There’s nothing like a good mystery to read in anticipation of Halloween! It always helps to have a great detective to solve it! Family Comic Friday has not one, not two, but three classic sleuths on hand to solve this conundrum! Just us, along with Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, as we solve The Case of the Missing Adults!
Written by Scott Bryan Wilson
Art by Bob Solanovicz
Colors by Valentina Briski
Published by Dynamite Entertainment
Pages: 108
Retail: $12.99
Bayport High School has a new student. Welcome Ms. Nancy Drew! Only her first day of school is a strange one as all of the school’s teachers and adult staff have disappeared!
In fact- all of the adults of the surrounding town of Bayport have vanished as well!
On the case are the brothers Joe and Frank Hardy! Can these amateur gumshoes find out the truth behind all these missing grown-ups? Maybe if the two siblings can stop fighting each other long enough over all the silly stuff bros fight over! Okay- probably not! It’s a good thing Nancy Drew is along to help solve this mystery too!
I really enjoyed this reboot of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew! All of your favorite companions are along for the ride; including Chet, Biff, Ned and Callie. The Case of the Missing Adults is a massive team-up of epic proportions for fans of Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon.
Taking over the writing duties for those legendary authors is Scott Bryan Wilson (Batman). Wilson peppers in a hearty amount of humor and science in this graphic novel for readers 9-12 years of age. Sure, this book is rather silly at times, but there’s a fairly solid mystery involving missing parents and self-moving skeleton!
Don’t worry! The skeleton isn’t scary. But there is one clue in this mystery that never got solved. It involves the constant smell of the insides of a water pistol. Was that part of the mystery a red herring? Or did Scott Bryan Wilson take a page out of fellow mystery writer Dashell Hammett’s playbook and he forgot to get around to that piece of evidence?
So not all of the dots to this story connect. But The Mystery of the Missing Adults was an enjoyable read! The artwork and coloring was quite good and the antics of the brothers Hardy and Nancy Drew was enough for me to overlook it. Though I really want to know just what the inside of a water pistol smells like!!! Maybe some further adventures of these teen detectives will reveal that oversight!
Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Missing Adults will debut in digital
formats on October 23rd, 2019. Hardcover copies will hit stores on November 5th.
Worth Consuming!
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
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