The DC Comics Hanna-Barbera panel at WonderCon 2016 kicked of with DC Co-publisher Dan Didio, editor Marie Javins, and artist Amanda Conner talking about their new line of classic titles given bizarre spins.

The line currently sits at four books: Scooby Apocalypse, a modern re-imagining with an Afterlife with Archie-esque bent described by Didio as Scooby Doo meets The Walking Dead, by Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Howard Porter with covers and story by DC Co-Publisher Jim Lee; Future Quest, one big team-up book with everyone from Space Ghost to Johnny Quest, by Jeff Parker and Doc Shaner; The Flintstones, given new designs by Amanda Conner, by writer Mark Russell; and Wacky Race Land, which reimagines Wacky Races in the style of Mad Max, by writer Ken Pontac and artist Leonardo Manco with designs by Mark Sexton, who designed the cars from the Mad Max movie. After going over the concept for each book, Co-pub Jim Lee came to the stage and gave his pitch for the new Scooby Doo Apocalypse comic.The book will be a little more adult than the kid-friendly version (that's still being published alongside this new spin). Lee said he always wondered about the characters' backstories so he wanted to flesh out their backstories. He compared it to Lost where you have flashbacks that show how sometimes the characters have interesting pasts that intersect with other characters in unexpected ways.Lee essentially gave the entire story of how things start off, so beware of some spoilers.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.Scooby Doo is a dog being experimented on in a lab, and thanks to a device on his head, he communicates through emojis that pop up out in tiny bubbles.Didio said that they saw the success of Archie Comics books like Afterlife with Archie and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and looked to their own library to see where they could do something like that, and Scooby Apocalypse is the result.Conner then talked about her work on Flinstones, saying that she wanted to show everyday things that you couldn't show on TV made for kids, like having to tap the saber tooth tiger on the nose with a stone newspaper when it tries to eat Pebbles, or what Barney has to deal with when Dino takes giant dinosaur craps on his lawn.She said her designs for Fred and Barney were based off Kevin James and Patton Oswalt. A more grown-up version of Pebbles was shown, so instead of a baby, she's 12 or 13.Conner also teased that she was working on some Jetsons designs, and her husband and frequent collaborator Jimmy Palmiotti was doing some Jetsons writing.Talking about Future Quest, Didio said that a threat pulls the many different characters and teams together because something is destroying planets and galaxies, so they're all headed to earth to make their last stand. The characters leading the charge for that last stand are Johnny Quest and Hadji.Javins added that while the story takes place on earth, there will be flashbacks showing how other characters fought the galactic menace and were forced to flee to earth.Lastly, Javins said that Wacky Race Land is the weirdest one of the bunch. The conceit of the book is that whoever wins the race across the wasteland gets to enter the last safe-haven for mankind, with the catch that no one is allowed to die along the way.“It’s about camaraderie, friendship, betrayal in a post-apocalyptic setting with killer dogs,” Didio said.During fan questions, Lee spoke about how they’ve theorized how all the comics could fit into the same universe. They’re all in different times and places, but there’s a lot of redheads (Wilma, Pebbles, Daphne, etc.) so those characters could all be of the same lineage. Lee even talked about a theory where the Jetsons travel back in time to stop whatever caused the apocalypse that caused humanity to have to live in the sky.

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