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admonition ! Spoilers forThe Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysteries ( 2024 ) # 8 ahead!More than 50 age after their debut , the teen ofScooby - Dooare formally member of Gen Z. Created in 1969 , the Mystery Inc. crowd were a crowd of mystery - solve meddle kids that caught on big and have been a staple of soda culture ever since . Though there have been attempt to modernize and update the squad , the original designs and personalities have mostly stayed the same . However , even though they still have ' 60s esthetic , they ’re lastly unite the 21st one C .

InThe Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysteries(2024 ) # 8 by Sholly Fisch and Erich Owen , the Scooby crowd are out to crack the case of a occult colossus who ’s been assault a novelty museum of giant items . When they see the size of a step left behind , Shaggy and Scooby take up running scared . They find themselves leaping across the key of a unknown objectShaggy does n’t recognize - a gargantuan typewriter .

oddly enough , Scooby - Doo DOES bed what it is , telling Shaggy it ’s a “ Rancient Rword Rocessor . ” Though this adventure seems decently out of the sixties , this joke places the gang hard as younker of today .

Scooby-Doo live-action cast looking fearfully at Freddy Fazbear from Five Nights at Freddy’s.

Scooby - Doo and Five Nights at Freddy ’s are two franchise that just belong together , despite their remainder , and Scooby ’s previous whodunit agrees !

ModernizingScooby-Doothe Right Way

One could be forgiven for assumingThe Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysteriesseries take position in the 1960s or 1970s . The kids are paired with Batman , but his colourful appearing suggests he ’s from the Golden Age , or directly out of theAdam West TV serial publication . In the currentBatmancanon , the Dark Knight has recently wake up from a comatoseness , mourn his dead fan , and struggle a mental conflict against the darkest parts of his psyche . Not on the dot the stuff and nonsense one bring to an risky venture with a lecture dog . This point of citation is interesting because it establishes these story in the mod Clarence Shepard Day Jr. .

This also expresses one of the sound ways to modernize theScooby - Doogang : just put them in modern times . version of the squad where they just have access to smartphones are much more fun and enjoyable than some of Warner Bros ' recent misses , likethe generally rejectedVelma . That show has tried to do so much all at once with the characters that they do n’t even seem like the pack anymore . In this comic , everyone is identifiable- Shaggy and Scooby are scaredy - African tea , Batman prize Velma ’s detective body of work , and Fred screw traps . Even Daphne knows to get a birds - eye view to find clue .

Stop Meddling With These Meddling Kids

Panel fromThe Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries#6 by Amanda Deibert and Dario Brizuela

TheScoobygang have always been meddling tiddler , and that ’s why they ’ve appease relevant for so long . The modernise change that oeuvre do so because they generally keep the personality the same , but update the team from the malt shop , to the arcade , to the shopping center , to wherever young people today hang out . ( Roblox?)This series has been a really fun readbecause there are light , silly stories , but still great character work that respects the unspoiled of canon from both dealership . The Batman & Scooby - Doo Mysterieshas snap the case on how to best modernize these classical characters .

The Batman and Scooby - Doo Mysteries#8is available now from DC Comics .

The Batman and Scooby - Doo Mysteries#8 ( 2024 )

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Scooby - Doo , Where Are You ! is a classic animated enigma series that follows the adventures of four teenager - Fred Jones , Daphne Blake , Velma Dinkley , and Shaggy Rogers - and their talk Great Dane , Scooby - Doo . Together , they travel around in their psychedelic van , the Mystery Machine , solve supernatural mysteries and uncovering spooky arcanum .

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Fred working on a computer while the gang watches in Scooby Doo Mystery Inc.

scooby-doo and shaggy run across a giant typewriter, not knowing what it is

Original SR Image by Shawn Lealos.

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Original SR Image by Shawn Lealos.

Modern Scooby-Doo gang: Daphne plays on her smartphone while Fred listens to his favorite genre: Trap Music.

Batman, carrying Shaggy, zips through the air ahead of Robin, carrying Scooby-Doo, as they escape a giant bowling ball.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! is a classic animated mystery series that follows the adventures of four teenagers - Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Shaggy Rogers - and their talking Great Dane, Scooby-Doo. Together, they travel around in their psychedelic van, the Mystery Machine, solving supernatural mysteries and uncovering spooky secrets.

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