Jim Lee's hipster Shaggy fo' REALS yo!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Cooke and Doc Shaner together on a book is a dream team for me. The rest of is garbage and will end up looking dated in just a couple years.

It looks dated now. If you pulled that Scooby cover out of a back issue bin, I'd have just assumed Wildstorm did some forgotten Scooby revamp in the 90s, back in their Image days...where I wish they had stayed.

Chris

[knight errant00]

Why do you hate us so, Jim Lee?

[Godzilla]

You got it Hector, Betty is smokin!

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Amanda Connor knows how to draw adorable women. She was a guest at the comic shop I worked at in college. She also happens to be super-nice and very down to Earth!

Chris

[thunderbolt]

guessing Jim Lee just proved that he can google Hipster.

[TomStrong]

Future quest looks great! (Looks like Darwyn Cooke art). I in fact detest the Scooby Doo art. Sickening. Flints ones are too ridiculous to believe.

[PNGwynne]

When is Future Quest being solicited?

[Hector]

You got it Hector, Betty is smokin!

[monitor_ep]

Future Quest looks very good and I will give that a try. The rest is bird cage liner.

[TrekStar]

Future Quest looks the best, (sorry) but Scooby Doo just looks ridiculous.

[huedell]

The Scooby thing just sounds like bad fan fiction. Shaggy is too wussy for tattoos,

I'd say FRED is the square who wouldn't have tattoos while Shaggy is the "freak" outsider who could feasibly get tats to "Make a statement, man".

Velma is just weirdly redesigned- isn't she supposed to be kinda cute under that nerdy look?

Don't know the original Hanna-Barbera (or later iteration's) "Velma visage" intent, but, that aside, IMHO that Jim Lee cover Velma looks cuter than any HB design I've ever seen.

And what's with Scooby's tech stuff?

Tech for solving mysteries?

Seems appropriate, if not pricey, for a bunch of teenage detectives.

Maybe Tony Stark is financing them?

[thunderbolt]

^^^ He meant Shaggy's to fraidy cat to get tats done. Its out of character for him, unless Velma got him really drunk first. The whole update is just ridiculous and plain old embarrassing for DC.

[PNGwynne]

Fred never struck me as square. At any rate, the Shaggy redesign is overworked to the point of caricature. Isn't Shaggy more of a slacker than a hipster?

[huedell]

Fred never struck me as square.

Dude wears an orange ascot tie.

Also:
To use (the original Scooby inspiration) "Dobie Gillis" parallels to ponder on both Fred AND Shaggy character traits....

Isn't Shaggy more of a slacker than a hipster?

Well, by that particular logic, hipsters "play act" and tattoos are permanent... something slackers (not the posuer/mocker hipsters) would be more in synch with. I'm fine with saying that Jim Lee Shaggy pic depicts a slacker just as easily as it would a hipster--- and I'd just take the tats as natural extensions then.

Slackers are definitely a more acceptable template for the Shaggy characterization, and I'm including a little compare/contrast below to illustrate:
Shaggy's inspiration "Maynard" from the Dobey Gillis TV show was a sterotypical "beatnik". Beatniks are quite indistinguishable from 90's slackers.
Shaggy/Maynard Krebs = (from Wiki "beatnik") drug use, pseudo-intellectualism, and a cartoonish depiction of real-life people along with the spiritual quest of Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.
Add to that,that Maynard's friend Dobey was the "yin" to Maynard's "yang"...
Fred/Dobey Gillis = unlike Maynard, Dobey "pursued romance, recognized authority figures, and embraced a stereotypical work ethic"---- to me that constitutes "square" or, at least decisively more mainstream than Maynard/Shaggy.

[thunderbolt]

^^ Hey, the ascot works with the ladies, just ask Mr. Furley.