and the

big bad of it is the psycho pirate who I Just

remember as I think it was Peter McNichol in

Batman brave in the bold I might be wrong about

that and then the next one enter the drags and

eggs at scooby -doo. They team up with Hong Kong

fooey Yeah Yeah, I think we are gonna have to

do these as single volume things from now on

because like I said There's just so much in here.

There's oh, yeah There's so much in here and

there's only four volumes left and again that

this was We're recording this in 2021. It'll

be released in 2021 Sometime in the middle of

2020. I forget if it was you or somebody told

me you better hurry up go on to Comixology because

at the time, not now, at the time, all of the

trades were free. On Comixology, you know, I

think I might have told you about when they put

a whole bunch of Black Panther stuff for free,

right? Right tragic passing Chadwick Boseman

Chadwick Boseman Yeah, and I did get all of that

and that will eventually be covered in the pullback

at some point I don't know with who because I

haven't read any of it yet, but Yeah, no, I think

I think for now, Scooby and his team are gonna

have to wait until after we hit over 500 episodes

because I just don't have any interest right

now. It didn't turn me, oh my God, I don't wanna

never do this again. It's just gonna be a while.

Like I said, even echoing what I said about the

Hawkman story, overall, this series is... Fairly

dense for adult fans now the kids obviously You

know, I I would very much hope you know our listeners

who have kids Who are maybe reading these comics

with their kids? You can point out that you know

You've got these characters and those characters

and the kids might go and go down that particular

rabbit hole and look up like the classic DC ghost

characters or them, you know, the parents might

introduce them to who's who you know, just I've

always loved the who's who and then when it became

secret files in the 90s like that with those

Summation of their history and this is what their

powers are and all that like it's overall It's

a fairly dense filling meal if you will and some

people don't enjoy that and that's cool too because

you can just read these as you know Like simple

adventure stories where scooby and the gang team

up with Batman Yeah, and like I said at the beginning

of this, I like to team up with Batman and everything

else and that's cool. I enjoy that. I like to

team up with Superman and Wonder Woman. That's

great. The Zatanna one was cool. But what I want

is not, like I said earlier, not necessarily

Laugh Olympics, but I want Scooby to team up

with other cartoon characters or... Hell, even

though we need a Harlem Globetrotters special

or something, or we need a Don Mess... Oh, I

just thought of something. Don Nott's. Scooby

and the gang team up with the pro stars. And

just see who can eat more hot dogs, Shaggy and

Scoob or that crazy Canuck Wayne Gretzky. Yeah.

Honestly, don't know where they came up with

that like they look at wait. Hey Wayne Do you

like eating a lot? He's like, uh, yeah, okay.

You're just you're gonna be shaggy from Scooby

-Doo in the cartoon. Okay And you know god I

love that show What would you rate volume three

sir or wait we already rated volume three, what

would you rate volume four zero to five? I'm

gonna give it a three and a half Like, the stories

in here were great. Like I said, the only real

one I didn't like was Happy Harley Days, which

again, we didn't even mention the show. It's

set at Christmas time. So it's, you could see

this as like an off -brand sequel to Holiday

Nights. Yeah. That episode. Yeah, just like I

said, just the fanboy confusion of, am I hearing

Dorian Harewood, or am I hearing Carl Lumley

out of John Cena Manhunter? He was pretty buff

in that. Yeah. Dude, he's got that Martian creatine

going on. Yeah. So I have no idea. Go ahead.

I was going to say overall, I would rate this

about a three and a half to a four. Again, a

lot of fun. worth a read if you're a fan of classic

DC characters or Scooby -Doo? Yeah. For me, I'm

going to give it a three. I wasn't that big of

a fan of it, but it's not like if I was going

to give this anything less than a three, we would

not be going back to it at some point in the

future because the original plan was to do all

of them together, but I just I need to move on

to something else for now. your eyes were bigger

than your stomach kind of yeah yeah kind of i

mean when we did the first two volumes i decided

finally to try that new uh scooby -doo and guess

who i love that show that was awesome you know

what i think my the reason i didn't like it as

much as i wanted to was it wasn't old school

hannah barbera animation which really you that's

just like that chef's kiss the sweet spot For

scooby -doo teaming up like the original, you

know scooby -doo movies Where you know, he teams

up with Batman or Phyllis Diller the Harlem Gobchatters,

you know stuff like that and It's just a little

too slick for me. It's not a bad series. It's

just it doesn't It doesn't fill you fill me up

the way The original series does right? it's

not be cool scooby -doo, which I tried that and

I turned it off. I turned my computer off. I

went for a walk. I had to think about my life

choices. That's what that series did to me. Yeah,

we've done one episode of Scooby -Doo Guess Who

over on Tooncast. It's episode 234. It was the

very first episode of that series with Chris

Paul. I do have plans to do the rest of the series

at some point over there on Tooncast. I don't

know when that's going to be, though. But yeah,

I enjoyed Guess Who. I'm like, at the time when

they were releasing it, it was like, you never

know who's going to show up. And I'm like, who's

going to show up? Who's going to show up? I'm

like, oh, they're getting a, like it was a. It's

a decent or it was because I don't think they're

doing it anymore It was a decent updating of

the new scooby movies where they had all the

crossovers yeah I get your concern about animation

and all that and everything else near you're

not wrong with that but coming up here inside

the pull bag I have no idea what's going on next

I do know that later this month we will be talking

about Transformers Beast Wars number eight and

radiant black issues seven and eight and then

at some point the end of the month I'm going

to be doing the way of the comic book too so

If people go back to episode three, what was

that? It was a 0 .5. It was 350 something, 0

.5 or three something. It's in the 300 somewhere

where I had a comic writer and creator, Pat Shandon,

and we just talked about the state of comics

at the time. So I'm going to do that again. I'm

going to get a comic book writer and potentially

a comic book artist to come on and especially

with everything that's happened since the last

time. I did the way of the comic book, considering

the pandemic and how it hit the comics industry

and everything else. So that's what's coming

up here inside the pull bag for the rest of September.

In October, we've got a bunch of stuff coming

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