Scooby Apocalypse

Scooby Apocalypse is a monthly comic-book series published by DC Comics, starting in May 2016. It reimagines the characters from the Scooby-Doo franchise, particularly the 1969 Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! TV series, setting the characters in a post-Apocalyptic world.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Unlike previous titles, which are all-ages, this title has a teen plus rating.

The comic was conceived by DC Comics co-publisher and artist, Jim Lee, as part of a major reboot using Hanna-Barbera characters, in order to create a new Hanna-Barbera comic book universe.^[6] Jim Lee worked on the first issue's cover and several more after that (before interior artist, Howard Porter took over).

Premise

“Those meddling kids” and their Mystery Machine are at the center of a well-meaning experiment gone wrong and they’ll need to bring all of their mystery solving skills to bear (along with plenty of Scooby Snacks), to find a cure for a world full of mutated creatures infected by a nanite virus that enhances their fears, terrors and baser instincts.^[6] This time, the horrors are real in this apocalyptic near-future badland!^[7]

Characters

Main characters

• Scoobert "Scooby" Doo - Scooby-Doo is a "smart dog" prototype, who is able to talk like a human, thanks to a chip that was implanted in his cerebral cortex. This enables him to communicate with others, either by words or through the use of a pair of emo-goggles. He was treated by the rest of the smart dogs in the Nevada Complex as the runt of the litter, being constantly attacked by them. Eventually, he ended up standing up against the other dogs, after Shaggy taught him how to defend himself. Unlike his cartoon counterpart, Scooby is quite brave and is not afraid of anything that stands in his way. His original name was 24062.
• Fred Jones -
• Daphne Blake -
• Norville "Shaggy" Rogers - Norville Rogers, nicknamed Shaggy by his friends, was a dog handler in the Nevada Complex, where he was responsible for the treatment and trainning of the "smart dog" prototypes. On his first day on the job, he saved Scooby-Doo from being ripped to pieces by the other prototypes, making his mission to show the Great Dane how to defend himself against the others. He also became an acquaintance of Dr. Krebs, the creator of the Mystery Machine, who taught him how to drive it. Normally, Shaggy is laidback and always hungry. Still, in moment of tension, he is the one that tries to keep the peace between the gang.
• Velma Dinkley - Velma Dinkley wwas a leading scientist in the Nevada Complex. Through out her life, Velma never had any friends and considered herself as incapable of making them due to her extroadinary intelligence and low social skills. She would later collaborate in a top secret research project called Project Elysium, which through the use of nanites was supposed to alter mankind's DNA, eliminating Mankind's bad and vile instincts. Being quite shy and socially awkward, Velma does not speak very much. Still, woth a brilliant and objective mind, she is usually the one that comes with theories and plans on how to deal with the numerous monsters that attack her and the rest of the gang.

Recurring characters

• The Four -
• Scrappy-Doo - Scrappy-Doo is one of the test subjects of the "smart dog" program at the underground Nevada Complex. Scrappy has two objectives on his mind: upgrading his implants that give him human-like attributes, and to kill Scooby-Doo, the prototype of the smart dog program, whome he hates because he sees him as a soft-hearted weakling. He also hates humans, given the experiments they performed on him. He leads the Scrappy Gang, which is composed by some of the other test subjects of the program.^[8]

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