Two Heads Are Better Than None

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Two Heads Are Better Than None
Description
Publisher	DC Comics
Date published	August 2000
Part of	Scooby-Doo #39
# of pages	12
Writer	John Rozum
Penciler	Joe Staton
Inker	Dave Hunt
Colorer	Paul Becton
Letterer	Ryan Cline
Chronology
Previous story	Techno? Heck, No!
Next story	The Chocolatier Chortled!

Two Heads Are Better Than None is a story in Scooby-Doo #39, by DC Comics.

Premise

Shaggy competes in a bike race and faces a headless bicycler.

Synopsis

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Characters

Main characters:

• Mystery Inc.
  • Scooby-Doo
  • Shaggy Rogers
  • Fred Jones
  • Daphne Blake
  • Velma Dinkley

Supporting characters:

• Graeme Whynot ^{(only appearance)}
• Gage Hanks ^{(only appearance)}
• Garreth O'Brien ^{(only appearance)}
• Brittany Bones ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Headless Biker ^{(only appearance)(no lines)(Mr. O'Brien's disguise)}
• Mr. O'Brien ^{(only appearance)(redeemed)}

Other characters:

• Referee ^{(only appearance)}
• Kids ^{(only appearance)(miscellaneous speaking)}

Locations

• Yawning Gap
  • Annual Bike Racing Championship

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• The Mystery Machine
• Bikes
• Mr. O'Brien's truck

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Brittany Bones	To win the race.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Mr. O'Brien as the Headless Biker	To scare off the other racers, so his son wins.

Notes/trivia

• TBA

Coloring mistakes

• None known.

Inconsistencies/continuity errors and/or goofs/oddities

• None known.

Reception

It's my sad duty to report that this issue of Scooby-Doo has all the meatiness of a day-old charred soup bone drained of its marrow. I shouldn't feel too disappointed. I've recommended practically each issue even when the book was published at another house. No title I suppose can have a perfect run, but this issue involves a pair of ghosts who could have spooked nobody during the woeful, cancerous Scrappy-Doo era.

What was John Rozum thinking? He knows better. He was a writer for The X-Files comic book series. He knows Kolchak on television already faced an updated Headless Horseman in the form of a spectral biker who cleaved his victims with a machete. He knows that compared to a decapitated motorcyclist, a headless bicycler is going to look pretty damn tame. He knows that Shaggy has no business entering a bike race for kids. He knows that even Shaggy shouldn't be afraid of headless Huffy-rider. Toss a big stick at the spokes, and Mr. Pumpkin-head will end up as pie.

Whereas I liked Joe Staton's sneaky tribute to Linus van Pelt, and there are two good Daphne poses by Joe Staton, even the delectable Daphne cannot save this debacle of a dirt poor race.