Scooby Apocalypse (2016-) #10 (Scooby Apocalypse

Scooby Apocalypse (Single Issues) #10

by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Howard Porter (Penciller)

Jinkies! Velma is gone! Can the gang put their feelings about her aside long enough to rescue her from the apocalyptic wasteland that she helped create? They better do so quickly, because a powerful puppy is right on their tail!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2017

About the author

Keith Ian Giffen was an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is possibly best-known for his long runs illustrating, and later writing the Legion of Super-Heroes title in the 1980s and 1990s. He also created the alien mercenary character Lobo (with Roger Slifer), and the irreverent "want-to-be" hero, Ambush Bug. Giffen is known for having an unorthodox writing style, often using characters in ways not seen before. His dialogue is usually characterized by a biting wit that is seen as much less zany than dialogue provided by longtime collaborators DeMatteis and Robert Loren Fleming. That approach has brought him both criticism and admiration, as perhaps best illustrated by the mixed (although commercially successful) response to his work in DC Comics' Justice League International (1987-1992). He also plotted and was breakdown artist for an Aquaman limited series and one-shot special in 1989 with writer Robert Loren Fleming and artist Curt Swan for DC Comics.

Giffen's first published work was "The Sword and The Star", a black-and-white series featured in Marvel Preview, with writer Bill Mantlo. He has worked on titles (owned by several different companies) including Woodgod, All Star Comics, Doctor Fate, Drax the Destroyer, Heckler, Nick Fury's Howling Commandos, Reign of the Zodiac, Suicide Squad, Trencher (to be re-released in a collected edition by Boom! Studios)., T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Vext. He was also responsible for the English adaptation of the Battle Royale and Ikki Tousen manga, as well as creating "I Luv Halloween" for Tokyopop. He also worked for Dark Horse from 1994-95 on their Comics Greatest World/Dark Horse Heroes line, as the writer of two short lived series, Division 13 and co-author, with Lovern Kindzierski, of Agents of Law. For Valiant Comics, Giffen wrote XO-Manowar, Magnus, Robot Fighter, Punx and the final issue of Solar, Man of the Atom.

He took a break from the comic industry for several years, working on storyboards for television and film, including shows such as The Real Ghostbusters and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy.

He is also the lead writer for Marvel Comics's Annihilation event, having written the one-shot prologue, the lead-in stories in Thanos and Drax, the Silver Surfer as well as the main six issues mini-series. He also wrote the Star-Lord mini-series for the follow-up story Annihilation: Conquest. He currently writes Doom Patrol for DC, and is also completing an abandoned Grant Morrison plot in The Authority: the Lost Year for Wildstorm.

Reviews

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

What. A. Trip.

Great cover, great issue.

Everyone, please. Read this series!

[Letande D'Argon · Rating 2 out of 5]

OK, now this one of the very first issue in this series that I didn't like much. Reason? The majority of this issue is a Velma's weird dream. A nightmare of sorts. A one big "what if?". Not the worst idea, but unfortunately, for the reader it feels a lot like an example of how Scooby Apocalypse had a chance to be without a good writing. It's just a cheesy mess with a bad aftertaste. And yes, it's just a dream. But... it doesn't feel good at all. Can't see the reason to use the entire issue just for that. A few pages of that was more than enough. Reading the entire issue of all that... it just feels bad. So... yeah. The very first issue I didn't like. At all.

[Jessica (a GREAT read) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Moving right along to my comic book series Scooby Apocalypse! It’s been a few months since I last read the first nine issues and diving back in with such a gap proved to once again be dangerous! Issue 10 was rather exciting as it seemed a lot has happened since we last left our heroes. Velma is in overlord mode apparently as she reigns supreme over the monsters that she helped unleashed onto Earth, as we learned last issue. She has Daphne in her clutches and is ready to exact her own kind of vengeance. Will Scooby, Shaggy, and Fred be able to rescue Daphne in time?

Rating 4/5 stars

[Holly Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

weird issue, but interesting?? The whole dream sequence would've probs been better if it hadn't been the entire issue though - just having a glimpse of it on one page would have conveyed the same message tbh

[Kevin Findley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hey Kids! Let's have a Fever Dream and see what happens when Velma really goes nuts!

Scrappy-Doo has another back-up appearance.

Not a great issue, but worth reading if you are a completist or a hardcore Scooby-Doo fan.

Read it!

[Steven Shinder · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were good character moments, and Velma isn't used very well. But it doesn't really matter because it's all Velma's fever dream. What a waste of an issue.