Scooby-Doo! Team-Up #33 (2018) – Part 1
by Sholly Fisch & Dario Brizuela
Don’t be surprised this happened, Scooby-Doo has crossed over with everybody.
Also, this series seems to be a bit unusual, having two different numbering systems: in the print version this is #33 and is a single story, but in the digital version it’s split into two separate parts with #66 and #67.
Since I couldn’t find out which one came out first, and since we’re close to the end of the Apocrypha anyway, I’m splitting this into two parts.
But that’s why the two covers will be identical except for the chapter number at the bottom.
As a disclaimer, I don’t know a whole lot about this franchise.
I’ve watched a few episodes from the roughly 6,000 series that starred the Scooby gang, but I can’t call myself a regular fan.
So I don’t know if this opening scene at “Monster Manor” is a reference to something specific.
When I said that Scooby-Doo has crossed over with everybody, I really mean it: they met DC Comics time traveler Rip Hunter just a few issues ago!
To show just how insane this series and this franchise is: the issue they reference when they met Rip Hunter is the one where the main team-up was with the Challengers Of The Unknown…
…which is from the SAME series where they had a team-up with THESE guys in the previous issue!!!
I can’t stress this enough but Scooby-Doo WILL. TEAM-UP. WITH. EVERYBODY.
Including the Legion of Super-Heroes, who show up straight from the Silver Age.
So the three founders take the whole Scooby gang inside the Time-Bubble™ and bring them to the 31st century.
But why would the Legion even need to take these guys into the future?
Because nobody in the future believes in ghosts. But I guess they do believe in steroids because every male Legionnaire is freaking JACKED.
Unlike the writers of the Star Trek crossover, at least this time the writer DID his homework: if you have to bring up ghosts in a Legion story, there’s no better alternative to the Ghost Of Ferro Lad.
WILL. TEAM-UP. WITH. EVERYBODY.
Obviously the ghost is basically immune to everything.
The ghost then disappears, but not before all this commotion caught the attention of the rest of the team.
The comic will feature a lot of Legionnaires, and even those who can’t make a full appearance make a cameo.
These missions are nuts: Mon-El and Ultra Boy dealing with an invasion is fine, but you send only Colossal Boy and Element Lad to deal with the Time Trapper and BOUNCING BOY AND SHRINKING VIOLET to fight Darkseid???
Sadly Darkseid doesn’t actually meet Scooby-Doo in this series, but I’m sure he’s either met him somewhere else or that he eventually will.
Also: DARKSEID exists in the same universe of SCOOBY-DOO.
The gang gets to the investigation, and even Ferro Lad’s brother gets named.
Also: the look of the Legionnaires is spot on for the Silver Age, but what’s up with Phantom Girl’s hairdo? Have we ever seen her with this hair?
This series obviously has a young target audience, so I’m kind of surprised they’re allowed to directly reference death.
If this is what it takes to be considered legendary in the 31st century, the future is very dumb.
This story is funny enough to get a few chuckles, with Velma’s question here being my favorite along with Shaggy’s “aliens from the future” bit from the beginning.
Only Brainiac 5 would design a ring for someone who doesn’t even have fingers.
Well he HAS been a member of the Sinestro Corps.
I do like how none of the members of the gang is able to fly properly. It always bothers me when someone puts on the Flight Ring and immediately knows how to fly like a pro.
Ferro Lad’s brother DEFINITELY had a better deal in this reality than in the main continuity.
To be fair to the Legionnaires there’re not COMPLETELY stupid in this, as they did investigate other options before summoning a ghost-catching dog from the past.
I praised the writer for doing his homework on the Legion, but disappointingly there’s still one mistake: Projectra is one of the few Legionnaires coming from a planet where not everyone has powers!
You knew this was coming the second Matter-Eater Lad showed up.
Wait wait wait. You mean to tell me you guys have been dealing with a green energy ghost and you didn’t think ONCE about the possibility this was Emerald Empress playing tricks???
And that’s when we end Part 1.
Next time: Scooby-Doo versus the Fatal Five!!!
Does any of this show up in any regular continuity?
On the Legion side, definitely not. On the Scooby-Doo side, what even IS continuity?
SHOULD any of this have happened in regular continuity?
Really?
Silver Age-ness: 10/10
The only way it could have been more Silver Age is if Krypto got involved.
Who, by the way…
Does it stand the test of time? 10/10
I’m a casual Scooby-Doo fan at best, but this mixture of absurdity and references to 1960s comics is right up my alley. Nothing really new for a Legion fan, and they don’t come off as particularly bright… but if you have to introduce the Legion to a younger audience that has no idea about them, this should easily get their attention.
On the other side, however, don’t go down the Scooby-Doo rabbit hole of trying to make sense of how anything works because THIS FRANCHISE IS INSANE.
And I wrote that BEFORE discovering that DC published a series about the Scooby gang surviving in a post-apocalyptic world that lasted THIRTY-SIX ISSUES.
Written by J.M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen of all people!!!
We are legion
Active Legionnaires: 17
-Cosmic Boy
-Saturn Girl
-Lightning Lad
-Brainiac 5
-Phantom Girl
-Chameleon Boy
-Princess Projectra
-Matter-Eater Lad
-Shadow Lass
-Ferro Lad
-Mon-El
-Ultra-Boy
-Element Lad
-Colossal Boy
-Bouncing Boy
-Shrinking Violet
-Karate Kid
Deceased Legionnaires: 1
-Ferro Lad
18 people have been members