Hot Springs, Cold Sweat

This needs a stretch. (Feel free to remove when satisfied of completion.)

Hot Springs, Cold Sweat
Description
Part of	Scooby-Doo! #64
# of pages	10
Writer	Scott Cunningham
Penciler	Anthony Williams
Inker	Jeff Albrecht
Colorer	Paul Becton
Letterer	Tom Orzechowski
Editor	Joan Hilty
Chronology
Previous story	Scooby-Doo in The Dragon's Eye, Part 5, The Kali of the Wild!
Next story	The Dragon's Eye, Part 6: Scooby-Doo Dai Kaiju Tengu

Hot Springs, Cold Sweat is the first of two stories in Scooby-Doo! #64.

Premise

Guests at a health spa are menaced by a Hot Springs Demon.

Synopsis

Insert details here.

Characters

Main characters:

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

Supporting characters:

• Crystal Fine ^{(only appearance)}
• Elizabeth Hartley ^{(only appearance)}
• Mr. Templeton ^{(only appearance)}

Villains:

• Hot Springs Demon ^{(only appearance)(disguise)}/
• Tyler ^{(only appearance)}

Locations

• Hot Springs Health Spa
• Body Temple Fitness Center

Objects

• TBA

Vehicles

• TBA

Suspects

Suspect	Motive/reason
Mr. Templeton	He offered to buy rival business Hot Springs Health Spa from Crystal Fine.

Culprits

Culprit	Motive/reason
Tyler as the Hot Springs Demon	To drive his wife, Elizabeth Hartley, insane and inherit her money.

Notes/trivia

• TBA

Reception

As I write this, Scooby-Doo enters a new era of cartoon history in the WB's What's New Scooby-Doo? The comic book continues to brighten my day, and Rao, what a film! It's a great time to be a Scooby-Doo fan.

In the first story, Scott Cunningham comes up with a plausible means to excuse the unwanted appearance of a demon. The rationale behind the crime makes sense and is quite the classic. The means through which the crime is carried out is downright mean and gives the story a nice edge that sets it apart from previous Scooby snacks. Speaking of snacks, Shaggy's and Scooby's dilemma is inspired and hilarious.

Anthony Williams and Jeff Albrecht with Paul Becton keep the cast on-model and this time around emphasize drama rather than humor apart from one scene where the gang don extremely poor disguises to dupe the man or woman behind the demon manifestation. Throughout the book , the design of the Native American owner of the spa is consistently striking. Tall and powerful with a quiet grace, she should be the model if ever there's to be another Isis cartoon. Heck, if drivel like He-Man and the Thundercats can come back, why not something as rewarding and enjoyable as Isis?