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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Review: "SCOOBY-DOO and the Witch's Ghost" is Kind of Witchy
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Review: "SCOOBY-DOO! Return to Zombie Island" Revisits Scooby-Doo History
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 62 of 2022 (No. 1874) by Leroy Douresseaux
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island (2019) – Video
Running time: 77 minutes (1 hour, 17 minutes)
Rated TV-G
DIRECTORS: Cecilia Aranovich Hamilton and Ethan Spaulding
WRITER: Jeremy Adams
PRODUCERS: Amy McKenna and and Rick Morales
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sam Register
EDITOR: Robert Ehrenreich
COMPOSER: Robert J. Kral
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digital eMation
ANIMATION/FANTASY/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey Griffin, Kate Micucci, Janell Cox, David Herman, John Michael Higgins, Dave B. Mitchell, Cassandra Peterson, Roger Rose, and Travis Willingham
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island is a 2019 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It is the thirty-third entry in the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation, and it is a direct sequel to 1998's Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, the first movie in this series. In Return to Zombie Island, the retired Mystery Inc. gang visits a remote, but familiar island with a dark secret.
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island opens a few months after the events depicted in Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost. The members of Mystery Inc.: Fred Jones (Frank Welker), Daphne Blake (Grey Griffin), Velma Dinkley (Kate Micucci), Shaggy Rogers (Matthew Lillard), and Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker), have retired, and Fred is still depressed about selling the Mystery Machine.
On her television show, legendary horror hostess, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson), announces that Shaggy has won a trip to a tropical island paradise. Coincidentally, Shaggy is allowed to bring three friends and a dog along. Because they are supposedly retired from mystery-solving, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo make Fred, Daphne, and Velma promise that they will not solve any more mysteries and will actually try to relax on this vacation.
As they sail on a ferry toward the island, Fred, Daphne, and Velma realize the surroundings are more swamp-like than tropical. The ferry captain (Dave B. Mitchell) says that zombies inhabit the island, which reminds some of the gang of the last time, years ago, when they visited “Moonscar Island” a.k.a. “Zombie Island,” an island with zombies on it.
When they arrive on this supposed island paradise, two people greet them off the boat, but warn them to get out. Also, once on the island, a mysterious dark cat creature stalks them. Even the the hotel is coincidentally named “Moonstar Island Resort.” Still, no matter how many times they run into something that reminds them of Zombie Island, Shaggy and Scooby make their friends stick to their promise not to try to solve mysteries. But has that promise put them all in danger of suffering a fate from which they once only narrowly escaped?
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island, like its predecessor, 1998's Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, has an strong premise, but clumsy execution delivers an inconsistent film. Sometimes, the sequel is fun, fast-moving, and comically horrifying, in the tradition of Scooby-Doo TV series and films, but other times, Return to Zombie Island meanders, juggling multiple subplots. One of those subplots pops up late in the film and involves a movie, “Zombie Teenagers and the Island of Doom.” At this point, Return to Zombie Island loses credibility, although the film-within-a-film subplot introduces a fun character, the self-absorbed movie director, Alan Smithee, voiced by John Michael Higgins, who delivers a good performance.
Scooby-Doo! Return to Zombie Island is a children's movie, but adults who are fans of this straight-to-video series will want to watch it. Like me, they may even find some enjoyment in it.
Tuesday, October 5, 2022
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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Review: "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" Started a Thing
TRASH IN MY EYE No. 61 of 2022 (No. 1873) by Leroy Douresseaux
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) – Video
Running time: 77 minutes (1 hour, 17 minutes)
Rated TV-G
DIRECTOR: Jim Stenstrum
WRITERS: Glenn Leopold; from a story by Glenn Leopold and David Doi (based on the Hanna-Barbera characters)
PRODUCER: Cosmo Anzilotti
EDITOR: Paul Douglas
COMPOSER: Steven Bramson
ANIMATION STUDIO: Mook Animation
ANIMATION/FANTASY/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Scott Innes, Billy West, Mary Kay Bergman, B.J. Ward, Tara Strong, Cam Clarke, Jim Cummings, Mark Hamill, Jennifer Leigh Warren, and Ed Gilbert
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a 1998 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It was the first animated movie in what became the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation. In Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, the Mystery Inc. Gang reunites and visits a remote island with a dark secret.
As Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island opens, the five members of Mystery, Inc.: Fred Jones (Frank Welker); Daphne Blake (Mary Kay Bergman), Velma Dinkley (B.J. Ward); Shaggy Rogers (Billy West), and Scooby-Doo (Scott Innes) have gone their separate ways. They apparently became bored of mystery solving because culprits were never real ghosts, aliens, and monsters, but were practically always people in costumes.
Daphne Blake now has her own television series, “Coast to Coast with Daphne Blake,” in which she investigates claims of supernatural occurrences. Fred Jones is her cameraman and producer. Shaggy and Scooby are security guards, and Velma owns a book shop, “Dinkley's Mystery Book Shoppe,” which is also known as “Mystery Inc. Books.”
Daphne decides that she wants to hunt down a real ghost rather than investigating ghosts that turn out to be fakes. So Fred calls the gang back together, and the reunited Mystery Inc. embarks on a road trip scouting haunted locations across the United States for Daphne's TV show.
That is why they end up in New Orleans, Louisiana, where they meet a curious local, Lena Dupree (Tara Strong). She tells them that they can find real ghosts at her place of employment, a mansion and hot pepper plantation on Moonscar Island. Skeptical at first, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby follow Lena to the island hoping to find a real ghost instead of a villain in a costume. What they find is more than they expected in a spooky place that might as well be called “Zombie Island.”
I remember that I first heard about Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island probably about a month or so before it was released in September 1998. It was big news in the world of the American television animation industry and in home entertainment. I bought a copy for the elementary school age son of a close friend of mine, who was a huge Scooby-Doo fan, then. [He is now an adult in his late twenties (as of this writing), and I don't know if he still loves Scooby-Doo.]
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island was billed as the first time that a Scooby-Doo cartoon would find Scooby and Shaggy and company facing real supernatural entities. The advertising for this straight-to-video (VHS) release declared, “This time, the monsters are real.” However, as early as a 1980 episode of the “Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo” animated TV series, the stories featured real aliens and a real vampire.
That aside, it is nice to see Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island pit the characters against real ghosts, real zombies, and other real supernatural creatures. My problem with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is that the writers open the movie with some nice character development, but by the time the characters reach Moonscar Island, the story devolves into Scooby and Shaggy running around and screaming or we get tedious scenes of Scooby chasing one or more of the cats that belong to Moonscar mansion's owner, Simone Lenoir (Adrienne Barbeau).
That animation is average to above average, with the best sequences being those with the zombies. The film's direction presents an inconsistent pace to go with the inconsistent story, so sometimes even a haunted mansion and a zombie island seem like boring places. Still, I am glad that I finally watched Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. I've been putting it off for at least two decades.
I will say that it is an important film because it launched the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series, of which I am a big fan. So Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island is a must see for fans of all things Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc.
6 of 10
B
★★★ out of 4 stars
Wednesday, July 7, 2021
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Monday, February 7, 2022
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Saturday, November 27, 2021
Review: "Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold" Deserves an Encore
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018) – Video
Running time: 75 minutes (1 hour, 15 minutes)
DIRECTOR: Jake Castorena
WRITERS: Paul Giacoppo; from a story by James Tucker (based on characters from Hanna-Barbera and characters from DC)
PRODUCER: Michael Jelenic
EXECUTIVE PRODUCES: Sam Register and Benjamin Melniker & Michael E. Uslan
EDITORS: Christopher D. Lozinski and Molly Yahr
COMPOSERS: Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digital eMation, Inc.
ANIMATION/FANTASY/SUPERHERO/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey Griffin, Kate Micucci, Diedrich Bader, Jeff Bennett, Jeffrey Combs, John DiMaggio, Nicholas Guest, John Michael Higgins, Kevin Michael Richardson, Fred Tatasciore, Nika Futterman, and Tara Strong
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a 2018 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It is the 30th animated movie in the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation, which began in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. This film is also a crossover between Scooby-Doo and the Cartoon Network animated television series, “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” (2008-2011). The story finds Scooby-Doo and his friends joining Batman and superhero colleagues in order to solve a mystery involving a scary new villain.
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold opens as Mystery Incorporated: Fred Jones (Frank Welker), Daphne Blake (Grey Griffin), Velma Dinkley (Kate Micucci), Shaggy Rogers (Matthew Lillard), and Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker) investigates a series of thefts performed by the ghost of Puppetto the Puppeteer and his puppet, Fredo. As the gang struggles to capture the ghost, Batman (Diedrich Bader) intervenes and warns them to leave things to the professionals.
Mystery Inc. manages to capture Puppetto and Fredo and discovers that the ghost and his puppet are really the superheroes, Martian Manhunter (Nicholas Guest) and Detective Chimp (Kevin Michael Richardson). Batman, Manhunter, and Detective Chimp reveal that the Puppetto mystery was a test for Mystery Inc., which they passed. So the heroes initiate Scooby and company into the “Mystery Analysts of Gotham,” the world's preeminent crime-busting organization. The superheroes also inform the gang that they could use their help on a few cases.
A week later, Mystery Inc. visits the Mystery Analysts' headquarters where they meet the other members: The Question (Jeffrey Combs), Black Canary (Grey Griffin), and Plastic Man (Tom Kenny), as well as the tag-a-long Aquaman (John DiMaggio), who desperately wants to be a member of the Analysts.
Mystery Inc. gets a chance to take the lead in the next case for the Analysts and follows the heroes to Gotham Chemical Storage. There, they encounter a red-cloaked figure, calling himself “the Crimson Cloak” (John DiMaggio). Why is he swearing revenge on Batman, and how is he tied to the one case Batman has never been able to solve?
I only watched a few episodes of “Batman: The Brave and the Bold.” The series had a lighter tone than some of the Batman animated TV series that came before it, and it depicted Batman as being witty and playful. I was curious how a collaboration between Scooby-Doo and this iteration of Batman would work.
As a child, I was a huge fan of the second Scooby-Doo animated TV series, “The New Scooby-Doo Movies,” which premiered on September 9, 1972 and ran for two seasons on CBS until 1974. It was the first Scooby-Doo cartoon series that I ever saw, and it began my life-long love of Scooby-Doo and his pals. It also began my life-long love affair with Batman and Robin. The Dynamic Duo were guests stars on two Season One episodes of “The New Scooby-Doo Movies” – Episode #2's “The Dynamic Scooby-Doo Affair” and Episode #15's “The Caped Crusader Caper.” These episodes were my first encounters with Batman and Robin, and I was immediately fascinated by the mysterious Batman and his colorful young sidekick.
Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold reminds me of those old cartoons, and while this film doesn't quite take me back to the 1970s, I enjoyed it immensely. The animation is good, and it allows for the many colorful DC Comics' superheroes and super-villains that appear in this film to move in a way that really conveys the action. The color palette is perfect for the comic mystery atmosphere of Scooby-Doo, and, to some extent, recalls those old Mystery Inc./Batman team-ups of the 1970s.
The story is good, but it has more superhero characters than it really needs. Sometimes, Scooby-Doo! & Batman: The Brave and the Bold comes across like an advertisement for a DC Comics toy fair. Aquaman, who eventually proves to be useful to solving the mystery, is often extraneous, and he is constantly and annoyingly yelling “Outrageous!” And The Question, Black Canary, and Plastic Man seem like nothing more than IP placement. Luckily, there is a surprisingly happy ending.
Still, Scooby-Doo and Mystery Incorporated teaming up with Batman casts a spell that is still effective on me. I had fun, and I can't wait for them to do it again.
8 of 10
A
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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Saturday, November 13, 2021
Comics Review: "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #112" Goes to the Drive-In
SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? (2010) #112
DC COMICS
STORY: Derek Fridolfs; Sholly Fisch
PENCILS: Scott Jeralds; Dario Brizuela
INKS: Scott Jeralds; Dario Brizuela
COLORS: Jeremy Lawson; Heroic Age
LETTERS: Saida Temofonte
EDITORS: Courtney Jordan; Kristy Quinn (reprint)
COVER: Derek Fridolfs with Jeremy Lawson
32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (December 2021)
Ages 8+
“Attack of the 8-Foot Amphibian!”
Welcome, dear readers, to my continuing journey through the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? comic book series, which began publication in 2010. I continue to renew my subscription so that I can continue to review this series for you, dear readers.
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #112 opens with “Attack of the 8-Foot Amphibian!,” which is written by Derek Fridolfs and drawn by Scott Jeralds. The story finds Mystery Inc.: Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma in the “Mystery Machine” are arriving at the “Coolsville Drive-In” movie theater. They are there for a screening of the classic monster movie, “The Ghoulie from Green Lagoon.” It seems, however, that the Ghoulie has, of late, been rampaging through the drive-in. Instead of a night at the movies, it's another mystery for Scooby and the gang.
The second story, “Creature Feature” is, as usual, a reprint story and is written by Sholly Fisch and drawn by Dario Brizuela. [This story was originally published in Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #38 (cover date: December 2013).] The story opens on the set of the “Nocturna, Mistress of Midnight” television show. Horror movie hostess, “Nocturna,” is screening the monster movie, “Attack of the Cabbage People,” when a real cabbage monster terrorizes the set. It seems that “creepy creatures” from old movies have been plaguing the television studio for a few weeks.
Mystery Inc. arrives, offering to help solve the mystery. The gang discovers that Sybil, the actress who plays Nocturna; Lew Gordon, the show's producer; and Dennis Raye, the show's intern have different ideas about what is going on. Can Mystery Inc. solve the mystery of these old movie monsters before there are too many for anyone to handle?
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #111 was one of the best issues of the series that I had read in a long time. Shockingly, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #112 makes it consecutive top-flight issues of a Scooby-Doo comic book series that has been mostly flat for the past few years.
First, the opening story, “Attack of the 8-Foot Amphibian!,” features the artwork of one of the very best Scooby-Doo comic book artists, Scott Jeralds. His beautiful “clear-line” drawing style retains the classic design of the Scooby-Doo characters and adds a quirky modern visual sensibility. The story is written by one of the better Scooby-Doo comic book writers, Derek Fridolfs, who is also an artist and who draws issue #112's cover.
Fridolf's script offers sly commentary about people's obsessions with their smart phones and about how people use camera phones to record events rather than live in those events themselves. It seems that the only ones concerned with “the Green Ghoulie” is analog-era Mystery Inc, who fit in perfectly with the story's setting, a drive-in movie theater. This offers an obvious contrast to the rest of the moviegoers who are too jaded to care about “old school” or “retro” things.
Like the reprint story in issue #111, issue 112's back-up story is also a reprint from an earlier issue of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? rather than from the previous series, Scooby-Doo (1997-2010). “Creature Feature” (originally published in 2013) is not quite as entertaining as “Attack of the 8-Foot Amphibian!,” but it does offer “Nocturna, Mistress of Midnight,” an homage to the great, real-life horror-hostess, “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.” For me, that's enough to make “Creature Feature” a winner.
So, I highly recommend Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #112 to Scooby-Doo fans. And until next time, Scooby-Dooby-Doo!
A
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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Monday, April 19, 2021
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Future State The Next Batman #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Jim Lee & Scott Williams Card Stock Variant), AR
Hellblazer Volume 24 Sanctioned TP, $34.99
MAD Magazine #18, $5.99
Richard Dragon Kung-Fu Fighter The Coming Of The Dragon HC, $49.99
Scooby-Doo Where Are You #108, $2.99
Teen Titans Volume 4 Robin No More TP, $19.99
Truth And Justice #1 (Cover A Chriscross), $4.99
Truth And Justice #1 (Cover B TBD), AR
Friday, January 29, 2021
Review: "Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost" is a Happy Meal
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) – Video
Running time: 77 minutes (1 hour, 17 minutes)
DIRECTOR: Doug Murphy
WRITER: Tim Sheridan (based on the Hanna-Barbera characters)
EDITOR: Scott Fuselier
COMPOSERS: Matthew Janszen and Jake Monaco
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digital eMation, Inc.
ANIMATION/FANTASY/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey Griffin, Kate Micucci, Jim Cummings, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Marcus Samuelsson, Maya Haile, David Kaye, Salli Saffioti, Dana Snyder, Jason Spisak, and Audrey Wasilewski
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is a 2018 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It is also the 31st animated movie in the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation, which began in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. In Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost, Mystery Inc. meet celebrity chefs and a relentless Revolutionary War-era ghost.
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost opens in Newport Cove, Rhode Island, the year 1780. Local chef and Revolutionary War hero, Chef Edward DuFlay (David Kaye), delights his neighbors with a gift, but later, disappears not long after he returns to his home and place of work, the Rocky Harbor Inn. The last thing the townsfolk here is Chef DuFlay yelling “the Red Ghost, the Red Ghost!”
Moving to the present, we find Mystery Inc.: Fred Jones (Frank Welker), Daphne Blake (Grey Griffin), Velma Dinkley (Kate Micucci), Shaggy Rogers (Matthew Lillard), and Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker) arriving at the Rocky Harbor Inn, where Fred's uncle, Bobby Flay (Bobby Flay), has invited them to stay. Actually, Fred is surprised to learn that Uncle Bobby is a celebrity chef.
Inside the inn, Bobby informs the gang that he has remodeled Rocky Harbor Inn and has changed its name to Rocky Harbor Culinary Institute. It is a state-of-the-art kitchen fantasy camp designed to make cooking easy and fun. It has a high-tech kitchen where “Rocky” (Grey Griffin), an interactive computer program, keeps the kitchen humming.
The gang also meet other famous resort attendees. The first is celebrity chef, Giada De Laurentiis (Giada De Laurentiis) and her cat, Bella. Then, they meet fellow celebrity chef, Marcus Samuelsson (Marcus Samuelsson), and his super-model wife, Maya Haile (Maya Haile), both of whom have previously had a run-in with Shaggy.
But all is not fun and games and eating great food. The legendary “Red Ghost” is still haunting Rocky Harbor Inn, and apparently wants to destroy it. And there seems to be some unpleasantness tied to the memory of Fred and Bobby Flay's ancestor, Chef Edward DuFlay. Can Mystery Inc. solve this latest supernatural mystery before Bobby Flay loses everything he has worked so hard to create with Rocky Harbor Culinary Institute?
Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost is one of the best Scooby-Doo! direct-to-DVD animated films that I have seen since I started watching the series on a regular bases a little over a decade ago. I think the reason that I like it so much is that real-life celebrity chefs and television personalities, Bobby Flay, Giada De Laurentiis, Marcus Samuelsson, and Maya Haile (all playing themselves), bring some fresh ingredients to this series.
Writer Tim Sheridan also offers a buffet of fresh and tasty subplots that brings out the flavor of the main plot (solving the mystery of the Red Ghost). The animation is especially good, and the directing and editing create a fast-paced, but thoughtful film, full of both engaging mystery and zany action. I highly recommend Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost to fans of the series and to fans of Scooby-Doo!
8 of 10
A
Monday, January 18, 2021
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Monday, August 17, 2020
DC Comics New Releases from Lunar/UCS Distributors for August 18, 2020
Aquaman #62 (Cover A Robson Rocha), $3.99
Aquaman #62 (Cover B Tyler Kirkham), AR
Batman #97 (Cover A Guillem March), $3.99
Batman #97 (Cover B Francesco Mattina Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman #97 (Cover C Jorge Jimenez Harley Quinn Card Stock Variant), AR
Batman Adventures Batgirl A League Of Her Own TP, $9.99
Catwoman #23 (Sean Murphy 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99
Catwoman #24 (Cover A Sean Murphy), $3.99
Catwoman #24 (Cover B Junggeun Yoon), AR
Dark Nights Death Metal Guidebook #1 (Cover A Yasmine Putri), $5.99
Dark Nights Death Metal Guidebook #1 (Cover B Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson), AR
DC Poster Portfolio James Jean TP, $24.99
Harley Quinn #75 (Cover A Guillem March), $5.99
Harley Quinn #75 (Cover B Frank Cho), AR
Justice League #51 (Cover A Philip Tan), $3.99
Justice League #51 (Cover B Nick Derington), AR
Metal Men #9 (Of 12)(Cover A Shane Davis), $3.99
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Nightwing #73 (Cover A Travis Moore), AR
Nightwing #73 (Cover B Alan Quah), $3.99
Power Of Shazam Volume 1 In The Beginning HC, $49.99
Question The Deaths Of Vic Sage #4 (Of 4)(Cover A Denys Cowan & Bill Sienkiewicz), $6.99
Question The Deaths Of Vic Sage #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Andrea Sorrentino), AR
Scooby-Doo Where Are You #105, $2.99
Teen Titans #44 (Cover A Bernard Chang), $3.99
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Wonder Woman #759 (David Marquez 2nd Printing Variant Cover), $3.99
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Wonder Woman Dead Earth #4 (Of 4)(Cover B Daniel Warren Johnson), AR
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Wonder Woman Volume 2 Love Is A Battlefield TP, $19.99
Wednesday, May 13, 2020
New Scooby-Doo Movie, "Scoob!," Hits On Demand Fri., May 15th
Warner Bros. to Make the Full-Length Animated Feature “SCOOB!” Available for Both Premium Video On Demand and Premium Digital Ownership May 15, 2020
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In response to the unprecedented demand for high-quality family entertainment in the home, Warner Bros. will make its upcoming animated feature film “SCOOB!” available for both Premium Video On Demand (PVOD) and for premium digital ownership in the U.S. and Canada on May 15, 2020 providing first-run content while theaters remain closed due to the current global health crisis. The announcement was made today by Ann Sarnoff, Chair and CEO, Warner Bros.
“While we’re all eager to be able to once again show our films in theaters, we’re navigating new, unprecedented times which call for creative thinking and adaptability in how we distribute our content”
“While we’re all eager to be able to once again show our films in theaters, we’re navigating new, unprecedented times which call for creative thinking and adaptability in how we distribute our content,” said Sarnoff. “We know fans are eager to see ‘SCOOB!’ and we’re delighted we can deliver this feel-good movie for families to enjoy while they’re home together.”
“SCOOB!” will be available for a 48-hour rental via Premium Video On Demand for $19.99 or premium digital ownership for $24.99 beginning on Friday, May 15 (prices listed U.S. SRP). The title will be available on participating digital platforms.
The first full-length animated Scooby-Doo adventure for the big screen, “SCOOB!” reveals how lifelong friends Scooby and Shaggy first met and how they joined with young detectives Fred, Velma and Daphne to form the famous Mystery Inc. Now, with hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever: a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global “dogpocalypse,” the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone imagined.
Starring in “SCOOB!” are Will Forte (“Booksmart,” TV’s “The Last Man on Earth”) as Scooby-Doo’s best friend, Shaggy; two-time Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg (“The Fighter,” “The Departed”) as Blue Falcon; Jason Isaacs (the “Harry Potter” films, TV’s “The OA”) as the infamous Dick Dastardly; Gina Rodriguez (“Deepwater Horizon,” TV’s “Jane the Virgin”) as Velma; Zac Efron (“The Greatest Showman,” “Hairspray”) as Fred; Amanda Seyfried (the “Mamma Mia!” films, “Mean Girls”) as Daphne; Kiersey Clemons (“Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising,” TV’s “Angie Tribeca”) as Falcon Fury pilot Dee Dee Skyes; Ken Jeong (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “The Hangover” trilogy) as the Falcon Force’s Dynomutt; Tracy Morgan (“What Men Want,” TV’s “30 Rock”) as Captain Caveman; and Frank Welker (TV’s Scooby-Doo; the “Transformers” franchise) as Scooby-Doo.
“SCOOB!” is directed by Tony Cervone, Annie Award nominee for the feature “Space Jam” and two-time Emmy nominee for his work on “Duck Dodgers.”
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Monday, February 17, 2020
DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for February 19, 2020
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Monday, January 13, 2020
DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for January 15, 2020
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Monday, December 16, 2019
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Tuesday, October 15, 2019
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Monday, September 2, 2019
DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for September 4, 2019
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
Review: Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown (2017) – Video
Running time: 79 minutes (1 hour 19 minutes)
DIRECTOR: Matt Peters
WRITERS: Candie Kelty Langdale and Doug Landale
EDITORS: Steve Donmyer and Craig Paulsen
COMPOSERS: Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion, and Lolita Ritmanis
SONGS: Joshua Funk
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digital eMation, Inc.
ANIMATION/FANTASY/FAMILY and ACTION/COMEDY/MYSTERY
Starring: (voices) Frank Welker, Matthew Lillard, Grey DeLisle, Kate Micucci, Carlos Alazraqui, Max Charles, Gary Cole, Jessica DiCicco, Tania Gunadi, Eric Ladin, Nolan North, Stephen Tobolowsky, Lauren Tom, Melissa Villaseñor, Kari Wahlgren, and Gary Anthony Williams with John Schwab (no screen credit)
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is a 2017 straight-to-video, animated, comic mystery film. It is also the 28th animated movie in the Scooby-Doo straight-to-video series from Warner Bros. Animation, which began in 1998 with Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island. In Shaggy's Showdown, Mystery Inc. attempts to solve the mystery of a ghost that is rampaging through a small wild west town and a dude ranch.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown finds Mystery Inc.: Fred Jones (Frank Welker), Daphne Blake (Grey DeLisle), Velma Dinkley (Kate Micucci), Norville “Shaggy” Rogers (Matthew Lillard), and the Great Dane, Scooby-Doo (Frank Welker), visiting the wild west town of Sorghum City. They are surprised to find that the people there scream and run away when they encounter Shaggy. The gang's next stop is “Crazy Q Ranch,” a dude ranch owned and operated by Shaggy's “third cousin, twice removed,” Tawny Rogers (Melissa Villaseñor).
A long-lost cousin, Tawny invited Shaggy to her ranch so they the cousins could reconnect, but the reunion is being ruined by the ghost of a notorious outlaw, Dapper Jack Rogers (John Schwab). The ghost bears a striking resemblance to Shaggy, who, like Tawny, is a descendant of Dapper Jack. The ghost has been terrorizing Sorghum City and also the Crazy Q Ranch, and if the ghost continues its haunting, Tawny will be forced to sell the ranch. Now, Shaggy, Scooby, Fred, Daphne, and Velma have a new ghostly mystery to solve.
Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is the third consecutive Scooby-Doo animated film I have seen that I really like. I think that one thing that makes this one appealing to me is the dude ranch element. I have been a fan of films set on dude ranches, and I have enjoyed TV series in which the characters visit a dude ranch for a particular episode. Combine a dude ranch with my love of the Scooby-Doo and Mystery Inc., and that is entertainment I cannot resist.
So take my recommendation with a grain of salt off the table at a dude ranch when I tell you that Shaggy's Showdown is one of the best recent Scooby-Doo movies. I like the animation, especially the color, and there are some good subplots: Shaggy riding a horse, Scooby's ability to “talk” to farm animals, and a child overcoming his fear of horses all make this particular straight-to-video Scooby-Doo film exceptional.
Seriously, Scooby-Doo! Shaggy's Showdown is a nice change of pace for the series. A quasi-Western comedy, it means that the Scoody-Doo DVD animated movies can show a bit of freshness now and then.
8 of 10
A
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
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Monday, August 19, 2019
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