DC Comics is doing new versions of The Flintstones, Johnny Quest, Scooby Doo, Wacky Races

[JD]

We have some new info and images for the series from a panel at WonderCon. http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/03/25/it’s-the-talk-of-the-town-hanna-barbera-at-wondercon
WTF is up with the older versions of Pebbles and Bam-Bam? I love what I've seen of Amanda Conner's art in Harley Quinn, and her other designs including the young versions of them are great, but those two are just bizarre.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I kind of wish Cartoon Network was making an initiative like this instead but sounds interesting anyway.

WTF is up with the older versions of Pebbles and Bam-Bam?

No more bizarre than the other Flintstones if you ask me.

 

[ancient]

So scooby communicates using emoticons? Oh...good.

 

[Christopher]

So scooby communicates using emoticons? Oh...good.

Well, emojis. I believe the difference is that emoticons are text-based (like using a semicolon and parenthesis for a sideways winky face) and emojis are graphics (like ).

 

[JD]

Sounds like it could be kind of fun. I can see if being a modern take on his kind of mumbly talking on the original.
In the article about the panel on IGN they say that Scooby Apocalypse is their attempt to do something along the lines of Afterlife with Archie and Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
For those that don't feel like reading the articles here's some other highlights based off of IGN's artilce.

Flintstones will feature content they couldn't deal with on the original, like tapping the sabertooth tiger on the nose with a stone newspaper after it tries to eat Pebbles and Barney having to deal with Dino taking giant dinosaur craps on his yard. Fred and Barney's appearances are "in a sense" based on Kevin James and Patton Oswald.
Here's how they describe the story of Scooby Apocalypse:

The story starts at Burning Man. Fred and Daphne are former YouTube stars who now have a Mythbusters-esque reality show where they try to find and debunk ghost sightings. They heard that werewolves were at Burning Man, so they spend their last dime to go uncover the truth.

Naturally, they're onto something: there's a secret government Think Tank in a hidden facility underneath the sand, where we find Velma. She's one of many millennial geniuses recruited to work on a secret project. It’s a nanite-virus that will infect people's brains, and at the touch of a button they will become more altruistic and good-natured. According to Lee, everything goes awry when the millennial geniuses -- who are always used to getting free A's and a trophy for participating -- don't check their work and so the nanites do the exact opposite, pulling out the worst in people's personalities. "Hence Donald Trump," Lee joked. Those infected people transform and run amok in Burning Man.

In Future Quest the heroes all join together on Earth for a last stand against a big galactic threat. Johnny Quest and Hadji will be "leading the charge".
Wacky Race Land will have designs by the same guy who designed the cars for Mad Max: Fury Road. In it they are racing for entry to the last safe haven. No body is allowed to die during the race.
Amanda Conner and her husband, and Harley Quinn writer, Jimmy Palmiotti have both worked on stuff for The Jetsons. It could be just something they're doing for fun, but it does sound like that could be a future series.

 

[Christopher]

I read that Scooby Apocalypse and Wacky Raceland are in the same post-apocalyptic continuity, though perhaps the latter is further in the future. Muttley seems to use the same emoji-projecting tech as Scooby. And it was hinted that they both might tie into an explanation for why everyone in the Jetsons' civilization lives in aerial cities and avoids the surface. (In the original, it was because the surface had become unliveably polluted. Maybe this will be more of a Stratos/Troglyte scenario where the elites live in the clouds and leave the lower-class people to suffer in the wasteland.)

 

[JD]

Newsarama has an image gallery with some new art from the series, including interiors from Future Quest, Scooby Apocalypse, the designs for some of the cars in Wacky Race Land, and Bedrock from The Flintstones. Getting a bigger, clearer look at Pebbles and Bam-Bam I can see where Ms. Conner was doing kind of a Flintstones style take on modern styles.
Anybody know if anyone has the original series streaming legally for free anywhere? I've never seen any of the Future Quest series, and I haven't seen the original Scooby Doo and Flintstones in ages.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Future Quest is the one I'm interested in, I watched those cartoons as a kid

 

[Saga]

i'll give em all a try aside from the Wacky Races one. it doesn't look like my kind of thing.

 

[Awesome Possum]

The Flintstones looks interesting, basically the same premise but with updated gags.

I don't know what they're doing with Wacky Races. Really the best thing to do with Wacky Races was a joke on Venture Bros. The Council in charge of the Guild of Calamitous Intent all pile into a wacky car that resembles Dragula. Two of them, Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper who are now two heads on a single body reminisce about the good ol days when they all had wacky cars and would race. The Big Bopper tries to recall the guy with the mustache who taught his dog to drive and laugh, only to be called senile because that was Wacky Races. Which only confused him more because the races could get quite wacky.

 

[Zaku]

No love here for the Galaxy Trio and The Impossibles?

I would like to see a serious take on this characters...

 

[Christopher]

No love here for the Galaxy Trio and The Impossibles?

I'm fairly sure I've never heard of them, even though I grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons in the '70s.

 

[Vendikarr]

I'm fairly sure I've never heard of them, even though I grew up watching Saturday morning cartoons in the '70s.

Then you missed the Impossibles by a number of years. They aired from 1966/1968. The Galaxy Trio aired 1967/1968.

 

[Christopher]

^That would explain it, then. I only started "airing" in 1968 myself.

 

[Zaku]

^They were aired in Italy in the late 70s

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[ancient]

Wow the impossibles just dredged up forgotten memories.

 

[kirk55555]

Its funny, I'm more familiar with Birdman and Space Ghost from their Adult Swim shows, so seeing them in some of the pics is weird. If they don't give Birdman a secret identity as a lawyer, I'll be disappointed

Besides that, those pictures are pretty interesting. I'm most interested in Wacky Races and Future Quest, those seem like they'll have the most interesting premises and characters. Still, I'll try them all. If nothing else, its something new that actually looks like it might be good.

 

[JD]

If/when they do The Jetsons, I hope they do a crossover with the Flintstones.

 

[Timewalker]

I saw this over in the DC Rebirth thread, and I thought it deserved it's own thread.
Apparently DC is going to be releasing comics featuring their own updated versions of The Flintstones, Scooby Doo now called Scooby Apocalypse, Wacky Races now called Wacky Race Land, and what appears to be a Johnny Quest/Space Ghost crossover called Future Quest.
I'm not really familiar with Johnny Quest, Space Ghost or Wacky Races, but I do like the designs there.
I love the Flintstones designs, but I'm not real sure what to make of Scooby Doo. The Flintstones designs are a perfect updating of the characters, they're still recognizable as those characters, but with a more modern design sensibility. I'm not quite sure what to make of the designs for Scooby Apocalypse though, it looks just too over the top to me. I don't really know Wacky Races, but the Wacky Race Land designs have a definite Mad Max vibe, and I love that kind of stuff so it has my attention. I don't really have an opinion either way on Future Quest.

I grew up watching most of these. I see they didn't change the Herculoids much from the originals, but some of the others... yikes.

That version of Scooby-Doo? Just no...

The Flintstones version? HELL TO THE NO!

The Wacky Races one I might be able to tolerate...

And it looks like they're not just pairing Jonny Quest with Space Ghost. Those pictures show The Herculoids, the Galaxy Trio and the Impossibles thrown in. And they didn't make Jonny Quest a nineties teenager. For this one I'm in.

The Flintstones is a more tolerable one than Scooby Doo, although the kids are utterly creepy. And it's weird to see everyone with the right number of toes.

I had a look at the new version of teenage Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, and... that's where I'd say "HELL, NO." I prefer the teenage versions that had their own cartoon way back.

Wacky Races? If I wanted Mad Max, I'd watch it/look at the artwork. This is just revolting.

 

[Zaku]

Wow the impossibles just dredged up forgotten memories.

But who is the girl on the car? An original character?

Edit: I want a dark and gritty reboot of The Impossibles!!!