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I don’t really have anything to say about this page. Yay!

Actually, I don’t have much to say today period. I’ll probably yak about something later.

Stay frosty!

I did some more pages, and had some free time today, so here’s more mermaid boobs, and more! Don’t worry, we’ve got a couple pages coming up without her in case anyone is getting sick of too many curves crowding the page lately.

So there’s a new Scooby Doo show. Alot of people have absolute disdain for Scooby Doo, but I find there’s something kinda funny about it, whether its the sheer cheesiness of the original, the tongue and cheek silliness of the live action films (gotta love Sarah Michelle Gellar playing danger prone Daphne), or the sheer stupidity of What’s New, Scooby Doo?. Scooby Doo stands as a testament to pure, unadulterated Saturday morning madness, which has sortof disappeared from television altogether. The newest series, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated, is decidedly different from the previous animated incarnations of the series in both visual style and tone, both comedic and dramatic.
For one thing, the art is downright wacky. The characters are interestingly stylized, but still immediately recognizable. What is most interesting about the art is that its far more dynamic than the previous shows. Camera angles are generally more dramatic, coloration and lighting are both much more spooky and atmospheric, and the general quality of animation is fairly good, on par with modern action cartoons like Ben 10. Finally, the show has a kind of 70s retro vibe in terms of the costuming, which feels just about right.
Although the new art direction is a nice change of pace, its the writing that makes Mystery Incorporated most interesting. The basic formula is unchanged, but the handling of it is very different, and mostly better. The characters, most notably Fred, have a good deal more personality here, and are a bit wackier than usual. The writing is often silly and self referential, with a very tongue in cheek sort of comedy. The traps are exponentially wackier, as are the monsters and plot lines. Overall, its very reminiscent of the live action films, and works very well. Best of all, there appears to be an overaching story, and although each mystery is pretty cut and dry, there seem to be hints at a larger mystery permeating each episode. Hopefully, this will all come together by the end of the apparently 26 episode season, similar to the first season of Ben 10’s structure, but I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
In the end, I’d say I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen of Mystery Incorporated. I guess it probably wouldn’t change any minds about Scooby Doo, but as someone that enjoys the characters, its good to see a more sarcastic, tongue in cheek approach to the material.