I Reads You Review: SCOOBY-DOO, Where Are You? #89

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? No. 89
DC COMICS – @DCComics

STORY: Rob M. Worley; Brett Lewis
PENCILS: Scott Gross; Anthony Lewis
INKS: Scott Gross; Dan Davis
COLORS: Scott Gross; Paul Becton
LETTERS: Saida Temofonte; Ryan Cline
COVER: Scott Gross
32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (March 2018)

Rated “E” for “Everyone”

Let's continue to enjoy the fruits of the renewal of my subscription to the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? comic book series.  I recently received the fourth issue of that renewed subscription.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #89 opens with “Panic at the Pizza Palace” (written by Rob M. Morley and drawn by Scott Gross).  Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma are in New York City and have stopped at “Poldo's Pizza Palace,” which Shaggy declares has the best pie in all of NYC.

Things have changed, however; siblings Franco and Sabry are now the owners, and Franco prefers to serve a new kind of pizza with different toppings.  Franco says that modern pizza toppings, like banana and kale, are the new art form.  The ghost of the pizzeria's original owner, Gerolamo Piredda, hates this new art pizza and is threatening to burn Poldo's to the ground.

The second story is “Good Ghost Haunting” (written by Brett Lewis and drawn by Anthony Williams and Dan Davis), a story originally published in Scooby-Doo #42 (cover dated: January 2001).  The story finds Mystery Inc. at Plymouth Institute of Technology for its annual technology fair, where students compete for scholarships and research grants.  Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo are attending the fair, hoping to find new technologies to help them in their crime fighting.  The problem is that the ghostly “Salem Witch Hunter” is stealing at the fair, and so it is another ghostly mystery for the gang to solve.

“Panic at the Pizza Palace” is drawn by one of the great modern Scooby-Doo comic book artists, Scott Gross (who also provides the cover art for this issue), and it is actually a pretty good story.  I think the reason it resonates with me is that the mystery turns on family strife to which many of us, especially those dealing with inheritance, can relate.  Plus, I just love that Scott Gross art.

“Good Ghost Hunting” also deals with the “rightful owners” theme.  The crooks' method of operation is clever, although many readers will solve the mystery of that ghost pretty quickly.

And it happens again.  Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #89 makes me excited about the next issue.  I really enjoy reading this series.  I think I need to find some back issues.

A-
7.5 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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