"Yeah, we kept running into all sorts of people back then singers, basketball players....it felt like we were teaming up with someone different every week!"
Review:
Scooby-Doo is a beloved franchise known for those mystery solving meddling kids and their (talking but no one is freaked out about it) dog. Another thing the gang was known for was doing team ups from real life celebrities such as the Harlem Globetrotters to fictional ones such as the Dynamic Duo as shown above. This volume focuses on Batman and other DC heroes such as Wonder Woman, the Teen Titans, and the Superfriends needing Mystery Inc for a little extra help in some strange mysteries.
Each chapter gives us looks at popular DC characters interacting with the Gang as well as obscure characters and easter eggs a plenty from a meeting of various DC Detectives (including a small nod to Detective Chimp...yes he's a chimpanzee who is a detective) to even acknowledging how Shaggy's original voice actor the late, great Casey Kasem also voiced Robin in the older cartoons too by the others saying they "sound alike." The tongue-in-cheek nods and jokes are great additions to any older readers who are familiar with various DC, as well as Scooby-Doo, lore.
The art is the standard style for the Scooby-Doo Gang and echoes the Hanna-Barbera Superfriends style for the rest except for the Teen Titans who are in the style of their current show Teen Titans Go! It is a fun issue but the TTG art style mixed with the old school Scooby-Doo style may be a little jarring. It also continues in future issue where The Gang interacts with other Hanna-Barbera icons such as the Flintstones and even Secret Squirrel.
Recommendation:
Scooby-Doo Team Up is a must for kids shelves as they not only give children fun stories of icons such as Scooby-Doo and Batman but also provide some fun for their parents reading along with them. It's a labor of love in making it an accessible, fun book that knows its various sources materials and give meta jokes that won't leave anyone greatly confused over it.
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