I Reads You Review: SCOOBY-DOO, Where Are You? #93

SCOOBY-DOO, WHERE ARE YOU? #93
DC COMICS – @DCComics

STORY: Sholly Fisch; Joe Edkin
PENCILS: Scott Jeralds; Eric Doescher
INKS: Scott Jeralds; Andrew Pepoy
COLORS: Silvana Brys; Paul Becton
LETTERS: Travis Lanham; John Costanza
EDITORS: Harvey Richards; Heidi McDonald
COVER: Scott Jeralds with Silvana Brys
32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (August 2018)

Rated “E” for “Everyone”

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

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #93 opens with “Safari, So Good” (written by Sholly Fisch and drawn by Scott Jeralds).  Mystery Inc.:  Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, Fred, Daphne, and Velma are on an African Safari.  Their guide, Khayone, and driver, James, take them across an African plain so that they can view and photograph elephants, lions, impala, and other exotic wildlife.  When a ghostly interloper, calling itself the “Spirit of the Land,” appears, the gang suddenly has its latest mystery to solve.

The second story is “The Weeping Bride of Lover's Leap!” (written by Joe Edkin and drawn by Eric Doescher and Andrew Pepoy).  From its shocking start, this mystery will have you trying to solve the mystery of why Scooby is wearing a dress and why Shaggy, dressed in a snazzy suit, is proposing marriage to Scoob.

Well, the young sleuths of Mystery Inc. are at “Lover's Leap” to discover if an urban legend is true.  Does the ghost of a grieving young woman haunt a popular cliff-side spot for young lovers?  Now, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy have to pretend to be a young couple in the throes of a marriage proposal, so are they destined to face “The Weeping Bride of Lover's Leap.”

I like that “Safari, So Good!” deals with the timely subject matter of animal poaching in Africa.  The “Spirit of the Land” is a lame phantom, but the setting and plot are worth it if they inform even a few young readers (and adults) about animal conservation”

“The Weeping Bride of Lover's Leap” is this issue's reprint story.  [It was originally published in Scooby-Doo #35 (cover dated: June 2000).]  The art team of Eric Doescher, Andrew Pepoy, and Paul Becton turn in some nice work, and John Costanza, one of comics' best letterers, make this dialogue-heavy story easy to read with some well-placed word balloons and some eye-catching fonts.  Kudos to writer Joe Edkin for putting Shaggy and Scooby-Doo in their Sunday best.

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #93 was a fun read, and I hope that the next issue can offers some of this issue's pleasant surprises.

B+
7 out of 10

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


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