Board Thread:In the News/@comment-252417-20190123111655

Scooby Apocalypse will end in April, due to Warner Bros. not interested in it. Something they've essentially admitted was a mistake. The closet thing they've probably ever admitted to making a mistake.

But Bleeding Cool went beyond this and went as far as to say that Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? and Scooby-Doo! Team-Up might even get cancelled. (Perhaps its DC getting their own back, but I honestly don't think this is the case and sounds like Bleeding Cool was blowing smoke, because all the problem seemed to be was  (and apparently they had problems with the 1950s gay playwright in Snagglepuss and the political satire of Flintstones, despite the latter being apparently highly lauded.) (Honestly, if Joseph Barbera was alive, he'd have never approved of the new Snagglepuss, because he didn't like the implication that he was gay from a post I read on Van Partible made on his website once.) If WB had a problem with any of those titles why not just end it now? Maybe of contracts and/or they're giving DC time to wrap things up, in the case of Scooby Apocalypse.

Even further, they also suggested that DC might even lose the license to another comic publisher. IDW did get CN titles (also Archie let IDW have Sonic), so perhaps its not outside of the realm of possibilities. But DC has been kind of a juggernaut for Scooby and Hanna-Barbera (and Looney Tunes) titles, so I can't imagine they'd just so easily lose it. Scooby isn't the same as he was 10 years ago in DC, but this can always be quickly rectified (one solution is to stop the stock art, and get fresh writers and artists). But does WB think what is in Where Are You? and Team-Up need rectifying? We don't know this for sure.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/01/21/end-hanna-barbera-dc-comics/ 