It you were ever a lover of the Mystery Machine and the Scooby gang, today sees the release of a scratch for your personal supernatural itch. Specter Inspectors #1 by Bowen McCurdy and kaitlyn Musto published by Boom Studios.Īnyway, it’s a funny, strange and mysterious old world, isn’t it? Start thinking about one thing that gives you an itch, and the sentient ether of existence deftly reaches out and gives you a well-placed scratch. And he might just get the boxed set of Blu-Rays for Valentine’s Day. He’s talking about it relentlessly right now. Ghosts, ghouls, phantoms, specters and scooby-snacks! Without having seen an episode, let along the opening credit scene, it’s now theoretically his favourite show. Over the last week, I started talking to him about Scooby Doo, Where Are You? – the one cartoon that would stop me in tracks. The latter two offerings being a prelude and promise to a half decade of time into his future. Shows like Looney Toons, The Muppet Show, Gummi Bears, Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, and a small taste of ThunderCats and Star Blazers.

Raising a four-and-a-half-year-old sure does have some great pop-culture upside.īesides revisiting my fave comic book characters via his (and, let’s face it my) collection of superhero figurines (the awesome Fisher-Price DC Imaginext line, by the way), and looking at (but never touching, not at his current age) my most beloved comics book issues and collections ( Batman, Star Trek and, crazy enough, even certain pages and panels from Swamp Thing), there’s the viewing of the all-time greatest cartoons from when I was a kid.