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Scooby-Doo #90

December 29, 2018 3 Comments

Fred gets cast in a cursed soap opera, Scooby and Shaggy are chased by a monster in a maze, and Daphne criticizes someone’s shoes.

Director throwing away Fred's script

Fred becomes a soap opera star

Issue #90

All My Tomorrows

Fred gets cast in a soap opera, All My Tomorrows, which is haunted by the spectre of an actress who used to work on the show.

The gang runs into the ghost of the actress

Ghost encounter

Shaggy and Scooby, who get jobs on set, run into the ghost – or rather, two ghosts, but they’re both unmasked and revealed to be: the very much alive actress (who faked her death as part of a scam to get a bigger contract) and some agent who was angry at all his actors not getting cast on the show.

Daphne pointing at woman's shoes

Uh…who is that woman?

The White Shoe Scare

A one-page story about Daphne being more frightened of someone’s bad fashion choice than an actual ghost. Well…okay.

sea monster

The old man and the sea monster

Fishy Story

While on a whale-watching trip, the gang encounters a sea monster, but it turns out to be an elderly fisherman they befriended in disguise. He’s scaring off fisherman who have been overfishing the fish and screwing up the environment.

Velma can't find her (drink) glasses

Okay, this was funny

Oh No, Not Again!

Another one-page story; Velma invites Scooby and Shaggy over for lunch but realizes she can’t give them anything to drink because she can’t find her glasses. Get it? It’s a pun.

Scooby and Shaggy running from monster

Daphne trips the maze monster

Scooby’s Amaze-ing Adventure

Scooby and Shaggy are pursued by a monster in a rich dude’s backyard maze. Daphne trips the monster trips and his mask flies off – why, it was the rich dude! He got jealous watching people have fun in his maze and wanted to have fun himself. Well. That sure is a motive. Hope he gets off with a light sentence.

Fred driving new Mystery Machine

The new Mystery Machine

The Mystery Machine Mystery

When the Mystery Machine breaks down, Fred upgrades to a sleeker, more modern van. But this van has problems…it’s been sabotaged! Fred manages to steer it into a van belonging to the saboteur, a man wanting revenge ’cause his buddies got arrested in previous adventures. Predictably, the gang goes back to the original Mystery Machine.

Gang watch bad guy's arrest

The bad guy is caught…whoever he is!

Thoughts

They say variety is the spice of life; this comic is pretty thick and filled to the brim with stories. But they were all so short (some of them being simple, one page gag stories) and as soon as the story got going, it was practically over! They usually start off introducing a guest character or two, followed by a monster chase, wherein it’s pretty quickly unmasked and we see – hey, it’s that one guest character we just met.

Gang standing around messed up Mystery Machine

The Mystery Machine breaks down again

The first story, for instance, had a lot of potential and I was disappointed in how quickly it got resolved. I also thought it was dumb that the actress faked her death and went into hiding for 24 years so she could scare people later, when she could’ve been using those 24 years to actually…do something with her life.

Gang talking to sea captain

They let him go!

I did really like the ending of Fishy Story where the gang actually lets the guy go because he was scaring people off for a good cause. How many times does that happen in Scooby-Doo? As for the one-pagers: Oh No, Not Again! was funny and cute, while The White Shoe Scare garnered an eye roll.

Rating

3 out of 5 eggs rating
Go elsewhere if you’re looking for actual mysteries, but read it if you just want to hang out with the Scooby gang.

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Series: Scooby-Doo Decade: 2000s Filed Under: Comic Reviews Tagged: DC, Scooby-Doo, comedy, mystery

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Comments

  1. Steve says

    December 29, 2018 at 1:28 pm

    The joke at the end of “All My Tomorrows” puts me in mind of the white shoes that figure prominently at the end of John Waters’s “Serial Mom,” where they perhaps get a bigger laugh. — A vampire who is a recurring character in the Mercedes Thompson novels of Patricia Briggs, by name Stefano Uccello (being of Italian origin), is a great fan of Scooby Doo and and has and drives his own Mystery Machine van.

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  2. Michael says

    December 29, 2018 at 1:35 pm

    By golly, you’re right! I haven’t seen Serial Mom, so that reference flew over my head.

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  3. Philip Gipson says

    June 23, 2019 at 4:19 am

    I began reading DC’s old “Scooby-Doo” comics online, and I’m having a blast simply for those meddling kids and their dog. All in all, I did have fun reading issue 90 for mostly Fred taking a job on a soap opera.

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