Two literary-themed, spooky stories feature in this issue of ‘Scooby-Doo! Where Are You?’, which I picked up on a whim during a flying visit to London recently.

First up is a slightly meta tale of vampire romance fiction and a harassed writer, followed by a story of a library haunted by legends of literature.

It’s all good, clean, all-ages fun, with an appealing and cartoony art style. Scooby-Doo comics have long been a comforting, warm hit of nostalgia for older readers, and a safe comic for younger readers with the gentlest of scares and silly humour.

The mysteries are wrapped up rather quickly without much of the convoluted plots you’ll see in the animated show, but that’s understandable with stories that have to set up their premise, introduce their characters, and solve a mystery, all over the course of just a few pages.

An extended preview of all-ages graphic novel Metropolis Grove rounds out this issue; it looks like fun, but its appeal is likely to skew far younger than the cross-generational mysteries of Scooby-Doo.

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